Willow’s POV My blood began to boil as he assumed that I was his because of some stupid mate bond that has proven to me once again to be just a messed-up ruse by the Goddesses. If he thought that he had some kind of claim on me just because I was foolish enough to let him mark me, he had another thing coming. Derrick disappeared into the forest and Damon’s full attention was now on me as he tried to take another step towards me and I held my hands up and pulled from my source of magic within me. My hands began to surge with electricity as I said to him, “I am not yours. I am no one’s but my own.” Damon’s eyes began to glow red at that moment and through gritted teeth he says to me, “You are mine and you will be going with me.” In my hands I conjured up an orb of electricity and held it in front of me as I saw Damon’s eyes begin to glow a fire red as if there was a fire within him. Fear began to consume me because this was not the Damon that I had just mated with. This was more
Willow’s POV The children ran to me with open arms and I kneeled and welcomed their embrace. The feeling of being wanted and needed washed through me as their little arms wrapped around me. This was the first time I had ever been greeted by a pack like this and it tugged at my soul. Even if I was at odds with Damon, I was still the Luna of this pack and I was going to make sure that I gave them all the love and attention they all deserved. Once the children had their fill of me, they all ran off to play as some of the she wolves stood waiting to meet me. Before I moved to them, I turned to see where Damon had gone but he was nowhere in sight and I am sure attending to the situation at hand. “Luna.” I turned to see a she wolf that reminded me of myself. “Hello, I am Jessica, the Beta’s.” She paused for a brief second and then said, “Mate. I am to show you around and make you feel welcomed and at home.” “Thank you. My name is Willow and it is a pleasure to meet you.” I tell her
Willow POV After getting situated in the tent that was now to be home, I headed out to find Jessica to help me with my plan to get the children books and supplies to develop a curriculum to where the children would need to start. I had no knowledge of what they had already been taught and needed a starting point. I found Jessica helping a younger girl setting up a tent and I moved to them to help them myself. As I began to help them set up the tent I looked around and realized that everyone in the pack was either in their twenties or around my age or younger and I had to wonder where all the elders were. Once the tent was up, the young girl named Roxy thanked Jessica and I for helping her as she began to set up the inside and I asked Jessica if I could have a word with her. Jessica and I walked to the edge of the camp where we could watch everyone still setting up, but with a little privacy. “Where are all the elders?” I asked her and I watched as her facial features changed t
Damon’s POV That fucking bitch lied to me and Willow was paying for it. Watching her spill my tainted blood from her as it sizzles the ground in front of her makes me want to rip out the Moon Witches tongue for the lies that it had spilled to me. Willow was beginning to open my eyes to see that the Moon Witch was not my saving grace as she portrayed herself to be. It made no sense to me why she would want me to hurt my mate. She had to of known that this would happen if Willow had marked me as hers. Willow began to try and get herself up, but she was too weak on her own to stand. Gently, I helped her to her feet and I could see it was taking every bit of her strength to stay upright. I knew she was going to protest but I didn’t care as I picked her up into my arms. “I can walk.” She said just as I expected, but her eyes began to look heavy. “Baby girl, stay with me.” I said as I began to quickly move back towards camp. We didn’t have a real pack doctor but one of the she wol
Damon’s POV The drive felt like it took forever as I had to listen to the two of my men talking back and forth most of the trip about what an abomination it was to have witches mixed with wolves and how it was going to be a threat to our species. A part of me wanted to agree with them that we needed to extinguish them all before they continued to reproduce but a part of me knew that this had to be partially the doing of the Moon Witch and I had to wonder what she had up her sleeve by doing this. But Willow was a part of this abomination and if I would extinguish her kind she would never forgive me and I am sure she would leave me. By the time we had pulled back into camp the night was fading as the dawn threatened her appearance as the birds began to sing their morning melody. The majority of the pack was in their tents as a few of my men stood guard for any potential threat. Before we exited the SUV, I told my men there would be no talk of this to the other men until I decided wh
Chance’s POV Maps were scattered on the meeting room table as I continued to cross out areas that the search parties had been calling in that were clear of sight of the rogues. Only one sighting of a possible old camp had we found in the last couple of days since Willow disappeared into thin air without a trace. I knew in my heart that the rogue Alpha had her and I just prayed that she was still alive. I had gathered search parties from every local pack hoping that with more manpower we would be able to cover more ground and I could bring my Luna back home to me. Guilt plagued me knowing that I could have stopped all of this from happening if I had just spent the day with her as I had promised her. But I had put my role of Alpha above her wellbeing and didn’t return with Alpha Hunter until early morning hours the next day to find her missing. Beta Shawn had been out on patrol all night long that night with very little sleep and he too was blaming himself for not keeping the pack
Willow’s POV I was a prisoner in my own body, as I could hear everything going on around me as I came in and out of consciousness, but I couldn’t move or open my eyes. I began to wonder if this was what it was like being in a coma as my body fought off the dark magic trying to take over me. When I heard the familiar witch doctor’s voice, I felt a bit relief knowing he was here and that he would be the one helping me through this. Marvin had been my doctor since birth and was the best witch doctor I knew. If anyone was going to help me pull through this, it was going to be him. But once he began to chant, I could feel the dark magic inside of me stir as it desperately tried to latch onto my insides, but what scared me the most was hearing Damon struggle to breathe. I wanted Marvin to stop so that he didn’t hurt Damon and as I wished it, he did. That is when Marvin put it all together and knew that Damon was the one that had infected me with the dark magic and I felt bad for the w
Willow’s POV “Beta Shawn is your mate? Wait, you are his Jess?” I asked her, now shocked that she was still alive and how it was possible that I too was his mate, which I was not going to expose to her. “He spoke of me to you?” Jessica asks with hope in her eyes. “Yes, he hasn’t given up hope that you are alive.” I tell her and I can see tears begin to form in her eyes and that’s when it hits me that he said she had disappeared during a rogue attack and they never found her body. “Jessica, did they take you from Red Moon?” I asked her, needing to know the answer and hoping it wasn’t true. Jessica then became choked up and she shook her head yes and said, “Beta Derrick took me for his own, that night we were attacked. He forced me to reject Beta Shawn or else he promised to kill him. I did what I had to do to save my love.” This was so wrong on so many levels and it made me wonder now if all the she wolves of this pack were taken and made to be mates to the men of this pack