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Ethan was withering in our grip and I knew we would have to wait until it passed. Like wolf’s bane, the pain through the bond was slowing down the healing process and there was nothing we could do. Darci ran forward. “What happened? What’s wrong with Alpha?” She asked. “He’s okay. Let’s get him somewhere he can lay down. I’ll explain everything after. A few of them put down their jackets and Leo and I lowered Ethan to the ground. When we got up, we stared into the other’s eyes until I exhaled a deep breath. It was pointless to start this now. We would have to wait until we got home to question him. Right now, we had the battle in front of us, we had a war at hand. We needed to be ready and we needed everyone who could fight. He proved his loyalty when he helped me bring Ethan out. I started by filling in Darci about what had happened and what Ethan was going through. She nodded her head and took in every detail. When I was done updating her, it was her turn. “Fill me in. Is the oth
I did everything I came here to do, so why, why did my chest hurt? I felt like there was a gaping hole in my chest. Why didn’t I feel good? Why didn’t I feel happy? Why did I feel like I made a mistake that couldn’t be undone? Why didn’t I… why couldn’t I take off the mask that I’d been wearing since the first day I came here? The one that was meant to be fake, the one that was meant to fool him? Why did it feel like the only one who was fooled was me?The sun would be rising soon. It would mark the third day I came here. I could take the mask off now but it wouldn’t come off. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t figure out what was real anymore. I had the feeling that if I thought too deeply into it, I would know that I wasn’t wearing a mask. I would know that I never was. I would know that I had been honest with myself, that for once since the beginning of this life, I had been more honest with myself than I ever have been.These last two days hadn’t been a facade, it had been rea
“There was a way?” I asked. “Oh yes, you stupid girl. Isn’t that what I said? It’s taken you six fucking lives to figure it out but look at you,” Olivia starts laughing cruelly. “You figured it out.” There was something wrong with her, something wrong with her voice. She didn’t sound right, she didn’t sound like her. “Now look at you. Did you get what you wanted in the air? Was it all worth it? Which did you like? Was living in the dark better, or did you like the short time you had in the light?” My brows furrowed and I could feel my forehead wrinkled as her words registered. If what she said was true, no, I couldn’t let myself listen. I couldn’t let myself go there. I couldn’t wonder what her words meant. “Come into the light,” I whispered. I saw her leg first as she stepped out of the darkness and the rest of her body followed into the light. She wore a black silk dress. The face I looked at belonged to Olivia. She looked the same but the way she was looking at me wasn’t right.
“When did I choose him? When I left Desert Moon?” My voice cracked. I don’t know how. this conversation started and I don’t know where the confidence to ask these questions came from but if I don’t ask now, will I ever know? “No, that was just choosing to come to Half Moon. You weren’t really choosing Shane. Your heart wholly belonged to Ethan then.” “So when?” I whisper. “Do you really not know when? Or do you need to hear it from someone else?” She asked. “You mean…” I trail off and Olivia, the witch, laughs. “Yes. You broke the curse when you spread your legs for him. It wasn’t instant, it didn’t happen as soon as you did it but when. You continued to sleep with him, you kept giving yourself to him. It would have taken longer but that definitely pushed it along.” I couldn’t speak. It broke right before…. you stabbed him in the chest,” Olivia said as she leaned in close. My heart drops to my feet and I fall to my knees. “Goddess,” I cry. “Don’t call her, she won’t help you.
What was that?I wanted to write it off as a dream or a nightmare but I knew better by now. My dreams, my visions of the past, and apparently the ability to speak to the dead are too spot-on to be a dream. No, it was the truth and it was about time I stopped running from it. Shane was my mate, Shane is my mate, and despite the bond pushed on me with Ethan he always was. Questions of what-if scenarios and possibilities that can no longer happen flit through my mind and I want to laugh, but I can’t even smile. My gaze is locked on him and I can’t even find the will to scream or cry. My chest felt cold and hollow as if a piece were missing. I felt the need to claw the space that held my heart but I didn’t move. I felt weak, so weak. I wanted to die and end the pain I was feeling but did I deserve that reprieve? Did I deserve to end it?If I had known that the curse could be broken would I have wanted to break it? If Olivia had somehow regained her memory during this life as I had and if s
My throat is dry and I lick my lips. I need water. I don’t know where to start. Getting up, and standing to my feet would be the first thing I should do. That would be the best thing to do first. My chest hurts at that idea. He’s gone. There’s no point in wondering about what I would have done, or what I should have done last night. I had made my decision and … as much as I was confused… I couldn’t do anything about it now. I couldn’t let it stop me from doing what I needed to do now. I had succeeded. I’d made my bed and now I needed to lay in it. I needed to go back home. I needed to get Ethan. I hadn’t realized how foolish my plan had been. How crazy it was for me to leave Desert Moon pack and come here to Half Moon. I didn’t realize how stupid it sounded until now. The fact that I thought it was a good idea, I scoffed. I was on to something though because it had worked, hadn’t it? I grabbed Shane’s hand and squeezed it one more time. It had worked. I just needed to go downstairs.
