Jaxon.
It’s the human that breaks. The one that Blue called her friend. The human is bawling her eyes out as she announces the truth. Blue takes off, slamming a door shut somewhere in the back of the apartment. She wasn’t crying. She was just silent as her friend made the announcement. Angry perhaps, but not at her friend. She was angry with the situation. Angry that we had found out part of the truth.
“What the fuck? Your brother hurt her?” Xander is shouting at the human. He is inches from her. Her body was trembling with fear.
“He’s dead. We killed him.” The human splutters. She was an ugly crier. Hey eyes puffy, her lips doing a weird pouty thing. Holy Goddess did I hate humans.
“Bree, that’s your name isn’t it?” I crouch in front of her, taking her hands in mine and speak in a soothing tone. She nods her head, her red lips parting a little, almost as if she was in a trance. “What did he do to her?”
“I can’t. I promised.” She mutters and I feel Xander’s eyes roll from behind me.
“Speak Human!” He demands
I had more of a gentler approach whereas Xander liked to go in all guns blazing. “Bree, you are her friend. We only care about her welfare. After all, she was chosen for us.”
“Brother, she is useless. We might as well get the information from our mate.”
“She isn’t going to talk.” I mutter back. “And we can’t make her. You saw it, she could ignore our demands.”
“If I tell you, will you leave her alone?” Bree asks us. Her deep green eyes were bright and shining with tears.
“I will consider it.” After all, what could a human have possibly done to a wolf?
“No chance. She is ours, she is coming with us tonight.” Xander grumbles.
“Xander, shut your mouth.” I snap at my brother. “You want this girl to be happy?”
"If we accept her, yes!” He grits his teeth together and growls at me. Because he wasn't keen on having a wolf as our mate.
“Then you have to realise not all females are going to be like the whores you bed.” I turn my attention back to Bree. “What happened?”
“It was her first shift.” And just like that, I already knew where this was going. “It was after her mum and dad died. My mum took her in. We were teenagers. She had already told me what she was, but she told no one else. I promised to keep it a secret. She is my best friend. Then the day she turned sixteen…” Tears were streaming down her face and dropping onto her large chest.
“Her first shift.” I mutter, bracing myself for what I knew was coming.
Xander had stopped fidgeting and was now paying attention. He knew as well as I did where this story was going. His jaw was clenched, his hands in fists. He wasn't as good as I was at hiding his anger.
“When Blue first moved in, my brother always commented about how she was developing. How he couldn’t wait until she was old enough. Blue always rejected him.” She wipes her tears from her eyes and flashes them at me. “She shifted in the woods behind our house. She didn’t know it was coming until it was too late. She told me to go. It was quiet for a while, then I heard her scream as I waited outside the house. But I thought it was her shifting so I stayed away like she told me too. Because she was afraid that she would hurt me.”
“Go on.” Xander snarls, sitting next to Bree.
“I went back, hours later, looking for her. I saw my brother, standing over her naked body, fastening his jeans as he spat on her. Blood coated her skin. She was still, but trembling. Her eyes on the sky as the rain hit her face. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. He was my big brother. We looked up to him and he did that to her!”
“And Blue? What did she do?”
Bree closes her eyes, all emotion draining from her face. “I helped her kill him an hour later.”
Xander pulls me away from the human, shaking his head at me. “She is a wolf and she is damaged goods. Why the hell would we be paired with her?”
“You’re right.” Blue appears around the corner. Her eyes wide. “I am damaged goods. My body is littered in scars from that bastard. So you might as well reject me.”
“Scars?” Bree hadn’t mentioned anything about scars only blood
“It was after I shifted back to my human form. He found me naked in the woods. He pinned me down and stuck his dick in me. Afterwards, he used a knife to carve away parts of my flesh. Shouting how it was a reminder that I should have just accepted him. That I wasn’t too good for him or for anyone. That these scars would make me hideous to all men. Like I’m going to let another man touch me after that.” She makes a point of staring at me. It was her strange way of letting me know why she had recoiled when I tried touching her.
“Reject me!” She folds her arms across her chest and doesn’t break eye contact with me.
“She is giving us a way out, brother.” Xander mutters.
“No.” I murmur and Xander frowns at me. He knew as well as I did that we both had to agree to the rejection, otherwise it wouldn’t work.
“What do you mean ‘no’?” Blue and Xander speak in unison
“Exactly what I said. Now are you certain that he is dead? The human that did that to you?”
Blue nods at me, “Bree tricked him. I shifted for the last time and ripped out his throat. If only I had done that the first time.”
“First shift makes you weak. It is why you were unable to protect yourself. And why your body was unable to heal.”
She nods her head at me. “I know that now. Vita explained everything to me.”
“Thank you for telling me.”
She scowls at me.
“I would very much like to talk to you again. Are you free tomorrow? My brother and I shall return.”
