Pierce POV
I’ve visited Reuben’s and Evelyn’s new home plenty of times, but never with a purpose other than just spending time with them.If Reuben’s trackers haven’t been spotted by mine, then there was the strong possibility that he hadn’t sent any out at all.Fate had destined for Reuben and I to be in each other’s lives from a young age. Our Father’s were the best of friends until their feud, forcing Reuben and I to grow apart, to temporarily become adversaries.A few physical arguments as teenagers, I believe one being over both having a crush on the same girl…then our fates crossed again the day he carried a collapsed Evelyn in his arms out of a warehouse located on my outer pack grounds.I found immense pleasure in flirting with Evelyn so openly in front of him, even when he was denying their bond and remaining with Vicky.Now their kids call me uncle.The Royal Alpha family’s house was set away from both packs, geographically in the middle of the Red Stone and the Silver Moon. It helped them be together as a family and travel between both packs when necessary.For the sake of the children there was an invisible border, helping them to feel more at ease after everything they have been through, especially little Elspeth…she suffered the most after the Silver Moon pack attack.Confined in the dark basement hearing the attack play out, not knowing where her parents were. I can’t think of what she went through.They have plenty of guards placed strategically around the area, remaining invisible. But don’t let that fool you, they are ready to intercept at any stage. However, I have free movement permission, being classed as family myself.The house is quiet, too quiet.It’s usually vibrating with the joyous sound of children’s laughter that constantly bounces off the walls.I find him standing alone, his eyes staring off into thin space, my approach completely unnoticed by him.The Alpha King.The highest wolf in our nation, and he doesn’t notice someone entering his home where his family are.Something wasn’t right.“Reuben?” I’m cautious at first, he seemed to be in some kind of trance-like state. I’d be forgiven for thinking he might be in a mind-link but with the pack too far away for it to work, everything is technology based here.That, and the fact that his eyes aren’t glazed over, which is a classic sign of a mind-link being in process.The guards serving on site for the family’s close protection continue to communicate through the mind-link, a mixture of both Red Stone and Silver Moon guards. At least mind-links work if any same pack member is close by.“Pierce…back for more mayhem.” His eyes remain in a trance like state until he seems to shake himself out of it.He was tired.He missed the first 4 years of Rex’s and Evelyn’s lives…knowing Reuben he was trying to make up for it now with Angel. Overstretching himself with a newborn.“Something like that….I need to speak with you.”“Drink? About what?”“Sure. I’ve had trackers out for the past 3 months…”“You have, why?”I have to bite the inside of my mouth, isn’t it obvious? But I have to remember that they were in a newborn baby bubble and the outside world wasn’t top priority for them right now.“To search for Libby.”“I told you my men were on top of things, we should find her soon.”“Reuben…cut the crap.” I can’t help that my tone takes a sour note.“I know you haven’t had men out there looking for her…have you ever?”“Of course I have..”“Show me?” I press for evidence. Yes I haven’t got a family like him but I’m just as tired. My own mate connection on the brink of breaking tends to keep me up at night.“Excuse me?”“Show me, show me what your men reported to you…”“Pierce!”“Show me!” I can’t help but growl from the slight humour in his voice.He has his mate now, he forgets what it is like to be parted from a mate, someone that was made for you and you alone.“You need to just give it some time…”“I have Reuben…6 months. I can’t keep going on like this. I need to find her.” My voice is sounding as exasperated as how I feel. I take a deep breath in before continuing.“Look, I’ve put Dane in charge of the Grey Howl pack…for however long it takes. I can’t even feel her Reuben, through the mate bond.”A moment passes where he seems reluctant to respond. His eyes closing as if he is contemplating internally whether to tell me something.If he has any information on where she could be he’s got to start talking. It might not mean anything to him but for me it could be a tiny clue that points me on the right direction.“I just need to make sure she is alive, that she is safe.” I plead with him as he starts to turn away from me, I have to pull his shoulder back so that he is continuing to face me.That’s when he gives me the news I needed to hear.The admission that soon makes me realise he has been holding out on me, letting me struggle daily.“She is safe.”Pierce POV “What do you mean she is safe?” I can feel my face screwing up as I ask my own question. My own mind at a loss of what he means. “Exactly that, that she is safe.” This is beggar’s belief. “How long….for how long have you known this?” “For 6 months.” For 6 months…for 6 months he has known she is safe yet he has let me think the worse. Every time I have been here I have opened up to Evely, told her how I have been struggling…no wonder he was so quiet, the prick was holding back from me. I could feel my body trembling, my beastly wolf wanting out…to punish this so called Alpha King for letting me think my own mate was possibly dead. My beast becoming ferociously dangerous in this lovely high-end designed kitchen of theirs. The only way to prevent a shift is to attack in myhuman form. The only warning I give him is the snarl that leaves my mouth. I lunge at him, it doesn’t matter there is a dinning table in my way. I knock him to the ground, our bodies rolling around
