CLAYTON'S POV“Do I even have to ask?” I sighed.“I told Titus to assign them rooms. What the hell is going on with you?” he questioned.“Beast marked someone that night at the club,” I told him.“You have a mate?” he asked wide-eyed.“That’s what Beast and I keep fighting about. I don’t think she’s my mate, but he’s sure she is,” I explained.“Well, our wolves are rarely wrong about these things,” he pointed out.“Now there’s someone with common sense!” Beast chipped in.“Why didn’t the whole thing with our eyes happen when I saw her?” I asked Brantley, choosing to ignore my stupid wolf.“Well, I’m not sure. What about the other signs? Were they there?” he asked.“Well, yes, but I still don’t trust it. For all I know, she could be using witchcraft. She could be Simoa’s agent!” I pointed out.“MY MATE IS NOT EVIL!” Beast growled so loudly, I had to clutch my head.Brantley raised an eyebrow, visibly unimpressed. “Just because you didn’t connect with her with your eyes, she’s suddenly

CLAYTON'S POV“Well?” Bentley snapped. I expected her to be like this.“You guys remember my sixteenth birthday right?” I asked them.“You mean the last day we saw the both of you?” Bennett added sarcastically.“Guys, I’m going to need you to not be snappy or sarcastic. My wolf isn’t a very patient one,” I warned. They all nodded and I continued.“Well, as you know, I didn’t shift that day. When the party was over and everyone was asleep, my parents banished me from the castle and told me to leave. They disowned me and called me a mistake to them. Brantley heard the whole thing and he came with me. We were chased off the land by the Royal Warrior Lycans. We wanted to come back for you guys, but we couldn’t – at least not without getting ourselves killed. We left for Metropolis, and for the first year, we were homeless. I still hadn’t shifted. In fact, I didn’t shift until I was twenty one. Anyway, back to the story. It took a year for Brantley and I to decide that we were going to go

AZALEA’S POVSomething was holding me down, but it wasn’t an uncomfortable feeling. If anything, I welcomed it since it was combined with the warmth I was feeling and the tantalizing scent dancing around my nose. It smelled like chocolate, spicy musk and pine. It’s a strange combination that worked for me.I opened my eyes to find the light from outside shining across my new room. It was honestly beautiful, but my mind was taken away from its beauty when I noticed the two arms wrapped around me, and the torso that I was apparently hooked around. With my height, I couldn’t even look up without straining my neck.How romantic.I shifted back and up a little while managing to not wake the person up. I couldn’t stop the gasp that escaped my lips, which he thankfully hadn’t heard as he slept away. The person whose embrace I was in was none other than the Alpha himself.Clayton...I’d dreamt about him. I’d dreamt about him doing things to me that I didn’t know my innocent mind could conjure

CLAYTON’S POVI heard the birds chirping outside and I was drowned by a sweet scent. I opened my eyes to find myself in an unfamiliar room, until the scent registered in my mind. I was in Azalea’s room, and she was nowhere in sight. I tried to listen out for her, but I heard nothing.That’s strange.It actually bothered me that she left before I woke up, and yet I was also thankful she saved us the awkward encounter. That’s probably what her intention was when she left. I got up and headed to my room unnoticed. I could hear the different people in the house getting up.I headed to my bathroom and got ready for the day, dressing in simple jeans, a t-shirt and sneakers. By the time I headed downstairs, I could hear Ariel singing as she made everyone breakfast. I don’t know why she’s always felt the need to do that. None of us actually force her to, but she insists it brings her joy and ‘gives her something to do’.“Good morning Alpha,” she smiled as soon as I walked into the kitchen. Sh

HUGH'S POV“You could die,” I pointed out.Pixie smiled. “I have a feeling we won’t.”“The moment they glow when you’re near them, you come back out,” Edgar warned them. I guess he was curious about their confidence.“Got it!” they nodded.Instead of sending them both in at the same time, we sent Cyrus in first. Once more, the movement around the room had stopped as we all watched him approach the devices. They didn’t glow, so Edgar opened the individual holding boxes.Cyrus did the same thing that Shay did by testing out all the devices. He even had the same reaction she had to the last one, dropping it on the ground, and then looking at it like it was showing him some information. By now, Edgar and I were itching to find out what it told him. He picked it up, put it back and returned to us.“What did it say?” I asked him.“It doesn’t know my name or my origin. It knows my age, height, hair colour, eye colour, who my parents are and that I have no siblings. According to the blood cat