Training was tough. Now that Elijah knew that I was an alpha he was eager to test my fighting skills. On the walk over here I had hoped that I would get to take things a little easy. Maybe spend the session kicking Felix’s ass repeatedly but apparently I was out of luck. Elijah was a much stronger fighter than his brother, I was still stronger than he was but only by a small margin. In terms of raw strength, Elijah and I were pretty evenly matched but I was faster than him so that gave me a slight edge.After a few minutes of sparing the rest of the pack weren’t even trying to fight anymore, they were too busy watching us. I felt a little guilty for Kicking Elijah’s ass in front of part of his own pack. Not guilty enough to pull my punches though. I was born to be an alpha, both me and my wolf hated to lose. Elijah and I circled each other, looking for an opening in each other's defences. My wolf was getting impatient, she thought we could take Elijah down easily and she just wanted
“Diana,” Someone shouted. My head was fuzzy, I wasn't sure how long I had been asleep but I knew it wasn’t long enough. Mumbling under my breath, I turned away from the noise that was trying to pull me out of my sleep. A few more minutes, or hours, that was what I needed right now. “Diana, my darling,” they said. Fingers caressed my cheek, brushing my hair away from my face but there were no tingles. Whoever was touching me wasn’t my mate. My eyes shot open as I pushed myself away from the unknown person who was stroking my face. Fear gripped my body as I opened my eyes and realised that I was back in the same room from my nightmare the other night. Arthur was sitting on the bed beside me with a sickening grin on his face. Pushing with my arms and my legs, I tried to get as far away from him as I could. Once I put a little bit of distance between the two of us, I turned to jump out of the bed. That was when he grabbed my arm and pulled me back. “I brought you here so we could talk
The light was starting to fade around me but I wanted to get a few minutes more research in before dinner was ready. I had already been here for hours, so long that my muscles were starting to go numb. Elijah thought my enthusiasm for research was great at first but I think he was starting to get sick of it. had already fallen asleep at his desk. He was snoring softly with his head resting on his arm.I felt a little guilty for making him work so hard but I needed to find a way to block Arthur out of my dreams. For the first couple of days after my most recent dream I was hopeful for an easy solution but now my optimism was wavering. I had found nothing of use in these books so far.There was so much information in these books. That wasn’t the problem, the problem was finding that information. There didn’t seem to be any kind of key or system behind what each book contained. So far I had skimmed through one book on the history of my subspecies of werewolf, one diary and a book about u
Saturday was meant to be a day off and that was exactly what I had planned to do today. That was until Mark woke Elijah and I up at 7am to tell us that there was an emergency in the pack. Apparently one of the women I went to school with had been blessed with two mates. Although it was actually turning into more of a curse because her mates were rivals.Last night there had been some kind of altercation and Mark needed Elijah’s help to get the girl's mates to come to some kind of agreement. He thought that he was going to be gone for most of the day so I made myself a coffee and a bagel and took them into the office. There were still so many books for me to get through, maybe I should be grateful for the extra time.‘You keep telling yourself that, maybe you might even be able to convince yourself but you won’t fool me.’ Onyx said, laughing at me. That was because she knew how much I had been looking forward to today. Elijah was meant to be taking me out on a date and we were meant t
“What does that mean? I thought she was dead.” Ryker said, rushing over to my side. I couldn’t answer his questions, I couldn’t think clearly let alone speak. My mom was alive, she was probably being held hostage by Arthur. I don’t know why he was keeping her alive but knowing him, it couldn’t be anything good. “Where is she, why hasn’t she contacted you?” Felix asked. Why did they keep asking me questions, couldn’t they leave me alone to think? “She is near where Arthur is, I think he is holding her captive.” The more that I thought about the situation, the more it worried me. I was concerned that Arthur had never told me that he had my mom. He wanted me to be with him and he could have used my mom as leverage to get what he wanted. The fact that he hadn’t done so, made me worry that he had hurt her in some way. Onyx growled in my head, she wanted to kill Arthur already. This was just fueling her hatred even more. She was determined that we would be the ones to rip him to pieces
Elijah has been keeping me busy for the last couple of days, trying to distract me, I guess. It made for a fun weekend but I was paying for it now. I was tired and I didn’t have any time this weekend to think about my problem. Today I was at school and I would have plenty of time to formulate a plan. I was approaching the end of school now and there wasn’t much for me to do. I had finished all my assignments and had learnt the syllabus so my days at school were pretty empty. That left me free to spend most of the morning in the library doing research and making plans. Using the information I had gathered from my connection to my mom, I had managed to narrow down her location. I couldn’t be sure but to me it felt as though the connection was originating from somewhere close to my old pack, probably no more than twenty kilometres away. When I looked at maps of that region there was a small village in about the right location. I wanted to check it out but I knew it was going to be dif
Elijah’s first reaction was to hold me as though he was terrified of losing me. It took him a few minutes for the shock of the situation to wear off and him to start reacting more normally. He picked me up and carried me over to his desk where he placed me on his lap, gripping my hips tightly. I could tell from the look on his face that he was already deep in thought, trying to work out what had happened. I nibbled on my lower lip anxiously, this was a conversation that I really didn’t want to have. “Arthur took control of my body didn’t he?” He asked after a few seconds. I nodded my head in agreement. I wasn’t sure what else to say, I didn’t want to tell him what I had agreed to. I knew how much it would hurt him to know what my plans were but I didn’t really want to lie to him either. I felt like Arthur had taken all my choices away and I was sick of it. I couldn’t wait until I had the strength to end his miserable existence. “What did he want from you this time?” He asked. “
The first vampire arrived shortly before the sun came up and since then they have been arriving slowly throughout the day. Their presence had forced the omegas and even some of the warriors to avoid the house completely. Even though werewolves and vampires weren’t enemies, they didn’t exactly get along either. Instead they tended to avoid contact with one another, with the werewolves keeping to their packs in small towns while the vampires kept to larger cities. Most werewolves could go their entire life never having seen a vampire in real life. The vampires themselves were an interesting group. Some of them looked like normal office workers but others among them looked as though they were frozen in time at various decades in history. It made me wonder if they dressed like this normally or if they were only doing it to show off how old they were. I couldn’t see how some of them could possibly get away with dressing in such a way in everyday life. “Is there anything that I need to r
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