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
Sheer and utter shock resonated within the injured woman’s body like a tidal wave washing away all echoes of fear that had previously inhabited her soul. Her widened cobalt irises looked on almost unblinkingly at the scene that took place just a few feet before her. It was as if her brain could not compute what was happening right before her very eyes. Alexa did not know what she was witnessing, or if what she was witnessing really was happening right in front of her. The injured redhead could not form a comprehensible thought in her mind. It was as if her long two-week stay in this icy wasteland had befuddled and confused her mind and had left her defenseless to the real danger she was surely facing. She was so sure that she was hallucinating, and that she wasn’t watching two very large and very viscous wolves try to tear the other’s throat out. It was not possible, it could not be possible, with a shake of her head she tried to come to terms with what her brain was telling her. E
Aiden panted harshly as he stood over the subdued werewolf. The mutt had finally transformed back into his human form. Naked, batted, bruised, broken, and bleeding in all his glory if you could call it that. He lay there in a pathetic heap on the blood-stained snow and Aiden felt pride fill his chest, although anger still paced in his heart his wolf was unsatisfied as the mutt still drew breath. Griffon stood at his side panting just as hard, but less injured than the mutt they had fought. Although the other wolf was limping slightly having taken a nasty bite to the front right leg, Aiden was not worried. They had easily taken this mutt down a peg or two and felt that they had shown him his place. He had no reason to be worried about his friend’s injuries, for werewolves healed fast and within the hour he and his friend would be as good as new. His victory made him feel powerful and all his wolf wanted to do was present this triumph to his female. He has successfully protected his f
Aiden had never felt so upset in his life, for the next twelve hours he had been stuck on guard duty. His father who had finally come home had been upset that the rogue had gotten free, so upset that he wasn’t up for talking, which was what Aiden really wanted. The young wolf had lost the opportunity to tell his father about the presence of his female. All this time he could have helped her, Griffon had spent most of the way to the pack house scolding and berating him for his poor choices. He had listened with a heavy heart and realized his friend was right. He could have contacted the sheriff in the town to let them know where she was so she could have gotten help sooner. He could have pretended to be a hiker out for a nature exploration, and he could have taken her back to town where she could have received medical attention. Griffon had been so disappointed and angry at Aiden and his lack of forethought. He had not even thought about getting her any form of medical aid that could
For 15 days they had searched and searched. They searched until fewer and fewer people showed up to help them, the town starting to doubt the girl’s survival. The sight had the eldest twin fighting off his fits of rage, how could these people not see how important it was to find the girl his mother was so convinced was still alive? Jean watched on in despair at her angry son and felt the guilt as her niece became more and more depressed as each sunset passed. The wary mother watched on as her son’s mood became darker and darker each day. She feared his heart would soon follow. Had she been right in keeping these secrets from her children? Had she and her husband been right in sealing away the power that could have saved her daughter? Was she wrong for refusing to go to the pack for help? Will her stubbornness to keep Alexa’s existence from Aaron going to be the cause of her death? These thoughts haunted her day and night, and fear gripped her in the wee hours of the morning. She wo