The darkness had consumed me, but I felt a hand grab mine, causing my eyes to open. I had been to this place before, but I couldn’t remember how. Looking at the hand touching mine, I saw her for how she really was, a goddess truly touched by the moon.“Do you remember how you got here, my sweet Sophia?” Her voice rung regal.“I am having some trouble, Selene. It seems that my mind is trying to stop me from remembering.” I was confused as to why. She stopped in front of me, still holding my hand, her other hand touching my cheek.“Will you allow me to show you?” She asked me. Nodding my head yes, I knew there were people waiting for me somewhere. Light shone from her hand and every memory that I ever had from when I was a baby right till my death flashed before my eyes. I saw all the love, all the hate. I gasped as the last memory stopped.“Will they be ok Selene?” I asked her.“Sophia, my child, would you like me to show you the future they have, or would you like to stand over all my
There is not much that I remember about my parents or how we came to this god awful pack. I am told that it was an accident, but I have never believed that. How could werewolves die in a car attack? Nobody knew where we came from. But all they knew was that I was a curse. Well, in their minds, I was.From the age of about four, they forced me into being the pack’s slave. I was the most hated wolf in this pack. The Alpha beats me on a daily basis and now his son Angus is following in his footsteps. Every day is a struggle for me here. There is someone here, though, who always seems to save me. I don’t know who it is? I am not allowed to know who it is.It will be my eighteenth birthday in a few weeks from now and I will finally be able to leave. I already packed my bag with what little things I own. Miss Cindy, the teacher in charge of the orphanage, has been giving me enough money to escape when my wolf finally comes through.See, when we turn eighte
Sophia’s POV Six more months and I could be out of this hellhole, see my parents had died when I was younger. I was put in the orphanage no one wanted to adopt, which I didn’t care about. But for some reason, Alpha Cyrus hated me and so did his son. I would cop daily beatings for no reason. He has tried to beat me down for the last sixteen years, but it hasn’t worked. I will not allow him to break me. He is a d*ck. He treats our Luna like crap; I feel sorry for her, as I know she gets it worse than I do. No one at school likes me. The teachers hate me and so do all the kids; I have no friends there. All I try to do is study and keep my head down. But the stupid Alpha is training his son up on how to beat me in public. No one can actually watch it, except for the sick kids, but hey they are all like that. I don’t feel the pain anymore. Knowing what is coming for me, I retreat into my head. My body becomes numb. I swear that one of these days I will kill him and his son
My eyes fluttered open. I winced from the pain as I tried to move. Not even sure where I was, or what was going on. The last thing that I remembered was Mr Owen tying me to the table and whipping my back. What an asshole. How could everyone just sit there and watch? F**king Angus. He was going to pay for everything that he has done to me. “Sophia, try not to move too much, alright. You were whipped so badly that the whip broke through your skin to your bones. But you have started to heal ok, quicker than you normally would. So I think you will be ok.” Miss Cindy says to me. “Thank you, Miss Cindy, for always looking out for me. I think I would have died if it was not for you. Who brought me here? If I am allowed to ask.” I ask her. She looked like she wasn’t sure if she was allowed to say anything. So I didn’t ask her anything further. Not sure what else to do, I go to move off the table that I was on, but my back itched and the pain was bad enough that I didn’t wan
Derek’s POV“Honey, I need you to go to the pack and see what evidence you can collect.” Mom's voice came through the phone. I knew she was going to ask me to do this. No one else wanted to go and see that a**hole. He was good at hiding all evidence, well I just felt that he had his pack too scared to come forward. My beast was stirring for the first time in a while.“Mom, seriously, there must be someone else that can do it. You know I will kill him if it comes down to it. But you know I don’t want to kill anyone else after what happened.” I sighed, blocking out the memories of that horrible night. I could never take back what happened, but I knew I would not do it again unless there was enough evidence.“Derek, no one blames you for what happened. But you had reason to do it. They killed your mate and your father.” I could feel the sadness from Mom without her even having to say anything.“Ok Mom, I will do it for you. But it still doesn’t mean that I am ready to come back. I will ke
Sophia’s POVThe blackness was still there, but it felt different now. It was like something was happening to me, something was running through my entire body, fixing me, making me powerful.“Just hold on Sophia. I am your wolf, Bria. You must fight the darkness. We are almost there. We are one of the last of our kind, Sophia. We have super strength and live longer than most wolves. We are quicker than most. We are the last bloodline of the original werewolves, Sophia, so you must survive. It is your destiny.” Bria says in my head and I could feel the ancient blood coursing through my veins.“That’s why my parents were killed?” I said out loud in my head.“Sophia, that I do not know. There is more to us, but I don’t know what it is. But it made everyone hunt us down and kill us all. But if you die, then you will never know. You need to survive to reject our mate.” She said to me.“Who is our mate?” I asked her.“One of the ones that did this to us, Sophia. You must reject him so we ca
