I wake the next morning as normal, freshly showered and dressed in boxers. I shake my head at the fun Morpheus seems to be having overnight while I sleep and don’t keep tabs on him. I smile as I feel the new addition to our family. It isn’t completely there as Jade has marked him and then completed the mating. Once he is changed and marks her in return, he will become an official member of our pack.I smile, get up off the bed, and walk into the closet. I pull on my training pants and a plain black t-shirt. I then make my way out of the room and downstairs, I grab a piece of toast from the dining table and then walk out the back.I head straight to the training fields. I stop and look over the area. I am proud of what I see, males and females all running through the obstacle course as well as in the sparring rings. I then make my way down onto the training field and, without a word or a misstep from me or them, I join in with the exercises, slowly moving ar
As per tradition, about 2 hours before dawn, I climb back down the tree I was sitting in and let out a loud howl calling my pack to me. Once everyone is in attendance, Morpheus shifts back into his wolf and lets out another loud,“HOWL!”“Hhhoowwll!” the rest of the pack replies and joins in.Once the howls die down, I then take off running. Zaire, Farris, Charles and Jade all fall in, flanking me and the rest of the pack falls in behind me. We run the territory until the first rays of the morning light the sky. I then lead everyone back to the packhouse, ready for the day of rest.I, however, can’t rest. No matter how much I try, I can not sleep or rest the same as everyone else anymore, and after watching Zaire with Farris and now Jade with Charles, I miss Yasmine even more. I miss her fire; I miss her fight; I miss the way she would fight against me and then once I got my hands on her; I miss the way she would melt into my touch. Most of all, I miss loving her and holding her in my
I strip as soon as I reach the treeline, shift and go for a run. Morpheus is still resting, so this is all me and it feels good. It feels free… I am playing, swapping between chasing a rabbit and a squirrel. I then sense the presence of something slightly larger and go on the hunt, but still with no intention of actually killing it. I am taken a little by surprise by the sound of her soft voice in my head and nearly lose my footing as I jump over a downed tree and skid to a stop as I land.. "Zachariah?" It has been a little while since we actually talked. Wondering what's happened to make her contact me, I ask, "Yasmine... What's wrong?" "I just met my mother. She told me that my father was killed trying to protect her from a group of hunters..." I breathe a sigh of relief when she tells me that. I had a feeling that there was more to her mother's story than what she was being told and the only one that could tell her was her mother. I just wish that I could have introduced th
As I reach the treeline, I strip and shift. I grab my clothes in my mouth and then start running; it is a day to PowerMoon territory and then once we meet up with our teams; it is another day's run to each of the locations we have marked on the map. Hopefully, Charles's tracker within Yasmine's arm will give us a better and more accurate location. As it slowly gets dark, I nearly trip again as I come to a skidding stop when I hear her sweet, soft, pained voice in my head once more. "Zachariah?" I know she is trying to cover and Lorelei and Zelda are helping as much as they can, but she is still scared and in pain. Unfortunately, all I can do is reassure her that I am with her and that I am not going to leave or give up on her. "I'm here." "They are about to sedate me and move me to the breeding camp. You should be able to activate or follow the tracker as soon as they take me out of the barrier you should be able to follow." Her words are shaky and full of emotions that I kn
-- PRE BATTLE -- Zaire and Farris walk in the opposite direction as Zachariah enters the strategy tent to make his phone call. Farris places his hand on Zaire's cheek and pulls him into a hard, passionate, dominant kiss. Zaire returns the kiss with a dominant one of his own. They don't say much to each other knowing that these small stolen minutes within each other's arms could be the last they spend together. With Zaire always being part of a pack and Farris originally being from a pack and then going rogue, they both know that as with any battle or fight, anything can happen and there is always a chance that one of them will not come back from this battle. They share one last kiss before breaking apart and going their separate ways, heading to where their warrior teams are waiting for them to join and then infiltrate the territory they stand at the border of. Now, Charles was a little surprised that Alpha Zachariah gave him his own team to be in charge of. That he trusted him
