Jean Winters stayed up all night long unable to get her body to shut down for the night as it waited in the anticipation of seeing her daughter alive and well. It had been a long night for the matriarch as things between herself and her son had become strained, their relationship turned to stone with his anger. When she had first learned that Alexa had been found by the pack her heart had jumped in her throat and she had to squash the irrational fear that flooded her. She was terrified that they would somehow see the power she possessed locked away and that they would take her child from her. She was what they were unknowingly waiting for and that alone put her eighteen-year-old daughter in so much trouble. She had to remind herself that the spell she had done to lock that part of her daughter away was powerful and that to any supernatural being she would have appeared nothing more than human. That fact alone was the worried mother’s only saving grace and she had felt waves of relie
The white powder crunched beneath his bare feet with each hurried step he took as Aiden rushed through his home, Black Pines Forest. After coming to an agreement with Griffon that he would return the girl back to her family and the town his heart had not stopped aching. His wolf rampaged in the back of his mind echoing the dissatisfaction he felt toward their mate. But as Griffon had painstakingly pointed out she was still human, she may have been his mate, and although he could sense the strength of will, that could rival any Alpha he knew she was in fact still vulnerable to the supernatural physical strength their kind possessed. Even though Aiden and his wolf would do anything to protect her even he with all his abilities and strengths could not protect her from everything. It was a hard pill to swallow for the werewolf but one he was so painstakingly aware of thanks to his much older friend. He tightened his hold on her and pulled her shivering body towards his own. She was so st
Charlene watched the retreating bare back of her son’s best friend with a heavy heart. She knew he must be in terrible pain, disobeying a direct order from an alpha could be fatal, but a beta would feel as if his insides were being torn apart and filled with lava. She knelt on the ground ignoring the gravel digging into the soft flesh of her knees. Her nude stockings provided no protection from the harsh tar road, but she was more concerned with the teenage girl in her arms. When her landline had rung early that morning, she’d had no clue as to what was waiting for her on the other end of the line. The frantic and panicked voice of her son had pulled her out of her musings quickly enough. Her heart had jumped, and she had been filled with worry until he had explained their situation back at the pack house. When his father had passed, she had left the pack house but had not the heart to leave the territory as it had been her home for centuries. Her son had only lived on this earth fo
Isaac and his mother had arrived at the sheriff’s station early that morning eager to get the day started. The boy was still furious with his mother for all the lies she had told. All their life he and his twin had gone on with no idea who or what they really were. He himself had kept things from his own twin and had quite possibly destroyed their relationship forever and now he learns his mother had been doing the same. It had been a lot of information to digest in one night, they still had not seen Jayden as she had locked herself in her room. Her parents had both passed but it had been her father’s request that she never know. He had been an ordinary human who fell in love with a witch and like any human he had been against her use of magic. George Montgomery had been a simple man in his life and had wanted a simple wife with a simple life. When he had learned the true nature of the woman, he had been planning to marry he had been repulsed. Magic had never been part of his plan a
Whilst mother and son made their way toward their town hospital back in the pack house Griffon paced back and forth anxiously as he waited for his friend to return. He could hear the beta Aaron Black screaming all the way across the pack house in his anger. He felt his wolf whimper in fear at the rage coming off the man in tidal waves. It was almost hard to breathe through the negative emotion at the forefront of his pack bond. When he arrived back at the pack it was already obvious that the boy’s father knew what he had done. Griffon had to sneak through a window to avoid the warpath the leader was carving into the mahogany floors. He had made it with enough time to fulfill his promise to Aiden and call his mother who immediately agreed to collect the girl. She had been so angry when he had explained the situation to her, and he knew he would receive an earful from her on his next visit. Charlene O’Connell was not a woman to be trifled with and it was a lesson his teenaged rebellio
Back at the pack house, Aiden paced anxiously around his room the agitation was crystal clear on his face and in his movements. Jessabelle sat on his bed watching him with a worried expression, she may have been only eleven years old, but she was smart enough to understand something was bothering her elder brother. His short black hair was sticking up in all different directions as his finger ran through them and gave them a tug for what seemed like the thousandth time that day. After his father had banned him from visiting his mate, he had laid on the ground lost in his pain for hours before Griffon had been able to pull him out of it. They had moved back into the male pack house, Jessabelle strutting in comfortably after them in a pretty pink dress, her blonde hair shining in that silvery color his mother had once had. Griffon had convinced him that he had not been banned from going to the girl himself, only from speaking about her to the pack. Which means they could not tell anyo
Emergency care was fast and rough and left little room for complaint. Of course, Alexa had been half-conscious during this process, siding more toward the delirious side of reality rather than sanity. The medical staff in the small little hospital were not well equipped for such a trying case, injured hikers sure, severe cases of frostbite definitely, but a half-deranged, violent eighteen-year-old dead set on maiming the staff and severely injured on the brink of death not exactly. They had made petitions to the family to move her to a bigger hospital in one of the nearest cities but one look from their resident doctor had them shutting down that idea very quickly. She looked so peaceful now lying amongst the stark white sheets completely still in her slumber. All signs of her outburst long gone as she had been sedated for not only her safety but the staff’s as well. If it weren’t for the slight rise and fall of her chest and that annoying beeping from the monitor, he would have th
Two umber-colored eyes leered at the mother and son duo as they paced back and forth from behind darkly tinted windows. The sleek pickup truck’s engine rumbled to a halt a little ways away from the one-story brick building the town called a sheriff’s station. Irritation was evident on the man’s pale face as he sneered at the two in front of him. Julian had been following the Winters family for two and a half weeks now and with each day his ire only grew. Could they really be so incompetent in their task to find a single teenage girl? All these fools living in this backwater town exhibited no sense of urgency or intelligence in their hurry to find the girl. Raymond had been getting underfoot as of late and had met the wrong end of both his brother’s wrath and his fist. Now the simpleton was recuperating from his failure to reinsert himself into that girl Jayden’s life. Because of this, he was even more useless than he normally would have been. Pale fingers drummed against the leathe