Channon’s POVCanagan brings over another plate of steaming hot food and I hungrily rip the steak apart with my teeth. I’m ravenous. He observes me from the other side of the table. ‘Sit Uncle. Eat with me.’ I instruct him through the mindlink. My mouth is full of steak and I don’t want to stop eating. ‘I’ll go and make myself a plate Alpha.’ He responds. I know I upset him when I blamed him for Keeva getting mixed up with those old cronies, but I was angry at the time. He puts his plate down next to mine and drops his large body into the seat. I swallow the lump of pink bloody meat I’ve been chewing and turn to my him. He reminds me of my mother, they have the same eyes. I feel the usual sadness start to wash over me, but instead I remember the taste of Julius’s blood in my mouth as I tore him apart. Revenge is sweet as they say and I chuckle to myself.‘I want you, Blake and Bleiz to move up to the pack home. My workforce will be here in a couple of days to start building a new home
Zev’s POV Alpha Channon is nothing like his predecessor. He is cold and calculating, with no second thoughts on using his Alpha command to make people fall in line, and to punish them. I have been called to meet him at the old ruins by the lake, just as the sun is about to set. It wasn’t him that called me, it was his Beta Jonas. I cringe at the thought of being subservient to these young wolves. I am there elder and I am also his Beta. It was the agreement for going behin Julius and handing them inside knowledge on Julius and when to attack. I only did it so that I would keep my current position. But since his pack members from his home in the south arrived at the start of the week, I have been treated like shit. Not invited to his nightly meetings with Beta Ebony and Beta Jonas, and made to share my home with his people. ‘Ah, Zev, my slippery little wolf. You took your time.’ Alpha Channon greets me when I enter the long-overgrown gardens. I see he is sitting on the
Channon’s POVIts not their scent that alerts me to their presence. I see them, not with my eyes, but in my mind. My power of premonition grows. This is my clearest vision yet and has happened further away from the moment into time it is going to happen. At first I thought my power was Deja Vue but over the years as my strength has increased, so has the potency of my power. Once I reached eighteen and passed the trial to become Alpha of White Claw pack, there was no denying I could see glimpse of the future. It annoys me that I have no control over this power of mine. But now it had served me well and given me the opportunity to call Jonas and Ebony, along with the stronger of the delta wolves, I have bought here from the south. It may be too late, the vampires are here. There are three of them, two males and a female. The female vampire stands directly in front of me, the other two are either side, to trap Keeva and I between them. ‘You are breaking the truce my fathe
Channon’s POVI tear open the thick, opulent envelope. The embossed paper falls to the table in front of me. I scan over the hand written words that swoop and swirl dramatically over the page. ‘Shifting in a place where humans are’, ‘entering vampire territory without notification’. I tear the letter in two and smash my fist through the solid wooden table I’m sat at. As my intentions were to kill Julius and take back my birth right, I saw no sense in alerting the vampires, I didn’t want to lose the element of surprise. They are far too quick to meddle in the affairs of werewolves, and we are no longer bound to do their bidding. I should have made my presence known since taking my rule as Alpha, but this twaddle about shifting in front of human is ridiculous. Noone saw me at the bar. No reports have been made as such. Canagan would have told me if there were. ‘Alpha?’ Ebony calls me from beyond the door. It has been so awkward between us since I left the pack. I has tho
Channon’s POV‘You wanted to feel me in you? Correct Beta?’ I sense her wolf, she is scared. If I do this and take her virginity she will not have a mate of her own. She will spend her life as a piece of meat for wolves who want to take her for a night and leave her in the morning. I am not a despicable human or wolf, but I need a release and she needs to be taught a lesson. I slip one hand around her small waist, bending over her back to reach her clit. I slowly rub at her, making her pussy wet. ‘You will learn to not to test your Alpha. You will respect me Ebony. I am not your mate.’ I move myself slightly higher, the tip of m dick now pressing into her bum hole. I can feel I’m wet from her juices but not wet enough. I spit into my other hand and wet around her hole, and I rub the tip of my dick over it. Her body tenses. She has only ever had my finger in there before. I slide my finger in and she moans, her body relaxes. I rub her clit harder and I feel her start to
Celeste’s POV I have been back in the heart of the coven for well over a week now. I feel lost and among all these witches I feel more alone than I have in the last two decades. I want to be back in my little cottage, alone in the forest. At night I dream of Nikita and I wake with sweat pouring from me. I don’t know if she is alive and if her pregnancy continues. It makes sense why she turned up at my door that day with Keeva. She wanted to know if there was any way to end her pregnancy. I would not have helped her do such a thing, but I could have been there to help her walk a different path than the one laid before her. She would not have returned to her pack if Alia had not been there to interfere. I thought she might have gone to my cottage to make up with me by now. She hasn’t contacted me with the instructions I left for her. I was angry when I said those things. Surely she knows that? I am yet to be dragged in front of the High Council to be formally forgiven a
