I don’t know how I managed to get away from Charlotte. One minute she was holding onto me and begging me to skip classes with her then she all of a sudden shook off her sadness and headed to her first lesson. I think it probably had something to do with Ryker being in her first lesson. Maybe that thought had suddenly occurred to her. If so she clearly thought that he would provide a better shoulder to cry on than I did. She was probably right, I could be sympathetic but I always seemed to end up saying the wrong thing. After that she probably followed him around all morning like some sort of lost puppy. He wouldn’t be happy about that, I am sure that I will get an earful from him about it later. It will be like the trip to the cottage all over again. Oh well, at least it got her away from me for a while. I tried to concentrate on my lessons but I found that my mind kept wandering. Something in the back of my head told me that the rogue situation was important. That if it was just
Felix parked the car out of sight of the road and a couple of miles away from the area where I saw all of the activity this morning. Well at least this is where I think the activity was. I am still getting the hang of using my powers and it isn’t exactly as though I see a map in my head showing me where people are. It is more like I can use the connection that I feel to the other members of the pack to get a feeling for where they are. I can tell what direction they are relative to me and approximately how far away they are. That was how I worked out where to look but it was also why I couldn’t be 100% sure that this was the right area. It is the right direction though, of that I am almost certain. “What are we looking for?” Felix asked as we all got out of the car. “I am not sure, anything unusual.” I said. “This whole thing seems like a waste of time to me.” Felix complained. He wasn’t as frustrated as he was when we set off. One the way over here he kept glancing at Ava i
The cinema was quiet, almost empty which meant we had our pick of seats. Ryker and I sat down in two of the seats near the centre of the room. Ava made her way to follow us until Felix wrapped his arms around her waist to stop her. “What are you doing?” She asked, her voice shrill and her eyes darted around the room in fear. She didn’t want anyone to see him with his arms around her. “I thought we could sit over there.” Felix said, pointing towards a quiet corner of the cinema. Ava’s gaze flickered over to where Felix was pointing before looking around the room nervously again. She tried to remove his arms from her waist but he just gripped her tighter. “I don’t think that is a good idea.” Ava said. “What is wrong, you are acting as though you are ashamed of being seen with me.” Felix asked, the hurt was clear on his face. “It’s not like that.” Ava said, her voice carried a note of panic in it. There were only a few other people in the cinema but they were all looking at us.
Elijah still had some pack business to deal with so he took me to his office. The room was set up with a separate desk for me. The desk hadn’t been here when he showed me around yesterday. I guess he must have set this up for me while I was meant to be at school. That made me feel even more guilty for sneaking out and upsetting him. I was about to take my place at my new desk but he insisted on me bringing the laptop and chair over to his desk. He got me to set up my laptop then shared with me a whole bunch of information about the pack and the various businesses his family owned. While I looked over all the information Elijah was replying to emails on pack business. I am sure that he would be done much faster if he typed with both his hands but he seemed very reluctant to let go of my hand. I guess he was still a little upset about me putting myself in a dangerous position earlier. It was a little extreme though, I wasn’t going anywhere and typing one handedly is annoying as fuck.
