I dumbly nod my head at my mate. I have no doubt in the world that Charlie, even though she is nearly a foot shorter than me, could rip off my balls and feed them to me if she wanted to. This chick can get scary. If it weren’t for the current situation, I’d be kind of turned on.
As it is, I quickly pull my phone out of my pocket and dial Lily.
Charlie grabs the phone from my hand and puts it on speaker.
After two rings, Lily answers, obviously laughing at something one of her mates said. “Hey Brandon, what’s up?”
“It’s Charlie. Contractions are three and a half minutes apart and nearly one minute long.”
Lily’s voice is suddenly all business. “Have you lost the mucus plug?”
“Not that I could see.” Just then, Charlie’s eyes widen in surprise. I look down and see that her pants have suddenly darkened with fluid. “But my water just broke.”
“Get to the hospital. I’ll
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We are woken up from around 12:30 by a text message. All three of us were on the 11-7 patrol shift last night and we were exhausted. I roll over and slap at my phone.Of course, it promptly falls in the floor.“Fuuucccckkk!” I whine out.I roll so that I’m half hanging off the bed, my legs still tangled in the sheet and someone else’s legs. I put one hand on the floor and start searching for the phone. I groan again when I realize that it’s gone under the bed.As I reach for it, I lose my balance and fall to the floor.“What the fuck are you doing, Xan?” Arya asks, her voice muffled by the pillow that she has face planted into.“My phone,” I mumble, rubbing my head and reaching under the bed to grab it. When I open it, I see I have a text message from Karamea.“Oh, shit!” I say, suddenly alert.“What is it?” Dev calls, bo
“Mike, get four warriors and move everyone to the basement of the hospital. Keep them safe! Especially your new luna and beta,” Zak orders. “Yes, alpha,” Mike says. “Charlie, do you think that you can keep this forcefield up?” I ask her. I’m looking for signs of fatigue, sweat beading on her face, weariness in her posture. None of it is there. It’s almost as if her fury at the attack is fueling her power. “Yes!” she answers fiercely. “I just don’t know what will happen if you move me.” Suddenly, Meredith walks into the room. “It’ll be fine. Selene has told me that anyone who gets their gifts during this attack is going automatically get full control over them. They’ll still need to practice to learn everything they can do with it, but it won’t strain them like it did us when we first started. She’ll be able to keep the forcefield up as long as you need her to. She’ll just need food to k
I’m in the council area with Meredith, Gael, Hakeem, Diego, Bhakti, Karamea, and Sandra. We’re hearing from our scouts about their latest raid on Julian’s pack through a teleconference.“You know we took out the McKinney and Conroe stations over the last two weeks. Nothing seemed weird until we completed our attack on the Amarillo station. There is no one here.” The general, Harley, says.“What do you mean?” I ask.“Just what he says, Liam. The station is completely empty,” Harley’s lieutenant general, Joanie, replies.“It looks like they had cleared out in a hurry, too.” Harley’s voice is as perplexed as all of the faces around me are.“Did you catch their scent? See any sign of where they could have gone?” Hakeem asks.“They definitely headed south, our thought is to the main packhouse, based on what the
I hear his howl. The howl I’d heard at the beginning of so many battles. The howl I’d heard prior to hunts, for game and for punishments. The howl I’d heard when he first realized that I was his mate. The howl that I hear in my nightmares and I’m sure that Nathan hears as well. Julian. He’s here. At first, my fear threatens to overtake me. I let it wash over me, breathing through it. One of the things that we found out about Gael’s gift is that the more it is used, the more lasting the effects are. Since the first time that he used it on me at the Alpha Council meeting, Sandra set me up with a therapist and one for Nathan. Between twice weekly visits to the therapist and two to three visits per week with Gael, both of us are better able to control our fear. As the fear passes, a fierce sense of protectiveness for Nathan and my new pack and friends crashes over me. And anger. So much anger.
Julian makes his way through the battle to us, slicing at any wolf that comes close to him. I feel the twinges of pain as pack members die, their link severing to our pack. The pain will be stronger later, when my adrenaline has died down. It’s purposefully like this during a battle so that I know that pack members are in trouble, but it doesn’t distract me from what I am facing myself. My mates will both feel the same twinges, as our pack is tied to them just as much as it’s tied to me. Hopefully, Charlie’s adrenaline is up as high as mine since she just finished childbirth and she is keeping the forcefield up. Otherwise, she’ll feel it more.I can tell by the slight intakes of breath and flinches that the other alphas and their mates are feeling the same twinges I am.But Julian seems to be basking in it. I know that he has to feel some of his pack dying. I’ve seen them die. But
I’m using all of my Goddess gift to frighten the enemy wolves on my side away from Julian and Zak. At the same time, I’m reinforcing our allies’ courage and determination to protect our packs and keep us safe. Many of the wolves are using the forcefield to kind of bounce the enemy off of. The harder they bounce, the harder and farther they fall. Many wolves are being telekinetically thrown or are stumbling over unseen obstacles. Some enemies suddenly find their bones snapping when they cross a certain boundary, while others forget why they are there and stop moving in the middle of the battlefield. I hear Julian taunting Zak and I can feel my friend’s anger rise. Unfortunately, there’s not much I can do to help him since I’m controlling moving targets on my side. I’ve got to keep my focus out here. Zak’s got to take care of himself. Suddenly, I hear Julian’s threat. “Gladly. And after I kill you and your mal
We leave Julian to Zak, Brandon, Hakeem, and Gael. I have no doubt that they can handle him and that we will be minus one douchebag by the end of this battle.We make our way through the battle, still fighting back-to-back as we go. Though many of our wolves fight in a more close-knit triangle form than the back-to-back group that we used to fight in, we continue the back-to-back formation. As wolves have gotten their powers, it’s easier to fight with room between them. But Xander, Arya, and I don’t really have the most offensive powers. Granted, our powers are pretty awesome. I mean being able to calm others, heal anyone, and plan out battles is fucking amazing. But they don’t necessarily help when a large, burly wolf is barreling its way to you, attempting to slash your guts out.Similarly, Liam doesn’t know his augmented gift and Diego still hasn’t figured out what his regular Goddess gift is.
While Xander, Devin, and Liam are figuring out what to do, I run over to the injured wolf. I should have realized something was wrong the second that I got to his side. There was no one else around. I couldn’t figure out which wolf attacked him and there’s no way that a wolf would have left him alive. They would have finished him before moving on. It’s almost like he was dropped out of thin air. I also should have seen how close the wolf was to a large storage shed at the edge of the woods. I should have realized it was a trap. But I was too focused on the wolf that needed healing. I should have known that Mathias would use an injured wolf as bait to try and reel me in. But I didn’t. I rush to the wolf, hearing him gargling on his own blood. His eyes are wide, filled with the knowledge that he is going to suffocate on his own blood. “Hold on, I’m gonna help you.” I say as I kneel beside him. I