The sound of rain thundering down on the roof should have been enough to wake him up, but for some reason, his body was not responding. There was nothing but silence in his head, no smart ass wolf giving him hell or helping him to swim up from the darkness, and the Alpha felt the unfamiliar stirrings of panic start to spread throughout his core. Snippets of conversation could be heard every now and again, disjointed sentences mainly, although whenever she visited, Bella's scent had him crav
Isabella had more family. She could barely believe it, but staring at the little girl telling her these fantastical things, instinctively, she knew Maeve was telling the truth.Suddenly Santos’s trips away to the mountains made more sense, and how reserved her Mama was whenever he would return,had she known?It felt like an information overload for the tired Luna.
Isabella waited with bated breath as Maeve entered Shadow's hospital room. Everything was as she had left it. Her heart of hearts still slept, tubes were everywhere, and Dr. Packard stood monitoring him with a puzzled look on his face. He looked up as the Luna entered and smiled at the close family resemblance indicating the same parentage for the two young ladies."Is there any change?" Bella asked hopefully, and David shook his head, hating that he had to keep disappointing her. Meanwhile, Maeve had glided forward and gazed down at her sister's mate. For a minute, her brow furrowed as if she was having an internal conversation, and then she clo
Every sense was heightened to the point where it was almost painful. Santos was no longer a wolf.For the first few weeks, he had begged for death, pleaded on his knees, with blood tears dripping from his red eyes, but Lenore turned a deaf ear to his cries, disgusted at his insinuation that vampirism was somehowinferiorto being adog.
The room was humming with all that needed to be said between the two lovers as the last of Shadow’s visitors pulled the door closed behind them. Passion swirled to turn the atmosphere x rated as Shadow turned his heated gaze to his beautiful mate, still tucked under his arm where she refused to move, and truthfully he didn’t think that he could bear it if she did. His best friend, his brightest star Isabella...The pack women hustled their beautiful children away so that the young couple could have some time to themselves and after discover
Santos couldn't believe his eyes. After taking up Lenora's challenge and chasing her through the caves and around the unclaimed territory outside the boundaries of the Howling Warriors lands, Magnus's daughter leads him into the mouth of a giant gully, completely hidden unless a person knew where to look for the entrance. As he sped through the opening she stood there waiting for him with a small smile on her face, and he stopped abruptly, as the entire gully opened up before his eyes. There were vampires everywhere, some of them sat in groups polishing weapons, others stood talking among themselves. Lenora was standing right in the thick of things, where Santos had come to a halt, belatedly realizing he had sped right into the middle of a huge clutch of vampires."Welcome home Santos." She greeted him as their eyes met again, "Meet the Nightstalkers, my handpicked Army." But that wasn't what caught and held his attention. No, what caught his attention was the squirming
Watching the old guard piss his pants was embarrassing for both Lucien and the man, and he felt a twinge of regret for letting his wolf scare him. After all, the old guy was just doing his job, so Lucien reined in his power and presented his hands, willingly allowing himself to be cuffed. As far as he knew, he wasn't scheduled for visitors, not that any came when he was, but still.The guard was gentle in response, walking slowly with him through the cellblock until they reached the locked door that leads to the visitor's area. Once there, a retinal scan verified the guard's identity and unlocked itself, allowing both of the men to step through it. Every pass through the gauntlet was silent whenever Lucien was escorted anywhere. The inmates respected him as the Alpha male, which made him chuckle because he was currently incarcerated in a human prison. There were no words spoken as Lucien presented himself to the guard's window, where his wrist was lifted, and the mic
'I have to stop doing this.'Maeve thought as she once again woke up in the hospital room. True to form, Onyx lay sprawled in the armchair next to her bed. He was fast asleep but she knew her brother would wake up at the sound of a pin drop, he was always hyper-aware of any change in the spaces Maeve occupied. It was kind of cool, although she would never admit it to Onyx, he had a large enough ego as it was. Maeve carefully stretched her arms, basking in the happiness that she felt having been able to give back to Isabella, 'I wonder what they are doing now?'She pondered with all the innocence of a ten-year-old.Onyx was startled awake as a jolt of power coursed through his body, 'Brother I need your help.'He heard faintly above the roar of his blood coursing through his system, and a brief image of Raeann and Isabella passed his mind's eye before a huge wave of despair swamped him. In her hospital bed, Maeve gasped, clutching her
Lenora watched from the shadows as Santos went about his business with the baby strapped to his back. Every so often the little girl would chuckle and grab fistfuls of the old man's hair, earning a growl from her Grandpa as he tried to dislodge her chubby fingers. It was quite unnerving to stare into her eyes as Lenora found out moments after she'd snatched her right under the Luna's nose. She was almost at the edge of the Howling Warrior boundary before she heard the first tortured screams wrenching their way out of Isabella and Lenora had smiled. Who knew how long her father suffered through the torture that the trimates had wrought upon him before his spirit finally flew free. It was only fair that the woman responsible for it all shared in some of that pain. By the time she was finished with Isabella, she would be begging for death. Lenora promised the spirit of her father that she would avenge him, and what better way to achieve that than to prey on the love a mother has for he