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Chapter 139 - Winnie
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Trinity of Power Chapter 140 - Celeste
I’ve been in an almost catatonic stupor since I touched that border. I know what’s happening, but I can’t respond. The pain. The shock. The guilt. And my idiocy. They all came crashing down on me. And there’s nothing I can do to stop it. There’s nothing I can do to save myself. My only option is to save my people. But how? How do I make the packs and the covens trust me? How do I get them to go along with what Morgana wants? Because that’s the only way to get my people out. To make it so they’re safe. I have to convince Bella so that she can persuade the packs. How? How? HOW? And that’s when I know what to do. I have to tell them the truth. It’s the only way that they’ll believe me. It’s the only way that they’ll help. But first I have to contact Morgana. I have to stop her from hurting my people. Lifting my foot up, I pull the coin out of my shoe. Running my fingers over the raised pattern, during the coin blue. Morgana’s voice fills my mind. “Celeste! W
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-05Trinity of Power Chapter 141 - Charlie
I’m in the process of a feed with Christine and Jared when my phone rings. I’m sitting on the couch, holed up in the corner against the arm with a Boppy holding Jared up on one side and a pillow propped up on the couch arm supporting Christine. Both pups are in a football hold and feeding simultaneously, which is what I’ve found is the easiest for all of us. But, as they get bigger, it’s getting harder to do this by myself. They’re only two months old and I need either Brandon or Zak to help me just getting them settled in, since getting them to latch without hurting me is a two hand job. Can’t imagine what it’ll be like by the time we hit summer time. Looking down at my phone on the table, Zak says, “It’s Bella.” “Hands a little full here, babe. You’re gonna have to answer it,” I say. He rolls his eyes, as if to say ‘No really?’, but doesn’t say anything as he answers the phone, putting it on speaker. “Hey, Bella! It’s Zak, but you’re on speaker with me and Charlie. She’s
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-06Trinity of Power Chapter 142 - Brandon
We call the Alpha Council meeting an hour later, not just looping in Bella and the witches with her, but also the witches that are in Bella’s covendom, the wolves that are flying to help with the tracking, and the alphas from the West Coast that Roman and Erick had rounded up so far. Teleconference calls were never as popular as they have been since we started a war seven months ago. Wouldn’t the humans be surprised to know that their companies are doing well because of werewolves and a pack war they knew nothing about? They’d lose their ever-loving minds. “We all on?” Zak asks. “Yup,” Jamal says. “We’re here,” Bella responds. “Yo,” one of the West Coast guys says. Based on Slade’s eye roll, I’m assuming that’s Roman. Zak gives a little chuckle. Based on what Slade has told us, Roman and Erick are going to fit in with the group perfectly. “Alright. This is the first time that all of us have gotten to talk with each other and it’ll be a while before we all meet in person, b
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-06Trinity of Power Chapter 143 - Jamal
That voice. I don’t know what it is about Bella’s voice, but I just want to talk to her all day. It’s mesmerizing. I look over and see Gregory has a faint smile on his face, his eyes slightly dazed. I can tell he likes listening to Bella just as much as I do. She’s obviously a very strong and independent female, but there is also something compassionate and vulnerable there too. Something sad. I’d love to talk to her more, but we’ve got other things to worry about. Like tracking down these sadistic, psycho witches. Once we’re off the call with the big group, we have our own conference call with the witches on the ground at Bella’s covendom and Bronwyn, Arthur, and Nissa. After a round of introductions, we quickly get down to business. “So we’ve got a total of 10 witches and 20 wolves. I think that all the wolves at least need to go to the Riding Hoods’ encampments and to Celeste’s covendom to see if we can get the scent of the witches,” Gregory begins. Ever the planner my
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-08Trinity of Power Chapter 144 - Gregory
“I’m saying that Bella is your second chance mate,” Meredith says. No. No. No, no, no. I’m not ready. I’m not ready at all to meet this mate. Not that I don’t want a second chance mate. Eventually, I’d be happy for us to find her. But Jenny hasn’t even been dead for six months. It’s too soon. It’s too fucking soon. I don’t realize until Jamal has his hands on my face, his fear-laced voice cutting through my brain fog, that I’m hyperventilating. My heartbeat is pounding in my chest like I’ve been running marathon, though I haven’t taken a step. Sweat breaks out on my brow, upper lip, and under my arms. Sounds echo in my ears and I can’t understand what’s being said. “Sit down,” he says firmly into my face. He basically shoves me into a chair and pushes my head between my knees. “Breathe, Gregory. It’s ok. Just breathe.” Meanwhile, Meredith’s panic-stricken voice is screaming from the phone, “What the fuck is going on? Are you guys ok? What’s happening? Somebody ans
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-08Trinity of Power Chapter 145 - Arthur
Celeste really had nothing to tell us. She came out of the woods along the portion of forest at the main entrance to her territory. She had no idea where she came from, how long she ran, what direction she came from. Nothing. All that Celeste remembered was horror and pain. The sheer panic and the knowledge that if she stopped, they would kill her. We really didn’t get anything from her. Luckily, for us not for her, they retrieved seminal fluid from the rape kit. We had insisted that they do one, along with giving Celeste the morning after pill. Charlie had texted Bella while we were talking to the trackers with the interesting notion that maybe the reason that Celeste hadn’t been able to have a child was because she hadn’t been with her mate. It might happen now. And as badly as Celeste wanted a child, she didn’t want one with her mate. Can’t say that I blame her based on what she told us about her experience with him. I had thought that the trip back to our covendom woul
