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About an hour later, it was nighttime at the Lightmoon pack grounds.Dax walked slowly through the trees, making his way back from where Bentax had taken them.The moon was bright. It shone through the thinning forest as he got closer to the pack compound, illuminating his shredded muscular form.Every inch of his body was tight, every line was defined.Dax’s form was glorious.And he hated it.His form was what had taken away from his pack, his family, Corien; even before that she-wolf his brother, his friend – now his prisoner and enemy – had married, had shown up.But that was not what was on pack Alpha’s mind as he made his way back to his people.His thoughts were fully focused on how Marian, the last person on earth who stood between him and his brother, had attacked him.Me! He railed in his mind and his heart.In front of the whole pack!And I had not be
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One of many in the warrior camps who had looked up to and admired – and maybe even more – Dax, long before Dax or Corien became ranked leaders of Lightmoon pack, Jackson had proved his fearlessness and resourcefulness more than once.The traits Dax appreciated in anyone he entrusted with anything.Dax stared up at his man now. Knowing that he was being heavy-handed.His mind flashed to his former Alpha, the one he and Corien had called father, and he let his Gamma down – gently.He squeezed Jackson’s shoulder in silent apology, glancing away from him.“Alpha,” Jackson whispered, placing a hand on Dax’s.Dax’s eyes snapped to the Gamma with grey, soulful eyes.“If Reyland can –”“No,” Dax stated flatly, turning away from eyes that made his mind waver.This was part of the reason Dax had made Jackson his Gamma.He was not as fierce as Broc
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After a moment, Reyland turned to the pack Gamma.“If anything happens, you have to tell me. Even if you are uncertain, you MUST let me know,” Reyland pressed with thinly veiled apprehension.Jackson stared at his Alpha’s son.A child he had been put in charge of since the boy had wandered off many years ago and had disappeared for five whole days.He had watched the young giant grow.He knew things about the boy that even the father did not.Though he had told Dax most everything he witnessed, and most of what his men reported as they guarded the young prince, which is what Reyland was, in every sense of the word – the grandson of the Alpha King in Whitehall pack.Some private things, he had kept to himself.The boy knew it, but neither wolf ever spoke about this shared knowledge.This shared secret – that Jackson never told Dax EVERYTHING he knew about Reyland.It was why Reyland co
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A reward for which Marian had no regrets. Especially when that particular brand of bullying stopped completely afterward.She had even cursed the goddess herself when she had been made to clean and wash equipment, clothes, beds, and even toilets at the barracks.Using water that had blocks of ice in the buckets during winter, and that had been polluted with powders that caused burns or swelling on her hands, during other months.She had been bitter about being punished for the slightest thing. Sometimes being made to go without food or water for days, other times being given hard labor to do with poor equipment or none at all.A princess. Being treated worse than a slave.She had thought her life was terrible, without any idea what her father had been made to do.What he had endured.Him, the pack Alpha, being treated like…what exactly?Her guilt had fueled her rage and her tears at those times she had wept before her fa
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Corien dived in, speaking in a swift but steady tone. He did not rush, but his pace was swift.“When you lost control, you attacked Dax at Christmas Lunch. The Luna barely got the pups out of the way, and Zara twisted her arm when she fell, to get out of your and Dax’s path.”“I had to contain Dorien. He had started to shift once he sighted you; he didn't know who or what was attacking, but you came straight for the high table, in full shift.”“On sight, I immediately knew it was you. Your scent had changed, Dinka’s size had nearly doubled, but I knew who it was, for two reasons.”“First, a random rabid wolf could not have crossed our borders; whoever it was had to be inside already.”“Second, the redness of your eyes. Such a sight had been described to me before, and I recognized it immediately. The redness was…mystical. It was like your very eyeballs had become red smoke.”“Only a wolf of ancient blood has that kind of miasma, and what were the odds there being another ancient-blood
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Corien did not pause.“When he arrived on the Gamma’s back, his eyes were fixed on you.”“It felt like…like he knew it was you. Either that or that pup has too much empathy.”“Most wolves have only one reaction to a rabid wolf,” Corien explained matter-of-factly.“Put it down,” Marian commented casually.“Exactly. But not that young one,” Corien continued, his voice heavy with something Marian could not quite place.“His gaze shifted to me almost as soon as he set eyes on you. I don't know what he saw on my face, or whether I said anything to him, but he immediately turned back to you and his father.”“At this time, all pack members were gone; only Dax’s strongest warriors, those still standing, remained. You had taken down his Beta for doing his job – protecting his Alpha – nearly ripping him in half for it.”&ldq
