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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE
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Isaac and Regan dry off and get dressed too, and the four of us head back down to the pack house.On the way, Jasper tells them about his idea and asks them if they want to join him and become part of his new team in Santa Cruz.They’re skeptical that Greyson and the rest of the San Diego pack will ever go for the idea, but if the plan goes forward, they’re interested.Isaac and Regan seem subdued, more mature and self contained, than they did last time I saw them. It’s as if they’ve gotten something out of their system, having seen the reality of Alphas like Malcolm. They’re ready to be on our side, the side of patience and logic.I’m ready to welcome them, but I’m not the Luna or the Alpha. I haven’t even really been part of this pack for very long. So I don’t know how it’s going to go.When we arrive back at the pack house, Layla is just about to serve dinner. I take my usual spot, but the three guests hang back, clearly not feeling welcome.I pull Sarah aside and
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Dessert starts off tense, but then baby Stella decides to start smearing her entire face with raspberry frosting from Layla’s cake. Everyone laughs at her silly antics, and soon the tension in the room dissipates.Later, Sarah and Nash appear in the doorway. They ask to speak to just Jasper. He glances over at me, pleadingly. “Mind if I join as well?” I ask. I can tell that Jasper doesn’t want to have this conversation without me by his side - the one person he’s really been able to talk to since coming here.“Sure,” Sarah shrugs. We go out onto the porch, and Nash begins. “It’s hard for us to trust you,” he says, “but Sarah reminded me that there was a time when it was hard for my pack to trust me, too. I don’t know everything about what you’ve been through, but now that you’re asking for a second chance, I can’t bring myself to deny it.”“Thank you,” Jasper says. I can hear relief, gratitude, and disbelief in his voice.“Still,” Sarah says, “there’s something
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“What do you mean, he can’t escape unless someone helps him?” Jasper asks Layla, who’s been showing him how to wield the magical cage and other items she has created to keep the Moon Rabbit under control. “Who would help him?”“Not everyone who encounters the Moon Rabbit is aware of his trickery,” Layla warns. “You’ll need to be very careful about who you trust with this information, and who you allow to speak to him when he’s in human form.”“Right.” Jasper nods. “Remember,” Layla says darkly, “that not so long ago, you yourself were quite willing to help him achieve his aims.”Jasper’s face turns red, and he looks at the floor.“I think we’ve covered everything, then,” I say. “Thank you,” Jasper murmurs. There’s still some things to be ironed out back at the pack house. Nash and Sarah won’t allow Jasper, Regan, or Isaac to leave until they sign a covenant that Layla has enchanted. They promise not to attack, betray, or otherwise harm any member of the San Dieg
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We keep talking during the drive. Isaac is driving, with Regan by his side in the passenger seat. Jasper sits in the back, with me, staring out the window. Once Regan is done talking, Isaac tells us his story. He was raised by a single dad, also a mercenary. He never grew up with a pack or anything like that. Isaac tells us about how he felt when he met Regan, a shifter with ties to a strong pack with a long history.Regan reaches over and takes his hand as he talks about what it was like to be around her at first, to want her desperately, to know that she was his mate, but too frightened to pursue anything. “I didn’t think I was meant to be with anyone,” Isaac explains. “I’d never seen my dad with a mate or anything like that. But I wanted so badly to be part of Regan’s life.”“We did a lot of awful things together,” Regan whispers, “but I can see now that we were just trying to be with each other, no matter what.”“Those shifters in Arizona,” Isaac says. “They wanted
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Dinner was late, and as we finish it, the sun is already fully gone. The stars are twinkling in the sky, and it’s dark throughout the tree house.There’s been no sign of Jasper. Isaac and Regan decide to light a fire in the fireplace and sit together on the couch, but I don’t really feel like joining them.The last time I was snuggled up on that sofa in front of a roaring fire after sunset, it was with Sterling. We were talking about becoming mates, and we had a whole future ahead of us.Now that there’s no more work to be done for the day, and nothing left to distract me, my heart is feeling heavy. I miss Sterling, and this whole place reminds me of him.I say goodnight to Isaac and Regan and slip off to my rooms. There’s the bed where I slept as Sterling watched over me all night. There’s the balcony where he stood guard, keeping me safe and letting me relax. There are the blankets we covered ourselves up with, making a cozy little cave to snuggle the day away afterwa
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It takes us a few weeks to get fully settled in the Santa Cruz tree house. The plan is for Jasper to take over all of Sterling’s operations, with me at his side to help out, and Isaac and Regan as the first team members for the new project.After a plenty of work, and a bunch of phone calls to Sterling’s brother Greyson to get all the security codes that we need, we’re ready to re-open the doors.Sterling’s mission was to train shifters, especially those serving as Alphas and Betas, in combat, stealth, scouting, and defensive strategies. So the first thing we do is gather the shifters who were training under him when he disappeared.Jasper wants a chance to re-introduce himself to everyone as the new leader, so Isaac and Regan are helping host a huge bonfire and barbecue out on the beach. We’ve invited a bunch of local shifters, and everyone whose contact information we could find in Sterling’s most recent records.The evening of the bonfire, I throw on a dark gray hoodie a
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The crowd laughs and jeers as Jasper leaves. They seem to think they’ve won some kind of victory. As Jasper heads off by himself, someone hits play on a boom box they’ve brought, and loud hip hop music starts blasting. It becomes a loud party, shifters dancing and shouting, after Jasper disappears.But I’m not interested in a party. I follow Jasper. He’s moving quickly, and I’m struggling to keep up and follow his scent. Then I remember that I can shift now. In wolf form, he’s easy to find. I catch up with him sitting on a flat boulder, resting his elbows on his knees, staring out into the darkness.I return to my human form as I approach. “Hi,” I say gently, sitting down on the boulder beside him. Around us, the redwoods tower and the air buzzes with the sound of insects. In the distance, we can hear the party music and smell the cooking barbecue.“You don’t have to be here,” Jasper mumbles. “You can go have fun at the party.”“I wouldn’t have any fun hanging out with
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I don’t know why Jasper stopped kissing me. I want to understand what’s going on with him - we seem to have a strong connection, but all he does is deny it and avoid me.I go back to the party, hoping to find him there, but he’s nowhere to be found. I hang out with Isaac and Regan, introducing them to the other fighters I know from my time with Sterling, and eat a few burgers before the bonfires start to fade and the party dies down.The next day, I look for Jasper, hoping to get a chance to talk with him about what happened. I go into the kitchen, but he’s already made his breakfast and gone down to the beach for a run. I can see him through the tree house’s tall windows, racing back and forth on the beach, swapping methodically between his wolf form and human form to get the right muscle conditioning.I decide to wait for him to come back in for lunch, but when he does, he has his workout headphones in, still blasting music. He grabs a protein smoothie from the fridge and di
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