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Chapter 5: Saying Goodbye
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2025-01-14 19:49:51
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The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 6: Heading Home
QuirinWhile Kennedy was upstairs with her mother, I took the opportunity to give Connor his birthday present. I haven’t given Kennedy hers yet. I almost don’t want to. Her parents gave her a diamond necklace and it looks beautiful on her. My wolf’s head necklace looks like a trinket in comparison.‘I want her wearing my face around her neck,’ Raif growls.‘I know. I’ll give it to her later,’ I say. I know Raif won’t allow me to go without giving her our gift, but I’m not giving it to her here in front of everyone. I don’t want to see the sneering looks of the other Alphas. I’m sure their gifts were all expensive. I’d prefer to throw them all away and if any of them are inappropriate, I will. I didn’t spend as much money on Kennedy as I could have. Instead, I gave her something that matters to me and Raif. Hopefully, she’ll understand and appreciate the gesture.‘Of course she will,’ Raif says confidently. I’m not so confident.“Alpha Quirin, this is extremely generous,” Connor says. H
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-15The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 7: The Pack
KennedyI’m distracted by the fact that Quirin was in a battle today before he arrived at my party. I had been disappointed when I didn’t see him at first, and it was because he had been fighting.Those thoughts are still rolling through my head, reassessing every move he made tonight. When we were dancing, I didn’t notice anything off. I didn’t realize that he might have been injured. Some doctor-in-training I am.When I first stepped out of the car, I immediately sensed the difference in the feel of this pack. Where my family’s pack feels welcoming, this pack has a definite feeling of unwelcomeness. They don’t like outsiders here. I wonder if Quirin ever has anyone here to visit. Alpha Harold has been here, as have Luna Farrah and Henry, but I don’t believe that anyone in our family or our pack has ever been invited to Quirin’s pack.“Welcome home, Alpha. How was the party?” a man asks, I’m assuming this is Beta Kier. He’s looking at me like I’m one of Quirin’s one-night stands. I ex
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-17The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 8: Honesty
QuirinI don’t remember ever being this nervous in my life. I’m trying to push it down by acting relaxed and maintaining a calm demeanor in front of the pack. But inside, my stomach is twisting in knots. I knew I’d always been drawn to Kennedy, always enjoyed her presence more than nearly anyone else in my life. But now, I get to make her mine. This sweet, beautiful woman is mine. And I’m terrified that I’m going to lose control tonight and tear her apart.When she says goodnight to the pack, I look around, suddenly realizing that everyone is watching us. I don’t know if it’s the surprise that I’ve returned with their Luna or if they feel my own unease, but I don’t like worrying that anyone in my pack is thinking of challenging me for my Alpha position or my mate. Thankfully when I bark my own goodnight to them, they scatter like ants.I have no idea where Kennedy got the idea that we were going to have separate rooms. My parents did but I have no desire to sleep in a room that doesn’t
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-18The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 9: The Talk
Kennedy“Will you put it on me?” I ask, barely able to drag my eyes away from the necklace. Raif wanted his image around my neck, even before he knew that he was my mate. It would be one thing for him and Quirin to have gotten this for me if they’d known I was their mate. But not knowing, if I had been mated to someone else, that person would never have wanted me to wear another man’s wolf around my neck.I’m not sure what it means, except, maybe Quirin or Raif was feeling the mate bond before today.When he doesn’t answer, I look up to see him frowning.“It’ll get tangled in the necklace that your parents got you,” he says.“I’ll take that one off,” I say, getting up and walking over to where he’s sitting. I sit on the edge of his chair and wait for him to remove the necklace.When his fingers graze over the back of my neck to unhook the clasp, I gasp at the sensations that run through me. It’s like an electric jolt that goes straight to my core making me ache in ways I’m unfamiliar w
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-19The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 10: Bliss and Regret
QuirinWhen she gave me her clinical overview of what she expects sex and marking to be, there was one part of her words that I’ve been holding on to. The slower I go, the easier it is for her.It’s been my mantra since she said it. I’ve been drilling it into my own head and Raif’s as well. He’s not any gentler than I am. I’ve warned her but I don’t like the idea of her tearing and bleeding and she seemed so passive about it, as if pain during sex, or at least this first time, is normal.But then she had to start saying, ‘Yes, Quirin’, as if those words weren’t the words I’ve heard in my wet dreams for the last year or longer. Only I had no idea how sweet my name would sound coming from her mouth.I wanted her to feel good, to know that I can make her feel good and fuck, her body responds to my touch unlike anything I’ve ever experienced with another woman. Her sweet surrender to me, leaning against me and holding on to me while I made her come in my arms has been my undoing.I need he
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-20The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 11: The Morning After
KennedyI wake up alone. At first, I’m disoriented, not recognizing the room I’m in. Then, it all comes back to me. My birthday, Quirin, returning to his pack, completing our bond.I smile, shifting and feeling the soreness that still lingers between my thighs. I knew my first time would hurt. I’ve worked in the hospital, been around my mother talking to young she-wolves all my life. So, I knew there would be pain. What I hadn’t expected was the intense pleasure of that would come first from Raif’s venom, and then from feeling Quirin’s emotions.I’d felt his awe, his pride, his pleasure at being mated to me, at being inside me. I’d felt his desperate need to make me his. I’d also felt that he doesn’t feel worthy of having me for a mate and his guilt at what he considers selfishness by claiming me. If that makes him selfish, I guess we both are.Yes, I’d felt the sting of my body tearing when he’d first entered me. But after that, the pleasure that shot through my entire body was so str
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-21The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 12: Pack Hospital
KennedyWhen I get downstairs, I don’t miss the looks from the pack members. Even in jeans, I stand out with my bright yellow top. Oh well, this is who I am.“Hello,” I say, as I pass the pack members.“Hello, Luna,” they murmur.I don’t see Quirin, but I’m sure he’s got a lot going on. Yesterday was a very busy day for him, between the attack on his pack and finding his mate. He said he’d find me and since he hasn’t, I know he’s busy.When I walk into the kitchen, I see one of the pack members talking to an omega. I can smell her fear as he towers over her.“Hello,” I say, making my presence known. “Is there a problem?” I ask, walking to stand next to the omega. The man is obviously a warrior, strong and tall. He has multiple scars on his face and neck, and what I can see of his arms, reminding me that my new pack is made up entirely of rogues who have had to scrape and fight to get what they want.The man looks me over, sneering at my attire.“No problem, Luna,” he says, stepping bac
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-21The Pack's Nemesis Chapter 13: Fear
QuirinI had a lot of clean up to do after the battle, making sure that the dead from Jasper’s pack were buried and that Kier had taken care of any hostages. We haven't learned anything new, just that Jasper wants this pack because we’re wealthy.So it had been nearly lunch time when I’d finally told my Beta that I needed to check on my mate.“How is everything? I mean, I don’t want to pry …” he begins.“Then don’t,” I say to him. I will never share any intimate moments that I have with Kennedy with anyone. Those are mine. She’s never been with another man and no man will ever know how fucking fantastic it is to be with her. Only I will ever get to experience that.“I’m just … that was a lot of blood, Alpha. You know this pack is made up of rogues, but she’s not and never has been one. I get that she’s an Alpha female, but she’s not tough like we’ve had to be. She’s your mate, that makes her my Luna, so I want to make sure that she’s okay.”“Maybe it’s time I go check on her then,” I s
Huling Na-update : 2025-01-22
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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
