Ramos woke up at 8 PM. He felt somewhat rested but also that he could sleep for two more hours. He got up and took another shower. Juniper ordered coffee from room service and by the time Ramos came out of the shower, his coffee had just arrived.“Are you sure I shouldn’t go with you?” Juniper asked him.“You’ll just get in my way and then I’ll have to worry about you the whole time,” Ramos replied.Secretly she was relieved. She didn’t want to be anywhere near Seward when Ramos killed Malachi. She truly hoped that he wouldn’t get caught and she wanted him to succeed very badly. She was tired of moving, tired of this cold place, and tired of having to scheme and plot to survive.Their last job had been pure genius, which was why they’d also moved to Alaska so suddenly. They would never be able to go back to Washington. Ramos had worked security for a big art gallery, and he had scoped the place out for six months before they robbed it. Ramos had sold the painting to a fence he was fri

Adara and I drove down past the forest and I phoned James on the way.“Are you two up?” I asked when he finally answered.“Barely, Kiran, I barely survived,” James said and I could hear Shoran in the background threatening him. I smiled as I thought back to my own experiences just a few hours ago.“Well, get dressed. We’re picking you up in a few minutes,” I said and ended the call. We stopped in front of their house, and James and Shoran came outside, hand in hand, both smiling. Adara moved to the back and James got in next to me.“So, you two finally got laid,” James said and I laughed. I should have known Karani would be on the phone with Stephanie as soon as we left the house. Adara didn’t think we were funny at all.“Does everyone know?” she asked and Shoran told her how they knew. I had been right and of course everyone could hear the conversation, not because they listened in, but because Karani and Stephanie always spoke on speaker phone.“So, was I right, or was I right?” Sho

Six months laterI looked in the mirror and smiled. My heart started beating a bit faster as I decided the tuxedo was just right. Today was the day! A day filled with love and laughter, friends, family, and the promise of forever. My speech wasn’t written but I decided to wing it, from the heart of course. I went downstairs to find Karani ordering the caterers around.“You look so handsome! Have I told you lately how proud I am of you?” Karani said as she looked at me, smiling as I stood at the bottom of the stairs.There were little bouquets of forget-me-not flowers cradled by baby’s breath. Karani had selected the flowers carefully and she placed yellow Showy Lady’s Slippers strategically on the tables. The tables were covered with white tablecloths.In the corner of the dining room area, the caterers had set up their bay marines and the smells were mouth-watering. I suddenly felt very nervous as Richard Gardner entered the dining room with Malachi, they were shaking hands and smili

I looked at the wolf and instinct took over. I pushed James aside and lunged through the window, shifting as I did so. My clothes tore from my body and fell to the floor. The wolf was running. I didn’t care about the cuts on my body from the broken glass. I didn’t care about anything else at that moment, I just needed to kill him.The wolf stopped in the middle of the clearing and his stench bothered my nostrils. We circled each other and I spotted five other wolves emerging from between the trees. I was outnumbered. He had lured me here and he had won this round. I could not take on six wolves.Then I heard them in my head, they were close. Malachi, Garrick, and James; they had followed me without question. We all stood there in the clearing, growling at each other. We could not communicate with them and I wondered now about my decision to just blindly run after him. It didn’t matter much, what was done, was done. I would face him if I had to and they all knew I wanted to kill Ramos.

Adara smiled as she held her new passport in her hands. She had legally changed her surname back to Jameson. She had eventually found her papers that Juniper had left in the attic. The owner of the house had contacted Adara to come and clear out Juniper and Ramos’s furniture as he had not heard from them in six months.We had planned a trip to Northern Ireland, where Peter Gillian resided. Peter Gillian is the Alpha of Adara’s birth pack. Malachi had said that even though she had been inducted into our pack it was still the right thing to do to inform them of our impending marriage and only right to do so in person.I think he also wanted to give Adara the chance to see her native country, get to know Peter who knew her parents well. Adara had barely slept the last two weeks, ever since Malachi had told her we were going to Ireland. She had wondered when he had asked her about her passport.“What do I pack?” she asked me excitedly.“Something of everything Adara. Remember it’s not as