Happy Birthday to You...Happy birthday happy birthday.. happy birthday to you..."As all her classmates from high school and warriors sang on top of their voices, Crystal felt her heart beating peacefully. She was lucky to have found Ace and even luckier to have him as her mate. She felt proud of what he had done with his pack. This pack was like the family that she had when she was young. These people, this atmosphere, this security she hoped that she would be able to give that to her pack. The cake was passed and served, and as in all parties, the warriors were only interested in meat and drinks. Shrugging, Crystal made her way to sit with Kai and Beta Mateo. They were the only ones who were comfortable with her from what she understood. Maybe she'd grab a piece of cake for each of them to sweeten the deal when she questioned them about their Alpha. His mate had actually not shown up for the party and she had a feeling that during the next few days he was going to be AWOL. In the

While Ace and Crystal worked hard to be prepared to face the outcomes of the upcoming war, another man was preparing just as meticulously. At the moment, shrouded in darkness, a man sat in the small room of a brothel. The overpowering smell of s*x and sin seemed to intoxicate the newcomers whose sense of smell was sharper than the other human visitors. "Monsieur, the girl is nowhere to be found. From the rogues that were killed, we have been able to discover her trail to the Appleby Mountains. But after that, it is lost." The rogue tried to look at the man's face, curious to know who this was and why he was willing to pay much for a young girl's information. Looking around at the kind of place they were in, then thought that he just be interested in little girls so he offered, "Monsieur we have many young nubile beauties here if you would be interested. They are well trained in the art of pleasure. We have a few virgins as well..." The man simply waved his fingers at that and two

With a war cry like the Indians, Crystal pulled her blade from the holster and raced towards the wolf who was about to attack Nate from behind. Where was the rest of the pack? Kai and Mateo and the others? But she did not have the time to think as the wolf heard her cry and turned to her. But in the next moment, the rogue disregarded her as a threat and swiped a paw at Nate, catching the man at the back of his shoulders. Why had Nate not turned into a Wolf yet? Where was Nain? Had he been injected with silver?Another rogue attacked the man and Nate pushed him off as he crumpled to the ground. At this moment, instead of the war cry that would have escaped her, a loud fierce howl cut through the night. The fury inside the sound shook everyone and as they watched a pure white wolf emerged from the trees. The Wolf's eyes blazed red and they were focused on the two wolves who had attacked her future beta. Erin looked at the rogues carefully. They were now quivering in their paws, their h

"I fail to see why we are here discussing a single pack which has yet to even cause problems. Would you three Alphas like me to get you some collars if you are so scared of a girl who you don't even know? Well, you all need to wake up and look around. Councilman Holding and Alpha Blake, I have a feeling that this meeting has been called not for any greater good of the wolves but for your own personal agendas. Bring me a solid threat and I will be happy to annihilate everyone. The silence that followed this announcement made it clear to Holding, that it was not easy to fool Ace as he had done to Blake and Alpha Keith. Dam* it! The Moonhunter pack was known to be bloodthirsty! It should have been easy to convince Ace! It was why he had directly summoned Ace instead of going to his pack for 'talks'. But now, there was an additional threat as Ace would not take kindly to people who did not agree with him. This Alpha was known to be unreasonable in such matters. As Holding realized that

Nate stared at Crystal with a look of horror before his brain finally kicked in and he spoke carefully," Crystal, this is not a matter of a joke. In fact, this is the worst prank you can pull." "And yet, I am not pulling a prank. I am perfectly serious." "Well, how can you be perfectly serious? Do you want to kill your biggest ally? We are barely starting out with any support from the others and facing a war even before you rise to the powerful position of the Luna and you want to get rid of the most powerful supporter? The one who, by the way, is doing his best to not take over everything and stand behind you when it is against the very nature of what he is! You want me to prove my loyalty to my new pack to be and my new Luna by betraying my present pack? Luna Crystal Snowheart, a word of advice, if I can commit treason once I can commit it twice." "Uh-huh. Well, we'll see that when the time comes. For now, you got to decide, handsome." "Well, what is there to decide? My Alpha wan