Rose watched the last of the Hollow Wood Pack settle back into their homes. At least, those buildings still stood even if they needed repairs. They would find the time and get things done in the never year or two. She figured in five years, they would have both packs settled, blended, and thriving. That is, if they could get this hunter’s ring down. Still no response to the questions sent to the Ruling Council that the surviving victims of Jack wanted answered. But she was sure that Jack wasn’t cooperating yet. It was only a matter of time before he’d answer them. “Has anyone heard about Dr. Paxton’s mate? How are they doing? What are we doing about healing in the area while he is away?” Rose listened to the questions of a rather heavily pregnant she-wolf. Her questions and concerns were valid. “I guess most of the pack doesn’t realize that there are actually two Dr. Paxtons in the area. Heather Paxton is still here and now a member of the Sha
Ty and most of the Shadow Pack’s original members met up with the Blue Delia Pack and their alpha, Roger Higgins. Also known as Amber’s father and Ty’s uncle. Heath was in a panic because Amber insisted that even though they’d not mated, that they were. She wouldn’t return to the Blue Dalia Pack Territory. Heath and Ty tried to get her to leave. She, on the other hand, decided she would push for the mating. Heath, on the other hand, feared her father would blame him. Or accuse him of trying to use Amber to gain status within the community and become Roger’s replacement? That wasn’t the case on Heath’s part. Amber’s part, however, appeared to be exactly that. She wanted to get out from under her father’s thumb and become a member of the shadow pack while standing because she was the first cousin of the pack alpha. Or return to her pack and install Heath as the alpha when her father was replaced. Until then, she worked tirelessly to raise Heath up in the ranks with
Traveling down through the hidden entrance, who would have thought they would hide the entrance as an old crate on a shelf? There must be other entrances in and out of this place, but right now this was the one they used to enter the hidden recesses of the hunter’s ring. Between the guards outside the warehouse, the guards inside were just as thick in number. But nothing several blooded wolf shifters could take care of. As far as Ty knew, currently there were prisoners and no deaths. Death would come later once they were all sorted out by the Ruling Council. At this point, Ty didn’t truly care what happened to these people. He wanted this over for himself and his pack. Surprisingly, when the door closed behind them, flashlights weren’t needed. They set this place up for the lights to turn on when the door was closed. What a nice set up there, but before he could appreciate the set up or remind himself. What scum created the setup the noise from in fr
It took them several days to get through all the debriefing. The Ruling Council insisted on debriefing every member of the Shadow Pack who went on the mission. They came home with an additional six locals who were kidnapped recently. They’d been held against their wills by the members of the hunters’ ring. Ty finally returned to Rose and the Shadow Pack’s territory with everyone in tow. It didn’t take long before family members were at the Shadow Pack Territory gates looking for their loved ones. Ty was pleased that he could return these wolves to their families. It wasn’t perfect; the wolves didn’t come out of it fully unscathed, but they were there. They were there and they would provide assistance. Ty found out while he was at the Ruling Council’s primary facility; the mission to the auction house headquarters yielded a lot more information about the hunter’s ring. The information’s extent was so great it would take days to empty all the locations
They kept alpha Higgins from speaking with the wolf his daughter, Amber, chose as her mate. He knew nothing about him, and that was only the first problem. He’d kept an eye on him throughout the mission. After all, Roger didn’t want the pup to die. It would never end with Amber if he truly was her fated mate. However, his fear was that she’d gone after the first pup who struck her fancy because she wanted to be just like her friends. Amber always followed them. What those she-wolves did, she did. Ty already spoke to him and explained the situation. The pup was blindsided, and Amber bordered on interfering with Ty’s pack dynamics. He couldn’t have that. That reflected badly on his relationship with Ty. Amber wasn’t a fool, even though she could be foolish. So, he took the time he needed to figure out how he should phrase what he had to say. He lost everything he wanted to say the moment he opened his mouth. As Amber steamrolled over Heath and pushed h
Ty and Rose stood a distance away from the Icehouse. It was nearly a month since efforts to find out who had been abandoned there started. With the onsite effort concluded, Ty made the decision that the Icehouse needed to go like Russell’s pack house. There would be no more use for them. The negative memories were too much for the pack to deal with. The Icehouse would burn today. Carefully controlled by the pack. The local fire department stood at the ready if anything went wrong. They chose today for this because the weather was perfect for it with little wind. Once this happened, then a memorial could be built on this site for Russell and Jack’s victims. Heather worked on identifying and compiling a list of names for the bones she had. The Ruling Council sent a team of people to her to assist in this. Her father stepped back from this and stay with his mate as she received help from others trained in helping trauma survivors. Rose last heard
“I’ll be done in a minute.” Heather didn’t know which one banged on the bathroom door like that. Normally, the boys walked in directly without knocking. Usually, one or both shared the shower with her. The banging didn’t stop, so Heather threw open the door to find her father standing there. “Two mates? When were you going to tell me, you had two bloody mates, Heather?” He wasn’t taking this well. Well, she hadn’t expected him to. “When did you get back, Dad?” She looked behind him at another two faces that looked none too pleased with this. “How’s mom?” His eyes flared. “Don’t change the subject. You mated with both?” “Dad, that’s my business. Really, there are a lot of other things you need to think about then who I’m sleeping with or how many mates I have. I’m a grown she-wolf and I can look after myself. I have been for a long time. You were just too busy to see that. Now how is Mom? What brought you back here?” “Your mother wants to see y
Rose dealt with a lot of things in a day that she’d never expected to deal with. Not because she didn’t know about it or actually deal with them before this. But because she’d never expected to be the Luna of any pack. Her father clarified she didn’t have a place within his pack going into the future. Which Rose planned to leave the area and being under his constant thumb. She’d always believed it odd how he could keep her under his thumb and yet still neglect to acknowledge her existence in the pack and the world in general. But he’d achieved it. Now, as she looked at the reports, Rose saw her identity crumbling and she didn’t know who she was anymore. Who was her father and why did her mother stay with Russell when, clearly, she’d wanted someone else? If Russell wasn’t her father, it would explain why he treated her as he did. He believed her mother betrayed him with someone else and Rose was the proof of that. Heck, she’s always assumed that Russell and