Derek POV We finish the battle and capture few alive. something is not right with this attack, no wolf, rogue, or not, dared to attack us for years now and to actually be with hunters? I pause on that thought for now and make sure all my men are alright before I head back to the pack house, I need to see her, to make sure she is okay “Move faster, human” My wolf Rex keeps nagging me. “If I move any faster people will know something is up and we don’t want them to know about her yet, you idiot” “I don’t care I need to see mate” “What will you do when we reject her like she wants?” Rex lets out a furious growl that I actually had to hold my head from the pain . “We are not rejecting her and she is not leaving, even if we have to mark her and make her ours forever” “No, you mutt, we will not forcefully mark her that’s not how we treat women and specially not her” “We can’t let her leave us, it’s the only way” He is not just a wolf, he is an alpha wolf and can’t always r

Alexandria POV I’m back in the damn hospital bed again, I hate hospitals with passion all it brings is bad memories. I groan as I try to get out of bed “hey, easy there you had a concussion” Dylan says as he tries to stop me. “It’s okay I’ll heal fast; I just need to get out of here… where is my bag?”I push Dylan aside and start searching for my bag but I feel a little dizzy and I lean to the wall to brace myself. “Where do you think you are going?” I hear Dean’s voice coming from the doorway. “to talk to your dipshit brother and leave” I see my bag, I take a deep breath and push myself of the wall and go grab it. I notice Sophia standing in the corner with her arms crossed and trying as hard as she can not to look at me, I guess she is upset… they must all be upset, even angry that their Luna is a fucking hunter but they can’t do anything about it because I’m still- like it or not- their alpha’s mate and I actually like these people, they have been nothing but nice to me, I ta

Alexandria POVI inhale the sandwich Sophia made for me and after I’m finished Sophia comes to me and says “So what about a tour of the house?”.“Sure” I say a little excited, I really was intrigued with how big it was and I really never stayed in a pack house before.We leave the boys in the kitchen and head to the elevator… yes, they have a freaking elevator inside their house.“Let’s start from the bottom up” Sophia says as she pushes the elevator button.We start the tour of the mansion, house my ass, this place is huge, the first floor was the kitchen, the dining hall, the arcade room, yes, they had a fucking arcade in the damn house that’s how big it is and a small movie theatre plus a huge living room and that’s just the first floor.The second floor contained of a big library, a formal dining room for when the alpha have guests, the alpha, beta, gamma and Luna offices and a conference room.The rest of the second floor was divided by a huge double door, behind which were rooms

Derek POV We get out of the pack house and head to the tree line, her scent is overwhelming me, it’s the first time in days to be that close to her. I keep stealing glances at her and I can see her blushing every time I do so, we reach the tree line and she stops me, “Are you going to shift?” she asks. “I wasn’t planning to but if you want to meet Rex, I can do that” I offer her. “No, definitely not, the last time I met him, he tried to kill me, remember” she says chuckling like it’s a fun memory; she has a very dark and kinda twisted sense of humor. Rex whimpers and I can feel his shame and hurt, shame of what he did and hurt that his mate doesn’t even want to see him. We reach the clearance by the crimson red river that runs through our pack land, hence the name of our pack “the crimson river pack”. Ria stop and look around admiring the beauty of it, we are standing so close, we are almost touching, should I hold her hands? Or will it be too forward? Maybe just brush against

Alexandria POV He closed his eyes, I waited for him to open it again, I begged and pleaded … but he did not respond. His chest is almost still and I can hardly feel his heartbeat, Am I really going to lose him? That’s not what I wanted; I just wanted to protect him … not for him to be gone. I did this to him, if he didn’t reject me he would have been able to defend himself, if I didn’t push him that far he would have been okay. I always do this, bring death… but I did it right this time, didn’t I? I pushed him away, I wasn’t selfish like I was with Luke, this time my mate was suppose to live, he is going to live. I start shaking Derek again saying “Derek, just wake up this time and I’ll do whatever you want, please just this once, open your eyes”, still no response. I hear movement coming from the trees, I snap my head around looking for the dagger I dropped and I can see it just at arm’s length, I reach for it and grab it. I stand protectively over Derek with my dagger in my h