Joyce Feathers..."I'm starting to think you like my company?" Ollen's mother commented."Please, not now." I whispered, keeping my eyes on the waterfall and my ears opened to the splashes it made as it entered the pool."Seeing as you have survived yet another full moon, I assumed you would be in a better mood." She said.I felt her presence around me, along with a few others who I assumed were some of the previous Lunas."What happened now?" She asked, an exaggerated sigh following her question."I'm leaving in four months." I replied."And you're sad about that?" I pulled my knees to my chest and burned my face between them."I'm sad because I was only used to an end once again." I replied.Nobody wanted me unless it was to use me. My parents and my entire previous pack showed me that time after time. I was hoping this place would be different, that Ollen would be different, that they wouldn't just use me, that they would want me to stick around.If Ollen felt that way about m
Alpha Ollen Kingsmen...I sat on the edge of my bed, her blanket still covering my naked body. Her scent was all over me. It almost felt like she was standing right in front of me. After Laura had dropped the barrier to let me out, I'd immideateky retreated to my room with Joyce's words following after me.I thought about what she said, how her voice trembled as she spoke. She sat close to me. Maybe it wasn't as close as I needed it to be, but she sat close, and I had to restrain myself from reaching out to her and pulling her closer. My goodness, I missed her. I missed her terribly.I wanted to forget everything and spend the remaining four months as close to her as possible.But I needed to remind myself that she was not mine to keep, that she was here for the sake of her family, that she was counting the days until she could leave.Three weeks of avoiding her should have been enough to teach me how to return to the life I had before I met her. It shouldn't be hard to remov
Heaven, Laura, and I left the hospital after the alarm we'd set rung. The people cheerfully greeted us, happy that yet another full moon was passed without the death of their Luna.I was caught up with greeting them for almost an hour that I was afraid Ollen would once again disappear before I could catch on to him at the main pack house.After I finally arrived at the main pack house, the first thing I did was ask if Ollen had returned. To my surprise, I was told that he didn't leave the main pack house the previous night. In fact, he didn't even leave the top floor.I raced up the stairs and rushed to his room, only to come to a stop when I saw that the door of my own bedroom was slightly ajared.I glanced towards Ollen's room first. The door was wide open, the day light streaming in through the window, illuminating the empty room. I saw that things were overturned. There was a giant claw mark on the wooden headboard of the bed, the mattress ripped and covers thrown on the ground
"Were you talking to the previous Lunas in the woods?" Laura asked.It had been a few hours since she found me in the woods in front of the water fall, and she hadn't asked a single thing since then.She kept her silence the entire walk to the pack hospital, and the entire time, we were preparing to hide in the basement of the house. Heaven was quite too, although she wasn't being distant like Laura and Ollen were. When she finally spoke it me, it was already dark. We'd locked the front and back doors of the hospital and any other door leading to the basement. We all sat down on a large mattress, thick blankets lying over our bodies to fight the cold off."Yeah." I whispered, not needing to lie to her."What were they saying?" She asked."Nothing much." I replied. "I was only speaking to the representative of the Lunas, just talk from one Luna to the other." Laura nodded her head. "Are they only Luna's of are there any other ranks in the mix?" She asked, carefully glancing at me b
It's the third full moon since I got to the pack.Two months down, four more to go.I sat in front of the waterfall, not wanting to play the games anymore.Laura would probably be looking for me so we could go to our hiding spot. "You look like someone stole your candy." Ollen's mother whispered into my ears, and I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes."Not now." I mumbled, hugging my knees to my chest."Why not?" She asked. "You came into my woods. You will speak to me, whoever I desire." "You're getting more and more demanding with each passing day." I said, my eyes planted on the water, looking at the reflection of the sun and trees surrounding the area."I see things are not going well with the Alpha." She continued, despite me telling her that I was not in the mood to talk. "Maybe now, you could consider my plan and stone him on the head or knife him in the chest.""I just need a little peace and quiet." I commented."Well, you shouldn't have come here then." She shot back,
Joyce Feathers...Ollen has been avoiding me. My heart hung heavy in my chest as the realization hit me. He's been refusing to come to the dining room to eat, telling Mavus to take all of his meals to his office. He goes out without even letting me know and disappears amongst his people for hours at a time. He even stopped showing up to our training sessions, leaving me to Sam and Mini, who were no fun to train with. They were brutal in a way Ollen never was. They only cared about getting better, and they don't talk unless it was to steal glances at each other. But on top of all of that, he refused to open the mind link between the two of us, shutting me out completely.The first week, I tried my best to get through to him by trying to linger around when he was in the main pack house or take my meals to his office so we could eat together. But nothing seemed to work.The second well, I did my best not to let it discourage me. There were a lot of good things happening in the