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Chapter 32: Bewildered
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2025-02-06 19:51:55
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The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 33: Battles and Stitches
QuirinI’ve been excited to see Kennedy all day. I’ve never been so distracted, so desperate to be with someone. But her love, her light, just fills me with happiness and I want more of it.‘I definitely want more of it,’ Raif purrs in my head.‘Tonight. Tonight we can take our time, explore her body and then bask in her light again.’‘We need to take Echo out again. This time when I catch her, I’ll be mating her,’ Raif says, growling possessively.‘You realize that’s counter-productive to what we’re trying to accomplish, right? She’s not going to run hard if you’re just going to mate her every time you catch her,’ I tell him.‘I have a feeling my little Alpha mate will want me to work for it,’ he purrs.Warrior training seemed to go on and on and I was almost disappointed when Kennedy wasn’t waiting for me when I got done. I could tell when I reached out that she was distracted, trying to work through something. Since she’s in the hospital, I have no idea what could be so distracting,
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-06The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 34: Frustration
KennedyAfter finishing up with Beta Kier, I realize that no one else is coming to the hospital. Whether they don’t think I’m capable of helping them or they just don’t trust me, I’m not sure. What hurts the most is that even Quirin didn’t come. He could lead by example, show the pack that I can help to heal them, but it seems that while we may have made some improvements in the bedroom, he still thinks of me as that little pup.When I walk into the packhouse, I stop, seeing people milling around, burning off the residual tension of the battle. I can smell the injuries on them, smell the blood and seeping wounds that their wolves are having to slowly heal. I feel frustrated tears prick at my eyes. Would it be so terrible to let someone help them?“Hey, there you are. I was just coming to check on you,” Quirin says, skipping down the stairs. He’s freshly showered, his hair still wet and the scent of soap still clinging to his skin.“I just got back,” I say softly.He gives me a pained l
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-08The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 35: Confrontation
KennedyAs I sit, I hear the doors to the hospital slide open. Thinking maybe it’s Quirin, I stay put. I’m not in the mood for a repeat of yesterday, but maybe we can finally talk about what I found on Tommy’s leg.“Luna? There’s someone here to see you,” Deborah calls out.I step out, seeing Emily and another warrior. He does not look happy to be here.“Luna, could we talk to you please, in private?” Emily asks.“Of course, come this way,” I say, leading them to one of the new rooms that I’ve set up.“Oh, you got the new table you mentioned,” she says.“I did. How can I help you?” I ask. The man is leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest.“Luna, this is my mate, Lane. I’ve asked him, well begged him really, to come see you,” she says, looking at her mate.“What seems to be the problem, Lane.”“There’s no problem, Luna,” he says.“Lane, please!” Emily pleads.He huffs, pushing off the wall. “It just needs more time to heal, Emily. Derion will heal the wound but th
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-08The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 36: Wound
QuirinI was annoyed early this morning. First, I knew Kennedy was upset last night about no one going to the pack hospital. It’s the first time she’s been in bed and acted like she was asleep. She’s a terrible faker and while I knew we should probably talk, I was exhausted after the battle and rather than starting an argument, I just went to sleep.I knew she was still upset about it this morning, but the reality is that this pack has been taking care of itself for a very long time. We’re strong and we’ve gotten on just fine. And as much as I know that Kennedy wants to be like her mother, she’s not there yet. She will be, I know she will, but she has several years to go.Then when we started warrior training, Kier had been bouncing around like he hadn’t fought in the battle yesterday like the rest of us.“What is with you? How do you have so much energy this morning?” I finally snapped at him.“Luna helped me to heal last night. I’m surprised she didn’t insist on healing you as well,”