Elijah’s mom wanted to do some planning for my luna ceremony after dinner but Elijah said he needed me for something else. I think I have a good idea of what he was planning judging from his earlier thoughts and I couldn’t wait to see what he had decided.. Elijah pulled me into his room, pulling me against his body as he closed and locked the door behind us. He kissed my neck and ran his teeth across my mark until my pulse quickened and I could feel myself getting wet. “You have been a very naughty little mate. Are you ready for your punishment?” He asked. “Yes please.” I replied. I could feel the corners of his lips turning up against my neck. He had me exactly where he wanted me and he knew it. “You are eager, I like it.” He said. He kissed me once more on my neck before taking a step back. He removed his hands from my waist, he took my hands in his and pulled me over towards the bed. Once I was standing beside the bed he let go of my hands and took a couple of large steps
It’s going to be a while before I am used to having a mate. It feels like some alternate reality, I keep expecting to wake up from it at any moment and be back in my old room. Part of me doesn’t believe that I deserve anything so perfect. Elijah woke me up this morning by stroking my hair and planting soft kisses on my cheek. He was already dressed and ready for the day. He kissed me a few more times before he told me to get ready while he made us breakfast. When I got downstairs Elijah already had the food laid out on our kitchen table ready for us. While I was eating he got me to tell him everything I knew about my powers, which admittedly wasn’t much. When I told him that I could hear his thoughts I could see the panic on his face. His thoughts were all over the place, his panic was making them unfocused and I couldn’t keep up with them in the jumble. He was frowning. He didn’t look angry, just very unhappy. Maybe I should have told him sooner, this wasn’t good. My heart was ra
I heard Elijah’s heart rate quicken instantly as adrenaline flooded his system. He was glancing around anxiously. He was trying to listen for any sign of the approaching threat but he wouldn’t be able to hear anything yet. They were still too far away for that. “What do they want?” He asked. I tried to tap into my power, I reached out for them but there is something wrong. I am not sure if it is a problem with me or with them. It could just be that I am stressed or not fully in control of my powers yet but I can’t feel anything from them. I can tell where they are and that they are in human form but that is all. “I can’t tell, they are approaching in human form and they have the building surrounded.” I said. “Do we have time to run?” Elijah asked, I could practically taste his anxiety. “I don’t think so.” I said. They were closing in on the house quickly. Maybe if I hadn’t been so distracted I would have noticed their approach earlier and we could have run. Running now would on
The second key was a lot easier to find than the first key. There weren’t really that many places to hide it in the small empty basement. Even by the light of my phone it was easy to see the spot where the bricks in the wall looked different from the rest of the room. The next part would be the hard part though. Whatever my parents had hidden for me was in one of the buildings in town but I had no idea which. If I had thought this far ahead I would have told Elijah to call at my old house so I could pick up the map but this whole thing was the embodiment of poor planning. I hadn’t thought any of this through before we set off so I had to rely on my not so perfect memory. From what I could remember the map pointed to one of the larger buildings at the centre of the village. So that seemed a good place to start, I set off towards the centre of the village with Elijah following closely behind. I didn’t want to resort to looking around each of the buildings in turn but I would if I had t
Sometimes I look at the way my life turned out and it is hard to believe that it is real. It has been over nine years since I accepted Elijah as my mate and in that time he has given me more love and happiness than I ever dreamed possible. We decided not to start our own family right away, instead taking a few years to focus on each other. But now that we had started having children we couldn’t seem to stop. Over the last four years we have added two sons and one daughter to our growing family. Elijah was an amazing father. He loved spending time with the children, so much so that our parents were constantly complaining that they didn’t get to see their grandchildren often enough. Today would be an exception to that rule, because today was our oldest son’s fourth birthday party and we were going to need all the help we could get. Elijah had dropped the kids off with his parents early this morning then joined me to prepare the venue for the party. I had also managed to rope in a f
The last four days have been amazing but also incredibly tiring. Diana craved sex almost constantly, only resting for a couple of hours at a time before waking me up so I could take her again. That cycle continued until late last night when her heat finally broke and we were both able to get some rest. That rest was a lot shorter than either of us would have liked. Diana’s mom knocked on our door shortly after dawn the following morning. She told us that we needed to get washed and dressed so we could get back to our pack for the celebration they were throwing in our honour. I wasn’t too happy with the idea of a party in our honour while Diana was so exhausted, but cancelling it would have been an unpopular move. I couldn’t even be unhappy at Mark for organising it, he was only trying to do his best to raise the morale within our pack after what had been a difficult couple of weeks. He knew as much as I did that the best way of doing that was spending time together as a pack, Dian
My skin felt as though it was on fire and the only Elijah’s touch made it feel a little better. It made me want to rip all my clothes off and beg him to take me. I didn’t even care that we were in the middle of a staircase where anyone could walk past and see us. I let out a frustrated whine. “We are nearly here honey, just hold on a few seconds longer.” Elijah sounded as though he was struggling just as much as I was. He practically dragged me up the remaining stairs and into the bedroom we had shared together for the last few days. He didn’t wait for me to undress, as soon as the door was closed behind us he shredded my clothes with his claws and pushed me against the door. By the time my back made contact with the wooden door he was already kissing my neck. He held me in place with one hand while using his other hand to shred his own clothes and throw them to the floor. Now that we were both naked he let go of me and took a moment to admire my body. “Beautiful.”“Are you going t
Diana had prepared for some kind of epic battle but things didn’t really work out that way. With Arthur’s powers neutralised most of the people in the pack gave up without a fight. They seemed to be disorientated more than anything else so Mark and the others gathered them all in more of the larger reception rooms so we could address them. I needed to explain to them what had happened to them. It was disorientating when you woke up after being controlled by someone but I had only ever been controlled for a few minutes. There was no way of knowing how long these people have been controlled for, it could have been weeks, years or even decades. There is one thing I knew for certain though, they were going to need help to integrate back into society. I was planning to offer them a place in our pack, at least until they had pieced enough of their life back together enough to know what they wanted to do. “What happened to Arthur?” Mark asked once everyone was assembled. “I bound his wri
I tried not to react as confusion washed over Arthur’s face even though internally I was squealing with excitement. Our plan was actually working and this whole ordeal was close to being over, I could barely believe it. We had hoped that putting silver in the water would be enough to weaken Arthur’s control but I never really believed that the result would be so profound. When he walked out of the room I was sure that I could sense his panic, but I didn’t have time to gloat over it. I closed my eyes and drew upon my powers to check on the progress of our forces. They were about an hour from the border of Arthur’s territory but those were only the forces that I could reach. As long as there had been nothing to change the plans in our absence, there would be a force of vampires arriving in just a few minutes' time. I was getting ready to open a mindlink to Mark when Elijah pulled me out of my seat and started dragging me towards the door. “Wait a moment, what are you doing?” I asked.
