EthanI am nothing.A shell of a male. Living but not truly alive.My mate. Ruby. Who now has a new mate. The bastard.I stopped and closed my eyes, inhaling deeply as thoughts of her—wherever she was—filled every part of me. And with every passing time, my mate was the only thing on my mind, my need for her growing and growing until it consumed me.I felt nothing but loneliness.I opened my eyes, exhaled through my nose, and continued moving forward. I focused on why I was out here. My foolishness caused my downfall.I froze, tilting my head and listening, inhaling deeply and breathing in. I smelled a human nearby. I let my inner animal rise up and moved slowly as I followed the trail, picking up the scent as it became stronger.I leaned against the wall opposite me, my shoulder butting up against the rough surface as I stared at the massive iron bars keeping us from escaping.And just as I felt my eyes flash and my bones start to crack and reshape, the wind picked up and blew from
LylaThe hospital finally released me. Ruby takes me home. We talk about Logan’s plans on rescuing my mate.“ Don’t worry Lyla, we will definitely rescue them. Logan is working hard on this.”“ I know but what’s the latest update?”“ from what I heard, they have their best wolf tracking them. They said they found a few clues on their location and they are narrowing the location.” Ruby says. I sigh.These things are giving me a headache.We wouldn’t be in thus situation if my idiot brother didn’t get into a mess again. And it seems this is worst than all the others. For someone who is next in line to be the alpha of a pack, he is quite incompetent. I knew I should have done something in the past rather than help him lie to our parents and cover up his bad vices. Now look where that got me?This made me remember one of those incidents where it was glaring that I should have let our parents know what he was getting himself into. But I thought we would change. But now I know better.But
EthanWhile I continue to figure out a way to escape from this prison, two men enter into the space and advance on me; one holds a knife laced with silver, and another is swinging an axe.They drag Lyla, mate, and I. A black sack was used to cover our heads. We were then dumped on a metal chair. The first thing I feel is a vicious blow of a bat. I hear Lyla's husband has been hit, too, and he's groaning from the pain. One of the men punches me, and another stabs me with a silver-laced knife, my skin sizzling under the onslaught. Next, I feel my legs being hit again by the bat. This time, the hit comes down harder.“ FUCK….." the words come out of my mouth before I could stop them. One of my legs is throbbing like it might be broken, and I’m covered in blood, my skin sizzling. The sack is removed from my head, and the first thing I experience is multiple stab wounds done by a knife. I shout as my eyes adjust to my surroundings and witness what one of the men is doing to me.Pain slic
Lyla I was at my house trying finish up some deserts when I got the call that Logan and his men were back. They rescued them.I race to my car and drive to the hospital. Parking my car, I get out and spot Lyla who was just outside, looking at her. “Lyla, are you okay?” She keeps her head down, not looking at me, and waling back inside without a word. “Wait, Lyla.” I try to touch her shoulder to stop her. She spins on her heels; her eyes are so red and puffy, they look almost bruised and swollen. “They won’t even let me see him! I can’t even see my own mate!” she screams. “What do you mean, they won’t let you?” My voice goes up a notch. “They said I can’t see him.” I take a good look at her, know for a fact she’s gotten thinner.“Come with me.” I pull her by her hand into the hospital. We go to the front reception and meet a nurse. She points us to a nurse who is in chare.I’m met in the hall that leads to his room by the nurse, her arms crossed over her chest, she smiles at me
RubyThe past week has been wonderfully bliss. Logan and I have been loving each other day by day. Lyla and kelvin have been good. He’s been recovering well. He’s finally walking on his feet and going back to training. Ethan is still bedridden. The extent of his damage was severe. But he’s recovering well though. Which I am happy about. I mean I hope this will be the last time he does stupid things like thus and put other people in danger.My thoughts then drift to my mate. I’m missing him again. With how close we’ve grown in the last few days, it’s a wonder we aren’t joined at the hip.I walk into my office and start the day with a lot of patients on hand. The day goes relatively slow and then lunch comes on and I decide to walk to the dinner not far from my office. The place is packed as soon as I step in. I spot a colleague of mine and we greet and chat about mundane things. I see my mate pout of the corner of my eye walk into the dinner with a female I do not recognize. He spot
Spending the day with Ethan didn’t exactly sit well with me. Ethan kept trying to get close to me, and Logan, being my mate, didn’t accept that when he heard about it. I was glad he was angry. That way he would get the memo concerning that female Mia.I didn’t want to be close to Ethan. No, I wanted Logan. I had to stop myself multiple times from wrapping my arms around Logan, sniffing him, kissing him, and wanting him. My body had gone from warm to hot within a matter of minutes. I had to control myself. To take deep breaths. Besides my lunch break was almost over and I would need to get back to work. But still I wanted him.I waited until the hospital was less busy and called Logan over., sneaking him in to my office.I closed the door and walked close to him.Ruby wrapped my arms around his waist, pushing myself close to him“I want….”“You want what?” he asked. “I want you. I can’t stop thinking about you. “ I said. Admitting my desires.“You haven’t been able to stop thinkin
