Erin POV Ignoring the excited crowds noise as I stand on the stage looking down at the lumps under the white sheets at my feet. I feel like I should feel some kind of sadness, but I don't, only anger and hate. I know it's wrong, especially towards Logan, I've known him my whole life and even though he is .. was my best friends father, I never really cared for him especially in my late teens. Once I got older I saw him for what he really was, an ass, a womaniser and sometimes a crap dad once Pauline moved in, or should I say made them all move out. Having to watch from a far the pain and suffering she was put through daily, how could he not notice it right under his nose and in his own home. I still remember the day Chilli finally admitted to me what was going on, confirming my suspicions, unable to hide the bruses from me anymore. We were just fifteenth and out for a run just the two of us, the boys were else where, with our alpha on patrol I think or something like that. Once we wer
Elias POV We step out one of the side entrances to the hall and head for the closest bathroom. Once there, Chilli steps in front of the mirrors and line of sinks, placing the clothes on the side bored of the basins to turn the tap on. She lets it run while staring up into the mirror where I can see and feel the emotional tears trying to escape. She hangs her head low as she starts to physically sob, the sight of her like this brakes my heart as her tears mix into the running water below. Taking a deep breath to steady my own emotions, I step up behind her and wrap my arms around her shaking body. I hope my own guilt and pain isn't causing her to cry, although with all the control in the world, I hate myself because I know she can feel it, and seeing how hard she is coping with her own feelings, I am just making it worse. I loosen my arms slightly from her, for fear and knowing I am causing her distress when she suddenly grips my hands, pulling them around her tighter
Everything around me falls away, even sounds are distant and muffled to me, as all I can think about is reaching the stage. As I re-enter the hall the same way we not long ago used and head for the stares I find my way blocked by several people including Erin and Leroy standing in front. "Chilli, ..." Erin says coily, "Move!" I growl at them all, my wild instincts taking over as I feel an overpowering need to get back up on that stage, "Sorry Chilli, but we have ... orders," Leroy states only wavering slightly at the end of his sentence, orders? Whos? ... Elias! "Move!" I snarl viciously putting the fear of the goddess into them as I note them all shudder, "now!" I growl like a wild, murderous animal. I don't know if it's because they are actually scared of me and don't want to fight me for being fearful of getting hurt, or for hurting me and possibly the baby, so, they step gradually aside making a path for me. I rush past them before they close ranks and t
After several minutes Elias finally eases his hold on me and lets me up. As he helps me to my feet I feel completely fine, great actually, like I could run for miles. Everyone is still in the hall, their curiosity keeping them here as Erin stands up and away from Logan as she says,"His waking up." The tension of everyone up on the stage fills the air, all our eyes are glued to his every move as he groans, trying to push himself up on his hands. As his head rises up he clutches a fist to it as if he is in great pain,"What... what's going ..," he grumbles looking around, then looking from each of us them out to the crowd and lastly the over at white sheet across the stage. His sight lingers there for a moment before whipping around to stare up at us, his eyes a swirling mix of pain, anger and guilt. They narrow in on me as he starts to growl at me, probably smelling her blood on me on a molecular level, knowing I'm the one who killed his girlfriend. "She left me no
I turn to look at my once father as I speak with a clear, loud authority tone as I state our decision."Logan Burnes, you are here by stripped of any and all titles you have held and are bannished from this pack, exiled from society. You are no family of mine anymore." His face pales at my words before his eyes go blank with rage as he opens his mouth to speak, to argue. But as Elias takes my hand he pushes his aura out whislt my red wolf flames engulf us, mixing with our auras as I too force Logan to stay quiet and obay. The pain of trying to fight us shows on his face, but he is no match for us, especially when we work to together like this, combining our strengths. "But first, you will endure some of what you have put these people through," Elias informs him in a strong, firm voice I've not heard before, "you will spend some time in the cells," Leroy steps forward and pulls Logan to his feet by the forearm, which he then bends behind his back to restrain the man. I
2 mouths laterChilli POV The winter pack house is now finally looking better than ever, with its fresh paint and new fixtures. You wouldn't think only a matter of a month or so ago it was in almost ruins but now it looks exactly how it did before, just fresher, cleaner and like new. The East pack house is also all fixed up and operational once again, it's members are incredibly greatful to be able to get back to normal and go home, even the crane family library of records is coming together. Thankfully that family were so passionate and protective of our history, that a copy of every book was stashed secretly away, incase someone wanted to abolish the already writen word and rewrite our history. Alpha Maxwell has been hunting for them for weeks and thinks he is only missing the last few now. Each time he finds anything referring to or mentioning red wolves in anyway, he makes a photocopy of its pages, tabs it and sends it to me knowing my obvious intrest in
After having my arm strangled by the blood pressure machine, my belly messured and basted in cold, slimy gel before seeing how much pressure I can take without wetting myself and my pulse taken, Lucy assures us that everything is perfect."I'd say you are nearly thirteen weeks along now." I smile and nod in her direction as I get up off the table and rebutton up my dungarees. "Thank you Lucy," Elias simply smiles as she nods meekly with a blushing school girl grin as she response,"Your welcome Alpha." I have to fight to not roll my eyes at her, I'm standing right here, kindly not flirt with my mate in front of me, or at all, come to think about it. Suddenly Elias hooks his arm around my waist and is escorting me out of the room rather quickly."What was that about?" I ask him once we are out and heading away down the corridor,"I was going to ask you the same question," "Hu?" I look at him confused, "what was what about what?" "The growling?"
"Alpha, Luna," a strong woman's voice sounds from close by, followed by a weaker one echoing her words, as they bow their heads slightly, I have insisted to her and her mate so many times to call us by our first names but no matter how many times I tell her, she sticks to the formal titles."Chant," Elias says as we lower ours back in return, "everything alright?" He asks with a worried look at the man with his arm over her shoulder and balancing on one awkward foot. "Sorry to interrupt, but we are just heading to the med bay," she explains as she supports the mans weight."Oh no, Reece, what happened?" I ask, visually examining the swollen knee and ankle he is holding it up off the ground."I'm not completely sure Luna, we were training, sparring and well, something popped, then cracked and then yeah," he says looking down at it, "but it isn't healing," the poor boy explains with raw pain sapping at every word.Before I can, Elias steps forward and lifts t
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