Theo's POVThings become chaotic very quickly.The wolves not only breach my borders but kill three of my men without any second thoughts. My pack members howl out their pain as the loss filters through our link and I have to fight the enormity of the sorrow I feel and ignore the fact that tonight I'll be visiting three mothers and fathers to report their children died because of me and my need to protect a girl I haven't even claimed as my own as of yet. I race with Lucas and Andy towards them strategising a plan on how to prevent them from reaching their target, from reaching Lilith at the centre of my land in the house that I've made a fortress. 'We'll use our numbers to push them back. Attack them just before the borders then leave them over for their pack to take them back. Make an example out of them' I shout as we race through the woods.'Yes alpha' everyone shouts back to me. 'Circle around and come back through the southern woods, protect the house. Lock it down' I demand t
Lilith's POVI wake groggy with a pounding headache and the stench of something dark wet and woodsy surrounding me, my nostrils burn with the smell only adding to the tension within my head. My lungs tighten at the smell and Abyss’s feelings let me know it’s not only me that the smell is totally unappealing too, but it’s also making Abyss uneasy. It's almost as if I can feel her pacing inside my mind, her anxiety mixing with my own making for my unease to fill my stomach with dread at the mere smell. ‘They're going to hurt you, make it so I can't heal you’ She's been muttering as I fight with my body to open my eyes. They’re heavy as if lead weights are holding them down, I presume the men who took me used something to drug me after I screamed blue murder as they ran with me through the forest. One had shoved me over his shoulder when they had found me in my room at the house, he floated to the floor after jumping out of the window with me in his arms, I say floated because we didn’
Theo's POVLilith's been missing for three days, gone without a fucking trace. Even though I've had each of my warriors out multiple times to follow any and all scents from the house to borders. My borders are tight as fuck, every single warrior is on rotation and only has twelve hours or less for breaks.I want to feel bad, I do but I can't not when my girls are out there with god knows who god knows where.There have not even been any whispers in the spies I've got in the other packs which are worrisome.She's underground maybe in all sense of the word or maybe figuratively but either way, I'm worried and that's making my judgement less than perfect."Three of the warriors collapsed today, they are starving, dehydrated and tired Theo. I think it's about time we pull them back. Give them a break" Lucas chides me as I sort myself out a sandwich, even buttering the bread and slapping ham between the two slices reminds me of her. Her sandwiches are much nicer, worrisomely nicer."No, th
Lilith's POV I wash exactly as Theo demanded using the lavender body scrub and loafer. Meticulously I dip myself in the water before scrubbing every inch of skin I have before moving on to my hair. Memorising all the wounds I have I watch in amazement as I rid the last of the horrid-smelling stuff from my skin, the burns and mottled skin healing in front of my eyes.The skin changes colour and knits back together in places in a fast motion.I've never quite seen myself heal this way, except maybe when Theo had licked my wounds.Moving my wrist back and forth I watch as the rope burns change from gaping open to healing shut to a scar pink and bright. Something has awoken in me back there with that man, a feeling of belonging and Abyss has become stronger her call to be with someone almost overwhelming. She pines in my mind, our bond getting stronger as the minutes go by. She mumbles about mates and acceptance but it's so quiet in the far reaches of the back of my mind that I can ba
Theo's POVLilith's teeth cut into my neck out of nowhere. One moment we were talking about her knowledge of mates, I and Khai included.I feel the bond snap in place Rex jumping around excitedly that Abyss no doubt does too in this moment of clarity. Mark her, mark her Theo Rex pleads with me but I can't. Not yet, not when I don't know the implications of doing such a thing. "Lil" I push her back by her shoulders looking her over as her eyes shift from dark black orbs to the perfect blue eyes I've come to recognise as hers."I'm so sorry Theo. I. I didn't.. that wasn't me" she winces back as she no doubt feels my disappointment that it wasn't her decision to mark me.I try to reign in my emotions buts the funny thing about mate bonds, is you can't really hide anything from your mate. "Why is it so overwhelming, why do I feel like this?" She asks sadly. "It's a mate bond, you have a connection to me now. You can feel everything I do. Abyss now has a straight line of communication w
Lilith POVA few days pass and Theo keeps a very close eye on me as I lay in bed and recuperate after my ordeal. I don't think I need it because I'm pretty much one hundred per cent healed but he's adamant I take the time my body needs to come back from the ordeal of being drugged for days with Christ knows what whilst doused in wolfsbane. Dr Knight has come back to see me three times since I've come home and each time he asks to try something different making a small cut here or there and he records just how quick it takes me to heal. Each cut heals without a trace which in and of itself is amazing. My skin returned to normal without marks within twelve hours, or thereabouts. He wants to study me, to put me under rigorous testing to see how serious a wound I could heal by myself. He's explained what wolfsbane is and why other wolves use it on each other. I won't pretend to be ecstatic to know that wolfsbane can kill a wolf in large quantities and I hate the fact that even touchin
Theo's POVTonight I'm doing something I hate and the worse thing about it is I'm lying to Lilith so I don't have to defend myself. After keeping her hauled in the house under my watchful eye for the last week I’ve finally had to let the reigns go and take a step out of the house and her sight. I run through the woods to my underground bunker where Lucas is holding three of Damien Moon's best warriors, they’ve been here for five days waiting for me and Lucas is starting to get impatient with me. Yeah, I had to pull a few strings with my spies but shit they worked and the price I paid to have these fuckers in my bunker is well worth it.I specifically chose the closest men, the ones whose memories would be tainted with hushed words between themselves and their alpha... maybe even their future alpha for a reason. They have been gone long enough yet there have been no words hushed about the three missing men from the Moon pack, which shows me something seriously wrong is happening in my
Lilith's POVMy body burns all over and I feel as sick as a dog as I lay in the bed I’ve barely left in nearly a week. Every bone kills and my hearing seems like it's supersonic. My skin is warm to the touch and I’m sweating buckets. It all started when Theo left.I felt okay, I was elated to be left alone again… for him to trust me but then this happens.It all started with a headache and here I am sitting in pain mind linking to the doctor that Theo has kept away from me because I’m worried I might explode here in this bed. Something is seriously wrong with me and I wonder if it has to do with the fact Abyss has all but left me.I wait sipping on water for just under twenty minutes from the time I speak to Dr Knight. I hear him walking down the driveway, the stone chipping crunching under his feet making my skull ache just that little bit more.He pounds as he runs up the stairs and he takes three deep breaths outside my door before knocking.“Come in” I whisper because my own voic