Pierce POV Reuben prepares me for a long wait. He says he has no idea where Libby has been hiding but from what he suspects, it is the other side of the country. At least, hopefully, she was still in the country and hadn’t gone overseas. That is what filled me with dread…that she would have used smugglers to get her out of the country. Libby has no trace of a digital record, something her father Odin made a point of ordering. She is on the records until she reached the age of 12 and then it’s as if she died…I even have her death certificate…and her mother’s. Claiming she died of pneumonia. We know for certain that Libby’s mother was human, which makes my mate half human half werewolf. A fact she didn’t know until she stumbled across our kind, both Reuben and I chasing her out of one of my warehouses. I have plenty of regrets with Libby. I regret letting her into this world so quickly…she wasn’t ready. She had also lived a life apart from most humans since her mother died. Her an
Libby POV It was a fresh new week on the farm and I was excited on what it might bring.The weekend had been eventful, I now know my friend’s Ben and Beth are secret werewolves with their own problems, hiding just as I am. I now had a fresh batch of tablets to suppress those stomach cramps, Ben and Beth non-the-wiser on my own part in the werewolf world….I was feeling great. Life was starting to seem less…bleak. My life will never be easy, but at least it was a life I was finally choosing for myself. Ben and Beth left my caravan and headed to theirs to freshen up. I took the eggs that Ben had left outside Anwir’s place and was busy making him his favourite breakfast on the campfire. He’ll be out of someone’s caravan momentarily and I’m pretty certain I know which one. I am crouched down by the campfire when I hear a door creak behind me, my head turning to find the culprit. “Why am I not surprised?” I mutter to myself as I witness Anwir climb out of a caravan, as soon as I start
Libby POV I’m slow in comparison but I manage to follow Ben and Beth, breaking away when I reach my own caravan. This was it. Time to move again. I cannot be caught. I rip open the cupboard door under the sink, reaching for my backpack and hoisting it onto my back. I rush to the fridge, clumsily reaching for bottled water as my adrenaline kicks in. I’ve been planning this for months but now that it is happening…I feel severely unprepared. I just don’t possess that…hunter mindset within me. “What’s going on?” Anwir is watching me, too cooly, at the steps leading up to my door. “They will only inspect the others and then move on. Why are you worried?” He turns and I stick my head out the door when I see the blue sirens gathering distance on us…on me. “Anwir…” I hush him, at the sight of the illegal farm workers starting to run away from the now running police officers in the fields. This was like a scene from those tv dramas I used to watch. But now I was in one. I can’t get
Pierce POV I’ve been traveling throughout all of last night and now today. I’ve checked plenty of farms in this area, none of them seem to be hiring illegal farmers from what I can see. Not that they would be advertising this but I have searched the areas for any signs of people remaining hidden. Anwir wasn’t exact in his location, he was holding back on Reuben and I, but I had a small part of the map that he pointed to and didn’t wait to start my search. I knew instantly this was the right farm. The police now swarming the area was the sign that I needed. I keep driving around the farm’s border fencing until I find the accommodation entrance, finding police loading people into vans and vehicles under arrest. I curse under my breath as I exit my vehicle…I was going to have to act as a detective to get any chance of gaining information. I head to the boot of my car, placing a long black smart coat over me…checking the fake detective badge in my inner pocket. “Can I help you?” A po
Libby POV We’ve been moving for hours…my legs were like jelly. I needed a break. I needed to catch my breath. I was already pushing through the burning sensation in my lungs, now fighting a painful stitch in my side. We must have covered miles since we left the farm, surely this would be enough distance for one night. “Ben.” I gasp which finally forces him to turn around to check on us behind. He had been leading our expedition and I had complete faith in him, but he was so hell-bent on getting us somewhere safe he forgot how much stronger he was than the rest of us. His eyes glance nervously upon Beth who was also panting slightly. She may have a wolf, but from what I understand, she hasn’t got her full strength yet. That wouldn’t come until she was of age. Therefore, for right now, she was stronger than me, but not considerably. “Okay, let’s stop for the night.” He agrees, my chest already feeling some relief from his words alone. “There’s a barn about half a mile in that dir
