Theo’s POVThe coming days are quiet and filled with contented home life.Lilith trains with Theseus daily, and Khai stays around the pack house instead of sitting in the trees on the no man’s land between Damian’s pack and mine.I tend to do business and then get the best of both worlds, returning to spending time with Lilith and Khai.And then we have Tobias.He’s a sweet little boy.He is helpful and enthusiastic but also so talented that when he decides to play tricks on you, you can’t help but fall for them.Last night, at the dinner table, Arlo dared him to steal my sight and replace it with the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.Now I thought, for a young boy, that would be something to do with his family, but what he bestowed upon me was more magnificent than even his parents.My sight was stolen from the same dinner table in the kitchen to the top of a mountainside.The grass was green, and the wind swept past me.There was a river trickling down between two faces of the

Lilith's POVKhai has finally warmed to Tobias.They are standing out back playing ball with Theo, and I'm staring through the kitchen window in awe at the tram my boys have become to make Tobias feel at home here within our pack.The boy is... talented but also disturbed.I found him standing in the middle of the stairway, halfway up to our bedroom this morning.He just stood there, staring at our bedroom door with the most awful aura about him.There's something dark living within him, something he manages to hide, I presume, but nevertheless, it's there, and I felt a small slither of it as I stood on top of the stairs staring down at him.Funnily enough, once he blinked back into reality. When his eyes sought mine, and we greeted each other, his innocence came back, and it was as if he had changed before my very eyes.I had invited him down for breakfast, and without a thought, he followed along until we were in the kitchen.He asked what help I wanted, and we made breakfast togeth

Celeste's POVIt has been a long while since I have walked amongst the green grass of American soil.This was where I was born and bred. I lived my young life through to my twenties until I was summoned into the god realm to become the goddess I am today.I forgot how the pine smelled so real or the grass was soft beneath my feet until I found debris such as twigs and stones.The rain has just fallen, leaving the sweetest earthy smell behind, like some sort of mother natures fragrance that I hadn't smelt in so long.This is the real world, the natural world, unlike home.Home is fake, created by us gods and goddesses to have someplace to call home when in fact, we all miss the places we were born from.Mine is here, not far from the very place I am visiting today.Hati's pack still resides on the same land, much small in size but nevertheless ok the same ground.I pass the borders long before my people come to seek out the trespasser.I think, other than Lilith, this is the first human

Lilith's POVI feel the trespassing human cross over from Damian's land to our own the very second it happens. Theo's alpha abilities have slowly been sharing themselves with Khai and me, and they are becoming stronger by the day.It's a weird feeling. A sudden pit in the very bottom of my stomach and the most immense urge to protect those living in the surrounding land almost overwhelming me to the point I want to cry.The three of us mind-link one another, planning on halting the person out by the borders to protect the pack members.Khai agrees to run in Obsidian's form from the east and Theo runs here from the centre, and finally, Lucas comes from his house out on the western borders.Our bond is strengthening by the day, and our ability to run this pack together — the three of us in harmony is something to behold. I never saw myself ruling anyone, but the thought of standing beside Theo, making sure his pack members are well and safe, gives me some type of thrill I never expect

Thirteen Years Ago Damian's POV Onyx made me lock Lilith down in those horrid dungeons yet again. This time she had merely looked at Khai a little too closely, but if I'm honest, he read far too deeply into her actions as he usually does. Khai always helps Lilith and many of the other kids after such a long bout of punishment in the dark with no food, water or use of property bathrooms. He washes them, feeds them and nurses them back to full health, only for Onyx to deplete them at some point again. It is a routine I am far from fond of, yet one that is ingrained in my internal schedule. Anyway. We were eating dinner, and as usual, they were sitting next to one another to my right as some of the other kids sat around the table too. I asked Lilith if she was enjoying the food as I had made her her favourite spaghetti dish, a way to say sorry despite not being able to say the words, and unfortunately, she had turned to Khai for reassurance to speak to us. The poor girl never kno