Jessica counted the moments that things would start feeling normal again. She couldn’t remember the last time she was happy; maybe it was her wedding day. But she wasn’t even sure about that anymore. She wanted, so badly, to love Greggory and everything he had to offer. But so far, all he had to offer was a life of abuse and torment. She wanted to love him, but all she could do was hate him.It broke her heart knowing what a mistake she’s made. She wasn’t even sure who she was anymore. Arina didn’t want her to go back to Greggory after she saw the bruise he left on the nape of her neck, but Jessica felt she didn’t have a choice at that moment. Regardless of everything, he was still her husband, her Alpha. She was his luna. She made a vow to him, a promise to stand by him no matter what and love him. She couldn’t break that vow; the marking on her shoulder blade proved that she was his for a lifetime.She couldn’t go against that. Regardless of how badly she wanted to.Jessica had neve
Ronnie and Erick made themselves comfortable in the guest bedroom; I didn’t feel okay with them staying another moment in Ironclaw knowing that Ronnie has been marked by Willa. I wanted to keep Ronnie close to me at all costs.Now I just worried about Jessica; it’s been a day or so since she returned home to Moon-Valley to be with Greggory, and I haven’t heard from her. I figured I would hear from her by now; I even tried to reach her through the wolf link, but I haven’t been able to get through to her. Jonathan could read the worry on my face and wrapped me in his arms to hold me close to him.“I will go investigate in the morning,” Jonathan promised me. “I’m sure she’s fine.”But I wasn’t so sure about that; I had a wolf instinct that something was terribly wrong. I didn’t have too much time to dwell on it though because I could hear Emee crying from her bedroom. I rushed into her room, terrified about what I could possibly find in there.Thankfully, she was okay. She was just awak
Jonathan reached Moon-Valley within minutes of traveling in his wolf form. He could already smell Greggory everywhere and on every female. It was disgusting what he was doing to Jessica. That bruise on her neck was done by Greggory; there was no doubt in his mind about that. The fact that he’s an Alpha, and like Rock, uses his force to hurt his luna.Greggory was somebody that Jonathan had once trusted; he thought of Greggory as a friend at one point. Back when Arina resided in Moon-Valley and attended their art school, he befriended Greggory. He was just a young boy who wanted to have a good time but couldn’t because he had so many responsibilities. He couldn’t truly be a kid.Even after Jonathan’s 18th birthday, when he found out that his mate was Arina and he couldn’t hang around her anymore, he remained close to Greggory.He was always a flirt with the ladies around his pack, even the ladies outside of his pack, but he never thought of Greggory to be the violent type. He couldn’t
“What the hell happened?!” Jonathan asked as he stared at me.I could ask him the same thing, but I understood why he was worried and angry as soon as he saw me. I was covered in blood; it wasn’t my blood though. It was Dominic’s. I didn’t have the time to clean myself off and change before Jonathan came home. I just finished hiding Dominic’s body and my body was still trembling in fear of what had just happened.“He was trying to kidnap our daughter,” I shot back in my defense. I mean, what else was he expecting me to do? Allow for someone to take Emee and bring her back to Greggory. Over my dead body would I ever allow for that to happen. “Greggory sent him to take Emee for whatever reason.”Jonathan’s face fell.“So, you killed Dominic?” Jonathan asked.I rolled my eyes.“I had to do what I could to protect Emee,” I told him; I was aware I sounded aggravated.“We don’t kill other wolves, Arina,” Jonathan argued.“What about Graham?” I nearly hissed; it wasn’t fair that he was fight
Days later, Jessica remained at Dr. Beverly’s office in her coma. There have been no signs of her waking up which has been troubling for us all. Spencer stayed by her side constantly; he refused to leave for a while. He hardly slept; it pulled at my heart to see someone who genuinely cared about Jessica to be by her side, and she doesn’t even know it.Jonathan filled me in with everything he found out about Spencer; how his mom gave him up to a random couple that treated him poorly. He lived a life being taken advantage of, abused, tortured, and left for dead. He eventually escaped those horrid conditions, thankfully. But, on his travels, he had a dream about my mother, and she told him he needed to get to Moon-Valley. For some reason, she was steering him towards Jessica. Jonathan managed to convince Spencer to stay with us in one of the guest bedrooms for right now until he can figure out what his next move is. We told him he was more than welcome to reside in Sabrebite predominate
As we were heading back to Sabrebite, Spencer wolf-linked us to let us know that Jessica had woken up. But he said something was wrong and that we needed to get back right away. I couldn’t imagine would possibly be wrong; I mean, she actually woke up. That was huge. Dr. Beverly was apprehensive about her not waking up, which made us worried that she wasn’t going to wake up as well. I was excited to see her and find out everything that happened.Jonathan kept telling me that I can’t hassle her with questions. I needed to let her rest and come to terms with what happened to begin with.“You weren’t there, Arina,” he said as we approached Dr. Beverly’s office. “It was really bad. She was beaten to a point where she was almost unrecognizable until we got the blood cleaned off her face and some of the swellings went down.”“I get that, but don’t you want to know her side of the story. Like what set him off, to begin with?” I asked, staring up at him.He looked disappointed in my question;
After spending a few hours at the doctor’s office with Jessica, Jonathan and I decided it was time to head home and spend the rest of the evening with Emee. With Greggory still out there and on the hunt for her, we weren’t nervous about leaving Emee alone any longer than we needed to. Jess hadn’t reached out to either of us since we left for Silverside that morning, so that was definitely a good sign.I was tired of being away from Emee and wished we could have a bit of normalcy. However, we also needed to figure out a way to protect Ronnie from the wrath of Willa. I was scared that she was going to make her move soon if we didn’t do something about it and I wasn’t even sure what it was we could do to stop her.I wished more than anything that my mother was there to help us. I stared up at the moon and saw her rays lighting up our passageway home. She was always there watching over us and for some reason she was also watching over Spencer as well. The fact that she trusts Spencer make
Ronnie felt as though she was no longer her own person; she wanted to trust and believe Arina and Jonathan when they said they were going to protect her, but she couldn’t help but fear that Willa was going to get to her before they even had the chance to summon Naomi and defeat her.Erick also worried; Ronnie hasn’t been sleeping and she’s hardly been eating. She knew she worried him by how she was acting but he was too nice to say anything to her besides express his concern for her wellbeing. She was thankful that he was still by her side regardless of everything that was happening. She felt bad because she felt as though she was bringing all this danger and drama into his life, but he kept reassuring her that it wasn’t her fault and that nothing was going to chase him away.He was her mate after all. Literally, nothing could chase him off regardless of how hard she tried.Boris had come by last night to tell them that Nikini was dead and that Melissa/Willa was missing. He didn’t kno