“Natalie!” Adam called me and I could hear him running after me. Just tried to stop me, you fucking jerk! Just try it.
I ran outside the packhouse and in one jump in the air I let Kelly take control. This is our first shift after I came back from death's arms. I need this like air. I need to calm down or I am going to kill every single person that hurt me in my past, and by past I mean my former life.
“Natalie! Stop it right now!” he shouts but I don’t care.
“”Take us to our place, girl!” I tell Kelly and she runs directly into the forest, jumping from cliffs and giving me the ride of her life until Adam’s voice can’t be heard anymore.
I can see her white paws hitting the ground in her attempt to exhaust herself to the point where every single cell of our system will be so damned tired that we will just rest and close our eyes, and stay there in peace.
I can see her reflection in the water while she stops for a second to lick some water from the river and she is so beautiful that I want to cry. She is the best gift I received from the gods. The best wolf ever.
Calm and good hearted. Strong and powerful at the same time and so damned beautiful. I suppose that her appearance was what made Adam claim me. Kelly is as big as his wolf and he is an Alpha by birth while I was born as a beta. Completely white and with clear sky blue eyes she is perfect. She doesn’t deserve the shit Adam put us though.
She deserves to be happy. We should have stayed in heaven, because let me tell you. This is the hell. Coming here, coming back is pure hell!
I have no idea how long we run but now seeing her reflection, seeing the moonlight over Kelly put me in front of a decision. I will make everyone pay!
“Nat,” Kelly suddenly says. “Stop thinking that you offered love to a man who didn't deserve it. He certainly needed your love, even if he never understood it." and I can feel Kelly’s pain. She loved him too. She loves his wolf too.
“You know , Nat.” she whispers with pain but with relief at the same time. “He didn’t know that he needed you, but you needed to offer him that love. You are the best human I know. Your heart is pure” she tells me and that enrages me.
For her, even for me. What good is to be so good if in the end everyone hurts you?
“Kelly” I say and I am gritting my teeth.
“I swear to you that they will pay for what they did to us.” I tell her and she takes a step back and looks around.
There is a meadow from where we can watch the sky that looks magnificent right now. Tonight is the Supermoon. It’s Sturgeon Moon and she looks so close that I can feel that I can touch it.
“Can you shift?” I ask Kelly and she is giving me back the control, letting me transform back in human form. This is our perfect place, where we have been since I was a child. This is my happy place on Earth. Far enough from Red Blood Pack, but still on its territory, on the shore of crystal clear mountain lake and with the night’s sky above my head. What could I ask for more?
“Just relax, Nat” Kelly whispers and I walk to the meadow and lean on the grass and place my hands under my head watching the beautiful moon.
“Why did you bring me back?” I ask the goddess and I know that this is something for me to find out, because she didn’t explain anything to me, she just said that I need to come back for the safety of our world.
I am nobody in this world. Just the Luna of this bloody pack.
I am lying completely naked as if I am tanning at the moonlight and questions after questions are pop-ing into my mind. There are so many why me, so many what if and even more why now.
I laid there lost in my thoughts and I didn’t even realize when a foreign scent filled the air.
“Holy shit, Kelly!” I say jumping on my feet.
“Who is there?” I ask scared. Is not a scent from our pack. Holy crap whoever is here is watching me naked!
And before I could do or say another word I looked around and grabbed the clothes that Kelly carried here during our run. I almost feel those eyes on me, and a damned manly scent, is someone that emanates a lot of power, but where is he hiding?
“Just dress and run, Nat!” Kelly whispers a little bit taken aback.
I dressed myself with the light speed and I just fled out of here, without looking back. Whoever was here watching me can't be here with good intentions.
I ran as fast as I could and jumped over the river and cliffs and just when I was ready to turn my head back and see if someone was coming after me something hard hit me.
“What the hell, Natalie!” a voice asks as I try to lift myself from the ground, completely
shocked from my encounter with…Phillip. Phillip our beta? What the hell is he doing here?
“Natalie, are you alright?” He asks as he offers me his hand and helps me lift from the ground.
“Yeah, I was just looking back...I thought...”I say but looking at him a strange idea came to my mind. Was he the one who was watching me?
“No, he smells different” Kelly whispers , sniffing the air. “That was not a scent from our pack.”
“What are you doing here, Phillip? “ I ask him and take a look back, but trying to look confident as if nothing happened.
“I was patrolling the area and I caught a foreign scent. It’s a wolf from another pack that entered here without permission” he says and that made my heart jump.
Kelly was right. But who was the mysterious man ? Was he a pervert? Why would he watch a naked woman from behind the trees? And I can’t focus on thinking about this strange man.
“Natalie, you shouldn’t walk alone at this hour with that stranger around. We don’t know his intentions, if he just got lost or if he is here with evil intentions. I am driving you home” he tells me and motions when I walk.
“I can walk alone, you know? I am not five to babysit me, Phillip” I tell him and look back again.
