Sorry for the delay! I have been struggling to find time to write with my personal life and a broken leg. I'll be trying for updates at least every other day through May. Thank you for reading!
Clara’s POV I watch as Nolan retreats up the stairs to his office, following the auburn haired vixen from my nightmares, literally. I can’t help but wonder about their history, especially after walking into the kitchen seeing her hands on his arms.. Those arms are mine. It took every bit of control I have to muster the energy to reign in my wolf. Carina is strong and seeing someone eyeing Sabre aka Nolan has her gnashing in my mind, still trying to claw her way through and slice Irina’s throat. But I can’t just hold Irina accountable, I’ll need to find the courage to grill Nolan about her when I see him after breakfast. Grandma eyes me warily while we make our way through the breakfast buffet, as I stab waffles with more zest than necessary, imagining their faces as I do so. I’m moving my way to the sausages, picturing a different appendage when she finally breaks the awkward simmering silence of anger. “Darling girl, if you don’t control your stabby behavior, the rest of this pack
Chapter 1*****The panic spread through my body in a sickening flow like electricity through my veins. I was terrified, running as fast as my human legs could carry me, the leaves and branches crunching and snapping beneath my bare feet. I could feel the wind course its way around my body, pulling at my clothes, willing me to run slower, as if I were fighting to run through deep water. The night sky was a mess of clouds and thunder, the normally brilliant stars seemed so far away… the fear was crippling. I could hear the howls and panting behind me, the brush and tree limbs crashing and crumbling under their vicious weight. I headed for a clearing, listening for the sounds of water.. although in my human form, I can still use my acute senses to hear, smell and see in this horrid torment of what feels like a true life nightmare. The stench of their bodies is making me queasy and I am gagging as I run, further slowing me down. Rogues always have a terribly pungent smell, making it ea
Clara’s POVI could see he was clearly affected as I was. He slammed his paws into the ground to come to a screeching halt, noticed by all. What I assume are his remaining two Betas flanked him on either side, and another warrior ran to protect him from the rear. I began climbing furiously down from my sniper post, shooting any wolf in my way with wolfsbane that appeared to be a threat, tossing any other wolves and flinging them away. Each Alpha knew that my intent wasn’t to kill, only to distract and clear my way. They would have sensed through the mind link if anyone from the pack had died. I approached Alpha Nolan and stood staring into his wolf’s perfect amber eyes as he bowed his head to make eye contact. He let out a throaty growl that seemed to emanate my own reservations about our revelation. The snarling around us continued until he shifted back to his human f
Clara’s POVAfter nearly inhaling our delicious spread, Nolan looked at me seriously, but with a smirk and said, “Shall we start tackling that mental checklist of things to discuss?”I looked at him for a long while and slowly raised my whiskey glass to my lips, finishing the entire drink in a few moments. “We are certainly going to need more of this” I said as I held out my now empty glass. He smirks and grabs my glass, slowly walking back towards the bar to refill our glasses. He finishes his drink as he walks, tipping it back in one swift gulp. As he rises, I catch his scent, fresh pine and lilacs.. It reminds me of home.. he is home now, whether I am prepared for this or not.I am lost in th
Nolan’s POVMy sister is going to be the death of me. “Breanna, why don’t you and Britton grab the whiskey, I’ll grab some ice cream, and little wolf, will you please come join us? I say, as I look up at her shocked, brilliant green eyes. She nods at me and begins her descent down the stairs to me. “Go ahead and sit in the lounge, Clara.. We will meet you there. I apologize for the outburst, I wasn’t expecting company, you see…”Breanna is my little sister, she turns 18 in a month and is convinced that Britton is her mate. He is 21 and feels the same. My gut instinct is to be her protector without our parents here, but I have to allow her to make that choice. My biggest fear is that he will end up not being her mate, and they will both be heartbroken. The mate bond is held as sacred in our pack, and even if you have a chosen mate, most choose to forsake their chosen for the Luna gifted mate.. Not to mention the fact that we are triple hybrids, which she and I have only been able to hi
Nolan’s POV Adam crouched half shifted, his claws on his hands and now bare feet digging into the glass with abandon. His crazed red bloodshot eyes with blown out pupils were not that of his human or his wolf. And they were set on only one thing, or one person, Clara. Without hesitation, Clara threw her whiskey in his face eliciting a ferocious growl that sounded like a shriek. Only one creature shrieks that way….a demon. How in the h**l did a demon get a hold of Adam in just a few short hours? I stand, shaking and letting out a roar that vibrates everything still standing in the room. I shift into my wolf and tackle him while he is still stunned from the whiskey. Britton grabs Brianna and starts dragging her from the lounge and to safety, something I don’t have time to thank him for. While Adam is pinned I sneak a glance back at Clara and she is rubbing her necklace, whispering her grandmother’s name repeatedly. While I snuck my glance at Clara, Adam manages to snake an arm
Clara’s POV I have been silent, patiently waiting for my moment to barrage my grandmother for information. I have been waiting since before I can even remember to get the answers I hope to press from her tonight. I know she said she won’t give as much detail as I’m hoping for, but the small glimmer of hope in my chest is flickering to life again. It is so hard to steel my expression but after Adam attacked, I know this is even bigger than I thought. There is no way I’m just a hybrid of witch and werewolf unless my father had some seriously powerful ancestors and hid his abilities from everyone. He was always stronger, faster, more cunning and more beautiful than every Alpha we encountered, but I always attributed it to him being my father and the love I had for him. Not to take away from his work ethic; no, my father was unmatched when it came to training and education, not only for himself but for the pack. Watching the pack decline and lose the luster it held under his rule when
Clara’ s POV - Flashback Chapter **** The air feels so heavy today. I’m suffocating under the weight of discomfort. I have been telling my father all day that something feels off. He knows, I know he knows. The fake smile he plasters on as he tries to reassure me tells me that he knows. “My darling Eliana, would you and Claire like to go shopping today?” he disregards my concern in his husky but sweet voice. “Oh, my darling Brennan, you wouldn’t be trying to get rid of us, would you?” my mother says in her melodic mocking tone. He chuckles and walks over to her, tucking her gorgeous chesnut hair behind one of her ears before he kisses her on the forehead. “I would never dream of getting rid of either of my beautiful girls.” He pulls her hands into his own, lifting them to kiss the back of her hands as he pulls her into his chest and wrapping his arms around her, before nuzzling her neck and smelling her mark. “My beautiful girls are all I have in this world, you mean everything t