All Chapters of Celestial Bodies: of Runts and Lycans: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Celeste's POVThere was a cold chill in the air the next day. It swirled the loose snow from the ground back up in small waves, as if the snow was falling upwards from the ground. The pack grounds was beautiful this time of year. I thought the fall was gorgeous, the surrounding woods various shades of red and orange. I thought 'when the winter comes, everything will be dead and sad.' Yet, somehow, the pack seemed more alive than ever in the oncoming winter. More and more lights were strung up every day. The pups were making snow angels and throwing snow balls at one another. 'Do you remember when we used to fear the snow?' I reached to Ancillary. She has become more and more quiet these days. Part of me knows it's because I'm not alone. Part of me misses my oldest friend.'The snow is scary when you know it'll freeze you to the bone,' she replies blandly. 'Go join them.' I pause. Join them? 'You know you want to,' she encourages.'My arm,' I argue.'Use your other arm.' I can practica

Xavier had woken up that morning in a great mood. Several times over the night before he had brought his mate to a point of bliss and nothing brought him more satisfaction than that. She stayed in his arms, skin to skin, all through the night. No nightmare haunted either of them. Just bliss and love. He had woken her with a shower of kisses, focusing mostly on her mark that he had grown deeply fixated to. Celeste would often trace his at night, likely equally infatuated with the swirling pattern of stars.He had requested that breakfast be brought up to their room that morning, not wanting to share her with anyone else. He fed her berries and listened to her ramble about her plans for the day. She was going to have lunch with his sister and then she and Lycer had plans to hang out after. She was deeply in love, like everyone else in their little family, with baby Wesley. She wanted her own, she had decided. The decision brought a warmth to his chest. He suggested they get started righ

They met just outside the packhouse and went in together. There was still several rogues wandering the property but no pack members except for warriors wandered around. Xavier could feel the losses deep within him. Links broken from the deceased. He counted twenty links no longer there, the thought weighing heavily. Shia, Zay, and several other healers also wandered the ground, attending to those they could. When they came into the packhouse, a near thirty injured were gathered in the living room and kitchen, their injuries being seen to by healers stationed there. Xavier didn't have the time or heart to give them any words of advice. He had to find Celeste."Malum wouldn't have taken her far, she is not his goal." Lycer's words weighed heavily in Xavier's office. Josh slipped in quietly."What do we know?" He immediately went to the drawing drawer, pulling out a map of the pack and the surrounding lands and laying it across Xavier's desk."She was taken from Lesa's house off the town

A scream tore through the lips of the magi, watching as a rogue clamped it's yellow canines down into the jugular of her beloved. Her mind not catching up with her actions, she was barely aware of her hand raising and a beam of energy shooting out from her palm, striking the rogue in the face. It flopped back and she knew it was dead.Barrier abandoned and retreating, she ran to her beloved, skitting to her knees in the red snow that surrounded the healer. "Zay - Zay," she sniffled, tears brimming to her eyes as she pressed her hands over the gaping wound on the young woman's neck. Zay made a discomforting choking sound, blood spilling out of her mouth. Her eyes were wider than Shia had ever seen them. "I can - I can fix this."Memories flash behind her eyelids with every blink. A young man is on the ground, a man whom she loves. He stares up at her, terrified of what's tocome. His head was split open and blood oozed out, warm beneath him on that hot summer day. Years and years ago a

The pack was abuzz with excitement.Still in their hearts is the feeling of mourning; the loss of 23 pack members still fresh in their memory. The funeral pyres burned and the weeks gone by, it was time to begin to move on. And everyone was in agreement, the best way to do that was to start a new beginning.Celeste brushed through her hair, putting in several sparkly clips she knew would fall out when she shifted later. Xavier leaned against the door frame of the bathroom, watching her with adoration filling his eyes. "Are you ready?"She turned to face him in the mirror. "Almost."He hummed, stepping into the bathroom and taking the brush from her and running it gently through the back of her hair, as had become their little tradition.Zay had thrown herself into her work these past few weeks and was ready to do surgery on her shoulder in two weeks time, without Shia's help. She was still holding her frustration against her mate yet still slept in her arms at night, uncertain of their