LOGINVIOLET“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
LUCIANShit. Shit.I’d imagined a hundred and one things when Violet had stormed into my office like that. None like what she’d actually said.She was hot on my trail too, her footsteps echoing in sync behind me. I was too focused to pay much heed to it.“Lucian.” She triedI simply grunted, hurrying over to the border gates. Standing there was none other than Rodriguez. He seemed to have been in some sort of exchange with the guards but as soon as he sighted me, a smug grin found its way to his lips.“The Alpha finally graces us with his presence.”My eyes narrowed. “What are you doing here? I thought you’d long since known your place by now, at the north border where I stationed you.”“Oh, bullshit.” He pushed past the lanky guard before coming to stand toe-to-toe with me. No one should have such gall on any other day, certainly not him. But he seemed oddly ballsy for some reason.“You think you can just throw some wad of cash at me and keep me at that shithole? Oh spare me that. Yo
LUCIANI don’t know for how long exactly I held the man’s gaze. Only that at some point, I couldn’t control the wave of disgust hitting me anymore.I shoved him back in Zayn’s direction. “I want him out of my pack. Now.”“You’ve got it, Alpha.” Zayn nodded, eyes turning to Rodriguez.It was funny h
LUCIANIt had been exactly 2pm when Zayn burst into my office and told me Rodriguez was in the pack. It took two minutes to pinpoint his exact location and three to get there.The last thing I expected to see was him standing so close to Violet. I didn’t like it at all. There was something satisfyi
LUCIANOkay.Part of the reason why I’d urgently pulled Violet away from her conversation with my sister was mostly to satisfy an itch.Itch was the right wording. I’d been getting this inexplicable feeling right from the time my uncle left. It gnawed at the very surface of my skin and I knew I jus
TRISTANI’d always thought of the council of elders a lot of fools and nothing more.I was wrong.They were a worse lot than I initially gave them credit for. I’d just concluded a less than enjoyable meeting with the Alpha of Eminence Pack. Alliances were of much importance for any pack as good as







