After watching her limp away from her makeshift campsite Aiden had returned home and spent most of the day with the pack, anxiously awaiting the return of his father as he was away on a business trip. He was so lost in thought, thinking about the beautiful female that he had so desperately wanted to return to that eventually even his best friend started to notice the absent-mindedness. He tried to avoid him as much as he possibly could, until Aiden couldn’t take it anymore and left, running back to his female. Yes, he knew this would possibly cause a major stir-up back at the pack house, but honestly, he couldn’t care. Aiden was slowly coming to terms with the fact his wolf had claimed the injured female as his own, this made him wonder what he knew that Aiden didn’t. Of course, this wasn’t the first time his wolf understood the importance of something before Aiden himself did. Aiden ran as fast as he could to the place where the seemingly twenty-year-old had left her, but when he
The next sunrise had Aiden felt extremely at peace as he slowly drifted back into the waking world. The young adult felt his muzzle begin nuzzling the small warmth he had wrapped his body around. He buried his long snout deeper into wild lilies and felt his soul sigh in contentment. It took the werewolf a few moments for him to remember where he was and what, or rather whom, it was that he was nuzzling. Suddenly as if he had been doused with ice-cold water the wolf’s head shot up away from the body beneath him, amber eyes snapping open with panic. Aiden quickly found himself filled with relief that the woman he had wrapped himself around was still sound asleep. With a quick scan of the area where she had set up her camp, he began searching for any signs of danger or threat that may be lurking in the trees just beyond the wolf’s excellent sight. He found none. The golden-eyed wolf knew that if he were to successfully detangle himself without her becoming aware of his presence then h
It had taken the family the entire first night and most of the next day to reach the base of Widow’s Peak their vehicles could only go so far before they had to hike on foot. Having left the youngest Winters family member in the care of a friend the three others set off in their search for the missing twin. It warmed Jean’s heart to witness almost half the town show up to aid them in their search. What they found at the base of that cliff left them with mixed feelings of relief and despair. Day by day the days started melding together and with each passing day, the Winters matriarch fought with the sheriff who insisted on listing the help of the local pack. She persisted still that she would find her daughter on her own. Jayden tried to ignore the absolute sense of disappointment when the first day of searching resulted in absolutely nothing. She tried her best to hide her frustration at her missing best friend when they reached the base of the cliff only to find she wasn’t there. Of
Disappointment was beginning to feel all too familiar to Alexa, that and frustration as Alexa couldn’t help but feel disappointed when she once again woke up to the silver snow-covered trees. She was beginning to get sick of the frost covered trees, whose bare branches reached up like bony fingers searching for a sliver of sunlight. Begging for the warmth she too wished she could reach. An urge that she could match herself as she felt her frostbitten fingers begin to burn when she reached out toward the fire. A fire that was miraculously still burning even after a full night’s worth of snow. The days had all blended together and she had lost count of them, her thoughts were hard to keep straight she could have been here a week, a few days or even a month and she would have no way of knowing her sense of time lost to the injury her head had suffered. The redheaded twin couldn’t understand how she survived so long in this icy weather, feeling her body burn with a fever she didn’t kno
Once Aiden arrived back at the pack house he shifted back into his human form. For fourteen days he had been sneaking in and out of the pack house hopefully unnoticed. From dusk till dawn, he would be gone watching over the injured woman in their forest, stupidly awaiting the return of his father so that he could ask for permission to help her. Quickly standing on his human feet he made his way into the beautiful mansion. Walking past many of his pack mates as they made their way through the morning. No one batted an eyelash at the man’s nakedness but being what they were it wasn’t an uncommon site. Of course, it helped that this particular mansion was just for the unmated males of the pack, leaving the women in a different house. Just as the wolf thought he was going to get back to his room without anyone being the wiser he was stopped by his best friend. Griffon O’Connell stood there outside his room, arms crossed, and an accusing look on his sun-kissed face, magenta eyes stared ba
Alexa’s days continued one after other in a blur of ice and snow until she was certain she was completely and utterly lost, with no sense of direction or time left for the redhead. Alexa had begun to realize she was traveling around in circles when one evening she stumbled across one of her old campsites. The frustration had almost crushed her, she had yelled out and screamed in her anger. How was this fair to her? What has she done in this life that made her deserved this? In outrage, she slammed her right hand into the trunk of a nearby tree and regretted it almost immediately. With a sharp hiss, she shook out her right hand and continued forward never looking back at the tree. Her determination to get back to her family was the only thing in the forsaken forest that kept her going. She had even managed to crack a joke about how Isaac had been right all this time and her sense of direction was horrendous. Afterward, she had been overcome with sorrow as she missed her family dearly.
That sound brought dread into Alexa’s heart and she merely closed her eyes as her stomach twisted. There was a thundering crash that originated from somewhere just outside of Alexa’s line of sight. It was a resonated all around her as if it bounced off the nearby trees and pulled at a memory buried deep within the crevices of her brain and made her wince as if her head had been to split into two. The redhead tore herself out of her aimless musings and snapped to attention spinning around in fright. Fear-filled eyes searched the wooded area she had reluctantly become accustomed to. Enlarged electric eyes scanned the darkness seeking out for the source of the sound which frightened her. If Alexa were to look back on her decision, she could honestly say she wished she hadn’t. Adrenaline had made itself at home in her veins intermittently during her long trek and in that moment was no different. The organ in her chest threatened to give out on her as accelerated almost painfully in res
He couldn’t believe his luck; the stupid rogue had escaped custody and had run off in the middle of the night. Even after all his warnings and threats of the consequences, the mutt would face if he did so, it were as if the dog had no respect for his life. How could they have let this happen? He knew that it wasn’t their fault that the mutt had found a way to escape, but he couldn’t help the worry that raged inside of him. He was as confused as the rest of the pack; it should not have been possible to escape from their prison. And yet somehow this backwater rogue had done the impossible. They had received word from his father, Aaron Black, the pack’s Beta and temporary Alpha to retrieve the mutt, alive. Aiden could not understand what value the mutt had to the pack still breathing as his wolf just wanted to tear that bag of bones apart. But an order was an order and one he had to follow. With his best friend, Griffon, at his side, the two wolves raced through the perimeter searchin