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-09The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 37: Underestimated
QuirinThis is definitely a side of Kennedy that I’m not used to seeing. I step back and pull off my shorts, getting on the table.“You didn’t mention seeing Beta Kier last night when you returned to the packhouse,” I say, watching as she looks at the wound.“Would it have mattered? You still wouldn’t have asked me to look at your wounds. You were quite clear about Raif being strong enough to heal you. Your arrogance and the arrogance of this pack is astounding.”“My arrogance?” I ask, biting off a hiss as she begins scraping the wound. She looks at the scraping, tilting it in the light before nodding and putting the scrapings in a glass cylinder. That looks new too. I frown, how did she know she would need these things?“Yes, it’s arrogant to force your wolves to do all the work of healing you when you could help them. You expect them to fight and then expect them to heal you and your wolves do it without any complaint. But you, as the human, could help them and you refuse because of
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-09The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 38: Facing the Pack
KennedyI feel like Quirin is finally starting to recognize that I’m not just some silly little pup, but I’m actually an intelligent woman that can help the pack. At least, it feels that way. He apologized, which was totally unexpected but very much appreciated.When we walk into the packhouse, I take a deep breath. I’m guessing that this conversation isn’t going to go over well. This pack is very arrogant. I wasn’t joking when I called Quirin that earlier. That’s all it is, arrogance that the human sits back and leaves the brunt of the work to their wolf.“It looks like we’re on a mission,” Beta Kier says, walking up to us. “Anything I need to know about?”“Yeah, Kennedy has found silver in two of our pack member’s wounds. Since she didn’t find any in your wounds, she believes, and I’m inclined to agree, that this is Jasper’s doing.”“How would that even work?” he asks me.I give him the quick version of my suspicions as we walk into the dining hall.“Everyone, listen up. I have two a
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-11The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 39: Tactics
Quirin“I can’t believe our fucking warriors. They just sat there, not expecting that they needed to go to see Kennedy to get treatment,” I say as Kier and I walk into my office. When he doesn’t reply, I look at him. His lips are pressed tightly together.“Just say it,” I tell him, crossing my arms over my chest.He shrugs. “I didn’t see you there last night, Alpha. Packs follow their leader, they follow your example. If you don’t trust your mate to treat you, why would they trust her to treat them.”“I can’t afford to look weak to the pack,” I growl.“Well, then, neither can they. Personally, I had a great time kicking everyone’s ass in training this morning, so I hope no one goes to see her next time. Then I can get in and out, get a good night’s sleep and still kick ass the next day.”“Why did you go see her? I wouldn’t have expected you to go either.”I watch as he looks away from me. “Someone said my gashes looked bad, so I said I’d have Luna look at them.”“You got someone on the
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-12The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 40: Change of Heart
KennedyAfter a grueling evening of scraping injuries and cleaning out silver from wounds, I felt exhausted.When the last warrior left, I checked with Deborah and told her to head to bed. I have no idea how late it is, I just know that I’m exhausted. I finish cleaning up and check the room Deborah was working in before walking out to the main entrance. I’m turning off lights as I go, barely able to keep myself standing when I smell him.“You look exhausted.”I look up and see my mate in the dim light of the waiting room.“What are you doing here?” I ask.“Waiting for you. I thought you’d be done earlier but when I got here, there were still several warriors who needed to be seen.”“A lot of them came in tonight. I was surprised, but glad,” I tell him.His eyes narrow and he takes my hand, pulling it to him and looking at my palm.“Why do you have a wound that isn’t healed?”I shrug, not sure I can talk about it without breaking down. I’m too tired right now.He looks at me, then back
Huling Na-update : 2025-02-13
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The Pack's Nemesis Epilogue 2: Life Plans
