EPILOGUE TALIA POV “Coming!” I answered my mom, looking in the mirror and tucking my hair behind my ear. Today was my eighteenth birthday and I was officially going to introduce my wolf to the Pack. I had technically been able to shift since I was a baby, but we had managed to keep that a secret from almost everyone, though it had been a close call a few times. My brothers were coming back from Mongolia with their mate, Zaria, and their friend, Leo, to help celebrate my birthday. They were on some sort of a mission for the Council, but they got permission to come home for this event. They were twelve years older than me and I liked to tease them about being old. They didn’t think I was as funny as I knew I was. They were cool, though, and all my friends loved my brothers. Their mate was also pretty awesome. She was the daughter of our Beta and one heck of a warrior. She went to the same camp my grandmama was accepted to. Only the best warriors are allowed to go. I ran
Isadora POV The grass was cool under my bare feet and the breeze was sweet smelling. I tipped my head up into the wind and sniffed, appreciating the whirl of scents that it brought me. The season was changing from spring to summer and berries were beginning to ripen. I could smell rain in the distance and the yeasty scent of fresh baked bread wafted from town. I frowned. I could smell something else, something rotten and dirty. I looked towards the woods and could see two men and a woman approaching me. I wrinkled my nose but put a smile on my face. They were probably lost and needed help. They couldn’t help how they smelled. Before my eyes, they turned into wolves. The largest of the wolves bared his teeth at me and growled. I could see the sharpness of his teeth and I could feel the hatred radiating off from him. I cried out and took a step back and bumped into something warm and soft. I turned to see a wolf, the largest and most beautiful wolf that I have ever seen
Chapter 2 ETHAN, REESE and CALEB POV Ethan dumped his tactical bag on the nearest bed and flopped down on his bed across the room, blowing the air out of his mouth. “Today was tough!” he said with a groan. “Yeah, but did you see the look on Jet’s face when Reese came at him?” Caleb chortled. “I thought he was going to wet himself like a pup!” “That was a sick move, Reese,” Ethan admitted. “I would have helped but I was busy with Cole and Andrew.” Caleb threw a wet towel at Ethan. “Cole has no skills and Andrew couldn’t cut a steak with his knives. Not much to keep you busy, dear brother.” He picked up Ethan’s tactical bag and dumped it on the floor. “And keep your sweaty gear off my bed. Put it on your own bed.” “I need my own room,” Ethan moaned. “Me, too,” Reese announced, peeling off his workout clothes. “I hate having to race you guys to the shower.” “We’re not going to get our own room,” Caleb said, practically, for what seemed like the hundredth time. “We’re t
IZZY POV“Ow!” I yelled as my head cracked against the truck window for the third time in less than a mile. Mom was behind the wheel of a rental truck with bad springs. It was the most uncomfortable ride I’ve ever taken. Mom smiled at me, looking excited.“Just a little bit more,” she promised. I looked out the front windshield, a gloomy look on my face. I was excited, but a little nervous. Mom seemed weird when she was telling me about this place.“Tell me again about Moonstone Pack?” I asked, naming the town we were heading towards.“It’s kind of like a gated community, but it’s a whole town,” she patiently explained to me again. “Your Aunt Luna and Uncle Alpha are kind of like the mayors. They run the place. They have triplet boys who will be home from boarding school tomorrow. They’re coming back from Italy. A specialized course of study.”I had heard all this before. I had questions.“So why aren’t we getting our own house?” I pouted. “I don’t want to live with two a
ETHAN, REESE AND CALEB POV“Do you think she’ll like me?” Caleb asked, suddenly in the silence. They were still on the plane, almost ready to land at the closest airport to the pack where their parents would pick them up. “Where did that come from?” Reese asked, taking a long swig from a water bottle. “I spent the last five hours wondering if I was going to like her,” Caleb said. “I didn’t think for a minute what would happen if she didn’t like me.”Reese rolled his eyes. “She’s probably like all the other she-wolves in the pack. Maybe even worse. They’re all full of themselves and busy backstabbing each other to impress the guys.”Caleb was quiet, thinking of this possibility.“Right now it doesn’t really matter if she’s your fated mate or not,” Ethan pointed out. “You’re not eighteen. She’s not eighteen. You can get a good sense of it, but it won’t be confirmed until you’re of age.”“I wonder, though,” Caleb said. “Well, you’ll know in about an hour,” Reese said, lookin
IZZY POVI was in a hurry. I had spent the morning with mom in the basement of the Alpha house. They had a full gym set up down there with weights and exercise equipment and an entire area devoted to what mom called training. It was pretty much her pretending to try to kill me and me fighting back.I was hot, sweaty and so hungry when she finally checked the clock and called it quits.“Sorry, baby girl. I ran us too long. You need to shower quick and get downstairs. The triplets will be home in less than an hour.”I rolled my eyes. I’ve been in this home for less than twenty-four hours and I noticed that whenever anyone spoke of the boys, they called them ‘the triplets’ and had a note of reverence in their voice. I know identical triplets are rare, but it’s not unheard of for crying out loud. I raced upstairs and into my dreamy bathroom. I thought about taking a bubble bath, but I had less than an hour and I really wanted to enjoy my first bath in this room. I hopped into t
ETHAN, REESE AND CALEB POVIzzy stood up from the table and muttered an excuse, bolting out of the room. The boys looked at each other and exchanged glances.“What happened?” Reese finally asked, dumbfounded. His father answered, chuckling.“You overwhelmed the girl, boys. She just got here. Her whole world has been tipped upside down and she has no idea what she’s experiencing. One of you would have been tough for her to handle. Three of you? No wonder she panicked.”Caleb looked sad. “Should we go talk to her? Explain things?”Alessia stood up, pushing her chair away from the table. “No. I had better go. She doesn’t understand what’s going on and I think you would freak her out even more.” She gave the boys a smile, letting them know she wasn’t mad at them. “Why don’t you boys take a trip down to the packhouse after lunch,” his father said, scooping up a big bite of macaroni salad. “I know you have some friends down there who would like to see you before the party tom
IZZY POVI was waiting for the triplets in the foyer when they got back from the Packhouse. I could tell that they had a good workout while they were there; they were glistening with sweat and they were still shirtless. I swallowed hard. They had the most perfect pectoral muscles with a gorgeously cut six pack and they wore their jeans slung low on their hips. They smelled divine and I wondered what cologne they all used. It was slightly musky, like the clean scent of outdoors after a really hard rain, mixed with oranges and cut grass. It was a perfect scent for them, and I loved how it smelled.I stood awkwardly in the hall until they noticed me. Caleb saw me first, stopping with a tentative smile on his face. Reese and Ethan almost ran into him.There was silence. I could tell the boys didn’t know what to say to me.“I’m sorry,” I began. “I panicked. Mom came up and explained everything to me.”I saw the three of them exchange glances. “Explained what, exactly,” Ethan as