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“He ordered the rest of us out – me, Dax, Dorien,” Corien continued, maintaining his fluid pace.Marian smiled lightly, but remained focused, keeping the meld firmly intact.“Byron gave you pint after pint of blood from the blood bank. He would not let me give any because of the impending full moon.”Corien paused and smiled widely when the meld did not waver.My daughter is a true alpha warrior, he mused.Marian’s breathing remained steady. Her brow had twitched, but she had no other reaction.“We stayed in the sitting area of your dorm until you woke up the next day.”“You know the gist of things from there.”“Dax has been gone since the early hours of this morning. No one has seen him or heard from him. Physical or link-wise.”“We locked down the pack grounds. Some news might have gotten out, but no one will be able to understand things. Not for a while, not until more details come to light, and not…unless they are old enough or versed enough in wolf history to guess anything.”“An
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At the mention of Reyland, Marian had sniffed and nodded lightly.Her father smiled as footsteps were heard in the sitting area.Before she could blink, Corien was out the door, closing it gently behind him as he began to speak with the Alpha of Lightmoon pack.Marian’s eyes narrowed. She pushed her senses to listen, but both men were warriors; she could not hear them unless they didn’t mind being heard.There was silence.She could not even feel them.Their presence had been blocked.A few minutes later, she heard footsteps leaving her dorm.Two sets.She rested her back on the bed and stared up at the ceiling, mulling over her conversation with her father.She went over everything one by one, step by step, with Dinka.As she recounted it, certain things stood out to her, but she kept her counsel.Instead, her mind turned to the past, before the darkest time in her life.==========The pack had been a home then.Her father, mother, and her younger brother had lived in the Alpha mansi
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Pulse racing, Reyland slowly removed his appendages from her mouth as Marian swallowed the pill whole, her dark eyes on his deeply flushed face and dilated pupils.“Ha!” he breathed as he stared at her.“I swallowed it,” she whispered, “I need another one. I’m to chew, right?” she asked innocently, her voice as husky as if she had cotton in her throat.Reyland stared wide-eyed at her, slack-jawed.“You…you can’t…you shouldn’t…Marian,” he stammered, at a loss for words, the heat rising at the base of his neck, and at the base below his belt buckle.The she-wolf instantly got whiff of a scent that made her sit up.Reyland’s face got redder, and Marian’s body couldn’t take the sight.He made to stand and she moved, breaking parts of the bandages that still graced her body.She straddled Reyland and kissed him without restraint.
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As far as every pack member knew, Alpha Dax had never been so magnanimous in the past. At previous ceremonies, he was never seen until the event commenced.Today, he was seen everywhere. It was both comforting and unnerving.In addition, the Alpha heir was also in tow.Though many whispered that this might have something to do with his growing responsibilities within the pack as he would soon turn twenty-one and there were things he ought to take over from his father, sooner rather than later, it was not usual either.The heir usually moved about on his own, with their Luna-in-waiting, Risa, accompanying him, but today she was nowhere in sight.The pack was also aware that their guests were still around.Normally, they should have left after Christmas, but they were all still around, and the compound was still in lockdown.They had every reason to be somber, to be uneasy.As the pack stewed in their doubts and hope for a peacef
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“What are we gonna talk about?” Marian asked haltingly as she eyed the now serious Reyland, while her mind fought to stay focused on their conversation and not his overwhelming cuteness.Reyland glanced outside, through the window. He rose and walked over to the thick curtains. Letting them loose slowly, he responded with his back to her.“I wanted to talk about you…and me…But, I think it’s late now,” he replied casually.Curtains down, he turned to face Marian in the now darkened room. The lamp in the corner of her room was still on, casting deep shadows around.Reyland proceeded forward, toward the door, his eyes on hers.“You, princess, have had an incredibly long day,” he continued, clicking on the lights and brightening the room in a clear white light.Neither wolf blinked as the lights came on.Reyland smiled gently.“I think you should sleep. We can talk in the morning. It could be our own little ceremony,” he said in his warm voice.“There are guards outside,” he continued smo
