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“Alpha?” Asked Grey. I didn’t realize the other two changed back to human form.
“She’s my mate guys.” I said as I picked her up.
“Really?” Asked Tony. “We finally have our Luna?”
“If she wants it yes. But from the looks of it she has not had a good life.” I told them. “From what I can tell it looks like she is underweight, dehydrated, and has possibly been hurt within the last few days. I can still see some bruising around the edge her shirt on top and arms.”
“We need to get her back and checked out Alpha. I already mind linked Anthony to start heading our way a few hours ago, so we can meet him half way. Do you think we can get her to stay on your back somehow so you can run in your wolf form to make it faster?”
“I don’t know Gray but we can try. It won’t be as fast but we can try. Grab the rope out my bag. Evan come take her as bad as I hate to. I’ll change and you guys’ best be careful putting her on me.” I growled at them.
They worked carefully and efficiently to secure her to my back. They were able to tie the rope around her waist and chest and secure it around my chest right behind my front legs and around my mid-section. It was uncomfortable because of how tight they had to tie it but I would deal. Anything for my mate to make her safe.
“Everyone ready?” I asked looking at them. They all nodded their heads. “Let’s go. The sooner we meet up with Anthony the better.” I finished taking off on a run. I was in the front, Evan on my right and Grey and Devin flanking right behind me watching to make sure she doesn’t fall off or start sliding.
‘Alpha, we are close to the mark. We will be ready when you get here.’ Anthony mind linked me.
‘We will be there in around an hour. We can’t go as fast as normal.’
‘Is everything ok Alpha? Grey didn’t say anything. Just said to meet you half way from the southern border.’
‘All is fine. You will see when we get there. We will hurry as fast as we can.’
I shut the mind link off and concentrated on running without hurting my mate.
We never stopped once for a break. Once we hit the meeting spot I stopped before we got to the edge of tree line and had the other three shift back and get the ropes off so I could shift and change myself.
When we walked out, I was carrying my little mate bridal style. Anthony looked concerned.
“Is this the wolf that was spotted on the southern boundary?” Anthony asked concerned as he opened the door for me to slide in. I nodded my head.
Grey sat up front with Anthony while Dev and Evan sat in the back with me. No one said anything while I held my little wolf in the lap the whole way home. As I held her, I couldn’t help but stare at her. She was extremely beautiful. Her hair is chestnut brown color pulled into a low messy bun. Porcelain skin. High cheek bones. Her skin is a little sunken it. You can feel the bones poking through her skin. I lightly skimmed my finger down the side of her face and jaw line. Her skin is so soft.
I notice the slight bruise on her arm so I raised the sleeve of her shirt and see a bruise that looks like hand prints. I slowly pull her towards me and lift up the back of her shirt and see an almost faded bruise line a quarter way up her back. I see gashes that have almost healed and scars from others. Normally wolves don’t have scars unless it’s an extremely deep cut or it was made with silver or wolfsbane. I pull her shirt back down and just hug her to me. How could someone allow this to happen to a young girl? Let alone my mate?
When we got closer to the pack house, I mind linked Dr. Wiles to meet me in the infirmary within 10 minutes. It took no time at all to get to the house. As soon as we stopped, I had the door opened and was stepping out before the engine was even shut off. I raced up the step and down the hall to the infirmary wing.
When I stepped through Dr. Wiles had a bed already waiting and nurses on stand-by. I laid her on the bed and let the doctor take her. I followed behind them into the third room on the right. I stayed outside just in case she woke up but I watched through the window fighting my wolf who wanted to go in.
I hear foots coming down the hall fast. I look up and see Evan, Dev, Grey and Anthony coming at me with worried expressions. Anthony is a very kind heart individual unless on the battlefield. He cares about everyone and wants to keep them safe. Especially women, children and elderly. He said most men can take care of themselves so he doesn’t worry about them.
“Alpha, what’s going? Who is she?” Anthony asked looking through the window.
