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Sam POV “What the hell happened today, Josie?” I ask as I look at our fallen warrior. I see the warriors travelling with us arrive on the scene and I see their look of sadness momentarily before they cover their emotions like a good warrior does. There is no time for grieving on the field. That was for later. “This Shane guy says he is my brother,” she murmurs to me as if she is still confused by what has happened as well. “How?” I ask perplexed by what she is saying. She pulls herself together as she looks at me. “I do not have all the details. Only that he came from my birth mother and father after Eric and I were born,” Josie shares with me. What a fucked up mess. “And now he is trying to kill our people?” I ask. “That part I do not understand. We were bringing him in for further questioning when his vehicle was hit,” Josie replies. “And then we took off. I saw people pull Shane from the wreckage, but I did not realize he was with th
Josie POV We are sitting in the conference room, and I am staring off into space. I can hear the conversation around me, but I am not participating. I am trying to piece together the puzzle that has presented itself once again to me. I was desperate to know what was on the real letter that was hidden away somewhere. I know it might be foolish to hope one existed, but I had to believe in something. And that letter had carried me through some dark times so far, I suspected it would carry me through more in the coming days. I kept replaying Shane’s final words. “They will be coming for me.”. Did he mean the part of the Council who was trying to take over the Council? The Council in general? I could not piece together why the Council would risk themselves by trying to save Shane. If he was even working with them. Sighing I refocused on the conversation around me. “I am telling you; we need to let Josie unleash her powers on the prick,” Jac
Jenna POV “What?!?” I reply as I hear what Josie has said. Our mother is alive. My heart starts racing. Where has she been all this time? Was she there of her own choice? Was she being held against her will? I cannot stop all the thoughts racing through my mind. As I stand there I start to shake and feel tears welling up in my eyes. These damn hormones have made me more emotional than usual; however, this was a big revelation. Was it true? How was it even possible? We had been told she had died with my father. As I feel all these emotions Adam moves to stand in front of me cupping my face with his hands. “Jenna,” he says quietly. I slowly focus in on him as he repeats my name. There they are – the eyes of my mate. Trying to breathe I realize I am starting to hyperventilate. “Just breathe, Jenna. Follow my breaths,” Adam says calmly. I start to watch him. Breathe in. Breathe out. We followed that pattern for the time it took to c
Sam POV “Fuck,” I reply as we sit there considering what Adam has said. “I guess we do not know that and nor will we know that until we go in and investigate to see what is real and what is not real,” I reply to Adam and Jack. “Are you prepared to risk your mate for this, Sam?” Adam asks me. “As much as I want to say no, I have to appreciate that Josie is going to say fuck all of us and do what she wants if I do not support her. So, I guess I am prepared to take a mitigated risk. Meaning I will be with her, if she goes after her mother alone,” I reply calmly and honestly to both men. Shaking his head Adam replies, “Nobody is going off alone. I just need to be confident we are doing everything we can to protect your mates.”. I nod in agreement appreciating the support from Adam. “Sarah will want to help,” Jack adds, and I realize he is right. “She brings a lot of power herself to this,” I say to Jack and Adam. “She certainly do
Sarah POV As we were walking toward the SUV’s I caught a glimpse of something coming around the building and heading directly for us at optimum speed. It had an intent that meant more harm than good. Wanting to protect everyone, I throw up a protection barrier, preventing the menacing men from reaching us. Suddenly the warriors were surrounding us as I realize we had all been pushed to the ground. Scrambling, I jump up wanting to ensure the protection barrier stays. I see Josie help Jenna up. Both look fine. Jenna looks a little shaken up but that is to be expected of anyone carrying their future pup. Once she was certain Jenna was alright Josie turned her glare on the two men who had been trying to reach us. Only they were gone. In my haste to protect, I had not contained them at the same time. “Release the barrier,” Josie yells. I do and Josie takes off in the direction the two men ran. “Josie, wait!” I yell trying to catch up. I he
Josie POV Ugh, I think, again I am out? Hasn’t this been enough already? I contemplate what went wrong. Well for one I should have waited for someone to come with me. But would that have really stopped me from getting stabbed? I doubted it very much and in fact, wondered if it might have been Sam who got hurt instead of me. Or both of us and Sam left for dead. Whatever, I would not change it if it meant that I was wounded, and Sam was not. “Josie, you need to stop taking chances,” I hear from someone behind me. I turn to see the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. The Moon Goddess has returned to speak with me. “Moon Goddess?” I ask to be certain. “Yes child,” she murmurs before continuing, “What am I going to do with you?” she questions sounding frustrated. I smile at that, “I suspect I am going to hear that from my mate as well when I wake up,” I suggest to her. She was not smiling. “Josie, this is serious. You cannot keep taking
