Bronwen
It is late in the evening as Morana finishes dabbing the concealer on my eye very carefully. It covered the bruising well enough, but it can't take away the swelling. Although it covered the hickey's completely when she wasn't looking. My cheekbone has a big knot on it and around my eyes is super puffy. She uses makeup to try to distract from it but you can still tell that I have a shiner.
“Are you girls ready to go yet?” Alec calls through the closed door.
Bronwen The alcohol stings my eyes, making me cry out. Especially in my bruised eye, which was already sore to begin with. I clutch my hand to my face, tears of pain filling my eyes as I try to blink rapidly to combat the stinging. “Ow. Shit.” “Babe, are you okay?” Suddenly Morana and Alec are by my side, with Morana gripping my face between her hands. “My eyes burn!” I tell her. Alec is inspecting me, but watching the guy and girl over my shoulder.
Bronwen I look at him and I can feel my temperature rising, but not in a sexy way. In an 'I want to punch him in his throat' kind of way. He is actually inspiring physical violence in me. “You said that I am acting like a child?” I ask him, sure that I must have misheard him. Because oh my God, is that the pot calling the kettle black or what! He is standing before me looking sinfully gorgeous in his costume. He came
Bronwen Early the next morning I wake up in Noah's guest bedroom, sprawled across the bed wearing only my underwear. As I lay back and stare up at the ceiling, I think back over everything that took place the night before. Not the Maci & Andras sex thing, because I would love to never, ever EVER have to think of that again for as long as I live. I think of everything else that happened instead. The fight that I had with Andras. Alec sitting us down like we were a couple of children and scolding us, which I am still angry about. The asshole. But mostly it is the fact that he agr
Bronwen I do not even spare him a remark because honestly I am at a loss for words, so I merely push past him, jogging down the stairs. Thankfully it only takes us two trips to get everything loaded up. Noah walks us out and Alec gives him a manly hug, clapping him on the back. He stares at me and since everyone is around, I feel like I can't ignore him. Good manners make me thank him for letting us stay. “Thank you, Noah, for letting us crash here,” I say, somewhat stiffly. I resolved to put my anger and hurt at Andras behind me and now I am doing the same with Noah. I am going to
Andras After Alec, Morana, and I get all the groceries and other purchases put away, I pull Morana to the side. “We need to tell them everything. Tonight.” She looks surprised and a little upset at the thought. “Tonight, but-” “You have mentioned many times that you want to tell Bronwen.” I remind her. She has been talking about it since she met her. She thinks that I need to tell her everything, including my little secret. The one
Bronwen “You ran.” He looks up at me, his big blue eyes full of accusation. “I'm sorry. You growled at me and I thought I did something wrong and you were going to attack me.” I say to him, remembering the fierce growl and look in his eyes. “I am so sorry for that. You touched me on my- never mind. I just lost control for a second. Then when you ran it was my instinct to get you back.” He says, staring up at me. I feel like he is t
BronwenNow that Andras has left me to go to his class after kissing me in the hall, I am opening my locker to take out my notebook when I hear the sound of high heels clicking on the tile of the floor. Giggles and strong perfume turn my stomach long before she reaches me. I hear her gossiping about me from where I stand. Damn, I hate her so much. “Can you believe that he would even be seen with that fat loser bitch?” I hear one of them say.
Bronwen I am lying curled into a ball on my bed later that afternoon when my door bursts open and Andras walks in. He takes in my tear-stained face and red, puffy eyes with a grimace. “I guess your little tryst wasn't as fun as you thought it would be, was it?” “Excuse me?” I ask him, sitting up in the bed, surprised. “When you left the school with Noah. What happened? Did Maci catch you two in the act? Or did he just not measure up
Two years later...Ollie I look at my wife and mate as she sits by my side. We are sitting at the head of the table in our dining hall as everyone gathers around. As alpha and luna of the pack, Sienna and I are hosting a feast for the pack, our family, and our friends to show off the birth of our son, Malcolm Oliver Vale. Named after Sienna's father and after me. He is two weeks old and he is so beautiful. Just like me, he has one eye blue and one eye silver, rather than green like mine, but he has his mother's white hair. He is the perfect mixture of his mother and me. We are over the moon with joy and love for him. Sienna has spent the last two years growing into her power. When her howl killed the rogues that day, it terrified her. But much like her screams being a weapon, her howl is as well. Now that she has been turned into a vampire as well, she is a tribrid. She is so incredibly powerful and I am in awe of her. Zachary spent months researching the mark on her fur when she
Katie “You are going to make one hell of a luna!” Blaize shouts at me as he swings me up into his arms and kisses me soundly as the last rogue falls. The fifteen or so rogues left run off with their tails tucked between their legs. I do not figure that we will see them again. “Where is Jaxon?” I am frantically looking around for him but I do not see him anywhere. Dread fills me as I scream at the top of my lungs. “Jaxon!” “Don't shout, baby. I'm right here.” I turn to see him hobbling towards me, with bloody gashes all over his body. But it is the tired grin he flashes me that gets my attention and melts my insides. I jump from Blaize's arms into his. He stumbles backward with an 'oof' but stays on his feet, even when I kiss him with as much passion as Blaize just kissed me. “Do not ever scare me like that again” I shout at him when I pull back. “I won't, baby,” he promises, before he looks at Blaize. “You okay?” “Yeah. You?” Blaize asks him, checking him over. They embrace o
Ollie I never made it out of our territory. Dad and Grandpa went to get Katie and help Blaize's pack, with the help of a few family members. Haylee's husband, Austin, my great uncle Mason and Lucy's husband, Camden, as well as one or two pack members. Dad did not want to take too many people and let our guard down, so we are prepared for everything. All of our pack members have gathered in the packhouse dining hall. All the children have been taken to the basement of the packhouse, where Grace, Nat, Trevor, and Malia watch them. They will protect them, should the need arise. I didn't go with Dad because I had this odd feeling that I shouldn't. It was like my gut was telling me not to go. I hope nothing happens, but I really am expecting it to. So now is just a game of wait and see. We don't have to wait long though. We have barely been settled in the packhouse for twenty minutes when I get the call from the guards. Rogues have crossed the territory boundary and are on our land.