I sighed looking back in the window. “She’s my mate, Anthony.”
I hear a gasp from him before I feel his hand on my shoulder. I look at him and he is smiling. “Congrats, Alpha.”
“Thanks, but I don’t know what I’m going to do now that she is here.”
“What do you mean you don’t know what to do?” Grey said shocked.
“If this is about…” Dev started before I cut him off.
“I will figure it out. Now you three.” I said pointing to Dev, Grey and Evan. “Go get rest. You have patrol this afternoon.”
“Yes, sir.” They said in unison before heading off to the housing wing.
“You.” I said pointing to Anthony. “No one is to know about her. Do you understand? I need you to keep her away from this wing unless she is dying. Is that understood?”
“Yes, sir.” He turned and started walking away.
“One more thing, Don’t let anyone know I’m here either. That will keep some people from trying to come here to find me.” With his back towards me he nodded and continued walking out the doors.
I sighed looking back in the window. I looks like they might have her check up done. I open the door and slowly walk into the room. I grab the chair from the corner and put it next to the bed sitting down and staring at my mate.
“How is she doc?”
“She is stable. I believe she passed out from exhaustion. But she is extremely malnourished. It doesn’t look like she has eaten but a handful of small foods in at least a week. Other than that, she is healthy.”
I sigh and run my hands through my hair before looking at doc.
“How long do you think before she wakes up?”
“I gave her a small sedative to keep her asleep for a little while to help her heal. I have her on an I.V. to get liquids in her. So that will help. I would say at the latest tomorrow morning. Earliest may be.” He looks at his watch. “May be 6 or 7 tonight. But there is no promises. Everyone’s body heals differently. It all depends on her.” He finished and patted her hand.
“Alright. Thanks doc. I’ll find you if something happens.”
He nodded at me then walked out the door while I sat there staring at this beautiful creature in front of me.
Several hours later there was no change. The only thing I heard was the footsteps of the nurses walking around and occasionally coming in to check her vitals.
I’ve been wondering who she is and where she came from. If she was running away from someone or something. I was deep in thought and I didn’t hear anyone come in until their hand touched my shoulder startling me and bringing me back to my senses.
I look up and see Evan. “Hey man, I brought you dinner.” He told me handing me a bag with food in it.” I took it and sat it on the floor beside me.
“Thanks.”
“How is she?”
“She is dehydrated and malnourished but other than that in good health. Doc gave her a sedative to help her sleep and be able to heal properly.” I told him while grabbing her hand.
“Have you thought about how to tell Eve about her? I know it’s the last thing you want to think about but your birthday a month ago was your last day to find your mate and you know she already has a girl here that you are to mate and claim in three days.”
“No but I will deal with it, Evan. I am the Alpha. Just because my mother is still the current Luna until I mate another doesn’t give her the right. She can step down any time she wants. I’m not stopping her.” I said in a low voice so I don’t disturb my mate.“I understand man. I don’t know how you’ve put up with it the five years already. If I was in your shoes, I would have thrown her in the dungeon already.” Evan said causing me to give a light laugh.“I have thought about it.” I joked which caused him to chuckle.“Alright man, I’ll get out of here but if you need anything just let me know. Okay?”“There is actually something you could do.” I mentioned looking at him. “Can you find someone in the pack who is about her size and see if they might have a set of clothes for her? I don’t want her to have to wear the torn ones she was wearing. Actually
Everleigh. After the guy walked out the door, I looked at the bag then at this amazingly handsome guy in front of me. I can’t believe he is actually holding me. I haven’t someone do that since I was a kid. It was weird but it felt natural. Like his arms were sculpted just for my body.He cupped my cheek and nods his head towards the bag.“I had a friend of mine bring some clothes for you. You can go take a shower if you would like. The bathroom is right over there.” He said pointing to a door on the right wall.I nod and went to get up but stumbled again. I felt hands on my side to help steady me.“Can I help you to the bathroom at least? Then I’ll ask a nurse to come in and make sure you don’t fall.” He asked and I sighed and nodded.He smiles. It was gorgeous and very infectious because I felt my lips start to turn up in the corners.He picks me up bridal style and ca
