All Chapters of The Assassin's Mate: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

“I brought you lunch!” Maggie smiled as she waltzed into my office, Tupperware in hand. “I figured you’d be too busy to eat with processing all the refugees in the territory.”            I motioned for her to take the seat across from me and join me. She had let me wallow in my grief for another week after I returned home before insisting I return to my duties as Alpha. Zane had been insanely grateful to her for getting me back to work. There was a long list of rogues fleeing Cerathe seeking membership in my pack and he couldn’t induct them. That was something only the Alpha could do. With the monthly haze rapidly approaching, it became more important then ever to get them settled in as members. The haze not only made wolves seek out sexual conquests, but

LucasI considered the older wolf sitting across from me. I had been so rushed during the intake of the rogue refugees before the haze that he hadn’t caught my attention. His meeting request had gone unfulfilled for over two weeks after the mass induction. I had been overloaded with settling the new members into the pack in the aftermath of the haze, as well as recovering from the battering I had taken when Hades tried to break free from the cells.            “I need to speak with Selene, urgently.” He said, an aura of power flowing through his words. “When she didn’t return my calls, I assumed she must be here, with you. You are her mate after all.”  &

Selene             It hurt to breathe. Every part of me was filled with a blinding pain. Raina was quiet, I wasn’t sure if I had lost her or if she was focused on healing us. I heard light movements beside me just before there was a light stinging sensation in my arm. I felt my body relax as pain medication began to ease my pain. I forced my eyes open against the drug induced heaviness of my eyelids.            “Good, you’re awake!” Rory cheered.            I le

Selene             Rory and I spent the morning bickering. She was convinced she had been visited by the moon goddess.  I was convinced her subconscious had pieced all the information we had together, and she had imaged the visit. The goddess was a legend our kind sold ourselves to explain away what science couldn’t understand. If she were real, she never would have given me a mate to begin with.            Around lunch time, Stephanie came upstairs from her clinic with a prepaid phone in hand. She had agreed to grab one for Rory so we could contact my father. The only thing we had

Selene            The words had barely left Landon’s lips when we heard Stephanie’s voice floating toward the doorway.            “Miss! You can’t go up there. That is my personal residence!” She called out as footsteps began to sound on the steps. “It’s off limits to patients!”   &nb