Elijah POVJoe lunged at me with his fist raised. I blocked him and retaliated with a swift roundhouse kick that he barely managed to dodge. We kept going, barely missing each other for several minutes. Joe was a skilled fighter. He was one of the few that had been able to get the upper hand when sparring with me. It had been two days since Alpha Hudson arrived and the evacuation drills had started this morning. The Red Ridge members had quickly adapted and participated in the drills like the Blue Eclipse members. I admired the pack’s ability to just absorb over 150 people like it was nothing. It just shows how effective things could be if everyone just worked together. Luke was currently sleeping on the couch in the Beta wing since Sally and I occupied the guest room. Alpha Hudson had moved in with Avery in her quarters, something that Alpha Jordan grumbled about at first. Avery straight up flipped him off and told him that it was her mate and her decision. He couldn’t exactly a
Elijah POVI quickly shifted back and ran over to Joe. Carefully, I turned his wolf so that I could check for a pulse. My trembling fingers tried to locate his pulse, but couldn’t find it. “Joe!” I called out. “Joe!”I heard the snapping of bones and looked up to see my father standing over me. “Why would you kill him?!” I snapped. Before he could answer, I lunged at him. I didn’t care anymore. This man stopped being my father a long time ago. This stranger standing before me was nothing but a cruel man that had pestered my life for too long. If I was in a fight in human form I had a better chance. I managed to punch my father square in the face. We both tumbled to the ground together and my father elbowed me in my chest to get me off of him. Still lying on the forest floor, we struggled for a while. The rage I felt for this man was unreal. I couldn’t stop the red haze that clouded my vision. I wanted to kill him. A sharp pain in my neck interrupted my focus and my father s
Alex POV“SOMEBODY HELP!”I heard George’s voice when he rushed through the hospital.When I turned around I saw George carrying a lifeless Elijah. Immediately I turned into emergency mode and found a gurney. George placed Elijah down and I started working on him, barking out orders to the two nurses closest to me.One of them hooked him up to a monitor. “Blood pressure dropping, pulse spiking.” He said. I immediately located the gunshot wound in his head. “Bring him to surgery, right now!” I ordered. We rushed him down the corridor to a theater and started to prepare for emergency surgery. I frowned when I looked at the wound. “Why isn’t he healing anything on his own?” I mumbled. As a human doctor in a werewolf hospital, I had received some extra training to know that even when badly injured, the wound would start to close up in the edges as a first sign of a werewolf’s rapid healing. Elijah didn’t have those. “Run his blood and check for wolfsbane.”A nurse drew some blood
Sally POVA quick inspection of the room revealed a huge bathroom behind a door beside the bed. On the other side of the room was a door that led to a walk-in closet. Half the closet was filled with men’s clothes with Alpha Richard’s scent all over them. I assumed that I was currently occupying his bedroom. It made me cringe when I realized that I had just slept in his bed. The other side of the closet was filled with newly purchased women’s clothes in my size. The drawers revealed the skimpiest underwear I had ever seen. “He’s delusional if he thinks I’m gonna wear that.” I muttered and threw it back in the drawer. “It barely covers anything.”I tried to come up with some plan to escape. The door was locked and even though my wolf was weakened from the Wolfsbane and my senses were dulled, I could still hear a guard on the other side of the door. That left the windows. The bedroom was located on the third floor, so I couldn’t just jump. I strained my neck to see better and saw a p
Trigger warning: This chapter contains very graphic scenes!Sally POVNick let me go when Alpha Richard grabbed hold of my hair and pulled me away. I tried to pry his fingers off my hair, but he was too strong. My heart pounded with fear and I gasped for breath to keep myself from passing out. Alpha Richard opened a large, heavy door and I recognized the smell. He was taking me to the dungeon. I was pulled down the stairs and into a cell. The same cell I had when I was here last time. Alpha Richard let go of my hair and I scurried away from him. “Take off your clothes.” He ordered. I shook my head. “Stay away from me.” I snarled. His smirk sent shivers down my spine. “I guess I’ll have to do it for you.”He lunged at me, but I dodged him and tried to run for the door. I felt a hand grab my jacket and pull me back harshly. I crashed against his chest and he wrapped his arms around me to prevent me from escaping. Every primal instinct I had in my body reacted and I struggled
The sound of birds chirping woke me up. My eyes fluttered open and I saw trees above me. I was lying on soft moss.This is weird. How did I get here? I sat up, feeling confused.I scratched my head trying to remember what happened. There was an attack on the Blue Eclipse pack. Joe was killed and they had Sally and me trapped. I frowned. Am I dead?Feeling confused, I looked around to make sense of where I was. I was in a lush, green forest that I was sure I had never been in before. It didn’t look anything like the Blue Eclipse pack.It didn’t look like the Midnight pack either. Looking down at myself, I noticed that I was wearing jeans and a shirt. But it was the beginning of winter, how could it be so warm?I strolled through the forest until I found a small creek. I followed the creek downstream and reached a large pond. My heart skipped a beat when I saw a woman sitting by the edge of the pond, calmly throwing small stones and watching the ripples in the water surface. “H
Sally POVI felt someone lift me up and put me down on something soft. I wanted to fight back, but all I could manage was a soft groan. “Shh, I’ve got you.” A low voice said. I realized that it was Nick and I relaxed slightly. Whatever he wanted, he was not here to hurt me. I pried my eyes open and saw Nick rinse excess water from a cloth. Then he carefully patted the cloth on the welts and bruises. “What are you doing?” I asked with a hoarse voice. “You still have Wolfsbane in your system.” He said. “You can’t heal quickly, so I’m cleaning your wounds so that they don’t get infected.”He carefully washed my arm, then took my hand. “I need to fix your shoulder.” He said. “It’s going to hurt, but just lay still.”I nodded. With a swift move, he put the bone back in the socket and I groaned loudly from the pain. He gently placed my arm back down and I bit my lip trying not to cry.Nick looked at me with sad eyes. “It’s okay.” He whispered. “It’s okay to break down if that’s wh
Nick POV I muttered curses under my breath as I ran through the forest in my wolf form. It had taken some work, but I managed to sneak out of the territory and took off towards the border to the Blue Eclipse pack. This was a terrible idea. How could I let myself be talked into risking my life and betraying my pack by this teenage girl that came out of nowhere? But in a way, it made sense. She was Elijah’s mate. My son.I guess ‘you never know what you’ve had until you lost it’ has never been more true. The second Elijah’s body dropped to the ground, I had to struggle to keep my composure. It was exactly what I had tried to avoid for years and it still happened right in front of me. There was no excuse for what I did to Elijah. But the Goddess knows that I love my son. I should have told him the truth a long time ago. I should have trusted him instead of taking out all the pack’s high expectations on him. It wasn’t fair. Now, I feared that it was too late. There was no reason for