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“What the actual fuck Lyn? That dipshit, ass hat, tick dipper. When I get my hands on him…” “You’ll what Keiral? Blast him away with your fart? Claw his eyes out with your nail file? Growl at him? Shave his balls with a blunt blade? You are a small wolf with no bite. I have seen you chase a cat,” My cousin Curt said from the sofa. Keiral meant well, but her gold hair that was supposed to make her some special healer didn’t. Her father’s brown wolf blood that should’ve given some extra speed capabilities missed it’s target. In the end all we got was the cutest little bunny wolf who couldn’t hurt a fly. We loved Keiral, but she had the biggest mouth in Questorian Valley. Which mostly had us Gorde wolfs fighting her battles. None of us wanted repeats but she kept em coming. For a tiny little Canus lupus she sure knew how to start a fight, just not very good at the following through part. That she left for us. After I woke up alone in my caravan, with the tiniest feeling I had hallucinated a male in my caravan— I called my family. I started with my Aunt Helen since she was visiting Ouma Wells. They came around the first two days, and Elder Amer couldn’t stop grumbling about my fight with Desiree. Uncle Max arrived this morning with my cousins Keiral, Curt and Lechandray. Not sure who else would come but I didn’t give a billy. Keiral never missed an opportunity to visit and add her two cent comments. Keiral meant well. So I smiled at my brown dough eyed cousin as Curt’s burly belly and Line-backer shoulders shook with silent laughter. After uncle Max left to see to some work stuff, Curt baked a pie he brought while Lechandray and Keiral helped me finish varnishing the outside table under the oak tree. We just finished when Curt brought the food outside. What started out as a ‘need to know recap of events’ turned out into a ‘we know too much’ “What are you gonna do Curt? Eat more rabbit pie?” Lechandray sputtered from her position under the table. “I have you know, aunt Judes rabbit pie is full of vitamins and can cure just about any sickness. Don’t blame the pie. I unfortunately can’t do nothing when I’m set to leave for the Rinks next week. Haden and John are joining and no fights with sentinels are allowed. Alphas orders. Doesn’t mean I’ma be going for hunt runs with the guy. But with all that said and done you asked for it. You once liked John.” “Correction, I tolerated John because he was my mate. But the mate bond didn’t kick in. So hilly John dilly decided to go knobbing.” “Well, mate or not, he’s still an asshat,” Keiral muttered with a sneer. Her eye brows would go into a deep frown whenever she was mad. And now she was very much so. Lechandray got up from her hunched position under the table. We only used it when my family visited. There wasn’t much space in the Caravan for the family. We were a tall bunch. Curt took most of the double seater anyway. But Lechandray was the ideal definition of a Sentinel. Her lean muscles flexing as she stretched out her tall form. Her keen slanted eyes and long neck were genetic makeups of her fathers family. Her grey wolf were ours. “We can’t wait for your fat ass to join us sweet cuz. The Sentinels are going to enjoy breaking you in.” Her words were a promise as the small smile twisted her mouth in an almost wistful grin as she stared eagerly at Curt. “That’s nasty Chan,” Keiral accused as she walked closer to Curt. “Says the girl who can’t cross a finish line without Papa growling in the background.” Lechandray's wolf wouldn’t be kind enough to let Keiral one up her. I knew it. She’s going to get us in a fight if she doesn’t shut her yap. My wolf warned me with a groan. She didn’t like fighting Keiral’s battles but we were the biggest wolf and the only black wolf apart from Ouma Wells.AshlynThe world had gone still.No wind, no sound, just the faint hum of power between us. Krav stood a few feet away, his wings folding back, his body still half-shimmering from the flight. The air around him crackled with cold; frost clung to the grass, creeping toward me like his presence alone bent the elements.And still, I couldn’t move.I wanted to run to him, every part of me screamed to ut the moment I met his eyes, I knew it wasn’t just him standing there. The god lingered in the hollow edges of his stare, something vast and ancient flickering behind the man I loved.The tears came before the words. “I want to run into your arms and know you’re you,” I whispered. “But I can’t. Can I, Krav? Because you aren’t only you anymore.”The last word broke. I hated how small it sounded.Krav’s jaw clenched. His breath came out in a rush of frost. The gold in his eyes flickered, warping into that unnatural blue for a heartbeat, then back again. He looked torn—like two versions of him
