All Chapters of Love is not for the Wolfless : Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

The bonfire crackles in the center of the pack grounds, casting dancing shadows across hundreds of expectant faces. I stand in the ceremonial circle, my thin white dress clinging to my trembling body. Tonight is supposed to be the best night of my life. My eighteenth birthday. The night every wolf in the Fang pack summons their inner beast for the first time.Instead, it feels like standing on my own funeral pyre."Begin!" Alpha Dante's voice booms across the clearing. He sits on his carved wooden throne, his gray eyes is cold as winter steel. "Show us your wolf, girl."I close my eyes and reach deep inside myself, searching for that primal presence every wolf possesses. I've felt it before, but after my parents death Cicilia refused to wake up. "Fuck Cicilia, don't joke with me" I wispher-yell inside my mind trying to reach Cicilia, but she just snore louder in my mind. "Please. Please get the hell up."But nothing that silly animal chooses to abandon me now.I dig deeper, calling

A month feels like a lifetime when you're waiting for something.I count the days. Twenty-eight of them. I mark each one on a small piece of paper I hide under my mattress. The other servants think I'm crazy when I keep looking at the sky, trying to see if the moon is getting fuller.Tonight, finally, the moon is full again.I wait until everyone is asleep. The pack house is quiet and dark. I slip out through the back door and run toward the river. My feet know the way now. Left at the dead oak. Right past the three stones. Straight until the water appears.I'm breathless when I reach the river. Both from running and from nervousness.The water is silver under the moonlight. Everything is quiet except for the sound of the river flowing. I stand at the edge, my heart hammering in my chest."Come back for me?" A voice says from across the water.I spin around. Stark steps out of the shadows on the vampire side. He's wearing the same black clothes as before. In the moonlight, his pale sk

It been three days since someone reported seeing me near the forbidden river. Three days of interrogation, torture and pain.Alpha Dante decides to handle me personally."You've been sneaking out at night," he says, circling me like a predator. We're in the punishment room. Just the two of us. No witnesses. "Where have you been going?""Nowhere, Alpha," I lie. My voice is shaking. "I just needed air.""Air?" He grabs my hair and yanks my head back. "You think I'm stupid? You think I don't have wolves watching everything?""Please, Alpha. I wasn't doing anything wrong.""You were at the forbidden river," he says. His breath smells like whiskey. "Meeting someone. Who?""No one. I was alone."His fist connects with my stomach. All the air leaves my lungs. I double over, gasping."Who were you meeting?" he roars."No one!"He hits me again. This time my face. I taste blood as the room spins in my vision."Tell me!""There's nothing to tell!"Again and again, his fists come down. My ribs.

Derek povMy hands are shaking as I run through the forest.I'm a scout, assigned to patrol the eastern border tonight. It wasn't suppose to be a big deal I Just have to walk the perimeter and report back before dawn.But then the moon turned red.And I saw them by the river, a wolf and a vampire. Fighting. They were tearing each other apart.And before the fight, they were having sex, a wolf and a vampire someone has betray us My face burns even thinking about it. I saw what they were doing. I saw the exact moment the moon turned red.I crash through the pack house doors, breathing hard."Alpha!" I shout. "Alpha Dante! Emergency!"Beta Marcus appears from the main hall. "What the hell are you screaming about, boy?""The moon," I gasp. "The moon turned red. And the river. The river is boiling."Marcus goes very still. "What did you say?""The forbidden river. It's boiling. Steam everywhere. And I saw them. I saw a wolf and a vampire. They were fighting by the water.""You're sure it