Maddox’s POV I spent the night in wolf form next to an irate Alpha Hudson. Every sound Xavier was on point. I am not sure he slept much at all. He was extremely restless. Something was bothering him, but when I asked him, he didn’t seem to know. In the morning, Parker walked into the valley with a breakfast for Alpha Hudson and me. He slipped one into the cage and headed in my direction, which was when Xavier gave me back control of our body. I put some shorts on while I was eating. “How was your evening?” I asked my brother. “Informative,” he says, looking around us. “I spent the evening being entertained by the Beta’s oldest daughter, Ella Thorne. She was a bundle of energy and liked to chat.” He looked around the valley and nodded towards one warrior walking around. I nodded, acknowledging what he meant. He wants to have a private conversation, where no one can hear what he is about to say. “According to Ella, her dad has been Beta here for nearly 18 years. He only came

Caren’s Pov I have been staring at that stupid tracking app for hours. It was getting beyond a joke. I am literally tapping out a text to Maddox when Parker comes bursting through the door. “Lottie needs you. NOW” he practically screams at me while grabbing my wrist and dragging me out of the house towards his SUV. If Lottie needs me, he doesn’t need to drag me. I would go at any pace. Deana asks who Lottie is. I gave her a brief summary of who my twin sister is. Deana doesn’t quite understand the dynamics of our sisterhood and I am not in the right mindset to explain it to her. I told her I would explain it all to her later, but right now, what she needs to do right now is to trust me. What I also know right now is that if Lottie needs me this desperately, there is a situation only my witch powers can deal with. But I haven’t used them since Deana arrived and I don’t know how strong they are. I pray to Hecate that I still have enough witch left in me to handle whateve

Lottie’s POV’s I am so mad, mad at how we have been treated. Fuming at what those arseholes did to my mom and seething now that I have processed everything that has happened and now the fucking Alpha of that pack wants to get near her again. He must be having a bloody laugh! Let him be near her? What so he can finish the job? I do not think so. I stood in front of him. I am not intimidated or afraid of him. I calm told him the truth when I told him I did not regret killing his men, they both deserved it. In fact, they deserved much worse in my opinion, but seeing as they are now dead, I can’t inflict anymore pain on them. Then he started smiling at me. My anger level just ramps up a few notches. I have never been this mad in my life. Is he smiling because of what they did to my mom? “Who the fuck are you smiling at?” I said, challenging him. When he tells me to watch my tongue, my head nearly exploded. I couldn’t actually speak for a few seconds. I grit my teeth and pucker my

Lottie’s POV What a day, I think to myself. Not only did my sister fly off to who knows where? But I met a girl in blue, got myself kidnapped, watched my mom nearly be beaten to death, killed two men and discovered I had a real father. Now I find out my sister has an elemental gift and to top it all off, it’s still her birthday. “Crap,” I say out loud. suddenly realizing it is still my sister's birthday, her 18th birthday, and we have not done anything to help her celebrate it. I grabbed her and started jumping around like a lunatic singing happy birthday to her. She just laughs at me. “You have no idea what happened to me, Lottie,” she tells me with a smile on her face. “You have no idea what happened to me either.” I respond with a sad face. But right now, I am just happy I have my family home, where we are all safe. “Let’s go and have a catch-up sis.” I told my older sister. “Then we need to celebrate the birth of this beauty” she says, laughing and pointing at herself.

Millie’s POV “Come on Hudson, let’s talk inside,” I told the Alpha. I believe we need to talk. I also think Caren wants to show off her gifts without her overprotective mother watching. There's nothing I can do about it. Her safety will always be my concern. I also think that if Maddox were Lottie’s mate, then I am sure she would not want her parents to see what they get up to. I don’t even want to think of my baby girl mating with anyone and I can’t imagine how Alpha Hudson is feeling. I get us both a drink of water and look at him and am sure he has questions for me. “What happened?” he asks me. I showed him the picture of Aidan and Veronica, which appears to have pride of place on the fireplace now. I told him how they were from the same pack and about the day I met Veronica. He is angry, in fact he is furious. I can hear his teeth grinding and see his grip on the glass tighten. “Why didn’t you bring her body home? Bring my daughter home?” I looked him stra