Nikolai "So what have you decided?" Max asked me the second he entered my office. Yesterday night when I was formulating the war strategy, Max came into my office and told me a plan that he had come up with. It aligned with the rough idea of my plan of inviting Gonzalez to Max's club - Club Ekstaz. Max would slip it in that after the Vampire Rebels, I was next on his hit list. Max would then somehow convince him that they should attack the Rogue Pack together. An incentive that Max could give Gonzalez was that he could take over the pack and my business after my 'death'. It was a rough plan and sounded crazy but if we worked on the details just right, it could work. Working on a war strategy to make sure we killed him and all the wolves he brought with him into our land was the easy part. The plan that Max told me about last night was that Ava and I should go to the club as guests of Natalia's. We could tell him that Nat belonged to the Rogue Pack before she left to live with Max in

Nikolai "Are you fine?" Max was immediately by her side, helping her up. Nat rubbed the back of her head and groaned. "I think so." Ava waved her hand over Nat and healed her. Ava looked at her in tears. "Now?" Nat blinked once before releasing a breath. "I'm fine now." "I'm sorry... I... I didn't mean to...." Ava bit down on her lip hard and then looked at me with her teary eyes. I was so done with this. "Go back to our room," I said through clenched teeth. "I'll be there soon." I walked out of the office, Max and Nat following me. "You sure you're fine?" I asked Natalia. "Yeah...." She sounded fine but she wasn't exactly happy about what happened. Rightfully so. She was simply trying to help and Ava lashed out. "Sorry about that," I apologized. "Not your fault." She was definitely not happy about Avalyn's behaviour as well. "Do you still want her to come?" I asked Max as we walked down the stairs to the living room. He pressed his lips together. "Fine. You were right. Bri

Avalyn "Ava, Love? I'm back." Nik slipped into the bedroom. I almost thought he wouldn't come back tonight. He had a lot of work to do. After I had finished my work, I came back from the packhouse and brought Nik his dinner to his office. I forced him to take a fifteen-minute break and have dinner with me. He told me that he still had a couple of things he needed to get done before the end of the night. And those few things had kept him in the office until midnight. "Are you asleep?" he asked. "I'm sorry I'm late." When he walked closer to me, I threw the cover off me and shot my hand out, pulling him on top of me. He fell with an 'oomph'. I kissed him. "I've missed you," I said between kisses. "I've missed you too." He held his weight up so I wasn't crushed underneath him. I rolled us so I was on top of him and then sat on his stomach. I quickly discarded my robe and placed my hands on his chest. He had a dazed look in his eyes, like he had no clue what was happening but was v

Nikolai Once we were in our bedroom, I kicked the door shut. She turned to glare at me. "Go on. Justify Max ignoring Natalia's safeword." "Nothing is happening without her consent. She was fake-safewording. It was a part of our plan. You would have known that, but you told me you wanted to stay out of it. You haven't attended a single meeting on it. I respect your decision, but I will not tolerate your violent, abusive behaviour." "I thought Max was being abusive...." she said, her voice low. "Do you honestly believe he would knowingly ever do anything to hurt Natalia?" I couldn't believe she would think that. She shook her head, looking down. "We wanted to show Emilio that Max was a crazy asshole. What better way to do that than making him think that Max was out of his mind even when it came to his beloved?" She pressed her lips together and turned away from me. I could sense that she was deep in thought. "I want to fight in the war, Nikolai," she said, surprising me. "You

Nikolai All the lights of the packhouse were lit and it looked grander than ever. I heard murmurs saying 'he's here', 'Alpha's here', 'get ready'. My curiosity rose as I walked into the living room. The lady in red caught my attention. In fact, she was the only one who had my attention. And I, hers. She gave me a dazzling, pearly-white smile that made her dimples pop and I swear my heart stopped. I took long steps to cover the distance between us. I took her hand, and twirled her around herself, making her dress swoosh. I snaked my arm around her waist and dipped her as I gave her a sweet kiss. "Wow, that was hot." I heard a girl say and then someone hooted. Grinning, I pulled Ava to her feet. "You look beautiful." A blush rose to her cheeks as she smiled shyly at me, her big, doe-shaped eyes melting my heart. "Y-you too." I heard some chuckles and my smile widened. "And that, kids, is how you make your lady speechless." I looked at all the teenagers that surrounded us and gave