“Of course you can,” he says, giving me a genuine smile. “You are a badass luna and always force yourself with training and exactly that’s why I need to protect you if someone is here.” and with a serious gaze he continued.
“Adam will kill me if something happens to you under my watch.”
Adam, Adam and Adam again. I am sick of him.
“Phillip” I say as we were close to the packhouse. “Where do you stay in relation to Adam?” I asked him directly.
He is his beta, I am not expecting him to support me, but at least I need to know if he will condemn me for taking revenge on Adam.
“You are my Luna, Natalie” he says without looking at me, and continuing to walk but in slower steps as if he was trying to give himself time to explain something to me.
“Just as I said. You are the best and I am damned proud to serve you. You did a lot for this pack and I, as a beta, will serve you unreserved. No matter what, I will support you” he tells me and that made me stop in my tracks.
“Thank you, Phillip,” I say with calm.
“I am sorry for what he did,” Phillip says. and that got me. Is he implying something?
“You are better, don’t let anyone doubt that. He is making a mistake” and he stops too.
“I will let you two talk. '' Phillip says with a sad voice and that made me realize that Adam is here too.
“Where the hell were you?” he growls and runs in my direction and pulls me to his chest searching for something.
“She was taking a run with her wolf,” Philip says with calm. “I gave her a safe back to home drive” and with that Adam motions to him to leave.
“Why did you run, Natalie?” Adam asks me and wraps his arms around my waist but I push him and get myself out of his grip.
“Did she accept the rejection?” I ask him directly and I can feel that he stopped breathing. Of course she didn’t. She is a bitch with a plan.
“Natalie, you shouldn’t act like this” he says and I can feel that he is pissed off with my behavior but I don’t give a shit and as I turn around I say.
“I am not negotiating anything here, Adam. It’s me or her” and I take a step to return to the packhouse but he is grabbing my arm and he kisses me by force, as if he is trying to show me something. He slams his lips on mine and he is kissing me by force, but I bite his lips until I taste blood.
“LET ME GO!” I say pushing him hard and making him stumble. “I can't be in the same place with that woman. If you respect me you will force her accept your rejection and ban her!” but my word must have triggered something because as soon as I said that Adam turned around and left cursing me, wiping his blood from his lips.
“He will never ban her,” Kelly tells me. “He feels attraction because of the bond mate.”
“Of course he feels attraction, otherwise we wouldn’t be here, fighting each other. He would have rejected her from the first second he met her, it’s because his wolf wants her.” and just saying that I realized something.
“And he won’t stop until he has her. I realize now, Kelly. Adam is weak. He can’t fight against the bond mate. If we are not doing something ASAP we will return to the point where we will be dead again. “
And I see him pushing an omega that just appeared into his way as he enters the packhouse.
“I want to divorce” I say and I can’t believe that I am saying this but this is what I want.
“I want to divorce!”
That’s it! I made my mind. I need to divorce him. Staying in this relationship it’s like deja-vu. Even if he rejected her this time, that is not helping me at all. She is still here, isn’t she? She will push herself over him until he can't live without her anymore.His stupid wolf wants his fated mate.So, yeah, there is no need for me to make the same mistakes again. Old habits die hard... I guess. She will frame again so why not take care of my safety by myself? Why not show them what it means to work against a woman who love with all her heart a fucking traitor husband.Adam will never control me over life or death. I will be in control of my actions!“That’s more like it, girl!” Kelly says and I can almost imagine her waving her tail but soon she asks me a little bit confused.“But how are we going to do that?”Oh, Kelly! What I am going to do with you. You are so pure that you won’t like this.“I will take his Alpha position!” I tell her as if this is nothing.“WHAT?” and I guess
Natalie’s POV.“Thank you, Alpha Brown” I say and almost jump from the happiness I feel right now. He will support me to take the Red Blood Pack from Adam. One more alpha on my side means one step closer to achieving my goal.“Yes, we will talk at the Alpha’s party, of course we will. And thank you one more time” I say and end the call.“How many said that we can count them?” Kelly suddenly asks me and now that she said that I am even more happier.“Thirteen” and I close my eyes and enjoy the moment. “ With Alpha Brown, I have thirteen Alpha wolves on my side. Do you know what that means, Kelly?” I ask and I rub my palms with excitement.“Does that mean that Adam will kill us if he finds out what we are doing?” she asks, laughing, but I know that she doesn’t care about his actions anymore. Is not like he would surprise us if he chose to act against us again. I am already expecting that. I told you. It’s Deja-vu.“That’s too, but it means that he will die of a heart attack when he wil
