Phoenix

Chapter 1 “I’d never want you as my Luna, you’re fat, ugly and a bit too dark for me.” His words cut me deep. My wolf Freya howled in my head. I’d just discovered he was my mate. I was always a nice person. I thought everyone liked me. I was adopted at two by the Greeley’s, the Beta family. When my parents disappeared, they treated me as their daughter. My brother Lance was the future beta, and my stupid mate was none other than Gael Ryker, the future alpha and he was what every alpha is, tall, muscular and extremely good looking. Gael had long golden-brown hair with eyes so gray, they shone like two diamonds, when the light hit him just right. He had dimples and a perfect set of white teeth. He had a full sleeve tatted on his right arm and tatts on his neck and across his back. The problem was he was an asshole, at least to me. Oh me? I’m Phoenix Greeley, at least I think I am. I just turned 18 and have been a member of the Silver Moon pack forever. I never knew my parents or my

Chapter 3Gael sat in his office running his hand through his hair. “How is this still happening? Rogues are continuing to breach my defenses and they’ve taken another she-wolf.” The frustration was building and the tension in the pack rising.“Gael we’ve tried different tactics on how to strengthen our border defenses and yet they still get in. What’s going to happen if they decide to attack?” Lance asked just as frustrated as Gael.During those six years, Gael was named Alpha and took Amy as his chosen mate. He didn’t want to but a few years after Phoenix left he started to have pains. They were excruciating. His wolf Ronan wouldn’t absorb the pain either, because he was still furious about losing his mate. Nobody knew about them, except Amy and the pack doctor, as he had to have powerful pain killers to function. He was heartbroken to think that Phoenix was sexually active and evidently the sex she was having was strong. He still refused to mark Amy and fill her with his seed. Hi

Chapter 5My eyes opened on their own at 4:45 a.m. as they did every morning for the past six years. I rolled out of bed, went to the bathroom, did my business, brushed my teeth and hair and was out on the porch getting ready to stretch for a morning run. Like clockwork, Ron and Tina were coming for morning calisthenics. We stretched and did a full perimeter run. I ran in my human form. My wolf, Freya, was around but she never presented herself to me. She spoke to me in my head, but she never came forth to shift. I still had all the strength, speed, heightened vision and hearing that a wolf had, but my wolf didn’t ever seem to want to come forth. She’d say, “Not time yet.” Tina ran in wolf form and Ron ran with me in human form. We ran for about 30 minutes when I stopped. I took a deep breath in and then I recognized the smell, rogues. I mindlinked Ron and Tina, who instinctively fell back into a defensive position. I told them to climb the nearest tree so we could surveil the area. W

Chapter 7I walked up the porch to my parents’ house when I heard the most vicious howl in my life. I knew immediately who it was. I ran to the packhouse as fast as I could. It was Lance and he sounded like a combination of rage and sorrow. I rushed into the packhouse and there were three warriors trying their best to hold him back.“LaLa! What is going on? What’s wrong?”“I’m going to kill him; I’m going to kill her!” I ran up to him and held him around his waist, I felt him calm a little. “Who bubba, who?”“Let me go Phee, you didn’t tell me, WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME!” He was hysterical. I heard my mom and dad come in with our dad rushing over to hold LaLa back.“Tell you what LaLa?” I screamed at him and then it dawned on me. Oh shit, he found out Gael was my mate.“Son, son please calm down!” Now mama was holding him. My heart was breaking. He was hurting and it was for me. I went to stand outside on the porch of the packhouse when I saw Gael running up. All I could think of was to

Chapter 9Gael returned to the packhouse not wanting to admit that he was sore all over. He’d worked out all of his life, but he’s never been this sore from a ten-minute workout with Phoenix. He kept reminiscing how she moved with such grace and poise. She even had her eyes closed the whole time. When Randall stepped up to help him throw her off, the way she ran into him and knocked him on his ass was astounding. As he was almost at his office, he heard noises coming from inside. He stopped and instantly anger filled him. Who had the audacity to be in the Alpha’s office without permission? As he felt his wolf about to surface he opened the door, that was slightly ajar, and what he saw almost made him pass out.His father had his mother bent over his desk giving her the absolute business. Her face was concentrated in ecstasy and his father looked as if his life depended on ramming her as hard as he could. Gael couldn’t speak he just heaved, slammed the door and sprinted down the hall.