Author’s POV.Things went smoothly in the next few days, maybe because Adam was a little bit ashamed to face Natalie and encouraged by Phillips' remark he hid himself in the imminent need that the bond mate was creating and started to look more obviously for Lexie. But Natalie too ignored him and did everything in her power to stay away from him, doing her job as Luna and nothing more. In the end the pack was not guilty for Adam’s stupidity, at least not at this moment.And if there is something she learnt from her previous life is that Adam’s heart most probably will never change but she could change the perception of the pack about her.She was a tough Luna, always working hard and pressing them to be strong. BUt they turned against her in her last moments and supported Lexie. Why? Because in her previous life, Lexie was making goo-goo eyes to everyone like a pathetic candy woman while she was struggling for them and forcing them to become their best version. Of course they loved t
Adam just looked at the screen and a lot of questions appeared in his mind.What the hell happened here? This should have been a simple speech in the backyard of the new school, since when this was about TV interviews, news shows, cameras and propelling Natalie as if she was the empress of the world?“Man” Phillip said, coming closer , because at the middle of Natalie’s speech he came in the living room too. “She did an outstanding work there and people loved her”She did it, no one says she didn’t, but since when is she so eager to take credit for her job?And Adam’s heart tightened.She was alwaying supporting him, and giving him the credit for her good work, making him look good in front of everyone and now? She didn’t even mention his name, for the goddess’s sake? Why did she change? and he continued to stare at the goddess who was talking about her new plans, not his or theirs, her plans to make the werewolves' world great again.“She should run for president!” Judy said coming i
“Alexander Stepanek!” Natalie said laughing hard “What did you smoke this morning?”He made her smile. In all the madness she lived, someone made her laugh heartily.“I don’t smoke” Alex says and pointing to his perfect body continues “This body that makes you unfocused is healthy. If you want you can check on it”And hearing him Natalie rolled her eyes.He is like a god who came on Earth, that’s true, but to check on him? What a nerve on this guy! Who does he think he is? The most wanted bachelor in the Universe?“Did you just roll your eyes at me, Natalie?” Alex asks and squints his eyes at her as if that is something unbearable.“Oh,no!” Natalie exclaimed , placing a hand over her mouth “Did I just roll my eyes aloud?” and her reaction made Alex laugh too. “Forgive me good sir, it must be from the air I breathe. It smells like…scoundrel!”And hearing her Alex laughed even harder.“You are something else, Natalie Hawkins. I marvel about how stupid your husband is to not worship you”
“Brother?” Adam asks, a little bit perplexed. “I had no idea that Evan has an brother” and because Alexander Stepanek was someone who avoided standing out at public meetings, not for being shy but for thinking with all his heart that only stupid people display themselves in vai, he chose to let Evan to stay in the foreground, while he was collecting his benefits.Even at the Alpha party, only a few knew who he was, and that’s why Evan told Adam that Alex is not anti-social but anti-bullshit. So Adam looked at him for a few seconds and couldn’t believe his eyes that this man was Evan’s brother. He looks kind of stronger and his aura is powerful, but before he could add something else, Alex stretched his hand and with a bow in front of Natalie he took the lead and presented himself.“Luna Hawkins, I am glad to meet you” he said in a very respectful voice “I am Alexander”“Evan’s brother…”Natalie said looking at him and being marveled by his calmness and his nerves to come here and pract
Author’s POV.“Stop it!” Zander, Evan’s wolf growled at him. “Stop it right now!” but Evan was so furious that even if he stopped running he walked to his car, opened it and she hit the steering wheel pretty hard.“Why are you acting like a jerk?” Zander asked him and he is even more furious because he can feel the reason without being uttered by Evan.“Evan Leonardo!” he commanded him. “Do you have any idea what you are doing here?” Zander asked in a more calm voice. “I am twenty one, man. I’ve been waiting for my fated mate since I was eighteen and yet as soon as we found her, you turned around and walked away. What the hell is wrong with you?”“I don’t want her!” Evan said without even breathing.“You what?”and Zander has a little bit and transforms right there, in Evan’s car.“I said I don’t want her. I like another woman.”“And I want that little blonde woman that is my mate, do you understand what I am telling you? What is wrong with you to reject ehr without even knowing her.
