Taelin-Still having my mouth devoured by Ryker, I barely registered when he lifted me into his arms. I didn’t realize he was carrying me, until he pulled away so he could watch where he was going. Feeling content in his arms, I leaned my head against his shoulder.Cradled in his arms, I allowed him to carry me up the stairs. We barely made it a few feet on the landing before we were swarmed by everyone. I could feel Ryker’s frustration, but I also knew they were just concerned about me.“How are you feeling, Luna?” Sara was the first to ask her question.“Much better. I owe you an apology for putting you in a difficult position.” Lifting my head, I looked at everyone that had gathered around us.“It was no big deal. You are my Luna and friend. I will always be there for you when you need me.” Sara smiled with delight.“Who would have thought you would be the key to the cure. Is it a lot of pressure?” Ryan was the next to speak.“Did it hurt?” Carter asked next before I had a chance t
Taelin-For the rest of the night, Ryker and I took advantage of every place in the house. We moved from the stairs, to the hall, to the bathroom, to the bed, back to the stairs, the living room, and even the kitchen. Other than my mother’s room, we did a full workup of each other’s bodies.The shower had happened twice. Once standing up in the shower, the next taking a bath. Currently, we are back in my bed, where we just finished our tenth or so round. We would have continued if it weren’t for the fact that I got hit with morning sickness.At least now, it wasn’t nearly as bad as it had been before the infection took over me. It quickly passed, but we decided to stop for now. I was laying on my back, with my head propped against a pillow, as Ryker laid on his side and held me.For a moment I thought he had fallen asleep because he hadn’t moved for a few minutes. I couldn’t complain though because I was enjoying just laying here with him. His head was resting on my chest, while his a
Taelin- “You did what?” I asked the Alpha King incredulously. “I have sent for your friend Theo to be brought here. He is due to arrive at some point today. When we knew we were close to creating a cure, I figured you would want him here. The thing is though, he is in,” The Alpha King paused as he looked over his shoulder at Ryan. “She calls them tanks. Stage three rogues.” Ryan answered the Alpha King’s unspoken question. “Ah, yes. He has entered the third stage of the transformation. I believed you would want to cure him soon. I also thought it would be an effective way to test the cure before we send it out.” The Alpha King finished. When Ryker and I returned to the packhouse, this had not been what I expected. Leo had met us in the clinic, to run some more tests. He also drew a little more blood from me because he needed more. I had told him to take as much as he needed, if it didn’t leave me weak or hurt anything. We both agreed that it was for the best that we only filled o
Taelin-After finding the ring, I placed it in a safe spot, in my room. No matter how hard I tried to stop it, I ended up breaking down into tears again. I was never one to cry, so this was only starting to annoy me every time I became emotional over something that shouldn’t make me emotional.Being that we had barely made it ten minutes at the packhouse without me getting sick and crying, I decided I wasn’t in any shape to return. Until I had a better hold on my hormones, I was a walking timebomb right now. It took a bit of convincing, but I had Ryker leave to take care of things without me.It has only been an hour since he left, but at least I managed to keep myself busy with fixing my bedroom door. The bathroom was going to take a bit more work, but I made it look a little more bearable. I was only glad that I hadn’t started crying again.A knock on the front door caught my attention. I had just sat down in the living room, in an attempt to read the book my mother left behind. It
Taelin-Arriving at the packhouse, I was overwhelmed with a rush of anxiety. Pausing outside of the door, I took a deep breath before opening the door. I could tell Ryker was being patient with me, but I was starting to feel a little coddled.I was a warrior, yet ever since I became pregnant, my emotions have been all over the place. I needed to get control before I felt every emotion I have locked up over the years. My entire life I have trained to become a warrior, which meant I had to keep myself levelheaded.“Do you need a minute?” Ryker asked when I paused once more at the top of the stairs that would lead us to the basement.Shaking my head, I focused on my breathing and not my emotions. During the last few steps, I heard thrashing around inside a metal cage. Like something exceptionally large was trying to break free.“If we don’t get a hold of him, he is going to break free!” A familiar female voice yelled from the basement.Taking the last few steps, I stopped cold when I saw
Taelin-“How are you here?” I asked Amanda, after coming back downstairs and joining her in the living room.We were sitting on the couch, while the men were in the dining room, aside from Theo, who I left in his room. I thought Sara would have returned to the packhouse by now, but I had a feeling she was staying away from Carter until she figured out what she wanted. In the meantime, I figured I would talk to Amanda since I had a lot of questions.“After I left, I went home for a bit, and then I was kicked out. My family decided I wasn’t good enough because I left the program. Shortly after, the Alpha King contacted me and asked me to return because he needed to discuss something with me.” She crossed her legs on the couch as she spoke.“He told me that I was good enough to become a warrior, but he understood that the boys were making it difficult. I tried arguing with him that you were doing good, but he just said you were different. Everyone can see just how special you were, even
Taelin-Returning to my house, Sara was still where I left her. “Figured out what you are going to do?” I asked, joining her on the couch once more.“I think so, but I don’t know if it is the right thing to do. Carter is great and I know he will make an amazing mate.” The look on Sara’s face made me think there was a ‘but’ that was supposed to follow what she said.“But?” I asked, getting straight to the point.“But, I don’t know if I love him. I like him a lot and I get excited when he is around, but it is mostly because he is so hot. We get along well as friends and yet I don’t feel that I can be my complete self around him. Not like I was before I had to become serious because of what happened to our kind.”“What makes you think that?”“We used to fight, and he picked on me a lot, called me annoying. I didn’t like him too much either. This war has changed us, but now that we have the cure, I can be myself more. What happens if he doesn’t like who I was, and we end up getting in a s
Special treat: Theo’s POVThe moment my eyes met hers, my ideals about not believing in fate vanished into thin air. I had always thought that Taelin was the woman I was meant to spend the rest of my life with. She had been beautiful, kind, funny, and everything a man could ever want and desire.Never in my life had I believed the fated mate thing was real. Yeah, I heard about it, but I figured it was more of a myth than anything. Even if I believed it at one point, I figured it was just a primal desire to mate with someone.Kind of in the sense that one was overcome with a sexual desire for someone. I didn’t want to be with a female if all I wanted to do was have sex with her. I had thought I wanted someone like Taelin.Granted, I had definitely wanted her sexually, but it was nothing like how I was feeling at this exact moment. Every cell in my body came alive the moment I saw Sara. All the feelings I have ever thought I had about Taelin, just disappeared.For the first time, I unde