Thank you for all the support for The Beta's Mate. Josie is closer now to rescuing Sam ... will she succeed? I am on the road (for work) this week so the next update will be Wednesday. If I can do anything sooner, I will. Be sure to leave a comment letting me know what you are thinking. Ellie xo
Josie POV I hear ringing in my ears, as I feel myself dragged off to the side of the room. I can hear Lucas and Daniel yelling and pounding on the door trying to break in. However, they cannot get to me. I do not understand why, and I cannot open my eyes to see my surroundings. I try to determine what is around me with my other senses. I try to get Alexis to help me but she is hurriedly trying to help heal me so I can be prepared to fight whatever or whoever attacked me. They stop moving me and I feel nauseous at the sudden stop. “Come on Josie, wakey wakey,” I hear as my face is slapped. It is still sore from whatever hit me, and the tapping is agitating me. I try to open my eyes, but I cannot. I suddenly feel water tossed on my face. I jump at the coldness, gasping for breath. I move quickly feeling dizzy at the movement while I try to sit up. I hear laughter to my right and slowly turn my head. As I suspected Lana was the one who k
Josie POV We hit hard both collapsing to the ground. I am up first but Lana goes low with her vantage point. She swings her leg around knocking my feet out from under me. She is on top of me quickly wrapping her hands around my throat. I hear Sam yelling for help as he continues to fight his bindings. I start to wonder if he does not have a spell on him as he cannot escape and cannot shift. Drawn back to Lana I reach my hands up and wrap them around her throat tighter than she is able to hold onto me. Her eyes start to bug out as I continue to tighten my fingers. She tries to twist my neck but has no luck. I am a statue, and she is unable to move me. Anticipating her next move, I prepare for the shift that is inevitable. Knowing she could not beat me in her current position, she quickly shifts trying to get ahead of me and wrapping her jaws around my throat. I am ready and shift tossing her off my body and against the wall across from me
Lucas POV My head whips around to Daniel. I had reconciled myself with the expectation he would turn Josie over to the Council. When he took responsibility for Lana’s death, I was shocked. What would this mean for his career with the Council? Would he be punished in turn for something he did not do? The lead councilperson stares at Daniel. As if he knows Daniel is lying but he does not acknowledge it. He looks to Josie for a few moments. Josie is holding Sam’s hand tightly as we all stand there in silence waiting for whatever will happen next. Nodding his head curtly, the lead councilperson takes Daniel’s arm pulling him to the SUVs. “Where are you taking him?” I demand as if I have some right to know. “Not your problem Alpha,” the council member replies. “Where are you taking him?” Josie now asks stepping away from Sam. Sam grabs her arm pulling her back towards him. “Well miss, when people do things that are questionable, they are pu
Lucas POV I turned away from my people, emotion clogging my throat. I felt tears in my eyes. How had I been so wrong believing the Pack would not accept me? Lana. Lana had spent years telling me nobody would be able to accept me as I was and explained it was why I needed her. She had caused so much damage for all of us for years. I was glad she was gone. I did not feel anything when she had died. Clearing my throat, I turn back to my Pack members. “Thank you, Beta; thank you everyone. It means the world to me that you believe in me and support me. There is much work to be done here; however, we will leave it to the Council to clean up,” I say to them as they cheer. Sarah comes over hugging me as Jack, Josie, and Sam look on with big smiles. I smile back for the first time feeling a heavy weight lifted off my shoulders. I pull my phone out, wanting to reach out to Daniel as soon as possible. I put the call through but there is no answ
Lucas POV I consider my options. Daniel is my world and I want to simply do as she says. I cannot believe my own mother has become this vicious woman. “What happened to you?” I ask her quietly. She looks at me for a moment and I see a glimmer of my mother in there. “What did not happen to me?” she snarls at me. “I do not know; I am curious,” I reply seeing Sarah and Miranda out of the corner of my eye moving to either side of the witch. I could not refer to her as my mother. The mother I remembered was kind and loving. This woman was a shell of the woman I remember. I could not remember much else, and I certainly do not remember anything painful from our past. “It does not matter now. Now I have moved on, but I want this Pack. It belongs to me,” she says as if she is in her right mind. “It belonged to father’s family,” I remind her. “I should have been given the Pack as part of our parting, but he reneged on that deal,” she says angri
Miranda POV “We need to go back there,” I say quickly as Sarah and Lucas look at their dead mother’s body. I know they are overwhelmed but now I have an idea where they may be holding Daniel. “We need to move quickly before he moves Daniel,” I add as Sarah whips her head around to look at me, “What do you mean?” she asks stepping closer to me. “He will have felt their bond break; we need to move quickly,” I say again trying to get them all rallied around so we can teleport out and back to the clearing where Penelope said Daniel was. He was right under our noses. What did that mean? It was a riddle. “Sarah, when we get there use your powers to do a reveal spell,” I say to her. “What am I trying to reveal?” she asks as everyone comes closer to both Sarah and me. Before we take hands, I say to her, “A door, an entrance something that will take us to where an underground bunker may be.”. She looks at me in surprise, “Of course,”
Sarah POV I knew everyone was safe from the warlock’s reach so I could focus a hundred percent of my attention on destroying him. From the corner of my eye, I saw that Daniel has passed out from his injuries. The poor man probably felt relief that help was so close to him. Or he simply could not take anymore. I knew everyone was counting on me to destroy this warlock … and that is what I intended to do. I had two advantages in this fight. I was powerful, and I had my wolf, Abby, to help me. As I leapt across the space, meeting the warlock in mid-air, I released my claws trying to grab the warlock’s throat. I managed to claw him deeply but not before he quickly mended the slices with his own abilities. He could not heal, but he could throw up a spell quickly to prevent a lot of blood loss. He whips himself around and stares at me. “So, you want to play dirty, Sarah?” he says as he stalks towards me. I throw lightning bolts his way buying
Sarah POV Pain was racing through my entire body. I could feel the claw like pain where the warlock had me bound. It was like tentacles of barbwire were tearing through my flesh. There was no blood, but the feelings were intense. I could hear Jack pleading with me to fight. I was desperately trying to hold on, but the pain was wreaking havoc with my mind. I needed to hold on just a few minutes more. I needed to have the warlock at his prime. Ready to attack me with all that he has. The more Jack yells the more intense the pain becomes. His distracting the warlock is intensifying the warlock’s anger. This is what I need to get him to the point of unleashing his worst. I feel tears rolling down my cheeks. The pain continues to increase. Just as I move, the warlock catches me out of the corner of his eye. I realize I have one chance to get this right or everyone will die. As I see the warlock’s eyes shift, I can see he tosses his arms i
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