Deacon “Rogues!” The sounds of people screaming fills my ears and my heart sinks. What had started as a simple drive over to the Shadow Falls pack to reject my male mate turned into dinner, a night of passion that I am still not sure how I feel about, and now a rogue attack. Byrne is out of the bed in seconds and out the door in less than another second. “Byrne!” He does not listen to me, never slowing his steps. I pull on my pants and snap them at my waist before I run down the stairs. When I step outside of the house, I see men shoving off beasts that are attacking them. I see wolf on wolf, snarling and snapping at each other. But it is the blood everywhere, the screaming children, and the decapitated bodies that stop me in my tracks. I have never seen such carnage before. I have actually never seen any carnage before. In all my years, we have never had any sort of attack on our pack until the attack on Nat and Trev a few weeks ago. We have all lived a very sheltered life and n
Katie I open my eyes and immediately yawn. How is it that I am more tired waking up than I was before I fell asleep? But then again I had only been out for maybe two hours. Since I couldn't sleep through the raging storm last night, the guys woke up with me and decided to pass the time. The conversation got super deep and I learned a lot about both of them while simultaneously oversharing about myself. It got weird at times but it was great learning about Blaize and Jaxon. I really feel like I know them now, so I am not quite so self-conscious around them. Although I am a little nervous about facing them this morning, after what we did last night. About two this morning, we had exhausted the conversation and a silence had fallen. In that silence, I had snuggled into Jaxon, who had been holding me against his side. His hands wrapped around my waist, just beneath my chest and with every inhale my breasts brushed his arm. So I, of course, slowed my breathing. I was far too aware
Zach Something wakes me up from a sound sleep and I sit up quickly. I don't hear anything or see anything out of place so I am about to go back to bed when a huge clap of thunder roars and lightning flashes outside. It lights up my room just enough for me to make out the eyeballs peeking out at me from behind the footboard of my bed. She must have tried to wake me up and when I sat up so quickly, I scared her so she hid. I feel really bad about that. Opening my arms out wide, I ask her. “Is everything okay, Jezzie?” Shaking her head with her tiny lip quivering as tears threaten, she comes over and climbs up on the bed until she is in my lap. She pulls the blanket over her and snuggles into my chest. “It's scary tonight.” “Because of the storm?” I ask her, even though I already know the answer. I even know why. Her parents were attacked by rogues on a night like this and Sienna's father ushered them out through the storm. When a big clap of thunder had boomed, Malia dropped to the
Nat I can not find Trevor anywhere. The dinner is almost over and people are trickling out, but I have not seen him in well over an hour. I have asked a couple of people, including his father if they have seen him. “I think the last time that I saw him, he was heading outside for some fresh air. But if I do see him, I will tell him to come find you, Natalie.” He says, giving my arm a platonic pat before he walks off to join the crowd. I head towards the exit, hoping that I will find him outside. And I do. But he is not alone. Grace is with him. When Trevor found out that she is a human too, the two of them really bonded over how left out they feel. They hang out all of the time and they spend most of the days together. In the last few days, I have hardly gotten to see him, because I was busy with Bron helping Katie, and then busy with Bron cooking all of this food. My sister needed me and I wanted to help her. I invited him to tag along with me, but he declined. I try not to
Katie It is Friday night and I am sitting in the pack dining hall with my family, friends, and almost all of the pack. With everything going on and all the new alpha's rolling in, plus the attack on Nat and Trevor, the pack was getting restless with unease. Dad figured that they deserved some answers. Hence this dinner. They spent the week waiting for me to cool down because apparently, I was actually in heat. Like a dog. I was panting and whining.. it got weird. For four days I was locked in that room with a stranger, where we stayed naked and in bed together, but we didn't have sex. Even in the heat of it all, when I wanted him inside of me more than I wanted to breathe, I knew I would regret it later, so I asked him to wait and he respected that. He was content to hold my bare body to his. And to kiss me. A lot. We would kiss for hours until we got so fired up that we had to stop. We did a little bit of talking, but not much has been discovered about each other, which is why
Katie I finally found my mate (I think) and I have to admit that I am low-key terrified of him. He just threw Noah across the room and then growled 'mine' at everyone. Luckily my uncle Jack, Grandpa, and Dad know what to do. My grandpa Jeremy tells everyone to leave the room. Noah first. For some reason, the man holding on to me watches him with a predatory look in his eyes. As everyone follows suit, leaving just my grandpa, uncle Jack and Dad, the man in front of me begins to relax. “Katie.” My dad says softly to me and I think that he is calling me over to him, so I try to get out of the man's arms to move towards him, but my mate holds me closer, as his body begins to shift to his wolf form. Hair begins to grow on his arms and his eyes deepen into an even more luminous shade of gold. They glow like fire. “Stop, Katie,” My dad commands and I freeze. “We have to stop talking to her.” Uncle Jack says and I panic. “No!” I tell them, but Dad holds up a hand to silence me. “I r