Novels by Ambernique Leggett

Alaia POV I fully believe that wolves handle grief differently than humans do. With Alexi being human, it made it so much harder for him to get over the fear that gripped him when he found out I had sacrificed myself to Vincent. When they all arrived to rescue me, he looked like he couldn’t believe I was still alive. Maybe he had convinced himself I was already gone as a coping mechanism. Whatever it was, we had plenty of nights afterwards where he would leave the room and wander the house or the grounds around it alone. He was still an amazing father to the boys, and he took care of the pack with all the love and attention one would expect of him. But when it came to me, he remained distant. He was hurting deeply, but he never said anything. I had tried so many times to talk to him about it, to try and heal him, but he never wanted any part of it. But I couldn’t understand why. Maybe it wasn’t for me to understand. That night I found him in the gym was the final straw. I had to

FOUR MONTHS LATERAlexi POVI felt myself tossing and turning in bed. I was having the same dream that had kept me up for months. I thought it was behind me and behind us, but I was wrong. She had gone to Vincent. He had drained her. She was gone. My heart beat erratically in my chest; these memories were going to kill me. I shot up in bed, my clothes clung to my soaking wet frame. I looked around, and it was still dark out. My phone on the table read 3:07 AM. I still slept in the room that we shared with Alaia. I could not bring myself to leave it, not when everything still smelled like her. But maybe it was those scents that lead my mind down the rabbit hole each and every night. “I’ll never get back to sleep. Maybe I just need a run,” I said as I slipped out of bed.I pulled on some sweats and went down to the gym and hopped on the treadmill. This had been my ritual for months now; the insomnia was impossible to contend with, so I had to run out all my energy if I had any cha

Alexi POV To My Loves,Please take care of our sons. They will need you now more than ever. I know you can help raise them to be men I would be proud of. Always let them know that they are loved, and that I loved them so much that I sacrificed myself so they could live. And please don’t let this choice I have made break you. Continue to work with each other and lead this pack. I know this will be hard, but you two can do it. Tell Matt that Taylor is lucky to have him, he shouldn’t waste any time with her. It’s precious and we never know when it will run out. And to Aaron and Jordyn. I’m sorry I won’t see them have their first child or get married, but l have always loved them both. They kept me going until I found my way to you two. I’ll be forever grateful. Alexi, and Xander. You two have been my moon and my stars. Being your wife as been my greatest gift. But as the Amethyst Wolf, my obligation is not just to you but to my pack, and to all. No one should die for something I ca

Alexi POV “So we’ve got it now. We’ll strike Vincent tomorrow after nightfall. We will have all those who are unable to fight protected down in the tunnels until we return. Alaia and the twins will be among them.”Alaia had sat in on the meeting and when she heard the plan she shot up from her chair. “What kind of plan is that, Alexi? Sending all of the pack into a fight? They will die, maybe not all of them but enough will.”“Angel, this is how these things go. No member of this pack is unwilling to die for the life of their Luna. We aren’t doing anything out of the ordinary.”She looked around for a moment, then turned to Xander and me. “And Aaron? Is he coming along, too, or will he just send extra guys over to us?”I knew just what she was getting at. But I also promised to never lie to her. “He is coming. Jordyn will stay home but he wants to personally make sure Vincent dies.”She then turned to look at Matt. “You just found your mate, Matt. Doesn’t that matter? Taylor may

Alaia POVAfter we had our dinner, Xander drove us to the movie theater where the guys picked a random action spy movie for us to watch. It seemed interesting enough, but after the scene in the diner, I didn’t really care what we watched. I was distracted; all I wanted to watch was one of these two go down on me. That’s the movie I’d pick. I chose seats all the way in the back of the theater, I didn’t want any distractions for what I had planned.The lights dimmed a little for the previews and I lifted the arm rests on either side of me so that I could have easy access. The guys were watching some explosion on the screen when I reached out both hands and grabbed onto their dicks through their pants.Xander seemed surprised at first but Alexi, he was ready and waiting. He’d made me a promise at the diner and I intended for him to keep it.I leaned over to each of them and whispered “Zippers down, you know what I want.”They quickly obliged, and I put my hands into their pants and grabb

Alaia POVKatherine and Kimmy decided that they would come and watch the babies while Xander, Alexi, and I went out for the night. We didn’t get to have a honeymoon, and things at the house had been less than romantic with all the plotting to kill Vincent. I decided that I wanted to have a laid-back kind of date. I didn’t need anything fancy; I just wanted to spend some quiet time. So we did dinner and a movie. We found a small diner outside of Jade City that was said to have some of the best burgers in the area. Luckily, the place was small and relatively empty. The looks we got when we walked in were comical. They didn’t know what to make of me showing up draped across two tall, gorgeous men, but we didn’t care. We picked a booth at the back corner and settled in. The waitress came over and immediately started giving the guys “the eye,” but instead of being sexy, she looked like she was having a stroke. She leaned over the table towards Xander before saying, "I’m Trina, your ser

