The Day Temperance and Sebastian turn 13….“Happy Birthday, my teenager!” Janice smiles at Temperance.“I’m 13,” Temperance shrugs.Janice narrows her eyes and frowns. “Sweetheart, what is wrong?”“I’m feeling different,” Temperance tells her. “Like something is fighting inside of me.”“ZACH!” Janice yells. “Tempe, honey, don’t fight it.”Janice starts leading Temperance outside.“What is happening?” Zachary asks, running after his mate and his daughter.“She is fighting inside, her shift!” Janice is excited.“What is with the yelling?” Sebastian asks.“Tempe is about to shift,” Janice says excitedly. She stops as they all get outside and turns to Sebastian. “Sorry, Happy Birthday, my teenager!”Janice hugs her son tightly.“Thanks, Mom. What is happening to Tempe?” Sebastian looks over at Temperance.She is sweating and breathing in heaves.“Tempe, you have to let it happen,” Janice coaches her, leaving Sebastian behind her. “Don’t fight it.”CAM- Hey, Temperance, it’s me, your wolf.
“Alpha Temperance?” Jasper Justice meets her car at the front of his pack house.“Yes,” Temperance shakes his hand.“Welcome to Justice Pack. My wife and Luna, Mora,” Jasper introduces the lovely woman behind him.“We are going to be friends,” Mora smiles at her.While Temperance is learning, building an Alliance, Sebastian is getting a different kind of training.“Seb, you are a handsome boy, just like your dad. I think you should be exploring your abilities with females,” Abner tells him.“I’m 13, what females are going to be interested in me?” Sebastian asks.Cole- I don’t like this guy.“Oh, come now, you should have a girlfriend. Kimberley Anderson seems very interested in you,” Abner tell him.“Kim is like Temperance’s best friend. She isn’t going to be interested in me,” Sebastian shakes his head.“Every girl will be interested once they know you are the next Alpha,” Abner tells him.“How am I the next Alpha? Temperance can still beat me,” Sebastian says.“But Temperance is not
“I'm so happy for you both!” Janice smiles at her children.“Congratulations,” Zachary also smiles.Temperance looks up at her mate with a small smile. But he doesn’t smile back. Instead, Sebastian looks at her with hard, cold eyes.“We need to talk,” Sebastian pulls Temperance away from the crowd.“Aren’t you happy?” Temperance asks. “We don't have to fight over Alpha now.”“You can’t be serious,” Sebastian spits at her. “You can’t honestly think that we should accept this.”“Seb, of course I do we are mates,” Temperance smiles.“Temperance, NO, I hate you,” Sebastian stares into her eyes. He sees he might hurt her, and his heart tightens.“But you held my hand when I shifted, you talk to me, you and I share stories, we joke, I thought,” Temperance is not breathing normally.Cam- Calm down, he can’t reject us for two years.Temperance- It will break me. I can’t be a strong Alpha without by fated mate.Cam- Then, let the asshole reject us so we can get a second chance.Temperance- I h
“I asked what the hell is going on here,” Zachary asks again.“Alpha, I am just encouraging our future Alpha, your son,” Abner answers, with a smile. “Didn’t you say only a few years ago that the goddess made him your son?”Zachary steps closer and squints his eyes at Abner. “I said that in a private conversation in my office with the door closed. Sebastian maybe easily influenced, but I doubt he would say I said that.”“I didn’t Zach, I swear, I didn’t,” Sebastian is trembling at the aura his stepfather is putting off.“I know you didn’t Seb, you need to sit over there while you heal,” Zachary directs Sebastian while staring directly into Abner’s playful eyes. “You have been the one putting the ideas in his head. All the problems in my house are because of you. You created the monster and I have two years to fix it. You wanted to rob my daughter of her fated mate. Weaken my pack.”“I’m an Elder, no one will believe you,” Abner jokes.“Sebastian, has Abner here been the one to put you
When the alarm for training started blaring in Temperance’s room, she tried to move but she couldn’t. She is the little spoon in a big, hard body cocoon. Her whole body is sparking and tingling. And she feels safe.SAFE? In the arms of the man who want to overthrow her.Temperance wiggles away, waking Sebastian in the process.“Sorry Tempe for touching,” Sebastian groans, rubbing his face. “But you have to admit for only getting 4 hours of sleep, it was a good 4 hours.”“I’m not admitting anything to you. Unless you are agreeing to me as Alpha,” Temperance raises an eyebrow at him.“You can’t honestly think you would make a better Alpha than I would,” Sebastian is still laying in bed. He is shirtless, which he wasn’t last night.Temperance looks down at herself and she is still dressed at least.“Yes, I do,” Temperance answers him. “It is the role I was born for. I will earn the respect of the pack.”“According to Drek, you have them already,” Sebastian says absentmindedly. He doesn’t
“Eric, can you hear me?” Temperance asks as she rubs his face.“Alpha, did I get him?” Eric asks weakly.Temperance smiles at him. “You did very well. You got Dean, but you were shot twice. But you got the video recording out and we caught Abner and Shirley because you hit the panic button. Do you think you can stand? We need to get you to the hospital?”“Yes, Alpha,” Eric nods at her and she helps him to the stretcher. “I’m proud you will be my Alpha.”“Thank you, Eric,” Temperance gives him a smile as they take him away.“Trouble in the border pack is not good,” Zachary says, looking around.“We should kill the Races now and show both sides we do not tolerate this,” Temperance says, looking at her Dad.“I have Elder approval. Thanks to Eric, we don’t need a trial. He is a hero,” Zachary tells her.“And he should be honored. After the funerals for Doug and Grant,” Temperance says.Sebastian comes down into the cells. “You okay?”Temperance doesn’t look at him, not realizing he was sp
“Thank you, Alpha Temperance,” Doug’s Mother hugs Temperance tightly.“He was someone I looked forward to seeing every morning,” Temperance tells her.“Protecting you was his greatest goal,” Doug’s Mother smiles.Temperance hands her the flag that had been draped over Doug’s coffin.The Biczi Pack flag is silver with glitter radiating from a black howling wolf with Biczi Pack under it. Temperance and Sebastian folded the flags in honor of the fallen. If it had not been such a sobering occasion, watching the two of them avoid touching each other would have been comical.Zachary stood guard of the chained Races, forcing them to watch the young wolves they killed honored, while their own son was burned just as they will be after their deaths. He watched as his children dressed in their Pack uniforms saluted the coffins and folded the flags expertly as they have been trained. Even in this time of sadness, they gave him reason to be proud of them.Temperance, Sebastian, Derk, Janice, and Z
“Tempe,” Alpha Jasper Justice smiles at her. He is 25 and has always supported her becoming Alpha.“Jasper,” Temperance shakes his hand. “How are Mora and the pups?”“Well and sending their love,” Jasper presents her with drawings from his young children and a gift bag. “Mora said you loved her cookies.”“Oh, I do,” Temperance smiles.“I heard Sebastian is your mate, how is that going?” Jasper asks with a smirk.Temperance smiles back at him and nods her head. They both laugh. Jasper’s Beta Lance joins them.“What’s the joke?” Lance asks.“Seb Timberman and Tempe Biczi as mates,” Jasper laughs.“Heard my name,” Sebastian joins them, standing next to Tempe, but not touching her.Both Jasper and Lance look between them before they both narrow their eyes.Temperance closes her eyes and breathes deep, “We are still working through things. We are early mates, not the full-on gross ones yet.”“Oh, yeah, totally,” Lance nods, still eyeing Sebastian with a furrowed brow.Cam- You two will nev