This is my second book based on some of the characters that were introduced in Twin Moon Curse. It is a stand-alone book but if you enjoyed the first I hope you will enjoy this one just as much. If you haven't read the first I hope you will check it out. Happy Reading.
Quinn POV
Ten years old
“Meg, where are you? Come on we need to hurry up and get back.” I don’t know how I let her talk me into coming out here with her. Today is my first official training with Dad and Uncle Shane. It’s supposed to be the first time that they are going to let me start fighting against their wolves. Well not so much fighting as learning to defend myself. The fighting will come later. It's not going to look good if I'm late, but Meg just had to come out here now. The problem is that it’s been getting harder to say no to her. I mentioned it to Mom one day jokingly. I told her that Meg had been bugging me more about doing things with her and I didn’t know why. When I told Mom about not liking to say no to her though, she gave me a weird answer. “Aww, my little boy is starting to notice girls.” Like what does that even mean? Noticing girls? Yes, Meg is a girl. I noticed that a long time ago. How could I not? I was always told to be nice to the girls, to include the girls, so of course I know she is a girl. If Mom thinks that I’m going to start being like those warriors that I see going all gaga over the she-wolves, she better think again. There is no way that I’m going to go all possessive and stuff over a she-wolf. I don’t need that kind of trouble. The only thing that I am going to be concentrating on is training and being the best Beta I can be. I’m not saying I don’t want a mate but what is the sense of getting all possessive and starry-eyed over a girl that may not be yours to keep? What kind of fun is that? If and when my wolf and I find someone that we both agree is a good match to us then I will worry about if she wants me. So until then just training, school and friends are all I need, no romance, crushes or mushy stuff for me. I shiver at the thought.
It’s just that Meg is getting pushy but I don’t like saying no to her because I don’t like how it makes her look sad. She is just like a little sister that is all. I don’t like seeing April sad either. Argg, why am I even thinking about that right now? Mom is putting crazy ideas in my head. Maybe I should ask Dad to talk to Mom. Maybe he can get her to stop saying things that mess with my brain. I need to find Meg and get to the training grounds. “MEG?” I yelled getting frustrated that I was getting distracted by my thoughts. “Meg, we both need to get back for training, but I will leave you out here by yourself. I'm not going to risk being late just because you didn't want to walk in the woods by yourself.” Why am I even thinking about what Mom said? I need to just find Meg and go. There is a small breeze that blows towards me and the smell of coconuts is carried with it. Inhaling deeply, I reach up and move the branch that was blocking the path to find Meg kneeling on the ground. She is picking wild strawberries. The sun shining through the strands of her blond hair that have fallen over her face is creating a beautiful almost angelic glow around her. She looks up at me as she hears me move behind her and her beautiful ocean-blue eyes meet mine. Shit maybe Mom is right. I shake my head trying to wipe the ideas that Mom has been putting in there out. I don’t need this and besides, it’s Meg she’s just a friend, that’s all. That’s how that works right you say it enough times it becomes true. Girls can wait. I need to focus on starting my training. I want to be the best I can. I want to be worthy of running this pack alongside my cousins. “Meg we need to go,” I say as I reach my hand out to help her up. She takes my hand and smiles at me while raising a bottle of strawberries. “See what I picked for you.” She says her smile getting bigger. I try to keep a stern look on my face, but when she looks at me like that, I don’t even know what that look is. I just can’t stay looking mad. She is just a friend. With eyes, you can get lost in. Ohhh, Nooo. Mom, what did you do to my brain? “Thanks, Meg,” I say as I return her smile. “Now let’s go.” I kept a hold of her hand as we ran to the training grounds. I just want to make sure she doesn’t stop anywhere else. It's not because I like the feel of her hand in mine. That would just be weird. Meg is just a friend.
