Leah’s POV
Everything between us was absolutely perfect … Until we sat down to have breakfast. It was as if some switch flipped in Sebastian and he looked a little uncomfortable. He didn’t just look it! I could feel it through our bond. He would look at me for less than a split second and then look at his food. As if he wanted to say something but couldn’t bring himself to do it. What the hell happened between saying good morning and sitting down for breakfast that he would be acting this damn strange?
“Is everything okay?” I decided to just ask since assumption always seemed to be the mother of all fuckups! He glanced at me again and then sighed, putting down his fork and leaning back into the chair.
“Are you …” He hesitated. “I mean, last night happened really fast. Are you happy?” He blushed bright red and I burst out laughing, which m
Eli’s POV We walked into the nightclub in the city and I could smell all the different scents from all the different creatures. It was so strange to see them all mingling and having fun as if they were from the same damn species! It was disgusting! “I’m here to see Nathaniel,” I told the huge bulky guard keeping watch over the VIP entrance. I was sure he was just there because he was all brawn and no damn brain. When he finished paging through his little list of people, he frowned at me. “And you are?” He sighed as if I was wasting his time! “Eli.” I frowned. “Eli Blackwood. I have an appointment and you are going to make me late!” I was getting impatient. I didn’t want to be here of all places, but if I was going to get to my goal, I needed to do that. “Ah, there you are. Nathaniel will be right with you.” He unclipped the red rope and showed me to a table. “Stay here. Don’t wander off!” He growled softly and walked away. What the fuck was up with that guy? As if I would wander a
Sebastian’s POV Feeling the vampire venom running through my veins, it felt as if my body was being torn apart cell by cell. Vampire venom fighting werewolf venom as the DNA clashed and I howled out in pain fighting against the restraints that were holding me down. I agreed to this, but I didn’t realize it would hurt this much! I woke up breathing fast and my heart was pounding as I sat up in bed. Sweat was running down the side of my face while I tried to calm my breathing. “Sebastian?” Leah’s concerned voice calmed me instantly as I pulled her into my arms. “It was just a nightmare. I’m sorry to wake you.” I forced my breathing to calm down and lay back with Leah in my arms, but I couldn’t fall asleep after the memory of what happened to me rushed so rudely into my dreams. That memory can only mean one thing. The vampires were moving. The question was what the hell were they up to? My mind drifted to Leah in my arms for the hundredth time during this incredibly boring alliance me
Leah’s POV I just had to be careful about which projects to pick. I didn’t want Sebastian to think that I was trying too hard. I needed to find the projects that she started, but also ones that weren’t that sentimental and like her babies or something. I didn’t want anyone to feel offended and wondered if I should even try that. I hadn’t been here long enough in both lifetimes to really know what would make a difference in this pack’s lives. “Hey, what are you up to?” Emily appeared, leaning against my doorframe, and gave me such a fright that I jumped, slamming the book shut in the process. Carl seemed impressed, but he made sure I wouldn’t show the book to anybody else. Not even Sebastian. It really was Luna’s secret diary. “Oh, uhm …” I jumped out of my chair and walked over to her so she wouldn’t pay too much attention to the book. “I’ve just been looking for some books on the pack's history of mating ceremonies.” My cheeks turned bright red. I knew the subject would definitely
Leah’s POV It really was going to be the event of the social season! I laughed as I went through some of the arrangements with Emily, but we all deserved a little happiness and this mating ceremony was going to be the thing to do. I could look at those projects a little later since this seemed to be at the top of the priority list. Emily had so many ideas that I almost wondered if she didn’t wish it was her wedding day we were planning or something. I mean, which girl wouldn’t love to have the perfect fairy tale mating ceremony big enough to look like a human wedding?! We spent all day, every day making plans for the next week and poor Sebastian looked so bored sitting through food tastings and flower presentations that I finally gave him a day off when we went tablecloth shopping. Yeah, it really was a lot, but at the end of the day, it was all going to be worth it. In the evenings, I made sure to thank Sebastian properly for his bank card and his patience throughout this entire th
Eli’s POV I had no other choice but to call my mate to come and pick me up. I had no idea where the hell I was. I was feeling seriously weird, and all I could think about was getting back home. I needed a shower and a clean change of clothes and I needed to figure out what the hell happened to me. The last thing I remembered was that bastard telling me he wanted to show me something, a stinging sensation in my neck and then I blacked out. I remember him telling me I’m a hybrid. I still couldn’t believe what he told me. Flashes of incredible pain shot through my body while I waited. I considered going inside to have a drink while I waited, but I could just imagine her face if she found me inside the club. Knowing my mate, she would immediately think I was here for the wrong reasons. Choosing a mate had its disadvantages. That bastard’s men thought it was funny to drop me off right here. In front of a strip club, in the middle of the city where I couldn’t figure out one single damn scen
Leah’s POV “There is no use in blaming yourself.” Sebastian’s voice drifted through the mind link. “If you ran, Eli would have kept coming after you.” He was right … That made me wonder how often he heard my thoughts. “Often enough,” He smiled at me as he walked through the front door. “We need to talk about you and your previous life.” He mind linked me and I looked around wondering who else heard it! “Just me.” His arm slipped around my waist and he pulled me closer, breathing in my scent as he nuzzled his nose into my neck. “Thank the goddess.” I sighed, feeling myself calm down. I closed my eyes and just stayed in the moment for a second. “Why didn’t you tell me you heard my thoughts?” I asked him through the mind link and our eyes made contact. “I didn’t want you to think I was invading your privacy. At first, I thought I was imagining what I heard, but you think about your past life a lot, and then I heard you thinking about two lifetimes with all of us in it. What happened?”
Leah’s POV I breathed yet another sigh of relief as my fingers slipped over the soft satin of my pure white dress. So far there had been no sign of Eli or his pack and although Emily wasn’t happy about our plan, she had no other choice but to agree that it was our only option. So, the time had come for Sebastian and me to be officially mated in front of the entire pack. It was a bigger thing to me than I let on and while we were busy making all sorts of plans it was easy to avoid the enormity of it all, but looking at myself in the mirror, all dressed up in my wedding dress, I couldn’t stop the tears from forming. “Wow!” Emily’s voice echoed throughout the room and I turned to smile at her. “Our parents would have been so proud to have you as their daughter.” She hugged me and I couldn’t help but feel a little sad that I didn’t have either dad here to walk me down the aisle, but Emily volunteered and that was good enough for me. We walked out of the lift and I could hear the people e
Leah’s POV To be honest, I’d almost forgotten about the human woman who took pictures of Sebastian and his men that night when he found me. At one point, I thought that he wanted to hand her over to the vampires, but he never did and she’d been kept safely locked away since then. The room was lighter than I expected. She had her own bathroom and it was clear that Sebastian made sure she was taken care of. A slight pang of jealousy stabbed into my heart and I stood a little closer to him, making him smile. I could see the girl trying to hide her fear, but it was true what they said about being able to smell it, and it smelled delicious! “Miss Witherspoon. I’ve come to give you a proposal.” Sebastian kept his distance, which I appreciated. “I’m not interested in anything you have to say!” She spat venom and I fought back the urge to laugh. I felt sad for her that she got dragged into all of this because of Eli, but if I were in her position, I would do whatever it took to get me out o