Hakeem and I set alarms on our phone to wake us up. Multiple alarms. On both our phones. Because Hakeem needed them. Tesoro was exhausted from waking up early, our morning romp with mi reina, and the long ride here.
I finally got him up by literally tickling him until he fell out of the bed. And then, we ended up making out, only to be interrupted by Patrice knocking on the door, telling us to get up and grab some food.
I trail kisses from his mouth to his matemark, biting down lightly. Hakeem growls softly, holding my head to his mark. I suck on his mark, my hands playing down the sides of his bare chest before grabbing onto his waist a
Keegan left his beta, Donavan, in charge while he and Patrice...got acquainted. Donavan and a few of the other wolves sat down with Alessandra, Liam, Jordan, Gael, and me to look over a map of Mathias’s territory from their vehicles. Now Mathias wasn’t stupid enough to give us a map that had all of his safe houses and stuff on it, but the fact that we had a more accurate view of his territory, including hunting trails, small ponds, and shading for the dense parts of the forest was much more helpful than the general view we got from a typical human map. Donavan pointed out where things were situated, including where all of the she-wolves and pups from every pack were. The fucking homophobic prick was keeping all of them close to where he was so that the other packs would have “motivation” to keep him safe. Low growls rumbled through all
Earlier that morning:I wake to Karamea’s scent in my nose, the feeling of sparks from her head on my chest, and the sound of my phone alarm going off.She reaches over and turns the alarm off, sitting up and stretching. Turning to me, a smile stretches across her lips. “Good morning, handsome.”“Only good thing about it is you,” I groan, trying to pull her back down to the bed and into my arms.She laughs at me and pulls out of my reach, hopping off of the bed and flicking on the lights.&nbs
Diego rolls off of me, pulling me into his chest. I rise up to kiss him before going to the bathroom quickly. When I return, he puts his arm out and I snuggle into him, putting my head on his chest. He wraps his arm around me and kisses my hair. Running my hands over his abs, I ask, “How long have you wanted pups?” He sighs and I feel the rumble of it in his chest. “I hadn’t really thought of it until we got the news about Arya. That got me thinking about you and Lily and what it would be like to have both of you pregnant at the same time.” “You really think that you could handle two pregnant she-wolves? Based on how Carmen ran Declan ragged and how Brandon and Zak are treating Charlie like a queen, I think both of us pregnant would be the death of you.” I laugh against h
We are all in position, listening to the Lycaon Pack climb out of their vehicles. They are cussing and growling at each other until we hear a wolf I assume is Ivan scream at them all to “quit your bitching and get to work unpacking.”I watch from the window to ensure that they don’t see any of our wolves before I nod to Sam. He links the wolves that are providing the distraction. Howls break through the air and I see the enemy freeze, their attention shifting to that direction.Ivan whistles and flicks two fingers towards the woods. About 10 wolves head towards the howling. Not exactly what we wanted to happen, but not out of the realm of expectation. I hear Sam link the wolves and know that Campbell is doing the same. Our wolves in that direction are some of our quickest and strongest warriors.
Sam and I had been watching the wolves that had been fighting on the side of the woods. Several of our wolves appeared to be injured, but the majority of them were fine. The enemy wolves that had gone to help were standing at the edge of the woods, watching our wolves surround them. They don’t seem worried though. More like they’re excited for the fight. We turn when we hear the whoosh of a flame catching and turn to see Becca’s body engulfed in flames. Her screams sear themselves into my brain and the backs of my eyes. The heat of the flames rolling off of her is enough to make us step back, even though we’re a good 10 feet from her. Her body writhes on the ground as she attempts to roll back and forth on the ground to smother the fire. But it doesn’t work. It’s too
“STOP!” Karamea screams, her luna tone rolling through the air. Instantly, everyone stops moving. It’s only then that I register the increased power that I feel, not just for her through our bond, but also the increase in my own power. What the hell happened? I look at her and see that she’s covered in blood. “KARE!” I run to her to see where she’s hurt. “I’m fine, Diego. It’s not my blood.” I follow her eyes and only then do I see Ivan’s body. I look back at her. I had seen Ivan kill Jordy. If she killed Ivan, then we are…fuck, we’re now the alpha and luna of three packs. All three of the packs that are here. I look at h
Today I am being discharged from the hospital. Mathias had beaten the absolute shit out of me when I got back, not even listening to what I had to say. I am honestly lucky to be alive. Mathias has come to visit me a few times since. He has never apologized, just asked me to tell him what happened. I fed him the bullshit story Arya and I came up with. He was like a police interrogator, asking me to tell him the story over and over again, looking for inconsistencies. I’m not sure why he was doing it and not Gamma Blake. I never found out the answer to that. Whatever I said seemed to at least appease Mathias and he let me come back to my previous position as a general. We had a meeting later today to discuss the new camps that had been set up at the Shadow, M**i, and New Moon pack territories. I needed to get to my rooms and shower and change before that time. I smelled like the hospital and dirty dog. 