Yorick‘Smell anything, Thad?’ I ask my wolf. I’m still in bed on this, my eighteenth birthday. I didn’t expect that my mate would be here, there’s nothing for me here in this pack, but I figured I’d better make sure.‘I would have smelled her last night if she was here,’ he says.That’s true. I guess she could be in Kennedy’s pack, but somehow, I doubt it. I’ve known for a while that my place wasn’t in either of my older siblings’ packs. I’m an Alpha wolf with an older brother who has taken over our pack. My father’s Beta and his mate have a son who has already taken over as my brother’s Beta and the same is true for our Gamma. There’s no place, no position for me in Connor’s pack.I could probably petition Quirin for is Gamma position. He’s been talking about needing to fill it and now that his life is full of pups, he needs the help, but it’s not what I want.‘We’ve made our decision,’ Thad says.We have, we just haven’t told anyone yet. I’m not sure how they will react and I’m not
The Pack's Nemesis Epilogue 1: Family
QuirinTwo Years LaterI sigh with happiness, or actually, Raif sighs with happiness as we lay on the back patio with our four daughters. Just as Kennedy had hoped, there was one set of twins that looked like me and one that looked like her. We’d named them accordingly with the ones who looked like me being named Quinlee and Quilla and the twins who look like my beautiful mate named Kaylee and Kendra. What we didn’t know is how deceptive looks can be. The daughters who carry my looks are sweet and gentle like their mother. The ones who look like Kennedy have my little hellion personality.Currently, all four of them are surrounding Raif in one way or another. I’ve decided that Kendra, who was the one with the cord around her neck, was Kennedy’s little rib-kicker while she was in utero. She’s currently on Raif’s back, kicking him as hard as she can, telling him to giddy-up. Instead of getting up, he lifts his head and shakes, forcing her to hold on tight as she squeals in delight.“No,
The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 92: Delivery
KennedyRaif continues to purr as we walk to the hospital, and I lean my head on Quirin’s shoulder.“Are you scared?” I ask him quietly.“Terrified. As excited as I am to meet our daughters, I’ve only felt fear like this once before in my life and that’s when you were taken.”I chuckle, but the movement sends a jolt of pain through my stomach so I stop.Quirin presses a kiss to the side of my head as we walk into the hospital and straight to what he calls the ‘Kennedy Suite’. I will say, Mom is absolutely prepared for my babies to arrive. There are four bassinets, waiting to be filled, a larger than normal counter with multiple areas to bathe, measure, and weigh my little ones and all the equipment mom thinks we might need in case any of our pups or I go into distress during delivery.Quirin and I are very familiar with the procedure of me getting checked, so he hooks up the heart monitors over my stomach while mom prepares to check me. This might be my favorite part of the day, watchi
The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 91: Bedrest
KennedyI watch as my mate sits on the edge of the bed, patiently smiling at me. He’s rubbing my belly that is huge with four pups. There’s so little space in my stomach that you can see their butts or heads or sometimes their feet when they kick out because there’s just not enough room in there.My little stomach-extenders obviously love their father more than they love me because they stop shifting around so he can touch them. Raif is purring loud enough to practically bring down the rafters in our bedroom and somehow my pups don’t seem to care that I’M the one who is just as uncomfortable as they are.Echo hasn’t gotten any stronger during my pregnancy and I’m not surprised. As soon as my Alpha pups started getting too jammed up in my stomach, they started kicking; kicking my bladder, kicking my kidneys, and kicking my ribs, sometimes hard enough to crack them. Obviously at least one of them has her father’s strength.‘What can we do to help you?’ Quirin asks in my mind so I can hea
The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 90: Gender Reveal
QuirinAlpha Warren and I had walked the pack lands, testing the soil, finding the spots where there is the heaviest concentration of silver and the areas that are most important to clean up. He and I came up with a plan based on the most heavily trafficked areas in the pack, the places were pups were likely to be, and then the heaviest concentration of silver.He began working on it right away, and I’ve never been so happy to have Warren in my pack. With everything going on, I need to be focused on Kennedy and my pups, not worrying about Jasper’s silver contamination.However, Warren did tell me that he and Yara would like a house of their own. So we found a spot where the two of them wanted to build and added that the first part of clean up so we can break ground on their home. Until then, they are on our Gamma floor.I can’t say I’m getting used to the noise that constantly seems to come from that floor, but I will say that it feels like good practice for me.Today, however, Kennedy