But meanwhile in the restaurant, Alex was making himself comfortable. Evan told him that he found his mate and a lot of things needed to be solved but he let him solve this by himself as a grown man.“He ran away like a weirdo,” Kenji laughed. “You could say that he was afraid by that poor woman”“Just let him be, Kenji. He is not five. He knows what he's doing” and looking in front of him he sees Natalie at his right ,while Adam sits between her and Lexie. He looks at Natalie who is beautifully dressed and looks like a model and then at Lexie , who could say that she was gathered from the streets and put in some clothes she has no idea how to wear.“You look beautiful Luna Natalie” he said, giving her a smile and making Adam stare at him. Is he complimenting Natalie in front of him?“Your taste in fashion I must say is outstanding. It is rare to find someone with such a good taste.”“Well, thank you” Natalie said as if it was nothing. “A Luna should always be aware to look nice, she
Author’s POV.“Nat…” Judy said as soon as they were back in the Red Blood Pack, in Natalie’s room, but feeling her stress, Natalie motioned to her to come and sit with her in her bed.“What happened to the restaurant, Judy?” she asked her directly, remembering that she heard Judy whispering a soft ”mate!” when she saw Evan.BUt Judy just looked at her. How to tell her that her fated mate loves her, Natalie Hawkins, and not his fated mate? Natalie has no fault here and it is only Evan who makes things difficult.“If he hurt you, if Evan did something to you…” Natalie said and her heart beat rapidly. If Evan hurt Judy, there is no need for them to work together. She will find other allies, but before she could make an assumption, Judy said.“What?” and Judy gave her a soft smile. “No, Natalie, we are fated mates but things are complicated and before we could make a decision we agreed to stay just the way we are right now.”“Just the way you are?” Natalie looked at her in disbelief .”Th
“I have news!” Judy said as she stepped in Natalie’s office the next morning.“So soon?” Natalie couldn’t believe that everything was going so smoothly.“Well is not much, but it is a start and now we know for sure that Lexie Banks does not exist with this name.”“So she uses a cover name?” and Natalie placed her hands on the desk, stopping herself from what she was doing.“It is just the way Adam told you. He wasn’t lying, at least not this time. He really found her with those rogues, who he captured. I investigated them all night and every single one of them said the same thing. She showed up from nowhere, running from something or someone but never said anything about her past experience. No one knows which pack Lexie truly belongs.”“That’s not normal, Judy,” Natalie said and got up from her desk.“If she hadn’t anything to hide she would have been honest and talked about her roots.” and the thought that there must be more than she already knows about Lexie made her frown. What if
“What’s with that face?” Phillip asks Alex, seeing him with a sullen face, as he was watching somewhere outside the window, but Alex said nothing as he was grumpy.“Do you know what is wrong with him?” he asked Evan but he just shrugged his shoulders.“I have no idea. And now that you mentioned it you are right, he will always have that Grinch face. He looks normal only when Natalie is around.” and both Phillip and Evan came closer and looked outside the window to see what made Alex pissed off.Right there in the middle of the backyard garden, right beside the pool area, on two Manutti Kobo sun loungers Aida, Judy and Natalie were laughing their hearts out and giggling while they were playing with Judy and Evan’s twins.The babies are three months older and they are the cutest babies, being a perfect combination between Judy and Evan, who are so alike with Margot Robbie and Judd law.They called the girl Jade and the boy Rocco. They have thin blonde hair and the biggest blue eyes you
TWO MONTHS LATER.It’s been two months since Jerel and Lexie died, since all the alphas of the Eastern Packs came and asked Alexander to be their king, and yet both Alex and Natalie still think they're living a dream. I suppose that sometimes you are so used to the tragedy and the drama that when the time comes to be happy, you are still on alert.Today is the coronation day for them and also their wedding day because with everything that happened and everything that followed after that their lives were intense. They almost forgot what it's like to wake up in the morning and have a normal day.Everything revolved around the restoration of the Shadow’s packhouse, on the construction of a place for the Sunrise pack and even if Alex was the one in charge with this task, Natalie was working all day long on the social component of the two packs, being both Luna and Alpha at the same time.Evan and Judy are helping them and they got married a month ago when Judy finally marked the poor man
Alex started to laugh but seeing how serious the Alphas were he stopped.“You are not kidding me.” He said in the end.“We are serious. We want you as our Alpha King of Eastern Packs.“This is not a decision for the Council. You are just a part of this story, there are so many other packs. I can't force them to submit to me.” and Alex was damned right, but the leader opened the door and said.“Why don’t you go outside?”Alex stepped outside the house and he was shocked. Natalie followed her and she covered her mouth with her hands, but the moment Evan, Judy, Phillip and Livia exited Judy exclaimed.“Are you nuts? You must accept!” and hearing her Alex looked at her like she was crazy.“I may be a damned good Alpha but nothing recommends me as a king!”“You must be hit in your head!” Judy said, and that made Alex growl at her, because Kenji was offended, but Judy continued.“You are a good leader. You have a strategic mind and under this papa bear and scaring bogeyman wolfy you are the
