I'm publishing the chapter a bit early tonight so I don't get distracted with dinner and forget. Enjoy! Much Love, Anja <3
ALEKSANDR Meeting with the team was so much easier now that I could pull Rieka into any group mind link. Ivan was the first to arrive, but Jericho and Gina showed up shortly after. Although she wasn’t officially part of the leadership team, I also included my mother in this meeting. The value of all of her years of experience as the packs luna was immeasurable. ‘We need to prepare the pack to take on Jacinda if she shows up here again.’ I explain to the team as they all gaped at me. ‘She is powerful enough to hold me back, but I don’t think she can’t take on an entire pack by herself.’ ‘Do you really think she’ll try to return?’ Jericho challenged. ‘I hope not, but we need to be prepared just in case she does.’ ‘Honestly, we don’t know the strength of her power,’ Rieka chimed in, ‘We never really discussed that with her. We know she is strong, but everyone has their limits. Our best chance of beating her is by trying to overwhelm her with the size of the pack.’ I nodded an
RIEKA “Does Aleksandr know?” “About my gift fading? No, I’d assume not,” she shook her head. “There was no seer in my original pack, so I had no one to teach me. When I mated Nikolai, I’d hoped to find someone here in the Silver Eclipse Pack who could help train me, but there was no seer in this pack either.” “That must have been so difficult! I can’t imagine having no one to help me navigate these abilities!” Lis shrugged but smiled, “There was a lot we didn’t know about seers, and I’ve been slowly learning more about this gift over the years. I’ve had to seek out other seers to ask questions and try to learn from them and their experiences, but not every pack has one, so we’ve all learned from one another. We are extremely blessed to have two in succession here in Silver Eclipse.” “I had no idea that being a seer was so rare in the packs. Had the others been in communication with one another when you started reaching out to them?” “No, I actually tracked many of them dow
JACINDAIt didn’t take long to get the male talking after we said few unflattering things about the alpha. In fact, once he started talking, it was hard to get him to shut up. He was giving me a headache with all his yammering on, but the real challenge was getting any valuable information out of him.He said his name was Beau, and at least it fit him. He was indeed beautiful, but he seemed to talk in circles without ever actually saying anything useful. I couldn’t figure out if that was by design, or if he was just an idiot.It was in moments like this that I wished Emmett had marked me so that *hopefully* we’d be able to mind link, but I understood his reasons for wanting to wait.Now we sat here listening to this moron go on and on about how important he was, and how he was chosen for his role because he was the only one who could do it.For the first time in my life, I felt trapped. I couldn’t escape this hell because we needed to know what he knew. I could have easily invad
ALEKSANDR We called for the warriors to come for reevaluation first. We started with those who had the day off from patrols, and then would slowly start working through different groups. Although I wanted to be there for the evaluations, I also didn’t want to be separated from Rieka, so she came along as well. I held her close and did my best to protect her, and she didn’t seem to mind, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that I didn’t feel like she was safe. It was a painful revelation that I didn’t trust my own pack to protect my mate and their luna. If I really wanted to break it down, I trusted at least fifty percent of them and I was feeling fairly confident about their loyalty. The other fifty percent I was suspicious of but had yet to see any evidence of betrayal to back up my suspicions. It was most likely just because they were the pack members I didn’t know as well. As we began to observe the evaluations conducted by Ivan, Jericho, and Gina, I started to get
JACINDA What was a child doing all the way out here, alone, in the middle of the night?! This little girl looked to be about ten years old. A bit young to have a wolf, but not impossible. Though usually when a wolf shifted this young, they had alpha blood, and we were certain that Alpha Aleksandr did not have any biological children. “Do any other alphas from nearby packs have a daughter this age?” I whispered to my mate. Emmett shook his head. “Not that I’m aware of.” I cursed under my breath. This was not a part of our plan. I don’t want to see a child get hurt, and don’t really want to leave her to fend for herself, but we also can’t reveal ourselves to save her. Who is she and what is she doing out here? Is she lost? There is no reason that she would be lost. If she already has a wolf, her wolf should be able to help her find her way back home. We watched her for a few minutes longer. She weaved between the trees, slowly moving further away from the territory border
JACINDA Everything went black, and then there was an immediate flash of light and I found myself standing in a large, open field surrounded by flowers and a small stream off in the distance. The sun was shining, and birds were chirping in the trees at the edge of the clearing. It was peaceful. Quite possibly the most peaceful moment I’d ever experienced in my life. Part of me wanted to lie down in the grass and take a nap, but my brain kept reminding me that I was here for a purpose, and I needed to figure out what that was. Standing in the field, slowly spinning around, my eyes were searching for any sign that could indicate why I was here. After making four rotations and not seeing anything helpful, the desire to lie down had grown significantly stronger and I was tempted again to rest in the peacefulness of this place. I almost caved, but then I forced myself to stand strong. Walking would be helpful to keep me awake and alert, I decided, so I began walking towards the smal
JACINDA I stood there dumbfounded. Was it just a lucky guess or did this pup have the ability to know things? Gifts like this had always been somewhat rare, even in the supernatural world, but lately it seems like I’ve been meeting individuals left and right with some sort of gift or supernatural ability. Quickly pulling myself together I glared at the pup. “What could you possibly know about me and my life,” I challenged. She shrugged her shoulders and turned slightly to walk along the bank of the stream. “I don’t know how I know things. I just do. I always have.” She said it so casually, as if it was no big deal. She didn’t say anything else, but walked back and forth beside the stream, occasionally swinging her foot out to dip her toes into the frigid water. She was so relaxed that I decide to risk it and ask some questions of my own. “Who was the wolf you were speaking with?” She tensed and stopped pacing for a moment. “You shouldn’t be asking about him,” she respond
ALEKSANDR We had recruited and trained a lot of new, young wolves since Emmett left the pack. We all agreed that one of the best ways to keep him on his toes, should he attempt to return, was for there to be a lot of wolves he didn’t know running patrol shifts. The young wolf before me now, who’s name I’d learned was Jack, swallowed audibly as Jericho nodded his encouragement. “I was running a route with my partner, Heath, when we caught an unusual scent just outside the territory. We were near the hill at the north, northwest edge, so we decided to split up.” Jack glanced nervously over his shoulder at Jericho again, but quickly turned his attention back to me. “Heath went up the hill to look around from a higher vantage point, while I circled around the northeast side of the hill. He didn’t try to hide himself, because we though if he was seen by whoever it was, they would be less likely to look for me.” I had to admit that was a smart move. Expose one patrol to keep the ot