The moon Goddess We decide to run to the grocery store to stock up as we were both hungry and needed to get some things. Logan drives me to the store and I begin filling the shopping cart with food. Coffee. Pancake mix. Cereal, sauces, peanut butter etcetera, etcetera. I move forward and then double back and get some honey too. We’re then head to the isle wall that’s full of meat and I see he’s stuffing all sorts of meat in the cart. So. Much. Meat. I end up picking fruits and vegetables to balance the amount of meat he took. What can I say, I love my veggies. We get to the checkout and I begin unloading the food onto the conveyer belt but Logan stops me.“I’ll do it,” he says and starts lifting the rest of the stuff out of the second cart. The cashier scans our things and does a double take when she spits Logan. She seems smitten, staring all googled eyes at him. They are definitely filled with lust as she stared him up and down.I glad at her and then turn to look at Logan
EthanLogan,” comes Ruby’s soft voice from behind me.I turn to face her and give her my best smile. “Hey,” I rasp out and walk toward her. Cupping her face, I kiss her. Savoring her taste.“You don’t still have more pack business to take care of right?” she asks.“No, I just want to wrap up some things and then you have my attention all night.” I smile at her. She chuckles at that, laughter which fills me .. When she schools her features, and the seriousness returns to her face. “ That’s a promise. Logan. You’ll be mine tonight.”When I release her, she stands on the tips of her toes and plants a kiss on my chin.“Head upstairs and I’ll grab the champagne when I’m done with work.”“Don’t keep me waiting.”“I don’t plan to,” I assure her. She smiles . I go to my office and then finish up pack work. When. I’m done an hour later after the phone call with members of the pack, I walk into the kitchen and grab some food and the wine. It’s when I walk back out to the passageway something
LoganHe’s ripping into me like a ravenous hyena, all teeth and jaw as he tears flesh from bone. He doesn’t like his position threatened. But he should have thought about that before coming to my doorstep. Now all I want is blood.Tarus and I circle each other. Eyes never leaving each other, always at attention. Muscles contracting, vibrating fur with the need to lunge. He snarls at me and I smirk. He lunges at me.A full-on assault. His wolf has no problem showing why he’s the Alpha. Instead of taking the offensive, Tarus is reduced to taking defensive tactics in a need for self-preservation. He has become weak He tries to eat away at my flesh slowly, making it hurt. The trail of blood saturates the ground, unable to be absorbed by the frozen earth. Paws drip, painting the mosaic of red abstract art on the canvas of life. My wolf doesn’t relent. He shows that the wrong decision was made. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way in order for things to sink in. He had no chance
Logan The inability to move, fingers gripping into the earth as if I could hold on to it. Trying so hard to just hang on the fact that Logan would never leave me, he will come back.My tears stopped hours ago, yet somehow I just can’t seem to pick myself off the ground. I can’t get up. This is what love does. When it’s broken, it tears you apart.It ruins you in the end. “Ruby, it’s time to get up.” Layla is behind me, urging me to pick myself up. I wish somehow I could. I have done this to myself. I have no one to blame but me. I should have been stronger. I should have stopped it, fought harder against it. I was weak. “Take a step for me, Ruby, one foot in front of the other.” Layla sounds like her voice is cracking inside her throat. The only male that has ever loved me is gone and I ruined it. I threw it all away because I wasn’t strong or quick to stop Ethan.All I have left are memories now. That’s all I will ever have of him…memories. Logan saw me with Ethan, his dick
Ruby“I need to go home and pack, Ruby. I don’t have very much left here. You should start packing. tonight you and I could go visit you’re your friends in the pack to say goodbye.” I laugh slightly. “All right, Logan, we can go together.” “I won’t be long, okay? Just a few hours. Then we can just leave.” I give him a quick kiss, and he leaves to get his stuff. Taking my suitcases from out of the closet, I start packing everything I own, which really isn’t very much. While eating my meal, the wine is hard to swallow for some reason. I then jump on my bed a little before putting on the TV. I watch a couple of shows before my eyes start to feel droopy. I look at the clock and find it’s only been an hour. I decide to nap since I’m done packing, then wait for Logan.Sighing, I get up and walk towards the TV. I turn it off, and I’m about to walk to my bed when a knock on the door sounds. I frown, wondering who on earth it could be. Maybe it’s Logan, but the way the wolf approached w
