July 16“What do you mean? What does he want you to do?” The elderly woman asked, closing the door behind her and taking a seat on the bed beside me.‘We’re beyond keeping secrets now, tell her, tell her everything. We need help.’ My wolf urged and I let out the deepest of sighs, dropping the lace onto the bed beside me and turned saddened eyes to the woman that had raised me.“The visiting Alpha, Alpha Williams. He’s my fated mate.” I stated, and watched as her jaw dropped, opened and closed before finally snapping shut. Under any other circumstance, I would have laughed aloud. Mrs H always had something to say, she was demure and conducted herself with proper decorum, she was never speechless.“I found out the night he arrived. Alpha Westley gave me Grace and Tara to the visitors, to use as they saw fit, but none of them touched us. I showed him to a room and he spent an hour asking me questions. Then when I was out in the gardens with Kyle and he requested my presence. My side was
July 16“What is it?” The deep voice asked, echoing around the hall and I hesitated, regretting instantly not having a plan. Words failed me as I glanced back along the corridor towards the main house where I knew the Alpha would be before turning to see Alpha Williams glancing back at the occupants of his room.The beta and Gamma stood inside the open door, partially obscured by the Alphas wide frame, but there was no mistaking their curious gazes. Of course, they were curious, I had broken all manner of social etiquette by turning up here unannounced an uninvited, and me, a slave to another pack who was fated to become their Luna.My nerves got the better of me and I felt myself tremble as I pulled my eyes back to the Alpha while he watched me with a calculating expression.“Leave us.” He demanded and I swallowed hard, taking a step back into the hallway as horror raced through me. He wasn’t even going to hear me out. I squeezed my eyes shut as that sank in, the man who singularly h
July 16The tension in the room was palpable, with each second my nerves increased. I was out of my depth here. I had no idea what this man expected of me. No idea what was acceptable and what wasn’t. He seemed to get angry at the slightest provocation, but the things I thought would stir that anger often didn’t.“Greyson and Anders will scout the house, try to find out what’s going on. For now, we just need to stay put.” The Alpha informed taking a seat on the edge of the bed and watching me with curios eyes. Eyes that saw entirely too much. It was terrifying.“Are you okay?” He asked and I gasped in a lungful of air before nodding with jerky movements. “You’re safe here Amara.” The dark-haired man stated with a frown and I considered that.I don’t think I would truly feel safe anywhere anymore. Alpha Westley would always be a threat, a guiding force in the back of my mind that had me questioning everything. His way of life was the only one I knew and speaking casually with an Alpha
July 17“We have to go. Now!” The words still echoed through my head, and I replayed the conversation in my head like a bad movie.“What’s going on?”“Alpha Westley is working with other packs, there’s an attack planned on Silver lake.”“When?” The single word from Able’s lips was strained and I worried for a moment that his wolf was about to take over once again.“He was on the phone with Alpha Greening, from Black rock. It sounded like they were setting out tonight. Black rock is only half a days travel from home.”“Who else is involved?”“Don’t know, he didn’t say specifically, just said that ‘the others’ would join them as soon as possible. He also has a contingent from Red mist already on route.”“Shit!”What followed were lots of hurried directions, phone calls and plans, and the entire time I sat in a trance, not really comprehending what was happening. I mean how could I. My life had gone from being simple, where on any given day I followed directions and didn’t need to worry
July 18The rest of the drive to Silver lake was long, with only a couple of short stops for food and to change drivers we spent the hours sleeping, taking in the scenery and in whispered conversations.Able spent the entire journey by my side, much to my confusion but Anders and Greyson said they didn’t mind driving, and they were happy to give us some quiet time together, the assumption being that it would be all hands-on deck and a new kind of mayhem once we arrived.I learnt a lot about my mate during the hours we spent together, some things he spoke about, some I observed, but the thing that really stuck with me was the relationship he had with the other two guys.I had witnessed more than one conversation between Alpha Westley and his Beta, and it was always one sided and unpleasant to hear. The Alpha cared about nothing but power and wealth and his own notoriety, and it showed. He was rude, demanding and condescending to everyone around him, even his second in command.Able on
July 18Anders led the way inside the pack house, through the double front doors, the large entry hall with open plan staircase and upper balcony, and into the only door on the right hand wall, he didn’t pause to point things out or even let me look around, and with the single minded focus he was exhibiting, I was worried that if I stopped for even a second I would end up losing him, not something I wanted to have as my first memory of this house.I stepped through the wide doorway into a room bigger than any I had ever seen before, with huge picture windows and heavy drapes, cream walls, hard wood flooring and dark wood trim.It was a little surreal as I glanced around the room, as though everything was supersized. The stone fireplace almost directly in front of me was almost as tall as me, the armchairs placed around it could likely seat two people each. The largest sectional imaginable sat on a huge cream rug to my right, the corner sofa could easily seat twenty people and was posi
July 18“Luna, we need to get you somewhere safe.” Tara stated, her voice full of panic as she glanced around the courtyard like we ere about to be attacked.Stupidly, it was only then that it occurred to me that the alarm was to signal the pack as under attack. No wonder her head was spinning.Tara’s panic was catching, and I felt my heart rate increasing as reality set in. Silver lake as actually under attack, and my old Alpha, my old pack was at the heart of it.“There’s a safe room in the Alpha quarters, we’ll stay there.” She continued before speeding across the stone pavement and up the steps into the building that would be my home.I followed along on Tara’s heels, my head a mess of so many thoughts that I didn’t take in a single thing about my new home.The older woman led the way up a set of stairs, along a corridor and into a room that resembled a small sitting room, with a wall of monitors and a computer, a sofa and tv and a mini kitchenette. An open door at the far end of
July 18The medical centre was a large redbrick building set somewhere in the centre of the town. We drove past houses and shops and what looked like offices, all while maintaining a speed that meant it was impossible to take in my surroundings, not that my wolf or I were in a state to do so.My hands were shaking by the time the SUV pulled to a stop with a screech. My mate was injured. And it didn’t matter that Able and I barely knew each other, he was mine, ours, and the instinct of my wolf was to protect and avenge.The anger that coursed through me was like nothing I had felt before, it was an instinctual feeling that rose in me, one that my wolf had to explain was partly caused by the mate bond.By the force of the Goddess we were bound to each other in a way that would change us. Over time, I would become more like Able and Able would become more like me, our temperaments would even each other’s out. That was the point of the bond. Fated mates were the perfect pair, the perfect