Helen POVWhen I managed to wake up, the stirring voices around me had stalled. I watched the unfamiliar faces in the small, wood home stay perfectly still, looking down at me. my hands ran across my body, noticing the patches of natural bandages they placed there.I peeled a sticky, ointment sticky Lilypad off my hip, exposing the dainty scar underneath.“Where am I at?” I panted, panicked. “What pack is this? Lone Wolf?”The younger wolf nearest to me shook his head, the female I saved in the woods behind his shoulder. “You’re with Small Oak,” he sighed. “We’re a small, riverfront pack. I’m Ezequiel and my half-sister, Martha, she brough you here.”“Oh,” I groaned, sitting up to see them watching me closely. “I’ve never heard of this pack.”Ezequiel grinned softly. “We’re not really a big pack, and we live pretty simple lives out here. Our Alpha died a few months back so we’ve been waiting for the moon goddess to send us someone to lead our pack. Then you showed up.”My brows furrow
Helen POVJustin, Randy and I are the last to move into the village.Randy picked a small little cottage that hangs over the river, while the rest of our new pack saved the largest cottage for my mate and me. It was the last Alpha and Luna’s home, and it’s a beautiful space. Three stories tall with countless rooms and a barrack in the basement.It was fit for an Alpha, that’s for sure.Justin folded his clothes away in our new bedroom, meanwhile I had decided to lay down for a nap, or at least to watch him unpack, to catch a breath. We had been hiding for awhile and it wasn’t easy, but this finally felt like it was all worth it.I stretched on the bed and yawned, Justin giggling at my sleepiness.“You can’t go to sleep yet, Helen. We have the first pack dinner tonight,” Justin reminded me. “I’ll be announcing out pack name to everyone who moved in.”I pondered what he had chosen but liked the idea of being surprised with everyone else. “I know, Justin. I’m just tired. It’s been such a
Helen POVScott was wildly outnumbered, but that didn’t stop him. He shifted through the clearing and sprinted toward the pack. Some of them met Scott in wolfen form while others hung back, Marth moving to my side as she watched on in horror.I stayed behind my mate’s back. Justin wouldn’t let Scott near me again. I wanted to fight him but after the curse he stabbed into my spine, I was too afraid of going through anything like that again.The wolves of True Mates had stopped him before he made it into town square, biting and nipping at his extended throat. Justin ordered for them to take Scott to the barracks under our new home.While they did that, Justin cleared his throat and tried to salvage the night.“We will not be intimidated by false Alphas,” Justin roared.Martha left to take her seat and I took mine, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder to my Lycan mate. I leaned into his side and tried to focus on the festivity of this evening but Scott nagged through my mind.Without a mating ma
Justin POV“Reject her first. Then I’ll save Helen.”I stood firm against that. “No. I can’t reject my mate. No matter what, she is mine, Scott. I would never let her live a life, no matter an antidote, with you as her Alpha.”She purred against my leg, nodding her head in steady agreement. She wasn’t made to be a pawn in this war, but here she was, swallowing poison and spitting out Scott’s offer to be her mate all the same.She was strong, but it wasn’t going to last under these circumstances. Her sickness will only worsen.“Come here, Helen,” I groaned, lifting her off the floor and into my arms. She hung there, lazy and sweaty and tired. So understandably tired. “Tell me something, Scott. How did you and my father poison my mate?”He smiled proudly. “The fish. We knew you’d take opportunity of the river water. She would eat from it eventually, as would the traitors that left Fiery Cross. Their death is retaliation but hers, it can be prevented. You just have to reject her, Devil.”
Helen POVI watched them set up the camera on the town square. Randy had taken it from one of the mortal cities, a camera that Juden was aiming at Justin, wanting him to level the human’s city and destroy it entirely.I didn’t ask how they got it, or why, but Justin stood below my window, barking the orders for it to be focused perfectly on the middle of town.The other poisoned wolves had been given the antidote days ago and went back to their lives by yesterday, but Justin refused to let me out of bed until he was sure I was out of trouble.I slept for awhile and laid in bed, staring at the ceiling, but I couldn’t help myself from thinking about Scott. He was in the dungeon, after all. It was just downstairs, under the living room floor, and it gnawed at my mind and at Joy.She hated him as much as I had, but it was weird knowing he finally lost.He was our prisoner indefinitely.I ventured downstairs and to the front porch. Justin’s face gave me a look of warning and I gave in, sit
Helen POVI felt lethargic the night following Scott’s execution. My head hurt, my stomach turned, but it wasn’t in grief. It felt more like relaxation. Everything had come to a head and finally, it seemed like things were shifting into our favor.Justin was trying hard to get me moving, kissing my lips until I woke up and kissed him back. He grinned, pulling the blankets backwards to pull me out of bed once and for all.I groaned, but obliged, leaning into an embrace against his chest.“Are you okay?” He asked.I shrugged slightly. “I’m okay, Justin. Just a little bit in shock.”“He had it coming, Helen. You know that.”And I did know that. I swallowed my shock and moved on with the night. Justin gently swayed to the silence between us, rocking us back and forth in a smooth dance.“Let’s go out tonight, mate,” he hummed into my neck. “I want to get away from all of this trouble. We should relax and unwind.”“What if Juden comes after us?”He kissed the side of my neck. “We can’t live
Helen POV“Not done yet, little wolf,” Justin snapped.He pulled my hips over his lap, forcing me to sit on the entire length of his prodding erection. I almost fell back in pleasure, my drenching wet folds wrapped perfectly around his arousal.He held me by my ass, pushing me and rocking me against him, pulling for every ounce of pleasure I had left inside my core. It hurt so good that I came in the first five minutes.Sucking him off got me halfway there, anyways.I loved being owned by my mate and pleasing him was enough to spark an orgasm. Justin didn’t move me though, he didn’t want this to end.I lapped my hips over his pelvis with the beat of the bass in the music. It was magical and wet and so much. Too much, in fact, that I let out a scream in relief as he fished another orgasm out of me.“Justin,” I panted, bouncing on his shaft with no end in sight.We were in a club, surrounded by humans just on the other side of the velvet curtain, but he wasn’t going to stop on that acco
Helen POVI finally had enough of watching Justin talk with Randy on the front porch. I had been pacing and trying to listen into their conversation but it had far exceeded a few hours.Storming out of the house, I pushed my away against Justin as he stood up.“If you’re going to reject me, then do it!”Justin’s brow creased in response. “Never mention rejection, Helen, I told you that before.”Through grit teeth, I pushed my chest against his so he could feel my fiery anger. “Well I have to say something, Justin! You won’t talk to me but you’ll be out here talking to your Beta all night!”He flickered a look to Randy who hadn’t moved since I came out here. To give us some space, Randy lingered to the town square but he made no efforts to head home.My mate took my chin in his hand, leveling my eyes while I trembled under his. “Why are you yelling at me? What have I done tonight to illicit this tone?”I swallowed, gaffed by his ignorance. “The whole thing at the night club, Justin! Yo