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*** Halle ***I watch in disbelief as my best friend walks into the café holding hands with Alpha Manzitti Goldrick. What the actual fuck is going on? I also groan internally as I see the Alpha has brought his obnoxiously rude sister, I cannot be bothered sparring with her today, she is like a chihuahua constantly ankle biting and retorting and yapping.Brad converses with them with ease, he quickly addresses Alpha Manzitti and Lieutenant Slayne before hugging Helen and inviting them all to sit. I notice the protective way the Alpha looks at Helen especially when Brad hugs her. I wonder!“Eve, what happened? You finished work and then there was no sign of you after you left to get into your car.” I look at her with concern, especially when her eyes fill with tears.“I was kidnapped, Sal. Just before I got to my car someone grabbed me and stuck a sack over me and took me away somewhere. I was bound and gagged and locked in a cage. I missed Summer’s pick up. Alan the piece of shit refus
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*** Manzitti ***I tell Slayne to leave her motorbike and travel with Helen and me, and despite her moans, she does as she is asked. It's nice having Helen here. Slayne seems to want to make a good impression and isn’t half as annoying and outspoken as she usually is. I could get used to this.We decided in the café before we left that Brad, and I would knock and pose as businessmen since we both have a shirt and tie on. We will make enquiries and try and listen out for signs of a child. When we give the signal, Helen will approach with Slayne and Halle and demand that this Carole woman tells her where Summer is.“I will mindlink Slayne when the time is right for you to come to the door, okay, Shortie?” She nods at me and then frowns.“When you say mindlink, do you mean you can talk to each other in your heads, like telepathy?” My sister laughs and I growl at her. She had best not mock my mate, I will kill her if she does.“Sorry, Alpha,” Slayne says and she sounds contrite, so I let
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*** Helen ***I cry until I am numb with shock. Where is Summer? What has that woman done with my precious little girl? Halle and Brad want to stay with me but I tell them I need to be alone, I can’t keep up this pretence in front of them. I am dying inside and need to be able to just feel this pain, to know I haven’t lost my mind. This is real, my daughter has been taken away from me.“I will see you tomorrow, Sal, please just go home and get some sleep. I want to be on my own. Thank you, Ale, thank you for everything.” I shut the car door and run to my home before Halle tries to force me into accepting her company.As soon as the front door is shut and bolted, I hear Brad’s car drive away and then I sink to my knees and cry. I have cried like this only once before and the incident that caused my reaction pales in comparison to the loss of my child even though at the time, I felt like I wanted to die.My miserable state of mind allows me to recall the harrowing incidents of living in
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Back then, being sexually humiliated by my husband and then scorned by him caused me to feel like life wasn’t worth living anymore, but that is nothing in comparison to not knowing what has happened to my daughter and facing an eternity not knowing how or where she is.Alan is well and truly out of my life now and I will never, ever want or need him again. I stayed shackled to him for far too long for all the wrong reasons. My marriage never failed because of me or because my mother has several failed marriages too. It failed because the piece of shit I married treated it as a joke and made a mockery of every pledge, vow and promise we made to each.I do shoulder some of the blame. I am starting to suspect I never truly loved Alan. I married in haste because my new stepdad frightened me, and because I felt flattered by all the attention Alan showered on me. Whatever it was that drove me to accept his proposal, I tried to give our union my best shot, but he never did and therefore it w
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*** Manzitti ***I watch my little sister looking out the window as Beta Ivan leaves the pack territory and I am there to catch her when she falls and cries.“He left Manzitti. He actually fucking left,” she says as she howls in pain. “He said he would never leave, but you all do eventually”.“Hey, I’m still here!” I remind her through her uncontrollable sobs. “And you could have asked Ivan to stay. He would have stayed if you had asked him.”She looks at me like I’ve grown an extra head. “I can’t just ask him to stay, he wants me to mark him, Manzitti.”“That’s what we do. We are first and foremost werewolves. We are territorial about what belongs to us. How would you feel about a load of girls coming on to Ivan when he goes to a bar later, since he is unmarked and therefore fair game. He has wanted you to be his for seven years, Slayne, and seven years you have been with him and no other. Who are you trying to kid, me or yourself, Sis? Because you’re fooling no one. Take your time a
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*** Ivan ***Slaynes' hurt and resentment is building up inside me and blending with my own. Why did the Moon Goddess mate me with such a resisting and challenging woman? I have nearly turned back on three occasions and told her it's ok, she doesn’t have to decide but I know that I will end up begrudging her and her unwillingness to be as one with me.I love her, probably too much, and I don’t want to hate her. I cannot hate her because deep down I know it’s not me she’s resisting. What she really fears is commitment and abandonment. I don’t want to leave her, leave my home, leave my friends and family, or my position. I hate it all.Pushing past the desire to turn around, I drive the van to Helen’s house and set up a discrete perimeter for us to maintain, and only ten minutes pass before a dark figure approaches Helen’s house. I stay back, assessing what is happening but I feel giddy in anticipation of a ruckus, and I am amazed that what I thought would be a lazy and pointless babysi
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*** Helen ***It felt so good to tell Alan to leave and I would see him in court. The absolute cheek of him, coming here demanding to see Summer after all this time. He has the audacity to call me names and bring my fidelity into question when Melanie basically told me they have been together for longer than Alan and I have.I am thankful that Manzitti sent Ivan although I think I would have preferred him to be here himself. I have been so nervous all night that I haven’t slept properly and it’s a mix of terror for my baby and anticipation of seeing Manzitti again. I am embarrassed about my outburst; goodness knows what impression that gave him of me.He arrives at my house at 7.15 and from upstairs I hear him asking Ivan and the other two wolf-men to go get some breakfast and return at 8am. He comes upstairs where I am sitting at my dresser brushing my hair, I am already dressed and ready to leave.“Helen?” He calls to me from the landing and my heart melts at his thoughtfulness.“I’
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*** Halle ***“Sal, did you hear what I said?” My ears are ringing and I feel like I am separate from my body. This cannot be happening. This cannot be true.“Bebe, please look at me, I am so sorry. Your mother found him this morning when he didn’t wake as usual.” I hear his words, but they don’t make sense, it can’t be real. I shake my head at Brad, the man my father chose for me and the one I had resisted until last night when we finally had sex and I agreed to marry him. And then my father, the man who orchestrated this very union goes and dies just as it began.He can’t be dead; he is the strongest person I know.Brad had insisted on us getting back into his car when we left Helen’s house and he drove us a short distance away to an empty car park. He shut off the engine and took my hands in his as he told my father had passed away.“No, he is not dead. He can’t die.” I see the torment in Brad’s eyes and the truth starts to dawn on me: my papa is really gone. I hear a distressed cr
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