Carmen's POV Things have been really tense since Arienne's meeting with The Council. Literally everyone has to do physical training now, and it's getting really exhausting. It's every single morning. Even on weekends. And it's at five in the morning! I feel like I can never get enough sleep, and I am so not a morning person. At least they've been pairing me up with Leona for the training excersizes, so we can chat while we train. I'm surprised to see that Kat isn't required to attend, but I guess that should've been expected. She's not technically a pack member, and Arienne's made no efforts to fix things with her either. Having another pack on our territory is also weird. A lot of the Moonstone warriors are staying in Ashland, but all of the higher ranking members get to stay on the second floor of the pack house. They're literally everywhere, and it makes me a little uncomfortable. I've run into Alpha Elliot a few times, and he seems pretty nice despite what Arienne has said abo

Amikat's POV "You're a beautiful girl, Amikat," he states. He crooks his head forward and buries his nose in the knape of my neck. "What's this?" He pulls my hair away from my shoulder, revealing the mark that Alpha Arienne had given me the night before. It's mostly healed now, leaving a silverish-blue circle with a star in the middle, kind of like a pentagram, but he star is filled in in the middle. It's honestly bealutiful. I reach up and try to cover it with my hand, but the vampire catches my wrist and pins my hand against the wall. He squeezes tightly, cutting off the circulation to my fingers, leaving a tingling sensation. "You let him mark you already?" he whisper-yells. "How dare you? I wanted you all for myself, and that bastard has to go ruining things for me!" "What do you mean you want me?" I ask. I know the answer already, but that doesn't make me like it any more. "Like I said, you are beautiful, and you are way too innocent... I'd love to be the one to make you scre

Arienne's POVI've instructed everyone not to tell Kat about Blood Moon's trade offer. I fear that she might want to do something rash, and I don't want her trying anything before I have time to come up with a solid plan. I went to see Delila today, but Leona had met me at the door stating that Delila was in no shape for visitors at the moment. I really just want a chance to sit down and talk to her about what happened. I'm hurt by it too; Collin was a very good friend of mine, all the way back as far as childhood, and I know what it's like to go through what she's currently experiencing. But if she refuses, I'm not going to force her. She needs to be ready for things at her own pace. My phone lights up with a text, and I'm surprised to see Alpha Elliot's name. Meet me by the lake, I have some news.That can't be good. Though I don't know what he knows that I haven't already come across. I decide to head down with my guard up; I still don't trust him fully. He's been extra warm wit

Carmen's POVLeona brought me to the hospital wing upon my arrival back at the back house, and they've been working on getting the wolfsbane out of my system. Since I can't mind-link again yet, Leona's been giving me updates from the battle happening at Blood Moon. There's both vampires and werewolves fighting, and it seems that we're doing pretty well. Still, I wish I could do more to help. I can't shift yet, and neither can Leona, so even if I didn't have all this wolfsbane in my system, there's still very little I could even do. My birthday is coming up in about a month from now though, and I'm super pumped. "Arienne just finished off Alpha Connor!" Leona says. "We've won!""What about the vampires?" I ask. "It seems they're retreating. They'll be coming home any time here now."I waited for what seemed like forever, confined to this small hospital room with an IV bag attached to my forearm. The doctors said that everything was looking good, and that no irreparable damage had bee

Amikat's POV I wake up from my nap startled and dripping with sweat. I had a weird dream, but I can't seem to figure out what it was about. As I look around, my room is covered in a thick blanket of darkness, as I had slept through the sunsetting. As my eyes dart around the room, I swear I catch a glimpse of a figure stadning in the far corner of the room. When I whip my head back around to the spot, it weems nothing was really there. Still though, I thought I saw someone. They looked familiar too. I noted a head of blonde hair, but nothing beyond that, as the darkness was cloaking everything in a thick disguise. It's weird that the sun has set, and Arienne still hasn't come to find me. I wander out of my bed and out the door into the hallway to investigate. I turn the corner swiftly and run into somethng hard. I back myself up and find myself staring Elliot in the face. "Sorry about that, didn't see you there," he smiles. "It's fine," I say. I try to maneuver around him, but he g