AshlynThe coffee in my cup had gone cold an hour ago, but I was still pretending to drink it. The break room at the Den always smelled like burnt caffeine, pine soap, and sweat. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was home.Conan leaned back in his chair, boots up on the table like he owned it. “You really think Haden’s gonna hold the border this long?”Penny snorted. “If anyone can, it’s him. Man’s too stubborn to die.”Conan grinned. “Fair. I heard he made the new recruits scrub the south wall with toothbrushes.”“He did,” I muttered. “And if you two don’t stop talking shit, I’ll make you do the same.”That shut them up for a minute.Across the table, a young Sentinel, Tara, barely twenty if that tried not to laugh. “You’d really do that?”I looked up at her. “Try me.”Her smile vanished. I didn’t mean to scare her, but the truth was, the humor in this place always came out forced. Nobody laughed easily anymore. Not with half the pack on edge, not with a god loose in the world, and not wit
Krav I don’t know how long I’ve been here.The air smells wrong, stale, old, like stone that’s been sealed away from sunlight for centuries. The ground under me is hard, cracked. My wings ache like they’ve been torn out and put back in the wrong sockets. My knees sting, blood crusted over where I landed too fast. My throat burns, raw from shouting her name.Ashlyn.I’ve tried to call her again and again, through the bond, through the air, through whatever this place is. Nothing answers. It’s like screaming into a wall that eats sound.But I can feel her. Faint, far. A pulse of warmth in the distance. The mate bond still hums under my skin, quiet but alive. It’s the only reason I know I’m not dead.I drag myself up to my feet. The ground groans under me, echoing like I stepped into the ribs of a hollow beast. The place around me isn’t dark exactly—there’s a pale blue glow that leaks from the cracks in the stone, like veins of light running beneath the surface.My hands shake as I reac
Keiral The vision hit like lightning. One moment I was standing in the lab, halfway through reading a report on Mira’s latest bloodwork. The next, the world tilted and spun, and the ground under me wasn’t real anymore. Flashes of white, gold, blue. The air burned cold and hot at once. I saw chains made of light snapping one by one, heard voices like thunder rolling across a storm that had no end. Then a whisper—low, ancient, and sharp as glass—slid through the noise and wrapped around my spine. (Sever the bond and claim what’s lost. The broken must be bound, for only a true blood can claim a god.) I gasped and stumbled back, grabbing the counter. The sound of my own heartbeat drowned out everything else. When I blinked, the vision was gone—but the words burned behind my eyes. I’d had visions before. Small flashes. Warnings. But this was different. This felt like something had reached into me and left its mark. My hand shook as I grabbed my slate, writing the words before
Ashlyn It had been six days since Krav left.Six days of silence.Six days of trying not to break.The first night, I’d waited on the roof of the Den until the moon sank and the horizon paled with dawn. Every gust of wind that shifted the trees, every shadow that passed over the valley, I thought it was him. I told myself he’d come back when the storm inside him calmed, when he remembered that he belonged here—with me.He didn’t.By the second night, I stopped lying to myself. He wasn’t coming back because he didn’t want to be found.Dragons were like that. They could disappear between worlds, blend into storms, vanish into the cracks between light and shadow. Krav more than any of them—his power wasn’t just physical, it was elemental. When he didn’t want to be seen, not even the gods could find him.Still, I tried.We searched the mountain ridges at dawn, followed every wind current that carried even the faintest scent of frost. The Sentinels patrolled for hours. Curt said I was was
Haden The ceiling fan spun lazy circles above the bed, the steady hum filling the quiet room. Desiree’s breathing was soft beside me, her hair tangled over the pillow, the sheet half-slid down her hip. The scent of her perfume mixed with the faint musk of sex, sweet and heavy. It should’ve been peaceful. It wasn’t. Sleep wouldn’t come. My head wouldn’t stop replaying the last few weeks. Ashlyn’s face every time she said his name, Krav’s face every time I wanted to punch him. The two of them standing side by side like they’d always been written that way. I turned onto my back, one arm over my eyes. The bed creaked, Desiree shifted closer, tracing a finger down my chest. “Can’t sleep?” she murmured. “Couldn’t if I tried.” She propped herself up on one elbow. “You’re thinking about her again.” It wasn’t a question. I let out a slow breath. “You don’t have to say it like that.” “Well, you are,” she said, sitting up fully now, sheet falling to her waist. “You get this l