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The Marian he had dumped had not been the vibrant she-wolf he had fallen for. She had not been the lively, bold, outspoken girl he had taken into his heart, and into his bed.After the battle, she had lost her shine, her light. She became dull in her manner, in her speech. They had had to sneak around to meet.He had even let other she-wolves touch him before going to see her, on purpose. And she never said anything, never called him out.He continued making promises to her even as he purposefully kept away, and she had not challenged him in any way.His real, original Marian would never have let anything like that slide.She had changed, and he had lost interest.==========But, upon her return, right from their first exchange, he had finally seen the girl he had known for almost ten years, and his pulse had quickened.His heart had beat like it used to when they had first kicked things off.His woman.An alpha she-wolf and warrior of no mean ability.Someone who was his before anyon
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Dorien, Alpha heir to Lightmoon pack, felt a tension in his head and his chest that he had not felt in years.A pressure and a pang that made him feel suffocated.It was a tension he had felt almost daily since he first came to Lightmoon pack. A tension that hardly went away unless his mind was busy with something hard, painful, or terrifying, like training, raiding, or fighting for his life.As he felt those aches now, in real time as he stood in his father’s empty office, his breathing grew rapid and unsteady.In seconds, he was breathing through gritted teeth as his eyes darted about, searching for and seeing nothing.At the corner of his mind, he heard his adoptive father’s, Alpha Dax’s, voice warn him about controlling his emotions, but after what he had seen in the office a few hours ago, he didn’t need Alpha Dax talking to him about control.He shook his head, driving Dax’s voice away.He paced the
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Years ago, the Lightmoon pack had hidden Corien’s gift of dreams.His gift had been a secret known to only a few, all of whom were sworn to secrecy – not just a promise, but a blood bond sealed through spells had been made.This had been done to protect not only Corien but also the pack, as they gained great advantages in attacks and advances from their rivals and enemies through his premonitions.In public, within the pack, no one ever spoke loudly about his strength, his healing, or his proficiency in battles.Whatever their thoughts may have been, whatever fantasies anyone dreamed up, at most, Corien was referred to as ‘special’, or ‘different’, or ‘unique’, when shifters praised him, when they were in their cups, or when they gossiped, nothing more.Then the war happened, and he became ‘token’, ‘prize’, and ‘fallen’.After half a year to two years, for th
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Any concerns or requests could be brought to the Elders; however, they would never actively involve themselves in resolving any issues.Their presence was intimidating and could be hard to bear.Many meetings were not done face-to-face, but rather, through intermediaries – younger, but still elderly, shifters who lived with the Elders and presented cases to them for their input.Their rule was simple – they did not interfere in pack politics or battles. They had all had enough of these during their individual reigns and had no taste for such things in their old age.All of them had been around during the time of the previous Alpha, the one before Corien, the one who loved wars, battles, and blood, the one who used his people as objects and pawns for his schemes and conquests.And they had done nothing.They had been there when Corien had taken over from that Alpha, by force of arms, and they had done nothing.
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Corien was in Dax’s office. He had been with him for the past hour, letting the Alpha seethe and rage.Dorien and the Luna had been present as well, but they had left earlier, leaving only the two brothers, the two enemies, together.Dax sat in his chair, his back to Corien, staring out the large window behind his desk.“Once the Alpha King hears of this from Anna, he will come for her,” Dax droned. Finally calm after his last outbursts with his family.“Not if we claim her,” Corien replied calmly.Dax did not respond.Corien continued.“We don’t have to do so immediately. We can plan for it, as we do for everything,” he stated firmly as he approached the large desk and stopped at the edge, adjacent to Dax’s wide shoulders.“If you put everything aside, you will know that what Dorien has suggested is the best solution,” he continued carefully.Silence.
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“If he banishes me…” Marian whispered hoarsely, her voice catching. She shifted her eyes to Gravan, “Will you and Dad come with me?” she whispered, her eyes filling.“Just us? No one else?” Gravan replied with a soft smile, his bright eyes shining in his handsome face.Marian shifted her head against her pillow as she gazed up at her uncle.“I won’t have any hope there, if I’m banished,” she croaked.Gravan shook his head gently, stroking her forehead, the smile still on his face.“First of all, princess, we don’t dwell on ‘what-ifs’, hmmm? What’s done is done. All that matters is where we are now, and what we can do about it,” he stated matter-of-factly.“Your father will not let anything happen to you. Rest assured, nothing as drastic as banishment will happen,” he droned.“But, what if he – Alpha Dax &ndash
