Alpha Damien's POV I sat there, listening to my Uncle go on and on about what path would be best for our pack to take for a battle like the one we were about to be up against.The entire time I could feel the way Dahlia was battling with herself. The turmoil she was feeling, the self doubt. She is taking the blame for what is happening despite the fact that our pack has been preparing to go up against her previous one for years now.This entire thing between our packs started the day her father came here and stole my father, our Alpha, from us. Yet even though I know that she knows this, I can feel it in her emotions that she is shouldering this all on herself.I watched the way she drifted off inside her own mind as she sat across the room on that couch. The same couch I sat on with her as she succumbed to my force against her to sleep as she discovered we were mates.Even now, as I observe her, I can see the way her eyes shift. Her blinks are longer than usual because she is speak

Beta Alexi's POVMy anger towards Damien blinded me momentarily. Knowing I never should have spoken to him the way that I had just done was now weighing on my mind. Now I am searching the house for where Luna Dahlia had gone to with Alpha Heir Levi.Coming up the stairs to the second floor I hear the light whispers of my Luna before a yell tearing out from her brother's throat making me stop instantly."WHAT! HELL NO!""Shhhhh! Someone will hear you!"Dahlia whisper yelled before the door snapped shut in the room that Levi is occupying while here with us.I shook my head, snapping myself back into action as I stepped in front of the door they were both in."You can't be serious Dahl. No way in hell am I going to help you go back there. Look what he just did to our own mother, his own damn mate!""But it could save so many of these people if it works out the way I hope it will.""No! It won't. He won't even second think of killing you. You can't risk this, Alpha Damien will never let i

Dahlia's POV Even after everything, I still felt as if so much was sitting upon my shoulders.Knowing that I may not have fully caused the rift between these packs, I still feel that it escalated because of me.I know my father, maybe not as well as I had always assumed, but I do. Never had I imagined that he would take things as far as he has. Killing Levi's and my mother definitely wasn't something I ever thought would happen.However, me being here, coming here of all packs, being mated to the Alpha. That caused a whole new issue for him that he doesn't seem to be able to handle all too well.Guilt racks me as I sit on the bed I share with Damien now.He left me this morning to go help with preparations to keep the pack members as safe as possible. He also is starting to help lead training alongside Alexi, his Uncle Allister, and two of his top warriors, Deke and Ivan.It's been three days since he walked into that room to hear Alexi, Levi, and myself. Three days of him continuous

Alpha Damien's POV I can feel this odd sense of peace flowing through me as I lead my next training class with some of my warriors.Walking through as they spar with one another to make sure everyone is top notch it just seeped into me. Looking around I wondered if it was from me, as I watched how strong and capable my men are only to close my eyes and feel Dahlia.After she dropped off some food for myself and the others, I assumed she would head back to the house again to continue helping in the kitchens. That was until I saw her with a few other women from the pack with a couple little ones. She went back to them then lifted a box before following them over to the school.Now this feeling pushing through my emotions tells me that she is feeling something she was worried about. That worry she's been trying to push aside at the thought that people would blame her for our predicament with Alpha Knight. Hopefully now, without just her usual crowd of people trying to reassure her tha