LOGINHow are you all liking Alpha Luca so far? He's definitely got more to show ;) In the meantime, I want to take this time to greet y'all a very very Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, whichever you celebrate. I will be seeing you all on the next update on the 25th as a Christmas gift, but will leave 24 for you to chill and get ready for your celebrations! Thank you for being here. You guys are the bestest gift I could ever ask for. ♡
ALPHA GAVIN I don’t want to leave. That’s the first thought that claws through me as I step away from the SUV, the cold night air slicing into my lungs like punishment. Every instinct in my body screams that I should stay right where I am, shouldn’t take my eyes off the road, the laptop, the last fragile thread tying us to Alessi. But my phone is buzzing again. My mother. Of course it had to be her. I let it ring once more, jaw clenched, chest tight enough it hurts to breathe. Harley’s words echo in my skull… ‘We don’t have hope yet. Just a direction.’ And Luca… Luca barely managed to stay upright when I climbed out of the car. I look back at them. Harley is hunched over the hood, hands braced like the metal is the only thing keeping him standing. His scent is sharp, erratic, like fear and fury tangled with something darker. Luca is pale, lips tinged blue, one hand pressed to his ribs like he’s holding himself together by sheer force of will. They’re getting worse.
ALPHA HARLEY My fingers drum the steering wheel so hard the leather is starting to peel. Gavin is pacing behind the hood of the SUV like a predator seconds from snapping steel in half, phone crushed in his hand. And Luca? He’s staring at the single, blinking red point on the tablet in his lap, Alessi’s last known location. It burned itself into the hollow pit already forming in my chest. The abandoned service road. The place where her signal vanished. Where she vanished. My wolf claws at my skin, frantic, sick. I swallow the metallic taste rising in my throat. “Run it again.” Luca’s breathing hitches. It was shallow, uneven. He doesn’t look at me when he taps the keys, a thin sheen of sweat covers his brow. The illness is hitting him again. Harder than before. “Harley,” he murmurs, “I’ve run it six times. It’s the same.” His voice cracks into a rasp. “She was taken and it stopped there.” My vision closes to a pinprick. My hands are shaking again, I believe another sym
The world comes back in pieces. First there was sound, then there was pain. A low mechanical hum fills my skull, steady and cruel, like a heartbeat that isn’t mine. My mouth is dry. My tongue tastes like metal. When I breathe, I smell antiseptic, bleach, and blood. My blood. Something pricks the crook of my arm. I try to move, but leather straps bite into my wrists. Panic blooms in me immediately. Where the hell am I? My chest rises too quickly, and the heart monitor beside me explodes in frantic beeps. The sound shreds the silence. The lab. The white walls. The light that was too bright to be real. And then, as if a ghost cutting through fog, someone whispers. “You’re real.” The voice is hoarse, trembling, small enough to shatter if I breathe too loudly. My body stills. My vision swims, focusing on a glass divider across the room. Behind it… No. That’s… She’s… Me?! The girl staring back has my face but clearly not my life. Her skin is pale and bruised, her lips crack
The bathroom at the gala was all marble and gold mirrors. Too clean, too perfect, too much like everything else in this town that didn’t belong to me, that I didn’t belong to. I gripped the sink and tried to breathe, but the words of doubt just flooded my head. Not good enough. Not worth it. Nothing. No one. I’ve always been no one. Frantic, I pulled my locket out from beneath my dress, a small silver heart that had survived my childhood. One of the few things from my parents that I’d managed to keep. My hands were shaking. I opened it and looked at the tiny photo of us smiling at the camera, but then it fell. The locket slipped from my fingers and clattered against the marble floor. Somehow, the back panel popped open. There, inside, was a small piece of paper, yellowed with age, with a number scribbled in my mother’s handwriting. My heart stopped. I stared at it for a moment, wondering what it meant and what I should do when I finally had the courage to pull out
ALPHA HARLEY The drive back from the Pack house should’ve taken three hours. I made it in two. My wolf was clawing beneath my skin, restless and angry. Something was wrong. Vaughn’s words looped through my head like a curse: She’s not just another Luna. Every mile between me and Alessi felt like a mistake I couldn’t undo fast enough. But halfway through, something else started. A cough. Then another. I pulled over, gripping the steering wheel as my lungs seized like they were being torn apart from the inside. I bent forward, gasping, tasting copper. When I wiped my mouth, there it was. A streak of blood across my palm, dark and real. “Shit.” I stared at it until the pounding in my skull drowned everything out. Not now. Not this. I forced the engine back to life and drove harder, ignoring the blur of lights, the honking cars, my wolf’s frantic growl pounding in sync with my heartbeat. By the time I reached the gala, Gavin and Luca were already outside,
ALPHA GAVIN I always thought these galas were the pinnacle of everything I hated. Forced smiles, stiff suits, hollow conversations about donations and legacies. But tonight? Tonight was different. Alessi stood beside me like a goddess in moonlight, her presence so commanding that every overdone chandelier and polished marble floor paled in comparison. The moment we stepped into the venue, her hand tucked in mine, I felt like I’d brought a spark of something real into a world built on pretense. She looked up at me, her eyes wide, lips parted slightly in awe. “This is… beautiful.” I couldn’t help the soft grin that tugged at my mouth. “Not as beautiful as you.” Her cheeks went red in the most stunning way, and suddenly my heart was doing things it hadn’t in years. Leaping, fluttering, hoping. I never brought girls here. Never. And I knew my stepfather would notice that. Alessi and I drifted toward the back garden when the ballroom got too loud. The lights strung across
ALPHA GAVIN The tension between Luca Moretti and I was increasing by the second. I couldn’t understand why this was happening, why I had found my mate, and at the same time he did, too, and she was one person. How was that even possible? I’ve never heard of such a phenomenon, and it seems fro
ALPHA GAVIN “Going somewhere?” “Shit,” I mumbled under my breath. I was so close, merely just a few steps away from the door, but of course my stepfather just had to see me first. I cleared my throat and let out a sigh. “Yes, do you have a problem with that?” “No, of course not. You are fr
Everything was happening so fast as my head started spinning. Suddenly, it felt like I had been transported onto a carousel, a very fast moving one. One second, Eva and her minions were harassing me and I was trying to figure out a way to get out of such a horrible situation, and then the next, s
These people are insane. Like, I thought I had issues, but this was on a whole other level. I can’t believe that in all my years living in a town that wasn’t as prestigious as Lakewood, it would be here that I would experience something so crazy like being restrained with a zip tie and having a b







