He parked the car in the garage numbly and exited it after taking a deep breath. He was barely holding himself together.William’s return to the pack wasn’t a glorious one, like he had expected. Instead, all he could feel was anguish, so deep that it threatened to drown him.Anna was no longer with him. She had abandoned him and their children. Although he had an idea that there was a lot to the story - Damon’s involvement was certainly suspect to the theory that his mate wasn’t doing this of her own accord - there wasn’t a lot of hope in the Alpha that he would make any headway towards discovering what that was.As soon as he stepped into the mansion, he could hear voices approaching him. He didn’t have the urge to pay attention to them. All he wanted was for them to stay the fuck away from him.“William,” he raised his head at his mother’s voice calling his name. She didn’t look happy, and neither did anyone else.William took in the presence of not only his mother, but Ethan, Alpha
Lily wasn’t one to be so impulsive but she also wouldn’t just look a gift horse in the mouth and let it be. No, she was an opportunist, and what she wanted was to be ploughed into by someone. Anyone would do.But Ethan WAS a perfect choice for her to take out her frustrations.Her eyes gleamed and she looked around to make sure no maids nor the former Luna would happen upon them and then promptly lose their shit. Then she walked up to Ethan, placing her hand on his clothed, toned chest and leaning in.“Your brother is a bastard,” she seethed in a low whisper, as she longed to kiss the lips of her fiance’s brother.Ethan could hear the desperation in her voice and he found it amusing. How easily she had managed to lose her will and cunning in the face of pressure. The invitation from her was reckless to say the least.Aware they were alone but not out of danger of being caught, Ethan pressed his lips to her ear and murmured, “Then you suit him quite well, considering you act like a bit
Silence filled the air and Lily paused to relax from the brief surprise she felt.He was seated in the living room, which had no lights on, so perhaps that was why she didn’t notice his presence when she rushed in.“No words to say?” Alpha Drake’s tone of voice was light, as though he was in a far better mood than she knew her uncle definitely was in.“I… i went out for a walk,” she managed to say.The Alpha of the Eclipse Pack chuckled and she waited for his laughter to fade.“There’s no need to think up an excuse, Lily. I can already tell you’re lying,” he finished the whiskey in his glass with a toss, and swallowed.“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Uncle,” was what she responded with, though she stilled, gazing at him with curious eyes. What exactly did he know now?“Oh?” He tutted like a mother that just caught a child lying. “I hoped you would buckle up and not let yourself be driven by impulses again but it seems like my hopes were for nothing. I was wrong. After all, yo
That night, around a couple minutes past 1am, William tossed and turned in his bed. His mind was still stuck on Anna, and his encounter with his mother earlier that evening.Finally he gave up on the prospects of sleep and grunted.“Fuck,” he whispered into the air, staring up at the ceiling, his back pressed against the soft Egyptian cotton sheets.As though it was a sigh, his phone began to vibrate and William reached for it on his bedside table without looking.The lack of a caller ID made his brows furrow; who could it be that was calling him at this time of the night?“Yes?” He answered the call expectantly.“Is this Alpha William?” A strange male voice was in the other end, a mix of British and French accent which made William more alert. Who was this person.“Who’s asking?” He replied with shortly.“This is Victor Erikson,” came next, and hearing that damned last name of a prominent Hunter family made him sit up at last, growling into the receiver.“What the hell do you want?”
There was a knowing look in her eyes as she leaned back into the chair and began to tap her long fingernails on the linoleum covered table.“I have heard a little from my contacts in the city about the woman you wish to help,” she openly said, referring to Anna more clearly. “Though, I’m afraid that despite your desires to have her be back to normal again, there is no cure. All she can do is learn to control it, just like Damon, and just like me. It’s not a disease,” she explained. “It changes everything in us, down to the smallest genome. She can’t ever be a normal human again. I’m sure she must already know that, or she wouldn’t have agreed to stay with my cousin. She must have thought there was no other choice she had.”Those words spurred anger within William, and a deep sense of regret and frustration.“Then,” his voice was rough as he made to stand up from the chair. “We’re done here. If you can’t give me what I want, Aléa Erikson, what’s the fucking point?”“You can choose to l
“Why did you agree to the destruction of Virax?” Victor finally asked, sitting on the chair where William had occupied previously. Aléa gazed at him, her eyes piercing his as he clasped his hands atop the table. “You know what it took for it to be created.”“Decades of work,” she answered with a nod. “Many lives of our Hunters were sacrificed in the process of testing it. I know that very well, Victor. But I don’t think Virax had ever been a good idea to begin with. It took me until I was 16 to agree to take it for a good reason.”“Why?” He asked. “And do you think the Elders and the rest of the organization will agree to such a thing.”“They will have to. It serves us no purpose to be stubborn about this. It has no use in over 98% of our men, either way. It’s practically useless to us. And there is the side effect I didn’t inform Alpha William about,” she gave him a pointed look and he let out a sigh and looked away.He couldn’t argue with her reasoning.“I imagine if you told him th
As Alpha Drake thought those words, the doors suddenly opened and Alpha William stepped through. Shock briefly filled the Alpha of the Eclipse pack as everyone turned to look at the younger Alpha’s charismatic entrance. And to top it all off, he noticed how William’s demeanor was a stark contrast from how he was the previous day. He looked more confident and full of energy, and Alpha Drake wondered what could have caused this transformation.Well, that didn’t mean anything, he thought.Alpha William wouldn’t get away with his actions this time, and he, Drake Finnegan, would succeed in undermining William’s authority as the most influential Alpha of his generation.“Greetings everyone,” Alpha William began. “First I must apologize for my absence in the previous meeting.““Apologies are nothing but excuses after the fact, Alpha William,” Alpha Drake cut in and caused everyone to begin murmuring under their breath. Some seemed to agree with him which spurred him on. “How about an explana
Ethan could tell it would cost him a lot more than it was worth if he tried to argue the finer points of William’s statements. Therefore he sighed with resignation, raking his hand through his hair.“Very well. What do you want me to do?”Within two hours, Ethan was out of the mansion and at the garage. The sun had fully set and it was time for the nocturnal party animals of the city to start their jaunts to the hundreds of clubs around. Mounting his motorcycle, Ethan took pleasure in revving up the engine that purred delightfully.William watched his brother with a tinge of amusement and said, “You will have someone following you to ensure your safety. So don’t worry about anything and focus on the plan, do you understand?”Ethan growled at the prospects of having a watcher.“Whatever you say, brother,” he responded. “As long as they can keep up.”…Aléa got off the phone with Alpha William and turned to Victor who was waiting on standby.“The bait is set. You have to hurry in order