Eva Longwood has been a priestess of the Holy Lunar Convent her whole life, where worshipping the goddess and maintaining her purity are the two most important aspects of her existence. However, that all changes when the ruthless Cyrus Daxen steps into the convent to confess his sins, igniting the bond of matehood between them. Serving the goddess is her destiny, and she never imagined that her fate would be entwined with one of the most fearsome werewolves that ever walked the earth. His determination to have her at all costs creates a drift between them, and leaves Eva torn between choosing to fulfill her duty and giving into her most primal instincts. And matters get even worse when his brother, Nox Daxen, steps into the picture. Eva realizes that she is bound to not one, but two Daxen brothers. Only, this one doesn’t want to mate with her. Instead, he wants to kill her. Eva is forced to fight for her survival in an environment that is a long shot from the safety of the convent walls, one where people harbor resentments toward her for the mistakes of her ancestors, and seek revenge at all costs. At the same time, she must fight and conquer temptation, and strive to reserve her sanctity. Can she fight that which her body craves for with every fiber of her being, or will she lose the battle of her soul, and give in to the wicked desires that have haunted her mind since she met the Daxen brothers?
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When Head Priestess Bathsheba banged on the door to wake us up in the middle of the night, I could hardly keep my eyes open long enough to look at the closed door. My eyelids were glued together with sleep. It was only when she knocked a second time that my roommate Danna and I opened our eyes.“Girls, wake up! Alpha Cyrus is here!”We both sat up at the same time, looking at each other in confusion. Head Priestess Bathsheba must have grown impatient with us because she opened the door and didn’t ask for permission to do it first, like she usually did.“Didn’t you hear what I said!?” she asked desperately. She was dressed in her full attire, and even had the veil over her head.“What’s he doing here?” Danna asked, sleep lacing her voice.“It hardly matters!” she exclaimed. “I need two juniors with me right this instant. We must accept the Alpha of our beloved pack with the greatest respect. Dress up as quickly as you can, and meet me downstairs!”She closed the door, leaving us alone again. We exchanged a glance and quickly slid out of bed. My clothes were washed and hanging in my small closet, so I had no trouble getting ready for the event downstairs.Danna was still stumbling into her dress, and grumpily commented, “It’s two in the morning! Why would he want to pay us a visit at this ungodly hour?”I sighed before responding, “There’s no right time to make a confession and live by the rules of our goddess, Luna.”Danna rolled her eyes. “Yeah, sure. The goddess has no right time to be spoken to, but we do!”I ignored her ramblings as I walked over to the mirror and put my head covering over my head before using the veil to cover my face as all juniors did. I only stared at the mirror for half a minute—staring longer than necessary would be a sin. When I was done, I turned to Danna and announced, “I’m ready.”She seemed to be in a terrible mood because she said, “You’re not going to get an award for that, you know? They can wait.”My cheeks flushed, and without allowing myself to get upset with her, I said, “I’ll wait for you outside. Please, make haste.”Danna was ready in five minutes, and together, we walked down the wide dimly lit corridor before heading to the stairs right at the end of the hall. Our feet made light noises on the stone steps, which were dark because all the lights had been turned off for bedtime. I was careful not to trip, and made it successfully down the stairs.We walked into the chapel, and I saw that Head Priestess Bathsheba was with Priestess Juvia and our teacher, Priestess Lila. She smiled when she saw us—she’d always been kinder than the others—and in a hushed voice, said, “I specifically requested the two of you. You’re my best students, and I’m sure you’ll represent us to the best of your abilities.”I colored with pleasure, but Danna appeared ashamed, probably because of how reluctant she was to wake up.