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FIFTY | LUNA
Lily
“There’s something I need to discuss with you.”Elijah propped himself up on his elbow. His hair was dishevelled from intermittent sleep, and his eyes were drowsy. Scrubbing a hand over his scarred face, he waited for Lily to rouse herself enough to answer.
Lily blinked blearily back at him. She was drooped over the kitchen table, her hand numb around a now-cold cup of coffee. The ink of her notes had smeared across her palm and up her wrist like spilled blood.
She managed to keep her gaze fixed on him for just long enough to ask, “What?”
They’d spent the last week in a haze of plans and notes and maps, sending out scouts to get information and runners to relay it back to them. Lily had hardly had time to think in the wake of Atticus’s letter, and the deadly consequences she was sure it held
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LilyHeat scorched Lily’s skin. She held her hands up, palms facing forward, as she edged closer.“Elijah!” she screamed. Panic engulfed her, swelling like the tidal wave of fire filling the kitchen. “Elijah!”A wooden beam groaned and creaked above. Moving deftly to the side, Lily dodged it as it fell. Her breath came in short gasps, fear strangling her.Choking and coughing, Lily yanked her top off and wrapped it around her nose and mouth. Tears streamed down her soot-stained cheeks, snaking paths and dripping from her chin.The only relief afforded to her was the steady pull of the bond. Elijah couldn’t be dead; he couldn’t be, not when she could still feel the tug of it towing her towards the kitchen. The kitchen, where the flames were coming from…“Elijah!&r
The Broken Alpha FIFTY-TWO | DAUGHTER OF SUNLIGHT
LilyRunning was easier the second time.With their home on the cusp of the densest part of the pine forest, Lily turned tail and ducked out of the cabin. Memories of Atticus swarmed unbidden through her mind, blurring with images so fresh they felt unstable, not yet fully formed; Elijah’s face hardened, his grey eyes turning green. It was not the truth that hurt her so – it was the lies he had told along the way.Lily raced into the undergrowth, hardly feeling the harsh scrapes of writhing thorns as they dug into her exposed skin. Blood pounded in her temples. The pines swallowed the evening sunlight, casting her into dappled shadow.Elijah was half faelen.Chest heaving, Lily shuddered to a halt and vomited. She fell to her knees, wicked branches scratching her face. New scars to add to the ones she had collected in Blood M
The Broken Alpha FIFTY-THREE | RIVERBANK
ElijahGrey eyes hardened, turning dark as they surveyed the damage to his warm, familiar kitchen. He focused on the blackened counters, on the charred table. He focused on anything he could to keep the pain at bay.Just like Leahne, Lily had seen him for what he truly was and left.Without thinking, Elijah swept from his cabin. He couldn’t stand seeing what he had done. The evening sun heated his back and shoulders as he marched across his territory. He did not deserve such gentle caresses as afforded to him by the sun. He was a creature of fire; to revel in it after today made tears spring to his eyes. He could barely see by the time he reached the one place he knew he would find solace.Elijah had been here twice before.“No one will ever love you as I did,” Leahne swore in his ear, beckoning him down towards the riv
The Broken Alpha FIFTY-FOUR | SPELLBOUND
LilyThe wolf stared at her. A long, ropey tongue slithered out of its jaws and licked its lips. Lily held her breath.It was bigger than any wolf she’d ever seen – bigger even than Elijah, an Alpha. Auburn fur shone like blood in the moonlight. Slowly, with oozing arrogance, its lips pulled back from its teeth into a sadistic, canine grin.Lily took a tiny step backwards. She kept her eyes on the werewolf, her heart thundering in her chest. Blood raced past her ears, and every sound, every crunch of the undergrowth beneath her shifting weight, was magnified.An owl flapped its wings. Lily took another timid step away from the wolf. Still it did not move; it remained where it stood, though its glossy black eyes were locked on hers. Tremors shuddered across her skin, raising the hair on the back of Lily’s neck.Another s
The Broken Alpha FIFTY-FIVE | OATH
Elijah“I came as fast as I could.” Nirmana spoke between ragged breaths. “I came to find you in the pack house, Alpha, but you weren’t in your office, or the meeting rooms, or anywhere–“Face flushing bright red, she cut herself off. “My apologies, Alpha.” She bowed.“Thank you for finding me so promptly.” Elijah squeezed her arm and stood. Waves of fear crashed over his head. “Please, Nirmana, would you gather my Beta, Gamma, and…” he thought quickly, chewing on his cheek as he considered which members of his pack would be most useful. “I’ll need six Warrior Wolves: Haile, Conall, Valens, Jared, Nethia, and Lafey.” He selected a mixture of older, more experienced warriors, and younger, brawny wolves.“Of course, Alpha.” Nirmana bowed again. “I
The Broken Alpha FIFTY-SIX | THE RED RIPPER PACK
LilyLily’s hands shook in Morvand’s too-hot grasp. “I’ll come with you,” she said again, eyeing her father.He screamed behind the hand that covered his mouth. Hot tears left streaks down his cheeks in the wake of the dirt that plastered his skin. The moonlight made him pale, waxy, and made his familiar brown eyes gleam where the light caught his as yet unshed tears.Lily’s heart broke at the sight of him. This was the only way. She tried to communicate that to him, shouting the words in her mind and staring desperately into his eyes. Whether or not he understood she did not know.The wolf – Affande – circled her, jaws dripping with saliva. Lily repressed the urge to shudder as his Morvand’s warm breath caressed her exposed neck.“As you wish,” purred the handsome one. He
The Broken Alpha FIFTY-SEVEN | BEWITCHED
AtticusNo matter how many times Atticus told himself that his move on the Sea Pine pack was tactical, and for the benefit of Blood Moon, there was a kernel of truth nestled somewhere deep within him that would not remain quiet.That kernel was the reason he had distanced himself from his parents, Ralphin, and Trove. He felt their judgement in waves whenever he was near to him, and Atticus could have sworn that their eyes followed him around their encampment whenever they stopped to rest.They needed food. They needed a show of strength. But, above all, Atticus needed Lily.He spent his nights curled up atop his bedroll, hardly noticing the way he shivered as his thoughts swirled within his skull. He imagined what his life would have been like had he not rejected her, and the pain of that imagined reality only served to send him spiralling further.&n
The Broken Alpha FIFTY-EIGHT | WARRIOR WOLVES
ElijahElijah closed his fist around Lily’s garnet ring. It gave him strength; his own had depleted, seeping away with every passing hour that she was gone. He had not eaten or slept since Ieun had entered the room, his fate, his downfall, held like a bomb in the palm of his hand.With one day until the full moon, Elijah had a plan.“There have been no further reports of Red Ripper near our borders or territory,” said Caslein, sliding one of his rings up and down his finger. “As impossible as it sounds, they seem to have just disappeared.”“Taking Lily with them,” said Elijah, staring desolately out of the window.“You need to snap out if it.” Ithia took his hand, closing her fingers around his white-knuckled fist. “Self-loathing and regret won’t bring her back.”
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