MELIA POV This time there was no beautiful lighted gas to enchant us through the portal. It was like we blinked and fell through a dark closet right into Alpha August's massive chest and arms. I know he was trying to catch us so we wouldn’t get hurt but he was like running into a brick wall, not that Dr. Roby seemed to mind as she gazed up at the Alpha. Mom must have given her her sight back as she came through the portal right after dad and Margot, waving her hand behind Dr. Roby's head. “I promise to the goddess that I will never ever take my sight for granted ever again.” Dr. Roby sighed in relief as she stepped out of the Alpha’s arms towards mom. Everyone gave a little chuckle in acknowledgement before dad cleared his throat. “Where would you like me to take Margot?” Dad looked down at Dr. Roby. “Follow me” Dr. Roby walked out of the Alpha’s office and dad followed close behind. “Mom, are you going to tell us what happened to your head now?” I moved my eyes from her to Al
MELIA POV BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. SNOOZE. I pulled my blanket up over my head. BEEP, BEEP, BEEP. SNOOZE. I pulled my pillow down to cover my ears. BEEP. "Fine, fine I'm up already." I threw the pillow across the room. I hate 5am training. Why is anyone up at the goddess forsaking hour? I ripped my blanket off and stomped towards my bathroom. If I'm late not only do I look horrible as the future Alpha but I have to run extra laps. "Ugh." I sighed out loud. "Melia, Melia where are you?" Maisie barges into my room unannounced. "I'm in the bathroom, Mace." I finished putting on my sunscreen and walked back into my bedroom. "What has you all chipper this morning? Don't tell me you got laid last night." I winked at Maisie as I made my way to my closet. "You're so gross." Maisie made gagging noises. "Don't get dressed. Bring your outfit out here so I can show you a cool new trick I learned this morning." "Mace, we don't have time for this, we will be late to training." I whined as
MELIA POV "Oh, good you all are finally here." A very tall and beautiful woman greeted us at the front gate of a very large cabin. She had all white hair with piercing sky blue eyes, judging by her wrinkles she was probably in her 60s. Not that it stopped her from rolling around in the dirt. She was covered in soil. "Mom did you forget we were coming?" Dr. Roby asked. "No, dear. I just lost track of time in my garden. Anyway let's go inside, you can all have a spot of tea while I get cleaned up." We walked to the front door of the cabin and Margot swung the door open to greet us. "Maggie." Maisie and I cried out in unison as we sandwiched our sister in a hug. "I missed you guys too." She didn't whine about us squishing her, she just hugged us back. "Alright girls, let's all make our way into the house." Ms. Lenoir smiled. We made our way into the cabin but we didn't release one another. Maggie led us into the sun room and we sat down together on a comfy white couch. "Vane
MELIA POVThis has been the worst week of my life. I thought I was winning over most of the pack members at this point. I show up to training earlier than anyone else, I'm powerful with and without my magic, I can keep up with the Elite warriors during training, I make it a point to be friendly, and remember everyone's name that I meet, even the omegas. But ever since Alpha August's knuckle draggers have been cracking down and enforcing the new rule of not allowing anyone to leave the pack territory everyone has been pissed and for whatever reason they're taking it out on me. I was supposed to be sparring for my Sentinel spot this morning and I have a shitty feeling it's not going to go as easy as I expect.I was up early enough to walk to the training field this morning and I decided to do it without any company. I wanted to get some extra stretching in and practice my combos a little more before anyone else arrived.I made it to the field and started stretching but it wasn't long un
MELIA POV "Melia, you can't go shimmering me around without telling me beforehand. I wanted to congratulate your sister on winning her new Sentinel spot and I didn't get a chance before you rudely interrupted." "I'm sorry Alpha but we have several important things that need urgent tending to. First, your new rule of no one leaving the pack is causing everyone to hate me. Second, your rule of never questioning ranked members in public is bullshit. Third, how are Margot's bracelets controlling her? Is she going with us to get her chrysoprase stone? Will she be able to go through her awakening? Fourth, how are we going to stop my new vampire friend from using pack members as puppets? Lastly, Brandy was using black magic during our sparring match. I don't know if she knows she was using it or not." "Wait, what? How do you know she was using black magic?" "My amethyst stone glows when I come into contact with dark magic." I lifted my bracelet for him to see my amethyst charm dangling f
MELIA POV Mom shimmered in bright and early the next morning. Of course she was just as chipper as usual, overly excited about our awakening happening in just two days. She happily fluttered around my room like a beautiful butterfly opening all the curtains letting in an exacerbating amount of light. "Mom please I've only gotten a couple hours of sleep last night and if I'm going to be productive at all today I need a few more hours of sleep." "I'm sorry honey but I will crash soon and you won't get to see me until late tomorrow evening so get up and have breakfast with your mama. There is a lovely garden here behind the pack house that we can get comfy in. I think I even saw a hammock or two out there the last time I was here. We could always take a nap in them just like old times." "Fine. Mama but only because Alpha August won't like it." I removed my pillow that was covering my face. "Great! You get dressed and I'll have breakfast waiting for you out back." Mom was gone just as
