The ride back to Harvest Moon territory had been excruciatingly silent. I had refused to acknowledge or look at Gerwulf all morning. No matter what he said or tried. Something inside me had finally snapped and I began to question my complacency and comfort when it came to my ability to submit and obey people. Finally I was thinking on my own and I was mad.
Mad at myself for being so weak willed. Mad at my shitty start to life. Mad everything had been a lie. Mad my mate kept so many secrets from me. I was just plain mad.
So in turn I decided I was going to use some anger and become momentarily spiteful. Despite the cold weather I had decided to wear one of the dresses Beth had picked out for me. It was a cream colored off shoulder lantern sleeve dress. The fit was tight, barely reaching halfway down my thigh as the bust dipped enough to show cleavage. I didn't have much to show in the chest area but my body was still very slim and had started
"Alpha... Luna ," Ross and Jade quickly addressed us they looked up. Robin gave him a nod, keeping it overly casual as usual."I'm glad you all made it safely, " Gerwulf wrapped an arm around my waist tightly as if afraid I'd disappear any minute," I trust Bel and the Betas have shown you to your rooms? I know it's not as good as you're probably used to, but hopefully it's okay for the duration of the Luna ceremony." He chuckled and I saw their father smile. Why wasn't I informed of a Luna ceremony? Nobody had prepared anything with me."It's not everyday you get invited to such events when you're a vampire," he spoke with a very thick French accent," I just hope your other guests are as open minded.""Forrest," the woman beside him tsked and shook her head. Her accent was just as thick but her voice was filled with kindness while she scolded him," even the Alpha knows better than to offend us. Don't you think we should
"I'm glad they at least taught their servants how to read. With as archaic as Harvest Moon seemed to be in some ways, I almost expected you to be illiterate," Beth snickered while handing me another book. She had thankfully arrived sometime during the night. We hadn't been as close lately but with my upcoming ceremony it was important that the relationship between me and the Beta female was strong.I rolled my eyes and laughed," of course I am. I did serve underneath our Alpha. That meant a lot of times I was in public having to converse and help him during events. It would've looked bad on both Finn and Hylda if a servant embarrassed them."A smirked crept onto Beth's face," oh? You served underneath him, huh? The boys told me he was as pure as it got. Didn't know you two were so... close." She drug out the word and I laughed."I was only 13 when he was exiled, no such thing happened," embarrassment filled me at the tho
Things had been tense since last night. Simon and Anais did a good job of keeping everybody up while they ever so eagerly completing the mating bond.Jade was going ballistic hearing the two of them. Something about that situation still seemed... off to me but I chose to keep my opinions to myself. Gerwulf was tired of hearing complaints so he made them move to one of the empty houses in the town square to ensure Jade would calm down, and baby Demeter would be able to sleep."You're so beautiful," Simon cooed at Anais bright and early during breakfast. Every wolf, lycan, and shifter looked worse for the wear having bags under the eyes. The vampires looked well rested as if the events of last night hadn't effected them at all.Anais was sat on his lap feeding him his breakfast and making a point of it to lick off any of the whipped cream from his waffles that didn't make it into his mouth. Ross placed his hand onto Jade's
I hadn't heard from my parents or Grant since leaving their house. It felt like every time my life gained a little normalcy it spun in a different direction that had me guessing what was and wasn't going to be a lie or go wrong.I had decided against confronting Bel and Sadie about what they were doing me with. Instead I just made more of a point to stick by Julian when Gerwulf wasn't around. He was the only one giving me answers about anything to do with shapeshifters. Even Bel himself being one would keep a tight lip about it always saying," Alpha's orders."For the next two days I made it seem like everything was still normal. We picked up my dress for the ceremony. It was dark green, and easy to put on and remove. The top was fitted and cut so that my bust showed but below the hip it was long and flowed onto the ground. I felt I looked more fae than wolf in it. They had given me a flower crown of fake green and white roses to go with it.
The guard at the entrance of our wing opened the large door, Cinnabar speeding up to get to our door faster. He stopped before our suite and let me off his back, changing back. The moment the door opened we were one one another.We fell onto the bed, and I sat in his lap straddling him. Gerwulf pulled back to catch his breath, and I rubbed the tip of our noses together," Ich liebe dich." I flushed a bit still not used to being able to express the words. He gripped my hips tightly coaxing that moan out of me finally."Ich liebe dich auch," he cooed out making my heart hammer. It was still hard to accept the person I'd pined over as a child actually loving me as an adult. Bringing us together through the mate bond had been a blessing by the goddess. Gazing into his amber eyes was something I could never get tired of.I smiled pulling us back together as I tried undoing the clasps of my bra before removing my layers. He chu
Tension had been thick the last few weeks between Ash Walker and Mountain Crawler. Jade found out she was having a male pup and neither Alpha could agree on if Simon truly deserved to know. A first born son was highly coveted with wolves. Ross wanted to tell him and beat him within an inch of his life for not even so much as apologizing for leaving her without a goodbye. Gerwulf wanted to keep it a secret until Jade decided the time was right.Beth and I had both stepped up in our duties as Luna and Beta female. More pack members meant more mouths to feed and housing to be provided. Plans had started when it came to diving the defunct pack's territories. Ross wanted the northern borders with the higher mountain ranges. Forrest wanted the eastern areas to connect to where he'd securely hidden his coven.Gerwulf seems so apathetic about the entire ordeal. Any mention of where Delmar, Hylda, or Finn were being kept he just shrugged off. At one
"Please don't miss," Beth panicked handing me a small trash can from across the car.I grasped the plastic container like my life depended on it and emptied the contents of my stomach. Nothing in the last two weeks had managed to stay down. She carefully placed a hand on my shoulder like she was afraid of breaking me."Please say we're almost there," I whined as another round of nausea hit me like a truck."We're coming up on the pack border now Luna," Jeremiah, one of the pack warriors answered. He and another warrior, Sam were the escorts for the day. Jade was due sometime this week and we wanted to be there for her.Julian hadn't returned within a week and I began to panic once that time turned to three. Something had happened that Robin and Gerwulf wouldn't talk to me about. When Ross had called and informed us Jade would pop any day now Gerwulf suggested I play role as Luna and stay for support.
"You did such a good job," Simon protectively held the little bundle of fabric. He gazed down totally fixated on every aspect of his son. He sat on the edge of the bed, giving Jade a look that seemed like love. Realization seemed to hit him and he quickly hid it," do you need anything?" He held out his arms carefully handing the baby over."Water... maybe something other than hospital food?" Jade forced a smile. Simon kept his gaze on her for a moment more before getting up. We all moved for him to exit."Well," Matthias spoke almost demanding. Jade rolled her eyes," well what?""Don't be shy! Show us the baby!" Matthias retorted and we all roared into a fit of laughter. A smile slowly spread across Jade's face and she seemed to relax. The little multicolored fabric fell as she held her baby up for all of us to see. A mound of jet black hair stuck out in every direction, and a pair of ice blue eyes peeked out through mos