Here you go! I wanted to include a little peek into Blakely's upcoming book. There will be a couple more teases before this one comes to a close. Will the time away at the cabin be what the trio needs to relax?
GRANTAngel had no idea that we would be spending the weekend at the cabin. Gabriel and I had sneakily packed for the three of us.Sophia and Paula had taken it upon themselves to get the cabin prepped for us. They both said that it was the least that they could do to ensure that their daughter and sons-in-law enjoyed some much-deserved rest and relaxation.Some people might assume that the situation between Angel’s mothers would be awkward, but they would assume wrong. They both loved her more than anything and appreciated each other and what they meant to her. They had quickly become great friends as well.Gabriel and I had always fantasized about mated life with Angel, but we had never once considered that it would be anything like it had been for us thus far.We had the perfect first night as mates, but the following day set the mood for how a lot of the future days would be. I was not saying that we lacked amazing moments with our girl because we had some pretty amazing moments an
ANGELIf a weekend getaway was not enough to make me smile then the ring on my finger would.My mates wanted to marry me, tying us together in one more way. Marking our mates was the shifter equivalent of marriage.Goddess, this ring was so damn gorgeous! I have seen many beautiful rings, but all paled in comparison to this one right here. My mates continued to amaze me.We decided to go swimming before we cooked dinner together. They did a great fantastic job with packing for this weekend. I chose the red bikini that I had recently got. This would be the first time that I wore a bikini around anyone, which I liked because it would be something just for my mates.I threw my hair up into a messy bun on the top of my head. It was hell putting all of it up like this, but it worked. I smiled in the mirror when my eyes caught sight of the marks on my neck. I was so damn proud of them and showed them off whenever I got the chance.My mates were talking to each other when I left the bedroom.
GRANTThe weekend that we had at the cabin had been exactly what we all needed to relax, recharge, and reconnect.The past three weeks have been nothing short of awesome. We have had the opportunity to truly hammer out what we wanted our time as leaders to look like. We have analyzed the pack from an internal and external perspective. It allowed us to figure out places where we excelled as well as places were we struggled.Nightshade excelled in security. Now that we had gotten rid of the traitors that we knew about, we felt more secure in this, but we were not letting our guard down at all.We also excelled in the research and development sector. Lucas’ team had truly catapulted our pack into the lead of many others. Sophia actually began working with them and let us just say that the team fell in love with her brilliance and genuine personality. She was able to bring some big ideas with the ability to back them up. We were extremely happy that she was finding her own path that made h
ANGELI was sitting on Mama’s couch in the house where she now lived with Lucas.It was great to see them getting along so well. They were fully mated now, and he treated her like she always deserved to be treated – like a Queen. She had to face so much tragedy and horror in her past. I was extremely thankful that Lucas showed her what it was like to be loved by your mate.Something that I would not forget to mention was that they were two peas in a pod when it came to their work. She had begun working with the Research and Development team. Everyone had eagerly accepted her because she proved to them that she had the talent to back up her ideas. Something that she and Lucas were currently working on was to develop a way for others to harness our type of light so that it could be used to detect dark magic and have a way to burn it away just like I had already been able to do with others.I could not wait to see if they could actually accomplish it because it could become an invaluable
ANGELUnfortunately, there was not a lot of space available where we would not be in the way. Thus, we positioned ourselves at her feet. We would be able to send her healing and my light into Elle’s body.Ziyah cautioned me to be careful with how much light I sent in at one time. A steady low-dose would also help to protect her body from going into shock as they worked.‘Faye is trying to protect the pup. She was too weak to say anything other than that,’ Athena told me.Knowing about their past lives, I understood how she was feeling beyond her being our mates’ mother wolf. I would do everything in my power to ensure that the three of them survived. I just prayed that I would be able to.I felt my mates releasing some light through our bond since they had access to it as being mated to me. It helped to replenish my strength.There was no telling how much time had passed since we began this, but it seemed that Ziyah and I were actually able to keep Elle’s body going so that they could
ANGELThe fact of the matter was that nobody could outrun their past indefinitely. At one point or another, it would appear in front of you like a charging bull inside of a china shop, threatening to destroy everything within its wake.Something that I had recently learned was that trust needed to be earned instead of blindly given. Had I not been so trusting, had not allowed myself to ignore my instincts, then I might not even be here right now. Goddess, I had been so damn blind and had nobody to blame myself for falling into this carefully created trap.I had always prided myself on my strength. It had been hounded into me that I could overcome anything just as long as I fought hard enough and continued fighting no matter what. The reality was that it was much easier said than done when the time came to put that plan into action.Betrayal – the word itself stung, slicing into me like a silver dagger, serrating everything it touched. How had I been so blind to not have seen the snake
ANGELI was given a writing prompt in the fourth grade, which made an impact still felt today. It was a single sentence.Who are you?That should have been easy to answer, but it was not. I remember sitting back in my seat and thinking about what made me who I was.My birth mother had only been in my life for ten weeks. Sadly, I did not know anything about her. The story that I had been told was that a group of vampires had rounded up humans to be sold at a feeding room as portable juice boxes in a variety of flavors from O- to AB+ and everything in between. My mother was a she-wolf with a gift that concealed us as humans until it did not. I was still young enough to be passed off as human, but she was not. Feeding room vampires did not stoop so low as to consume wolf-shifter blood. Their thoughts, not mine.Thankfully, Luna Elle and Alpha Kade were undercover at that feeding room and saved me.I was brought back to the Nightshade pack and my parents immediately adopted me. They said
GABRIELI was working on the final touches to my project for school that had been assigned over the summer. This one was for my leadership training program. It used to just be Alpha training, but it was changed to all leadership when the academic curriculum for the academies that were being designed years ago.My proposal was an exchange program where those within a future leadership position would spend a month shadowing someone from the same rank from another pack. Each pack’s structure was designed by the Alpha in charge. My proposal would immerse future leadership amongst different ways of doing things, potentially opening them up to important collaborations.I twirled the pen I had in my hand while I checked the time. It was well past eight, and I had not seen my brother since school let out.As if I had summoned him, Grant walked into the suite, slamming the door behind him. It was a good fucking thing that we lived at the packhouse instead of our parent’s home or else he would