“Now that we’re all here,” Head Priestess Bathsheba began, turning to us as well, “we can start. The Alpha was kind enough to wait for us at the door. Eva, grab those scented candles and hold them up. Danna, you too. I will open the door for him, and allow him to enter. You will both bow to him when you see him, and I will then accompany him to the confessional. Afterward, we will utter a small prayer for him—the Hail Luna—and he will depart. Understood?”I nodded eagerly, and Danna grumbled a yes.In all my years of training, this would be the first time I would attend such a ritual. I was still a student, but when I turned twenty-one in two weeks, I would be old enough to take my vows and swear fealty to Luna. I’d become a Priestess.And then, I’d be the one to perform rituals like this, and hear confessions from those who wished to repent their sins and worship our goddess in the correct and traditional way.I was glad that the Alpha of our Silver Crescent pack was a devout man.He had such a bad reputation, and I was beginning to wonder why when he clearly cared about the fate of his soul.I waited anxiously for the door to open. My face was hidden behind a veil, so I couldn’t see all that clearly, but I was excited and wanted to observe as much as I could. I’d cherish this moment until the rest of my days, and couldn’t wait to share it with the other girls tomorrow.They’d be so delighted to hear about how I helped the Head Priestess save the soul of our beloved Alpha!When the doors opened, and I heard Head Priestess Bathsheba’s voice welcoming the Alpha, shivers raced down my spine. She said, “Thank you for being here, Alpha Cyrus. Words cannot describe how pleased I am to receive you into our blessed Holy Lunar Convent. I am Head Priestess Bathsheba, and I will be taking your confession today.”“Thank you, Head Priestess,” the Alpha responded, and upon hearing the sound of his voice, I shivered unnaturally, so much that my teeth clenched together and the candles wobbled in my hand. Danna stole a glance at me, probably because we were both supposed to stand perfectly still, just as we practiced countless times in the past.But I couldn’t explain what happened to me. For a moment, it was like I lost control of my body.Besides, I’d never heard the sound of a man’s voice before. Perhaps the depth of it was what caught me off guard.Their footsteps were growing closer to us, and I prayed to Luna for strength. I didn’t want to make a careless mistake, not when Priestess Lila was counting on me to portray a good image to the Alpha.He contributed generously to our Convent every year. If it weren’t for him, we’d all starve to death, or worse, the Convent would never exist, and our faith would be forgotten.In other words, we had to impress him, and I knew this without having to be told.They stopped right in front of us, and I didn’t dare to look up even though I wanted to. A strange sensation took over my body, and it felt like hundreds of spiders were crawling on my skin. Even so, I kept still I didn’t move an inch.“This is Priestess Juvia, and this is Priestess Lila. They will be leading the prayers today. And behind them are the priestesses-in-training—Eva and Danna. They will be the ones to—”She was rudely interrupted by something, and when I sneaked a glance at them, I saw that the Alpha had put a hand up to silence her, and he was looking around in alarm, his nostrils flared.That scent. It was so strange and foreign…what was it?Was it him?I couldn’t take my eyes away from him once my gaze had settled on him. I was mesmerized, both by his presence and his appearance. I’d never heard the sound of a man’s voice before, much less seen one, but something within me suspected that this wasn’t the reason why I was so entranced by him.When his gaze met mine, his eyes widened slightly, and a single word left his lips. “Mate.”I was too stunned to understand what was happening, but when he’d said the word, it suddenly made sense to me. Our eyes met through the veil, and a few seconds passed. Maybe more. I didn’t dare to look at the Priestesses. I was afraid of what I’d see written across their faces.The silence in the chapel was deafening.“Mate,” he repeated before stepping forward. Ignoring Head Priestess Bathsheba’s cries, he closed the distance between us and ripped the veil from my face. They gasped. I gasped. I was so horrified by what he’d done that I dropped the candles and stepped away from him. He noticed this, and stepped on the flames growing between us to prevent them from spreading everywhere. I watched my veil burn right before my eyes, and my heart dropped to the pit of my stomach.“Alpha Cyrus!” Head Priestess Bathsheba exclaimed. “What have you done!? You’re not supposed to look into her face! She is a priestess!”Alpha Cyrus arched a brow at her words, and without looking at her, retorted, “I can do whatever I want, Head Priestess. I am the Alpha, and this woman standing before me is my mate.”EvaThe sound of Jace calling me interrupted my train of thoughts. I looked over my shoulder and saw him running toward me, holding something. It appeared to me like his toy superhero was broken again, and he sounded like he was going to cry. “Mommy, look!”I took the toy from him and offered him a gentle smile. “When Daddy comes home, he’s going to fix it, okay? I don’t know how to.”My son looked at his toes and made a disheartened noise in the back of his throat. I knelt in front of him, grabbed him by the arms, and said, “Hell be back soon. He just went to get something.”He huffed an, “Okay.”“Why don’t you sit down and I’ll bring you something to drink,” I said. “What do you want? Some juice? Soda?”“Juice!”Just like that, he was cheerful again, the broken toy completely forgotten. I lured him some juice and snacks, and then he sat down and amused himself with eating. I watched him from the kitchen, happy beyond reasoning. The last few years weren’t easy for any of us—but the