Losing Adam shattered Natalie's heart, but it was not the time to dwell in grief. She looked at Phillip and him to lead the search and rescue team that arrived later from Jerel’s to look after Adam's body. She had to leave immediately to join Alexander's pack and stand side by side with him.As soon as Adam died the alarm echoed and she found out that the pack was under attack again. Alex was fighting in the battle against the bears.Natalie and Judy, along with their warriors from the Sunrise Pack, set out. They quickly arrived in Alexander's territory where they were fighting. Natalie signaled her warriors to join the battle against the bears, while she went to find Alexander. Along the way, she fought off many enemies. Just as she saw Alexander battling a group of bears, attempting to bite him, a massive bear appeared, roaring and aiming to tear Natalie to shreds. In the nick of time, Alexander arrived.Alexander's wolf form engaged in a fierce battle with the bear. Eventually, he
Natalie looked up to see Lexie, who was filled with rage. She considered Natalie responsible for everything bad in her life. She lost Jerel because of Natalie, as he marked her. And when she found our that Jerel had callously destroyed the house without regard for her life or for his own pup’s life , that had driven Lexie to madness, and she blamed Natalie for everything.She was Jerel’s favorite until Natalie came into the picture.Without Natalie’s presence now she would have killed Adam and taken his pack, maybe Alex too, and she would have been Jerel’s Luna. But no! Natalie ruined everything.So she escaped from the dungeons and took a bow and arrow she found in her way and when she saw Adam and Natalie, with Adam almost begging for forgiveness she couldn’t take it.She fixed the bow in that arrow and released the bow , while intending to kill Natalie.She failed even in doing that!She would have killed Adam later, but now all she wanted, all she needed was to see Natalie dead!“
Author’s POV.“Evan!” Alex called him as soon as he and Natalie caught him. “We are close, just slow down or you will have a heatstroke.”Evan was running in wolf form too, and so were his warriors, because as soon he heard that the pack is at risk all he knew was that Judy was there, alone. What if something happened to her?“I can’t lose her!” Evan howled. “I really fucked up in my relationship with her and I am sorry and I can’t change the past, man.” Evan mindlinked Alex, while he was running with him and Natalie. “ I made up my mind a long time ago but I was too afraid to admit that I changed my mind and I want her. I marked her, I claimed her” and the moment he said that Natalie looked at him in shock.Did he mark Judy?“She will be fine, Evan.” Alex said as he entered the Shadow pack territory but when they exited the forest Evan almost died as he saw the packhouse under siege. That splendid packhouse was burned down and there was no one around.“Oh my goddess” Natalie was scr
Author’s POV.Natalie grabbed Alex’s hand. She was furious.“I can’t lose, Judy,” she whispered. “Losing Jerry broke me, but losing Judy would kill my spirit, Alex.” she told Alex, who pulled her at his chest.“She will be fine, she is strong. Just have faith.” and Natalie tried to mindlink her but she was too far from the Shadow Pack territory, being impossible for her to reach Judy.“Damn it, Alex!” she said enraged and almost busted in tears, but Alex kissed her forehead and gave her his phone said in a calm voice.“Call her. I will try to identify the traitor. If Jerel sent the bears in my pack territory that means he has a spy there. I need to identify who that jerk is and stop him.”“He must be someone who was with us here during the attack over Jerel’s pack , Alex. Otherwise Jerel couldn’t contact him, just how I am not able to mindlink Judy. He just ran away if that's the case.” and looking at Alex she said.“I will call Judy.” and she was already with her fingers on her cont
“It’s Natalie!” Livia said and giving the signal all the women from Jerel’s harem shifted into wolves and bears.“Follow me” Livia said as she was running in bear form , opening the way for the other she-wolves. She killed rogue after rogue and the poor woman couldn’t stop herself from wondering how the hell she accepted to submit in front of Jerel for so many years.She charged at the harem’s main gate, attacking the guards. Seeing her so powerful the other women realized that they are strong too, it was Jerel who was making them weak, and all the love they ever felt for him transformed into hatred and anger. It was the fire that put the “killing machine” in motion.Every single woman who followed Livia and Natalie was here to win her freedom, and they did everything they could for that. They had enough of being manipulated and longed for freedom. This was the only chance they had.Seeing the counterattack from the main gate, Alex led his warriors inside the packhouse, jumping throug
Next day, early in the morning Alexander and Evan led their most skilled werewolf warriors, closing in on Natalie. They came with their cars and their motorcycles until they reached the Northern territory and from there they walked. It was damned difficult and he understood why Jerel would choose to hide there, because no healthy man in his mind would have ventured into that wild and rugged area.“Man,” Evan whispered. “I can barely breathe. When I find that jerk I will kill him in an instant.” and he was serious. Jerel messed up everyone’s lives.“Stay in a row,” Adam said. “ I lost more than all of you together. That rogue is mine.” and Alex just motioned to Evan to let him go.“Our priority is to save Natalie and you will focus on saving your sister,” he said to Adam. “If you have other plans, you would better tell me because I am not in the mood to be surprised again.”Adam didn’t look at Alex. They are allies right now, only because they suffered the same pain, but that’s all. If