Chilli POV Her voice echos out of the hall to our ears, where we stand now bound and restrained in the corridor just outside the great hall, as she speaks to the crowd of people force to be there. Her words and tone are hateful, with no respect, she sounds ruthless as she basically barks at the people she claimed as hers. I strain my control as my fury boils up inside of me at hearing the way she is talking to our people. Elias's voice rings in my head just at the right time as I feel my fire storm inside gaining momentum,'Wait, stay calm huni, it's not time yet.' 'I know,' I respond with tension in my voice as I try to heed my mate's words, as that question keeping resurfacing, Where's Logan? I can only hear her voice, not his, if he is .. alpha, then why is she talking and not him? I think to myself as a part of my dream repeats in my head, my .. father, looking weak and shell like. What has she done? But before I can think much more on the subject, we are
The plan: Flash back to the four freinds standing in the down time room of the east pack's security out house, the morning after Chilli's two dreams about the winter pack and hearing Bea's plan.Elias POV 'First things first, we need to keep them thinking that they have the upper hand at all times, starting with making them think they caught us. So to do that we'll need to try and sneak in to the pack house not so sneakly, and make it seem like we were trying to take it from the inside out or something along those lines. We all grew up in and around that place, so we know it like the back of our hands, inside and out and probably better then anyone else.' I speak to my friends in their minds via the mind-link. 'We just need to get inside,''The old service tunels, they come out all over the place,' Leroy suggests, 'Yes, perfect,' I add, 'Chilli and I will exit and come out near the training rooms, hopefully it won't take long for us to be f
Chilli POV As Elias steps forward, Bea gestures to one of the men that dragged us up here to stop him approaching her. But before he can get close enough to lay a finger on him, Elias fists his hands together and hits the werewolf who man handled him in the stomach, with such force it winds him, causing him stager back and nearly knocking the man down onto his knees.Elias then turns to me and helps me up to my feet nice and gently before looking back to the false leaders to speak."Enough is enough," he says as he tenses his hands and arm muscles, "we are here to challenge you for the Alpha and Luna titles of this pack!" He states loud and clear, pulling his hands apart, breaking the binds that were holding his hands together with one intense motion of force."We?" Bea chuckles weakly, trying to hide a slight bit of terror at Elias effectlessly snapping the plastic zip ties that are now on the ground at his feet. She looks at me and my still bound wrists,
Elias POV "I accept your challenge! Right here, right now!" The man that is legally my father-in-law, finishes speaking, loud and clear, but his words sound stranged and emotionless, empty. Even as he growled the last four, still nothing, maybe angry but again, something feels wrong about it all. As he turns to look at us, or more me, I see the pain behind his eyes and the want for my blood. His eyes read like a tale, a tale of how if or when he gets the chance, he's going to kill me, first chance he gets, I'm dead. My eyes flick out for a second into the crowd as I spot Leroy and Erin in my provisional, they give me a nod as I glance at Chilli to the other side of me, still clouded with worry for her, but knowing it's too late to stop this, to change this. I lock my stair forward at the man in my way and smirk at him as he gives us exactly what we wanted.I mind-link to Chilli,'I love you,''I love you too,' she whispers warmly back as I step next t
I can sense the anger in my mate rising with every passing second, as if being fueled by the sounds erupting from the on lookers throats as I feel the heat of her red wolf radiating off of her body, as she struggles to contain the fire from busting out and emgolfing her.Logan on the other hand, seems to have not noticed or cared what just happened between his daughter and what ever the hell Bea is to him, as I swear I can see steam rising off of him as his teeth grow sharp, protruding from his mouth as his face longs into a snout, whislt fur appears on his bare skin, all still aimed at me. The man is shifting before my eyes with no warning, in the most agonising drawn out way I've ever seen. I hear the crowd gasp on my right and a chuckle from the left side of me as a large dark brown, greyish wolf stands before me surrounded by his shredded clothes. 'That didn't take long,' I think to myself as I glance at Chilli out of the corner of my eye, as I think about what she aske
Chant POV We arrive at the winter pack with a small force to do what, we are not exactly sure. Something told me I should be here, that I need to be here. Alpha Maxwell took no convincing once we told him the four were no where to be found, his face said it all when we shared our suspicions of their plans, confirming our theory, especially when he ordered a task force of ten warriors to assemble and be ready to leave for the winter pack at once. Jay and I straight away volunteered to be apart of the mission, to which our alpha didn't seem surprised, it almost seemed as if he expected it, so thankfully he agreed.Now as we approach the pack house, something feels wrong, off, as I think out loud under my breath,"Where is everyone?" Surely there should be gaurds, security, something, but there's no one in sight. We creep closer to the entrance of their main house and it feels like we are walking into a trap. Suddenly one of the scouts Maxwell sent in first
