Hey friends - Doing something a little different for the end of the series. I'll be updating one chapter a day this week until the book is complete. Leave me some love and let me know what you think. See you soon!
3 months later… This has probably been some of the most emotionally difficult months for me. Not only am I nearing the end of my pregnancy with our little male, but we are also leaving Texas. All of us. Except for the old Diana pack and Arya and Dev’s pack, the rest of us are leaving tomorrow. The past three months have been about coming to a consensus about pack laws and succession rules, building the packhouses for each of the seats, moving all the things from everyone’s old homes to wherever they are going, and figuring out who is where in terms of pack members and how we will keep track of them. We also had to figure out who would be our betas, gammas, and deltas. In a surprise twist of fate, Donavon asked if he could be our beta so that Kesha would be close to Slade and Chloe. Rin also asked to be beta for Case, Chloe and Sev, so they could all be together. This means that Mike and Seth will also be moving up north. But the cool thing about the tech squad is that they
The ride from Texas to our packhouse should normally take 21 hours, but we’ve made it a one week trip, sending our beta, Landry, ahead of us in our plane. He will help our people move in and settle while Brandon, our parents, and all of our pups take a little side trip for some downtime. Carl, Richard, and Lauren elected to move back to Artemis lands with us. It’s where they lived, where Carl and Richard grew up, and where they had raised their older children. Now that they had a new set of pups on their own, they wanted to come back. My mom and Charlie’s parents were also moving back with us. It was their way to see their grandpups grow, but also to honor the lives of my father and Charlie. Carl, Richard, and Lauren were a little upset that Dev, Arya, Jakey, and the twins are remaining in Texas and that they won’t be able to see them as much, but we’ve already got a couple trips scheduled back and forth so that all the cousins could get together and we could see our best friend
6 months later…Somewhere south of the Hoia Baciu Forest, Romania “How is she doing?” I ask as I follow the tunnel through the twisting and turning passageways. “She is much more stubborn, much more resilient than we would have thought. But, we believe that we may have turned the corner, High Priestess,” my Thane, Sybil, explains. “Oh?” This is an interesting turn of events. Morgana’s torture has been so slow, so…unsatisfying. She has been so hard to break. You see, torture has very little to do with the actual physical punishment. It is about psychologically breaking your victim, making them lose their very sense of self. And then making your victim wish they were dead, pray for death, and denying it over and over. Until they no longer breathe, no longer blink, no longer eat, without your say so. But Morgana has proven very stubborn. It’s been nine months. Nine months of us breaking her body and healing her on a daily basis. Of allowing rogues to use her however they w
Four years earlier… “How are we going to do this?” Corinda asks nervously. “We’re just going to say you and I are pregnant, Rin. It happens everyday.” Severn pulls Corinda into his chest, soothing her hair down. “But what if the pup doesn’t look like you? They’ll know. If it looks like Case, then we’re screwed!” She’s nearly in tears from worry and fear. Casen kneels in front of her where she sits on the bed. He puts one arm around her waist, the other snaking around Severn’s. He pulls them tight to him and they huddle there. “We told them that you and I were siblings. If the pup looks like me, we explain it with genetics. It will work out fine, I promise. We’ll be safe and our pup will be healthy. You’ll see, Rin,” Casen responds softly. They don’t realize that the door is slightly ajar. They don’t realize that the doctor is right outside the door. Listening. Pulling away, Dr. Bane takes his nurse with him into his office. Speaking quietly and quickly, he says “Call
Present… “Sevy, how hard did you hit him? He’s been out for four hours.” I crouch down in front of our captive. Brandon, I think? I get them mixed up, there’s just too many of them. I know who goes with who, but trying to remember the name that goes with which one is just too hard. I know this isn’t the guy that can use his alpha tone on us. We were worried that his power of knowing what was coming at him would extend to Sevy’s abilities, but either those pups have him too tired or it just doesn’t work on non-living entities. The thought of his pups sends a jolt of jealousy and intense pain through my chest and I forcefully shake my head to push the thought away. I can hear the guy’s heartbeat, so he’s alive. There’s no reason for him to still be knocked out, is there? “I’ve told you before, Rin. It’s like hitting something with a 10-foot pole. You get enough energy up to move the pole and it’s leverage kinda takes over. I can’t feel what the tree felt, just the power I
I am nursing the twins, trying to stay calm for them. Stress makes milk production hard and I already needed to produce more than the typical mom because I have two babies to feed. But on the inside, I’m falling apart. He’s gone. The fucking evil trio of the west has him. And we have to wait for three days to get him back.The twins know something is wrong. They don’t smell or feel their Daddy. And they can feel the anxiety and fear rolling off of Zak and me in waves. It makes even the easy-going Jared fussy and Christine is a fucking hellcat. They won’t latch to nurse or sleep. All they seem to do is cry or whimper.Lily moves up to me, her pregnant belly just barely showing in her loose t-shirt. “Why don’t you try to just nurse one and pump on the other side.
The second that they take the silver chains off and begin tying me with rope, I mindlink my mates.Zak? Charlie? Can you hear me?Brandon? They both scream. I can hear the fear and worry in their voices. I want to calm them. To reassure them that I’m ok. To check on them and our pups. But I can’t. I’ve got to get them as much information as I can get out of my captors so that they can find me.Listen! I link. I can tell that they immediately become alert.“Who the fuck are you? Why am I here?” I demand.“I guess that we should i
This is maddening. I mean, I'm relieved to know that he’s safe. Like, you can’t even imagine how relieved I am, but having no idea where he is. It’s killing me. I know that Charlie feels the same way, based on the way that she’s clutching me to her.I’ve texted the Alpha Council in our group chat to let them know what’s going on and have been giving them continuous updates throughout.I do feel a little bad for the evil trio. Brandon really sucks in the kitchen. Guy could burn water.But I’d happily eat only his charcoal burgers and incinerated asparagus for the rest of my life if that meant that we could have him back. Goddess, I needed to have him here right now.Keep it together, Z