LOGINVIOLET“And how many rounds have you made today?”The chief patrol officer gave me a salute. “The usual routine number, Luna. Although, things are much more stringent now due to the…preparations.”I nodded, taking note of somethings. It had been exactly four days since Tristan’s declaration, and as anyone would have guessed, the whole region is scrambling for preparations. One would think the bastard would have launched some attack since he’s the one who actually decided to start the war.Seriously, you’d think he knew better. I had half the mind to just downright smack him straight in the face, but was it even worth it?No, it definitely was. I’d save it for when I eventually caught him. For now, I’d do enough practice to ensure I get right in the noggin.The officer saluted once more before moving back to his colleagues. It was hard to miss the furtive glances they took my way. I knew what their eyes said even before they spoke. That much was obvious taking in everything that had be
VIOLET“I hate this so much.”That had to be the twentieth time I’d say that today alone. And I meant every word of it. I hated my life so, so much.People always said it was wrong to say that. Don’t say you hate your life. Someone else out there has it worse than you.You should be grateful.Well they could shove it up their ass for all I care. I was miserable as hell with no one else to talk to about it.“Fuck,” I groaned, reaching for the tea by my bedside table.It helped with nausea. That’s what I’d read. The blogs said taking a good amount of that tea helped with nausea. It would help with throwing up to and feeling like I had food poisoning.But lord, was it horrendous.I’d barley even put it to my lips when another wave of nausea hit me. Before I realized it, I was up and rushing to the toilet again, throwing and heaving up my guts into the toilet bowl.A long shaky breath left me, exhaustion eating at my bones like some sort of birth right. This really was not fun.Since morn
LUCIAN“Alright, so what have we got?”Zayn spread out every single one of the document he had in hand, and began reading them out.“We’ve got about three lesser packs that have pledged allegiance to our cause, one of them being Farlorn.”“Farlorn is good,” I nodded, eyes skimming over my copy of the documents. “They have the seaside advantage, something we can utilize to our cause.”Zayn nodded. “Exact. And then there’s this letter that came in from MoonBay today.”“MoonBay?” I froze, my mind wandering back to the summit.The twins had approached us with an air of formality. Things had long since escalated since the summit and word had gotten out of Tristan’s declaration of war. So it was safe to say, everywhere had been thrown into a set of preluded chaos.“This letter came in from MoonBay?” I repeated.“Yes,” Zayn nodded, eyes pouring through the paper. “The Alpha himself has chosen to ally with us and says he’s ready for a one-on-one meeting with you both.”I nodded, my expression
VIOLETMe?He wanted me? My head was suddenly heavier, different thoughts spinning through my mind faster than I could make sense of.Why did he want me? There was no plausible reason as to why that would be the case. He had no reason whatsoever to want me.For crying out loud, he had his own mate now. One which he obviously doesn’t fancy as much, but regardless. It made no sense as to why he was demanding for me.Reese’s eyes narrowed, right before she ripped the paper out of her mate’s hand. After some seconds of skimming through it, she tore the paper into shreds and tossed it to the ground.“He’s gone fucking mad.” She growled.Zayn looked just as pissed. “Who does he think he is? And to declare war just because he wants Violet?”Lucian had been quiet this whole time, his gaze calculating but never once leaving me. I knew there were so many things on his mind, a lot he wanted to say. It had been just as he feared.A week ago when he’d had that outburst, this had been his fear. Tha
VIOLET“Any update on those tabloids?”Zayn was focused on the phone in his hand, furiously typing away at it. “We’ve gotten a good number of them down. Some annoying blogs don’t want to let go of it though.”Lucian fixed up his tie. “I trust you can handle that.”“Leave it to me,” Zayn checked his watch. “Soon as we’re done with this meeting, I’ll get right on it.”Lucian nodded, fixing up his look one more time. Behind the doors before us was a conference hosted to address all the concerns that had sprouted after the summit. Of course it wouldn’t clear as quickly as I’d thought it would.That would be wishful thinking to assume it would. I guessed Lucian knew that much. He understood it, knew just how much things would blow up. And we were just as ready to get things straightened out.He turned to me, reaching for my hand. “Are you ready?”I sucked in a breath. “Ready as I’ll ever be.”“We’ll be at the front in case anything happens.” Reese said, reaching for Zayn’s hand. The beta s
VIOLET“How long do you think Lucian’s going to keep him for?”Reese was quiet, far more so than I’d have liked her to be. I wasn’t completely surprised about her certain unresponsiveness. Rodriguez was a touchy subject, both for Lucian and her. but it didn’t make it any easier to decipher what exactly was going through her mind.I’d told her everything that happened that afternoon, from Rodriguez’s outburst to Lucian ordering that he be thrown in the slammers. But I hadn’t imagined I would get this kind of reaction from her.So…detached.We finished up with the last of the supply checks just as the sun dipped into the horizon. I exchanged some more pleasantries with the workers before we left the warehouse.“Reese?”She finally blinked, then let out a breath. “Sorry, spaced out a little bit.”“So,” I tried again. “How long do you think Lucian’s going to keep him there for? A week? Or, a month?”“The question is, how long is he going to survive for?”That made me freeze. How long he w
VIOLETThe party was slowly delving well into the night. Me? I couldn’t tell what glass I was nursing. Third? Fourth. It didn’t matter. I hadn’t felt this calm in…forever.Reese, on the other hand, was having a blast. She must have downed about six glasses of wine already. Each blink of her eye was
LUCIANI kissed her.Why did I kiss her?Blaming alcohol at that point would be pointless because alcohol didn’t nudge me towards her lips. It didn’t egg me on to do the one thing that I’d sworn I’d never do. Be anything intimate with her.Shit. Shit.The way her heart seemed to drop at my words wa
VIOLETLucian was weird. All sorts of weird. He’d been avoiding me since that night then all of a sudden try to spring up banter last night.Weird.As soon as I got up, I’d quickly freshened up and prepared for the day without so much as sparing him a glance. He didn’t seem particularly disturbed b
LUCIANSomeone tried to kill Violet.Someone thought they were ballsy enough to try and hurt my Luna. And worse of all, they’d done it knowing fully well that I was still very much in the pack.My wolf was howling, demanding blood as he continued to pace in the crevice of my mind. It took a lot of







