“You need to sort this, Orrin!” I roll my eyes at Mythius. Fucking vampire prick is driving me nuts! I know that I need to sort things, but I’m at a loss for what to do here. “Your mate is out of control, and the Firsts have been talking. They want Anja neutralised before the week is out.” I know what that means; they want Anja put down. It won’t happen, but I don’t know how much longer I can hold them off. After what happened in the woods the other day, things have been slowly getting worse. Anja has killed more people than even I can count. Goddess knows I understand where Mythius and others are coming from. But I cannot stand back and allow anyone to hurt my mate. Our cubs need her; I need her! Four days ago, I was called to the forest, where I found my mate torturing rogues. Adrain, Liam, and I ran as fast as we could when Mythius called. Bodies were littering the ground, decapitated, deformed, and bent in unnatural ways. Dozens upon dozens of rogues were dead as the Firsts,
“Are you sure this is the way?”“Yes, Freddy,” I mumble.Today is the day. I have but moments to save Anja, and I cannot fail. It’s taken days to find her hiding place, yet it shouldn’t have – not when we’ve followed the bodies along the way.So many shifters have been killed, too many to count. It seemed that no one was safe from my mate. Anja cared not for who she killed nor the land she destroyed.What has become of my mate?If I do manage to save her, will she ever be the same?Will she be my Anja or someone I don’t recognise?I feel sick with nerves as I approach the cave in which Anja is hiding. Liam, Adrian, and Freddy all insisted on coming with me. It didn’t matter how many times I protested; they wouldn’t listen. I also know the Firsts are following, hiding out of sight, but they’re there.They’ve come to the end of their tether, and no amount of me protesting would stop them from ending Anja. Onyx, the first dragon, almost angrily set fire to my pack!I’ll never know how th
I gasp and stumble as blood falls from my mouth. The power of the Firsts rips from my body, flowing back into them.What the fuck just happened?I fall to my knees, gasping for air and clutching my chest. I feel as though I’m in another dimension, but, strangely, I feel like my old self once again.Thank the Goddess!However, I remember every vile thing I’ve done over the past weeks, and my heart is breaking.Tears fall from my eyes, and I sob. I’m a monster! There is no other word for it: I’m a monster and will never be anything more.“Anja?” I look at the man crouching in front of me. “My child,” Mythius cups my cheek. “You are free.”“I don’t know what happened,” I admit.“The blood of the Firsts corrupted your heart and mind. It almost stole your life force, but your mate saved you. How did he do this? No one knows.”“Orrin,” My eyes widen. “Where is he?”Mythius smiles sadly. “I’m sorry, young one.”“No,” I shake my head while clambering to my feet. “He’s not gone; I would feel i
Twenty-Five years later “Dad? You okay?” I turn away from my bedroom window and face my daughter with a smile. “Something I can help you with?” Lilly says nothing, just walks into my open arms. My daughter will one day take over the throne. My sons are strong Romarians, but Lillian is an Omerian, much more powerful than anyone predicted. It’s been many years since there was a crowned Queen of Zidiah. My daughter will be the first in two hundred years. My children have struggled with having Lorcan’s spirit share Luther’s body all their lives. The witch who stole him from us did the unthinkable. Killing the child as we thought was bad enough, but what she’d, in fact, done was force Luther and Lorcan to share one body. It took twenty-five years and Luther’s little mate to separate Luther and Lorcan. But Jenna did it, and Lorcan is now here in the physical. I love Lorcan, none could ever say that I don’t, but the boy is insane. All those years living inside his brother have left Lo
My name is Orrin Dalgaard, and I am the leader of my pack - the Royal pack. Hell, I am the Alpha and the King of all wolf shifters worldwide. I am also a Romerian, the most powerful of all Alphas.It’s a lot of work and responsibility ruling a wolf pack, let alone the largest in the world, but I enjoy it. Keeping my people safe from humans is essential and a job I take very seriously.I’ve been told of late, by the elders of my clan, that I need to take a wife. I need to find my mate and make her my Queen.Easier said than done.I’ve met many beautiful women over the years. I’ve had my share and fill of shifters, sirens, vampires, dragons, and demons alike, but I did not spark with any of them, let alone bond or even imprint.
“Get the fuck away from her!”Out of nowhere, she runs, the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes upon. Long dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, eyes so blue they look like two perfect balls of ocean water shining in the light of the afternoon sun.Her lips are full and red, and her body is clad in nothing but tight jeans and a t-shirt. I can tell the girl is in good shape, with perfect full hips, thick thighs, flat stomach. She runs like a predator and stands like an Alpha.Goddammit, she’s perfect.Her eyes are locked with mine even as she reaches down to grab the arm of the little girl. She pulls the child behind her as though to protect her.“Stay behind me,” She tells the child.“Will they hurt us
It’s cold, for Dania, at least. I can take the cold; my body keeps heat more than my small sister. I wrap the large blanket I managed to steal from one of the surrounding houses tighter around Dania. She’s shivering, and her lips are blue.I lay behind her under this massive tree in the forest; my arms wrapped tightly around her tiny body. Hopefully, my body heat will help me keep Dania alive through the night.It’s hard trying to keep someone alive out in the wilderness, especially a human. Dania needs to be somewhere warm, with people who will love and care for her, but I don’t know where the hell to take her.Dania and I were banished from our pack two weeks ago after the man, whom I believed was my father, found out that I wasn’t his child.Okay, that’s a lie. I was banished
I was banished that night with no possessions and no help from anyone, banished and disowned. Either I left right there and then, or they would literally tear me apart. The only thing I took with me was my sister.Why did I take her?Because it would only have been a matter of time before the King found out the truth.You see, my mother, it seems, couldn’t help herself when it came to handsome men, even other shifters, shifters with different animal abilities. She fooled the King into thinking that I was his cub; how she did that, I don’t know. Not with the King’s ability to sense a shifter even when they’re wearing a glamour to hide their true selves.However, I know my mother was powerful, an Alpha in her own right. She was strong and commanded attention from everyone around her, and as Q