MELIA POV Mom woke up well rested sooner than she expected and was now demanding to see Margot so she could make sure she was getting better. Unfortunately, Alpha August forbade anyone to release Margot’s location and of course he was still MIA at this point. I was afraid mom was going to take off Thomas’s head and Lenny was trying to ease the tension between them too. I personally was hoping she would take his head off. “Where is August? Why in the hell can’t you answer any of my questions?” Mom scolded Thomas. “Athena . . “ “High Priestess” Mom corrected. “High Priestess, Alpha August is recovering and should be available shortly.” Thomas was getting tired of explaining himself. “We need to leave for the Coven as soon as possible and if he isn’t here in the next hour I’ll tear this pack limb from limb until I find my daughter.” My mother threatened. “Is that a threat? Are you threatening our pack because if you are you will be escorted to a holding cell until the Alpha return
MELIA POV I definitely stayed up way to late last night trying to fill Roxy in on everything going on at the pack so I was grateful when Mrs. Wilson insisted on everyone having a Bifrost tea at breakfast. The morning kind of passed by in a blurr with everyone talking and asking questions. Alpha August was really interested in creating a greenhouse where Mrs. Wilson could teach someone to grow the tea leaves needed to create her infamous Bifrost tea and Mrs. Wilson seemed interested. She was even talking about Jeanie being the one that she taught but they were interrupted when Lenny and the pack warriors had arrived at the front gate. Alpha August promised Mrs. Wilson they would continue their conversation before he made his way to the front gate. Mom and dad went to make sure there were enough cleaned cabins for the pack warriors to be comfortable while they stayed with us. Thankful that everyone's attention was on other priorities I shimmered to my room for a nap but it wasn’t long
ALPHA AUGUST POVWe searched for the ranch hand every day for two weeks. The community is devastated since he remains missing, but we didn’t know what else to do to find the boy. I thought about calling Alejandra’s tracking team but thought better of it. At least until I get back to the pack. They hadn't taken me up on the offer to come and visit the pack yet, and I don't want to push pack business into them if they're not interested. It did remind me of the weird picture they found that was taken of Melia. So I sent it to Thomas so he could get a jump start on figuring out where it came from but with Cici's murder and Melia's abductor still in the wind I'm not sure how he will find the time. Which is why I'm glad to finally be going home, for a few weeks anyways. Nikita's initiation day is almost here and while I have no choice but to be there I also think it will be a good learning experience for Melia. It's been five weeks since Melia got her wolf back, and things were finally gett
MELIA POVI can hear my mom's voice when I open the screen door and step onto the porch, so I took off down the steps to find her. I want to ask her if she needs me to help her or Maggie this morning before I find something to get into with Aunt Sarah. When I round the big barn, I couldn't help but overhear what Alpha August was saying to my mother. "I have never heard of a wolf shifter losing their wolf and if she would start learning the ways of the pack and the duties she will have to fulfill maybe she could relax enough for her wolf to regain the strength she needs to come back. But if she doesn't get her shit together, I'm going to have no choice but to give the position to one of her sisters. I know that Maisie has really been invested in the politics and laws since David has been letting her intern, but Margot is the one showing all the potential leadership abilities. With her condition, I wasn't sure how possible it would be for her to step up, but she is improving every day,
ALPHA AUGUST POV James had to let me out of the truck. I wanted to erupt like a fucking volcano. With my Alpha aura rolling off me in waves I don't know if James would even make it back to the ranch with me in his truck. I didn't even wait for him to come to a complete stop. As soon as my feet hit the dirt, I took off running towards the woods, and once I was at the tree line, Bishop pushed through and took over seamlessly. He immediately stuck his nose up in the air to search for Athena, and almost instantly, he caught her scent, which sent a calming sensation down our spine. I didn't think she would be out here yet, but what the hell did I know? Apparently fucking nothing at this point.He took off running towards her scent and it didn't take us long to find her and Izzy practicing in the middle of the woods. Athena was without effort changing from human to wolf and wolf to human repeatedly. "The more you do it the easier it becomes." I heard Izzy yell out to her. "If only I could
