Chapter Eight - The ShiftI turned to my brother just as Hela came up and spoke to me.'I'm sorry Kari, I can't wait any longer.''Any longer for what?' I asked but I got no response."What is it?" Henrik asked.""Hela said she couldn't wait anymore," I said with a frown."What do you mean?" As he asked, I felt heat rush through my body and screamed out, falling to my knees as I felt my bones beginning to crack and reshape."Sh1t." Came Magnus' voice. "She is shifting."I let out another scream, this was agony."Kari, you have to let go, you need to let Hela control the shift, it will be quicker and it will hurt less." I heard Henrik's voice, it sounded like he was talking to me from the end of a tunnel.'Hela, what do I do?' I asked.'Let the shift take imagine yourself as a wolf.' She told me calmly. How was she so bloody calm? 'Just relax.'I closed my eyes, imagined a beautiful she-wolf, and relaxed. In a moment, the pain and cracking of my bones stopped and I heard a few gasps. I
King Alexander's POVI was wondering about the palace gardens with my mate, my queen like we did every night. Something we started to do after our little angel had been taken from us. Yes, it had been fifty years, and I don't even know if she is alive. Her bond with us never broke, but if just disappeared. Something I had never experienced in my 97 years of life. Normally, when a pack member dies, it feels like a piece of elastic being pulled so taught that it suddenly snaps, and if they are alive, you can constantly feel it thrumming away, it's the same with a family member or a mate connection, but this, it just disappeared."Do you think we will ever see her again?" My wife asked me."I hold out hope," I said with a sad smile as we looked at the rose bush that was planted in her memory a year after she was taken. It had the most beautiful purple petals. I patted my mate's hand which was linked through my arm. She rested her head on my shoulder, and I put my lips to her soft blond h
Kari's POVThere was a knock on my door. I didn't move from where I was sitting on the floor."Kari." Came my father's voice. It took me everything to hold down a sob. I hear him shuffling around outside. "I am so sorry my like peppercorn.""Pappa," I whispered."I wish I could bring your mother back. I wish I could change how everything happened. It broke my heart leaving you, but I can tell you, if my father had found out who she really was, he would have used her to get what he wanted. He would have made her life a living hell, and I wouldn't be surprised if he forcefully marked her. And God knows what he would have done to you." He whispered and I was sure he was crying. I put a hand on the door and sobbed. "I know you think I left you, but I had to, for your safety. I never knew how it would affect your mother. Being human, it shouldn't have affected her in such a way. But now I know, my leaving caused her more pain than I was aware of.""She was a wolf?" I asked through the door
Kari's POVI jumped at his voice, my breath catching again, but soothing out when I felt the Gamma's hand on my knee."Why was she alone?" The man assumed was the King, demanded. Suddenly, I felt myself get pushed back in my mind and I felt Hela push forward. There were a few gasps."Hello, young pup." The King said as he smiled at Hela."My name is Hela, I have come forth because my human is not coping." She said. "There are a lot of stories that you need to know. Please, I ask that you keep an open mind to all that has happened. My human is worried blame will land on the wrong people.""My little pup." Came a harsh voice from the king. His eyes were also purple. "You may be a child of my bloodline, but I take orders from none.""Not even the direct descendant of the moon Goddess?" Hela growled and the King's eyes widened and returned to Green."So the myth is true?""I will explain soon, but first you need to understand everything else. I respect you as my king, which is why I am as
Henrik's POV. I was starting to feel overwhelmed, so I couldn't imagine how Kari was feeling. After we had completed the blood bonds, to not speak of what Hela had told us, and after she had told us she didn't trust the Beta, I even became wary of him. When they completed the new bond to the king, with the use of any type of magic being able to affect it, the Beta's eyes flashed, but then in seconds his mask was back and he agreed to the blood bond. The king also included myself and my father in that blood bond. It was an honor to be included. The king had said we were now family and it was nothing. He also said that it would help with the protection of my sister. I sat back in my chair, everyone else had left, omega's showing the guests to their rooms to settle in, it had been a long night of travel for them, and a lot to process. I was worried about my sister. She had been so strong, and I was waiting for her to break. I was surprised she hadn't done it already, but from what I had
I sat in the pack's garden. They were beautiful, fully maintained, and looked after. I noticed there were some rare exotic flowers as well, including Birds of Paradise, Bull Thistles, and my all-time favorite flower, the Calla Lily, in a number of colors. I watched a number of, I was guessing Omega's, tend to the garden. In front of where I sat, there was a massive fountain of two wolves howling to the moon. Water coming from their jaws. Off to my left was a beautifully trimmed hedge maze. I will have to venture through it soon. I took in a deep breath and filled my senses with the cool air. There was a perfect spring breeze flowing around me. This was the most peaceful I had felt in four days. I knew it all hadn't fully set in yet, and I knew it was going to hit home soon, which scared me.'I will help you. I will always help you.' Hela said in my head when I heard footsteps behind me. I turned to see Magnus, my brother, walking towards me with a soft smile. I returned the smile."I'
Unknown POV.I sat in a tree out of sight watching. She shouldn't be here. This isn't possible. The spell cast on her mother was supposed to kill any possibility of her being able to reproduce. So how was she here? The line of wolves should have been extinct. The son still had no heir and the daughter shouldn't have done either. So how is it possible that I am sitting here looking at a direct descendent of the Gealach (moon) wolves?When she was talking to that ignorant brat earlier, I watched as her eyes turned purple. The only wolves with purple eyes were the Gealach wolves, so it was undisputable that she was one.This wasn't supposed to happen. I was next to take the throne. My son was the rightful heir. All I needed to do was take out the Prince and watch the King and Queen suffer and I would have had my rightful place as the king of Wolves. Now I had to deal with this as well.Suddenly, purple eyes turned on me and looked straight at me. She knew where I was. She knew I was watc
KAri's POV"What do you mean someone was watching you?" Henrick asked, "And are you sure it is one of mine? I didn't feel the bond break.""Neither did I." The King frowned. "Just like with Laire.""What do you mean?" I asked."When Laire was taken, the pack bond and the family bond just disappeared. Normally, you can find a family member or an Alpha can find a pack member by the bond. But with LAire, it just disappeared. We felt nothing, and we didn't feel it when she died."'Black Magic.' Hela said in my head."Hela said it was black magic. And what do you mean by a bond?""A Bond is something we have with our family, or in the case of Alpha or Luna, they have a pack bond with every member of the pack. You can pull on that bond in your mind and find where that person is." My father explained. "When someone dies, you feel the bond break, it's like the snapping of an elastic band. Same if someone joins another pack, the bond snaps. But it's a different feeling when it happens.""What