Gemini is special, a blessed wolf or so her Alpha keeps telling her. With the ability to take others pain and heal them since she was twelve she’s been stuck in this “blessed life” of pain and suffering. But it’s not until her brother is exiled that she realizes she’s not an asset to her pack— She’s a prisoner. And she wants out. Roscoe is cursed, the Lycan King forced to live outside his pack in order for it to thrive. For years he has suffered in silence searching for the key to release him from his own personal hell and for years he’s searched in vein. But when an offering goes awry he finds himself face to face with the twists of fate and he isn’t sure what to do with it—well, her. He thinks she is an offering, and she thinks she can escape him. But can one ever really escape fate?
View More*Rocky* My heart wreaks havoc in my chest, beating angrily with every measured breath. They broke her. They fucking yore her to shreds and even as I witness the carnage with my very own eyes, my brain can’t seem to comprehend. Anger burns through my veins, my lycan wanting to rise to the surface as I look at the three people watching Jude and Gemini reunite. “Are they dead?” I ask, my voice a growly demand. “I don’t know.” The older girl murmurs, her eyes not leaving Jude. “Where?” I grunt, and the male with them nods over his shoulder. “Back that way.” He says as I march forward, stepping around the kid and sniffing the air. “Rocky…” His hoarse voice speaks my name and my skin tingles, and I can’t bring myself to look at her. Right now, I need vengeance. To go and make sure each asshole is dead that did this. And to find that fucking asshole Alder and dislodge his head from his body. “Alpha.” Jude says, sounding younger than I have treated him. I look at him, seeing the panic
It’s magical, the way the rain patters down on my heated flesh, cooling me and providing me with even the tiniest amount of comfort. Blossom looks like she is sobbing, crying out something I can’t quite comprehend. My body jostles as I blink, unable to feel anything, my body numb as I focus on her. She tries to move toward me, but someone pulls her back, dragging her away. A glint of something metallic catches light from somewhere and my wolf perks up. My ears ring as my body jostles again and I’m forced onto my back, staring up at the grey dark sky that unleashes its wrath. I realize the light is lightning violently cracking like a whip across the clouds. The ground rumbles beneath me and I look for Blossom once more. Elliot stalks toward her, knife in hand. The sound of rushing water and grumbling thunder come rushing back into my ears and I gasp out as pain explodes through my body. No longer numb to what they have been doing to my back.I force my wolf to stop healing, to focus
*Gemini* Blossom sings quietly to herself through tears and sniffles, occasionally hitting against the metal cage wall like she just can’t handle the confined space anymore. I wish there was something I could say or do to let her know it will all be okay, but truth be told, I’m not sure I’d buy that line if someone fed it to me. So instead I choose to distract her. “How long have you been in here, Blossom?” I whisper. Her singing stops, and I hear her as she shuffles closer. “A few days, I think.” She sighs. “Do you think Vi is okay?” “I know she is.” I smile to myself, remembering the girl who tried to drag me to safety before she had to retreat.I get it now, her reasoning for abandoning me. She has someone who needs her more. Yet she still tried to save me.“Do you have a family?” Blossom asks and I think of my baby brother who I’m sure no longer looks or acts like a baby. He has a tender heart and uncommon process of logical thinking. He is strange, but he is blood and damn, d
*Rocky*“I thought you knew the way out of here?” I grunt, watching as Jude stands at yet another underground crossroads with his torch. He has one hand on his hip, his head swinging side to side, as if he can’t decide which route to take.“It’s this way,” He says confidently, pointing with his light as he turns to the right.“You’re sure?” I ask and he snorts. “Yes. I will admit, at times, I get a little turned around down here, but I do always make it out. Plus, all of these lead out, but each one takes us somewhere different.”“They were near the lake hours ago….” I tell him, and he shakes his head.“No, you were out for a long time, dude. I swear to you they are long beyond the lake now.”It’s not that what he is saying doesn’t make sense. It’s logical and wise, but it makes me on edge. Maybe it’s knowing that anything could have happened to Gemini in those hours I was out. But maybe it’s because I’m not used to having someone who wants to also take the lead.It’s not a power com