Libby POVIt’s a growl that wakes me. Not the growl from Ben’s wolf but the growl from my own stomach. With the adrenaline pumping through me last night to evade the police, I forgot about dinner. We all did. I sit up slightly, my back stiff from sleeping on the hard concrete barn floor, Anwir’s hands wrapped around me.It was only just dawn, the birds chirping away in the surrounding trees reminding me of the number of times I woke up early to feed the farm animals. Some sadness washes over me from that short life I loved, now having gone forever. Yes it was basic, yes it was hard work…but for once…it was mine and I called the shots. Not my Father, not my half brother….me. I’m hungry just thinking about those eggs sitting in the hen’s coop waiting to be collected. Like little golden eggs ready for the plucking, waiting to be scrambled for breakfast. I’m tempted to go back and get them, start our day off with some food in our stomachs at least. But I can’t, it’s too risky and to
Pierce POVMy wolf had been searching for her in the pitch black woods, following her scent which was still mixed with others. Where ever she was going, she remained with others…deciding not to break off alone.My wolf liked the hunt, deprived of our mate for too long, he wanted to mark her on the spot. But Libby had been subjected to poison by her own father, trying to keep her wolf from coming forward. Trying to keep her hidden even from the human world due to her fortune. A fortune he wanted to use to reclaim the Red Stone pack alliance from Reuben, even planning to claim Evelyn as his, and the twins as his bloodline to rule. I’d have to keep my wolf in control, I refused to be another tyrant in her life. My wolf was growing inpatient, our fur form has been running for miles, surely we’ve made some ground in closing in on their location. Who ever was leading them was fast and skilful in navigation. My wolf keeps his nose to the woodland ground, following her scent when we hear
Libby POVDispleasure caused through me, the sensation of hatred and betrayal. Forcing its way into my dreams. At first I think it is the remainders of a nightmare that I had already forgotten about, but as I slowly sit up in bed…Pierce no longer by my side, I realise the nausea causing sensation of hatred wasn’t coming from me.But from Pierce.I move out of bed, searching for him in the dimly lit house…it was early morning and it would appear I was alone in this grand Alpha house. I move to the fridge in the kitchen, needing a coldwater to suppress that urge in my gut to vomit.Alone in this house, I follow the lights of the hallway, my eyes looking outside the window by the front door for any signs of movement. Was I expecting to find Pierce outside… Wherever he is, these emotions of his that were ploughing into me had me worried.I move again, this time finding myself in the alpha office…moving to sit at his desk. It smelt of him, the entire room, the entire alpha house for
Pierce POV I feel as if my eyes have only just closed before they are forced back open again. “Alpha!” Dane, my Beta’s voice pushes through to my mind, waking me from my sleep. “Alpha!” His voice hits me again. “I’m awake, what is it?” “You need to come to the southern border, come alone.” “Can it not wait until morning.” “I’m afraid not Alpha.” I cut the link, my eyes blinking open a few times…checking the time on my phone 2am. Shit, I’ve been asleep what two, three hours at the most. Libby stirs next to me as I slowly move my arm from under her, a smirk forming on my lips as she turns into me…chasing me even in her sleep. “I won’t be long.” I whisper out, placing a kiss on her lips…moving her blonde hair off her neck line to reveal a recent and still sore looking mate mark. The bond between us was complete, I had marked her as mine…and I was completely hers. Our bond has never been so strong. What I didn’t expect was for the possessive pull to become even
Libby POVGone is any sign of teasing, replacing playfulness with eyes full of a lustful predatory desire.His eyes remain on mine as he nibbles on me, his body moving on top of mine as his lips leave atrail of kisses in their wake. The pearliest of white teeth leaving little marks as his nips at my skin. My breathing quickens, my entire body tingles under his touch, I can even feel the hairs on my skin extending out…wanting more of him, needing more of him.My hands dig into the back of him, pulling him closer towards me, needing to feel his body ontop of me…my legs move to wrap around him. Holding him in a tight grip around his waist. He wouldn’t, but I wasn’t giving him a chance to pull away. A smirk escapes him from my movement, only for him to unwrap my legs, earning a pout from me which is soon replaced with a euphoric moan as a hand moves to my waistband, his fingers touching me at my lower core.I feel my head roll backwards, my back arch off the mattress as his fingers g