ZaydenAs soon as she asked that Rye was going ballistic in my head. He was happy. I had to remind him that we had to go slow and take it easy because of her condition. He didn’t care. He was just glad she was going to be close to us.“Are you ready to go?” I asked her.“I think so.” She said nervously.I grab the bag that Dev brought for her, I grabbed her hand and we headed off back way to the Alpha wing. No one really uses this way so I can take her up without being spotted. Especially by my mother.We are about half way up the stairs when I notice she is struggling. Without saying anything I scoop her up and carry her bridal style. She is so tiny that carrying her feels like carrying a sack of feathers.We get to the top floor; I stop at the door and crack it a little bit to listen before going out in the hall. I don’t hear anything so we sneak down the hall way to the end where my bed
ZaydenAs soon as I got done showering, I hurried and dried my body and hair, put on my clothes and walk out the door. I see my little mate sitting in the chair I left her in but with a book in hand. I slowly walk over to her and lean on the back of the chair. I notice she is reading my favorite book. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.“How do you like it so far?” I startled her apparently as she jumped as soon as I asked the question.“I’m not that far in to it but so far, I like it. I love to read even if I don’t know some of the big words.” She answered looking up to me with a smile.“That’s good. I’m glad you like it so far. If you ever need help with a word don’t be afraid to ask me okay. I’m here for anything and everything you need.” I said looking her in the eyes.She nodded as a knock on the door startled us.“That would be Grey.” I said as
EverleighFor the first time when I wake up, I’m not in any pain. My body isn’t stiff, my neck doesn’t hurt from sleeping wrong and I feel content. Why do I feel happy? I know I need to get up and get my chores started but for the first time I really don’t want to. Normally I get up and start moving around to loosen up these tense muscles.With my eyes not wanting to really open, I groan and go to move the blanket off of me when my hand grazes something firm but soft. I finally open my eyes to see what I touched. When I see that my head is laying on someone’s chest I start to freak out. Then all the memories over the last few days hit me like a mac truck.I start to calm down and slightly move my head to look at the handsome creature next to me. Why did the Moon Goddess grant me an amazing man like this? I don’t deserve him. I don’t deserve anyone. I sigh and start lightly tracing the muscle lines in his
ZaydenI’m dreading the inevitable today. Even though I’m sitting here getting to know my amazingly beautiful mate, I know there is something I have to take care of and stop before Everleigh hears it from someone else.I sigh and tilt her head up to look at me.“My love, there is something I need to take care of. I should only be gone for a few hours at most. Why don’t you go take a bath and relax? I’ll have food brough up for you before I leave.”“Is everything okay, Zayden?” She asked with worry lacing her voice.“Yes baby. I don’t want to upset you but I also don’t want to hide anything.”“Okay?”I take a deep breath trying to steady myself. “My mother has been pressuring me to choose someone to be Luna. If I didn’t, she would choose one for me. Needless to say, I was waiting on you. My mate. But she gave me the timeline
Unknown (Thoughts)Everleigh…. Sigh.Everleigh why did you run away? Why did you leave me? You are mine. You shouldn’t have ran away. I miss you. All of these things constantly run through my head all day, every day. When no one is looking I always sneak to your old sleep quarters. Even though you have been gone a week already your scent is still strong here. You didn’t have much but what you did have and left behind is now my treasures until you return my love.I will get you back. I know where you are. I just need to find a way to get to you. Of course, you had to find your way onto the most ruthless Alpha’s land. I just hope he doesn’t hurt what’s mine. You will be punished for running away from me when I get you back. I know your life here wasn’t fair tails and rainbows but that is how it has to be. It wouldn’t stop when I have you but I will make it bearable for you when we are together. Noth