The ride back to Diana Pack is long and monotonous. It’s a blessing to be back and away from other people. They are all well meaning and worried about me, but I need to be alone. That includes being away from Devin and Xander. I love them both. More than anything in this world. But looking at them just reminds me of my failure. My failure to give them a pup. It’s like a gift from the Goddess that Zak needed them to come help with the planning of the rescue. Finally, I could be alone and binge on ice cream and chocolate syrup while bawling my eyes out. That is, until Lauren decided that she needed to stay with me. I love my mother-in-law. I swear, I really, really do. But, I have a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Half-Baked calling my name and it wants to spend some alone time with me. That is, until she showed up with four pints of Ben and Jerry’s and two bottles of my favorite Riesling. 
This is the end of War of Threes, but the third book, Trinity of Power, is coming!!Important/Interesting Info:1. I will be taking a couple week break to get ahead of the book. It will post on the website on 1/31/22. It usually takes it about a week for it to show up on the app, because they have to sign the book and do all the paperwork and blah blah blah.2. I will keep my update schedule of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with the potential of special updates over the weekends.3. Main characters of the story will be: Severn, Corinda, Zak, Brandon, and Charlie4. If you're interested in hearing what I listen to when I write (other than the three gremlins that live in my house), here is my Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Ff2Q8AQ5zlYP3MYFZVQzW?si=296adecc5dbd432b5. If you're interested in insights into the characters or the story or just wanna talk, you can find me on Instagram at "owlonmyw
“When did you see him, Lauren? When exactly did he leave? Where did he go?” I’m screaming, unable to keep my panic at bay.“He was here about 45 minutes ago. He left at almost exactly 4:40,” Lauren is sobbing, trying to remember all of the details.“He said that he was going through the forest path,” Carl says, putting on his shoes to come help us look.“He must have been getting flowers for Charlie. That means that he was going by the pond,” I murmur.We pour out of the house, running to the back of the house, Dev, Arya, Charlie, and me. Everyone else is already out searching for Brandon. Where the hell is he?We run to the pond and it’s like a mini natural disaster happened. A tree is moved, like it literally took a step out of the ground. The dirt is overturned and the tree’s roots are pulled from the ground. The branches
One Month Later…This month has been fucking insane, not just because my mates and I have barely had any sleep because of the pups. I mean, we are blessed that there are three of us, but there are two pups. Two. We feel like freaking zombies.Did you know that newborn pups eat every two hours? Not two hours between feedings. Two hours from when they start. I shit you not. Charlie feeds them both at the same time, but between getting them up, changed, fed, and back to sleep, it’s at least a half hour process. So every hour and a half, we’re up. I love Jerry and Christy, I really, really do. But, fuck kids, sleep!Our parents saw how insane we were and they also knew how important this time was for all of the packs as we were trying to sort out leadership while attempting to find CCS, who had gone strangely quiet
I’m in shock at that last little tidbit that the Mother throws at us. I just stand there, gaping at her.Devin pulls me into his arms, literally jumping up and down while holding me and whooping with wordless excitement.Mother Selene smiles even wider, laughing her tinkling laugh as the full weight of her words hit me.No, it won’t be the same. There will still be grief when we wake up tomorrow morning and he isn’t there. When our pups are born without him standing next to me. When we have to discipline the pups, or have a fight with each other, or take down CCS. When our pups say their first words, or have their first day at school, or find their own mates.No, it won’t be the same. But at least we will see him. We can hold him. We can hear his voice and see his smile again, not just in our memories.It’s better than the nothingness that I thought we would have, the bla