“No, not tomorrow. I need to work.”
“No you don’t.” I pull out my wallet and chuck some money down on the table. Xander does the same. “I already told you that we will provide for you. You can stop going to that hideous place.”
The women don’t move so Xander and I see ourselves out. As I jump into the driver’s seat of my truck, Xander asks me if I’m sure about this one.
“We have already rejected three. I don’t think the Moon Goddess will give us another option if we reject this one.”
“She has history.” He grumbles “And she isn’t going to do what she needs to do! She said it herself, she won’t let another man touch her.”
“You have history and so do I. It’s not like we have just turned eighteen, is it?”
“You seem to have taken a keen interest in this one. Why?” My brother questions me
“Maybe you need to look into her eyes. Maybe then you will see what I see.”
“Fine. But she doesn’t seem any more special than the others, well, apart from the blue hair.”
“My point exactly. How many wolves do you know that have natural blue hair?” It wasn’t dyed, I would have been able to smell it when I circled her. I had never seen another wolf with hair like hers and I found it absolutely fascinating. Blue hair and odd coloured eyes, she is definitely a special one.”
“I am assuming we are not telling father yet?”
“You would be right.” I mutter.
When we arrive at Black Moon’s packhouse, our father was standing on the porch. He looks around the truck as we climb out, like he was expecting to see someone.
“Still no luck? You boys are running out of time. You know I will not hand the pack over unless you have a Luna by your side.”
“Not yet, but we feel we have narrowed it down.” Xander gives our father a wide grin.
“She isn’t looking for you?”
“Maybe she is unable to scent us yet. It could be possible that she is not yet eighteen.” I offer, knowing I was lying through my teeth. “We are going out again tomorrow. We may have some luck then.”
“Luck! It took me six hours to find your mother and I located her before my brothers did. So far, you have been looking for six days and you are still no closer. I think the Moon Goddess may be punishing you for your rejections.” He shakes his head at us. His long grey hair fanning out.
“We know she is out there, we have a scent. It just appears that she moves around a lot. Making it difficult for us to track her down.” It was a necessary lie.
“Very well, but you have less than a week. Or the pack will be going to your sister. Need I remind you that a female should not be an Alpha!”
“We know!” Xander and I speak together. It was a constant reminder from our father that we were running out of time to take over the pack. We follow our father inside but make our way upstairs.
“You really think she is the one?” Xander asks for the millionth time.
“Yes.” I had no doubt about it. This time the Moon Goddess had paired us with someone incredible and there was no way that I was going to share her. Xander would find that out soon enough.
XanderI didn’t trust him. I never had. My brother was secretive. Always coming up with plans, trying to figure out things so that they would benefit him. It had been the same for as long as I could remember. But I was curious as to why he wanted Blue so badly. Of all the ones we had been mated too, he had never wanted anything to do with them, so why now? What was so special about this one?He had commented about her blue hair. But why was that so important? I had seen the way he had looked at her too. He had never looked at another woman in the same way. But Blue was damaged goods. It wouldn’t look good, not for us and not for the pack. I had to make him see sense before it was too late.Jaxon sits in my fathers chair in the office. He props a foot up on his knee and spins in the chair like a four year old. “Not long now little brother.” He smirks at me. “The pack will be ours.”“You are a minute older, I’m hardly your little brother.” I mutter, rolling my eyes at him. “But we do n
BlueJaxon insists on driving us. Though he wanted me up front with him. When I said no, Xander tells me that it’s fine to sit in the back with Bree. He may be the quieter twin, but he definitely seemed to care more.Bree spends the whole time trembling. Her hands grasped with mine. Her green eyes wide. I try to give her a reassuring smile. The twins were not here for her. They were here for me.As we arrive in the club, Vita is sitting on the door with the security guy. She gives me a tight smile while looking at the twins. As they start to walk away to their usual booth, she nods for me to go into the back room.Bree had already disappeared to change and Vita led the way to the back room. As we walk past booth thirteen. Jaxon demands to know where I am going.“Vita said she has some new uniforms for me.” He looks to Vita, “You better not be up to something, wolf.”“I have no intentions of doing anything stupid. I am just trying to keep my staff and business looking smart.” She hold