Sam POV My mind was exploding. “What?” I ask uncertain if I heard Josie right. “We are having a pup,” Josie repeats with her smile weakening. “How?” I ask. “How?” Josie asks uncertain what I was asking. “I mean when? Or how? I do not know what I mean!” I reply as I sit there in complete shock. “Are you not happy?” Josie asks cautiously. I look at her still in shock and I realize she is thinking I am not happy about the pup. I lean down and kiss her softly before I reply, “I am not just happy, baby, I am ecstatic!” I say to her before I capture her lips in a more demanding kiss. I want to get her back to our room and show her just how happy I am to hear this amazing news. “Are you happy?” I ask Josie. I knew she had not had the best time growing up and I wondered what was going through her mind. “I am thrilled but terrified,” she replies. “I will be with you every step of the way,” I promise her. “I am counting on that. I did not have
Sarah POV I loved how Josie had come out of her shell. She was always stunning, but she grew more beautiful as you got to know her and see her for herself. We were in the process of getting our hair and makeup done for tonight’s ceremonies. We had a late lunch so we would not be hungry before the evening’s festivities. Tonight, would start with Adam and Jenna entering the event hall. Then Jack and Sam would enter the hall and finally Josie and I would enter. My brother, Lucas, is able to attend this evening, so he is going to walk both Josie and I to the head of the room where the ceremonies will take place. He was thrilled when I asked him and even more touched when Josie shyly asked if she could join us. He has been checking on us throughout the afternoon to see if we needed anything, to the point we finally told him to go check on the guys. I laughed as Lucas took the hint and went to look for Adam, Sam, and Jack. While we
One Year Later …Sam POV As I look around, I see the most important people in my life surrounding me. I smile as I watch Dylan, our pup, try to stand with Josie holding his hands, protecting him from falling. I see Gracie, and Maryse, Jack and Sarah’s little girl, playing on the blanket in the grass. Their parents keeping a close eye on the girls. Miranda and Rick had joined us with their pups. Their four-year-old Brandon and their pup, Lexi were with them. It was not often that Miranda and Rick trusted to bring their children just anywhere, but we had all grown so close after what we went through almost a year ago our trust with each other had grown exponentially. Lexi was also on the blanket playing with the girls … as much as pups can play. They mostly roll around and slobber at this stage, I think with a chuckle. Daniel and Lucas had also joined us. Among all the couples, they struggled the most. Daniel had post-traumatic stress disorder from wha
Sarah POV The entire hospital is complete chaos. So much is happening, so many injured warriors. I was grateful to the Moon Goddess every time someone came in and it was not Jack. I felt on edge as warriors kept being sent in. Some would return to the battle, but others lost their fight.Before I can move to comfort a lost warrior’s mate, my heart jumps in my throat as I see Colby run in with Jack. He was wounded. I scream as I see him passed out and not responding to my calls. As I turn to look to Jenna she starts to move forward until the next person to run in is Rick with Adam and Kate.“We have lost him twice on the way in, we need to get him to surgery now,” Kate demands as she runs to see which operating room is free. Jenna moves forward slowly to Adam trying to heal him of his ailments. “Jenna, we need to move now. There are too many to fix and he is going to bleed out if I do not get him into the operating room now,” Kate says to Jenna.Jenna looks at me,
Sam POV As we take off out the front door of the Pack house, we agreed that Adam and Jack would go with Colby and Kate to the north and we would take Drake and Maddie with us to the south. Sarah was contacting Miranda to organize her witches. Before we hit the forest to shift, Miranda and Rick were beside us. We tore off clothes as we shifted. Paws kicking up the dirt as we raced to the borders wanting to reach our panicked warriors. They were outnumbered and were quickly being overpowered. Suddenly everything went quiet through the mind-links. We were stunned into pushing harder to get there to see what was happening. I reached out to Adam but quickly learned our mind-link abilities were broken. Slowing down I shift quickly as everyone slows around me. “Our mind-link channels are broken with the Pack. We need to proceed with caution,” I say before quickly shifting back into my wolf, Chance, and taking the lead to get us to the southern bor
Daniel POV I was never so scared as I had been when I had been tortured. I knew I was not long for this world when they punctured my lung. When I saw Miranda, I was blown away. That this courageous woman would take a chance for a man she barely knew was beyond my comprehension. There was so very little I could do to thank her for being there at the right moment. I recognized Jenna but I did not recognize the other woman. As if understanding my confusion, she steps forward, “Hi, I am Kate from the Silver Crescent Pack,” she says as she introduces herself. “We are very pleased that you have woken up. It was a little touch and go there,” she adds. “I am sorry, did you say the Silver Crescent Pack?” Daniel asks. “Yes, I am the Luna and a doctor,” she replies wondering about my question. “I am sorry, I heard your Pack name mentioned at the Council. Most recently there was something about watching a girl more closely,” I share with them.
