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
Michael How dare they take my mate from me? I pace around my living room as I wait for backups from my pack. It takes an hour before they are at my doorstep. Mark my beta burst in my house. “Alpha we came as soon as you called. We’ve got Michael, our best tracker to start tracking them. Do you have any of Ruby’s clothes so he can sniff it?” I quickly walk to my bedroom and rummage through the closet and find a shirt Ruby wore yesterday. I head back to the living room and hand the cloth to Michael. Who sniffs it and begins tracking it.We all set off on the road in various trucks. With Michael in front leading on the way to my mate. Once in a while he gets out and walks around the road, sniffing the air. The longer we take the harder it is to lose Ruby’s scent. I must find her at all cost. I can’t seem to figure out how they were able to take her right under my nose. How the hell they were able to get Steven without a fight. Which only means tat we have a mole. Fuck.How could we ha
RubySomething’s terribly wrong.I can feel my body changing. It’s working in a way I’ve never known before.“What the fuck is Fat Ruby doing?” A female wolf says to no one in particular.I go closer to the male, sniffing about and around him, stepping closer.There is a chorus of female disgust, everyone beginning to understand what is happening faster than I can comprehend. I look him from head to toe and then it clicks, like a whisper in my soul.He’s my mate. This man Ethan my best friend’s brother is my mate.“ No way is this what I think it is.” One of the popular female wolf says.I’m trapped. Surrounded. My body is going haywire, and I don’t know what to do, but Ethan will. He is my mate.I look to him, willing him to look back. Teach me what to do, how to do. Save me from this wolves that are Staring at me.“Oh my God, look at her face. She looks like she’s going to puke,” a male beside me says, crowding closer to see. People are murmuring now, trying to get closer to me to
Logan's voice:I wake up screaming and covered in sweat. I started to panic because I didn’t know where I was. I struggled as a set of arms held onto me tightly. I moaned and cried out, trying to get whomever it was off me.“Ruby, you’re okay. It’s me. It’s Logan. Please, stop struggling. You’re safe.”I instantly relaxed and sobbed as Logan held me from behind. He was gripping me to him like his life depended on it. I moved and he loosened his grip. Logan strokes my hair. “It’s okay. It was only a nightmare.”“It was just a bad nightmare…right?” When I didn’t respond, Logan moved his face away to try and look at me. “Ruby, talk to me.”I shook my head. “It’s nothing. It was just a bad dream.” Logan sighed and pulled me back into his arms. “I don’t believe you, but whenever you want to tell me, you can.”As my shivers subsided, my eyes became droopy again. I’m safe. Those people who kidnapped me have been killed by my mate and I’m not in the past anymore. Logan is my true mate.Some
Mia and LoganThe next morning, I sat on my bed taking in the stars on the ceiling. They’ve been there since I was a kid. I remember telling my mom at one point that I wanted to be an astronaut and I kept that dream alive until I realize wolves couldn’t live in spacecrafts because we are bound to the earth and moon. I spent the night tossing and turning. The nightmares plaguing me.“I can smell you thinking all the way from the edge of the pack land.”I looked over my shoulder and watched Logan approach. The sun shined on his face, highlighting the dust on his hair. He must have been training at the clearing and obviously hasn’t taken a shower. I frowned. I hadn’t heard him come up.Logan sat beside me on the bed. I turn to look at him when I felt his eyes land on me.A beat passed. “What’s ?”I kept the thought to myself. “I’m just thinking about the past few days.”“Why?”I gave him a pointed look, lifting a brow. “Do you even have to ask?”Logan pursed his lips. “I thought things w
RubyI begin training to be a better wolf. Logan comes to watch once in a while, he hasn’t really come to participate, just watch my progress. It was honestly hard when I first started. I had to start building my core and muscles, learn endurance as a wolf. How fast I can shift as a wolf in a fight or emergencies. I am getting fluid and faster but I haven’t fought any wolf yet.But today will be my first fight with another wolf. A young woman who is only two years younger than mine. I have been training, my eyes sizing her up and thinking I can beat her. My trainer has been a male wolf called Cyrus. He doesn’t take much but you can tell he has definite strength and experience. He isn’t like my mate who is an alpha but this wolf has won battles and has scars to prove it.“let’s begin.” Cyrus says. His body moving away from the ring and everyone follows his instructions. I stand at the back watching everyone on what to do. He leads them in their morning stretch, getting their muscles re
WolfI face the male wolf, who is not much taller than I am.He throws a pinch at me, then kicks me with his boot.His strike hitting me in my belly, which quivers into itself. But the make doesn’t relent. I try to stand but he throws a left hook that makes me disoriented for a sec. The male keeps coming back to hit me without giving me a little reprieve. My wolf refuses to give up, trying to push me to stand at every chance. She slowly starts to make an appearance. A growl rumbles out with our displeasure. This male seizes his opportunity and lays me out hard, falling to the ground. He’s on me in an instant, no mercy. He has my neck and arm in a chock hold. He keeps his arm tight around my neck, my sir supply getting narrower and narrower. His other arm is pulling my hand behind my back in an unusual way. I feel it’s going to break. The pain is too much. So I grit my teeth in my jaw and take this pain; I take it because I can. My threshold for pain is high. I just have to keep up hol
RubyWhen I wake up, I’m alone, and there’s food cooking. My stomach growls so loud. I hadn’t eaten anything since before the fiasco of yesterday. I slept through to the next day after the hospital had fixed my arm.I’m good. I sit up, cross legged, and adjust some of the blankets around me.Even my isn’t healed completely so it hurts a little but not as bad as yesterday. I’m In Logan’s house. He must have brought me here when I passed out yesterday after they fixed my arm.I close my eyes and breathe deep. Then I smell something. Food. I grin. I smell breakfast and it is ready.I throw my legs over the side of the bed. I have no idea where my clothes are so I snag a big T-shirt and pull it on. It comes down to my knees. I run my fingers through my hair. I make my way toward the kitchen, I step through the door. Logan’s muscular back is towards me. He’s messing with the food on the gas cooker.He’s wearing gray sweatpants low on his hips, he has nicely sculpted ass. I drop my gaz
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