LOGINThe upstairs was empty; I could hear Sam and Elara downstairs in the kitchen. I scooted across the hallway barely wrapped in a towel… old habits die hard.
I held my towel firmly in place, even in the privacy of my room. Again, old habits.
I closed my bedroom door and leaned against it. My eyes took in my new room. Gabriel said it was their guest room, but I knew better.
Elara set this room up for the daughter she knew was coming one day. I bet the room grew up with
It was Sid who broke the silence.“Excuse me, Alpha, Luna,” Sid said and cleared his throat. “Can I ask some questions about the before-time?”“Sure?” Soree asked, more than said.“It might help me get a new profile for the accident,” he added.“Oh, okay,” Soree said, nodding. “Go ahead.”“Do you know why Lucien rejected the bond?”“He had chosen a mate already.”“Vanessa, from Ravenhall,” Sid confirmed. Both Bear and I grumbled.“Correct,” I told him. “I was there, because of the damned mating thing. I saw tendrils. They were different from ours, but they were there.”
I walked back into the parlor with my back ramrod straight, as if somehow that was going to give me the courage to tell my tale yet one more time.It should get easier, but it doesn’t.Just thinking about Lucien made my blood boil and curdle at the same time.Evidently, I was pushing out some of my own untested energies, because Maw’s face contorted with pain.I rushed over to her, reining my anger. “Maw! Are you alright?”Once my anger ebbed, so did her expression.Her eyes watered. “I’m sorry for whatever I said.”“Oh, Maw, you didn’t say anything bad,” I soothed, pulling her into a hug. “Just the opposite. But let’s wait for th
I curled up on the couch with my notebooks, but my brain could not focus on crystals and their meanings.There were so many questions I had about the whole Luna-kissed thing, or as Gabriel and I started calling it, LK.Luna herself created the bloodline. But why?Was there a specific purpose?Shifters existed before the bloodline. What did she want to see different?Why are we special? Well, that one I kinda know. We provide blessings, prosperity, and happiness to our Pack. If we’re Lunas, we walk the spirit and soul realm. I think those realms are the same thing, but I’m not sure.A long time ago, the LK were exploited, hunted, abused, held hostage, and forced to mate. How did that happen? Who noticed that we were special?How did we recognize each other? Amyra recognized me immediately, but Maw and KB did not.What happens if an LK mates with a non-LK?“You look deep in thought, Luna,” Maw said,
Soree and I walked into the basement. She hadn’t been down here yet, and her face shone with pure glee when she learned what we had down there.Unlike Silverpine, our jail cells weren’t attached to the main Pack House. We built the detention center years ago and refurbished the entire basement level, which extended way beyond the Pack House itself.Her initial hesitation about checking it out was justified.It was only a few months ago when she was paraded by her own Pack and marched into their dungeon accused of murdering their Alpha.Sometimes it was hard to believe it wasn’t years ago.I saw her in a diner that morning. Zee felt drawn to her, but I didn’t have any time to learn what that meant.As soon as she’d finished her breakfast, Sil
I flipped through my phone while Bina had the wheel. I tried to stay away from the Shifter app, but my curiosity always got the best of me.Silverpine was holding its own according to the gossip. There were questions and no answers coming from the Pack House.People wanted to know where I was. The louder question seemed to be why did I transfer power to Kane and not give any explanation.“I’m tempted to create a profile and make some noise in the chat,” I said aloud.Bina’s face contorted into a grimace. “Why would you do that?”“Raise the stakes? Ask the right questions?”“Hoping to do what exactly?” she said as she flipped the blinker to change lanes.“I don’t know,&
I’d just stepped out of the shower in my office when I heard Soree call for me. She had been sound asleep when I came in from my run, so I didn’t wake her to let her know I was back.“In here,” I called out as I tugged some jeans on.Soree’s eyes looked wide and frantic. I rushed to her. “What’s wrong?”“I just did a baby walk, and Luna was there,” she said breathlessly, clutching at my forearms. “She said there’s a plague, a blight happening now with shifters and it’s going to get darker before the dawn.”I searched her eyes for signs of misinterpretation, but there was none. The urgency in her voice and demeanor said that she was fully aware of what Luna implied.“What does that mean?”
I woke up feeling refreshed, that same energy from when I came in from Coralridge’s Bonding Ceremony.Except the problem was, I wasn’t waking up in my bed, next to my mate.I was in my office, with the door locked and a guard posted outside, not letting anyone in.I heard Van
My eyes weren’t even open, but they hurt from the light hitting my lids. I went to move my arm over my face, but it felt like lead. Moving it even a little bit, hurt my muscles.What the heck?I finally got my arm over my eyes and peeked out from under it. The sun was high in the sk
It was almost dawn as the limo pulled up the hill toward the Pack House, I focused my attention on the house my family built over two hundred years ago. Gradually as the pack grew, additions were made.Now this massive house was mine. There was a legacy to live up to on these lands. It was
Pulling a couple of bags from my closet, I tossed clothes in randomly. I didn’t care about matching items, jeans, sweats, hoodies, shirts, and other incidentals.After Sam left the Pack House, I pulled up the forecast, and he was right. This driving rain was going to turn into freezing rai







