Theo's POVTheseus takes us back to his home, and despite feeling nauseous again, I’m better able to control the urge to want to vomit.Everything spins before me in a whirlwind of colours as I travel through the vortex of teleporting, and before I know it, my feet hit the ground in the yard behind the large glass house that Theseus calls his own. Calley falls to the floor, holding herself up as she reaches, and Arlo doesn’t fare much better. His eyes seem to spin, and he holds onto the nearest trunk to hold himself up.But I’ll give the twins their due; they both push off the impending feeling of sickness to stand and assess their situation. One turns around to the right, the other to the left, and they have each base covered as they take in the surroundings around us.Arlo holds Calley’s hand, bringing their backs together as they do their special thing.Calley throws her aura out to envelope the pair of them. Protecting them from any danger willing to come their way, but she soon
Khai's POVLilith submerges herself under the water of the hot spring with the guidance of my hand on her shoulder.I ensure she's covered up. That none of her is on show to prevent Zeus from coping a look at my mate in her unacceptable nakedness.I didn't expect anyone to be here inside the small pool that’s naturally hot.Even Obsidian is feeling somewhat territorial over Lilith. His low grow is sitting at the back of my throat, begging for escape even though Zeus has done nothing offensive. Yet. He helps me move before her to obscure her remaining skin on show, even though the moment I sit, her neck and face will be bare for him to see.But to my amazement, Zeus's eyes follow my every move in amusement as if he finds my territorial claim on the she-wolf before him amusing.How do they handle such things here, I wonder?They aren’t all of the same species, and indeed that must cause problems when one man likes another’s mate. Or whatever it is they call their female love interests.
Five Years AgoDamian's POVI work my way through the paperwork, and I mingle out with the pack.The majority of them are scared of me, the children petrified, and there are no guesses as to why that is.I’m an awful man, and even worse when Onyx has control.The potion has been making me sick, yet I’m gulping down more than four bottles per day.It’s been almost three days of having control, and Onyx is still in a sleep-like state in the back of my mind.I can still feel him, hear him softly snoring.Once I would have enjoyed knowing his company way near. That I wasn’t alone despite the fact, he was in slumber but now…Well, now I detest his very existence.I’m travelling out to the witch's grounds again today. I’ve run out of the potion that Gretchen had made me, and we’re also going to try and create that stone.Unfortunately, a sacrifice will have to be made. The innocence of a child needing gifted to create the purity of a stone.I wish it could have been a consenting adult, but
Theo's POVI can feel them out there in the distance, so I leave the confines of Theseus's house to go find them.They both seem happy and content as I walk down through the wooded area.It's serene here, much like home. The trees cover the majority of the mountainside.Greens, browns and a smattering of colour where random wildflowers have grown.It isn't hard to follow Khai's scent, his being the more potent of Lilith and him.I wonder why that is... surely it shouldn't be, but it is.His scent almost devours hers. He is overpowering her to redirect anyone's desire to follow along to find her.It's quite the weapon...A large man brushes past me, my thoughts distracting me from the fact that another person is walking towards me.Our shoulders meet as he hisses his annoyance at me, but I cannot fret over his words because a torrent of images overtakes me.The man is much the same, yet he seems younger somehow.He's walking amongst people, wolves, I believe, whilst dressed in a long
Lilith's POVI'm sure I experienced a flashback.Isn't that what they would call a vision of the past?The vision depicted a conversation between Damian and Zeus, though Damian wasn't Damian.Well, he was. It was his body, his face, but his eyes were deep black, and his voice was the voice of my nightmares.I think I was the child his Damian's hands, but I didn't have time to assess whether I was because the vision morphed into another.Snippets of Zeus talking to a godly woman. Her skin was bronze, and her face angelic.He was talking about me, about how I am trapped in one of his disciple's grasps whilst Celeste and Theseus are non-the-wiser. The vision morphs again.Zeus is watching me play in the woods. My hand inside Khai's. I remember that day. Damian had allowed me to go play with the other kids.Khai, Andrew, Tipper and I were running around the woods, grins on our faces as we enjoyed the freedom of being children.I hadn't known someone was watching me. I hadn't felt him w
Theo's POVStripping quickly, I enter the water, taking a sharp intake of breath at how surprisingly warm it is.Now the fog makes sense. The air is cooler than the water; it must be a natural spring of some sort.I've heard of these types of pools where they every centre of the earth heats them up. Mother Nature's wonder dad used to explain it as.I let the water ease my stiffness, the anxiety and recall of the vision I had just experienced dissipating from my body."Come?" Lilith summons me worth her forefinger, and I go willingly towards her wanting to immerse myself in her. To submerged in her aura to forget everything going on inside my mind right now.She stands up, revealing the perfectly round mounds of her breasts, and I growl.I'm all fairness, it is Rex who forces me to.The pure and unadulterated need to claim her as mine but also the fear of having her seen by another, besides Khai, surfacing at the same time.The inside of my body is in a frenzy.The inability to choose o
Lilith's POVI think I needed that.Some deep sort of me craving the mate bond to be solidified again.Maybe it's a fact I was unable to take my eyes off of another man that wasn't mine.The indescribable feelings of betrayal that's been sitting in the back of my mind since it happened.The aftermath of my sex round of sex is nothing like the first. This time instead of jumping into a third round, we just sit along the ledge and enjoy the warm water.I have them both on either side of me, caging me in with their husky scents.I've noticed that after we fuck they smell stronger. They smell me, all of us.It's the smell of home, I think.We stay there as quiet as mice for a long time—the sun descending in the sky above us. Leaving not much time before the daylight ends and moonlight starts. "We should go; we don't want to be out here in the dark," I suggest having a stomach-sinking feeling that we should indeed be sitting in Celeste's home where it's safe.I hate to admit that, but it
Celeste's POVThe pool of human souls has been gathering to the point of overcrowding. Their little lights swimming around trying to find the one they belong to.My children are procreating yet I've ceased to choose a wolf soul to pair their pup with. I've had a lot to think about.The pro's and con's of letting the pairs chose themselves and knit together.Lilith's dismay is the root cause of my problems. Her words of disgust making me think over my choices regarding matching a pair.I shouldn’t allow her opinion to cloud my judgement and stop me from completing my job but I do and have.And this is what Zeus bangs on about.Love, it colours your judgement and I love Lilith and now her opinions or overruling my duty because of that fickle emotion that I’ve kept away for millennia.Perhaps it was easier with Theseus because he understood. Working the same as I, having the same rules.I think that’s why we work. There’s no expectation when it comes to harsh decision.He fully understa