All Chapters of The Alpha and the Rental Luna: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

[Apple]My handsome mate, the mightiest alpha in the west, is kneeling before me with his heart in his hands.“...You are already my Luna. Would you honor me by becoming my wife?”I can taste my pulse on the back of my tongue. So much has happened so fast. But when he looks up at me with those eyes the color of the sea, I know I’m lost.Bending down, I answer him with kisses, sparks igniting between us as my energy flows into him from where our lips touch. “Yes Sylvester Sterling,” I smile against his mouth. “I’ll marry you.”Whooping in joy, Sly rises to his feet and swings me around.Laughing, for a moment everything else falls away. The stresses waiting for us beyond this room are nothing compared to the strength of his love flowing between us along the bond, my own witch energy moving through us as well, so powerfully that Sly’s skin seems to glow.Sly is glowing. How?“Sylvester,” I pull away, “Stop. Put me down. You’re…”The door to the shop slams with so much force that I can he

[Apple]Killed for loving a witch.Feeling dizzy, I sit back against the headboard, grasping the sheets in my hand for support as I wait for the world to stop spinning. I want to hold Sly, I want to comfort him, but I can’t when my own heart and mind are spinning.What have I done? Has loving me condemned my mate?“I had been living with Lysander Moon for two years. His mate, I always just assumed she was a wolf. I was a child, I didn’t think about those things yet or asked questions about things like that. I had mostly grown up as a rogue and hadn’t spent much time around witches or even many wolves other than my mother. Looking back, I realize there were small signs, but they were very careful.”Sly’s breathing is shallow and rapid as he relives the past. Reaching forward, I place my hand on his clammy cheek. He calms instantly, falling into my touch. Turning his face until his nose rests on my wrist, he inhales deeply. A shiver of gratitude trickles through our bond as he pulls me i

[Apple]The faint echo of her words shakes the branches of my mind as my feet, rooted in place, level me frozen, unmoving, and staring at the witch before me unblinkingly as my heart and lungs fight to settle.With just a handful of words, everything I knew to be true about me changed.“Two months,” I repeat, placing a hand over my belly. Concentrating on my core energy, I send a tendril of my warmth and light into my abdomen, hoping to find nothing.A faint spark flickers beneath my palm. She's been with me this entire time, from the first time Sly and I mated, back when my life was in danger and he claimed me as his because a life tied to him was better than death.And he didn't want me to die.Her flicker life hums with another energy and I know at once it is her wolf. She must be a hybrid--a creature too dangerous to live.The apothecary shakes her head sadly as my feelings telegraph across my face. “You poor child, you had no idea. May I assume the father is…willing to help you ca

[Apple}"What's my surprise," I try to keep my voice light, even though the joy from the square is quickly dissipating from my system as the weight of what had happened just before sinks into my bones.The hybrids in the witch war, the hate of the people watching Sly speak, the words of the witch in the shop, "I don't do abortions. You're too far along..."Two months, this sweet little life has been trying to show me she's here for two months and I missed it. And now this little life needs me to keep her safe, to keep both her and her father safe.I need to leave to save my family.Pulling over, Sly takes my hand and places it on his chest. "What is it, Apple?""Weren't heading towards your surprise," I change the subject away from my feelings, not sure how to say what I need to say.His lips turn downward as a small crease of worry forms between his eyes."The museum. Did you know that your father-in-law paid to have it built?"He nods, not surprised. "He had a lot of influence and a

[Alexis]The news was broadcast across the city as soon as the conclave of elders was done casting their votes.“It is time that we as wolves took a step towards a brighter future,” Alpha Emeritus Alphonso Greybeard announced, his long hair framing his dignified face for all of wolfkind to view on their screens. “Which is why with a majority vote the council of Elder Alphas have chosen Sylvester Sterling of Silver Crescent Pack to lead us as the next Alpha King.”A cheer could be heard reverberating across the city. It wouldn't have mattered who had won--there would have been cheering just to see a selection had been made. And yet, if you were to pick any wolf out of those in the running based on intelligence, ambition, and charm, Sly was an easy choice."He was born to it," Alanna agrees in my mind, her chest puffing with pride. "He was born to be king." "He was born a rogue," I shoot back silently. "My father made him a prince." "And you were his princess," she reminds me, sullenly