Time to expand the pack. And sounds like Cyra has Yara's murmur of approval.
Yorick“Yorick, sweetheart, can you please disengage from Cyra so we can finish our conversation. Then the two of you can continue,” my mother’s voice says from somewhere behind me.I’ve gotten totally lost in kissing my mate. I forgot we were still in the pack hospital.I reluctantly pull away from my mate, who is quickly turning a bright shade of pink.“Sorry, Luna,” she murmurs.“Never apologize for loving your mate, especially when that mate is my son. I am well aware of the ‘passion’ of the Hill men,” mom says, making me chuckle and Cyra blush an even deeper shade of pink.“I have your results. First, your hormone levels are back to normal, meaning you definitely were given a placebo. I’m guessing the hormones from your previous implant lasted just long enough for me to confirm your negative pregnancy test,” she says.I feel the same wave of disappointment in Cyra that I’m feeling. I was excited to start a family with my mate, even if it would be difficult for the next year.“Now
PiperI’m not sure I like the excited, almost maniacal grin on Alpha Quirin’s face when he walks out rubbing his hands together.“Alright! Let’s see what they’re teaching you Academy brats these days,” he says. “Kennedy says I’m not supposed to put you in the hospital, but since she AND Luna Yara are here, I feel confident that any damage I do can be undone.”Word spread quickly that we wanted to spar with Alpha Quirin and since everyone heard about what happened to Alpha Christer yesterday, most, if not all, of the pack warriors not currently on patrol, are here to watch.“So, how do you want to do this? Do you want me to take on all four of you at once?” he asks.I frown.“No. Then we wouldn’t be able to tell how we do individually against you,” Zach says and the rest of us agree.“Okay, who’s first?” he asks.“You choose,” Chase says.He looks the four of us over quickly then points to me. “Piper.”Of course he picked me. I thought that maybe he’d be different than other Alphas and
YorickI can feel that Cyra wants to take the lead, so I sit back.“When Alpha Stellan came to the Academy to force his mark on me, he made a comment about putting a pup in me at the same time,” she begins and Dr. Walker snorts.“Well, that would have been impossible. You are on birth control. I thought he knew that.”“He said he replaced it with a placebo,” she says.“Impossible, I did the injections. How could he have ... son of a bitch,” he snarls, standing up. I’m up and standing between him and my mother and mate in an instant.He jolts, looking at me, then looking behind me. “You think I did it?” he asks.“Did you?” I growl.He scrubs his face with his hands. “We’ve had an influx of unwanted pregnancies in the pack lately. I’ve been trying to figure out why it keeps happening. With younger mothers, it isn’t as big of a deal, but with the older she-wolves, the ones who have already had their pups, it has put them at higher risk. I have several she-wolves right now that are borderl
YorickI’m still in shock at Quirin’s proposal. I knew we could trust him. I never would have gone to him in the first place if I hadn't. But I had no idea he’d come up with an idea that not only helped us pay off our debt to him but also helped us to make our own pack wealthy.In addition, he’s basically doubling our pack size and nearly tripling our pack lands which will instantly add more income and credit to our financal situation.“I don’t know what to say,” I tell him, hugging him as we stand.“You’re Kennedy’s brother. That makes you my brother. You're family, Yorick.”“Thank you, my brother,” I say, hugging him more tightly before releasing him.When I step back, Cyra and Kennedy are still hugging and murmuring to each other. I look back at Quirin. “Are you working with Connor and Henry to invest also?”“Of course I am. Henry has been invested for a while,” he says smirking. “Although he didn’t always know it. On his thirtieth birthday, I gave him the information on the investm
CyraAfter breakfast, I notice a couple of my more daring pack members come over to introduce themselves to Quirin and Kennedy. Kennedy draws them in quickly, the pack latching on to the love and kindness that she exudes.Surprisingly, after the initial nervousness of meeting Quirin, our pack members seem to relax around him. He oozes confidence which makes a pack feel safe and since he’s not being aggressive in any way, more pack members start coming over, at least to say hi.“We’re going to go warm up and wait for Alpha Quirin to come show us some new moves,” Zach says, practically bouncing on his feet. “Plus, I need to come up with a good code name for him. Slasher, maybe,” he says, making all of us roll our eyes.“I’m pretty sure I’ve made my own name sufficient to put the fear of the Moon Goddess into anyone who thinks of crossing me,” Quirin says as we head to the office.“Well, yeah, there’s that. Hmmm, maybe we need to find someone who gets the codename Quirin,” he says to the
CyraWarrior training was fun. Besides being in the best shape of my life because of the Academy, I also know a lot of the skills that Yorick is teaching our warriors. However, it was nice to also see Warren’s more pure form of fighting, the parts that, according to Yorick, he’s mixed up with Quirin’s style of fighting.The warriors felt the difference immediately. Having Piper, Zach, Landon, and Chase here made a difference as well. My father, while always ensuring that the pack’s warriors were trained, wasn’t as intelligent a fighter as Warren and Yorick are. When the warriors began grumbling at the intense pace the two men were keeping, they quickly showed them why their fighting knowledge was inadequate by defeating them in one-to-one combat. Since I defeated my father yesterday in front of the pack, I wasn’t tested as much as Warren and Yorick, but after warrior training, I felt the pack settle even more. The pack not only feels the strength coming from myself, Yorick, and Warren,