Target Round Table Novels & Stories

"This game is called 'Make My Heart Race'." There are two chairs with a small round table in the middle. Each side had a paper and in front of the set up is a TV screen showing white background that is divided into two. What caught my attention was the long table where there are pies. And I'm guessing it's for punishment. The other table is a set of delicious meals and desserts which I'm guessing is the reward.

Aliyah was rudely interrupted by Priscilla "Leader of the round table, Norrignton, I hail you, this woman here is a con artist and I had been right all along; she was never worthy of being part of the round table" Priscilla looked on to everyone seated and watched as their face morphed into one of realization.

The great circular table at its center had been carved from a single ancient oak that had fallen in the forest during the first great war and its surface bore the marks of three centuries of councils, rings from goblets set down too hard, scratches from blades drawn in anger, the faint dark stain near the eastern edge that no one talked about but everyone knew the history of. Tonight the chamber was full. Every seat at the great table was occupied and the seats that lined the walls behind them were full too, advisors and seconds and wolves who had no official standing but whose presence had been requested or demanded or simply arrived at without invitation because what was being discussed to

The roundtable was smaller than Eli expected. That, more than anything else, unsettled him. No banners. No press. No performative civility. Just six people seated around an oval table in a private conference room high above the city. Old money, institutional power, and one empty chair at the far end, his. He took it without hesitation. The windows behind them showed a skyline scrubbed clean by morning light. The city looked obedient from this height. Orderly. Manageable.

Chapter 18 It was a round table discussion of only three men but there were five chairs present. The room was dinky lit as each man looked on with grave expressions on their faces. One, blonde with a tattoo crawling up his neck. Another, also blonde but his hair was longer and he had a piercing on his left lobe of his ear. The last person had brown hair which was styled with much care. He twisted the ring on his left finger as they all sat silently while there was a newspaper and a pad on the table.

I did not hesitate I went with them. No one told me to stay behind. No one told me to leave. That more than anything told me how much had already shifted. The chamber doors closed behind us, sealing with a quiet click. The room was circular, stone and wood balanced in deliberate symmetry. A map table dominated the center etched with Redwind’s borders, pack territories marked by inlaid silver lines. Lantern light flickered low casting long shadows across familiar faces now drawn tight with focus. Damon stood at the head of the table. Zeta leaned against the far wall with arms crossed. Ryan remained upright with, hands braced on the table’s edge.

Beth giggled, “Chastity, I really look forward to getting to know you better. Now that I’m Luna, I’ll be joining you, and Clair for you meetings. I know we’ll become great friends.” “I look forward to it.” Chastity responded with a smile. Eventually we moved on to let others greet Robert. We found our reserved table which was not far from Robert’s table. Tonight it would only be him, Beth, Blake, and Darren sitting at the head table. We were seated with their families. My dad, and Jeremy quickly jumped into a conversation about what Jeremy planned to do now that he was retired.

They have someone to come home to. *** The round table is a thick slab of scarred wood that doesn't so much as shake when my knife sinks an inch into the marred surface. My knife is the last to go in and means the meeting is brought to order. The men look at me, meeting my eyes, trusting that I can control Beast and be with them on equal ground.

At some point, former Alpha Bryan believed, as long as they have the mate bond, there is still a chance for them to get back to each other. After Andrea finished her speech, she went to the table where all the Alpha's gather in a round table. In a round table, there are five chairs, for the four Alpha, and one for former Alpha Bryan. Alpha was about to sit the empty chair beside Andrea when Andrea called for Alpha Franklin to sit beside her. Alpha Bryan's became dark and glare at Alpha Franklin. He felt like Alpha Franklin was trying to get Andrea from him.