ALPHA AUGUST POV It has been two months since we rescued Melia, but nothing has been the same. Athena was finally able to turn back into human form, but with any stress or anger, she was still shifting without control. Instead of keeping her locked in the bunker, I packed her and the girls up and moved us all down to my parent’s ranch temporarily. Lenny and Elenior are here with us. Thomas is taking care of things at the pack until we get back. I knew this wasn’t a permanent fix, but it was the best I could think of at the time. Emse and Baine weren’t too happy about the arrangement, but they had no clue what to do with Athena and her wolf. There was plenty of forest on the 100,000 acres of property my family owned for my girls to run themselves tired. Lenny and I kept close by so we could steer them away from any of the little towns or other rancher’s property they might have gotten a little too close to while they let their wolf run.Maisie still didn’t show any signs of having a w
**Content Warning - sexual abuse, profanity.** MELIA POV I tried to open my eyes, but my eyelids wouldn’t budge; I couldn’t even groan out of annoyance. I wanted to roll over; my back was killing me. Even just wiggling my fingers or toes a bit would be sufficient for the moment. I couldn’t do anything but lie here in silence. I could feel that my shirt had ridden up a bit on my back. The exposed spot had almost gone numb from the freezing floor. So I had to assume that I was back in the basement. I just hoped that I wasn’t in the filthy, goddess-forsaken cage that kept me trapped when I first got here. *** A steel door slammed somewhere close by, making me jolt upright. I must’ve dozed off because I was now able to move my body and limbs. I finally opened my eyes, and I blinked a few times, trying to clear my vision. Looking around, I could see that I wasn’t in a cage. In fact, there wasn’t a cage anywhere in this room, but what I saw was far worse. Three of Alexander’s goons were
ALPHA AUGUST POVIt didn’t take Alejandra any time at all to start looking for my daughter. Why hadn’t I come to her sooner? If anything had happened to Melia, it would all be on me.I shook my head, trying to shake loose all the unhelpful thoughts and focus on the task at hand.“Do you have a clear picture of her face that we can use?” She asked, clicking her phone shut.I must have drifted because I didn’t hear any of her phone conversation.“Yes, of course. Here is the only picture I have of them. It was shortly after they had arrived at the pack house. The girls talked me into getting ice cream after Sunday dinner, just the three of us.She raised her eyebrows with a questioning look but said nothing as she scrolled through the few pictures I had of my girls.“Do you want to talk about it?”“There isn’t much to talk about. The wolf and witch counsel couldn’t know that a soon-to-be Alpha and a High Priestess procreated, so our parents covered it up. Their mother raised them for the
LEXINGTON POVWhat was taking him so long? He either caught them or he didnt. I had been pacing the floor just below the grand staircases ever since my father had realized Melia had escaped. I had been praying that she and her friend had enough time to escape.After what felt like an eternity Alexander burst through the double doors with his flesh chard and peeling off him like old scrapped off wallpaper, with Melia in tow. He had been dragging her by her hair so she was all bruised up and filthy.He threw her at my feet and I caught her head just before it was able to hit the marbled floor as he stormed past me. There was no sign of her friend so I couldn't help but assume the worst for her."Lock that little bitch up. I gave her the finest accommodations and the ungrateful cunt tried to burn me alive. She needs to learn her place. Make sure she is one of the next ones out to the farm upstate. Mark her blood and pussy off-limits but everything else is fair game. She will learn to re
POV ALPHA AUGUST I hadn’t spoken to Alejandra Osorio for over two decades. I had saved her and her child from being enslaved by Tiberius the Alpha of the Blood Moon pack when my dad was still the Alpha and I was an elite warrior. Tiberius was encroaching on our land during pack runs which was fine until he started having guards kidnapped and ransomed for our pack's land and resources. Instead of giving into his demands we invaded his territory, rescued our pack members, gave hundreds of enslaved members of his pack asylum and we even claimed a decent chunk of his land as a fee for all the lives we lost while in conflict with him. I still wish we would have overthrown his rule, taking all his resources and saving all his pack members but since I wasn't the Alpha it wasn't my decision to make. He hasn't made any moves against our pack since I have become Alpha so I haven't gotten my chance to kill the bastard for all the pain and suffering he had caused. Tiberius has been a terrible
ALPHA AUGUST POV It took me nearly twenty-four hours to find Athena. Esme was keeping her in an underground bunker that was made for prisoners on the coven’s land. Of course Esme knew everything that was going on but Baine on the other hand was in the dark which just didn’t sit right with me. “With all do respect Elder Esme you are not the high priestess of this land. That duty should fall to Maise since she is of age but most importantly the High Priest is still alive and well so out of respect he should be informed of the discussions and the potential dangers on his land.” “With all do respect Alpha August you have no clue what your talking about when it comes to our coven’s rules or policies so its best that you as a guest not interfer with things that are none of your business.” Esme spat back at me. “I’m not here to rub elbows and play nice Esme. Either you tell him or I will.” ‘Tell me what?” Baine came up behind us. I could hear him coming but I had to be sure and time