Zayden I don’t know what happened. One minute I got her going over the edge and the next she screams then passes out. I pick her up and rush her to the infirmary while mind linking the doctor to be on standby because I’m headed that way with Everleigh.Once I step in the doors the doctor has a bed waiting and tells me to put her on it and wheels her straight to a room. I pace back and forth outside the door. I don’t want to go in because I know I will just be in the way. An hour later the doctor comes out.“What’s wrong with her?” I asked.“Honestly, we don’t know. She seems physically fine. We are going to set her up with an EEG. That’s the only thing I didn’t check last time and she might have some type of brain damage. We are also going to do a cat scan to make sure there is no swelling.”“Do what you have to do.”He nodded and went back in to
I look around trying to find Sophia when Rylan starts clapping her hands and doing her baby talk. I look at my little princess and smile. She is looking behind me and I see the big smile she gets on her face so I turn around and look at what she is smiling about. I adjust her so she is seeing the same way as me. When I look up I see Sophia walking towards us with a couple to go containers in her hands.“Hello Gamma.” She says smiling at me. “Hello pretty girl.” She says turning towards Rylan. Rylan laughs and reaches her arms out wanting Sophia to take her.“Is it time?” She asked me.“Yes.” I say looking away.“Would you mind carrying her to my room? I don’t know if I can juggle her and the food.”“Yes ma’am.” I say to her as she turns around to walk out the door.“The boys are in my room right now. I just wanted to come down and grab foo
“I’m gonna take my princess for a few hours and spend some time with her. I’ll find you when it’s time. If that’s ok? If not I can find Dawn.” I tell Sophia. She stands up and walks over to me, stopping right in front of us and looks down at Rylan.“It’s no problem at all. Your little girl is such a doll. I have already fallen in love with her like I have those two over there. Walker is my nephew but Felix is new and I love him just as much also.” She says running a finger over Rylan’s cheek with a smile on her face.“You have fun with your daddy and I will see you in a little while okay sweet girl?” Sophia moves her hand away from Rylan and lets it drop to her side just as a piece of hair falls in her face. I feel my arm wanting to move to push it back behind her ear.Rylan starts clapping her hands and smiling at Sophia then at me.“Let’s go see mommy.” I say to my little girl. I barely notice the flinch that Sophia did when I said that. Huh, that was w
Dev“Listen up warriors, I will be splitting you in to three groups. The first group will be with me, the second group will be going with Beta Evan and the third group will be staying here.” I say loud enough that everyone can hear me. “The group with me is rescuing the kids, the second is going after the Alphas and whoever is with them.”“Can we request the team we are on?” One warrior asked.“It depends on the rank of warrior the wolf is.” I tell him.“I would like to go with your team Gamma.” The warrior says. “My niece was taken and she is all my sister has. She lost her mate a few years ago.”“What is your rank warrior?” I asked him.“Three sir.”“You can be with my team.” I tell him. “Rise your hands if you are ranked one through three.” I tell them all. More than three quarter of the warriors raise their hands. “Alright. Who is ranked one and two?” More than half keep their hands raised.I look around to them all and nod. “Teamed with Beta Evan is warriors ranked one and two. T
“Do you think you could picture him in your mind and let me see it through you?” I asked her.She looks skeptical which I can’t blame her on that one. “Will it hurt?”“Not at all. You just have to picture him in your mind. I will take my fingertips and put them against your temple and I will use a bit a magic to see into your mind what you are picturing.” I tell her.“Okay we can try it. Is he in trouble?” She asked as I stood up.“No, we are just trying to find him so we can ask him questions about that day Liam got poisoned. But no one seems to know who he is. This way I can see what he looks like and show the others.” I tell her as I walk over to her.“What do you mean? He is a warrior. The warriors should know who he is.” She says looking over to Matthew. He shakes his head no to her and looks down.Once I get to her, I walk behind her and put my fingers on her
