INICIAR SESIÓN“LOOK OUT!”Kicking my legs as far as possible, pushing myself off the earth, hands outstretched before me, my bad arm hurts, but I don’t care, there’s no way this people would get hurt on my watch. The force and heat of the missile pushes me back,“AHHHHHHHH!!”It is too hurt, it feels like I am burning all over. There’s a blinding hot white pain in my arm, I should let it go, save myself. But it’ll land on them, and I can’t..So I pull my weight.It fucking hurts, using the alpha powers, with a burst of strength, I throw the missile up in the sky, it explodes somewhere above the same time I hit the ground with a loud thud. “Eddie!!!” Eva screams, rushing to me.Everything hurts.Something smells like burnt flesh.My ears are ringing and my vision is woozy. “Is everyone okay?” I ask, voice small, shrapnel must have fallen through the clouds, and I can’t let it hit anyone… Nothing is moving.No part of me is willing to stand up. Come on…“Eddie.. can you hear..” Eva’s voice fl
“I haven’t seen Stephen yet.” Holls says when she reaches me,I feel so relieved that I pull her into the kind of hug that’s possible while holding a child. She takes several deep breaths against my body. “Thank you for coming back safely.”“Thank you for being safe.”Around us the people are buzzing with a different kind of tension. Royals, Middle class, and Commoners are mixed for the first time. Being close to death might have taken the edge off, but they still don’t know how to interact. Plus, there are in the tower, they associate this place with my father. “This is Maria, Maria, this is my best friend, Holly.”Holly smiles at her, and then plucks her from my hold, it’s a great relief for my arm, but I do miss the weight of the child. “What’s happened with Stephen?”She swallows, looking away from the child briefly. “He asked me to come with Declan, and he would go find other survivors and he is yet to get here.” And so has Millicent, and the Harrow brothers.None of their
Noah.I have to find Noah. Pushing a boulder that had fallen on my shoulder, off me, it hurts, but it’s only a slight buzz in the background. The mark he had given me was thrumming with fear so thick I can almost taste it. He was in danger. I have to find him.“Eddie?” Millicent pants next to me, then she dissolves into a fit of cough.“Shit. Are you okay?”She takes the hand offered to her, my right hand, the wounded one, gritting my teeth, pull her off the floor. “Oh my god your arm!” she screeches,“Are you okay?” Her face and hair is covered in dust, a few scratches on her face but nothing too serious.“Yes I am, why aren’t you healing??” she was panicking.Hearing that makes it a little easier to breathe.Overhead, missiles are still dropping, but nothing was coming down on us anymore. The pack would be wiped out at this rate.Who is doing this? “We have to get everyone to safety.” I tell her,She looks around us, a small shaky breath escaping her.The make shift podium
“A turtle neck sweatshirt. That isn’t obvious at all.” Millicent says with a sigh after I finish dressing for the announcement this morning. When I walked in early this morning, she had wordlessly taken me in, not saying anything about my expression, or the fact that I smelled exactly like him. She had taken one look at the mark and made a small noise at the back of her throat.“If you cover your neck as well, everyone would assume it’s mutual.”And so she does.When we walk out of the room together, I can’t shake the feeling of letting Noah down. “There they are.” My father laughs, eyes darting between the two of us like he was expecting us to have another child soonest. We do a courtesy bow to him.“Now, let’s go announce the heir to the people.”There has been a scheduled live broadcast, everyone would tune in, not because they cared about the alpha, but the opposite. They were curious about what he wanted to say.I imagine everyone in the pack sitting in front of their tele
Nathan holds Noah back.But it’s too late.I’ve been marked by my mate. For some reason it doesn’t make me angry.It makes me laugh.I laugh so hard I fall back on the grass. the night sky is dark, just the moon and a floating cloud curving upwards, it floats to the moon, forming a mark shift mouth. It looks like the moon is laughing at me.Maybe the moon goddess is laughing at me or with me. “I thought about it a lot you know. Living without you, but I don’t think I can… I don’t want her teeth on you. I don’t want you two to share the same bed. I don’t want to share you.” his voice becomes more furious with every word he says. “I don’t want to share you either. But there’s no going back now.” I sigh from my place on the grass.“No one would believe a small girl like Millicent made a mark like that.”I throw an arm on my eyes, the moon goddess was mocking me.“Is that so?”The bite was pulsating, warm, fuzzy. It felt so good, like his mouth was on me, still sucking the sore spot
Millicent and I are an obvious terrible fit.Mostly because we have no clue what to do with our hands. “Let me.” I whisper, my smile tight.“Sure.” she breathes apologetically, and I finally hold her hand, mimicking what I do with Noah’s hand. It feels all shades of wrong.Jet has retreated so far into my mind that I am back where I started, almost human. The door to the big hall, where we would be met by our families, remains shut.I want to turn back and run to him.I worry he is still crying. But this is the right thing to do, this is what I set out to do before I left the tower. Find a female mate or a replace mate. “Shall we?” she asks,I nod once.The door is pushed open and I am startled by the number of people already sitting. I expected a small meeting with our families, but it was more than that.A few familiar faces in the audience, Holls, Stephen, and Declan. The hall is filled with a round of applause, Millicent is quick to get into it, she leans into me, smiling a