Avalyn My eyes fluttered open and I saw a blurry figure in front of me. "Ava!" Nik said and rushed to my side. I opened my eyes and smiled lazily at him. I had had a good sleep. My thoughts were still incoherent. "What time is it?" I mumbled and rolled around. I hadn't slept-in in so long. "It's nine in the morning," he replied. All of the morning's events registered in my mind. The plan, the morning glories, Max's exorcism. Oh, Goddess. I needed to get up. I needed to check on him. "It's the next day Ava. You've been asleep for almost thirty hours now." His eyes were filled with worry and the small crease between his brows meant he was stressed too. "I feel good now," I replied, the laziness evident in my tone. "A bit hungry." I got off the bed and realized I was in my pyjama shorts and a t-shirt of Nik's. Smiling at the thought of him changing me in my sleep, I walked to him and pressed a kiss on his cheek. "Let's go get you some breakfast," he said and caressed my cheek with
Nikolai "So what have you decided?" Max asked me the second he entered my office. Yesterday night when I was formulating the war strategy, Max came into my office and told me a plan that he had come up with. It aligned with the rough idea of my plan of inviting Gonzalez to Max's club - Club Ekstaz. Max would slip it in that after the Vampire Rebels, I was next on his hit list. Max would then somehow convince him that they should attack the Rogue Pack together. An incentive that Max could give Gonzalez was that he could take over the pack and my business after my 'death'. It was a rough plan and sounded crazy but if we worked on the details just right, it could work. Working on a war strategy to make sure we killed him and all the wolves he brought with him into our land was the easy part. The plan that Max told me about last night was that Ava and I should go to the club as guests of Natalia's. We could tell him that Nat belonged to the Rogue Pack before she left to live with Max in
Nikolai "Max has something to share," I told Ava and Natalia once we settled on the couches in my office. I sat beside Ava, took her hand in mine, and placed our hands on my thigh. I needed to feel her close to me. Max glanced at me before looking at Natalia. "I killed the man who kidnapped you. His name was Lionel Preston." Natalia didn't even bat an eye at that. "Good." She smirked instead. Max gave her a short nod. I knew he was still squeamish about the week when the devil had taken over his body and didn't want to say anything that would upset his mate. "He was the leader of the Rebels of all the Vampire Kingdoms. Something like rogues in the werewolf world. But the difference is that they don't support the Vampire-Werewolf Peace Treaty and, unlike most people, aren’t afraid to say it out loud," he told us. "They have taken it upon themselves to kill any and every werewolf that comes their way." "Why would they do that?" Ava asked, looking worried. "Werewolves and vampires
Nikolai "Are you fine?" Max was immediately by her side, helping her up. Nat rubbed the back of her head and groaned. "I think so." Ava waved her hand over Nat and healed her. Ava looked at her in tears. "Now?" Nat blinked once before releasing a breath. "I'm fine now." "I'm sorry... I... I didn't mean to...." Ava bit down on her lip hard and then looked at me with her teary eyes. I was so done with this. "Go back to our room," I said through clenched teeth. "I'll be there soon." I walked out of the office, Max and Nat following me. "You sure you're fine?" I asked Natalia. "Yeah...." She sounded fine but she wasn't exactly happy about what happened. Rightfully so. She was simply trying to help and Ava lashed out. "Sorry about that," I apologized. "Not your fault." She was definitely not happy about Avalyn's behaviour as well. "Do you still want her to come?" I asked Max as we walked down the stairs to the living room. He pressed his lips together. "Fine. You were right. Bri
Avalyn Nik and I had breakfast together before he left to go work in his office. I hadn't seen Dimitri, Mikhail, or Andrei all morning but I knew they were all busy too. They were all preparing for the war. Having nothing to do, I decided to go out for a run. It had been a while since I had let my wolf out anyways. I walked to the backyard and shifted into my wolf. My eyesight got sharper. My hearing got stronger. I could smell better. I felt a lot stronger. But my wolf felt a little weaker than before. I knew I wasn't an Alpha wolf like I was when I first shifted. As my faye powers were getting stronger; my wolf was getting weaker. Deciding to mull over it later, I took off on a run. After about ten minutes on the trail, my eyes fell on a bunny and I licked my lips. I wanted the chase. I wanted the hunt. And my wolf was ready for it. I slowly crept up behind it, unnoticed, and when I felt near enough, I pounced. But the little rabbit saw me and made a dash for it. I ran behind
Avalyn "Ava, Love? I'm back." Nik slipped into the bedroom. I almost thought he wouldn't come back tonight. He had a lot of work to do. After I had finished my work, I came back from the packhouse and brought Nik his dinner to his office. I forced him to take a fifteen-minute break and have dinner with me. He told me that he still had a couple of things he needed to get done before the end of the night. And those few things had kept him in the office until midnight. "Are you asleep?" he asked. "I'm sorry I'm late." When he walked closer to me, I threw the cover off me and shot my hand out, pulling him on top of me. He fell with an 'oomph'. I kissed him. "I've missed you," I said between kisses. "I've missed you too." He held his weight up so I wasn't crushed underneath him. I rolled us so I was on top of him and then sat on his stomach. I quickly discarded my robe and placed my hands on his chest. He had a dazed look in his eyes, like he had no clue what was happening but was v
Nikolai "Alpha!" A guard burst in through the door. I growled at him. I had given strict orders to not be disturbed. "It's Luna," he panted, his eyes wide in alarm. I shot out of my seat. "Where is she?" Is she hurt? Is she in trouble? What happened? "The beach cottage." Fuck. She wasn't in trouble; Nat and Max were. "Goddamn—" Dimitri muttered but I was already out of the window and in my fur, running towards the beach cottage. A growl tore through my throat. Ava had been unpredictable lately. Ever since her faye side started growing stronger, she had started losing more and more of her temper. There was no telling what was happening over there. I heard three wolves running behind me. Dimitri, Andrei, and Mikhail. I ran harder. I needed to get there quickly. In five minutes, I reached the cottage. I heard a commotion towards the back of the cottage so, without wasting more time, I ran there. "No!" I heard Nat's bloodcurdling scream. My legs slowed down as I saw a bloodied
Nikolai Once we were in our bedroom, I kicked the door shut. She turned to glare at me. "Go on. Justify Max ignoring Natalia's safeword." "Nothing is happening without her consent. She was fake-safewording. It was a part of our plan. You would have known that, but you told me you wanted to stay out of it. You haven't attended a single meeting on it. I respect your decision, but I will not tolerate your violent, abusive behaviour." "I thought Max was being abusive...." she said, her voice low. "Do you honestly believe he would knowingly ever do anything to hurt Natalia?" I couldn't believe she would think that. She shook her head, looking down. "We wanted to show Emilio that Max was a crazy asshole. What better way to do that than making him think that Max was out of his mind even when it came to his beloved?" She pressed her lips together and turned away from me. I could sense that she was deep in thought. "I want to fight in the war, Nikolai," she said, surprising me. "You