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Nikolai After twenty minutes, Nova passes out again, and I can hear Kai and Caterina downstairs. /“We’re in my bedroom,”/ I tell them both over the link, and a few seconds later, they appear at my bedside. I look up at them, feeling the tears well in my eyes as I try to choke back a sob. This time I can’t save Nova by brute strength alone; I need help. “I don’t know what to do anymore; the eye…appeared again, and she’s been in pain ever since,” I explain, holding her closer to me and peering up at Caterina. “It spoke to me this time; called itself the past, present and future before mentioning that the Goddess knew who it was.” Caterina’s eyes narrow at this, and then she sits down on the bed next to me and places a hand on Nova’s shoulder. “Can I use my Sight on her and see what I can find out?” She asks. “Please, if it will help her,” I beg, nodding and covering her with the comforter. Caterina smiles as she's used to my nudity already, but I still run to my walk-in to grab a
NikolaiI can hear Kai approach me as I sit with my head in my hands, but I don’t look up when he sits down next to me.“Caterina is still conversing with Nova but has asked that she not appear again unless the Mating Ritual is completed. “Kai says, sitting forward and resting his elbows on his knees.I turn to look at him and sigh. “What is it with our mates being so much more than we thought?” I say and scoff, shaking my head. “I guess Arya will be the only normal one in the pack.”Kai chuckles at this quip. “Yeah, I suppose. But then again, we’re not exactly an average wolf pack, are we?” he says, then looks me in the eye. “Nova will need you when she wakes up. Her wolf has said that she will make certain Nova remembers what we spoke about this morning.”I nod. “I know, and I am definitely still going to claim her. But I just needed some time to think about what she just told us; it’s a lot to absorb all at once.” “It is, isn’t it? Imagine how it will feel for Nova when she wakes
NovaI watch Nikolai smiling from the passenger seat of the SUV, and I can feel myself literally turn to jelly. He’s dressed in a tight black t-shirt showing off his muscles and newly acquired tattoos on both of his arms and neck. I can’t keep my eyes off of him and feel like an absolute perv for ogling him like this. Goddess, my mate is gorgeous; how did I get so lucky to end up with him? Not only does he feel the same about me, but he wants to claim me.I’ll be a Volkova wolf in a few weeks' time!“You’re suspiciously quiet,” he says, grinning and then glancing at me. I can spot the amusement right through his black sunnies and roll my eyes as I try to keep the smile from my face.“I’m…just happy,” I say, biting my bottom lip and squeezing my legs together. I peer up, noticing the smile on his face as well, and he takes my hand in his before kissing the back of it. A blush covers my cheek as he continues to hold my hand while we drive to Kai’s nature conservation. Nikolai told me h
Nikolai “When was the last time you spoke to your Alpha?” I ask Nova when we walk back to the SUV. Today has been a day full of unexpected revelations, and to be honest, I have no idea how to feel after everything. But Nova needs me; she needs her mate to be strong right now. “I spoke with him over the mind link the day after you brought me back. He gave me permission to stay with you until the next full moon.” She says, looking everywhere but my way. “He also hasn’t found my friend, and Raven didn’t exactly tell me anything either.” Why is she being so apprehensive now? Did I do something wrong? I drop the picnic basket and grab her wrist, forcing her to look at me. “Is there something else you’re not telling me?” I ask. There’s something going on, something she isn’t being honest about. She sighs, then leans against the tree we stopped in front of. “No, nothing’s wrong. I’m just…thinking about things. A lot happened today.” When she says this, she looks down and then bites her
Nova After a shower that night, I simply crashed. Everything is weighing too much on my mind right now; the last thing I want to do is still think about it. However, my heart feels lighter at the fact that Nikolai now knows what happened to me - it means I can finally breathe easy. I woke up the next morning with my mind set on going to meet with Alpha Cain. He needs to know that I will no longer be working at his bar and leaving by the next full moon. I think he knows all of this already, but it will still be better to hear it coming from me. When I’m ready to get my day started, the smell of bacon draws me out of my room, and a smile crosses my face. It grows even wider when I go downstairs and see Nikolai busy whipping up a breakfast for us. He hears me approach and looks up, flashing me a smile. “And this, Nickybabe?” I ask when I walk over to him and slip an arm around his waist. “Decided to make my girl some breakfast; hopefully, she likes what I’ve prepared.” He says, then
NovaWe get out of the car when we reach my underground parking and I notice another SUV stop behind us; must be Boris and Ivan. Arya was extremely quiet on the drive over no matter how much I spoke - it was then that I realised that I actually talk a lot. Balls.“I don’t have much to grab still; just the rest of my clothes and shoes; nothing else is worth much value and the place was furnished when I moved in,” I tell her when we walk up the stairs to my apartment. I had called the landlord to tell her that I would be breaking my lease, but she’s welcome to keep the two-month deposit. She wasn’t really happy, but what can you do?“Are you used to not having much of value to you?” she asks when we reach my apartment, and I shrug.“I’m an orphan and have been by myself since I can remember. I’ve learned not to put value onto things anymore; they just tend to hurt you.” I say, sounding like the poster girl for Rogues.Arya scoffs sadly when I say this. “I put too much value in my looks
Nikolai “Oh, come on! Something must have happened; you both looked so guilty,” I press when we stop outside the Horsemen pack house. Dimitri is refusing to answer me, even though it's written all over his face. “Shut the fuck up; nothing happened!” he exclaims, sounding pissed off with me even though he has that smile on his face. I know something happened, and it might not be sex or whatever, but something definitely happened between them last night. “Fine then, keep your fucking secrets,” I say. We needed to stop fucking around right now because we have to come and see these two as per Kai. They’ve had three smaller pack houses taken out in the last two weeks, and we think it’s Azura’s doing this time. We’ve switched our cell phones off and tuned out of the mind link so we can focus on the plan for next Thursday. “Nikolai, Dimitri,” Blight, the Gamma, greets us at the gate and shakes our hands. Tenebris doesn’t because of his long claws, which contain a poison deadly to all we
Nikolai The beeping of the monitors drowns Caterina’s voice out as she comforts me, but I only have eyes for my mate lying lifeless on that hospital bed. It’s odd that I find myself in a room where humans come to heal when they’re injured. But we’re werewolves; we’re supposed to recover in record time… but Nova doesn’t have her wolf yet, so she’s still devastatingly human. Caterina mentions something about Nova’s wolf being silent as well, then takes my silence as a hint and leaves the room. I slowly walk over to where she lay and sit down on the stool next to the bed, my heart not yet registering that this is the woman I love. I take her hand in mine and hold it against my cheek, and something occurs to me then. There’s no light in this body, no giggles or smart ass answers to my questions, no warmth in her skin. She simply /is/ - and it kills me. “Nova,” I breathe out her name as I hold her hand in mine and draw it to my forehead, wishing she would answer me with ‘Nickybabe.’ But