FAITHGods.“I need you,” He repeated, and my breathing picked up as his thumbs brushed back and forth along my cheekbones before one dropped down to my mouth, pulling my bottom lip down slightly. “They are right, though, Kaiden. I can fight for you, but Cain…” “I will handle Cain, and I don’t need you to do anything for me or the pack, Faith.” He said, and I felt my shoulders fall. I was relieved, but I didn’t know why. “But,” I whispered, wanting to help in any way I could, even if he wasn’t planning on using me anymore. I had powers that could help. We just needed the Alliance to see that before they made their decision. “I need you safe, Faith. I won’t let them near you.” He said, and my hands landed on his chest, taking in his warmth as he moved even closer. I couldn’t get enough of this man. Everything about him called to me, and I wanted to hold on as tightly as I could, but that wasn’t realistic. We had to come up with a plan because either I would be executed or his ent
FAITHMy hand moved up to grab the side of my throbbing face as Kaiden released me, spinning me around to put me behind him as he turned to Broderick. “Out of the question,” Kaiden said, his voice coming out low and deadly as he stepped toward Broderick. "I speak for all of us when I say..." Broderick started, but Kaiden cut him off. "No! You don't." Kaiden growled, and my free hand moved to grab the back of his shirt as black dots blurred my vision from the hit I had taken. "Speaking on behalf of another Alpha requires a written order that..." "Is not possible right now." Broderick snapped, and I could feel Kaiden's anger increasing at Broderick's disrespect and audacity. Where did he get off, thinking he could interrupt another Alpha unless he thought he was above them? Which, in hindsight, was entirely possible, as he had just tried to speak for others. I wanted to ask what it was he was demanding, but from Kaiden's reaction to it, I probably didn't want to know. It was evid
KAIDEN I threw my head back as I laughed long and hard. Broderick’s face was red with anger by the time I was finished, and I felt lighter than before. The pain wasn’t as intense, and the wall between Faith and me was crumbling, making me feel uneasy. “I do not recall it being any of your place to vote on the execution of an innocent in my care. My bound. My woman.” I leaned forward. “It would be a shame if any of you were to violate our treaty and kill one of my pack members without them causing your pack harm to warrant it.” “It is for the good of all of our packs, Kaiden. Surely, you have to be reasonable enough to see that.” He said, his voice getting deeper. “Did you miss the part where I said she was mine? She isn’t just my Bound, Broderick. She. Is. Mine.” I growled, my beast coming forward. Faith may have been brought here as a pawn in this war to be used against Cain, but he was right. The best way to use her against him now was to eliminate her as a source of power, a
KAIDENMy molars ground together as I felt for Faith through our bond. Her walls were up, and while I was normally able to push against them, I didn’t have the strength to do even that. Even with Faith’s blood restoring our bond and helping my healing, I should still be in the infirmary. Instead, I had to stand strong with the stubborn woman, thinking I didn’t know she was sneaking around with Will right now to look for Nova’s tracks. Broderick was only here to steal my pack from under me, so I really didn’t mind Faith not being present for the meeting, but I also didn’t want her to get her hopes up that Nova hadn’t turned on us because everything we had found so far proved that she had.And why wouldn’t she? She had gotten nothing from this pack other than pain, suffering, and loneliness. It was even in this house that she had been hurt over and over again. It was our guards and pack doctors looking the other way because none of them could take down the Alpha. If I were her, I w
FAITH“There is no way it survived. It wouldn’t be viable for at least two more months, right?” Will asked, and I turned to face him slowly, my eyebrows pulling together. “What? I’ve been around pregnant women before. I know the basics.” “If it didn’t survive, why would they take it?” I wondered before picturing Cain trying to tap into the baby’s power. It was sickening. Yet, it felt like just the kind of thing he would do. “I doubt Cain could tap into its power if it died,” Will said, and I winced. “What if it didn’t die?” Kaiden said softly, and I met his gaze as horror filled me. "What if they took it because it lived?"A baby created from someone as strong as my sister, mixed with a man harnessing the power of at least three other white wolves, would be a weapon unlink anything the world had ever seen. Granted, we had at least eighteen years until she could fully harness her powers, but who was to say she would have to wait that long if she was already showing signs of power i
FAITHI could hear Kaiden attempting to chase after me, but while he was healing, his body had taken so much damage that the pack doctors had run to his room the second he disconnected from his monitors and were trying to convince him to get back in bed. There was very little that could stop an Alpha, though, and they stood no chance with one as stubborn and angry as Kaiden. “Open the doors,” I demanded as I sprinted toward the dungeon. I needed to see it for myself. Kaiden told me Sable would die one day for her attack on him and our people, and I had come to terms with that until I learned that she wasn’t in control of her own actions. The baby, Cain’s evil spawn, had been pushing dark magic into Sable, and Ryan or Cain had been controlling Sable’s powers of manipulation.The only thing I could see that was real was Sable’s bitterness and jealousy that she had felt like she was second place for her whole life. That was something we could have worked through.If she hadn’t been