Liam P.O.V. “Are you sure you are okay?” I ask Maddie for the hundredth time. She rolls her eyes at me, giving that ‘duh’ look, but I have to make sure - again. “I am okay, Liam! Stop asking and stop worrying.” She says, looking back at her computer. We are sitting in her office, waiting for her brother to make a video call. “He is late.” She says, and I pull her to me in a side hug. “He is probably busy with something or other.” I say, but Maddie scoffs. “He has been on time for every other meeting we have had with him.” She says, looking at the clock again. She is right. Balder usually is very precise when he has these online meetings with us, although he has been acting kind of off lately this is not normal. “We’ll give him five more minutes, baby, before we start to really worry.” I tell her, and she looks at me with worry written all over her face. “I don’t know how that's going for you, but I am hella worried now.” She says, the wheels clearly turning in her pretty head.
Maddison P.O.V. Everything is a little hazy. I remember being with Liam, waiting for Balder’s video call when we got a mindlink from a guard. Then Balder was on the ground and not breathing. Beaten, bloodied and bruised. The scene in my head plays like a broken record.“Balder! BALDER?!” I scream at my dead brother! The way he lies on the ground, his chest not moving and the blood oozing from him like a lifeline becoming thinner by the second. He cannot be dead! I will not allow him to die. The deep green light flows from me to him. A lighter green joins mine a second later. Tiredness. My strengths are going down. Liam supporting me and lending me energy. But it is not enough. Then more energy flows from my body to Balder. I am an open healing channel. And then the darkness. The panic settles in my being as I shoot up covered in sweat! “BALDER! We need to save him!” I scream, but Liam pulls me down into his embrace. He is in bed with me, and beside us something is beeping and some
Liam P.O.V. After we left the hospital the next day, Maddie asked if we could go out with Balder and Lillie. I asked her what she meant, and she explained that she felt like we needed to get her settled with things like clothes, shoes etc. “I can do it online with her, but she also needs things now and we need to do something that has nothing to do with Iron Mountain or what other shit we have going.” Maddie says, smiling at me in the mirror in our room. We came back to our room after lunch, which was a quiet affair in the private dining room. We were just Maddie, Lilliana, Balder, my parents and I. Everyone else did their own thing today, as we needed to get them settled, and Lilliana seems to need to meet people on a smaller scale. Mom again practically adopted Lilliana, as she has done with Sophie, Mason, Kendrick and Maddie. There is no difference in her mind - witch or not. “Sure, baby. But do you think Lilliana wants to do that?” Maddie turns around with a frown. “She
Maddison P.O.V.I’m excited for us to get to know Lilliana and get some shopping done. We have not been out like this forever, if ever. I try to think back, but so much shit has happened since I met Liam, I can’t remember. As we are going into the mall, I grab Lilliana’s arm and walk with her in front of the guys. Clara and Sophie do the same, and we make a united front. I can hear Liam and the others laugh behind us. Lilliana looks behind her, and Balder must have nodded or something because as she looks ahead, she is smiling. It does make her face a little more soft when she smiles, and I hope we can get some of her seriousness a little more eased over time.Inside we ask Lilliana what she wants to do first, and she just looks like a deer in a headlight. “Uhm. What do you want to do first?” “Shop.” All of us answer together, making her laugh. “Alright, then I want to shop first.” She answers, and we go into the nearest clothes store. Clara and Sophie immediately go to the dress
Liam P.O.V. “Alright, we will see you in an hour then.” I hang up the phone as Maddie walks in with a small knock. “Babe, are you okay?” She asks. I open my arms for her and she walks straight to me and sits in my lap. “Not really. Do you mind mindlinking Lilliana and Balder?” I ask back, rubbing my temples. Her eyes cloud over, and then she leans back and kisses my cheek. “You talked to the Coven Mother I gather?” He nods. “Yeah, and I want all of you in here before I say anything.” She nods, and leans into me not saying anything until Balder and Lilliana walk in hand in hand. “Hey guys, please sit down.” I tell them, gesturing for the chairs. “What’s up, Alpha?” Balder asks, he can see the worry on my face and knows this is not entirely good news. “I just talked to the Coven Mother of the Forest Coven, and she wasn’t pleased that we have taken in Lilliana. She was actually really pissed. Especially when Eileen told her about Maddie having powers and throwing their asses out
Maddie P.O.V.The insult lies in the air, making the tension so thick you can cut it with a knife. Mother Bianca’s deep brown eyes seem contemplative, while she thinks about what I just said. She keeps her composure, and I admire her while the room is quiet enough for me to really take this woman in. She is very regal, her dusted pink outfit accenting her brown colored skin, her braided black hair held back with a see through head scarf. I keep myself ready for a retribution from Eileen, as I feel she is as unstable as she is stupid. Her brown eyes, so like her mothers, although her skin tone is slightly lighter than her mother’s, are trained on me. I don’t think she really believed what she just heard, and it is obvious she never thought I would taddle on her. I turn my attention to Lilliana for a second. We are supposed to believe she is sisters with Eileen? Sure she has deep brown eyes, which threw Liam for a loop because he could have sworn they were orange, which we found out wa
Liam P.O.V.I was going to bring Maddie to my office, but I was so fucking turned on by her, that I decided against it and brought her to our room instead. I fucked her until she passed out from exhaustion and pleasure. I cuddled with her for a while, before I got up, got dressed and went to my office. Then I got on the phone to call our allies. I know we need all the help we can get, but I didn’t call them before speaking to Elder Mills. We need the Elders to be on our side in this. They agree it’s getting out of hand with Iron Mountain, and they have investigated the pack themselves. Although this intrigued me a lot, I did not further investigate the reason as to why they were keeping a close eye on Rick. I didn’t care for one thing, and it just made it easier for me to plead our case for another, so that was that. Then I called the packs I have always been on good terms with, and some of this I know hates either Iron Mountain as a whole or Rick and Jessica as individuals. Knock
Maddison P.O.V. I was 10 when my pack threw me out like yesterday's leftovers. The Alpha - Richard, usually was a strict but fair leader, but when it came to his Luna, he went overboard with all kinds of crazy. She fell ill, and even the magic in our doctors couldn’t help her. They couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her, and eventually she died from it and the pack mourned her deeply - or so I heard. By the time Luna Jennifer died, I was long gone and not looking back. The funny thing? I never got the stench or mark of a rogue. It was like I was a regular wolf, but without the pack. Sitting in front of my cave, I think back to the time where my life took one hell of a turn, knowing I dodged a bullet by being thrown out. All my life up to that point, my parents and the Alpha and Luna had it all planned out for me. I was going to marry the Alpha’s son Rick and become the Luna of the pack. But I also needed to keep covering for Jessica, the Alpha’s daughter. She was born without