MattThe doctors checked Taylor out and placed her in a small room until she woke up. After calling back home and filling everyone in on what was going on, I sat next to Taylor’s bed and just hung my head. This was going to completely break her. She could only be strong for so long before she gave up. Hadn’t she gone through enough already?I would do all that I could to help her through this, but I wondered who she would be when she finally made it to the other side. When she finally began to wake up, I scooted closer and took her hand. As soon as she looked at me, she began bawling her eyes out. “It’s true, isn’t it. They’re gone? Both of them?”“Yes, it’s true, angel. I’m so sorry.”I pulled her into my lap and rocked her while she sobbed. I didn’t have any words to offer her. Sayings like “it will be okay” or “they’re in a better place” are just cliché bullshit that didn’t help anyone. And I couldn’t say that I understood how she felt. I had never lost a parent, let alone both o

MattThe baby was a few weeks old, and Taylor and I both decided that it would be nice to get out and let her see something other than the packhouse. We figured that a nice, quiet picnic at the waterfall would be perfect. She’d be bundled up nicely and get to experience the place that had become so special to both Taylor and me. I had her in our room, trying to get her tiny little legs in her pants, when Taylor’s phone started buzzing on the dresser. “Tesoro! Your phone is ringing,” I called out through the bathroom door. “Answer it for me, please. I just started washing my hair, so I’ll be in here for a while.”“Mommy is going to be in there all day dealing with her hair,” I mumbled. I adjusted Genesis on my shoulder and picked up the call. “Hello?”“Hello, may I please speak to Taylor Adams?”“She’s not available at the moment. Could I take a message and have her call you back?”“Um, yes. But it’s very important that she calls as soon as possible.”“Okay, is there something wron

MattI left Xander’s office after finishing a long, drawn-out conference call with a large new client and went looking for Taylor to see what she was doing. Tesoro, are you still napping? No. I skipped the nap. Oh, okay. Well, where are you?In your office. I’m on the way. What was she doing in there? She should have been resting, not working. We would have to have a talk about her taking it easy. Her body had fully recovered from the baby, but she was still short on sleep. We both were. When I walked in and saw her, my jaw dropped, and all thoughts of fatigue disappeared. She had remembered, down to the very last detail. There she was, leaning back against my desk, in her long black pencil skirt and six-inch heels. She was wearing a sleeveless white button-up shirt that was unbuttoned about halfway down, showing her lacy black bra underneath. Her hair was up in a bun with a pencil sticking out of it, and she had found some sexy black-rimmed glasses that made her eyes pop. T

Matt“Matt, you’re going to have to let someone else hold her eventually,” Taylor said fromthe bed. After Genesis had her bath and first feeding, I took her and have been selfishly hogging her for the past hour and a half. Alaia, Morgan, and the crew had left the room to give our parents and us time alone with the baby—time I wasn’t ready to share. “Maybe, but eventually doesn’t have to be right now. Plus, she’s comfortable and happy with me.”“How do you know she won’t be comfortable with anyone else? Like our mothers?”I pulled my eyes from the baby’s sleeping face to see both Nancy and my mom staring daggers at me. “Fine. Ten minutes, then I want her back,” I said while gently placing Genesis in Nancy’s arms. The ladies melted at seeing their granddaughter up close, and it was obvious that she was going to be spoiled rotten. “I feel like I’ve already been replaced as your number one love, and it didn’t even take three full hours.”“You could never be replaced, but there’s sp

TaylorI was in a deep, peaceful sleep when suddenly, I felt a terrible pain in my belly. Like the worst menstrual cramps in the world, times ten. My first instinct was to panic, but when I felt the warm rush of water flow between my legs and onto the mattress underneath me, I became strangely calm. I pushed myself up and pulled the blanket back, looking down at the soaked bed. Yep, it’s go time. “Matt? Wake up.”He shifted his body a bit but didn’t open his eyes. “Hmm. What’s wrong, baby? Do you need another pillow?”“No, I need you to wake up. The baby’s coming.”“Not yet. She won’t be here for a few more days.” He tried to pull me back to lie down beside him, still oblivious to what was going on. “Matthew! Wake up, now!”Maybe it was the fact that I called him Matthew for the first time or the slap to his bare chest, but his eyes snapped open, and he quickly sat up. “What’s the matter? Are you alright?”“I’m fine, but my water broke, and I’m having contractions.”His eyes went

TaylorMatt and I were lying in bed, and I couldn’t take my eyes off my ring. It really was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, and I was amazed that it was mine. “The way you’ve been staring at your hand for the past three hours tells me that you like the ring?”“You know I do. I couldn’t have picked anything more perfect.”He pulled me onto his chest and ran his fingers through my hair. “Mom is going to be so happy to see you wearing it. She hasn’t seen it since I added the emeralds, so I’m interested to see what she thinks.”“Hmmm.”I was in heaven, listening to his heart beating under my head and feeling our daughter moving around in my belly. Now it was time to move forward and make our family official. “So, I know that I’ve been stalling because of Drew still hanging over our heads, but I think I’ve picked a wedding date.”“Is it tomorrow? Please say that it is!”“Sorry, handsome, but it’s not tomorrow. I was thinking the middle of April. I think the weather would be perfec