Reaching out, I took Reagan as well. Walking into the nursery, I laid them both down in the crib. Within a couple minutes they were snoozing. Brushing the back of my finger over both their chubby cheek, I smiled letting my mind focus solely on them for a moment. I turned on the mobile above, made up of little wolves that played soft music and the sound of rain. Another flick of the switch and stars reflected on the ceiling, illuminating the room just a little.“Sleep. I’m watching. Don’t you worry.”Silently, I stepped out of the room and closed the door, leaving just a crack. Hector was downstairs, leaning against the doorframe of the back door. Walking into the kitchen, I set up the baby monitor on my tablet and started to pull out food for dinner.“You’re really good with them.” Hector leaned back to look at me, a wry smile on his face. “Imagine, all your worrying for nothing.”I scoffed. “I think they like Vale better.”He laughed. “No, they like me better. They tolerate you and V
I felt the dark circles under my eyes. The rocking chair I was sitting in moved back and forth. It squeaked but it was deafened by the crying of the twins. They had been sick for days. We’d gone to the doctor and apparently, these things can happen within the first couple years of a traumatic event and a complete climate change. Both of them had ear infections and poor Reagan had the infection move to her throat as well. Neither of them were comfortable and their crying now was just a constant sound. Reagan preferred to be on my shoulder, whereas Rowan was on his stomach draped over my legs. As much as they were more comfortable, it still was painful.Closing my eyes, I just rocked rhythmically, hoping that somehow they would fall asleep for more than five minutes. My phone dinged and I expected it to be Vale. He’d kept his word that he was home more, but he would go off with Peter to try and find Auri since no one else would join the search. Vale and Peter, along with AJ, would hop a
*** Vale’s POV ***Looking up at the building, it had artwork all along the front with the name of the club ‘The Naughty Night’ that wrapped around the sides of the building. It was alone, either side were a parking lot while the rest of the street was littered with bars and tattoo shops. It was about eight in the evening and the line was wrapped around the building. A hand slammed into my back and Peter looked at me, smiling. He was dressed up in a silk maroon shirt and slacks. I was glad I had forgone the suit jacket I was debating bringing.“Sorry I’m late. Ran into some nonsense on the way here. Shall we?”I nodded and looked back at the building. Peter walked towards the bouncer, handing him a gold card. Coming up behind Peter, the bouncer unbuckled the deep purple rope and allowed the two of us past. As we walked in, I took in the dark interior.“Borrowed the card from a friend. She’s an informant for some higher ups and has a standing invitation here. Since she provided informa
Everything had already been cleared from our table save the two drinks we were nursing and so she spread out a map onto the table as well as a pile of documentation. All over the map there were X’s and little numbers next to them. It ranged from one to fifty-six. Sitting up, I leaned over the world map, looking over the red X’s that were scattered throughout the map. “Each stop…” she placed her finger on the markings “…is a known sighting of The Huntress within the past few years.” Pulling from the top of the stack, she placed a paper over the map. “This is the first, the China incident where over 200 vampires died in an explosion at a lab. All the info we could gather on the incident as well as the lab information is on the sheet. Each incident or sighting has been marked with a number, corresponding with a page of documentation.” My eyes widened. “Wait, fifty-six places have been attacked?” Camilla shook her head. “Fifty-two actually ended with a lab explosion. Four of which wer
Closing the door to the bedroom as quietly as I could, Zeke was taking up the entirety of the bed. It was about two in the morning when I finally got home. I’d checked in with AJ and he was still out with Morgan chasing down an obscure issue in Egypt. He’d actually asked me if this was a real mission but I didn’t acknowledge the question. I felt bad for not providing the truth that his mission was to keep Grandpa out of our way but we needed it to get some information.'Outdated information.' Naresh growled in my head.Sighing, I placed my duffle on the couch we had in the room. 'Maybe, but it was more than we had before. We hadn’t heard any movement for over four months. So it was new to us, just not what we were looking for.'Naresh’s tail swished in my mind, irritated. While he didn’t agree with the bounty or trying to hunt her down, he did want to talk to her. Ask her why, ask her questions that only she could answer. It was the only reason he had gone along with all my running ar
I smiled, sitting on a blanket in the grassy fields just north of the town center. Zeke was up, running through the grass after our two munchkins who were laughing and trying to avoid him. At one point, Reagan made a quick turn and Zeke must have caught something because he fell out of my sight into the grass. Roaring, I paused my snacking as I tried not not inhale the crackers. Rowan and Reagan had converged on my mate only to climb on top, their heads now visible above the grass.Suddenly, both of them were lifted up, Zeke carrying each one under his arms and getting back to me and the picnic spread we had laid out.Once depositing the kids, Zeke flopped down unceremoniously, laying on the blanket. Rowan and Reagan started to rummage through the smaller of the picnic baskets. I clicked my tongue and they both looked up at me.“Are you hungry?”Both their heads nodded furiously and I wondered if their necks were still connected.“Alright. But while you eat, you cannot leave the blank
“Hello, Vale.”I had to bite back a growl. “What do you want, Dad?”“Can I not call my pup? I haven’t spoken to you in years. Is that really the tone you want to take with me?”Rolling my eyes, I stood up from the picnic and started to pace just behind the blanket. I felt Zeke’s eyes on me, watching me but he didn’t say anything.“You could have called sooner to check up on me. Hell, I’ve talk to Týr more lately than you. Not that you would feel any sort of attachment for me.”He sighed. “Vale, I’m not calling to argue.”“I don’t know where she is. I’ve given up trying to find her.”“I’m not asking where your mother is either. I don’t care. She will come to me when she realizes she needs me.”I scoffed, shaking my head. “Then what do you want?”There was a moment of silence and I stopped pacing, waiting for him to answer.“Some of the Alphas are gathering for a meeting together. A lot actually, including Týr.”“What do you mean? I haven’t heard…”My father interrupted me. “I know. You
I sat at the head of the table in the meeting room that was rented out. There were around twenty-five Alphas at this meeting. It was more Alphas I had seen together and we were still missing some more notable ones. AJ was standing next to my chair on my right whereas Bryan was on my left. I’d decided to take these two because I wanted to make sure I was getting all the information and whatever I didn’t catch would be picked up by Bryan or AJ.I’d shown up for the meeting and at first, the Alphas weren’t happy but when I said I was here to observe and see where I needed to help, they settled down. I was largely ignored for the rest of the time. There were documents strewn out on the table along with a giant map that had different marks on them.It was the third day they were meeting. The first day was just a bit of catchup; basically gossiping about different things like a bunch of Luna’s at tea. The next day was more productive. They started setting up who was getting attacked, who wa