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
It was early evening when we finally arrived back home. Getting into the room behind the door turned out to be easy, I did as Elijah suggested and the door opened straight away. It was moving the books and papers into the car that took most of the time. Why were there so many of them and why did they all have to be so heavy? “Can we just leave the books in the car tonight?” I complained as Elijah parked the car in the garage. Carrying all of those heavy books upstairs tonight was pretty much the last thing I wanted to do right now. “That probably isn’t a good idea with people looking for you. These books are clearly important. I can get some of the omegas to do it and put them in my office,” Elijah said, I could tell he was feeling just as tired as I was from the tone of his voice. I nodded my head in agreement. That was about as close to conversation as I could manage until I had eaten. I haven’t had anything to eat since breakfast and I was starting to feel more than a little wor
School was dull. I mean school was always dull but today was about ten times worse than usual because all I wanted was to be back at home with Elijah. Elijah was spending the day trying to work out who was sending the werewolves after me. He still had the ones who intruded on our territory in custody. They were due to be given back to their respective packs this weekend so he wanted to learn everything he could from them before then. I had tried to persuade him that I would be able to help or that my time would be better spent studying the books we found. It didn’t matter though, he wasn’t having any of it. He told me that my education was too important to ignore and forced me to go to school. I was going to have to find some way to graduate early. There was no way I could continue going to school every day when the pack was in danger and people were after me. It was such a waste of time. “Diana, where are you going? You better not be planning on sneaking out again,” Ryker said a
Elijah took me straight home after the incident with Arthur even though there was still a few hours of school left. He kept at least one hand on me all the way home and I could feel the anxiety coming off him in waves.He must have already told the rest of the pack about what happened through mindlink. A few of them were waiting for us when we arrived. Elijah opened the car door and they came rushing over to us but as they got closer to me Elijah growled causing them to stop in their tracks. “Stay away from my mate,” he thought. I was still trying to block out his thoughts but right now he was shouting at the pack with his mind. There was no way I could block that out. I got out of the car and walked over to where Elijah was standing. He was looking at his own pack members as though they were a threat. I put my hand on his arm, drawing his attention towards me. “I could really do with a rest,” I said. “Of course,” Elijah said. He put his arms around my waist tightly and took me s
Ava and I told Elijah’s mom all about ourselves as we got changed into our party dresses and applied each other's makeup. We spoke about our hobbies and our preferences for music and films among many other things.Ava looked great, she was wearing a knee length black dress that hugged her curves perfectly. I had helped her pick out that dress myself on one of our shopping trips but I had never expected that she would be wearing it to impress Felix. Elijah’s mom had picked out my dress. It was a long flowy dress with a wide neckline designed to display Elijah’s mark for the whole pack to see. It was also in the pack colours of Teal with a grey sash at my waist. It wasn’t my favourite colour but Elijah’s mom thought that having both me and Elijah wearing the pack colours would send a strong message. I had a feeling that this had a lot to do with the Fuller pack’s presence tonight but I wasn’t complaining. I was looking forward to standing by Elijah’s side tonight as his luna. Even tho
Mark’s mate glanced over towards him then quickly averted his gaze towards the floor in front of him. He was walking a few paces behind the Fuller pack’s alpha and luna. The way he walked so he was with them without actually being with them made it clear that he was one of their omegas. He was wearing a simple light shirt and dark trousers, designed to make him fade into the background. They were all heading in our direction, they seemed unperturbed by Mark’s presence but it could have been an act. They kept their eyes focused on Elijah as they walked towards us, only glancing briefly over towards me once. I guess that was an indication of how this conversation was going to go. “This is a nice party,” Alpha Fuller indicated towards the house. ‘It was perfect until they showed up,’ Onyx complained. “Thank-you. I am glad you could make it,” Elijah said. His voice was stiff and emotionless. I have never heard him speak like this before and I didn’t like it one bit. I was so use
We left Mark alone so that he could get to know his mate a little better but we didn’t get very far. Everyone in the pack was here and it seemed as though all of them wanted to talk to us. It seemed as though we couldn’t move more than a few steps at a time without someone calling us over.Elijah was so much better at this than I was. I didn’t like this much attention being directed at me and I wanted to get out of the conversations as soon as possible. Elijah however was a master of small talk and he seemed to know about the lives of everyone in his pack. He asked them questions and made them feel like he truly cared about every single one of them.After a few conversations I forgot about my own discomfort and just paid attention to Elijah. I loved listening to him. The way he spoke made me want to be a better luna for him and our pack. It would take me a long time to get used to being around so many people and even longer to learn all their names but I wanted to do it for him. ‘I 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