"Luna? Ha! Don't make me laugh!" He tortes her,"What are you doing here?" She growls at him moving on from the miss titling issue, "are you here to challenge us? To invade? What?" "Neither!" "Then why? What do you want?" "To observe and stand as a wittness, for support!" She chuckles at his words this time, "Fine! Stand wittness to their demise then! But just ...""I'm not here as a witness for you, I'm here for them," he says gesturing at the stage, "and to speak on behalf of the young Winter couple, to testify if you will." Testify? To what? Their lies?" She laughs,"Well, yes," that shut her up, I think to myself as she stares at the man as he takes a step forward. "They are not lying, nor is this a trick." He calls out to the crowd around him, "I have wittness the impossible when it comes to this woman. And I can assure you what you are hearing is true, somehow this shewolf can shift without losing or causing any harm to her unborn chil
Elias POV I feel a warm, burning rage growing and overflowing in my mate at my side, I can feel the hurt in her heart at her father's attempt to harm her again. I stare into his eyes, as her pain and hurt fuel my own fury to hurt him back in return. I only give him a second on his feet before charging him and tackling him down to the ground, the hard thudding inpact with the stage causes him to grunt aloud in pain, but no where near enough, not after all the repeated harm he has inflicted on my wife's heart. He tries and fails to bite me as he snaps his foaming teeth at me, only getting air. I push down on his shoulders, feeling them crack under my weight and pressure.'Submit!' I growl at him, knowing he understands me, wanting this to end before anyone else gets hurt, not wanting to take Chilli's father away from her, 'submit!' But Logan just keeps snapping at the air like a mad, crazed wild animal. I hear a whimper from behind me which must be Bea becaus
Elias POV I look up and watch as Chilli steps out from the en suite, wraped in just a towel, making her way towards her dressing table as I lay on our bed where I was just aimlessly flicking through my phone. Taking a seat and opening its draw, she removes a single, plastic pot housing her facial cream and unscrews its lid. It's nothing fancy, not expensive, its just a simple, none branded, vitamin E night cream.I continue to ovserve as she dips two fingers into the pale lotion and looks into the mirror, to then slowly drag said fingers down her face, starting at her forhead, gliding smoothly along her nose and then finishing with a dab on her chin. She then wipes a bit of the remainder on each cheek before replacing the lid and putting it back in its draw. My eyes are fixed to her as she slowly but firmly works the cream into her skin, taking extra care near and around her eyes. Her finger tips caress over her own face and down her neck, over my mark on her neck
Chilli POV Perching under a tree with Chant as we take a break from sparring whislts our mates for some reason decide to chop some fire wood. I find it amusing and humble how as the alpha he likes and enjoys chopping fire wood for the pack house, no job is to small for our mighty leader.Chant's seductive eyes never leave her mate as he swings the axe up into the air, where it seems to pause for the briefest of seconds before falling down onto a chunk of wood, spilting it into two. The whole movement and process is magical, so smooth and artistic like poetry. I had watched my own mate for a time, admiring his tensing biceps with every swing, the beauty of his movements and strength of the action, but now I'm just leaning back against the tree's trunk with my eyes shut, listening to the beautiful rhythmic sound of the wood splitting, of metal against nature, somehow for some reason I find it peaceful as I smirk at the thought of Chant lustfully gazing at Jay, it al
Elias POV That was brutal, oh my goddess do I hurt, I haven't hurt this much from training since, shit, I don't know when. Sure, I was mad and needed to work it off, but fuck me, Chilli was livid, she was masking it well, I mean, wow. My ass hurts. I had to use all my strength to stay on my feet, especially after I hit the ground hard the first few times of her kicking and taking me down. Once she swept my legs out from underneath me, my wolf instincts took over just so I could stay on my feet. I think I pulled something that time, thank the goddess for wolf healing, cos my left ass cheek and leg are killing me. With Chant now paired with Chilli and Erin and Leroy working together, that leaves me with Jay, who is as good as his mate, oh dear. I sigh inwardly as we step away from the others to train, I can spar and keep up with anyone, I'm alpha afterall, but after the beating I've just endured, I'd prefer a nice easy spar, but hay ho, lets do this. Thankfully, Jay see
