~Emilia’s Point of View~
“You can’t keep me in here and not charge me with anything,” I yelled, from behind the bars.
I’d been in this damn holding cell for hours, I was hungry as hell, my boobs hurt and were leaking.
“I want my lawyer, I want him now,” I yelled.
At least a dozen officers walked by here and there but not a single one looked at me. Assholes!!
“I’m a mother to a newborn and I need to pump my breast milk,” I yelled.
My right boob was killing me and if I was getting a clogged duct I’d kill someone. I sat down on the metal bed and massaged it, milk dripped out and soaked my bra
~Eight months later~~Aleksey’s Point of View~“Cheers,” everyone yelled as they hit their champagne flutes together.The music was pumping through the packed floor and everyone was dressed to kill, or to get drunk and dance all night depending on how you looked at it.“There’s the man of the hour,” Robert yelled as Mickey stepped into the VIP lounge.I immediately got to my feet and we had a little three way bro hug, congratulating Mickey on the opening night of Club Rez.“I couldn’t have done it alone, it happened so fast thanks to everyone. To family,” Mickey said, beaming
PrologueIn the 1970’s, the powers that be decided to “out” all of the shifter world to the humans. This was highly controversial, as you can imagine. Humans are afraid of what they don’t understand, their fear is all consuming and overwhelming. What do they do in the face of fear? They attack.Within a few years of the great revelation, whole packs were run out of the forests that had long held their secrets. Families were torn apart, shifters of all sorts were now forced to assimilate into human culture. While shifters generally stuck together, werewolves in particular enjoyed their pack life and midnight runs, but soon it was all a thing of the past.Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Humans considered themselves superior to shifters, which was often a fat
~Austin’s Point of View~I woke just as the sun was rising, I could see it peeking through the one little window of the treehouse. I looked at my chest to see the sweetest creature imaginable, the girl of my dreams cradled safely in my arms.I didn’t deserve her, I had nothing to offer but a life of heartache and violence. A million males would be lined up for this beauty. She came from a good family and she was delicate but you could tell she had a determined side. She wouldn’t be a pushover … and the most impressive thing about her? She wasn’t afraid of me. She should have been.I stroked her dark brown hair, now a bit of a frizzy mess. She smelled so good and I knew I had to leave her. My heart was so drawn to her, I never should have climbed up in this damn treehouse.
~Emmy’s Point of View~“Emilia Renee Worthington! You get your tail down here! You’ve been sleeping in that stupid treehouse for a week and it’s time you came in the house like a civilized person,” Natalie yelled.I ignored her. I pulled my blanket over my head, frantically trying to capture his smell. It was too faded now, and it broke my heart. I hadn’t wanted to come back in the house because I’d been crying myself to sleep every night and I didn’t want anyone to hear it.For the first few nights, I thought I had hallucinated him. But I had his bracelet, and his scent on my blanket. He was real, even if my mind tried to convince me otherwise.Suddenly a brown head pushed its way up through my treehouse door
~Aleksey’s Point of View~“Again! Keep your elbows high,” the trainer yelled.I continued to take jabs at the punching bag, letting out all my aggression.“I’ve never seen someone come in already so well trained, so tough. You float like a butterfly and sting like a bee,” the trainer said, impressed.I didn’t know if this guy was poetic or he was quoting something. It wasn’t like I got to watch TV very much.“When you have to fight for survival you get tough,” I said, taking another punch.“Let's take a break kid, I’m tired just lookin’ at ya. You got a name,” he ask
~Emilia’s Point of View~“Oh … my GODDESS EMMY! OH MY GODDESS! It was insane, I just can’t even, I can’t begin to describe it, just totally fucking nuts,” Natalie said, rambling a mile a minute and throwing herself around in the front seat.Her friend who was driving giggled and was hanging on Natalie’s every word, since she was still a pup and hadn’t yet experienced shifting.“Yeah but like watch the road okay,” I said, as I watched her friend almost hit a parked car.The next ten minutes I just sat in the back seat, sometimes covering my ears. I was so tired and all I wanted to do was crawl in bed. I finally opened my eyes when the car came to a stop and I was quickly drawn to the police car in
December, 2017 ~Aleksey’s Point of View~ It had been roughly two years since I had my first shift, and Father gave me more responsibility with each passing month … and less to his own flesh and blood. For now, Maxim didn’t seem to care. Pussy and booze, parties and blow … that was his life. He was pissing it away and it didn’t go unnoticed by the family. However my sister, Alexandra was taking to the life well but she was still a pup. They called me “the fly” because even though no one saw me, I was never far. I would hover over them and know all their secrets. I was in every room, listening and seeing. I had spies everywhere on the family payroll, or ones I blackmailed into working for me. I loved all the technology and listening devices, it was all at my fingertips. To be boss of t
~Emilia’s Point of View~ “I just feel like I should have gotten my wolf by now. I mean, I’ll be 17 in six weeks. It seems like everyone else has theirs,” I whined to Gabby, my only friend. “It’ll happen girl, I know a lot of wolves have lost their faith in the Goddess, but I still keep her in my heart. I believe she watches over us,” she said, giving me a side hug as we walked to class. “I do too. I mean, even after everything that’s happened to me. I still want to believe,” I said, absentmindedly stroking my rubber bracelet. It was early on a cold winter’s morning, the nearly full moon still brilliant in the sky. We’d just rolled into the first week of December. “I won’t ever complain about ho