Lilith POVTheo and his pack have been on high alert for three long days. It's almost a full moon, a night I'm told is for mate pairing. The moon brings out the wolf in us and makes that wolf at its strongest under the full light of the moon allowing mates to find each other easier than if it weren't a full moon.Though apparently, some mates can find each other outside of a full moon.Theo's occupied with protecting the borders so I'm left in the company of his mother and the orphan girl called Calley that lives in the pack house with her twin brother Arlo.I like Calley, she's kind and sweet. Attentive but strict. She's been teaching me how to cook, joking with me about Theo's attention on me but most of all she's been enlightening me about life as a wolf, especially in this pack. She's convinced that I might be Theo's mate and I guess I might like that if it were to happen. To belong to him, someone that's strong and born to be a leader. My body calls for it but I guess I'll fin
Lilith's POVThe pack house and the gardens that are backed by the forest are full of people, hundreds of wolves not only from here but from two other neighbouring packs.The garden has been transformed with tables and chairs dotted throughout, there’s a stage off to the side where Theo had greeted everyone before he disappeared leaving me alone with all these people I don’t know. I’ve had a few weird looks and some smiles but I don’t recognise anyone and it’s making me feel anxious. "Theo invites other packs because not all of us will find our mates otherwise" she explained when I came down the stairs in the tight figure-hugging glittery silver dress. She made me twirl as she approved of mygown.It hits the floor with a side slit up my left leg right to my thigh. It’s tight on my chest revealing ample cleavage and I'm scared that if I move too quickly I might show too much of my body. I've been quiet and reserved hiding on the back wrap-around porch near Andy, apparently, he isn't
Theo's POVI find myself scrubbing blood from my body in the shower for the second time in as many days without many memories of how it got there. The water runs down my body onto the white tile spoiled with red. Rex took full control pushing me into the recess of his mind blocking me out so I couldn't remember his lack of control.I know Doug's dead but I don't know how he did it or what he did with the body.Delivered back to its Alpha. He tells me sleepily.Great so now we're in disagreement with the Amethyst pack, good on Rex. Fuck. We might have needed them to help and Gregor was a friend you fucking idiot.He shouldn't have touched what is mine, I'll kill any bastard that touches her. Now cool your beans and go see if she's awake yet. Rex pushes me away so I can no longer hear him. Good ducking riddance.He's right about one thing though and that is I need to check in on Lil.I also need to tighten my borders because obviously, people are after her.Then there's this intense nee
Lilith's POVI wake with a pounding headache and Theo sleeping at my feet again.I groan as I move my limbs pushing oxygen around them as pins and needles hurt my whole body. "Good, you are up" Lucas mumbles towards me from the door. "I am.""Get out of bed, we need to talk," he tells me.I extricate myself from the bed as quickly and efficiently as I can without waking Theo and I dress in black leggings and a tank top before finding Lucas standing outside the room in the hallway waiting for me.He grabs my arm dragging me along with him down the stairs, through the kitchen and out the house. He drops my arm once we're on the grass but he snarls for me to follow him. So I do."Where are you taking me?.""For a walk" he throws back over his shoulder.Walk we do, all through the forest. Alongside the river and up a few hills. He brings me to a waterfall, something I may have found if I had chosen to walk in the opposite direction than I did that day I woke in the river that day. "Yo
Theo’s POVWeeks go by as Lil integrates within my pack.Only a few select people know she’s my mate and our future luna of the pack but everyone has accepted her as if she were born here.She makes friends everywhere she goes and there’s something about her, something that glows when she’s around my people. I decide to keep the fact that one day she will be our luna a secret until she decides for herself but something deep down inside me knows she will be part of us, another part knows he will come for her and that she won’t choose. Don’t ask me how I know, it’s just a feeling that sits deep down inside of me. The borders are monitored by my warriors twenty-four-seven and we’ve had many breach attempts. No doubt every one of them is coming for her, for Lilith. I’ve warned her not to go into the woods, to stay near the house and even though she wants to explore our land she’s agreed, still shaken up from being taken from the mating ball. I’ve been refusing contact with Gregor becau
Lilith's POVThings become harmonious and I start to feel as if I belong as the weeks flash by within the blink of an eye.Some memories come back to me, little images here and there of the people I think are my parents. It happens out of nowhere when I'm doing something that triggers a memory.Like the other morning when I was flipping pancakes I completely zoned out remembering the person I think is my father doing exactly the same thing whilst I sat at a kitchen counter waiting for the pancakes he was cooking.Or just yesterday when Calley was braiding my hair I remembered the woman I think is my mother doing the same in a bedroom that was decorated in pinks and purples and whites.Things have also been going swimmingly between Theo and me. We don't cross paths during the day much, he seems to be overly busy with protecting his pack and training his warriors. He even does boundary checks himself.He's truly a big part of this pack and takes his role seriously.I'm not sure I've co
Theo's POVThings become chaotic very quickly.The wolves not only breach my borders but kill three of my men without any second thoughts. My pack members howl out their pain as the loss filters through our link and I have to fight the enormity of the sorrow I feel and ignore the fact that tonight I'll be visiting three mothers and fathers to report their children died because of me and my need to protect a girl I haven't even claimed as my own as of yet. I race with Lucas and Andy towards them strategising a plan on how to prevent them from reaching their target, from reaching Lilith at the centre of my land in the house that I've made a fortress. 'We'll use our numbers to push them back. Attack them just before the borders then leave them over for their pack to take them back. Make an example out of them' I shout as we race through the woods.'Yes alpha' everyone shouts back to me. 'Circle around and come back through the southern woods, protect the house. Lock it down' I demand t
Lilith's POVI wake groggy with a pounding headache and the stench of something dark wet and woodsy surrounding me, my nostrils burn with the smell only adding to the tension within my head. My lungs tighten at the smell and Abyss’s feelings let me know it’s not only me that the smell is totally unappealing too, but it’s also making Abyss uneasy. It's almost as if I can feel her pacing inside my mind, her anxiety mixing with my own making for my unease to fill my stomach with dread at the mere smell. ‘They're going to hurt you, make it so I can't heal you’ She's been muttering as I fight with my body to open my eyes. They’re heavy as if lead weights are holding them down, I presume the men who took me used something to drug me after I screamed blue murder as they ran with me through the forest. One had shoved me over his shoulder when they had found me in my room at the house, he floated to the floor after jumping out of the window with me in his arms, I say floated because we didn’