Please, please, please.My feet start moving towards the hallway. Please be okay. I can’t leave without him. I won’t leave without him. I don’t know what to do about Liam but I know I can take him. I can. My panic goes up a notch when I’m standing outside the door I went through last night. The door that leads down to the dungeons. I don’t let myself think too much about it as I wrench it open. I’m hit with the stench of blood and my heart starts to beat even faster than it already was. Goddess. The stench is strong even from all the way up here.Please, please, please.When I get to the bottom of the stairs, Liam isn’t anywhere in sight. I squint through the darkness and my foot bumps into something. I look down and a scream dies in my throat when my gaze lands on Liam’s mangled body. His eyes stare without seeing, his neck is bent at an unnatural angle, and his face is unrecognizable but I know it’s him by the color of his hair.I rush past him, unable to stomach it anymore. The door
Who was the villain here? Who was the one who brought war today? I had always thought that Shane was the one who brought war to Desert Moon, to my family, to my friends, to me but… I had been wrong all along. Shane wasn’t the one who brought war. I had been the one who brought war to Half Moon, to the only home I knew before Desert Moon. I had been the one who brought the killing and death to my family. It was my fault. As I looked around, my jaw dropped as realization set in. I did this. I’d always blamed Shane for everything that went wrong. I blamed him for everything that had happened in the last life. Gabe’s death, and Olivia’s death, I hated him for killing Ethan. In this life, I hated him for wanting me, chasing me, I hated him for threatening my family, I blamed him for the death that was coming, that I feared. Those nightmares that plagued my sleep every night, the dreams hadn’t been trying to warn me about Shane. They were warning me of my mistakes. They were telling me to
The first month back at Desert Moon had been hard. Not a day went by without us fighting. Ethan rejected Mavy as his mate before we came home. A part of me knew he was hurt about it, missed her like I missed Shane. I felt like he was only with me because I was his Luna, because of obligation and duty. I didn’t know why he wanted to be with me. He didn’t know why I was with him when I loved Shane. We were at our lowest. We were ugly, we were at our rawest. It wasn’t until month two that we finally talked about everything. We talked bout what happened and we talked about the past. The one that I remembered and by this time, the one that he remembered. It was hard, facing the man I loved in this life and the man I hated in the past. He wasn’t him anymore, he hadn’t been him for a long time. We dug into the past and were completely honest with each other. He fell to his knees and apologized for what he’d done even though I told him it wasn’t him, that wasn’t him anymore. He asked me if I
Mavy fell back as if she’d been physically struck. She collapsed on the couch, her eyes watering. She didn’t look back at me, she kept her gaze focused on Ethan. I watched as her world crashed around her again for the second time in five minutes.“Where does that leave me?” Mavy asked. “I’m… your…” she shook her head and turned to look back at Ethan. “That’s not possible. I’m… I can smell it. I can feel it. Can’t you?” Mavy whispered. I heard the desperation in her voice.“I don’t care what you think or how you feel. I am already mated and my mate, my partner, my love, MY QUEEN sits in this room. Don’t disrespect her again.” The emotion in his voice caused me to choke up. Mavy bit into her lower lip and tears streamed down her cheeks. She dropped her head.“Yes, Alpha,” she said submissively.“I killed your Alpha,” Ethan said. “I’ve killed your brother.”“Yes,” she murmured.“Will you fight me on this?” Ethan asked.“As the next in line, I submit to you,” Mavy whispered.Ethan dismiss
The voices were getting louder, my head was hurting. I wanted to roll up into a ball and disappear from the world. Instead, I closed my eyes and tried to drown it all out, trying to ignore everyone. I wasn’t ready to deal with it.“She’s in shock…”“She’s confused…”“Enough!”A door slammed and footsteps paddled quickly towards me. Soft frail arms wrapped around me. Tears soaked my cheeks and my neck as Mavy cried. Did she know? She had to know.“Are you okay?” Mavy sobbed.I wrapped my arms around her and nodded. The tears started up again and streamed down my cheeks. Her t-shirt bunched in my fingers as I held her close. We cried and held each other.She inhaled deeply and froze. Slowly, she lifted her nose into the air and took another deep breath. Turning from me, she tried to follow the scent. She stopped, her gaze locked on someone, I turned and followed her gaze.I should have known, expected it but I’d been so caught up in my feelings that I didn’t think. I don’t know how it w
I didn’t have an answer for him and I don’t think he would have liked what I would have said. Hell, I didn’t know if I liked what I thought or how I felt. Instead of hurting him and cutting myself open for him, I didn’t say anything. I remained quiet. My world was crashing around me and my ears were ringing. I lowered my head and the tears flowed of their own volition.Ethan leaned down and I flinched as his arms wrapped around me. They were strong and broad. His embrace was warm and promised I could lean on him. I attempted to get to my feet only to fall. My face twisted from the pain and I wanted to cry and wallow in my own self-pity. Standing, he pulled me up and held me as my body gave up. I collapsed against him.I wanted to get to Shane, needed to. As if on cue, the weak mate bond snapped, and just like in my dream, it was gone. Only, this time, the pain I was feeling was because of Shane and not because of Ethan. The world was cold, the warmth I’d been able to feel from Shane f
Did what I do to him last night not bother him? I betrayed him. Did he not care that I came here to hurt him? Did he not care that I chose Ethan? I wanted to cry and scream. I wanted to run into his arms. I wanted this to stop. I wanted them to stop fighting. I wanted it all to stop. I screamed, it was painful and gut-wrenching but I screamed. I cursed the Goddess, damn her, she was useless in all of this. She sat up there above the clouds and did nothing to help us. Did she enjoy watching us suffer? When I couldn’t scream anymore, I inhaled deep breaths of air. I looked up and froze as Shane stared back at me. The way he looked at me told me he knew he was going to die. The look in his eye told me he knew he lost but for me, there was a small spark as if he wouldn’t just lay down and take it. I watched Ethan punch him. It was as if he was moving in slow motion. He hit his jaw and Shane’s head snapped back hard against the ground. Shane’s body tensed and he punched Ethan in the gut.