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-10Trinity of Power Chapter 146 - Jamal
We sit down at a table off to ourselves with our mate’s father. This is probably the weirdest “meet the parents” in the history of mates. We figured out that our mate was our mate based on a phone call, came to her covendom where a faint scent of her keeps tickling our noses, and then meet her father, all before we have actually laid eyes on her. It’s nice that Arthur is so happy to meet his daughter’s mates. Shit, I didn’t expect a witch to be happy to have wolves for mates, let alone the rest of her family and coven. But, to hear Arthur tell it, Bella is ready to meet us and excited to find the mates that Selene and Hecate had made for her. Gregory and I pray quickly as we wait for Arthur to join us.“So, where should we begin?” Arthur asks as he sets his food on the table and sits down. I clear my throat. “Why don’t you tell us about this prophecy?” “Yes, quite right. That would be important for you two to know. So, how much do you know about the communion between witch
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-10Trinity of Power Chapter 147 - Devin
Tonight is a full moon. Both Arya and I are so excited to see Xander that we wake up at sunrise, unable to sleep any longer.That early in the morning, Jakey isn’t awake yet, so I go for a run around the pack, taking about 30 minutes before coming back and letting Arya do the same. While she’s gone, I shower and finally wake up our sleepyhead to change and feed him.Little Jakey is in a great mood, almost as if he knows we’re going to see his parents tonight and wants to make sure we give them a good report. He’s been smiling a lot lately, loving cuddles and tickles. During tummy time, he holds his head up and enjoys playing in his little floor gym. I never thought I could love someone as much as I love Arya and Xander, but this little guy has a special place in my heart that is all his own. I’ve known him since the minute he was born, and he is as much my son as he is Isaac and Lacey’s.Now, having three pups in the house under a year old? That’s going to be fun. Luckily, we have a lo
Huling Na-update : 2022-06-13
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Trinity of Power Epilogue - The Red One
The tunnels twisted and turned in an endless labyrinth beneath the Hoia Baciu Forest. The scent of damp earth mixed with the faint metallic tang of blood and decay. The flickering torchlight cast eerie shadows along the stone walls as I strode through the corridor, my Thane, Sybil, walking briskly beside me.“How is she doing?” I asked without breaking my stride.“She is much more stubborn, much more resilient than we anticipated,” Sybil admitted. “But we believe we may have turned the corner, High Priestess.”“Oh?” I arched a brow, intrigued. Morgana’s torture had been… sluggish. Less satisfying than I had hoped.Torture, after all, is not simply about the body—it is about breaking the mind. True suffering comes when a victim loses their very sense of self, when they beg for death, only to have it denied over and over. And yet, Morgana had proven difficult to crack.Nine months. Nine months of relentless torment. We had shattered her bones and healed them daily, forced her to endure t
Trinity of Power Chapter 219 - Zak
The ride from Texas to our packhouse should normally take 21 hours, but we’ve made it a one-week trip, sending our beta, Landry, ahead of us in our plane. He will help our people move in and settle while Brandon, our parents, and all of our pups take a little side trip for some downtime.Carl, Richard, and Lauren elected to move back to Artemis lands with us. It’s where they lived, where Carl and Richard grew up, and where they raised their older children. Now that they had a new set of pups, they wanted to come back. My mom and Charlie’s parents were also moving back with us. It was their way to see their grandpups grow but also to honor the lives of my father and Charlie.Carl, Richard, and Lauren were a little upset that Dev, Arya, Jakey, and the twins were remaining in Texas and that they wouldn’t be able to see them as much, but we’ve already got a couple of trips scheduled back and forth so that all the cousins could get together and we could see our best friends.Our side trip t
Trinity of Power Chapter 218 - Naomi
The past few months have been some of the most emotionally difficult of my life. Not only am I nearing the end of my pregnancy with our little boy, but we are also leaving Texas— all of us. Except for the old Diana pack and Arya and Dev’s pack, the rest of us will be gone by tomorrow.The last three months have been consumed with finalizing pack laws, succession rules, and building the new packhouses for each territory. We've been moving everything from our old homes, figuring out pack logistics, and ensuring every wolf is accounted for. It’s been exhausting, but necessary.We also had to choose our new betas, gammas, and deltas. In a twist of fate, Donavon asked to be our beta so that Kesha could stay close to Slade and Chloe. Rin made the same request to serve under Case, Chloe, and Sev, so their families could stay together. That means Mike and Seth will also be moving up north. But the tech squad doesn’t need to be in the same room to work together, so at least that transition will
Trinity of Power Chapter 217 - Severn
