All Chapters of The Hybrid's Hope: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

HopeIt was early to mid-afternoon when I finally woke up. I could hear the others rummaging outside the den and I could smell the smoke from a fire just outside. Rather than shift, I stayed in Qadira’s form so I could go outside and find a place to pee. This isn’t the kind of place that has running water.I leave Malcolm sleeping and when Qadira walks outside, Orsa is stoking the fire while Bjork and Artis clean two elk. Based on their broken necks, I’m guessing Bjorn caught them and brought them back.“Don’t go too far, girl. You’re still ovulating and there are a lot of bears in this area,” my father says as I look around.Qadira chuffs at him, before sniffing the air. It seems that they have a certain area that they use as a bathroom, so I head that way.Once I’m done, I head back, continuing to sniff the air around us. I can smell the other bears. They aren’t close, but they’re close enough to smell me and my sisters. However, I can also smell that my father has scented the area,

HopeWe spent the next two weeks with Bjorn and my sisters. While Orsa wasn’t openly hostile to me again after Levi talked to her, she wasn’t as warm as her sisters either. I definitely got a feel for what it’s like to live this primitively. While it works for them, I was ready to go when Levi and I finally said our goodbyes.“Will we see you again, girl?” my father asks as I hug him goodbye.“I’d love that. If I’m welcome …”“You’re always welcome here, girl. You’re mine, even if I didn’t know about you until now,” he said as I hugged him.After the first day of sparring, my father pushed me harder. His fighting style is so different than the wolves that I learned a lot about how to protect myself against animals that are considerably larger than I am. While he went easy on me, he was tougher with Levi. The Alpha in Levi loved every minute of it and I’m guessing Bjorn did too. Each day after the two of them were done, they both had big grins on their faces, even though their bodies we

HopeThis year with Tanya has been a lot harder than I expected. Her anxiety has gotten worse instead of better. When it’s just us, she’s fine. It’s the large crowds that she can’t handle any longer.At every concert, I have to stand where she can see me. When Levi would come to visit, he’d have to stand backstage with me. Having two of us there seemed to make her feel even more safe.I didn’t know it until we arrived in Bucharest and Matthew contacted me on the radio before the concert, that Vasile Northway came to see Tanya perform. Apparently, his family, or most likely he, is originally from Romania. And here I thought that was just part of the tales developed for Tanya’s movies, but no, vampires apparently did originate in Romania.When I told her he was here, she had Matthew invite him backstage. I guess a vampire who killed her tormentor makes Tanya feel safe. He, of course, was happy to come see the concert backstage and it was honestly one of her best performances.Afterward,

LeviWe’ve been hunting two witches, Laris Bevin and Levana. Both of them are responsible the multiple deaths, and most importantly for our purposes, they are responsible for threatening Alpha Xander’s mate, Maeve.Since we’ve never allowed witches into the pack, I don’t know a lot about them, and neither do the other wolves. However, over the past couple of months, we’ve been finding the witches who left their covens or were being hunted by the bad witches and we’ve slowly been bringing them into the Holstin Enterprises apartments. Some are single parents who only wanted to keep their children safe, some thought they were working for the good witches, only to find out they weren’t. All of their lives were threatened if they left the coven, but they did it anyway.I had really hoped to be home when Hope got back, but Maeve found the witches' coven and a large group consisting of wolves and witches, went to attack them.The problem was, when we arrived, we realized that it’s not just a

Hope“What do you think of Araphyra so far?” Lily asks as we walk.“It’s stunning.”“It is. I feel so lucky to have been mated to Aolis. You know, I made some mistakes in the beginning of our mate bond by not accepting him as my mate. Did you know that?” she asks.I can’t help but wonder if this isn’t more Guardian intuition. Of course, she knows that this is Levi’s child, so maybe it’s an easy guess for her to make.“No, I didn’t know that.”“I was … arrogant, I guess. I took the mate bond for granted. I nearly lost him and it would have destroyed me. The Moon Goddess doesn’t make mistakes, Hope. We do, being the arrogant shifters that we are, thinking we know what’s best for ourselves. But in the end, she is always right. Those who go against her tend to suffer in this life for their arrogance. I’m glad I figured out my own arrogance before it was too late,” she says, before opening a door to a medical center.She doesn’t say anymore after that, but her point is made. She’s saying I’