All Chapters of Resisting the Beta: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Sparring was a fantastic idea. In principle. However, it was against two opponents. Naomi and my desperate, overarching need to just pull her to the floor and spread her legs. Obviously, I had not encountered this issue when wrestling the chunky Easton before now. Yanking Beta Tucker’s black braids did not hold the same deviant appeal as wrapping strands of cherry red hair through my fingers and guiding her lips to mine. I swear that red hair has done something unnatural to me. Why has Naomi spent so many years fitting in when she could have been tearing the fucking world up looking like this? Neverthless her punch to my throat showed she meant business. I get it completely. There is nothing like running yourself into the ground. Shredding every last bit of thinking to pieces, until you’re a blank slate again. A panting, tattered heap with every muscle burning. If that’s what my girl needs I’ll give it to her. I follow her outside into the small, grassy yard at the back

I’m less than twenty four hours from seeing her again. I’ll be back by tonight, the Ceremony tomorrow. Fuck I hope her hair is still red. Not that I lasted seven weeks without her. Not even close. She laughed through her hands at the to see me back at my doorstep the same day I left her. Threatening to wake up Rami she pulled me inside and laughed into my chest. “Something funny Kharkov?” Until I lifted her up on the counter, standing between her legs, my mates’ irises lit up like sunflowers meeting the sky. Trying to sound gruff I added, “Don’t make me shut you up,” before yanking her hands away and pressing my lips to hers, fully aware of her blade snaking its way dangerously down my back until I lost another perfectly good leather belt. “You really don’t listen to plans, do you?” she giggled, her arms wrapped tightly around my neck, her legs already clamped around my waist. “You just do your own thing. Seven weeks we said!” “Maybe I just wanted to say goodbye properly

So desperate to get on the road to Cragstone I hadn’t been able to wait in Rising Star much longer. Not with the truth about Gustav, the treacherous human side and Leona burning away in my mind. It needs shouting from the fucking rooftops. Humans are the danger. We’re searching inside when the enemy is over the fence. Dancing over the border with their landmines and wolfsbane. Thinking of the war, the massacres, the men sacrificed to Alpha Phillipe’s insane plans I am more than happy to be hurled by catapult into their territory. Then shift and start tearing people up. It’s what I’m made for after all.But my men were missing. Nothing can move until the truth is spoken.I walked the castle ramparts, muttering “Come on, come on, come on,” until my patience wore out. Finally, with sunset approaching, Hayden and I set off looking for them. I tried to convince myself we would just run into them on the way and they’d laugh at my eagerness. But the route they were meant to travel back on

Together with the still-healing Sawyer, we start knocking on the doors of the people assigned to set up the stages for tomorrow's Ceremony. By sunrise, the whole pack will know. Alpha Nikolai and Luna Genevieve of White Forest plus Luna Freya and Alpha Zeke of Rising Star will be here, too. Sketching out ideas for an attack. Dawdling, talking, wondering. It’s not quick enough. The humans torched a fucking Rising Star village. Invaded our fucking packhouse. They're mocking us. “I didn’t see anything! I just fetched the wood from the storage shed for the stage. Same as every month!” quivered a young trainee Beta. “Why are you asking this?” “We can’t say,” Sawyer answered firmly, looking a complete villain with that scabbed cuts to his face and bloodied shirt shirt. “But did you see anybody walking around? Anything unusual?” "Nothing. We brought out the wood, left it for the construction guys, and came home. We were done hours ago.” With that, we left. “Fuck’s sake. This i

Lyon looked at me like I was insane. “Now? Right now we need to go to the stores?” “I want to get out of Cragstone before sunrise.” Lyon raised his eyebrow, his face showing off a dozen different wrinkles. In fairness, I do sound like a lunatic asking to raid his weapons store. “Come on then lad,” as together we set off running. The main weapons and explosives store is outside the town centre for obvious reasons. As a younger man, he had once sported dark, shaggy locks like Zeke. Now they had silvered, only his olive skin and dark eyes remaining from his wilder days under Cillians' father. His lumber mill and land held dozens of pack-supporting buildings, including the weapons store. “How much are you wanting to blow up, and how?” “The human borders landmines. I want them to disturb the earth enough that all a load of landmines go off. Even if it just clears a slim path wide enough for me to cross.” "Bloody hell." Lyon opens up two huge metal barn doors and wanders inside