The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 89: Nanny Position
Kennedy“Hi Henry,” I say, hearing Quirin growling low in his chest at Henry’s teasing.“Ah, shit. I’m not interrupting you two in bed, am I?” I hear him ask, although I'm pretty sure he snickered. He's obviously enjoying himself.“Do you really think I would have answered the fucking phone if I was in bed with my mate?”“You might have, if you were worried about me,” he says.“Did you call just to harass me?” Quirin asks.“Well, mostly yes, but I did call to check on Kennedy,” he says.“My mate is perfectly fine. Her mother is here to make sure that her pregnancy and delivery are going well and Echo made her reappearance again this morning,” he says, smiling down at me.“That’s awesome, Kennedy. I’m so glad to hear that. But really, I was calling to make sure you have a safe word.”“A safe word?” I ask and Quirin starts growling, louder this time.“Yeah, you know, in case Quirin keeps you locked to the bed because of his voracious need for you and you can’t get away even to use the ba
The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 88: Luna's Verdict
QuirinI meant what I said to Kennedy. I could live forever in her beautiful mind, surrounded by her love and light. Opening myself to her has made the tightness that has always constricted my heart snap. I feel free, light, and oh so happy. It’s an unfamiliar feeling, but one that I want to feel forever.Waking up with her warm, soft body tucked against mine, her sleepy consciousness in my head is the best way to wake up. That is, until Raif and I hear Echo’s weak voice. If I’d been standing up, I think Raif would have tossed me to the ground in his excitement to get to his mate. But as rough as he was with me, he’s nothing but gentle with her. In our shared mind space, he carefully walks to his mate and lays beside her, curling himself around her protectively. She licks his face briefly before laying her head back down. Raif begins purring at her and she sighs contentedly.“She’s back,” Kennedy whispers and I can hear the teary happiness in her voice.“Yes, she is. She’s a strong wol
The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 87: Love's Intensity
KennedyAs Quirin carries me back to the packhouse, I open my mind to him and Raif, and also to Echo.‘Echo, if you can hear me, we love you. We know you’re taking care of our babies and being the excellent mother that you are. But Raif is here, Quirin is here. They will help protect our babies. You need to get strong, my wolf. I miss you,’ I tell her.Raif begins purring in both our mind and out loud. I can feel Echo fluttering in my mind, responding to the gentle call of her mate. This is what Mom told me to try. Echo will want to please her mate, to be with him again, so having Raif in my mind and helping Echo connect to him may help to strengthen her.‘I’m willing to take as much time as my mate needs to help her gain her strength again,’ Raif says. “I already knew she’d be the perfect mother to my pups, and she hasn’t disappointed me. But you need your strength, my love. I want to feel you in my mind too,' he says to her.I can almost feel Echo laying down in my mind, her own soft
The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 86: What's Important
QuirinI come awake feeling disoriented. Something is wrong, or ... not wrong, just off? Unexpected? What the fuck? I’m never this disoriented. And why is my bed so fucking hard? And where is my mate? I can smell her. She’s nearby.I force my eyes to open and immediately wince as the light above me shines in my eyes. Why is there a light above me? Where the fuck am I?“There he is.” I hear Luna Yara say and a moment later she’s beside me. I know this positioning. I’m in a hospital. Am I still recovering from the bear attack? No, that can’t be right. I didn’t just dream my life, did I?“Where’s Kennedy?” I ask, more harshly than is necessary.“Bathroom. She’ll be right back. How are you feeling?” she asks me.I feel fine, just disoriented.“Why am I in the hospital?” I ask, realizing that I don’t feel like I have any injuries, and I’m completely dressed except for my shoes.“What do you remember, Quirin?” she asks me in her gentle way.“Hey,” I hear my mate’s sweet voice. In a quick mot
