LOGINMia After one of the healers put some herb mixture on my cheek, she made me some tea and left. Dr. Andrews said nothing is broken, but he only looked at my face. I almost feel relieved. I don’t want anyone to see the marks. My wolf, Sasha, has been slow to heal me. I guess it’s her way of telling me, again, that I shouldn’t have been sneaking around and leaving the pack to go see… him. At first, I didn’t want to go back. He kept me tied to his bed for almost a full day. But no one has ever given me the painful pleasure that I secretly crave. After I turned 18 and didn’t find my mate, I hooked up with Ethan. He was rough, even knowing it was my first time, and I thought maybe we could both benefit from casual sex since he didn’t find his mate yet either. But after sleeping with him a couple more times, it quickly became obvious that he couldn’t give me what I wanted. Sure he’d spank me, but it was only painful. He had no desire to make sure the pain was also pleasurable. I had
RavenI feel something cold and wet on my face. It swipes at me a few times before it stops. I can feel a small breeze and the rush of it against my skin makes me shiver. My eyes open slowly and I see the night sky. I wonder how long I was asleep for.‘You weren’t asleep Raven, you passed out.’I turn and right in front of me is my beautiful wolf. I realize I’m still asleep, or well… passed out.“What happened Callie?”‘The nightmares, both before our heat and the one right after it started, I tried to block them for you.’“But why? I don’t understand.”‘Because of what you saw, everything you heard. And when you realized it involved one of your friends… I wanted to take that pain from you.’Callie whimpers and lays down, putting her head in my lap. I can tell she feels bad. She was just doing what she thought was best for me.“Callie, I’m not mad. I just don’t understand.”‘Raven, they were not dreams. Mother has blessed us with a gift. You have a hunter gift, but this gift is one g
RavenAfter Jax told Rion and Orion what Fate had told him, Orion did some kind of divine sensing and said that Jax’s body did have some divine energy in it, but that it didn’t seem to be growing. He agreed to monitor him and let us know if anything was starting to become an issue. He tried to show me what to look for, but I couldn’t sense everything that Orion could. We’re not sure if it’s because I’m only half a god or if I just don’t know what to look for, but I’ve been practicing when I can. It’s been a few weeks and nothing has changed with Jax, at least nothing too noticeable. His healing is equal to an alpha’s but not as quick as mine. And even though his hearing and sense of smell seems to be about equal to mine, that’s about it. I’m on my way to the training grounds to meet up with Jax and walk home with him. I’ve been training with Edward and the members of delta team and today we did some one-on-one fighting. Including Edward, there’s twelve people on our team and only a
JaxThe first thing I become aware of is Raven’s heartbeat. I can hear it but more than that, I can feel it-like it’s inside of me.The steady rhythm pulses somewhere beneath my skin, warm and familiar in a way that grounds me before I’ve even fully opened my eyes. It beats slowly and evenly against me, completely at odds with the lingering unease curling through my body.For several long seconds, I stay still.Raven’s warmth is pressed against my side, one of my arms wrapped tightly around her waist while the other rests beneath her neck, holding her close enough that every slow breath she takes brushes against my chest. Her scent surrounds me completely, raspberries and chocolate fudge mixed with the faint fruity scent of her shampoo.Mine.The thought comes instinctively, carrying more weight than it ever has before.The two of you are soul-bound.The memory of Fate’s voice crashes back into my head hard enough to make my stomach tighten.My eyes open slowly, landing on Raven curle
JaxI wake standing instead of lying down, and that realization is the first thing that feels wrong.The second is that nothing around me makes any sense.The ground beneath my feet appears solid at first glance, but the longer I focus on it, the more it seems to shift beneath me in slow ripples, like dark water disturbed by an unseen current. Above me stretches something that resembles a sky, though it changes too slowly and too unnaturally to truly be one. Deep shades of blue bleed into silver and black, twisting together in strange patterns that make my eyes ache if I stare at them for too long.There’s no scent here.No earth. No trees. No trace of pack lands or the outside world.No Raven.That absence unsettles me more than the strange landscape ever could.This place feels stripped down to its bare existence, like reality itself was only partially formed and hasn’t fully settled into shape yet. Everything around me feels unfinished in a way my mind can’t properly process.My pu
RavenI can sense the faint taste of copper in my mouth from remarking Jax. My head feels heavy and it’s like being lost in fog. I climb off of him and walk to the bathroom on autopilot. After I’m done with my business, I move to the sink to wash my hands and I scream when I look in the mirror. “Raven!” I hear my mom on the other side of the door. “J-just a minute mom.”I frantically look around and grab a towel, wrapping around me and covering as much of my body as I can before cracking the door open.“What is it mom?”I should’ve known a few inches wouldn’t be enough after hearing me scream. My mom and Gwen push their way into the bathroom and they both look worried.“Sweetheart, we’ve already seen them. Is that why you screamed?”I just look at them. I don’t remember Jax putting hickeys all over me like this. But that’s not why I screamed. I don’t want them to see, but I know I don’t have a choice. I squeeze my eyes shut and slowly unwrap the towel. They both gasp and I cover my