Pierce POVIt was late, my eyes were beyond tired from scoping the surrounding areas tonight. Something seemed uneasy with my wolf, he was on edge and I couldn’t rest until I had check each border point for myself.It’s almost as if he is expecting an attack imminently. I walk into the bedroom expecting Libby to already be asleep…but to my surprise she is wide wake, in bed and on my laptop.“You have training in the morning..”“I know but I just wanted to check something. Did you see the way Reuben’s eyes changed when he became moody. Something isn’t right.”“Libby.” I sigh out as I remove my clothes and place them on the chair, of course I noticed. Something hasn’t been right with Reuben for some time. I actually found my Dad’s old journals, in which he writes of his concerns of Odin in a similar manner. Towards the end of Dad’s life they were all but enemies but there was a time they were close friends, that they had each other’s backs. I just need to find out what changed. I k
Hello there, I offer my most sincere apology for the break in writing this book. I had to take time away from it due to a number of reasons, one being that the parent book had been plagiarised by another app and I struggled to find my flow back with the series. It’s hard when the characters and storyline you create is copied and sold elsewhere. GN have been so supportive on this matter but mentally, I needed to step away. I will finish this book, we have around 30 chapters to go and then I can decide if there is enough interest in me carrying on with the next book. Which would be Elspeth’s story jumping forward to the next generation. Thank you to those that have reached out to me with their concern and wanting to check in on updates - it has put a smile back on my face. Yours Ebony x
Libby POV “What did you do?” “Excuse me?” “With Angel, he slept for the rest of the night…I feel like a new woman.” Evelyn swoons over her cup of coffee, her body relaxing into the breakfast table chair. “Erm…” What do I say…that Anwir visited last night. Then as soon as he arrived he had gone. Come to think of it I don’t even know how he got past the guards. My eyes land on Pierce, his eyes more scrutinising than usual. Did he know…he must have felt someone cross the border last night. If he didn’t feel it, which as the alpha he would have, then his guards would have informed him. Why was he remaining silent like me. But Angel was happily settled in his father’s arms, something I had never seen before. Maybe what Anwir had done…actually worked. “Do you know what, I don’t want to know…it was probably just a fluke.” She sighs out, bending down to peek at her sleeping boy wrapped up in Reuben’s arms. The back of her hand strokes the top of Angel’s head before moving up to
Libby POV “Wine?” I offer out to Evelyn as we both tiptoe down the stairs, trying not to wake the children up who were too excited to sleep. It took some time, some very well manipulative head stroking on my part…but they were asleep. “I best not, I’ll be up there only in an hour to resettle Angel.” Evelyn sighs out. “I can do that, you should relax.” I’m determined to take no for an answer as we walk into the kitchen and I pull a cold bottle of sauvignon blanc out of the fridge. She watches me in silence, as I fetch two wine glasses and continue to pour the wine out. As I hand her a glass, a small smirk enters onto the corner of her lips.“What?” I ask out, thinking perhaps I did something wrong with the way I poured out the wine.“You seem different…”“Different?”“Good different…you seem like a luna.”“I wouldn’t go that far, but I am starting to feel settled here. Starting to feel at home.” I don’t think I’ve said that out loud yet, and as I do, it’s how I feel. “I’m pleased
Pierce POV “How is she…really?” Reuben asks as he sits down in my office. I have just poured us both a glass of whiskey, as Libby helps Evelyn send the children off to bed. “She’s doing…great.” Even as I say it, I don’t know if I quite believe it. It can’t be that easy can it. Anwir visiting her in her sleep and she miraculously wakes up the next morning a more positive version of herself. “I don’t think you even bought that lie.” Reuben grunts out as he slowly sips on his glass. “No, I didn’t. Anwir arrived one night. He did something, something that seems to be working. I don’t know what it was or what he did, but since then she’s been more open towards her wolf.” I shrug out trying not to let it annoy me that what he did has helped her, when I couldn’t. “Then what’s the problem?” “I guess I’m just waiting for the penny to drop, for her to go back to how she was. This just seems too good to be true.” “Did you ask Anwir to come here?” Reuben asks, his forehead fu
Libby POV I’m bouncing on the balls of my feet, nerves mixing with excitement as I watch the array of vehicles driving towards us just up ahead. They glide towards the alpha house like a slithering black snack…all the same, all in perfect collaboration with one another. Pierce refused to tell me who was coming, but there’s only one person I know that would travel like this, only one family. The alpha king and the royal family. My eyes can’t look anywhere else, the black cars consuming my full attention. As soon as the cars pull up, a door opens even before the driver has had the chance to open it, and a little foot pops out. Warmth enters into my chest and spreads across my entire body. “Auntie Libby!” Rex comes running up to me and I can’t help it…my feet are already running to close the gap between us as I fling him up in the air, and spin him in my arms. As soon as I place him down, his sister Elspeth does exactly the same, and so do it. I can’t believe they are here, th