"Reports have been consistent from all of our sources. Other than one of the fae discovering what was left of Locasta’s body in the bayou, there hasn’t been a single sighting of any Riding Hoods on American soil,” Hawk says.We’re in one of our combined council meetings, with all the alphas from every pack in the U.S., as well as the heads and representatives of the Maiden, Mother, and Crone covens for Hecate. There’s also a representative from the Seelie Fairy Court and an ambassador from the Unseelie Fairy Court. The sooner we can get all of us on the same side, the better we’ll be protected from groups like the Riding Hoods. We’re hoping to expand this into a global alliance—a kind of supernatural U.N.For now, the fae are willing to let the U.S. be the test subject. Convincing the other shifter groups, however, has been difficult. Many remain elusive or outright resistant to the idea. Zak’s presence would have helped—his Goddess gifts have a way of swaying even the most stubborn mi
Trinity of Power Chapter 216 - Bella
After the ceremony, Gregory and I help Jamal back to our cabin. Every time I see him in that damn wheelchair, I get livid all over again. Those witches. I can’t believe Locasta and Morgana got the drop on him.He freely admits he was distracted—he had taken a call from Seth and Mike about incoming witches. It turned out to be nothing, just the Crone coven sweeping through like they promised. Apparently, no one had thought to inform our tech team of that part of the plan. And no one but Jamal had their phone turned on.Morgana had woken up just before the call. While Jamal was preoccupied, she directed Locasta to retrieve a knife from her boot—silver and coated in wolfsbane. They cut themselves free, then stabbed Jamal in the back of the neck, severing part of his spinal cord. He collapsed immediately. The wolfsbane knocked him out, and the silver cauterized the damage. For a time, he couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, couldn’t even breathe on his own.Arya and Dev managed to purge the wolfsb
Trinity of Power Chapter 215 - Brandon
Zak and I have been in a fog since Charlie’s death yesterday. The one and only thing that has brought us any solace is our pups. It seems like, overnight, they began looking more and more like their mother. Though both of them have always had Charlie’s gray, raincloud eyes, their faces and bodies seem to have gotten leaner, their chins more pointed, their cheeks hollowing slightly to reveal high, sculpted cheekbones. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but others in the pack have noticed it, too.Our families are around us. Friends come in and out of our cabin. All of our mothers—Lauren, Danielle, and Clara—busy themselves with the pups, cooking, keeping things moving as if that will help. The house bustles with people, but I barely register them.The only things that ground me are Zak’s hand in mine, the weight of Christy’s sloppy kisses on my cheek, the warmth of Jerry’s small body as he curls into my chest.I know I eat. I shower. I dress. I might even respond to people. But it’s all
Trinity of Power Chapter 214 - Gael
So many emotions. Thank the Goddess on High that I’ve been training on how to empty myself of other people’s feelings. If not, I’d be drowning in them, rocking in a corner with my thumb in my mouth. Despair. Pain. Rage. Dread. Determination. They flood over me like a tidal wave, crashing against my mental defenses. But using the techniques Meredith taught me, I let them wash over me and drain away, like waves receding from the shore.I have to keep my head on straight. My job is twofold. First, I need to help my friends process their grief without letting it consume them. Zak and Brandon’s pain is like a living thing, a force that threatens to unravel everything if I don’t keep it contained. I push their suffering to the back of their minds, tempering their anger to something useful. They don’t want this—but they need it.Then there’s Dev. His grief is just as raw, just as deep, but there’s a difference. Beneath his devastation, there’s acceptance. A flicker of hope. He knows that he’l
Trinity of Power Chapter 213 - Devin
Zak and Brandon push through the door, Brandon almost immediately shoving Zak to the floor as a ball of lightning rushes through the air toward them. It slams into the door just above their heads before Gregory vaults over them, a shield of the same crackling energy covering us as we begin to move through the doorway.Gregory’s ability to mimic Morgana’s powers surprises her, giving Jamal the time to step into the room after his mate. His power fills the space, nullifying all the goddess gifts of those within a 100-foot radius (we checked). That includes all the witches’ powers. The only ones that won’t be affected by Jamal’s power are Arya and me. Our gifts aren’t Goddess-given but Goddess-like. He can’t take away what is part of the Goddess.The look on Morgana’s face as she drops like a fucking stone is almost enough to make me smile. Her scream echoes through the stairwell, the resounding thud as she lands and the breath whooshes out of her is immensely satisfying. Unfortunately, o
Trinity of Power Chapter 212 - Iris
I don’t know what gave me the idea of the salt trail. Honestly, I haven’t been able to think of much since I’ve been here. The thought of us being so close to freedom seems unreal. I never thought that I would escape the Riding Hoods alive. It makes the frustration that Charlie is feeling about us going around in circles barely register to me. I’m still finding it hard to believe that we’re going to get out of here.But the salt sparks a memory of my favorite childhood fairytale. My mother hated it, the way that the witch was portrayed, but I loved the thought of children being able to outsmart an adult like that. I read every version I could find and acted it out with my toys all the time. I even made Mom, Dad, and Bella call me Gretel for about a year.So, I really shouldn’t be surprised that my old favorite story came to me in a time of need. The whole scenario was made better by the fact that Charlie called me Gretel. I feel like I’m getting some of me back. Like I’m starting to wa