For a moment in time, they stood glaring at each other. The sun was blaring down on us. My gaze darted back and forth between the two. Shane’s eyes wandered away from Ethan and landed on me. “Look at me, mutt. You don’t get to look at her after what you’ve done,” Ethan spat. “I’m not so weak that you can look away from me in the middle of a fight.” “What have I done?” Shane taunted. “You’ve touched what’s mine,” Ethan growled. “I haven’t done anything other than touch what is mine. I haven’t done anything but make love to what is mine. I’ve claimed her. She may not wear my mark, thief but she is mine. Don’t claim her as yours. She was mine, she was always mine. She doesn’t belong to you, she never did.” A look came over Ethan’s face as if he knew as if this was confirmation as if he was reminded of something he’d forgotten. “You’re the one who touched someone who wasn’t yours. You are the one who took what was mine. Don’t try to play the victim. Don’t pretend to be something you’re
No.Not Odis.“Devin,” I gasped.Devin heard me but didn’t stop. He didn’t look up at me, didn’t even hesitate as he continued to stomp Odis into the ground. Blood spurt from Odis’ mouth and I think I heard his ribs crack. I took a step closer to stop it, to stop him. In a flash, someone was on top of Devin. Strong arms held Devin’s prisoner in a headlock and his legs wrapped around Devin’s abdomen.I wanted to scream but it quickly died in my throat as Odis and I realized the man in front of me was Gabe. Gabe. It was Gabe and he was on top of Devin. Well, he was wrapped around him like a python ready to suffocate his prey. Gabe grunted as he continued to squeeze Devin’s head, blocking his airflow.I wanted to cry out happily but I couldn’t. Gabe was here. Why was he here? He wasn’t supposed to be here. Things were going differently since he was alive. He was standing, breathing, his head was still attached to his body. Maybe things were turning out differently.Maybe Gabe was safe, ma
“Do you understand what I’m saying?” Odis asked. I couldn’t find the words to speak, so I nodded. “Good,” Odis said as his grip on me loosened. “Why don’t you let her go?” A voice called out to us. Looking up, I searched for the source of the voice. My eyes widened as I found Devin watching up. His gaze locked around Odis’ arms that were still wrapped around me to his hands that gripped my arms. “I promise I’m more fun,” Devin teased. I know what it looked like. It looked like I was being held back from moving. It looked like Odis was stopping me from helping Shane. It looked like I was stuck between two packs, two men. The situation I found myself in was precarious. I was now stuck between two Betas who were supposed to protect me, despite their conflicting thoughts regarding me. I hadn’t had much time with Devin since I’d been back. He hadn’t been the nicest, shit, I don’t think he even liked me. That didn’t change the fact that Devin was Beta of Half Moon pack. Shane was his
I didn’t have an answer and I prayed I didn’t have to make the choice. Not only had everyone stopped moving but it had gone deathly silent. For a moment, everyone and everything froze. There wasn’t a whisper of wind in the air, the trees stood still, and it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. It was the calm before the storm. It felt like someone had pushed the pause button and all at once the play button was pressed and all hell broke loose. As if planned, the two of them ran toward each other. I looked past Ethan and my gaze landed on Shane’s chest. The sword had been taken out, a gaping hole was left in its place right next to his heart. Now that it was gone, I could see I had barely missed his heart. If I’d been one inch to the right, he would have died. How had I missed that? I didn’t kill him. Was I not paying attention? Why hadn’t I looked at his heart? I had aimed, hadn’t I? Had I meant to miss it? No, I had meant it, or else I wouldn’t have stabbed him at all. I tried to