Zev’s POVWith Alpha Channon and Beta Jonas out of the way, it is the opportunity I have been waiting for. I will take Nikita as my chosen mate before they return. We will run away with as much money as I can take from the packs old bank account. Nikita wasn’t thrilled at the idea of leaving Keeva behind, but she doesn’t know that Keeva will most likely be mate marked before the next full moon herself. I know for sure Alpha Channon will take her as his own. Why else would he fight so readily for a human? He also dismisses Beta Ebony without a second thought. Her advances on him do not go unnoticed. Nikita might be young but she isn’t foolish. I can give her what she wants, a way out of this pack and protection for her unborn child. She gives me what I need, a mate to keep me from becoming a roaming beast, preying on the innocent to fulfil my needs and desires. She want’s to go and say goodbye to her friend in the forest tomorrow. I have agreed to let her go. I will kee
Keeva’s POVThe red bottom heels feel ridiculous on my feet. I have never worn heels before and I would never wear ones these high. I feel like I’m walking on stilts. ‘Fuck!’ I stumble and twist my ankle. Jonas outright laughs and Alpha Channon tires his best to suppress his laughter, in an attempt not to make me feel even more embarrassed. ‘Maybe a training heel would be better?’ The stick thin, snooty personal shopper asks whilst rolling her eyes. He looks lustily at Channon and Jonas with no effort whatsoever to hide her want for them. ‘How about a nice kitten heel, elegant and you won’t break your neck if you fall off them.’ A nice young man with come into the room with a flamboyant entrance, arms spread wide and he embraces me in a warm hug. ‘Now, then. Let’s get you kitted out and on the road again.’ He scowls at the silly girl and she leaves the room blinking back tears. ‘Good to see you again Gregory. How is your father?’ Channon stands and shakes the man hand.
Channon’s POVThe air is so much fresher up here, in the mountains. Keeva snuggles into me as we watch the newest pack of the North put on a show of ancient tribal dances. Their face are painted white and red, their eyes glow yellow form the wolves that lay just below the surface. I made a commitment to them all, all those years ago. I would like to think I have fulfilled my promise to help them build a pack, far away from the hustle and bustle of civilisation where they can be safe and heal from the wounds of their past. A fire rages in the middle of the dances, who leap and spin around it in a big, moving circle. I laugh and clap along with the music, content to just sit and watch the display. Keeva, as usual, has other ideas. She jumps up and grabs my hands, pulling me reluctantly to my feet. ‘Keeva, no..’ I try and plop back down on my bum but she pulls harder and before I can protest anymore I’m in the throng of dancers. I feel silly and the burn of redness slowly
ALMOST TEN YEARS LATER Nikita’s POV The years have passed quickly since the great battle. I watch Finn and Freya play together in the long, green grass, care free and happy. Celeste chases after them and they whoop and scream in delight. She is their Mom, not in blood but in every other way possible. Her promise to keep the legend of White Claw alive has stayed with her every day since. We have a yearly festival to commemorate all those that gave their lives that day. The packs who joined us to defeat the evil that wanted to destroy us all come and pay tribute too. Their whole packs descend upon us, overrunning the huge pack house and surrounding smaller houses. Celeste looks up at me and her eyes meet mine. Finn wriggles on the floor beneath her hand as she tickles his tummy. Huge shrieks of laughter fill the air. ‘You ok love?’ Her voice sounds a bit older and wiser now than it did back then. She has learned more about pack life and the hierarchy that defines out p
Nikita’s POVFinn and Freya sleep soundly in their cot, unaware of the battle that has raged on for hours outside. When I see Celeste again she is in big trouble. I can’t believe she sealed us in here. I know she would have done it to protect us, but I’m quite capable of looking after myself. I feel her pain and exhaustion increase minute my minute through our bind to the point I can’t walk and my whole-body aches. ‘Celeste. Come home.’ I finally decide to call out to her, my silence was supposed to have been a punishment for her act of love, but all it has done is punish me. What if something had happened to her and she thought for even a moment that I didn’t love her. Tears spring to my heavy eyes and pour down my cheeks. I don’t know when I fell asleep but morning is starting to break when the door to the kitchen is flung wide open. Celeste burst into the room. She looks awful. Covered in blood and mud, her hair is a mess and her clothes half gone. I don’t care. I r