I could sense that something was wrong with Jarrod, Adeline and Carla as they were running silently beside me, I had rejected the pack but somehow I could still link with Jarrod but what I didn't expect was to be able to hear the conversation between Jarrod and Adeline.“She is different, Jarrod. Are you sure you want her to come with us? She might be the reason to slow us down.” Adeline said to Jarrod. Jarrod slowed down as no one was in thier wolf's form yet.“Jarrod it's ok. I was never going to come with you. I owe you my life many times. I will lead them off as far as I can. So you can get out of here with your family. If you ever need me, please come and find me and I will repay the favour." “But how did you know? Sophia, I am sorry to do this, but my family is everything to me.” It was like he was trying to find an excuse to leave me, but I owed him my life.“Goodbye Jarrod.” I said to him through the link we still shared, and I took off in the other direction. After all, the
“Um, what? How is he dead? I just spoke to him the other day.” The man said to me.“I killed him.” I said, getting a little nervous now as my mate was standing there laughing at me.“How could you kill him?” I could hear his mocking tone in his voice and I was getting angry now. Who was this man to mock me? He was exactly like Angus. The Moon Goddess really didn’t like us.“I KILLED HIM BECAUSE HE ABUSED ME FOR YEARS FOR NO REASON. HE KILLED MY PARENTS BUT I CAN’T PROVE IT. HIM AND HIS B*STARD SON NEARLY KILLED ME THEY BASHED MY FACE IN. THEN JUST LEFT ME FOR DEAD. THEN I FOUND OUT HIS SON WAS MY MATE SO WE REJECTED HIM TO FIND OUR TRUE MATE, WHO TURNS OUT TO BE AN A*SHOLE AS WELL. SO I KILLED HIM AND GOT THE F*CK OUT OF THERE.” My blood was boiling, I was angry at this man, that claims to my mate, but yet again I am getting screwed over and I was sick of it, this was meant to be my escape.“Bria, we need to reject him now.”“NO WE WILL NOT SOPHIA, IT IS AN ACT. HE THINKS WE ARE TRICK
The darkness had consumed me, but I felt a hand grab mine, causing my eyes to open. I had been to this place before, but I couldn’t remember how. Looking at the hand touching mine, I saw her for how she really was, a goddess truly touched by the moon.“Do you remember how you got here, my sweet Sophia?” Her voice rung regal.“I am having some trouble, Selene. It seems that my mind is trying to stop me from remembering.” I was confused as to why. She stopped in front of me, still holding my hand, her other hand touching my cheek.“Will you allow me to show you?” She asked me. Nodding my head yes, I knew there were people waiting for me somewhere. Light shone from her hand and every memory that I ever had from when I was a baby right till my death flashed before my eyes. I saw all the love, all the hate. I gasped as the last memory stopped.“Will they be ok Selene?” I asked her.“Sophia, my child, would you like me to show you the future they have, or would you like to stand over all my
Why did he always assume that it was me? No matter what I did, he always thought it was me and I was tired of it. Here I was, accepting my fate to die so that they could live. Asher felt the pain he had just caused me. He was about to say something when I stopped him.“How dare you assume it was me? You always do this to me, Derek. I am sick of it. You ridicule me even though I accepted my fate so that you could live. I Sophia reject you, Derek, as my fated mate.” I said, and the bond snapped from me. The warriors gasped behind me.“You want to know where my mate is? I don’t know because I just rejected him. Even in death, he still chooses to believe the worst in me. As for my mate, you already know, Asher.” I told Zakari it wiped the grin off his face.“But you can’t have them both as your mates? It’s not meant to work like that.” He scolded me. The mate bond with Derek was broken by my side, but it wasn’t for him. That’s why I hadn’t said the rejection correctly, because I didn’t ne
Jarrod’s wolf was killing him slowly. His paw was on his head so that he couldn’t shift. Angus wasn’t even squirming. It was like he was welcoming death.“DO IT JUST KILL ME.” He screamed at us. He really wanted to die, but why should he? After all the pain he had caused me and countless others, death was the easy way out.“Jarrod, stop, don’t kill him. That would be doing him a favour. Chain him in silver.” Jarrod’s wolf cocked his head sideways. Asher disappeared and was back a few seconds later. Angus was now chained in silver and chained to the tree. Jarrod had shifted back.“What the fuck Sophia.” He said, coming straight at me. Asher stepped him in front of me and Jarrod stopped where he was.“If you touch her, Jarrod, I will rip you to pieces.” Asher’s voice was calm, and that’s what the scariest thing was.“I wasn’t going to touch her Asher, relax, but I want to know why she won’t let us kill him?” He questioned.“He wants to die Jarrod, we would be doing him a favour. See, we
