OtsanaThings weren’t going according to plan! First, they killed the king that said he would marry me as soon as we won the war. Then they invited us to this ridiculous celebration where they could celebrate winning right in our faces, and lastly, that damn wench had to rub it in my face that she was now Spenser’s mate!I really hated her! I hated her more than I could put into words. I wanted to scratch her eyes out, cut out her tongue and feed the rest of her to some creature!! I could see why the old king wanted her killed, and cursed the person who didn’t follow through! If Alison was never here, Spenser would have been mine, and we would have had a happy life together!There had to be some way I could still salvage things. There had to be some way for me to win back Spenser and to get rid of that … thing he called a mate!AlisonI never trusted that woman, so when Ralph and his pretty little mate came to inform me that Otsana was trying to spread poison about me, I wasn’t surpri
AlisonI walked into our bedroom and Spenser was so pale that I was almost too scared to touch him. The doctors gave him the antidote, and he was still alive, but nobody was sure if he was going to make it. It was a little premature to have Otsana arrested for murder, and I was probably testing the fates far too much, but I just couldn’t allow her to get away with what she tried to do.I touched his hand, and it drew me back to the present. His hand was incredibly cold, and I closed my eyes and listened for his heart beat. It was still there but it was weak. I can’t lose him. Not after I was the one who came up with the hair-brained idea of letting Otsana in! I was just as much to blame as she was, wasn’t I?!With one decision, I changed the course of our lives and probably caused the death of my mate before we properly had a life! Tears filled my eyes as I clung to his hand, softly kissing it. I can’t lose him. I just couldn’t. I couldn’t imagine my life without him!“Hey.” His voice
AlisonSpenser was still a little weak, but he was growing stronger every day. Otsana was locked away and, as far as I knew, she didn’t know that Spenser was alive. I wasn’t ready to give her the relief of knowing she hadn’t killed him.Spenser kept asking me when I was ready to commit to a trial, but to do that I had to change the charge. Spenser’s trip had been cancelled for now, which was really messing with his plans. With our plans. We needed to cement his rule of the northern kingdom before one of their pack decided to take over.Sadly, I couldn’t leave her down in the cells forever. I couldn’t pretend that she no longer existed. The pack was beginning to talk. Then the day came that one of the guards wasn’t thinking and Otsana found out that Spenser was still alive. Alison was relieved when the news reached her that Otsana no longer had access to their pack link.“She is driving the northerners crazy, Alison.” Spenser growled in frustration. He could hear Otsana clearly as she
AlisonThe northern kingdom wasn’t that different to my kingdom. The castle wasn’t as extravagant, but it was still unbelievably comfortable. The city was a lot similar to ours and the people spent their time in much the same way as we did. I had no idea why I was expecting anything different. The differences were the changes I made in our kingdom.We no longer had the rank trials, but they still did and that was the first thing that Spenser put a stop to. It would take some time to figure out who needed to be in which position, but we believed that the people deserved a chance. Especially now that they had a new king. The time had come for change in our world and Spenser and I would be the ones to bring it.“You look pretty happy with yourself.” Spenser smiled, slipping his arms around my waist as we looked out from the balcony.“I am. It’s as though a sense of peace has finally flooded me. There are no more enemies. Our world is finally at peace.” I sighed, feeling content. After ye
AlisonI wasn’t feeling as positive when I woke up and the little one made me feel sick instantly. Werewolves hardly ever get sick. Being pregnant was one of the very few times we did. I couldn’t understand the biology behind it and trying to figure it out was just too much. As females, we don’t just have to go through our bodies changing and then the pain of labour. Oh, no! We also had to get sick!Thankfully, my omega had already had her first pup, and she was on hand quickly with some remedies to help me through it all. Crackers so I didn’t starve and some tea to calm my upset stomach. I quickly started feeling a little better, but not after spending a day in bed while Spenser rushed off to take care of some things in our new kingdom.When I finally started feeling better, I joined him for my first small council meeting in the northern kingdom. Everything here was still incredibly patriarchal, and I didn’t like where the meeting was going. I didn’t want to step on Spenser’s toes, b
Alison“I don’t know.” Spenser threw his hands in the air, sighing in exasperation. “When you came back, you knew exactly what you wanted. You wanted to get rid of the old king. You wanted to change the world. You have to understand, Alison. My entire life, all I did was fight a war because I was ordered to. Leaving my pack and renouncing my title as Alpha was the first time that I ever did anything that I wanted. I returned only to find us right back in the middle of a war, but you were the one leading us. I never got the chance to think about what it was that I wanted. I have always followed the orders of others. It is damn scary to have the entire world in your hands. It scares me to death to think I could actually do anything.” He took a deep breath and I knew the feeling of what he was talking about.I felt the very same way after killing the king. I hadn’t thought about what the future had in store. I never imagined I would have a mate and a pup. All I thought about was winning
AlisonBeing back in the old kingdom, we had to shift our perspectives again. Our lives were far too peaceful, of course, and Murphy had to get his jab around every corner, but Spenser and I were handling it. Shifting from being the one in charge to taking a back seat was difficult, but we found our groove and I took care of the problems with the warriors.In both kingdoms, it seemed our warriors wanted the rank trials. It was the way things had been done for many years, and it wasn’t easy to just change on a dime. People felt more secure if they had proven they belonged in their rank, which I could understand. I felt exactly the same way when I was training for the war. I wanted to prove to the rogues I could be a good queen.“Ralph, I will only agree to this if each participant wants to take part. I’m not going to force any of them to do it.” I frowned. I wanted to give my people this, but I didn’t want anyone to feel forced. I didn’t want anyone to feel the way I did. “They also al
SpenserI didn’t want Alison to give up everything she had worked so hard for. Everything she fought so hard for. I didn’t want her to give up so easily, but it seemed she was determined to make the changes and to proclaim me king. I didn’t leave my pack behind, so I could one day be called king. I did it so that I could be there to support her.I gave up everything, and she was willing to risk it all when she took the life of the old king. We were both fighting for what we believed in. We were both willing to give up our lives to give our people better lives. We were both willing to give it all. That was what made her such an incredible queen and, according to Alison, what would make me an incredible king.I was sad though. I didn’t want two of the castles to just be abandoned. Thankfully, Alison had an amazing idea for that as well. She wanted us to spend time in each of them. We would spend a couple of months in each and that way our children got to grow up in a wondrous magical wo