Josie POV No matter what anyone said, I knew they were all putting themselves on the line for me. I was eternally grateful and eternally feeling guilty at the same time. I was learning this is what family did but having never experienced it before it was a foreign concept to me. And it was hard to accept the help that I knew they would force on me. It overwhelmed me in a good way. Looking around the conference room table, we had Colby, Kate, Sarah, Jack, Sam, Adam, Jenna, Miranda, Rick, and myself. Alpha Jared had rushed home to his Pack after the implied threat over Luna Lily and the children she was looking after. Lucas would not leave Daniel’s side – not that I had blamed him. And Alpha Thomas had errands to run in town so he would join us after. “We need to split up when they come. They have already indicated each border would be at risk,” Adam says to the group. “I want to propose that we all go to the first location. If they attack al
Lucas POV I have been sitting by Daniel’s bed since they finished operating on him. I cannot bear to look at my mate without rage taking over my mind. Seeing the abuse Daniel withstood breaks me. I do not know how he survived but I will be forever grateful he had the strength to do so. I watch the consistent blip on the machine indicating he is alive. It has been one day since he came out of the operating room. One day I have had him by my side. I have held his hand. I have spoken with him even though he is still in a coma. I have not left his side. One day that has given the medical team a reason to breathe a semi-cautious sigh of relief. The longer his body kept going, the better chances he had of making a full recovery.His boss has stood by as well. So far nobody but me and the medical team have visited Daniel. That is the way I have wanted it. I needed to know he was safe. And as Colby had reminded us, we did not know who we could trust.
Kate POV I had witnessed my share of injured warriors, but I have never seen a wolf survive this level of torture. There were so many things happening at once it was hard to keep up with them. Even with the Pack Hospital’s doctor, Jenna, and myself – it felt like we were fighting a losing battle. I could hear this man’s mate yelling in the hallway. It was a distraction we did not need. Jenna asked Adam through their mind-link to try and remove him. I understood how hard it was to leave your mate, but right now we needed to focus one hundred percent. As I heard the yelling fade away, I was able to focus more intently on what was happening in front of us. Daniel was crashing as Jenna jumped up trying to stem the blood flow. The gunshot wound was causing us the most worry at the moment. While the other injuries would have to be fixed, the gunshot wound, with the wolfsbane and silver, continued to ooze blood. I needed to get in there and remov
Josie POV It was taking too long. We all knew it. Nobody was saying it, but we knew. She should have returned by now. It had been ten minutes since she had broken her connection with Sarah. Ten long minutes of Rick pacing, everyone watching their clocks. “She will come back. She promised,” Rick mutters. Before anyone could say anything there was this goddess awful sound of something falling. And then suddenly before our eyes was Miranda and Daniel. Both of them full of blood. Rick is the first to reach Miranda, “I am okay, Rick, I am okay,” she says as she passes out. This is normal, I remind myself. Whenever she uses her powers, she needs Rick to help bring her back. Jenna is there to try and reach for Miranda, wanting to check her head wound. From what I could tell it was something Jenna could easily mend as she brushed her hand over it, and it stopped bleeding. Wanting to do a thorough check of Miranda, Jenna murmurs to Rick, “Let’s
Sarah POV I finally had an opportunity to help support this effort. I knew it was minimal but at least I could keep track of Miranda. I would feel when she would have to cut the attachment to me. Me sharing my powers allowed her to extend the use of hers so it would give her an extra ten minutes at best. Rick stands and starts to pace. I say nothing. Nobody offers any words of platitude. There is nothing that can be done or said to make this any better. Kate and Jenna are discussing strategies quietly for when Miranda arrives back. Strategies that include if she is compromised in any way. Jack moves towards me, but I shake my head no. Anything could break our connection and it was not going to be me being distracted. The longer I could hold the connection, the longer she would have support. We did not know what she would encounter when she arrived, but my added powers would ensure her success. I wish I could see what she was seeing. I wi