DamonI drove away from her house as Finley stood by the front door and watched me leave. I wanted to tell them all to stuff it but this meeting was important and as Alpha of my clowder I had to attend it, I had no choice whatsoever. I drove the two hours to Morgan and I saw retired Beta Joshua and his wife Claire and their nineteen year old daughter Chastity waiting in front of the steps to welcome me.I hated when other enforcers flaunted their daughters in hopes of a match. A lot of the Elders of different groups believed that taking a chosen mate, especially when they had Alpha or Beta blood, was a better choice as your offspring would be stronger and that’s also why the Elders of my clowder was pushing me to settle down.They also believed that the Alpha should have a partner because it completes the clowder, so the stronger the bloodline the stronger the flow from her to the rest of the members. The Elders were going to have a field day when I told them that Axel claimed a human

Damon“Wow I thought you were trying to befriend her,” Kat said as I sighed and we both watched Finley leave the restaurant.“It’s complicated,” I said to her and finished the beer in front of me.“Why don’t you just tie her to a chair and get a witch to go through her memories and then you’ll know what you want to know,” she said.“It’s not that easy Kat,” I said to her as the waitress brought another round of drinks.“Why not? Obviously someone’s sharing secrets with her and if you don’t act soon the Elders might send someone else to do your job for you,” she said.“There’s no evidence of that,” I said to her.“So come back home and let someone else watch her,” she said.“Axel won’t let me, he’s protective as hell,” I said to her and watched her face transform.“What!” she yelled so loudly that everyone looked at us.“Keep it down!” I whispered at her as I looked around.“Everything makes sense now, I couldn’t really understand why you were so mad about the whole Chastity thing, but

DamonI sat upright in bed and checked my watch, it was five am and the sound of a vacuum cleaner was what woke me. If Kat’s vacuuming at five am I’m going to kill her. I realized it wasn’t Kat making all this noise the moment I started descending the stairs.I stood in the living room and watched Finley as she vacuumed her driveway and I shook my head as I pulled a t-shirt over my head and walked across the street. She had earphones plugged into her ears but I could hear the music blasting away.“Finley!” I said loudly and tapped her on the shoulder.“Shit! Damon,” she said and her hand went up to her heart as she looked at me.“Why are you vacuuming your driveway?” I asked her.“To keep the neighbours from talking to me,” she said and switched the vacuum on again.I looked at her as she turned her back to me and I had just about had enough of her antics and ignoring me. Axel being team Finley wasn’t helping much either and he was meddling with my feelings to the point that I didn’t

Exactly ten minutes later Alpha Calvin walked into the meeting room wearing jeans and a t-shirt and sat down across from me. I liked that he didn’t take the head of the table, putting us on equal terms in his territory.“My Beta says that this is an unofficial visit,” Calvin said as he broke the silence first.“In a manner yes. I want to know what your interest in Finley Blake is,” I said to him.“If this is an unofficial visit I don’t really have to explain to you what my interest in her is,” he said a bit guarded.“Calvin, I’ll just be frank with you, the Oracles have already denied her killing as unjustified to all the Councils,” I said.“What gave you the idea that I would want her dead?” he asked me.“She writes about wolf packs, there have already been two attempts at contact that has been dealt with,” I said.“Damon, let me be frank with you now, I don’t want her dead, I intend to take her as my bonded half,” he said.“Excuse me?” I said as Axel sat up right in my head.“This i

DamonI stood in the pouring rain as I watched Iris’s casket slide into the hearse. The Elders had done her burial ceremony as per our custom and she would be taken to be cremated and then placed into our memorial wall at the back of the packhouse. Her loss hurt but less than before and Axel was anxious to return to St Albans City.I could feel the pull towards Finley stronger now that Iris’s bond had broken and I hadn't talked to Jared yet, not really talked like we used to do. I knew he was hurting too, everyone in our clowder had felt that bond break with her when she died.The Elders have tried speaking to me one on one but I’ve refused to see anyone other than Kat. She had come home the moment she felt that bond snap and she kept a close eye on me, afraid that I might snap again.I knew that the Elders would probably give it about a week before they started bombarding me about marrying Nina or Chastity now that Iris was laid to rest. For most of them she had died a little more th