All Chapters of Balance of Light and Shadow: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

I took off running from my study, heading straight for my girl. A sense of dread and fear built up inside my chest, as if it was trying to weigh me down and stop me from reaching her. Nothing was going to stop me though. When I entered my girl's room she was thrashing in the bed softly crying no over and over again. I had to get to her as soon as I could. I climbed up the bed from the bottom and crawled to get to her. “It’s OK. It’s OK. I’m here. I’m going to keep you safe from now on”. I start stroking her hair and stroking her face. She starts to calm down and I can see her rapid breathing starting to slow and her body relax. I wonder how many times she has had this nightmare. I wonder how I can protect her from her nightmare. I start to look more closely at her and take in all the delicate features of her face. I can’t help but brush my thumb across her cheek and feel how soft her skin is. The beautiful softness of her face with light pink supple lips. I only look away when I h

Trigger warning - child abuseConrad POVThe morning after the ladies left I couldn’t settle. Jace was pacing in my mind. I wanted answers and he wanted blood. I knew where I had to go to get them.I head down to the dungeons. My Alpha aura is fully up so they know I am in no fucking mood today. We have enough cells in this facility to hold 20 high-strength wolves but currently, we only have 12. I’m walking past the cells when I hear Luna Ebony yell out.“Alpha King. You need to let me out immediately. I have done nothing wrong to be left in such deplorable conditions”.I storm up to her cell and snarl at her, “If you don’t like it here, I will personally drive you back to Blood Moon and put you in your dungeons.”All the colour drains from her face and she starts to reek of fear. Good. We look after the wolves here. Four meals a day to meet nutritional requirements, proper bedding, and plumbing. We follow the principle of innocent till proven guilty by a trial and you will be looked a

Eve POVMichelle has been teasing me all week since we returned home from the pack.“So have you texted him yet”.“No, I have not”.“Oh come on, it’s been five days. I get using the three day rule before texting so you don’t seem eager but we are past that now”.I don't reply. My silence on the topic was driving her nuts. She storms out of the room and I can hear her yelling at the other girl. “We are having a romance movie night and ordering pizza and ice cream. Be ready in 30”.I can hear a chorus of cheers from upstairs and I knew I wasn’t getting out of this.Once we got all our food and was set up in PJ’s in the living room, we try to decide on a movie. I was trying to steer them towards romcom but Michelle shut that down immediately and said it was straight romance. They settled on Pride and Prejudice which is one of Willow’s favourite. She loves movies with historical aspects to them.At the end of the movie, all three girls had glassy eyes from crying. Michelle looks over to me

Conrad POV Two days this meeting drags on and I was nearly at the end. This timeframe was decided so we all had time to think overnight and discuss policy or issues with others if we couldn’t decide about the agenda item at the time. I don’t understand it most of the time as they are very easy decisions but they want to seem important and consult with pack leaders at home. Most of the agenda items they bring are a waste of my time but they use it to show off to me. I have already spoken to Alpha Anthony about his daughter’s behavior. He got upset that I overreacted and made her cry when she was just trying to be nice. He doesn’t help the situation when he keeps telling me how sweet she is and how if I gave her a chance, I would realize that. Honestly, how many times can a guy say not happening before it becomes harassment?I have mentioned Willow and Kimberly working in the pack house as part of the regional updates and there was a lot of skepticism. I reminded them this was a trial

Conrad POVI’m getting into the helicopter and feeling the force the propellors make as they spin. The force is nothing compared to my resolve to have my mate in my arms again. Liam and I split up as I had a feeling Lewana would have sent the ladies away to protect them. This made me even more nervous as it meant she was on her own.I got a mind link from Liam confirming this and the anger started building up inside me. Jace was livid that someone would try and take our mate from us. He was riled up that as soon as we landed, I was letting him hunt them.I had already called the head officer of the human police and made them aware of the situation and to stay out of harm's way. Out of my way. They were already doing crowd control with the humans and the officers were told the suspects were dangerous and special forces were coming in.They told me there was one dead at the lady's house and two more dead further up the street. We had a direction. We f