LOGINWendy is growing and Lila, understandably, is freaking out.
LandonFucking Stellan. He should be locked away inside that fucking prison. Instead, he’s causing my mate to worry herself into a state where I can barely get her to sleep. Even when I do get her to sleep, she jolts awake frequently, needing to go check on Lily to make sure she’s safe.I don’t know why Stellan has fixated on Lila. He had his chance with her and he blew it, preferring to force Cyra into a mate bond. How he thought he could get away with keeping Lila on the side after mating with Cyra is beyond me. Not only that, Lila deserves so much more than to be someone’s dirty little secret.Now, here we are again with Stellan impacting our lives. I want to rip his fucking heart out for what he’s done. He threatened my mate and my daughter, and he threatened my Alpha.“Baby, please, come back to bed,” I plead with my mate.“What if he gets to her, Landon? What if he kills our pup? What if he does it just to prove that he can?” she says, beginning to cry as she walks around our roo
WendySpending the night with Alpha Squad when I’m with Hacker versus when I'm with Hijack is completely different.When Jude was here, we worked to get everything done together, then we'd gone out to join Alpha Squad and listened to their ghost stories. With Hijack, rather than working together, he steps out of the van and gets on a call about another project he’s working on. Since I’m not part of it, I don’t follow.I finish going through the monitoring process that Jude showed me the previous night, then I look around, trying to figure out where Jude got the sleeping bag that we slept in.I feel the van dip as Hijack steps back in.“Did Hacker show you how to pull the beds down?” he asks me.“Uh, no,” I say.“Right here,” he says, walking over and showing me the latches for the ‘bed’ that is no more than a cot attached to the side of the van. It pulls down like a Murphy Bed, except much smaller.“Blankets and pillows are in that bin over there. You should get some sleep. I have some
JudeI’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried about Wendy spending the night with Hijack out in the wild. I don’t think that she’d snuggle up with him the way she did with me, especially since she and I are dating, but I also know that she probably won’t sleep if she doesn’t. Wendy isn’t used to sleeping in the wild, out of a bed, or away from someone that she feels safe with. I’m just not sure if Hijack counts as one of those people she feels safe with.So, first thing in the morning when Luna Yara, now Sanatrix, comes to see me, I tell her I’m better and ready to get back in the field.She turns and looks at me.“Jude, do I tell you how to do your job?” she asks me.I frown. “No, Luna.”“Exactly. I would appreciate the same level of respect from you.”I open my mouth, but no words come out. I’m not used to hearing Luna Yara put anyone in their place. I’ve heard that she does it, but I’ve never seen it, until now.“Am I not ready to go back out in the field, Luna?” I ask.“There’s a re
WendyUnlike Hacker, or anyone in my life really, Hijack stood behind me and watched, but he didn’t tell me if I was right or wrong in my assessments of the heat sources I found. Small animals were easy. Mid-size and large animals weren’t so easy. Stellan could be hiding in human or wolf form. He could be curled into a tight ball or stretched out lying flat on the ground. I tried to determine the differences between the heat sources while Hijack went outside to speak with Raptor before they took off.When he comes back in he pulls his chair in between our workstations, turning a monitor so he can watch it and watch mine at the same time.“Okay, Raptor and Siren are going south, Venom, Intrigue, and Cipher are going north. Choose your team,” he says.“Venom, Intrigue, and Cipher,” I say instantly. I’m pretty sure they will be more accepting of my errors than Raptor.He glances at his monitor, making sure that Raptor and Siren are good to go before letting them know there’s no threat bef
HijackI wasn’t happy to hear that Hacker got injured, but I wasn’t surprised to hear that he got injured protecting Wendy. That’s why I didn’t think it was a good idea to have her ride along. It would have been better if she’d started with Beta Squad or C-Squad, but Alpha Squad rides hard and runs into more problems than the others. They’re the Alpha Squad for a reason and they’re always the ones sent on the hardest missions.Hacker knew this, so he knew the risks he was taking by bringing an underage, untrained Sphinx with him. I’m sure he thought that he would be able to keep her safe, but shit happens, especially with Alpha Squad.When I get to the old packhouse, I see Alpha Squad already packing up, ready to go. I get out of the car and look around.“Where’s Sphinx?”Raptor looks behind him. “She was here a minute ago,” he says.“I’m here,” she says, rushing out of the packhouse. Alpha Quirin walks out behind her. I’m guessing he was giving her a pep talk.I wasn’t thrilled to fin
WendyI watch as my father helps lead Jude away. He’s not steady on his feet, so I know the blood loss was significant.“Sphinx, call Hijack and then I want you to walk me through what you saw,” Raptor says.I nod, pulling out my phone and calling Hijack.“Hey beautiful, what can I do for you?” he answers.I sigh. He did tell me he wasn't going to stop calling me that.“Hacker’s down. Raptor needs you to switch out for twenty-four hours and, if you’re willing, take me on for that amount of time.”“What happened to Hacker?” he says, his tone instantly serious and intense.I tell him about finding Stellan and how Hacker pushed me aside and fought him.“He can’t be too injured if Raptor is only keeping him out for twenty-four hours,” he says, but I hear him moving around.“His wound is already starting to heal, but he’s weak. He said he’d work with Yana to start connecting the security system to the new packhouse if he started feeling better.”“Good. If he’s not done when it’s time to rej
WendyI expected my father to be here. I don’t know why I suddenly feel less secure without him here, but even knowing that Connor, Quirin, Henry, and Yorick are here, I don’t feel as safe as I would if my father were here.I push that down as we head to Cyra’s old packhouse. Since everyone is in th
PiperHenry wasn’t happy that I was called out into the field so quickly, but this is the job, one that is the compromise that we made to maintain my dream of being an elite fighter while still being his Luna. I’m not thrilled that Zach is already so injured that he had to come in for recovery, but
WendyI hate that Jude can see things that don’t even stand out on my radar. Like that den. How did he even see that?“Don’t over think it Wendy,” he says. “You’re still learning. That’s why you’re here. You haven’t even started at the Academy yet. Give yourself a break,” Jude says from where he’s s
JudeI knew Alpha Warren would want to talk to me today. I expected it. If he hadn’t, I would have been disappointed in him. His daughter is going out into the world, and he can no longer keep her safe. So, yes. I expected Alpha Warren to ask me about her safety and my willingness to protect her.I