Derek was going to be back in a few minutes. I could feel his aura getting closer through the mate bond.“As much as I want to stay here in your arms forever, we have to clean up. Derek will be back in a few minutes.” I whispered into his ear. Luckily, I wasn’t going to be alive long enough to worry about upsetting both of my mates. After we had a shower, which turned out to be a little longer than we thought because we couldn’t keep our hands off each other, we went downstairs. Derek walked through the door, instantly coming to the both of us and pulling us into a hug.“I am glad that the both of you were able to have that time together, but now I must talk nothing but seriousness.” He was hiding something in his voice that I couldn’t decipher what it was. He moved away, looking at the both of us. “Marcus and I have been talking, and we have come up with a plan. I am sorry, but I must leave both of you. I can’t stay here and watch you die, Sophia. It is selfish of me I know but on
Asher’s POV“The cost of this is your life, isn’t it?” I was choking on the words as I tried to get them out. “You both know this has to happen. I don’t know when it is going to happen, but I know it will be soon. It is the only way to keep our babies alive.” She told me her voice was not her own, she sounded other worldly. I knew this was coming, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon. I needed time. I could fix this. My heart was being ripped from my chest, falling to my knees. I was struggling to breathe. Her touch on my shoulder warmed my body, but it still didn’t take away the fact that she was going sooner than we thought. I had only just got her.“There is a cabin in the woods on the other side of the kingdom. You both should go and spend the night together there, please. I beg the both of you. We all need this. Sophia, baby, I love you, but you need to love Asher as well. Asher, you need her. Spend the night with her, make it worth it.” Derek said. He had sat down on the other
Asher’s POVKnowing what Derek was asking me to do was taking me away from our plans to stop this. But I couldn’t bring myself to leave. Sophia had suffered some much pain in her life times. And I couldn’t be the cause of more pain to her.“We need to stay with our mates and babies, Asher. If our mate has to die and all we can do is to be there for her, spending the time that she has left to make her happy, then that is what we will do.” Ivar ordered me.“I know, but the pain is too much, Ivar. How are we meant to keep going with knowing what is going to happen? And we know that Derek will do whatever he can to die as well after she does. I can feel it Ivar, he is not going to stay here on this earth if she isn’t here. This is why I am scared to finish forming the mate bond with her. We can’t afford to do that. We have to be the strong ones here for the sake of the twins. They are going to need us. We are their family.” Ivar was right, he always was, but I couldn’t help but feel I was
Derek’s POVWhen Asher told me to get Tim because the babies needed to get out, I don’t think I have ever moved faster in my life. Within minutes, we were back in my office carrying all the equipment that Tim required. She was in pain. I could feel it, but again she was blocking it through the mate bond, trying to save us from pain.“Soph, baby, let the pain through. We can help you take it.” I tried to explain to her, but she screamed, the pain in her voice causing me to fall to my knees. She was going to die and I wouldn’t be far behind her. The babies would have Asher. I just can’t be in a world which she isn’t part of. Jerek had heard Soph and Bria talking about what has happened in their other lives and there is no way that I was going to let her go through this shit by herself. We had to keep it to ourselves because I know she would make us swear to stay with the kids, but I wouldn’t leave her again.Asher backed away to let me in to take her hand. He had every right to be here
Sophias POV“You already know about this, don’t you?” There was no point beating around the bush.“Know about what, child?” He looked at me, confused.“He doesn’t know Soph, I am the only one that does. Although I suspect that Asher’s beast knows about it, but he hasn’t told Asher yet.” Bria confirmed with me.“Sorry Alaric, seems you don’t know, but I think you need to know because I need you to look out for my babies.” My voice sounded firm even to me. My strength was building, and I had a feeling that my babies were going to be here soon, so I needed to start putting plans into place.“What are you talking about, Sophia? Something is changing in you. I can sense it. What is happening?” He sounded concerned, which in all honesty he should be, because I had just accepted my fate that I have to die.“Alaric, I have to die.” I stated to him.“No, you don’t. We are putting plans in place so that nothing will happen to you.” “No, Alaric, that is not what I mean. My fate has been set, a
Sophia's POV“Soph, did you just feel that?” Bria was on high alert.“I did, but what was it?” I asked her.“Someone wants to hurt us, but they need us alive. We need to always be at arm’s length to these guys, just like Asher told us.” She was right. There was no way that we were going to be out of their sight. Automatically placing my hands on my stomach, I felt one of my baby's move towards my hand. “They love us all so much already Soph, but they are growing at a rate of three times quicker than a normal pup would. I would honestly guess we have less than a month before they will be here, so we must do everything they tell us tonight.” Bria commanded me this time. The way she was worried had me worrying, too. Both Derek and Asher were watching me with concerned looks on their faces.“Soph, what is it?” Derek asked me. He really was in tune with us ever since he had woken up from the despair that he had been in.“Let’s just say it is a feeling, but someone wants to hurt me, but th