When we had come home successfully with Tina as our prisoner, Florence had insisted on throwing a ball in honour of all the warriors that fought in the battle and the ones responsible for Tina’s demise. She had been planning it for the last three weeks, organising the decorations, the food, music and seating chart and I helped where I could. We were to have the announcements and our food in the main dining area, which was only used for special dinners with neighbouring Alphas and Luna’s or for certain ceremonies. Then drinks and dancing in the great hall. It was always used for balls and fancy parties. The room was so big it could hold around 1000 people easily. Florence had the invites sent out the day after she had announced in a pack meeting of her idea for the ball and I had already gone dress shopping with my mum and Dakota to find a dress for each of us, as the invites stated men in black tux and women in red. I had made up my mind on a dark red velvet long gown, with a heart-s
Layton's POV: Honestly, I can’t even say how fucking pissed I was to have to drag myself away from Lelanna. I finally had her so close to me, literally in my arms, her beautiful soft lips curling into her incredible smile. My whole body was just so drawn to her like it wanted to sink into her skin. The whole time I was with her, my head was just thinking “fuck the world… fuck everyone else here… she’s all that matters right now”. Of course, I can’t blame Gabel, after all, I am the Alpha, and he is my guard and an unreplaceable one at that, and no doubt I would have kicked his ass if he didn’t tell me about the disturbance. Turns out some of the warriors patrolling near the village boarder could sense rogues, but by the time we had searched our forest territory and I had more warriors put in place in that area, I headed straight back to the ball to find Lelanna had already left with her parents, as Florence informed me and according to her she left looking rather happy. I wanted to q
When we had come home successfully with Tina as our prisoner, Florence had insisted on throwing a ball in honour of all the warriors that fought in the battle and the ones responsible for Tina’s demise. She had been planning it for the last three weeks, organising the decorations, the food, music and seating chart and I helped where I could. We were to have the announcements and our food in the main dining area, which was only used for special dinners with neighbouring Alphas and Luna’s or for certain ceremonies. Then drinks and dancing in the great hall. It was always used for balls and fancy parties. The room was so big it could hold around 1000 people easily. Florence had the invites sent out the day after she had announced in a pack meeting of her idea for the ball and I had already gone dress shopping with my mum and Dakota to find a dress for each of us, as the invites stated men in black tux and women in red. I had made up my mind on a dark red velvet long gown, with a heart-s
Layton's POV: Honestly, I can’t even say how fucking pissed I was to have to drag myself away from Lelanna. I finally had her so close to me, literally in my arms, her beautiful soft lips curling into her incredible smile. My whole body was just so drawn to her like it wanted to sink into her skin. The whole time I was with her, my head was just thinking “fuck the world… fuck everyone else here… she’s all that matters right now”. Of course, I can’t blame Gabel, after all, I am the Alpha, and he is my guard and an unreplaceable one at that, and no doubt I would have kicked his ass if he didn’t tell me about the disturbance. Turns out some of the warriors patrolling near the village boarder could sense rogues, but by the time we had searched our forest territory and I had more warriors put in place in that area, I headed straight back to the ball to find Lelanna had already left with her parents, as Florence informed me and according to her she left looking rather happy. I wanted to q
Lelanna's POV: It had taken us a few weeks to get everything in place, especially as we wanted our plan to go undetected by any rogues that might be watching us. Patrol shifts had been doubled and I had been helping night and day to patrol the boarder, the city and the village, even Layton who usually, as an Alpha doesn’t take part in the patrol had been working tirelessly all day with his duties then doing patrols at night. He would usually take into his wolf form and patrol the edge of our forest and a little further beyond our treeline, as his wolf was black, he could blend into the dark forest without being seen. Every now and then we could sense rogues nearby, but they never came too close. Obviously they had sensed our extra warriors keeping watch, but we knew they were out there, listening, watching. Waiting to see what our next move would be and funnily enough it was exactly what we were doing with them. Zara had only managed to get small bits of information from Tina and a
I woke up early and got dressed into my armour to make an early start on the duties. It was my turn to head to the lake house and make sure everything there was running smoothly and to show our gratitude at all the warriors that had come. I was there for two hours, while they were all cleaning their weapons and readying their armour, some were shifting into their wolves in the large green garden at the back of the house training and keeping up their stamina Once I had done the rounds, I called Florence to meet me for a walk. I wanted to hear everything about her and her mate. I asked her to meet me in the village, I wanted to see Layton as little as possible today in hopes that I could reign in my feelings that had been rushing to the surface since I had come back here. Every time I saw him they just got stronger and stronger and I didn’t want to fall back into the way I used to be when I was younger, waiting and wishing that he would return my feelings. I jogged over to Florence as
I made my way to the Palace to meet with Heath and Adeena, as they were heading back to their pack tomorrow. It had been four months since they were last here and It was bittersweet that once again they were here because of a war. Heath was smartly dressed as usual in a grey fitted suit and navy tie with the pretty Adeena in her blue floral dress sitting next to him at the table in one of the Palace’s glass domes, eating their brunch with the sun beaming in, causing the tips of the red rose petals to glow. They greeted me with warm tired smiles as a maid laid out a fresh pot of tea for us all to share with baked scones and jams, the cooks and maids in this Palace are an absolute blessing with all the chaos that’s been happening around us, I thought as I thanked her before she left. “So how are you both feeling this morning?” I looked to them as I started to pour the tea in each of our cups. “Tired” Adeena responded with a yawn, just like them and probably everyone else in the pack,
After three days, I still hadn’t been able to stop reading Layton’s letter. Every time I went to bed, hell I couldn’t stop thinking about it no matter where I went or what I did! It had me in such a daze, a complete high, but an anxious one… As soon as i’d feel giddy inside, it would then turn into fear. There was still so much we needed to say… or at least I needed to say and, answers I needed to hear and, If I did tell him of my feelings for him then what? Would I be his partner temporarily or would he want me to be his Luna? A Luna… ME? That’s...... big… a lot… Huge!... Jeez, most women would kill or manipulate their way to the status and here I am letting it put me off the love of my life! I had gone to the Palace the very next morning after receiving Layton’s letter, only to be greeted by a guard who told me Layton, Galeb and three other palace guards had gone to visit Alpha Michaelson as part of the sentencing of the Maven cousins that he had taken to his pack as prisoners. I