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I summon all my courage to maintain eye contact with the man who wanted to make me his mate. He’s so gorgeous, I keep expecting to see his picture in glossy magazines. I can’t help but imagine an impossible future with him, I’m swooning after Kylar. Swooning hard. It’s not something I can give him, a future. ‘Ava,’ he demands and I my lower lip quivers. ‘Kylar, I can’t -’ I’m struggling for the words. To find a way to express myself. It’s also hard to concentrate with him standing so close to me. His legs brushing against my own. I perch on the dresser, trying to create some space. It doesn’t work. It just makes him taller and that does things to my insides. He’s going to smell my arousal through my panties and I can’t stand it. I’m blushing desperately and look away. Staring at the tiny blue flowers on my bedroom curtains. ‘We should have put some more thought into…dating or whatever it was we started up,’ I say slowly. It hurts to speak like this. To acknowledge that the dream
KylarI wake late in the morning, with Ava in my arms. The window is slightly open, trying to tempt in a breeze from the stifling night. I can hear voices outside and Sabre sniffs. We know without looking that it’s Josh and Ryan, the Alpha and Beta of Silver Stream. I can also pick out Luca speaking to the pair of them. So I roll over, pressing my nose against Ava’s back. Taking a deep inhale of her scent. It feels so good to hold her again. It’s hard to explain the emptiness that I’ve felt over the last ten days with her being so close and out of reach.I instantly regretted the stupid boundaries I set before we came away on the mission. I was an idiot trying to take control over something that was making me uncomfortable. I acted out and I put distance between us. I stepped away from Ava, and I think, deep down that being here is where she might have needed me the most. Yet I’m stubborn and I wouldn’t back down. I couldn’t find the time to apologise before we flew out, because she
AvaI’m so stunned that I can’t move. I can’t think, let alone form a sentence. I stare at Josh, realising that his hands are warm around mine. What? But I’m staring into Josh’s dark eyes, and he’s the boy I knew my whole life. He’s the Alpha of the pack that was my home, the pack that banished me. He wants me to be his Luna? I’m shocked, sat perfectly still. Blinking at him before Ryan moves forward and drops down into the seat beside the Alpha. Jolting us both. I pull my hand back, letting it fall into my lap. Maybe I need some more coffee, maybe I haven't woken up yet. This is a dream. Or a nightmare. ‘It’s not a hard decision,’ Ryan leans forward, taking up an apple from the centre of the table. He tosses it into the air but it’s Kylar that stretches out a hand and catches it. I turn, staring at the man who shared my bed the night before. Home. We were going home. I was so close to going home that I was working out what I was going to cook for dinner tonight. I’d decided on ta
Ava‘Are you ready?’ He stands in the corridor taking up too much space. ‘Ready?’ I want to delay this conversation, I don’t want it to happen.‘To come home,’ he insists. He reaches down, checking the laces on one of his combat boots. He looks incredible, the black shirt pulled across the defined muscles of his chest. The combat jacket left open as he straightens up. It’s always so hard to take my eyes off him. I don’t even want to look, I’m burning to touch him. ‘Kylar…’ I bite my lip. Then I remind myself that I’m not so young anymore. That the girl who was banished from her Pack, grew up. I’m a Doctor, I’m a single Mom. I’m not going to cower and hide from this. I touch my tongue to the top of my teeth. ‘Kylar, I’m not coming back straight away.’‘Right,’ he looks at me for a long hard minute before shrugging. ‘Well, can you message Marie, and let her know when you’re going to be returning? We’ll need to make arrangements for the children.’‘I already spoke to Lou,’ I admit soft
Yet there he is, Ryan standing by a tall sycamore tree. He’s been watching me, waiting for me. I know that with the same certainty that the sun is going to set in the West. I feel the little hairs lift on the back of my neck. I want to turn and run away from him, but I have the horrible feeling that he would chase me down. Whatever he wants, whatever he wants to say, I’ll face it then go back to the house I shared with my Sister. I take a breath and lift up my head. Watching as he slowly walks away from the shadows.‘Do you make a habit of following women around?’ I accuse and cross my arms over my chest, defensive. In the distance I can see the chopper flying away. Taking everyone else home.‘Only when they’re as beautiful as you,’ he coos and I want to slap the smirk straight off his face. Sabre is fury, growling in my thoughts. He’s a Beta and she’s not even close being able to fight him, even when we were teenagers. But she assures me that she is willing to try. I hold back my smi
AvaI return back to the old house. Taking my time again. It feels empty without Kylar, Sasha, Luca and Kyle. Stranger than it ever did when I first returned. Having them around made it feel like a different place. Now it’s just the home I had as a child, and I’m the only person left from my family. I shut the door behind me, and heat up and take out leftovers from the night before. There’s not much else in the house, no one is living here. Not really. I drop down on the sofa, peering at my phone with a sigh, it needs charging again. I swear the battery is dying faster every day. I flick through the channels, watching true crime as I stretch out. The house is cold, even in the middle of summer, and I can’t help but wonder if that’s how I feel I about it. Cold and lifeless. I feel sad that the home I loved doesn’t have a purpose now. I have no intention of being with Josh and becoming his Luna. But perhaps, I can bring my boys back to visit and spend time with their cousins. I ca
The chopper is already landing in the field outside the village. Josh is behind me, helping me back to my feet. I stare at the kitchen without seeing it. Then I’m running. Sprinting up the stairs, I grab my bag and everything within seconds and with my phone stuffed into my pocket, I’m running out the door. It slams behind me. I can hear Josh’s boots thudding into the ground behind me and I look back, nodding as I notice he’s carrying my medical kit. I didn’t even need to hear the messages on my phone to know that the chopper was coming for me. Time slipped away in a heartbeat, I’m focused and I’m getting on that chopper. It barely has time to land. The blades starting to slow before I’m across the grass, ducking as I go. Josh is beside me, throwing in my heavier duffel as I climb up. It’s Kyle who is pulling me into the seat. Waving to Josh as he helps me buckle up.It feels like everything is happening in double time and the ground is falling away. My hearing is numbed by the angr
Kylar holds me tight but the embrace is still brief. He turns and I’m following him, half running to keep up with his longer strides. Elder Marie approaches us both, holding out her hands to me. I blink before tearing off my bag from my shoulder and passing it over with a nod. ‘This will be quicker on four feet,’ Kylar agrees. He hesitates, looking around at the trees that surround us. We’re not quite in the middle of the village yet, but it’s not exactly private either. I don’t care. I shrug him away and start stripping off my shirt. I turn around, keeping my back to Marie as I pull away my clothes, kicking off my boots and shoving my pants down my legs. I close my eyes, taking in a deep breath as I stand naked. I can hear Kylar shedding his clothes behind me and block him out. I concentrate on the feel of dirt beneath my feet. My toes are buried in the spongy moss. I inhale the scent of the forest surrounding me, and I’m hit with the overwhelming pheromones of the future Alpha a