“I can and I will. You have messed with the wrong person in life. I am done being a stepping stone. When all of this is said and done I WILL have my mates back and this time no one will get in between us.” I tell her looking her in the eyes. I see the fire in them die a little as she stares at me knowing I’m not joking.“Just kill me because when I get out of here I will come for you.” She spits at me.“Na. Just go to sleep and don’t wake back up until I get back.” I tell her as my eyes turn black. She looks in to my eyes and I know it’s working. Her eyes start to drop and her body starts relaxing. I let go of her hair and let her fall before stepping back. I turn around and see the shocked looks on everyone’s face.“What was that?” Blake asked me.“I honestly don’t know.” I said shrugging my shoulders as Evan let me out of the cell before walking himself. He picks E
The wolf looks up to me with the most gorgeous silver eyes. It blinks at me before answering. “My name is Snow.” She says in my head. I nod at it looking around at everyone else and see the shocked looks on their faces.“It’s nice to meet you Snow. Can you tell me what is happening?” I asked her.“Yes my Queen. I haven’t shifted in years. I refused to after she started going to the Master. I wanted nothing to do with it. I told her not to but after our mate died nothing else mattered. Master promised all the followers power, land, wealth and freedom from all the regulations we all have to adhere to being in the supernatural world. He wants to make the humans slaves and all us supernatural beings superior in all ways. He wants to take over the world.”“Wow. That’s a lot to take in.” Dawn says.“He wants complete and total control over everything. He wants to be King.”&ldq
“Why have I been brought here and being treated like a criminal?” She demands standing up. “I have done nothing to deserve this.”“We beg to differ Eve.” I say to her letting go of Desi’s hand and slowly walking closer to the cell.“You have no say here you conniving little bitch.” Eve spits out. “If it wasn’t for you, Jayden wouldn’t be in this predicament. He would be by my side ridding the world of trash like the lot of you!” She screeched trying to reach through the silver bars to get to me. She yelps at the at the burn that is happening on her arms but yet she can’t seem to pull them back soon enough.“So, you are working with the one who is wreaking havoc on the supernatural world?” I said and looked at the others. “We figured so but we couldn’t prove it until now.” I tell her turning back to look at her face.“You can’t prov
Everleigh“Ma’am.” I say walking up to her. She turns towards me and smiles.“Ms. Everleigh. It’s so good to see you again. I never did get to formally introduce myself when you were here before. I am the head omega Helga.”“Hello Helga. It’s nice to meet you. Can you please mind link Beta Dawn please and tell her that Desi and I are going to the dungeon?” I ask her.She nods her head as her eyes cloud over. It takes a few seconds before they start to clear.“She said to wait a few minutes and they will all go with you.” She tells me with a smile before it drops. “How is your friend? The one who go hurt?”Shock went through my system at her question. I didn’t think anyone knew about that. We tried to keep it on the down low of who it was and what happened.“He is doing better. They say he should be waking up any time now.” I tell her skeptically.“Good. I’m glad to hear that. I told Warrior Bronston about the weird new guy who was in the kitchen that day but I haven’t even heard whisp
“Felix.” Desi said with tears starting to form in her eyes. “How do you know your daddy is in the sky?”“He told me mommy. He visits my dreams. He told me to tell you he loves you no matter what and he doesn’t blame you for what happened.” Felix said reaching up and cupping Desi’s cheek as she silently cries for her mate.She grabs ahold of Felix and wraps him in a hug burying her face in his neck. He wraps his small arms around her neck and holds on tight.“It’s ok momma. He said he is happy and watching over us. He is waiting for the day he will see us again.” I hear Felix whisper to her.“How do you know baby?” She asked in a barely audible whisper.“I see him in my dreams momma. I just said that silly. He said he would visit you but he doesn’t want you hurting.”The only way to tell Desi is crying is the shake of her shoulders. She has silent