Sorry for the short update, readers. I almost didn't make it in time to write and update, but made it with an hour to spare! Hope you'll forgive me this time :)
Fenriz is holding my hand as we sense both of the outsiders walking towards the office. They could kill us quickly if they had to band together; there’s no doubt about it. But as Alpha Kai pokes his head in the door, followed by Luna Caterina and a bearded, scary-looking man I assume to be Alpha Ryker, I know this is not the case.These people are our allies.“I didn’t think we’d be seeing each other again so soon,” Alpha Kai comments, and Fenriz stands up to shake his hand before doing the same to Alpha Ryker and Luna Caterina.I was sitting behind the oak desk with Fenriz, so they could not see my belly, but the second I got up to greet them, their eyes grew in surprise. Offering them all a small smile, I walk over to shake their hands as well, then Fenriz wraps a protective arm around me.“I’m sure you two remember my Luna; Ryker, I would like to introduce you to my wife and mate, Umiko,” he says in a voice filled with such pride that I smile brightly. Alpha Ryker visibly blanches
I sink my claws into its flesh and drag them all the way down, watching the black blood slip through my fingers. The last few days after the Alpha meeting has been nothing but a continuous torture session for me; and since these fucks won’t talk, I’ll enjoy their misery. Their groans and screams of pain have been my lullaby, but I don’t let them die easily, not for what they’ve done.Twenty of my best soldiers have been devoured, and these things took their place, twenty lives lost, and I was none the wiser. How many more people will die under my watch? What makes this so much worse is that the one I am currently torturing is the man I trusted with Umiko’s life.“Fenriz, enough,” Andreas pulls my back by my shoulder. “This solves nothing.”I shrug him off and punch through the Marcus shapeshifter’s solar plexus, pulling out his heart and crushing it in my grip. “It helps me get rid of my frustration at being an inept Alpha,” I say, ripping the body in two.Andreas sighs but says nothi
“Yes, they’ve declared war on me and mine, and I will rip each one of them in two for what they’ve done!” Fenriz’s voice breaks through the pain as I notice that he’s on his cell phone. The person on the other end sounds like Alpha Kai, but it might be Alpha Ryker too.I could still smell Frigga’s blood on Fenriz as he rushed to the doctor with me in his arms; I could still feel the thick sadness woven in his scent along with the anxiety of the pending birth of our child.As much as I want to be there for him, to comfort him and tell him we’ll find the ones responsible for killing innocent Frigga; I can’t seem to speak… only scream. My body shudders with pain, and I double over while walking, leaning on the bed in front of me. “I have to go,” he growls, then rushes over to me, caresses my lower back, kisses my forehead, and tells me I’ll be okay.Ahmya paces, her worry not easing me at all. /“You’ll be okay, Umiko, you have me as your strength, and nothing can-”/“Fuck!” Fenriz groa
“Sleep, my queen,” I whisper, caressing Umiko’s hair and watching as she falls asleep in record time. She’s exhausted and has been through a lot these past few hours, so she can do with the rest.When I open the door, I see Yui waiting with an anxious expression on her face, and I walk over to her. “She’s sleeping, but you can go in so long and wait until she wakes up. I’m sure she wants you there.” I say, catching the smile and tears in the eyes of Umiko’s closest friend.She nods, then slips in behind me. I station four men outside our room, four men I had thoroughly checked for any sign of them being a traitor or the like, then I walk to my office where Andreas and Freyja are stationed. After the death of the little hellion, I haven’t been able to grieve or make sense of what happened because Umiko’s water broke. But I am ready for vengeance, even more so now that Arkyn has been born.As soon as I open the office door, a blonde bullet is at my side and crushes my ribs in an embrac
The cry of a baby immediately wakes me from a deep sleep, and I sit up straight in bed. It takes me a few seconds to register that I am in the main bedroom and that the baby crying is my own.“Oh!” I exclaim and jump out of bed, only to realize that the crying has stopped and that Fenriz is standing next to the bassinet with our baby in his arms.“I think the little man is hungry again,” he says, and I groan loudly. It’s been three days, and it feels as if someone has taken sandpaper to my nipples. “I know, but unfortunately, he’s the boss right now.”I hold out my arms and beckon my husband over. “You Vega men are needy,” I mumble, to which he only chuckles and kisses the side of my head. The irritability in me is simply for show, though; I love this time with Arkyn, and I love how Fenriz looks at me when I’m breastfeeding.Everything has been relatively quiet over the last few days after Frigga died. We held a funeral pyre for her a day ago, but I had to leave as soon as possible be
A knock on the bedroom door gets my attention while I’m burping Arkyn, and when I look up, it’s straight into Freyja’s green eyes. She hasn’t left her bedroom for over two weeks and refused to see anyone, even Andreas, so the fact that she’s here leaves me surprised.“Freyja, love,” I murmur and beckon her over to sit next to me on the bed after I’ve put Arkyn back in his crib. She sighs, then walks over and sits in the space I’ve gestured, but when she eventually looks into my eyes, I see a broken woman.One I can relate to.“I was born today twenty-six years ago,” she whispers, then looks down again, and tears fall into her open palms. “Frigga and I always said that one day when we escape out of the hole, we would shift and run for every birthday that follows to signify our freedom, but now… now I’m alone and without the person I loved more than myself.”Her shoulders don’t even shake as she silently cries, but I can tell from her racing heart and melancholic scent that no matter ho
Fenriz“Are you sure?”“Affirmative, Alpha; Kaen has just landed and is departing his private jet with his entourage in tow.”Umiko, Andreas, and I look at one another with the thrum of something unspoken passing between the three of us. We’ve planned for this since Ahmya told us of his plans, and now we have to act on it - Kaen dies today, and that’s the end of it.After our defenses were breached without me even being aware of anything, I decided that it would be best to have witches back in theUsuallyormally the pack leaders back in Norway would get the best witches to match the pack, but since my father had all the witches killed last time and Erik Helseth is conspiring against us, I couldn’t risk it.I’ve had to ask Kai for help, so two days ago, he sent his own witch to fortify my barriers. It’s been working better than I hoped; I can sense whenever a non-Vega pack member enters my territory.All but Kaen - the bastard must have cloaked himself.“Funny that he should come on the
I knew something was off as soon as I smelled a different scent, but I didn’t expect to see Umiko wrapped up in the arms of another man.“Someone better explain to me what the fuck is going on before I start breaking necks,” I groan as I get to my feet, still completely out of it and feeling woozy. Umiko runs over to me and places my arm over her shoulder. “I’m not… going to ask again.”The anxiety is thick in her scent when she peers up at me, but then she looks over to the man standing next to what I can only assume is Kaen’s dead body. She sighs, then smiles at the man. It’s only when I look up at him that I notice that he looks suspiciously like Kaen himself.“His name is Asahi-”“I don’t give a fuck what his name is, Umiko. I want to know why he’s here and what the fuck happened while I was out.” I grumble, then look back at the man…then he bows.“Apologies if I have offended you, Alpha Fenriz. Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Kaen Asahi, and Umiko is my youngest sister,”