King was walking toward his mate’s house on the outskirts of town, close to the forest. His wolf was going wild inside of him at the opportunity to finally be close to her and so was he, but he was also incredibly anxious as well.He found her just outside where she was taking in firewood to the little hut where she stayed. The hut was considered to be her own space. As he watched her from behind the bushes where he hid, he could see that she did not look happy. Just like at the ceremony, she looked like she would rather be far away.King could feel the restlessness of his wolf as he struggled to reach out to her. His wolf mourned on the inside.‘PROTECT HER. COMFORT HER,’ Rader was screaming, making King grimace.‘Shut up! I thought we agreed that we were going to take things slow?’ he queried his wolf. king shut his eyes and tried to contain his wolf despite Rader’s obvious angst.Just as he was trying to get his wolf to relax, Rowan stepped on a twig. He grimaced and his eyes close

Now, he watched as she ran away from him after looking at him with so much hurt he had felt weak at the knees. And yet he’d still been unable to defend her.‘GO AFTER HER. GO AFTER HER,’ Rader screamed at him with so much panic in his voice. King could hear the pain from the hurt they were causing their mate, yet he was glued to the chair he sat on, unable to do anything.He knew he could not very well go after her after he’d only just rejected her in front of his people and had stayed silent as they’d laughed at her and called her a liar. His hands had bunched into fists as her adoptive sister had dragged her away from the bar and pushed her down, but still he had done nothing, even as his wolf raged and threatened to hurt them all.King could feel pain in his chest. He knew that he had betrayed Emilia and he wanted to go after her, but now was not the best time. He would go after her when there was no one watching, when they could talk without his pack members finding out that he wa

But instead of calming down, her visions had somehow managed to get worse even though she was here now. In the short time that she’d been in bed, she had managed to see the vision five times already.Whenever she was about to fall asleep, the vision would return, jolting her awake until she lay gasping and grumbling. She tried to go back to sleep, but soon so much time had passed that it became clear to her that she would not be able to find any rest, not until she actually did what she’d been dragged here to do.With not even a wink of sleep.She looked out the window and realized that it was already sundown. Emilia knew that if she didn’t do something about this then this would be her reality all through the night, so with deep weariness she got up from the bed, looking back at it longingly.She would get drunk and pass out. She let out a humorless laugh at her predicament. It was so crazy that her only options were either to become an alcoholic or to help the pack, neither of which

Kay had not helped Emilia in a particular way. She couldn’t, since they had different powers.Instead, she had given Juniper tips on what to do. She’d been the one to tell Emilia that if you didn’t do what your power wanted you to do, or only did it halfway, your power would work against you until you did.She had taught Emilia that the only way to get rid of it was to be out of it, either through alcohol or drugs. When she was in that state, it diminished her power. That was Kay’s life constantly drunk or high.She had also taught Emilia a few fun spells for her protection, but after that Kay had vanished.Emilia had tried to look for her as she began to fix her life, but the witch had disappeared. Emilia knew that she would never find her so she had given up.Soon the waitress returned to the booth and this time she had brought a jug filled nearly to the brim with beer. She filled their pitchers and left the jug in the middle of the table while they continued to drink.“Well, you wil

“No, we’re all good. I don’t need to go back there. Besides, if there is anything that they want to say, we can always talk about it in another meeting,” he said, looking back at her. “Let me drop you off, that way we can discuss what to do and how to look for whatever it is that’s causing this trouble.”“Fine,” she said as she turned around to face the door.King was relieved that she had agreed. Given how much she had argued with him, he’d thought that she would fight him on it and likely choose to leave without him.King had no intentions of talking about pack safety. There would be time for that later. For now, all he wanted was to have her close to him for as long as he could manage.He led her outside to his car where his driver was waiting for him, and asked him to take them to the Moonwood Inn.Emilia sat beside him, looking out the window; she observed the environment while he observed her. There truly was so much difference between how she’d looked before and the way that sh