Chilli POV Finally everyone is out on the field, we can get started. I am needing to hit something. Elias insist on sparring with me first and to Erin's relief but Chant's dismay, I agree. Which just leaves the others to pair up, one of them did suggest mate paring but the guys seems a little bit wary so it's girls vs girls and guys vs guys. For now anyway. After a fairly rough spar with Elias, I finally start to calm down and release my rage, which I guess was his plan, so I don't feel gilty later now if I cause anyone else major harm. Clearly sensing this, Elias allows us to switch partners and Chant and I go straight to each other, to which the rest of the group chuckle at our predictableness. Chant and I exchange a sinister grin as the others repair up, Elais with Jay and Erin with Leroy. I mirror Chant as she raises her arms up into a defensive stance, declaring she is ready, a smile growing on her face. As we stare down on each other I am reminded of our rematch
"You know there was no way he would accept and train with us," Leroy says once we are alone and with just our own pack members, "I know, but it was fun and satisfying to embarrass him like that, the look on his face at the mere thought of it was golden. To watch him squirm." I can't help but let out an enormous laugh, to which Chilli shoots me evil eyes for finding any of this so amusing. "What?" I chuckle at her before pulling myself together because if looks could kill. I had to laugh, if I didn't I think I would have lost it, plus it felt so good, too good to put Jordan down a bit like that in such a slight way in front of the others. However, by Chilli's facial expression, she does not agree, goddess, did I want to kill him, thankfully in a way he did say no, or we would have had a dead alpha on our hands and territory. "Come on, your telling me you didn't want a chance at hitting him?" I ask her in a teasing way, she looks at me whislt crossing her arms across he
"I hear some incorrect information has reached the ears of my children," "Oh, and what's that got to do with us? Idle gossip is not what these meetings are for." "No, not normally, but," she pauses for the briefest of moments to adjust her tone and the ferocity of her words, "but when it comes to petty, stupid, horrible lies about my family, my children, then you and I have a problem! A big problem!" He nearly chuckles in her face as he asks half heartedly,"Pray tell what are these so called insults?""A spare heir, a baby," she lists off the tamer ones first, working up to the biggest and worst one, before she stops again as I feel a heat burning off of her directed straight at Jorden, "and an inbreed!" The room falls silent after everyone gasps and shoot death stares at the alpha. A low growl escapes from mine, Erin and Leroy throats, our protectiveness taking over. Jordan looks like he doesn't know weather to laugh or bite back."Jordan!" One of the ot
Jordan holds his hands up in defence as I take a few deep breaths to calm myself before turning to the rest of the room to acknowledge our other guests. "Alpha Jonathan, Luna Suzie, beta Willow, sorry for my tardiness, how is Maxwell?" I ask taking my seat next to Elias, pushing my anger down for now, eyeing up Jordan in the cornor of my eye, I'm not done with you yet, I think to myself."No problem Luna Winters, father is doing well and thoroughly enjoying his retirement," he smiles with a nod of his head, which we return, "thank you for asking." Jonathan took over as alpha of the west pack two years ago with his mate Suzie and appointed Willow Steal as the first female beta of the west pack. She is a strong minded woman with a powerful right hook."Alpha Alex, Luna Ela and beta Karl, welcome and thank you for coming today," Elias smiles to the leaders of the Spring rise pack from the south, who joined our alliance about four years ago.With the greetings done and out of the way, we
The drive to school is a pretty normal one, we talk, sing and laugh all the way there, forgetting about any and all problems the day may have already brought. Once there and out of the car, we all walk hand in hand with Marcus in the middle, through the blue painted gates."Luna," the teacher on the gate addresses me with a nod of the head, as does any other adult that comes into eye contact with me. I smile back and return their nods.Like always, even though we come to Lily's class room first, we walk Marcus around to his first at her insistence, she says its part of her job to look out for him to make sure herself she sees him to his door. It warms my heart the care and love they have for each other. As I kiss my son goodbye and he hugs his sister, I take note of the other high ranking children from other packs, sitting at their tables ready for the lessons to begin. Future alpha's, beta's and Luna's all learning together including Tammy and Willow, Erin and Leroy's twins who are a
Chilli POVEleven years later"Lilith Kay Rosalee Winters! Get your furry tail out here now! Don't make me call you again!" I call out by the front door as I wait for my ten year old to take her to school. "Mummy, is Li-li in tuble?""She will be if she doesn't hurry up sweetpea,""Oh,""Lily!" I shout again,"I'm coming, I'm coming," my oldest calls back at me, jeez, ten going on fifteen, she's acting like a teenager, where does the time go? It feels like only yesterday that she fitted in my arms as I rocked her, singing her back to sleep.Take me home tonight, I'd do anything with you, buy a bottle of whiskey, we'll get matching tattoos, tell me that you love me, let me drive your car, we can sit 'til morning light, just countin' every star, 'cause if there's a hell, I'll meet you there, and if there's a heaven, they're serving beer, and if you're an angel, then I must be high, if there's a church, It's rock 'n roll, if there's