My wolf is growling and trying desperately to push his way to the front of my mind. He knows that as much as this might look like a civilised breakfast, it is more akin to dining with the devil himself. At any moment he could suddenly turn on us and with his powers, there would be very little I could do to save those around me. I was particularly worried about the young girl. She didn’t look much older than four or five but, even so, I couldn’t sense any trace of a wolf in her. She was completely out of place here and so much more vulnrable than any of the rest of us. Yet she seemed to be unaware of the threat which Arthur posed as she used her pieces of apple to build a house-shaped structure on her plate. Arthur coughed to grab my attention.“I guess you are probably wondering who she is. She is my daughter and her name is Cora.” The smile he gave me as he spoke was the first genuine smile I had seen from him. As Arthur didn’t have a mate that could only mean one of two things, t
My nerves were on edge from the moment Arthur left us alone the previous evening. Elijah held me and kissed me for a while before falling asleep with me in his arms. I on the other hand couldn’t get to sleep, I laid there staring at the ceiling for hours until the sun started streaming through the curtains. That was when I decided that it was useless trying to sleep when my mind was so preocuped. So I decided to do something more productive with my time. Being careful not to wake Elijah, I slipped out of bed and went into the bathroom. Once I had locked the door and I was sure there was nobody coming to distract me, I sat down on the floor and prepared myself for what I had to do. The first time I had tried to take over the minds of another werewolf it hadn’t been easy. It had taken many hours to make me feel anything close to normal again but it was early in the morning. Arthur would still be asleep so his control was likely weak in many places. It didn’t take me long to find one
I felt sick. Arthur’s men had me tied to the bed with ropes infused with silver. I wasn’t strong enough to free myself from the ropes so I had no other option than to watch as Arthur sunk his teeth into my mate's neck. She screamed out in pain and started thrashing her arms and legs wildly against the men who were holding her in place. Arthur and his men let go of Diana then took a couple of steps back before she could punch any of them in the face. She let out a frustrated growl before checking the wound on her neck with her hand. I could already tell that the wound wasn’t acting like a normal mark would. There was more blood and it wasn’t healing almost instantly in the same way as a mate’s mark normally would. There was a smug smile on Arthur’s face when he stepped away from her but as the seconds ticked on, his smile started to falter. At the same time Diana’s smile grew wider. The bite on her neck was already healing and there was no sign of a mark being left behind. “Well, I
I had been expecting Arthur to come for me again straight after the little distraction we staged, but he didn’t. Instead he left me alone for the rest of the day and the next morning as well. That had me concerned. I was worried that he had realised there was something else going on, or that he had somehow worked out what I did. One moment he was talking about spending the whole day with me, the next he left me alone and ignored me for twenty-four hours. Something about that didn’t seem to add up. To make things worse, I didn’t feel any different after the spell that I cast with Elijah and I was worried that it had failed. I had followed the instructions to the letter but maybe I had missed something. Maybe there was another step to the spell that was mentioned in a different part of the book. There was so much about all of this that I didn’t understand yet. I wish there was a way I could ask my mom about it without Arthur finding out what we were talking about. Who knows, that mig