JaxonI stare into her odd eyes. The other women that we had been paired with would have immediately averted their gaze, bowing to us. But Blue stares right back at me. Her arms folded across her breasts. Her chest rises and falls as she waits for me to say something.“I prefer the way that suits look and it’s unlikely that I will need to shift.”“You didn’t say they were comfortable?” She cocks an eyebrow at me. I was almost mad by how easily she was pushing my buttons.“High quality ones are comfortable.” I mutter“So you just want to remind everyone that you have money?”Xander stifles another laugh. I was going to have to speak to him later, especially if he carries on like this.“No. There is nothing wrong with wanting to take care of myself.” I mutter and she shrugs her shoulders, walking away. Her attitude had me annoyed and a little turned on. If she wasn’t so afraid of my touch, it would be a completely different scene right now and she would be screaming my name.“I need a d
XanderI hated the way he was leaning over her, forcing his scent into her face. I knew Jaxon was just doing it to prove that she was his, trying to make her want him. Yet Blue didn’t belong to either of us, not yet.The news of her slowly poisoning herself was a shock to the system. I had never heard of a wolf doing that to themselves. Wolfsbane could do horrible things to a wolf, it never reacted the same way so you could never know what would happen to the wolf. Scars, burns, melting flesh, dissolving organs. I had seen a lot. Jaxon and I had also poisoned our fair share of wolves. But Blue, she was sitting here like she had never touched the stuff. I wondered if Jaxon was thinking the same as me.“How did you know to give yourself the right amount?”“Trial and error,” she mutters as my brother moves away from her.“Wolfsbane is deadly.” I mutter, thinking about the last wolf we had given it too. Blood had poured from their nose, eyes and ears as they begged for the pain to stop.“
BlueFuck! They did know!I feel Bree’s hand tighten around my arm. We have had this conversation multiple times. She knew that me being a Rogue wasn’t good.“Have you ever been in a pack?” Jaxon asks quietly. His blue eyes flickered between me and Xander. His eyes had a slight grey mist to mist to them. Xander’s too.“You don’t need to have a conversation in private.” I mutter. “You’ve figured it out. So reject me.”Jaxon presses his lips together. His nostrils flair just a little. Enough to show he was annoyed.“I am what I am!” I growl"You didn't answer my question. And don't spin some shit about Dark Crescent. I won't buy it."“How did you end up a Rogue?” Xander has his head tilted as he watches me “It wouldn’t have been killing the human, even if that is forbidden.”Jaxon scratches his chin and runs his hand through his neat blonde hair. He turns towards his brother “How the fuck were you right?” “I’ve already told you it doesn’t matter. But we have a choice to make now. Rejec
BlueI hated his touch. He thought he was doing the right thing by wrapping his arms around me, but I freeze, waiting for him to let go. He keeps telling me that I’m okay, but the longer he held me, the more I thought I would scream as the memory from that night comes flooding back.“Let go Jaxon.” I just about hear Xander over the throbbing beat of my heart.“She’s panicking. She’s holding her breath.”“She doesn’t like being touched.”“I’ve got her joggers.” Bree comes towards me. Her eyes rise upwards. “Let her go. She’s going to pass out else.”Jaxon’s arms release me and I stumble forward, righting myself.“Put these on and sit.”She hands me my black joggers and pulls a chair out for me as I try to calm my breathing. What the hell had happened?Bree and Jaxon watch me in silence. Xander had Vita pinned to a chair. “Thanks.” I mutter as I feel the jacket around me.“Are you okay now?” Those blue eyes stare into mine, searching for some kind of answer.“Why Vita? Why did you do th
XanderIf Blue had said no. We wouldn’t have left anyway. Jaxon had already said that he would find a way for us to stay with her for a few days. It was why we already had spare clothes and things in the car. Vita just gave us the perfect reason.Blue helps the human lock up as Jaxon and I wait out front. “Is there ever a time you don’t get your way?” I mutter sarcastically as I lean against the wall.“Fate, brother. You have to admit that if it wasn’t for Vita, we would be spending time fighting to make her our mate. At least now, she has agreed to this deal.”“Look, don’t get me wrong. I am curious about her, but at the end of the day, she is still a Rogue and we can’t change that.”He cocks an eyebrow at me “Why can’t we?”“Rogues are Rogues for a reason, Jaxon. You know that as well as I do.”“What if the reason she is a Rogue isn’t because of something she did?” He challenges me.“What?”“Her parents. Both of them would have been wolves, right?”“Well yeah, but what’s that got t
JaxonRunning into the hallway, I find Bree sat back against the wall crying. Xander was trying to hold Blue’s shaking body still as he muttered under his breath.“What’s happening to her?” But it’s only as I move closer that I see the foam in her mouth. “Wolfsbane.”I have seen this time and time again. It’s what eventually happened when a wolf had been dosed with two much of the poison.“What do we do?” Xander shouts at me. His blue eyes wide in fear“I don’t know.”“Do something!” Bree cries“There is no reversal for this. How did she take so much?” We had been with her the entire time.“The water, it’s in the filtered water.” She cries at meRunning to the kitchen, I grab the near empty jug from the side and take it back to Bree as Blue continues to convulse.“How full was it?” Her eyes are wide as she stares at the jug. “Bree, how full was it?”“Full” she muttersBlue had drank nearly two litres of the water/wolfsbane mix“Xander. There’s nothing we can do.”“We have to do some