ANNA GROWLED AT THE BETA as her canines snapped and in the corner of her eye, she could see Collin smiling with pride. It distracted her just long enough for the Beta to charge and she felt his teeth piercing the skin of her upper leg. Howling out in pain, she couldn’t hear the gasps in the crowd around them. She had never been bitten before! Then again, she had never faced a fight to the death before and she shook her head to focus.“Well, well, well, the pup has a little mate.” The Beta grinned through the pack link as his eyes snapped from Collin to Anna. “Why didn’t you let him fight on your behalf? You know he is just going to take over control of the pack if you win.” Anna knew he was just trying to get under her skin and she charged. They clashed with a loud thud as their teeth snapped at each other, but this time nobody got in that one bite that was needed to end it all.“Poor little rich girl is going to find out what it means to submit to a man. I might just submit so I can
IT DIDN’T TAKE THEM LONG to find her father’s small safe behind some books. Anna tried her birthday and rolled her eyes when the safe opened. How stupid was her father using something so simple as his code?! No, how stupid was the damn beta that he didn’t change the damn code?! When she opened the safe, she saw the laptop right on top of everything else.She took the laptop out first and Collin pulled out all the files underneath it. While she tried to figure out what the beta’s password could be, Collin paged through the documents. There were a lot of emails printed that were from the same email address as the one they found on the desk, but none of them gave any indication of who the person could be. Anna couldn’t get into the encrypted laptop and she was on the verge of smashing the damn thing when Collin grabbed her hands.“I might have someone that can fix that for us.” He still looked calm, but a storm was raging inside him. There were a couple of emails in the files that confir
ANNA DIDN’T FEEL ENTIRELY AT home in Collin’s home yet. Even though she was going to stay in her room where she stayed before, now that she had her memory back, it all felt strange. She wondered if she had met Collin before she lost her memory and if it would have changed anything, and then she sighed. It wouldn’t have. This wasn’t her home.She spent some time with Collin’s mom to get her pack’s living arrangements sorted, but it was never an easy thing when you had to move an entire pack. Anna realized that that was probably the reason not many alpha females were ever born. It was just too much trouble to move the packs! She could see that this arrangement wasn’t going to work for long, and she would have to make her decision about Collin soon. She really wanted to be with her mate, but … Yeah, she would have to make a decision soon.Her pack deserved their own home, especially after what they had just been through under the rule of their previous beta. They were defensive even thou
Anna was stumped that Collin and his family were so understanding of her position. It made her feel really guilty. She was starting to feel as if she was being a total brat, yet all of them kept on telling her that she wasn’t. Life was indeed very strange at the moment, so she concentrated on the things she could do something about. As soon as she found where exactly the money went, she could figure out a way to get it back.She was in luck and quickly figured out that the beta was so stupid he saved all of his passwords on the computer. She could get into the accounts where he had stashed the money and she breathed easier when some of it was transferred back into the pack accounts. That meant she could give some money to Collin’s pack for her pack’s necessities, which would make her and her pack feel a lot easier being there.Collin joined her later in the day and he read through some reports while she figured out what else was urgent that might need her attention. There were a lot o
VICTOR SIPPED ON THE AMBER liquid in his class and nearly spat it out again. It had become clear that this backwater town wasn’t up to his high standards and he sent one of his men in search of a proper bottle of whiskey. Without it, he was going to have a hard time curbing his appetite. It truly boggled his mind that his brother Nathaniel lived here for so long without complaining!Then again, Nathaniel had his science and Victor never really understood how Nathaniel always seemed to be happy with that, but he was. Being in this human town, Victor and his men had to be careful who they spoke to and who knew they were there. By now, he knew that Nicolas would have sent out people to look for them since he didn’t ask for permission to come here, and they never arrived at the destination they faked.His scouts would be returning at any moment, and if he still had a beating heart, he knew that it would be racing right about now. It took longer than he anticipated to sort out their living
ANNA’S MATE … NO, his entire damn family were hybrids. Anna couldn’t wrap her mind around it. Her heart was racing as she rushed into her room and slammed the door shut behind her. Collin at least had the decency to knock and he didn’t come in as she tried to think. She didn’t answer him. He knew she was in there because he followed her as soon as she rushed out of his office.She was grateful that he didn’t force her to face him when, after a couple of minutes, she heard his footsteps walking away from her door. What the hell had she done?! Her pack! She put her pack in danger! Her mind was all over the place as she tried to figure out her next steps. Could she trust the hybrids? How many of their pack members were hybrids? How did she not realize this sooner? She looked at one of the cupboards and wondered how quickly she could get her pack packed up.Sitting down on the edge of her bed as tears started to pour down her cheeks, Anna prayed for the moon goddess to return her parents
COLLIN WAS SHATTERED. His wolf howled in pain as Anna left and he wondered if he would ever see her again. She hadn’t rejected him, which at least was a good thing, but as she walked out, she also didn’t even say goodbye. Was the fact that he was a hybrid such a big thing? Could she really just leave like that?“I’m sorry son.” His father patted his shoulder and Elana made a snotty comment that Anna didn’t deserve her brother. Collin’s mother was silent on the subject as they all gathered in Collin’s office. It was an incredibly sad day for the pack, but there wasn’t much they could do about it now. Anna had made her choice. She might change her mind after she had some time to think about it, or so Collin hoped.The life he had imagined for the two of them lay in shards and Collin suddenly didn’t know what to do with himself. His wolf disappeared after giving Collin a loud and clear piece of his mind. It left Collin feeling lonelier than he had ever felt before in his life. If he susp
THE MOMENT VICTOR SAW his name on the phone, he knew that Nicolas knew they weren’t where they were meant to be. He also realized that he should have trusted his instincts and left the human city the moment he wondered about it, but it was too late now. Knowing Nicolas, he probably already knew where they were.“Nicolas! What a nice surprise.” He answered knowing he was in deep trouble, but who cared? What was Nicolas going to do? Order him back home? Victor imagined himself shaking in his boots and he had to stifle the laughter that wanted to bubble out of his mouth.“Victor, what the fuck are you up to?!” Nicolas sounded furious. Victor was about to make up some idiotic excuse when Nicolas shouted down the line that he couldn’t believe he was after a werewolf. “After everything, those packs went through with Nathaniel! You dare to defy my orders!” Victor suddenly realized that, somehow, someone had told Nicolas exactly what he was doing there! Fury brewed deep inside as he quickly r