Ebony’s POVI see him on the floor and towering over him is a tall, thin woman. She sends a bolt of dark magic straight into his chest from her hand. The pain that rips through me takes my breath away and I crumple to the floor, smashing into a tree from the speed I was going. ‘Don’t stop Blake, save him.’ I whimper through the pain. My vision has blurred from the lack of oxygen to my brain. The pain is so intense it makes me want to die, just so I can’t feel it anymore. She is too engrossed in torturing our mate to even notice Blake's huge wolf streaking towards her. My vision clears just enough to see Blake pounce on her. Her scream bounces from tree to tree and fills this part of the forest with the sound of death. He mauls at her and when her head pops off and rolls along the floor the pain completely vanishes. The wicked witch is dead. I can finally breath properly again. Blake leaves her mangled bloody body on the floor and goes to Bleiz. I stagger to my four leg
Keeva’s POV‘Celeste we are going under here. There are too many of them. Please, help us.’ There are too many of them. My silver fur is soaked through with the dark, stinking blood of vampires and the earthy copper red blood of werewolves. The Witches hide in the tress like the coward they are. Sending their pets into do the hard work. ‘Ebony, Blake, Bleiz. Get into the trees near the river and start taking out the witches. We need to break down their command. ‘Go, now.’ Supreme Alpha seconds my command instantly. I know he thinks Selina is control but the truth is it’s all me. Keeva. Selina has shut down and hidden away in the deep darkness of my mind. The next wave of vampires joins the fray. The frenzied ferocity of which they attack takes me by surprise. They are starved and the scent of blood has them crazed beyond my comprehension and understanding. High pitched screeches pierce the battle field, the blood lust of the undead being sated from the corpses that lit
Celeste’s POV My hands are clamped over my ears to try to block out the horrendous sounds of battle from consuming me. Grief pulls me to the floor and I sob into the cold earth. Even from here the floor shakes beneath me from the pounds paws and feet of the battle and bodies being slammed in to the ground. Barks of anger still pierce through my hands, the pain of hundreds of souls is palpable in the air. My skin crawls with the feeling of being watched and I don’t dare move from my curled-up position on the floor. Surely if It was Keeva or someone from the pack who knows me they would have announced their arrival. ‘Who’s there?’ I’m ashamed of how small and meek my voice is betraying the gut-wrenching fear inside of me. ‘Why do you care so deeply for them?’ This is the first time I have heard his deep, rumbling voice. I look up and am shocked to find White Claw sat just inside the clearing watching me. ‘What do you mean?’ His eyes follow me as I stand up and regain so
Celeste’s POVI can feel it in the air as the witching hour approaches. ‘Nikita, I need to go to my alter to perform the ritual and try to break the curse. It is the place with the strongest concentration of elemental magic.’ Her hands are soft and warm in mine and her tears make my soul weep. I would give anything not to leave her and our babies, but if I don’t do this and succeed then we are all doomed. Finn and Freya sleep peacefully in their cot next to the bed and I look down on them. The love I have for these little guys is more than I thought capable of ever feeling. It’s for them that I go out tonight and fight for our survival. ‘Celeste, please don’t go.’ Nikita pleads with me, her eyes are full of tears and desperation in her voice. ‘Let one of the other witches do it.’ She doesn’t understand and none of my reasons will ever be good enough for her. ‘I am the strongest witch here. If I can’t do it then we have no one on our side that can.’ The bond between us
Alessia’s POVEach step takes me past the long, tooth filled snout of a chained werewolf. Their snarls and growls fill the air along with the crack of whips that send whimpering howls in to the darkening sky. I smile and observe the scent around me. All the werewolves, held under the High Councils control have been brough from all corners of the land to us here. They are the muscles behind the vision of destroying or controlling these beasts, once and for all. I finish moving through the stinking area where they are being kept. My shoes are covered in their excrement that I try and wipe off on the grass in disgust. I feel bile rise in my throat but manage to hold it back. The last rays of sunlight dip behind the trees and the tents around me stir with the occupants that start to rise. I quicken my pace and my heart rate picks up as vampires start to emerge from their sleeping quarters. As I reach the biggest tent in the centre of their camp I’m greeted by Admis himself
Keeva’s POV‘You smell funny.’ I move in closer to Channon and sniff him all over, up and down. ‘Have you wet yourself?’ I blurt out and he steps back. I wrinkle my nose at the pungent odour and feel a bit sick. ‘He stinks of fear.’ Selina moves forwards and our consciousness combines, I feel her sense of smell over take my own. It’s not just his fear he reeks of, it’s the other Alpha’s fear scent that has stuck to him too. Selina moves back in to my mind and curls up, absorbed in her own thoughts on the situation. ‘Why are you all so scared?’ He looks at me and I can see his is genuinely worried. ‘The vampires have joined forces with the witches Keeva, I don’t know how we are going to win this thing.’ His eyes fill and her turns away. ‘I’m going for a shower.’ I let him go. At least he can get rid of the awful smells that cling to him and then I will go help relieve him of some of his frustration and anger. ‘Keeva.’ I turn to the door and see Ebony. She looks so tired