Meg POV
Nine years old
I can hear Quinn calling me. I ducked under the branch that was hanging over the path. I can’t believe that I talked him into coming out here with me. I could have come alone. I know where I’m going but I wanted company, his company. The whole group of us used to run through the woods all the time. Climbing trees and spending the day out by the waterfall. Then a couple of years ago the boys decided that they didn’t want to hang around with April and me and do what they call girlie things. Then we all started focusing more on our training. The guys mostly, I understand, they are going to be the ones leading the pack and they need to know how to defend it, but I’ve missed doing stuff with them. Quinn more than I thought I was going to. I like having him chase me through the woods. Mom keeps telling me it’s because I have a crush on him. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about, he is just a friend. Like a big brother. A big brother that I have been missing. The fact that he is closer to my age is nice too. I like April and all, and she is only a year younger than I am, but there are times that I find the things she wants to do a little boring. I don’t want to tell her that though, I don’t want to hurt her feelings. That is why I thought I would ask Quinn to come with me today. The only time I could find that it would be just the two of us was just before his first official Beta Warrior training with his Dad. I was really surprised that I got him to come. I was so sure he was going to tell me to go by myself.
I kneel in front of a patch of wild strawberries. It is one of the biggest out here, it grows in this spot every year. It is hard to get any sometimes it is rare that you find this many all at once. The birds and other animals usually get them first. They are one of Quinn’s favourite treats. That’s the other reason I wanted him to come with me, so he could get some before the rest of the gang was around. Maybe that’s why he always smells like them. It’s a scent that I will never get tired of smelling. I start picking some and putting them in the empty water bottle that I have. I’m so focused on getting the best berries that I can I don’t hear Quinn walk up behind me at first. I turn to look up at him my ocean blue eyes meeting his dark green ones. They have always reminded me of the dark green moss that grows on the logs in the forest. Just staring into them can make everything feel right, it calms me. I notice a weird expression passes over his face before he shakes his head and glares at me. “Meg we need to go.” He says as he stretches his hand out to help me off the ground. Taking his hand I smile at him and raise the bottle of strawberries. “See what I picked for you.” His glare softens and he smiles back. “Thanks, Meg. Now let’s go.” He doesn’t let go of my hand as we run to the training grounds. I like it, in the way that I would like to hold the hand of a friend, whom I think of as a brother.
Quinn POV Fifteen years old Here I am traipsing through the woods looking for Meg, again. At least this time it is a better reason than she just wants to go for a walk. She has been doing that a lot lately, but she stopped asking me to go with her a couple of months ago. This time however it’s part of our tacker training. We have been doing this about twice a year for the last couple of years. Once in late fall, or early winter like now and then again in the late spring or early summer. Dad, Uncle Shane and Mac divide the group of ranked children into two teams. Reed, Levi and Meg make up one. Lucas, April and I make up the other this time, they switch it around each time. One group hides the other tracks them. It comes down to being one extreme game of hide ‘n’ seek. The catch is that if anyone from either team can get close enough to someone from the opposite team and deliver a fake death blow that person is out of the game putting one team at a disadvantage. In all the times that
Meg POVThe next day when I walked into the dining hall for breakfast Quinn was sitting with some of the warriors that he had been training with lately. He usually works with me and April after breakfast on Sundays to help us learn how to defend ourselves against larger males. I get my plate and make my way over the table that April is sitting at. “Morning, you ready to get your ass kicked again today?” I ask her as I set my plate down.“As ready as I am any other time, but Reed, Lucas and Levi will be our trainers today and from now on. With the help of your Dad.” April says popping a piece of fruit into her mouth.I looked up from my plate very confused by her statement. Quinn had been the one who had wanted us to do this training. Why didn’t he want to train us anymore? I looked across the hall to where Quinn was sitting and linked him. “Why are you not training us anymore?”He quickly glances at me and then turns away. “I just can’t. You need someone else to train you.”It almost s
Meg POV Fifteen years old We have just finished our last bout of tracker training. We had packed up our supplies and Dad was carrying the last of the coolers to the truck. I mind-linked with Mom to let her know that I was going to spend some time out by the stream she asked me to be home in time to help with supper. I walked over to Dad to let him know what I was doing, hugged him and headed off deeper into the forest. I wanted to stay out here and read by the edge of the stream. There is a spot that has a bit of a waterfall. It’s not very tall but it makes a nice calming sound which relaxes me. I started coming out here near the end of last summer when I stopped asking Quinn to go for walks with me. I had already noticed then that his attitude had started to change towards me. I haven't been able to figure out why. It is a nice spot to get away to and not too far from where the wild strawberry patch is. When the time of year is right the breeze will carry the smell of the ripened b