-- BATTLE --The extra warriors, including Alpha Ryan, had joined Zaire about 15 minutes before Zachariah had given the all-clear to enter the PowerMoon pack territory. Zaire had informed Alpha Ryan of everything that was happening and by the time he had finished explaining, Alpha Ryan was ready to enter PowerMoon territory without Zachariah’s all-clear.Alpha Ryan, however, knew that this team of the mission was run by Zaire, so even with being an Alpha, no one moved without Zaire’s say-so. Zaire sighs in relief when he received the order from Zachariah as quickly as he did, allowing him to give the order to his warriors.They enter over the border and the first patrol they come across takes one look at them and walks the other way. Zaire smiles, as they must be a pair of Delta Lucas's warriors.However, as they got closer to the location of the suspected camp, one of Zaire's scouts comes running up to
--- BATTLE CONTINUES ---Farris then faces the other two. They were actually quite good, not allowing him to get close enough to do more than scrape the tips of his claws over their skin. What they didn’t realise was that he was making more than one cut at a time, so with every small cut that their healing healed 2 to 3 more would continue to bleed slowly, weakening them both.Farris keeps this up until one of the warriors makes a misstep allowing him to get close enough to grab his throat, digging his claws in either side and then ripping his hand and claws forward. The Lycan warrior slumps to the ground as Farris then opens his hand allowing the chunk of flesh to fall to the ground.The final Lycan warrior steps back and holds up his hands, falling to his knees as he looks at the three laying on the ground around him. Farris straightens and takes the two steps that are separating them and says,“Is there a reason for me to l
--- BATTLE CONTINUES --- **Meanwhile** Alpha Zachariah moves out in front of his team and crosses over the border and into PowerMoon territory. It isn’t long before he is joined by 3 sets of patrols; he nods to them as they fall in with the warriors behind him. Zachariah was only about half a mile from the border when he came across the first warrior camp. It was only an average camp with only low-level warriors within it. Morpheus stirred within Zachariah. He frowned but did what Morpheus wanted and used his new Royal Alpha tone, spreading it throughout just the small camp. “Those who are under Alpha command to fight and protect, I release you… Stand down!” Zachariah is only a little surprised when 95% of the warriors in the small camp relax their stance and then sit on the ground. The other 5% continued with their fighting stance. Zachariah smiled and said, “So… You are the ones here by choice. Come on, let's see what you have…” Zachariah is then surrounded by around a doze
>YASMINE“So this is what it feels like to die… I thought it would have hurt more…” “But we aren’t truly dead, are we?” Zelda asks. “Yes, but No… We are in the in-between. The nothingness between life and death.” Lorelei answers. “So, how long we here for?” I ask, looking around at the endless darkness around us. “We are being held to our body through the power of the ancient dagger. So as long as nothing has happened to Zachariah, then we will return to our body once he removes the dagger and Summer performs the resurrection ritual...” “What happens if something has happened to Zachariah and he can’t remove the dagger and someone else does?” Zelda asks, getting more worried. “I don’t know and I hope that we never find out…” Lorelei says, finally not having the answer. “You have nothing to worry about, my daughter. Everything is as it should be. You can and will return to your loved ones soon.” I turn in the dark and just manage to spot the blue glow as it fades into the dar
The Final Battle Continues... She was off limits; she was the Masters; she was Kastrath's. The general forced the lower Demon back to their world as he landed and then took his place lying over the beautiful female that will be his Queen. Yasmine struggles against the new Demon but stops rather quickly as she feels the difference between the Demon that was just holding her to the one that is now. She looks into his bright red eyes and he seems to smirk at her before leaning down and running his double-forked tongue over her skin. Yasmine shivers in disgust and starts struggling again as the general leans down and pushes his rough, demonic voice into her head, “You, my dear female, are lucky that you are already claimed for if you weren't your life from now on, would be a nightmare for you, however; pure hell for me…” Yasmine tenses as she is then hit by her gift opening and entering into the Demon on
The Final Battle Continues…Zachariah wakes slowly, tightening his arms and only finding air. he reaches his hand out to be met with cold sheets. He sits up and looks around. He smiles to himself when he sees the light on in the bathroom and hears the shower running.Zachariah slips out of bed and walks over to the bathroom with every intention of joining his mate. However, the scene in front of him as he enters has him bewildered.He moves quickly, stepping into the shower and crouching in front of her, first grabbing her hands, stopping her from doing any more damage to her skin. Then he places one hand on her cheek as he scans her body, assessing the damage, stopping at the two bites he can see on the top swell of both breasts.He lets out a low growl, bringing her eyes to his. Zachariah doesn't get to say or do anything as Yasmine's resolve breaks completely and she jumps at him, whimpering."I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I coul