“you know what your problem is, Ethan? I don’t think you know if you keep on going against me and doing stupid shits that ruins my reputation and the pack’s reputation. Why are you such a stupid shit. Good for nothing”I hate it when my father calls me that. He only does it when he’s very angry and that seems to be a lot now. He always angry at me these days. No one calls me stupid shit or useless. But those are his new names for me, it has been so for a while now.I just can’t get why he would do this, I get that he adopted my sister and I when we were just pups. I mean he doesn’t say shit like that to my sister. I guess I’m just the exception.And he always sneers it. Because my given name wasn’t his idea. It was my nanny who was more of a mother to me but sadly we lost her too early. She insisted on the name an it stuck.“Well? Do you?” There’s a bulging vein sticking out the side of his neck. “This a real question? You really want me to tell you what my problem is now father. Bec
RubyI make it to my Layla’s house. “I figured you’d show up.” Layla smiles as she uses the spatula to lift the cookies off the tray and put them on the cooling rack. I go for one, and she warns me like a mother hen, “Careful.” “I love when you make cookies. It makes the house smell wonderful and gives it a homey feeling.” That’s not here much anymore, and I’m not sure if it’s ever going to come back. “ I’m actually starting to hate this place more and more every day. I don’t know if it’s out of resentment because I’ve been kept here alone, and that’s because my mate is always busy with Logan now. No offence Ruby, to your mate, he pretty good to. but you need to tell him to cut my mate some slack. We have a young pup.” Layla says. “I’ve been dealing with the handful of a pup, so I had to do something. You know how baking just calms me.” She points at one of the cookies, letting me know it’s okay to pick up. I take a bite and think that six months ago I would have said nothing tast
RubyI ran to where Logan and Tarus were still fighting. Tarus spots me and tries to go after me but Logan stops him with a punch that sends me back a few paces.“ Come here mate” Tarus says. His words repulsing me.For Pete’s sake, Tarus. How many times do I have to say I’m not yours, I e never claimed to be yours?” I’d thought once Logan confronted him that would be end of it. Nope. He keeps on coming to destroy my happiness. I never imagined he will be this obsessed with me.“As if I would have listened. You and I are meant to be.”“No we’re not. Im not yours, never was. I’m with my mate now.”“shut up” He practically hissed the word.I froze. “How do you know about Layla?”“Because I’ve been watching. It took me forever to find you, and then I had to be careful lest they try and keep us apart. Didn’t you get my messages?”“What messages?” I asked through stiff lips, even as it hit her. Those emails I'd been getting, those texts, they must have been Tarus. I never mentioned them t
People of the pack had given them a wide berth. Watching the two alphas fight. If he didn’t win today, whether killing the motherfucker or sending him running with his tail between his legs then, my mate would be in bigger trouble. I walked up to the middle of the clearing to meet my enemy in the middle of this battlefield and see which one of us was going to die first. I watch my enemy prowl to meet me from the other side of the clearing. When they had initially faced off Tarus must have thought he would win in two seconds flat. But from the look of his face now, he was angry. Had he really thought it would be over that quickly? That he would just seize my throat five seconds into the fight and leave him there to bleed out. If Tarus was going to kill me in front of everyone on the island, I was damn well going to make him work for it. Given the grueling nature of the fight, it had seemed obvious to shift and fight in wolf form. I had dodged Tarus’s claws without parrying, danced ou
Im heading to the site where we are building some new buildings for new pack members and those from my pack who will help stay here to protect this pack till it can stand better on its own tow feet. I round the bend heading to the new houses when I see trucks pull up.Two of them. All filled with wolf shifters from Tarus’s pack.I clench my jaw as my wolf starts snarling inside. I grin when I taste how eager he is for a fight. What the fuck were these fuckers looking for?Good wolf. We’re going to need all that aggression.The doors open and five wolf shifters spill out. Some of the guys are young, but they’re all big, except for a scrawny kid with wild messy hair. I have my eyes locked on their alpha Tarus. He actually came here himself. He tormented my girl. He’s a dead man.“Who the hell are these guys?” Marcus asks from behind me. I watch my crew walk closer to me.I’m feeling better as they stand by my side.“These are the fuckers who have been after Ruby,” my beta growls. “And
LoganI didn’t sleep at all last night, but it wasn’t because I was longing for my mate but for the fact she will spend sometime in the present of that idiot, Ethan.I’m up before the sun, showered, and dressed in clean jeans and a dark button-down collared shirt by the time the sun first cracks over the horizon.My mate Ruby had to head out to the pack house so she and Mason and Ethan could go see his supposed new mate. I had driven he there and bid her goodbye.I can’t stop thinking about her. I look at my hands, squeezing my fingers in and out of fists, knowing that they were on her body. They were on her gorgeous face. I can still taste the ripe sweetness of her mouth. The softness of her tongue.I waited for her for what feels like hours, but it’s only been two hours since she left. She arrives at about three hours later and when I see her standing in front of my office, I race over to greet her.“Hello,” she says shyly as she comes in. “Welcome back,” I say as my bear starts pac