LOGINHe was granted a momentary solace from his torments as soldiers brought in chairs for the alphas.
They thanked the queen and settled down as if holding court.
Raymond refused the chair given to him. Instead, he stood at the right side of Athena's throne, while Lorraine was to her left.
“Like her fucking guardian angels,” Richard thought in resentment even as his mind churned with ideas of how he could get out of this.
This was bad.
The daggers Adolphus and Susan were sending him were not going to make things easier also.
Fuck!
“Let’s start from the very top,” her regal tone jerked him o
Maybe the moon goddess was adding salt to injury with her own shade of punishment too.Still, he rejected it. It couldn’t be.“Shut up, Ruger,” he snapped.It was enough that he had dragged him into a situation where his hideout was about to be ravaged by the men after his so-called destiny. He did not need any other nonsense at the moment.“Of course, leave it to the moon goddess to pick someone with her own complications as the saviour of his pack,” he scoffed.“Alpha…”“I know,” he drawled in response to Damien’s warning.The men were close by now. They had spotted his men and were already moving closer to take them out.“Bastards must think their cloaked scent will make some difference,” he snorted.“Now!” he ordered his men through the mindlink.They swung into action immediately, surprising the bastards who thought they were about to carry out a sneaky attack.They realised their mistake instantly as they were surrounded on all sides.Logan strode out, followed by the few men be
Logan Rostov, alpha of Mirage Pack, stepped out of his mansion, tense and ready for battle.“How many?” he mindlinked his beta, Damien.“Fifteen so far, alpha. But it looks like they are coming in batches.”“How the fuck did they discover this place?!” Logan snarled out loud.“Looks like they got a tip-off, Alpha. They seem so sure of the exact location,” Damien responded in his mind. “Should we cut them off before they get too close?”“Not yet,” Logan responded. Their first lookout base was too close to the populated human territory not to draw attention.The house itself was still far from where Damien was mindlinking from.It was isolated away from the close-knit suburban houses, surrounded by woods, and prime for shifting and runs while keeping them away from the inquisitive eyes of humans.But if the men were directly heading there, they would find the location soon, and he had discovered that at least one of the three he had finished off was a werewolf.Which meant they would p
Two uniformed staff with covered trays on a service cart.“Alpha”, they both bowed and opened the trays. The savoury scents wafted towards Lorraine’s nose, making her stomach growl embarrassingly even as her body reacted to it.He washed his hands with the bowl of water in the second compartment of the cart, wiped them, then lifted one of the toasts to her mouth.When Lorraine blinked at him blankly, he said impatiently, “You said you are not allergic to anything.”“Yes,” she breathed as her brain finally caught up. “But that does not mean I trust you enough to eat anything you…”“If I wanted you dead, Gamma, I would have easily snapped your neck,” he said testily.Lorraine bristled. “Try it.”“I could. Then you would be dead. Then your queen, who thinks she is human, would never learn the truth. Who knows? I might kill her too. Depends on my mood.”Lorraine’s eyes blazed at that, protective fury shooting adrenaline into her system.She opened her mouth to say something, and he cramm
She inhaled and exhaled dramatically, her ears primed to the sounds coming from the room, which made her hate her condition more.Her queen alpha was giving birth to the future alphas, and she could not be by her side because she was about to dissolve into a puddle like a fainting ninny. She could not deny the fact that leaning back against the wall made her feel slightly better, though.“Maybe I can order something, pretend to take that walk and pick it up?” she wondered, knowing that with her weakening state, she might not even be able to do anything if he decided to play any tricks.That would not do. She straightened and snapped her fingers at him. “Give me my phone.”He frowned at her hand, and she did not realise his intent in time until he held her wrist and announced gravely, “You are trembling.”Lorraine looked down, and to her mortification, he was right. The trembling was minimal, but holding her hand made him feel it more.She jerked her wrist out of his hand, and that s
Kiara sounded confused as she responded, “No, I do not think so. There is something wrong with his wolf. I cannot feel him clearly, so I cannot say. But I feel a connection to him, Lorraine. More than I ever felt with any other. He could be our mate.”“Stop. Just stop saying that!” Lorraine snapped at her wolf in her mind.“Kam, are you okay? You look peaked,” Sonia’s threadbare voice pulled Lorraine out of her warring mind.Shame washed over Lorraine at the fact that she was still causing the queen worries when she was supposed to be there for support. The alpha-consort could not be by his mate’s side as he should be, so Lorraine was all the queen had.“And here I am losing it because of my wolf’s silly ideas.”“Yes, yes. I am fine,” Lorraine said hurriedly, swallowing the bile threatening to climb up her throat as she chafed Sonia’s hands comfortingly.“She is right, miss. You do not look so good,” Greta added.“When I need your opinion, I will ask for it. Since that is not happeni
Under different circumstances, Lorraine might have gaped in admiration at the splendour of the mansion that awaited them. At the moment, she barely glanced at the stone-bricked, three-storey mansion as the car squealed to a stop. Before Damien could do it, Lorraine scooped Sonia up and raced up the steps leading to the massive porch.“Where are the damn midwives?” She snapped breathlessly. More nervous about the queen’s condition than winded because of her weight.The contractions were coming so close right now, and the queen grew whiter and whiter as her fingers ground hard against Lorraine’s. She had stopped trying to talk altogether and just breathed through the contractions as sweat and tears slicked her face.Lorraine wished her wolf was awake at the moment, as Morrigan would have helped her better through the childbirth, which would have reduced all the pains she was feeling as a human.“Right here.” Damien led the way, and Logan took the rear. The big man flung the doors o