The Final Battle Begins!THIRD PERSON… Kastrath paces in his castle's realm. He had watched Young Yasmine live and grow. He had been watching the panther shifter bloodline and had known who and what she was from the moment she was born and had been watching over her ever since.Kastrath watched as she grew into a headstrong, fiery female that would make him proud and would be worthy of standing next to him as his Queen.He had known the moment Queen Margaret and King Jason had summoned him, that deep into the future they would provide something he had been looking for…Something that he had been searching for a millennium.Now he knew that he had to wait until after her mate had changed her first, forthe real her to be released. However, Kastrath hadn't taken into account just how powerful the Moon Goddesses' mate bond would be between them o
I struggle against his hold, trying to push him away from me until he tightens his arms around me and whispers in a low tone,“Now, now, my Queen. I am only here to congratulate you and to remind you that you can avoid all the bloodshed to come if you will just say yes and come with me now…”Even with the anger and conviction in my voice, as I say,“Never…”He just laughs, then moves one of his hands to my cheek as he takes a deep breath and says,“Mmm… So much fire… Just a few more weeks, my Queen and you will be mine.”He then holds me tighter against him as he presses his lips to mine before disappearing into his tentacles of grey smoke, leaving me to collapse to my knees as the smoke disappears. Zachariah runs over to where I am and helps me back to my feet as he whispers,“What happened? One minute you were there dancing in my arms, the next you were gone
I then place a soft kiss on his forehead as he steps back and into Summer's arms. She gets to her feet and bows before her and the others disappear and enter the throne room from another door. I stand up straight and take a deep breath before giving a slight nod to the two warriors that are once again standing guard at the doors.I hear the music as the doors open stop and the Royal announcement chimes ring out I take a step and enter the room and freeze just inside the door, I still hate being the centre of attention as everyone steps aside and bows, revealing a very handsome Zachariah standing in the middle of the room wearing a traditional Royal black tux. He smiles at me and opens our private link,“Yasmine, look at me and only at me. Remember…” With his voice in my head, I smile as a quick flash of the last time we did something like this and he had asked me in front of the whole pack to be his. I walk slowly toward him
I feel the bed dip and then feel his fingers lightly touch under my chin. He applies a little pressure, making me lift my head and look at him. Tears sting my eyes and one seems to escape. He then moves his hand to my cheek and wipes away the tear as he whispers,“It’s okay… Yasmine, it is a natural response. We didn’t get to spend the time we should have with them once they were born. So your protective instincts to do with them will be heightened for a little while.”I then snap my eyes to the door once more as there is a knock. Zachariah gives me a kiss on the cheek and then gets off the bed. As he leaves the room, he says,“Relax, I’ve got this. You lay down with our pups.”He closes the doors behind him and I do as he says and I lie down, wrapping my arms around my pups. I take a deep breath of their scents and then drift off into an exhausted sleep.**Dream** I look like a
As Zachariah talks to Jasper and the other Alpha, I walk up to Mary and give her a hug. When she pulls back, she steps to the side. With her arm around my waist, she says, “Yasmine, I would like to introduce you to Alpha Isaac's mates, Leah and Nyla.” “It’s nice to meet you both.” They both bow and then I think it's Nyla who steps a little closer and places her hand on mine as she whispers, “I am glad that Alpha Zachariah found you. He deserves to be happy, because if it wasn’t for him, then I wouldn’t have met my mate or found my sister…” I feel as all her walls drop and she opens herself up, and just as Darius said I can’t control it as my power flows from me into her and I see everything that was her life, I can’t stop the tears that fill my eyes and then slide down my cheeks at all the suffering she went through at the hands of Valentino. As with Alpha Clive, Zachariah seems to be standing behind me when my power returns to me and I sway on my feet. Zachariah wraps his arms a
I look around the room at the pack that is in the room casting its vote. Most of them have stopped and are looking at me and Zachariah. Zachariah follows my gaze as it passes over the room. He smiles, turns so that he is now facing the room and says,“If you will excuse us, but family is calling. Please continue to cast your votes.”When he turns back to me, I look at him with wide eyes and whisper, shocked,“But don’t we have to be here for this?”“Technically, yes, but we haven’t seen much of Darius since we have been here, and I can feel that being with him is what you need, so that is what we will do. We can count and look at the votes tomorrow.”Then, without another word, he steps up to me, grabs me around the waist, throws me over his shoulder and then walks out of the throne room. I lift my head just as he steps out of the doors to see Alpha Clive with a smirk on his face before he turns his attention back to his pack and the voting going on around him. True to his word, Zach