CyrusI stopped in front of the door to the shitty apartment. I knew somebody had to be inside because the baby was crying. I could hear it. They didn’t leave him alone, though. They never would have. By now, Kolton was dead. When Brock stopped me from making the biggest mistake of my life, I’d backed away but not without giving it much thought. He guaranteed me that he would kill Kolton as he should have years ago—the way he said it was a confirmation of everything. Our whole story. The reason why Nox left. Why things turned out the way they did. Nox had been right. It was all Brock’s fault. I wasn’t sure how to feel about that for a while. Now, I was sure that I didn’t hold it against him. It happened a long time ago, and maybe I was too grateful for everything he did for me to judge him for something he clearly regretted doing. Maybe I always knew that Nox was right. Deep down, I’d suspected it. But Brock had always been a solid figure in my life, even more than my parents we
NoxAll around us, there was chaos. I could positively say that neither of us expected an ambush from Kolton. He’d taken everything from me, so what else did he want? He wasn’t here; only his men were. The one thing that saved us was that we still had a few weapons left or we would’ve been screwed. Also, Vivian’s people joined us right on time. I could tell by the way they were fighting that they had been thirsty for Redwood blood for a long time. Men. Women. Kolton didn’t discriminate. He had every able-bodied person in his pack fighting us. The only person that wasn’t here was him. Coward. What else did I expect? He loved to watch shit burn from afar. He always had other people doing his dirty work. “Where are you Kolton!?” one of the guys who had been with Vivian asked out loud as he slammed someone’s knees in with a baseball bat. “Where are you hiding!? Come and face us, you fucking rat!”Could I say we were winning the fight? I wasn’t sure. Many of the people here were strang
Eva I cracked an eye open and saw that the sun had risen. I didn’t move for a very long time. I was so tired. Tired of feeling pain. Tired of having to wake up with horrible memories of the night before. It was then that I prayed to the goddess for strength. I couldn’t do this anymore. There was only so much one could take and I’d reached my limit. For a moment, I lied on the hard rocks of the mountain and wished for death. I’d never done it before because all my life, I was raised to believe life was a gift, but my body was tired of fighting. I wasn’t sure how much time passed. I was fully conscious of everything going on around and within me. The sun was high in the sky but it was a bitterly cold day. I knew that my only solution would be to shift and I had to do it quickly or I’d die of hypothermia. However, I couldn’t find the strength to even roll to my side. Then, something incredible happened. I thought about the baby that had been inside of me—the baby I’d been carrying f
Nox Time was going very slowly in this house of horrors. Someone must have injected me with poison and left me sitting on this bench to die because how else could this burning be explained? No, I remembered now why I felt this way. It was when Vic told me that Eva had been taken that I became paralyzed with shock and fear. Despite all our attempts to make sure she wasn’t recognized and found by Kolton, we lost. The baby hadn’t been taken, and Vic was organizing to have him taken home. He was a healthy boy, so why not? The doctor didn’t have any protests. What it sounded to me was that Kolton wasn’t interested in the baby. If he were, he would’ve been gone too. As for the doctor, I could’ve crushed his skull in with my cane and wasted time interrogating him, but there was just no guarantee that he was the one who even placed the call. Maybe it wasn’t him. In fact, there was a very high likelihood that it wasn’t him but someone else on his team. Maybe one of the nurses. He knew wha
CyrusI couldn’t believe my fucking eyes. Did…did this man just push Eva off a cliff?I looked at him slowly, shock rooting me to the spot. I felt like I was losing my fucking mind here. There was no way that I just witnessed this. I looked back at Leonora and saw that she was walking toward us. I watched her stride past me and peer over the edge of the cliff. She looked around and then nodded, seemingly satisfied. “Good. Now, we can get going.”Something about the way she said those words—maybe it was how casually she said them—made me break away from my trance and race toward her. The man noticed this and immediately rushed to intercede me. Leonora peered back at me with unbothered eyes. Once the man touched me, I made a fist and punched him directly on the face. He staggered backward, getting closer to the edge. It was then that the malignant thought to push him crossed my mind, and I felt every muscle in my body force me to do it. I lunged at him and shoved him as hard as I cou
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