Ricardo I drive around the town my ancestors built for what seems like hours on end after I see The Wisher. I drive past the river where the restaurants and nightclubs seem quiet on the Monday evening. I drive through Main Road where most of the businesses are located, including mine. I even drive through the neighborhood my mother now resides in, but I don't stop at her house. That's a conversation I'm not ready for yet. I love my family, but they can be overbearing sometimes. I stop by the park where my parents took me when I was a child, but it's already evening and it's quiet except for the few teenagers loitering and playing around. They're either chilling at the park or at the river, reminding me of simpler times when my boys and I used to run the school. Now I run the whole pack and I'm not gonna lie and say that I don't feel the pressure right now. This coming Friday we have the river bonfire. One of the many events my mother organizes for the pack to soc

Ianthe Heleni looks badass in tight leather pants and a white crop top paired with black combat boots. She looks ready to take on the entire world and is currently rummaging through my suitcase which I still haven't unpacked yet. It's the Friday of the bonfire and she came over to help me pick out an outfit. The past week has been tense in the house for sure. I now have an additional two guards who rotates with Mark and Randall, and I've spotted a few wolves in the woods surrounding the house. I've also not been allowed to go outside which I should be used to, but I felt stifled nonetheless. I haven't seen much of Ricardo either, he is always at the pack house these days or at the office, so I've really missed him. I'm waiting on eggshells for him to tell me what happened with the attack on the border, I've even asked Mark and Randall, but they're keeping their mouths shut. I need to know if someone was hurt. "You should really go shopping." Heleni holds up a pair of navy tights fr

Ianthe Ricardo is holding my hand. Granted, this is not the first time he's holding my hand, but it feels different. He's talking to Harry about the stock market and I'm more than intrigued. Apart from cooking and baking, I've been very interested in how the stock market works, the rise and fall and where to invest and when. "Do you think I can maybe come to the office with you one day?" I ask, hoping I'm masking my excitement. His steel eyes look down at me questioningly and I shrug. "I'm good with numbers, I would love to learn how the stock market works." Harry nods his head at me. "Beauty and brains, a lethal combination." I can feel my cheeks heating at the compliment and Ricardo's eyes softening on my face. "If you'd like I can give you a small account to play around with, you can learn the tricks and trade through trial and error." He says, smiling slightly. "You'd do that for me?" I ask, surprised. Even I know businessmen don't just give money away. I don't have a clue

Ianthe I'm in trouble. I'm in deep, deep trouble. I haphazardly throw the clothes that Heleni threw out of my suitcase back into it. I need to leave before this pack finds out who I am and what I did. My heart is beating a mile a minute as I try to think what I'm going to do. How am I going to get out of here? I can't even call Sebastian because I've never been allowed to have a cellphone in the fear that I might get tracked. I do have a credit card though, so if I can just get out of this town that I've come to love so much and get to a bus stop or something. The woods are surrounded by the pack's army, but they can't smell me, if I can just slip by unnoticed. "You're being insane." Natalia says in a bored tone. "Ricardo is not some boy who can't handle a white wolf." "You don't know that!" I'm panicking. I'm a dead girl. I let my parents down. All the years they protected me, I went and screwed my life over all on my own. I should've never allowed him to hold my hand, that

Ianthe My mate has been revealed to me and I don't know what to do. It makes sense that I would be mated to an alpha as I come from a bloodline of alphas, and I'm excited and scared at the same time. Excited because Ricardo is more than I could ever have imagined. He's handsome, powerful, sexy and caring, even if he doesn't show that side of him to anybody else. Keeping my mouth shut has been a problem for me. I want to shout it from the rooftops. I want to tell him that everything happened for a reason so we should be together. Our family's connection isn't mere circumstance and things had to fall apart for our union to come to fruition. And Natalia has been growing even more impatient with me. We have continued to go on our morning runs with the Alpha and she wants to get marked, but I know it's not supposed to happen yet. I have to be eighteen for the mating ceremony, and though I find it complete torture trying to keep my hands off the glistening muscles of Ricardo when we wor