I think I’m still sitting on the ground with Arya cradling me, but honestly, you could have told me that I had just been launched into outer space for a mission to Mars and I would have believed you. All I can see were the black depths of Selene’s eyes. I can’t hear anything but the roaring in my ears. I can’t feel anything but an intense chill. Demi-gods. Fucking demi-gods? Arya is the first of the two of us to find her voice. “You’ve got to me shitting me!” she whisper-shouts at the Mother. “Demi-gods? What the hell do you mean?” “You both have had so much pain in your lives.” Arya gives a dry snicker at that, but Selene continues, looking to me first. “Devin, you’ve dealt with feeling that you had to hide who you were, hiding your love for your first mate, all to appease some antiquated thought of what leadership should be. Arya…” The Mother gives a large, deep sigh. She cups her mouth and n
“You told me I would be safe here! That Mathias would have no control over my life if I joined the Artemis Pack!” I scream at the Goddess, spit flying and my face heating with my rage. I jump off of the pyre and take large strides toward Selene. “Does this look fucking safe to you?” I fling my hands back toward our mate’s lifeless body on the pyre.“Arya, I – “ Mother Selene starts, but I’m not done.By now, I have crossed the distance between us and am face to face with the Goddess inhabiting Declan’s body. “First, you take away my family and force me into that den of assholes, homophobes, and rapists. Then you put me in a situation where I had to reject my mates and allow my ‘packmates’ to beat the fuck out of me. But then you tell me that I’m safe and that Mathias won’t hurt me again.”I step into the Goddess’s inhabi
I stand behind Arya, Devin, and Xander’s mom’s chairs. Zak is to my left, directly behind Devin, and Charlie is seated directly behind Arya. They are holding Jared and Christine, bundled up against the night chill. All of our friends and family are gathered around us: Lauren, Clara, Meredith, and the other she-wolves around Arya and Xander’s mom, and Richard, Carl, and the other alphas around Devin. The pyres are set up in front of us. Arya and Devin have barely spoken since we found them. We still don’t know exactly what happened, only that Arya is Luna and Xander is gone. They sit, dried eyed, just staring at the wooden bed where their mate lays. The family members of the deceased are all dressed in white in their mourning, but Devin and Arya are both dressed in a deep forest green. One of the few things that Arya said was that her family dressed in the favorite color of the one who passed on. It was a way to honor th
Brandon and Hakeem stay with Devin, Arya, and Xander’s body while Gael and I slowly make our way to where the battle just stopped. There are a few skirmishes here and there, but nothing that our wolves can’t handle. Some wolves from the Blue Crescent Pack don’t like that they have a new alpha or that she’s a female or that she is…was mated to two males. Fuck ‘em. I don’t care what they like. Now that they’ve stopped fighting our people, they can go rogue or we can imprison them or we can kill them. It honestly doesn’t matter to me. This ache in my soul won’t go away. I’m missing my friend, my brother. Zak? Brandon? What happened? Charlie asks through the mindlink. We had kept our connection open throughout the battle, so Charlie knew everything that had we had shown her. But the severing of Xander’s bond with us had cost us a lot of energy and having the link open constantly was too draining.&
After linking Xander and Devin, we shift and run into the forest to aid our allies. We leave Naomi behind, taking control of her pack. She has mindlinked them all, ordering them to stop fighting. Most of them have stopped, but because she hasn’t officially taken control of the pack and had them swear fealty to her, they don’t have to listen. And not all of them do. There are some who thrived under Julian’s rule and are pissed. They are only a small group, but they are made up of some of the fiercest warriors that Julian had. And they have gone into the forest to help support Mathias. The good thing is that Jeb’s warriors had been absorbed into Julian’s, so by killing him, we took control of two-thirds of the warriors. And they were also pissed. They never wanted to be a part of this, let alone have their pack taken over by the “Bloody Rogue Prince,” their pet name for Julian. They had been pissed that Jeb ha