The Guardian's Mate
Ethan Blackwood is the third son of Alpha Liam and Luna Angel. In a family of seven, he’s the only one who hasn’t found his mate besides his underage sister. His oldest brother became the pack’s Alpha, his second oldest brother is their company’s CEO, and Ethan is currently in school to become the CFO. The human university was not exciting and fun like he was hoping, finding it difficult to hide who he is and bored with the females who only wanted casual relationships. Ethan is past ready to find his mate and settle down.
Sophia Hart is a human who was abruptly introduced to the werewolf world when she started dating a man she thought was human. It didn’t take long for him to bring her to his ‘pack’ and then refuse to let her leave. His aggressive, violent ways terrified her, and she tried to leave, but he refused to let her go. One night, in the middle of a big party, Sophia finds her opening and escapes, running as fast as she can.
When Ethan and the other Guardians realize that humans are being taken into werewolf packs as slaves and omegas against their will, they will have to make a stand, to fight as they always do for those who cannot fight for themselves.
Ethan doesn’t care that his mate is a human. He trusts the Moon Goddess to give him the mate that is meant to be his. But Sophia doesn’t want to live around the violent werewolves. She just wants to be left alone. Can Ethan convince her that he’s not like other wolves while keeping her safe from the one who is hunting her?
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Chapter: Chapter 121: The Missing HumansSophia POVThe news broke over breakfast, Nathan sliding his tablet across the table without a word, the local headline glowing stark against the screen. *Three More Blackwood Residents Reported Missing — Police Baffled by Pattern.*"Three more," I said, scanning the article. "How many total?""Eleven," Nathan said grimly. "Over the past month. Students, a couple of teachers, two people from town who have no connection to the school at all. Raymond's been trying to keep it quiet, but it's leaked to the local press now."Ethan leaned over my shoulder, reading the details. "No bodies. No ransom demands. No pattern the police can identify — different ages, different neighborhoods, no obvious connection between the victims except that they all vanished without a trace, usually at night, usually alone.""That's not a human trafficking pattern," Damian said, joining us at the table. "That's something else.""Raymond thinks it might connect to the attacks," Nathan said. "He asked if we'd loo
Last Updated: 2026-09-26
Chapter: Chapter 120: Don't Touch My FriendsSophia POVThe attack came during last period, no warning shudder in the air this time, no gathering pressure to brace against. One moment the hallway outside my classroom was ordinary — students shuffling toward lockers, the muffled hum of announcements over the intercom — and the next, the fire alarm shrieked and the lights cut out entirely, plunging the corridor into a darkness that felt deliberate rather than accidental."Everyone stay calm," Mr. Larry started, though his voice cracked on the second word.Shadows detached from the walls before he finished the sentence — actual shadows, moving with the same unnatural intelligence I remembered from the festival smoke, except these had shape now, humanoid outlines with hollow, gleaming eyes that caught what little emergency lighting remained.I didn't run.I felt the old instinct rise — the urge to flee toward the nearest exit the way I had every single time before, letting Ethan or Nathan or Damian catch up and handle whatever came
Last Updated: 2026-09-24
Chapter: Chapter 119: The Real TargetSophia POVDamian showed us his message the next morning, the four of us gathered again around the study table, his phone screen still glowing with the words that had clearly rattled him more than he was letting on.*Careful, Damian. Loyalty to the wolf won't save you when she finds out what you really are.*"That's not a threat aimed at hurting you," Nathan said slowly, studying the message. "That's a threat aimed at making Sophia doubt you.""I already got something similar," I said, pulling up my own phone, the message from the hallway still sitting there. *I've always been closer than you think.* "It's not trying to attack any of us directly. It's trying to make me suspicious of the people closest to me."Ethan leaned back, his jaw tight. "Every message so far has had the same shape. Not violence. Doubt. The auditorium illusion wasn't designed to hurt you either, when you think about it. It was designed to shake your understanding of who you actually are, plant a question you coul
Last Updated: 2026-09-24
Chapter: Chapter 118: Damian HelpsDamian POVI found the lead three days after the message Sophia showed us in the hallway, and the second I confirmed it was real, I had a decision to make.It started with a contact I still had from my time running with Adrian's circle — a witch named Priscilla who'd sold information to whoever paid best long before I'd ever stood on that field and challenged Ethan for a crown neither of us cared about anymore. She wasn't loyal to Adrian, wasn't loyal to anyone, which made her useful in exactly the way I needed right now."I heard you're not exactly on speaking terms with your old friends," she said when I found her at the same rundown apartment she'd used for the last two years, unbothered by the fact that I'd shown up without warning."Things change," I said. "I need information. I can pay.""You always could." She studied me for a long moment, something calculating behind her eyes. "What kind of information?""Dark conjuring," I said. "Powerful enough to build an illusion from some
Last Updated: 2026-09-24
Chapter: Chapter 117: PartnersSophia POVWe spread everything out across the study table two nights later — Nathan's notes on the auditorium, Adrian's admission about dark conjuring, a sketch of the smoke pattern from the festival that Damian had drawn from memory, and my own scattered recollections of every strange thing that had happened since the moment that woman first appeared in the shattered windows."Walk me through the auditorium again," Ethan said, sitting across from me instead of hovering behind my shoulder the way he might have weeks ago. "Not what you saw. What you felt, right before she appeared."I closed my eyes, forcing myself back into the memory instead of flinching away from it. "Cold," I said. "Not just temperature. Something deeper, like the air itself had weight to it. And there was a pull — like something was searching through me for a specific thing.""Searching for what, though," Nathan said, tapping his pen against the notepad. "That's the part that never made sense to me. If this were
Last Updated: 2026-09-24
Chapter: Chapter 116: EnoughSophia POVWe gathered in the estate's study an hour after the festival, the four of us — Ethan, Damian, Nathan, and me — still smelling faintly of smoke, still shaken from watching that black fog herd an entire school like cattle while specifically keeping three trained fighters from reaching me. Emma had gone to check on Lily and the rest of the shaken students, but the tension in the room hadn't loosened at all in her absence."I've already talked to Raymond," Ethan said, pacing near the fireplace, his voice clipped with the aftermath of adrenaline. "He's got officers combing the courtyard for residue. Nathan, I want you cross-referencing tonight's pattern against the illusion in the auditorium and whatever hit her in the library. If there's a signature, we find it.""And Sophia stays here," he continued, not looking at me, already moving past the decision like it had been settled somewhere I hadn't been consulted. "Full estate lockdown until we understand what we're dealing with.
Last Updated: 2026-09-24
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