Natalie’s POV.“Try this!” Judy says and my eyes are ogling at the dress my best friend holds in her hands.“Are you nuts, Judy?” I Ask her and I am sure that I am already blushing just imagining how I would look wearing something so sexy.“She is right, you know?” the designer of the dress shop tells me. “I have known you for some time and every time you chose conservative clothes. Do you know how good looking you are?” the designer asks me and I just look at her.“Is not that” I tell her looking at all the dresses she chose to present me today. Some of them are damned sexy but I can’t show up like this at the Alpha’s Party.“You know that I have responsibilities.” I tell them and continue to search for the perfect dress.“And this dress will stop you from doing your job?” Judy asks and points to a beautiful but damned tight and short draped-effect dress from Versace.“I can’t show up like that, Judy! What will people think about me? I need to prove myself that I am capable as a Lun
Author’s POV.“You should have seen her face” Judy said as she entered with Natalie in her bedroom.“She is just an intriguer, a liar and a dissimulator.” Natalie says.“And a criminal!” Kelly growls in Natalie’s mind, reminding her why she needs to put Lexie in a corner.“We should have made her cry louder “Judy starts again, “I can’t believe that you just watched her while she was trying to take even your dress not only your man” and Judy cursed Lexie in her heart for interfering with Natalie’s life but Natalie just looked relaxed about that.“ Don’t you care about what she tries to do?” Judy asks , looks at Natalie in disbelief. IN her place she would have cut Lexie’s eyes and make her eat them with salt and pepper.“She wants Adam?” Natalie says with calm. “She can have it. Is not about her, here. It is about Adam proving himself as a real mate and he failed with that again and again. Cheating it is a two persons affair. Is not only about Lexie Banks, it is a bout a man who made
Author’s POV..“Nat” Kelly whispers as they are heading to the stairs. “Don’t be sad”“Sad?” She was a little bit taken aback but in the next second she realized that her spirit was tormented.” I am not sad” she whispered, trying to deny the reality.“You are my human, Nat. I know you.” Kelly said. “And even if I am with you in this madness, and I know that you are right , also I want you to know that it is alright to be sad. To feel betrayed.”“It is only about our revenge” Natalie denied again, but Kelly laughed sadly.“It is more than that and you know it. I am sad, you know?” Kelly tells Natalie, making her stop in her tracks for a second.“He doesn’t deserve our sadness, Kelly. Adam is a jerk.” and she continued to head to the stairs, looking like a Victoria’s Secret model. Her long strawberry blond hair is arranged in an easy long boho style. Elegantly messy, with a crown of two chunky braids.Her smokey makeup gives her a mysterious appearance and the dress is the cherry on th
“Redhead?” Evan asks and turning his head he starts to search for Alexander because he was the one who was mindlinking him. And when he found him on a balcony upstairs the venue, man, his heart stopped as Alexander was looking intently at the attraction of the evening. At the woman Evan was attracted to the core of his heart.“The one you were dancing earlier” Alex says and knowing exactly who Alex was asking about, Evan’s mind went blank.Is Alexander Stepanek interested in Natalie? He didn’t even want to talk with her a few days earlier and now he is stalking her and Evan could see in his eyes the need to have her. ALexander wants Natalie?Why ? And how the hell something like this is possible, because all his life Alexander looked for the girl who saved his life when he was ten. The only woman in his mind and in his heart was that little girl with blue eyes and strawberry blonde..hair…shit! A redhead!“Is Natalie the woman Alex is looking for?” he asked himself and as soon this tro
“But, I don’t want to make your Luna get angry with me again,” Lexie said, blinking her lashes at Adam and causing his blood pressure to increase in the next second.“She will do nothing!” Adam said in a commanding voice, cursing Natalie in his mind for being so disobedient with him. A wife should be submitted to her husband. Since when did Natalie start to act this way causing him troubles?“But, you know what she allowed to happen to the dress shop and she enjoyed the moment. If she sees me here she will mock me!” and Lexie came closer to Adam making him feel proud by the fact that he is the man who is defending his mate no matter what.“No, that is not the case anymore. Look at you!” he said, watching the way she looks. “This dress suits you and does justice to you. You look beautiful and innocent wearing it” and if he could he would pull her in his arms and kiss her but he knows that everyone will see that and will judge him. And most of all if Natalie shows up she will cause a sc
Natalie’s POV.“What the hell are you doing?” Adam growled from behind, and that made me turn around and look at him in shock. Didn’t he leave with Lexie to take her to the hospital?“I asked you something!” he growled at me and gave me a hard look like he would strangle me right now, because he must know for sure that I was investigating Lexie’s background by talking with this alpha.But you know what? I don’t care about his opinion. It is the most normal thing I could do , to find what Lexie is hiding, so wrapping my arms under my chest I look into his eyes, and for the first time you could say that he really saw me, because his gaze becomes unfocused and he looks at my dress and at my make-up and he is even more furious right now.“Are you finished?” I simply ask him, avoiding to answer him, because I don't deserve to be treated like that.“You are leaving” he commands me, and he sneaks a new peek at me, but he motioned to me to move as if he didn’t see how sexy I am.“Pardon me?”