All Chapters of Trios: Beginning: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Three years later:I want to say that these have been three happy years. There have definitely been some happy moments—introducing Lauren to my parents, introducing her to the pack as the Gamma female, seeing her joy in her job working with newly shifted wolves. Anniversaries. Birthdays. Dates.But there have been difficult times, too. The connection with Carl never fully disappeared. It diminished after our rejection—probably because he and I had rejected each other, and he had rejected Lauren. But it never fully went away.Carl went out of his way to avoid us. Early morning training, trips to other packs, showing up to meetings right on time and leaving immediately after to avoid small talk. He tried to pretend we weren’t even there.Everyone noticed. Most assumed Carl didn’t like Lauren since he stopped talking to me completely after she arrived. Clara and Jared, especially, were upset and tried everything to bring us together. They didn’t know how hard it was for all of us to be in

21 years later… “How much was passed down from generation to generation of leadership about Selene’s mates? I know that Charlie, Zak, Xander, and Devin did not know of this, but once an entirely new leadership is inducted, what is told to them?” Oracle Lucille asks. Zak asked for a meeting with all of the old and the new leadership, along with Oracle Lucille and her oracle-in-training. I had assumed to talk about what would likely happen in a war with Blue Crescent, but this conversation isn’t starting off in the way I would have assumed if that was the case. Jared looks at all of us, confused. “You mean the lore about her mating not only Pan, but a human? I mean, we were told the story, but…it’s just a tale. It’s not real.” The Oracle just stares at him, as if he is a stupid child who was given the answer, but is too dimwitted to see what was right in front of him. “It can’t be real,” Lauren says. “That would mean that mate trios are…” Her thought fades into vapor, but she

I follow my mates up the stairs, unable to keep my hands off Carl. He chuckles and looks back at me as I run my hands along his ass and over the planes of his back, following closely behind him. Lauren glances back to see what’s going on, joy plain on her face.She races ahead to the bed, and I can’t help but wrap Carl up in my arms, kissing him in the doorway. He moans loudly, pushing me into the doorjamb, his hands gliding over my body, grabbing my ass, and pulling me against him.Our kiss is hot, intense, mind-blowing. I fist my hand in his hair to keep his lips on mine, the other rolling and pinching his nipple. One of his hands moves between us, cupping my balls and rolling them in his palm before sliding up to stroke my already aching cock. I groan against his mouth before he pulls away, kissing down my neck, right where his matemark will go. His tongue flicks over my skin, massaging the space just below Lauren’s mark.Goddess, this is the sweetest torture.I feel his fangs graze

“Where are the files that I told you to get together on the Obsidian Pack? Why are you so incompetent? How do you think you’ll be able to lead this pack if you can’t even follow simple directions?” my father, our alpha, growls at me.My jaw tightens, but I don’t say a word. Instead, I walk to the desk and pick up the large file from his file sorter—the exact place where he tells me to put his files every single time. It’s sitting right beside his computer monitor, exactly where it was when he walked in from lunch. I had also sent a digital copy to his email and uploaded it to his laptop, so he wouldn’t even need to carry the bulky folder with him. But pointing that out would be worse than useless.He doesn’t actually want the file. He wants an excuse to belittle me.I hold the file out to him, keeping my face impassive.He snatches it carelessly, his grip weak, and the pages immediately scatter across the floor.“You fucking idiot!” he roars. “Look what you’ve done. I need that for our

Two Days Later…I wake up to the sound of my alarm at 5 a.m. It’s my usual wake-up time to make sure I can get some training in before my father wakes up at 7. Typically, he has some inane request for me to complete before breakfast, and then we get to the office at 9. I like to start my day on a good note—before that asshole tries his best to ruin it.I usually meet Rin and Damien at the gym. Occasionally, we’ll see Severn when he isn’t away from the pack. He’ll greet us, then go off on his own. He doesn’t interact much with us, which makes me wonder how we’ll all work together when the time comes. He doesn’t even talk much to Damien, and they’ve already taken over their positions in our pack.Rin hasn’t been at the gym the past two days—first because of her birthday, then because of the start of her trials. Today is her second day. I wonder if I’ll get to see her.We haven’t been able to talk alone since that morning, and all I can think about is finishing what we started in her bedr