Panic takes over every sense as my body presses against a muddy wall. I slide down the steep side of the cliff, my fingers scratching hopelessly as I try grip anything to stop my fast descent. My foot catches on something hard, my body crumbling over it as start to roll back away from the safety of the side of the cliff. Everything moves in slow motion, my arms flying out the cry the breaks from my lips as I tumble backwards rolling head over heels pain lacing through my body as I try to catch my breath. I land with a heavy thud, what little oxygen I have in my body evaterpates as I wheeze. Cold rain hammers me in the face, mud splashing around me as small rocks land and settle in. I know I have to get up and move, to try and run away but getting my fingers twitch is the best I can do. The rain stops Over my face and I focus my eyes on the face directly above mine. A young woman blinks at me then tilts her head, a frown on her lips as she squats and reaches through the mud beneath
*Gemini*“Do you have any more food?” Alder asks from behind me as we slush through the onslaught of rain.I clench my jaw, trying not to snap at him. I am tired, my body aching and my shivering in the fucking icy rain and all this kid can think about is food? Food that is my rations, because he has once again eaten all the food set aside for him under the guise of ‘I’m still growing and your said you are used to eating very little.’“Nope,” I grind out, not bothering to look behind me.“Nothing?” he scoffs. “Are you sure?”What the hell is wrong with this guy? Seriously. Did his mother drop him on the head too many times on his thick skull or is he really this entitled? This has to be a facade, a way to test me and try to break me, for what I have no clue, but this can not be real life right now. “I am sure, Alder.” I sigh heavily.I can hear him grumbling behind me, but I block it out, wiping the rain from my face as we come up to a small cliff overlooking the forest. At least we m
I stare at the wall, looking back and forth between the pictures and the words. The disgusting history of my kind and what is actually the real reason for this curse? I come from a long line of self important assholes.We were given the task of protecting and living with the werewolves, to even find our mates from amongst them and yet…we slaughtered them. For what? To feel more powerful? To showcase how strong we are? Selfish doesn’t even come close to what they were, what we have been for years. We deserve this and I hate with every fiber of my being that I know it now. Do we even deserve freedom? The more I sit here and really digest what the hell I am looking at, the less I believe we do. The story we have been told…the lies surrounding our punishment make us seem innocent.Stained with our ancestors’ sins is the least of our problems. We are meant to be humbled and even in that we have failed in our punishment. Is our innocence of it all now enough to save us from our wrongs?“Fu
*Rocky*In and out. That’s all I can manage right now as I lay on my back. I don’t dare open my eyes for fear of the splitting headache. I can feel growing running rampant like a fire given oxygen. My chest aches as my lungs cry for oxygen, my arms too heavy to lift and my legs unwilling to listen to my commands.So I focus on my breathing. In through my nose, out through my mouth and repeat. My lycan is nowhere to be found, hiding away as he rests from probably saving me. How I can’t remember, all I know is one minute I was fighting for my damn life in the water and the next I am where the air is damp and musty but it’s oxygen so I don’t really give a shit how it smells. It feels like heaven in my lungs.My fingers twitch as something tickles them, my skin cooled, and a shiver runs up my spine. I think I am cold, or something is touching me, but my brain is too slow to register that we are in danger. Against my body’s will, I force my eyes open, looking into the darkness down my body
*Gemini*I want to be mad at Rocky for following us, even though it is unreasonable to be angry at him for it. But it’s easier to find anger since I’m already annoyed about making zero headway for the past two days.I sit on the ground recalling his smug expression as he called us out for walking in circles. As it turns out, Alder is worse at navigation than I am, which isn’t saying much since I’m terrible. Alder’s problem is he hasn’t quite come to terms yet with his lack of skill. Instead, he blames the scenery, claiming the beautiful meadow distracts him or that it all looks the same, so we are making headway and I just need to put my trust in him. Easy for him to say when he seems to trust so easily, too easily, if I’m being honest. Night creeps in and I remain vigilant, looking at the trees, watching the leaves as a low breeze dances through them, giving me glimpses of the moon. It’s darker than it usually is at night, and I can tell it’s the overcast sky that is making it this
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