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
I opened my eyes and looked around. This wasn’t my room, in fact it didn’t look like it was even part of the house. The decoration was completely different. Instead of the pack colours of teal and grey everything in the room was decorated in burgundy with gold accents and looked as though it was over a hundred years old. My head was pounding as I sat up in bed. The more I tried to focus on my surroundings and work out where I was the more my head hurt. I had no idea what was going on, I had a few drinks last night but not enough to explain this headache and how did I even get here? “Don’t panic sweetheart, it can be a little disorientating the first time.” I looked over to where the voice was coming from to see Arthur standing beside the bed. My heart started beating faster as the adrenaline flooded my system. I pulled the covers up to my neck to put a barrier between the two of us. “What the fuck is going on? Where am I? Why am I here? Where is Elijah?” I screamed. A smile came
I laid on Elijah’s chest listening to the sound of him breathing and his steady heart beat for the next few hours. Even though I told him that meeting Arthur was just a nightmare I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was more to it than that. Part of me was scared that if I closed my eyes I would find myself right back there in that horrendous bed with him. I watched as the room became lighter over the next couple of hours and the house slowly started to wake up around us. I could hear people moving around and I could even smell breakfast being prepared in the kitchen. I tried to wriggle my way out of Elijah’s arms but he gripped me tighter and started to growl slightly. “You’re not going anywhere.” He growled seductively, sending chills of excitement through my whole body. He pulled me on top of him, I could feel his erection pressing against me. He ran his fingers through my hair and pressed his lips against mine. After a few seconds I pulled away, breathless. As much as I wan
Once we finished breakfast Elijah and I went upstairs to our office. Elijah had work he needed to catch up on for the pack and I needed to start looking through the books that we found. It wasn’t exactly the most exciting way to start the weekend but being luna wasn’t all about parties and socialising. Elijah liked having me close when he was working so I sat beside him at his desk as I looked through one of the books that we found. Elijah kept at least one hand on me at all times. He didn’t seem to care how slow or awkward it made things for him, he just wanted to have me in his arms. I wasn’t going to object, having him this close to me chased away my worries over the dream I had last night. Every so often he would lean over and kiss my cheek or my hair then go back to work. I couldn’t imagine that he was getting much done but I was enjoying being here with him. I wish I could say the same about the book. The book that I had selected seemed to give detailed family trees for a bun
Elijah was still kissing me when he received a mindlink from his brother to let us know that Helen had crossed our border with some omegas from her pack. Glancing at my watch I noticed that she was almost two hours early. Either this woman was really eager to meet Ryker or she was trying to catch us unprepared. I really don’t like her.We quickly made ourselves look presentable and made our way downstairs to meet her entourage. They hadn’t arrived by the time we got downstairs but Ryker was waiting near the door between Felix and his parents. Judging by the way they were standing so close to him I think they were expecting him to try running away. Or maybe he already had, he did seem to be acting rather sheepish. Elijah stood beside his parents. He circled his arms around my waist, pulling me close to his body and kissing my cheek. I could sense his desire to demonstrate our love for each other in front of Helen. I was still trying to block out Elijah’s thoughts and I couldn’t hear t
I have never been so happy to see a Monday morning before but after two days of dealing with Helen I couldn’t be happier. Ryker hadn’t come back to the house for more than a few minutes since Helen had shown up so she expected the rest of us to entertain her. Last night she even started knocking on the door to mine and Elijah’s room in the middle of the night. The only positive thing about her constant interruptions was that I didn’t sleep heavily enough to have that horrible nightmare again. I was grateful for that even if that was only because I didn’t get a proper night's sleep for the last two nights. I let out a long sigh as I got dressed for the day ahead. I would much rather be spending the day with Elijah but Helen had ruined that plan too. Elijah didn’t want to be stuck in the same house as Helen for another moment so he was going to spend the days visiting his business interests around the pack. I was sure that I would be able to persuade him to let me come with him. I have
I felt uncomfortable being back at school after what had happened last time I was here. I spent the whole morning worrying that Arthur was going to spring out from around every corner. Knowing that there was someone as powerful as him made me feel more vulnerable than I had ever felt before, even in all my years on the run as a child. I needed to find some way of making my powers stronger but that was easier said than done. I had no idea how my powers worked so I had to rely on the books my mom left for me and those books were not easy to get through. There was so much information in them and a lot of it didn’t help me right now. What I really needed was some help with my research, that way I could get through the books much faster. “Why do you look so miserable?” Charlotte asked me as she walked up behind me. “I had a terrible weekend,” I replied. I was on my way to the canteen for lunch but socialising was the last thing on my mind. I just wanted to get this day over with so tha
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