The second Amara, ever so gracefully, portaled us back into my territory, everyone except her landing on our asses in my office-if I might add, I was met by a wide eyed Aston, standing behind my desk. I've known this man my entire life, and I knew when he was about to say something I wouldn't like, and what he was about to say would make me want to turn an entire forest to dust. That much was evident as he stuttered over his first words."Al-Alpha Roman. I'm glad you're back. We have information on vampire movements" he says, meeting my gaze but I can see the worry in his eyes. Instantly, I'm on my feet and next to him."Talk." I say, my cold, no bullshit exterior immediately falling into place."They attacked the Red Moon Pack. If they knew she wasn't still there and attacked them to send a message, then we're in deep shit. The Alpha and Luna were killed, and they wiped out over half their warriors before The Allies could get there and neutralize them" he says with a
I watched as everyone dispersed, and I would be lying if I said I didn't feel all warm and fuzzy. I definitely expected there to be outrage that I was the reason the pack was under imminent attack, but not one single word of defiance came. Everyone was on high alert, yet no one even looked worried. I knew Roman's pack was powerful, but standing here now, watching his pack-our pack-move about the territory, I realized, I have no idea what numbers he has. Honestly, I don't know the first thing about how this works beyond we kill them, they kill us. But, I suppose I'll find out pretty fucking quick.I didn't realize I'm still staring out at them as Roman wraps his arms around me and pulls me to him."What are you thinking?" he says"I'm thinking I don't know the first thing about war, or even what your army looks like, and everything feels so real now you know? Before I was only your Luna in theory, we only had to worry about this attack in theory..." I say and tr
The second Aylin and I cleared the treeline, every single vampire turned their head to us. I smiled wickedly as the distraction cost some of them, their throats getting torn out before they could even process they found what they were looking for. To their credit, not one single wolf looked at us, refusing to be distracted. Making sure my mental shields were in place, I let loose any hold I had on my power as it surged to my fingertips and the vampires that remained, fell to the ground writhing as I focused on all their nerve endings. They were all dead in an instant as their opponents ripped them to shreds.There was a split second of silence before I felt the vibration of feet on the ground. We all braced ourselves, and then a herd of vampires cleared the borderline and jumped right onto us. Black tinted the edges of my vision and I didn't fight it away this time. I knew my eyes must have been completely black because the battlefield before me took on a dark tint. I spared my
*Trigger warning: There are mentions of rape and a detailed memory recounting the rape that will be portrayed. There will also be detailed torture.* I will put a recap of this chapter in asterisks at the end, so those who had to skip know what happenedWe showered and got dressed in a heavy silence. Neither of us had anything to say, and the only way we communicated was through touch. The majority of our shower Roman held me, and I held him back. We washed up quickly, and when I heard Aylin approach the door, I opened it, and instantly portaled us all to the dungeon in silence.The two vampires we kept alive were in cells on different floors, so they couldn't communicate. Aston and Seth took the one on the second floor, who appeared to have been just a standard warrior, and left this one to the three of us. I recognized him as the one that led the second wave of vamps to us. So, he must be some kind of troop leader then.He jumped, straining against his chains as we p
"So...you gonna explain what that was?" I ask Amara as we land in our room"Well, it seems as though I taught myself how to use my mind reading trick" she says, shaking her head as if she wanted to shake whatever she saw out of her head. Couldn't say I blamed her, I wouldn't want to see what went on in that thing's head"What did you see?""A bunch of flashes of things that didn't make sense, but they have five thousand vampires left, they started off with ten thousand but it seems they lost half of them actually finding me, and they undershot their attack here, sending less of them than they had been sending to the other packs. I still don't know what our numbers are like" she says, she sounds a little shaken."Not five thousand. Half that, maybe a little more" I say and she nods, honestly the numbers were the least of my concern at this point. I needed to know what their actual plans were, numbers alone don't win you a war. Surely it helps, but it's all s
I wake up against my will as Roman crawls back into bed. I groan as the morning light assaults my eyes and pull my pillow over my head as he pulls me to him. But, I have to get up and train. Ugh seriously, why did I resent being able to sleep in back at the Red Moon pack? I truly didn't appreciate that while I had it. Everything else though definitely sucked."Why did it take you so long to come back?" I whine as I snuggle into Roman's embrace. What could a few extra minutes hurt?"Had to visit the families of the dead, check on the injured, get reports on what happened at the other battle sites, it took longer than expected. Go back to sleep, baby" he says tucking my head into the nook between his neck and shoulder and resting his chin on my head"You know I have to get up and train, don't tempt me to stay in bed" I say, pushing out of his arms and sitting up on the side of the bed"No, no come back" he whines. Well, we're both in great moods this morning
I wake up to Amara shaking me, a golden light is shining through the curtains, telling me its probably past five in the afternoon and I slept way too fucking long."Aylin just called for us. She said to bring your head warrior, beta, and gamma. She told my dad and Az to come too" Amara says.I look at her, she's sitting up in bed, one leg held to her chest, the other crossed. Her eyes are red like she's been rubbing at them and the black and blue under them tells me she didn't sleep at all. I can't blame her, I only fell asleep so easily because I was practically a walking zombie. I got a solid two hours in the morning, but after a battle it just wasn't enough."Alright, I'll mindlink them to meet us in my office. Did you sleep?" I ask her, sending them all a quick mindlink. She shakes her head"Too much on my mind" she mutters and I nod my head"We'll get through this, we have plenty of people on our side. You've come such a long way. I'll hand my so
Training, sleeping, trying to eat. That's what the last week has consisted of. Nothing but toast and peanut butter has appealed to me. Roman at least went and got an herbal ginger tea from Blair so I'm not nauseous all the time from the anxiety.Anxiety is eating at me, I jump and call my twin blades or dagger to my hand when I hear any kind of noise, thinking it's the alarms signaling an invasion. It makes me just want to train more, and I'm already training morning to night with my dad, Azrael, and Aylin being here. I even sparred with Roman and Seth a couple times when I was feeling restless. Then, I crawl into bed and fall right asleep, sometimes even without a shower, or without Roman there. The last time we even had sex was in the shower while we were in the Underworld.I've barely talked to Tamisra either, she's unusually sleepy. Even when I'm training, she's snoring in my head and I have to block her out. Something is up, I've had anxiety since my parents died, but