LucyWe stopped going out at night after that night. Instead, we had a lot more sex. It seemed like every day Matt and Tony wanted more. I passed out every night. When they were gone all day, I started to leave our rooms and wander around a little. No one seemed very mean, but they kept away from me, except for their beta’s daughter. She was very nice. I was nervous about being around her at first, but she was very nice, and she didn’t seem to mind that I didn’t know how to do anything. She walked with me, and we didn’t say much to each other, but it was nice. One day, she took me on a tour of the pack house’s grounds in a small golf cart. When we got back, we ran into the ladies that helped me get ready for the ceremony. “They must be gone!” The older woman said. “Those two don’t know how to keep their hands to themselves.”She nudged me to the table and fussed about me not eating enough to deal with them. “It’s Matt, isn’t it?” She asked as she put a plate in front of me. “Tony
LucyI had shifted. I looked up at Matt and Tony, but before I could see the expressions on their faces, hy shifted into their wolf forms. Tony, I think, came towards me and nuzzled me.You did well.I shuddered, hearing his voice in my mind. I moved my feet, looking down at my white paws. The whole forest seemed closer and bigger at the same time. Matt nudged me. Let’s go for a run.I wasn’t too sure about that, but Tony took the lead, walking slowly. I followed him, trying to get used to having four legs instead of two. Matt laughed. Relax, he said and nuzzled me. He let out a low rumbling sound. You’re thinking too hard.I tried to relax, but it was awkward. I wasn’t sure if I would ever fully get used to having four legs, but Tony was patient with me, walking slowly until it seemed I was getting used to it. Then, he picked up the pace, careful to trot just fast enough that Matt was just behind me, and I never lost sight of him. I smelled something. My stomach rumbled. I turned
TonyI woke up and looked over at Lucy with a grin. Matt was still asleep as usual as was Lucy, but when I thought about last night, it was hard to be upset. We’d pushed her a lot last night and she’d only passed out at the end. You’re thinking too loud, Matt groused in his sleep. I’m not getting up yet.I shook my head. I’m not giving you a choice. We have to get moving.Think about Lucy. She’s tired. He frowned in his sleep. We asked a lot of her last night.She’s not coming. I nudged him. Get up.He cracked one eye and glared at me. What do you mean she’s not coming?You want to take our mate to an unofficial Pack Conference where Peter and David will be? I cocked an eyebrow at him. On Black Moon Territory?Matt opened his other eye and stared at me then dropped his gaze to Lucy. He set his jaw and I waited for him to reach the same conclusion I had when the announcement came. There’s… no way. He pouted. Why do I have to go?I snorted. Every other alpha will be there. It’s about
MattI got into the car with my luggage, unable to shake the look on Lucy’s face. Tony climbed in next to me and with pensive look on his face. “You too?”Tony nodded. “I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something wrong.”Matt huffed. “This would be so much easier if we could just… link with her.”Tony bobbed his head before glancing into the front seat where the driver was seated. “We’ll deal with it when we get back.” Tony sat back in his seat with a sigh. “For now, we just need to get through this conference.”“Do we really have to talk about this?” Matt asked. “It’s like they think that the more often they talk about it, the more likely it is for us to agree.”“That is likely their hope, but it’s more than that,” Tony said. “Holding a conference like this so soon after we’ve been mated is a political move to make us lose our shit, so watch yourself.”I scoffed. “I’ll be too bored to get angry. Watch.”“Or too busy daydreaming,” Tony sighed. “Do you think we pushed her too hard
TonyThe further away from the Estate we drove, the more uneasy I felt, thinking about Lucy and what I’d found about half breeds and the Moon Goddess. The pictures from the book kept scrolling through my mind, but I still couldn’t shake the feeling that I was missing something.You never told me the rest, Matt said as he swiped across his phone’s screen. About what you found in the attic.That’s because there wasn’t much else to tell. The necklace is lost as far as the books say, so she’ll only be able to shift during the full moon. What about all the other stuff? Matt asked. We’re supposed to be able to—I know, I said, trying not to let the thought bother me. I didn’t find anything about it because I hadn’t been looking.Do you think we were wrong?I swallowed. I thought back to when I’d seen Lucy on stage. I remember feeling drawn, but that draw wasn’t what I had ever imagined when I thought of a mate. Only time will tell on that. I sighed again as we grew closer and closer to
TonyI stared Peter in the face, waiting for him to push or say something more out of line. This was the usual course of events, but usually Peter was a little more subtle about it. I tried to reign in the irritation that was rippling through me. The glow of his eyes was a challenge. He had most of the room eating out of the palm of his hand as one of the oldest people in the room, but Matt and I had never bowed our heads. “Is that because your new mate is from the human world?”A ripple of murmuring filled the air and I realized what this was really about. “Our mate has no family in the human world,” he said. “She was lost and now we’ve brought her back to where she belongs. Our lack of interest in war has more to do with being sensible humans rather than deranged wolves.”Peter’s eyes glinted. I smiled, feeling a little smug. “We’ve already seen exactly what the kind of trouble you cause has brought us: witch hunts. Or do we all need a history lesson?”More people cleared their t
David When I saw Matt and Tony walk in earlier, I had hoped to see Lucy again, but she wasn’t with them. I couldn’t say if I was angry or just disappointed. Whatever I was feeling, it made me more determined. The moment I could take over the packs, I would kill them both and take Lucy for my own. If it weren’t for them, I would have had more time to talk to her the last time we met. At the same time, there was a good chance that I would have never met her again if it weren’t for those two. I turned and drifted through the small gathering. As usual, Peter only had a few alphas of his pack present. The Black Moon Pack organized themselves differently than other packs. Well, at least different that the Blood Moon Pack, but that was because the Black Moon and Blue Moon Packs were much smaller than the Blood Moon Pack. They didn’t need a chain of command to command under a hundred people. Peter hadn’t reappeared yet, and I didn’t see Matt and Tony either, but soon, I heard someone anno
PeterPoison.It was the first thing that came to mind when I heard whoever Matt was speaking to talking about Lucy. It was truly the only thing that would make sense as any werewolf within the house would have heard a gunshot and smelled freshly spilled blood. Slow-acting perhaps, maybe not. Effective. Ruthless. And oddly personal. Whoever did it wanted Lucy to suffer until the last breath had left her. Maybe it was one the twins’ old lovers.Perhaps it had been one of their old pack members who had joined Black Moon. My lips almost twitched into a smile as I ran my thumb over the smooth surface of Lucy’s hairpin in my pocket. I wasn’t worried, exactly. Poison, for the most part, tended to cause some discomfort, but unless they had used wolfsbane, it was unlikely to kill her, even if she was a half breed.Whoever was behind this had been within the Blue Moon Pack. As I had not given the order, I supposed it was someone who was working for the Blood Moon Pack. Little David had more sp