Quinn POV Fifteen almost sixteen-year-old As we packed up from the training session that we had just finished, I watched Meg mind-link someone, speak with her father, give him a hug and head into the woods. Where the hell is she going? Why are they letting her walk off into the woods alone? What if she gets hurt? Why the hell am I on the verge of panicking? I know she can take care of herself. Even though I have spent a good part of the last eight months trying to stay away from her. I have still watched her while she is training. I can't count the amount of times that I have had to hold myself back from running onto the field ready to pound whoever she was sparing with. I don't like to see her hurt. I know what I have been doing is hurting her. I just don’t know what else to do. She has had April asking why I was doing what I was doing. She had her brother and the twins ask too. I just wasn’t sure what to tell them all. There was no way I was going to try and explain to my sister t
Quinn POVTwo years later“Meg come on everyone is waiting.” I hollered as I walked down the hall towards the movie theatre. This was supposed to be just us tonight, just the group of us from the ranked families. A time to catch up with each other before school starts up again for my last year. We had all been so busy this summer we hadn’t had the time to hang out as much as we normally do, we had hardly even talked. And once school starts up it will get worse. We had even missed the last two tracker training games, but Dad said that they weren't a big deal anymore.The group of us had always been close, even with the age differences. There was that little bit of time when we were younger that the guys and I had decided that we didn’t want to do ‘girlie things’ with Meg and my younger sister April anymore. But that was before we got older and discovered that there was some ‘girlie stuff’ that could be fun just not with these two. That would just be weird. Meg is just a friend and that
Meg POV I watched as Quinn left. I know I shouldn’t have brought Matt tonight but I thought I could use him to hide behind, a way to hide my feelings. Feelings I shouldn’t be having. I mean it's Quinn. Our future Beta, my long-time friend I can’t have these types of feelings for him. But for the last month or so the thoughts I have been having about him are anything but in the friend zone. They have been there off and on in small amounts ever since that time in the woods when he pinned me to the ground. I am still not sure what I saw when he was in the stream that day, but every once and a while that image pops up in one of my dreams. So I guess I would have to admit that it had been longer than a month they have just gotten stronger in the last month. I have watched him develop, physically as he has increased his training to get ready to go to his Beta training next September after he graduates high school. I hadn’t noticed at first. At least I hadn’t until one of the girls at school
Quinn POV “She can do better than me too,” I mutter to myself as I make my way into the locker room. ‘Ash, what the hell man?’ Now he decides to shut up. His appearance tonight would explain some of my irritation and edginess tonight. Ash hadn’t shut up since Meg walked in. He kept flashing images of her on her knees sucking my dick, my head buried between her legs and the one that almost made me lose control. I had her under me screaming in pleasure. It was so real that I could feel her nails digging into my back and the tightness of her warm, wet pussy squeezing my cock as I drove into her. So when she said that she was going to call Matt I lost it. There was no way that he was going to experience what I had just been thinking about doing. No. Fucking. Way. I had her pinned to the door before I could even fully comprehend what I was doing. “You will not be calling him back.” I’m not sure who was more pissed me or Ash. I stood there holding her against the door trying to calm myself
Meg POV 10 months later Where the hell is he? I have finally got up the courage and now I can’t find him. I have spent this entire school year berating myself about the feelings that I have for Quinn. I just kept telling myself that it was normal teenage hormones. I mean look at the guy. There isn’t a straight female out there who wouldn’t want to at least look at him. I was doing well until about a month ago when that bitch Avery started going on about how Quinn and her were going to be mates. Come on really, there is no way that Quinn’s wolf would be attracted to a bitch like that. Physically, maybe I guess, but personality-wise, never. She is so convinced of it that she has even picked out everything that she wants for their ceremony when they are appointed into the Beta positions. This is just pathic in and of itself because even if she were to turn out to be Quinn's one of his possible choices and for some insane reason he picks her, it could be another five to ten years before