**DELANEY** We are up bright and early this morning. We're heading to breakfast before heading to this Alpha meeting with Alpha Maddox that I got to meet after the attack. I swear three to four days in this pack, and I have already stopped killings, gained a mate and a bite mark and now I am fixing to attend a meeting with my Alpha mate to discuss business. Which reminds me. “Orion, just so we are clear since I am now your mate, that means I can’t be the Alpha’s assistant. Sooo, please tell me that position was made up just to keep me close.” I say with a laugh. His face is stoic, one eyebrow cocked. “What if it wasn’t? Does that mean I get to find another hot and short blonde to keep as my assistant?” He says stopping us from walking. “Not in your WILDEST dreams!” I growled. I meant it as playfully buy Hera came forward. She did not like that. “Sorry babe. Hera didn’t enjoy your joke.” I say as the shock falls from his face. “It’s okay, my love. I have really got to get used t
**HEATHER** I can't believe she can just hug me and say those things to me as if they were true. I have always been looked at as the girl everyone wants to bed. I thought using that to my advantage would work out. What if what she is saying is true? What if I meet my mate and he turns out to be amazing and a bad ass, and he doesn't want me because of how I act? Shit, I wouldn't want someone like me. I'm going to take her advice and sit outside till the feast. I need to know what she will say tomorrow. I almost don't hate her anymore. I don't think so. I don't think I actually hated her to begin with. Just the fact that Orion looked at her the way I wanted him to look at me. The way I wanted any man to look at me. With love. Not just lust. I'm outside in the garden, I want to do what she asks me to and take in my surroundings and see what that does. I feel the sun. The rays, beaming on my face. Soaking into my skin. The smells are crisp cool air, like the freshest of air. Mixed wi
**ORION** It’s time for the meeting, then we will have a big dinner tonight in celebration. My father and I own the largest construction company in the United States. We not only build for humans but for most of the supernatural world. We do start to finish building. Anything our customers want. My dad has built this business from the ground up and I already know how to run it. It's just the Alpha stuff I'm still trying to get right. Business deals I can handle. But making my own way as an Alpha. Keeping the pack not only happy, but safe. That is something I am taking pretty seriously. Maddox is the foremost leader in real estate and development. That is why I think us becoming business partners and having an alliance would help us both. Miles doesn't know but all of this was my idea. Everyone thinks my dad created this meeting but today they will know it was me. Delaney finally comes back into view when my eyes land on her. I can never get enough of looking at her. "Hey gorgeous
**DELANEY** To say I'm shocked at myself for being so forward would be an understatement. I can't believe all of that just happened. I just had his penis in my mouth. Which is crazy cause I didn't even know what to do. But Hera coached me. She was enjoying it all just as much as I was. He tasted so good. And all the things he did to me felt magical. And afterwards, I just feel happy. We are heading to his office for the meeting. And then I'm heading to check on the rogue wolf’s family. Got a surprise though for Maddox, Orion was right, today would be a full day.. I walk in and Orion is behind me. I go to sit in one of the chairs and Orion pulls me into his lap. "Now you know this isn't professional, don't you?" "After that little bit of fun, there's no way you aren't sitting with me. Or at least desperately close to me." He chuckles. And that is my favorite sound. Right next to his moans. Ughhh. Get it together Delaney. "Come in." Alpha Maddox walks in with a good looking man beh
**DELANEY** After our talk with Heather and Maddox and helping him to find his Luna it is now to do my first actual duty as the future Luna. I have to go talk with the wife of the rogue wolf. Of course my Alpha is following along and since it is just us right now. It is the perfect time to ask him to make Kylo the Gamma. “You know Orion, Kylo would make a great Gamma. I know that you are worried about it but I think he is the best one for the position.” He huffs in exhaustion. “I know he is the best candidate. But he also wants my Luna, and hates my guts.” We are on this winding road to the empty cottages I had the rogue's wife and kids housed. It is so beautiful here, I don’t think I could get tired of it. “Why does he hate you? What happened?” I asked. He stops and looks at me. “I slept with someone he cared about. I didn’t know they were together. She never disclosed that to me, and neither did he. I was a stupid horny kid. And it ruined a quite good friendship. I have apologi
**DELANEY** We make it into the packhouse, uninterrupted. Finally. But that might have a lot to do with Orion sending a mindlink out to make sure everyone leaves us alone so we can actually rest. The moment we hit the bed, and I am snuggled into Orion’s arms my eyes close. But weirdly everything is so cold around me. I feel like I’m laying on a hard stone floor but my eyes are so heavy. I can't open them back up. 'Hera, what's going on?' Silence... Where is my wolf?? Where is Orion?? My whole body is losing heat, I can feel the anxiety rush through my whole being. "Such a beautiful little specimen. I can't believe I let you get away the first time... Should have taken you when I had the chance all those years ago... No worries you will be mine again..." I am trembling, I know that voice. I would know that voice anywhere. I have worked so hard to forget his voice, his face and to find myself again. But it never worked... "What do you want from me?? Haven't you taken enough from m
**UNKNOWN**So the little bitch is not only a blessed wolf and mated to an Alpha. But she also has supreme blood running through her veins.Hmmmm. Exquisite.I knew all those years ago when she was just a pup that she had this essence about her. It just delighted me. And even though she grew, my obsession with her grew with her. It wasn't because she was a child. It was because she was powerful.And that is something I have always craved.I have about three moles within the Dark Pine pack that I have reporting to me. But they aren't really giving me secrets no one else knows. Just things that they are announcing to the whole pack. I wonder if my little nightmare pop up rattled her any. Safe to say she will be on alert, but how does on escape from their dreams. That is how I will keep getting to her. She has always been and always will be mine. And soon I'll be ready to stake my claim on her. And nothing will stop me.**DELANEY**I'm making my way to the prison with food and a change of
**ORION**Finally finshed up with coordinating new measures for the pack's security systems. After that rogue attack, I don't think my heart can handle any more bullshit. Especially not with Delaney's dream the other night. I make my way to the dining room with the big windows. Persephone likes the view. I see my mom sitting at a table and I decide to join her for a few. I used to think of her as weak and to much of a hazard sometimes because of her easily being sick. But now I'm curious if she's been constantly poisoned this whole time. We've had someone watching her and checking her food discreetly now. Hoping to catch whoever was poisoning her. But they must've caught on or stopped.My mother has always been a beautiful woman. I'm very proud to be her son but I've been a fool all this time. Pushing her away. Even if it wasn't poison. She couldn't help being sick. It's not like that's what she's wanted. But for whatever reason, I still blamed her for it. Finding my seat across from