RubyLogan looks at me. His hair is silky and cut short at the edges with a little more on the top. Just a light trace of stubble on his face which he hadn’t shaved yesterday. We are gathered at the pack council room. A mating ceremony is holding. Huh.. I must have been out of the loop if I don’t know who is mating who. Logan had picked me off from work early so I could attend and here I am. It's a glorious sight though.“Whose mating ceremony is it?” I ask as Ethan’s father looks toward Beatrice and Victor. “Theirs. She’s a new member of my pack. She was part of my delegates to help out here. She met her mate Victor, here and now it’s time for their ceremony. Ours has been scheduled a week from now.” I smile at the fits of butterfly in my stomach. Why are you just telling me this now how can I not know that I’m mating my mate in a week. “You’re bad Logan.”“what a happy union” I regard Beatrice sitting on the picnic table being fed by her mate. She’s smiling so hard that she loo
Looking around, I see everything has been arranged to be made special, the decorations are flawless, there are balloons, flowers, streamers. Everything screams this is a mating ceremony. I see presents on the table. Everything stands out, that this is something that means something to the wolves who choose to mate and bind themselves to each other forever.Beatrice is dressed nice, with makeup and hair done, her mate is dressed well too.Victor is pulling on her to him as he tickles her, she screams for him to stop while laughing. He keeps at it until her breath hitches and her chest is rising and falling.“Stop.” It’s all she says as he pinches her ass hard. She stills, her breath coming out fast. It’s not meant to hurt her, just to let her know who is her alpha now. It’s a way for the make mate to show dominance. Beatrice stands there looking lovingly at the moon. her eyes watching the moon as her heart pray for a happy and long lasting union. Her long gown that looks like a we
RubySome days later, I’m done from work and I want to head home to freshen up and then attend the festival at the council. I’m dead tired but I promised Logan I would be there. I’m dressed and ready to go an hour later. I step out into my porch and lock my door. But someone grabs me and knocks me out. By the time I’m woken up I’m surrounded by wolves. They aren’t ours. The wolves aren’t. They’re huge with mated and rough furs and have red eyes. There’s only one of their kind in human form. I don’t recognize him. I’ve definitely never seen him in pour pack before. So now il wondering how he is here now and we’re in this position.Terror skitters up my spine, but I stay stock still. If I show fear, they’ll attack. The air is thick with aggression.The leader sneers down at me. “Why don’t you ask for little body guard here to shift back” The word drips with scorn.Jenn’s wolf is not going to listen to me. she’s a beast, and she won’t definitely leave me unprotected.“Tell her to stop, o
LoganNow the rogue wolves had my mate. If Ruby hadn’t sent me a signal through our bond, I wouldn’t have found about it soon. The worst could have happened. Although the worst isn’t over yet until I kill every last one of them. No one hurts my mate and gets away with it.My beta was nowhere to be fucking found, and I was pissed off.I don’t know why I didn’t tell her that I loved her before now. She didn’t know how I felt. That I was a man who’d never known what love was, but being with her, I knew it. I knew I woke up every single morning, looking over at her, and feeling this sense of peace I’d never known. Ruby was my mate .These wolves don’t know what he’d done. I was going to kill them.“Where?” I asked. As soon as my beta came in. He had gone to figure out their location and how many rogue wolves we have to deal with.He gave me the location. It was in the south of the pack lands, near the border. There would be no humans nor innocent wolves. It was the perfect spot to take e
Within hours I was recovered and I went to check on Layla and the new pup. I’m glad to see she is alright and the pup looks so much like her mate, but he has her nose though. I believe that counts for something. We end up laughing about it as we gush over the little baby. We decide to throw a small get-together to celebrate the little pup. We held the gathering two days later.I’m here now, helping Layla set some of the cooked food I made earlier on the table.Layla is here, cooking a meal for everyone. Mason was also helping out. Ethan was babysitting the pup. The guys were drinking.And I felt truly content. This pack, these men and women, were her family.While Layla put the finishing touches to the potatoes, as well as the vegetables, I made my way into the main clubhouse, where all the guys had put several tables together. I started to set the table and couldn’t believe Logan had gone to the effort to get everything ready. Mason had helped and some people from the pack. This was
EthanI shift in my seat. My family all notices that I has something important to say. I hold my breath in. I clear my throat—the vein in my neck is pulsing. I watch Ruby as she’s sits opposite me. We are at Lyla’s house with her mate celebrating their new pup.I take a drink of water, pulling in my bottom lip with my teeth. I watch Ruby licks her lips. I’d love to feel those lips on me, pulling my flesh into her mouth. “Do you want to say something, Ethan?” the Alpha asks, and I open my mouth up, closes it, takes another drink of water. Ruby looks at her male, and Logan stops everything to look at her. Mason cracks his neck before sitting down. Something in the pit of my stomach says this isn’t going to be good for me. I mean I’m about to lie, but this is important to my plans. I can’t just sit by and watch Logan take my mate from me. Their mating ritual is less than a week away m if I don’t stop it now, I’ll never get her back.“I met someone,” I tells the entire table. Even th
My forehead rested against the wall of the pack mansion. My nerves were flailed.I wouldn’t say I was resigned to my fate, but last few weeks had given me insight. But yet I couldn’t give up. Ruby was mine, no one else but me should have her. But then again, if I couldn’t have her no one else will. I’ll see to that.I’d wallowed in self-pity and mourned the loss of my mate and the future I’d envisioned as the leader of my pack with my mate at my side. I seethe in anger, feeling the constant burn of betrayal when I thought about how Ruby had acted like me mating someone else was the best thing to happen . Condemning me to mate a female I’d never met and separating me from her wolf when her wolf is all mine need. He’d never tolerate another female.I’d also experienced a mix of denial, dismissal, and reluctant acceptance when I thought about the devastating realization that I had made my mate slip into the hands of another.I understood my father’s desire to have me move on from Ruby, b
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
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