FAZER LOGINThe Living Room - EveningThe fire in the fireplace had now burned down to glowing embers, casting a soft warm orange atmosphere in the living room. The storm outside had greatly intensified, howling loudly against the walls of the lodge.They both lay side by side on the rug in front of the fireplace, wrapped in thick furs to shield them from the cold and keep them warm. Alex was laying on his back, with Zara resting beside him with her head laying gently on his chest. The pain in his shoulder was slowly returning as the temporary healing Zara casted earlier faded, but he refused to let go of her."Zara?" he called her after some minutes of silence."Hmm?" she replied to him, although absent mindedly."Do you believe in fate?" he asked her.Zara traced the line of his tattoo gently, a geometric wolf howling to the moon that was drawn neatly on his ribs. "I didn't used to believe in it. I thought life was just more of chaos and survival. But now..." She started to reply to him as she
He stood up after a while, feeling the need to keep himself busy and went into the small kitchenette of the lodge, swaying slightly. He was wearing just sweatpants and nothing else, his left shoulder still heavily bandaged. He looked like a Greek statue that had been through a war zone.He was staring at a frying pan as if it were a complex tactical puzzle."Alex, sit down," Zara called from the living room, where she was folding the blankets."I am fine," Alex grunted. He cracked an egg. It missed the pan entirely and landed on the stove burner with a hiss. "Damn it." he called out, hissing."You are not fine Alex. You have enough wolfsbane in your system to kill a horse." she said to him."I am not a horse. I am an Alpha. And I am making breakfast." he countered stubbornly.He reached for a towel to clean the mess, but the movement made the room spin. He stumbled, gripping the counter quickly for support. His knuckles turned white. He breathed heavily through his nose, frustration r
The North Lodge - MorningThe storm outside had buried the world into white silence, as everywhere was filled with snow and ice, barely accessible for anyone to pass through. Inside, the only sound heard was the crackle of the dying fire and the steady, rhythmic breathing of the man laying down beside her.Zara lay awake, watching the grey light of dawn filter through the frosted windows. She was tangled in the furs, her head resting gently on Alex's good shoulder, and her arm draped across his chest.For the first time in her life, she didn't want to move. She didn't even want to run.She shifted slightly, lifting her head to look at him.In his sleep, Alexander Smith didn't look like the terrified Alpha of the West Coast. He didn't look like a billionaire tyrant either. He looked... looked so young and calm. The harsh lines of stress that were usually around his mouth and even his forehead had smoothed out. His dark lashes rested against his pale cheekbones.He was still burning wi
She looked up. "Hey Alex, You're awake. How do you feel now?" she asked him."Like I got hit by a train." He said to her as he tried to sit up, but she pushed him back down gently."Stay down please."she said to him softly.He looked at her hands. "The pipe," he said suddenly, remembering earlier, from the party where the pipe had suddenly bursted out water to save her from the mercenaries.Zara stiffened. She knew this was coming."What pipe?" she asked him carefully, pretending not to know what he was talking about."At the gala," Alex said, his voice low but sharp. "The water pipe. It didn't just burst. You looked at it, you clenched your fist, and then it exploded." he recounted to her, letting her know he had seen how it had played out."It was a coincidence, Alex. Perhaps, a stray bullet." she said to him calmly."I didn't hear a bullet though." he countered, denying her excuse."There was a lot of noise. You were fighting, so there was no way you could have heard the sound of t
The North Woods - 4:30 AMThe drive was grueling. The "Lodge" was three hours north, deep in the mountains where the cell service had died and the roads turned to gravel and ice.Zara drove the massive, blacked out SUV with white knuckled focus. The headlights cut through the swirling snow, illuminating endless rows of pine trees that looked like silent sentinels.Beside her, Alex’s health was quickly deteriorating.For the first hour, he had tried to stay awake, watching the mirrors, giving her directions.But by the second hour, he had gone silent.Now, he was slumped against the window, his breathing very shallow and rapid. The infection was quickly spreading. The wolfsbane was attacking his nervous system hard and fast."Alex?" Zara called, glancing at him. "Stay with me please." she said to him, pleading."I'm here," he mumbled. His eyes were closed though. "Just... just tired," he told her."We're almost there. The GPS says two miles." she told him softly."Watch out for the...
The smell of blood had been scrubbed away, replaced by the sharp, stinging scent of iodine and sterilized steel.Zara stood still in the corner of the pack's private medical wing, her arms crossed tight over her chest. She was still wearing the silver gown, though the hem was stained with dust and soot. Her hair was a mess, and looked so tired. She looked like a fallen angel who had just survived a war.In the center of the room, Alex sat on the edge of a metal examination table. He was shirtless.His torso was a map of violence. Bruises were already blooming across his ribs where the chandelier debris from earlier had hit him, turning his skin into different shades of violet and black. But those were superficial though, his Alpha healing was already fading them.The problem now was his left shoulder.A jagged, ugly gash cut deep into the deltoid muscle. The flesh around it was neither pink or red. It was grey. Black veins were spider webbing out from the wound, creeping slowly toward
Sasha’s POV:'Everyone go to your room or the safe house now. I need warriors and some guards at the pack house NOW!' I heard Damien say through the mind link. What the heck is going on? I tried to mind link him, but he blocked everyone out, including me. "Hey, you think everything is okay," I aske
Damien’s POV:After Sasha and the girls had left with Ethan, who was to ensure their safety, I went back to my office.I decided to get some more work done, being the Alpha Prime, means I have to do some other work relating to other packs as well outside my own pack responsibility. As I was doing th
Sasha's POV:The next morning, the door slammed open…’Wake Up’ urghhhh, I swear I can't even sleep in peacefully. ‘Can someone shut him up, fuck’, I groaned. ‘Ha, my absolute pleasure’, Mel said, all I heard was ‘fuck, what was that for?’. Well, that woke me up way faster, and I shot up from the be
Sasha's POV:‘What were you rogues doing in my territory?' Asked my mate, with disgust laced in voice and written all over his face. Oh heck no, did he just? You know what, I think I will just shut up and not say anything because I could kill him. He looked at me impatiently, waiting for answers. W







