Charlotte groaned as she shifted her body. When she opened her eyes, she was met with a white ceiling that was completely in contrast with the dark brown wood of her cottage. With furrowed brows, she turned in the bed….and then something clicked. Azraiel’s house…  Shit…she is in Azraiel’s house…. “How are you feeling?” Charlotte jumped in surprise as Ayleen’s voice startled her. She was sitting on the left side of the bed. “I….I am fine...but...tired?” Charlotte muttered in a low voice, confused as well as exhausted. “What happened...? Why am I here?” She asked Ayleen. Did she pass out? Ayleen opened her mouth to say answer her question but at that moment the door of the room flew open and Azraiel rushed in ….only pausing and breathing once he roamed his eyes all over her. Why the hell is he looking at me like that? Charlotte was becoming more and more confused. “Ayleen…” Azraiel

Azraiel was nervous as hell. He is finally going to tell Charlotte that they are mates. How the hell will she react...? Does she already suspect it…?  They are about to reach her cottage when he finally pays attention to the figure sitting on her home’s steps. His last conversation with his Gamma flashes in his mind and his jaw clenches instantly. “Theo…?” He calls him out in a low voice, aware that he sounded angry and probably looked the part too. “Alpha...!” Theo bows down his head and greets him… Okay….Azraiel thinks to himself…He isn’t being rude but why the hell is he here when he clearly knows that he wouldn’t be taking her training sessions today. Azraiel continues to stare at him with narrowed eyes…and then mindlinks him. “Theo..! Leave…now…!” “I will…but there’s something that you should know… Our warriors saw strange wolves today…around an hour ago…, around the border…”

----------------------------------------------------------  You can kiss me in the moonlight.. On the rooftop under the sky, or You can kiss me with the windows open While the rain comes pouring inside Kiss me in sweet slow motion Let’s let everything slide You got me floating, you got me flying…!   “This Kiss” by Faith Hill.   ---------------------------------------------------------- Charlotte feels hot…bloody hot. Azraiel’s hands are on her body…everywhere…His hands roam from the back of her head, tangled in her hair to lazily drag down her back…His hands can’t stand still…. his fingers leave a fire blazing wherever they touch…. His tongue entangled with hers…their lips never leaving each other….hands, as if physically in pain at the thought of not touching each other…. He tastes like coffee….and smells like a forest after rain…she thinks to herself.

Charlotte was standing in the balcony to Azraiel’s room. Ayleen had given her grand tour of the house….. and before even seeing every room, she had decided to stay in Azraiel’s room. There is absolutely no reason to stay in separate rooms. She had planned on having a real conversation with Azraiel regarding his behavior. He was behaving as if she’d break if he said what he wanted. She appreciated him giving her space and the freedom to choose in every decision, but her shift was coming near. With only one month left and asbsofuckinglutely no idea if she’d survive or not, she didn’t want to spend these days being cautious. God knows she has spent her whole life like that.   All her plans of sorting this shit went out of the window when Azraiel called before dinner to not wait for him. The rouge situation had sent the entire pack in a frenzy and Azraiel had to conduct an emergency meeting in the pack house to warn everyone as well as sooth their worries. They were

Katya reached the northern border of The Blue Orchid pack with the man she has come to despise over the years. Years ago, Katya had secured the pack with magic and signed a blood pact with Alpha Azraiel to never use magic in his pack without his permission and she had no reason to break the said pact, until now. Both Theo and her have tried for hours to convince Azraiel to let her use magic to figure a few things out, and he finally agreed last night, of course after threatening to make her life hell if anything went wrong.   So, here she was, at the northern border with a dozen of his warriors and the insufferable Beta Matt. This was the very place where they found Charlotte a month ago. According to her, the rouges dropped her here but they also found her footprints here, which means she was awake for a brief period, even if she didn’t remember it.   Katya was about to perform a spell here. She has gathered the mud from the exact same plac