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62: Chains of the Past
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Rite of Power 63: Legends
Dealing with Dr Martinez was surprisingly, the easiest part of my day. On paper everyone in our secret little science experiment group was perfectly healthy. Nathan and Mark both only had a drop or two of my blood in their system, and she called them abnormally strong and healthy, but neither showed any signs for concern. I still didn’t share with her that Mark had had dreams about me that correlated to the green flame incident. Sophie and Blake had an indeterminate amount of my blood, but Isabel concluded it was less than she’d injected into Kelly, judging by how fast I healed and how little blood flowed from a shallow cut on my palm. Sophie had already showed all the markers you’d expect to see in an Alpha’s genetics, but even so, she exhibited more strength, speed and heightened senses than she had before. Isabel wasn’t sure how much of that was attributed to my blood or Sophie’s wolf. Blake on the other hand showed a marked increase, bordering somewhere between Alp
Rite of Power 64: Rumors
“The Thompson girl is set to face off with the Opalescent Moon’s female Alpha on the new moon,” the messenger knelt and bowed his head low. I waved him off, “She deserves whatever fate befalls her for reaching beyond her station. What of the other Alphas? Have they started to move yet?” “It would appear that the Alpha of the Jade Forest Pack will be staying in residence to mediate the challenge, and they just sent out messengers to the other Alphas today. I doubt that many of them will be willing to leave the safety of their own packs while the Vὅlsung is near though.” He kept his head down, “Do you want me to intercept one of the messengers?” “No,” I snapped my eyes away from the view of the foreign city sprawling below me to where he knelt, “I haven’t decided on a course of action just yet, and we don’t have enough information about her to know where she’ll land after it’s all said and done.” “Without a more direct s
Rite of Power 65: Ambitious Alphas
I found Dmitri and Caleb exactly where I expected too, based on Dmitri’s mood. It was the only place that Caleb could irritate him so much that it set my teeth on edge. I didn’t bother knocking; sauntering into the main office, interrupting whatever argument they were having. “I do hope that you boys are playing nice together in here.” “We’re just trying to iron out some of the finer details of persuading the other Alphas to see past Ulf’s lies,” he tried to sound like he was completely calm, but Dmitri’s tone was too clipped. “We’ve already received messengers from several packs that their Alphas would like to serve as witnesses to the trial by challenge,” Caleb’s sleazy, used car salesman smile made me feel uneasy, “and most of them would like to bring their Lunas as well to join in with Kelly’s baby shower celebration.” There it was. I sighed, not bothering to try to hide my irritation the way Dmitri did, “And why would they be so e
Rite of Power 67: Shoot the Messenger
A sense of dread settled in my bones as we rode out into the woods once again. The smell hit me before we pulled to a stop beside a derelict looking cement block of a building. The scent of old blood, mixed with dirt, filth and the stench of decay and death was enough to turn the stomach of the most hardened warrior. “What the fuck is this place?” “Not all interrogations can be done with words alone,” Dmitri frowned at the moss covered grey wall. “The fact that Nathan thought this was the best place to meet worries me.” “So it’s a torture shed?” I was happy that words were the only thing I managed to vomit at the moment.&n
Rite of Power 67: Bait in the Trap
Selene chewed on her lower lip thoughtfully, “I don’t know what I think of this yet.” “You don’t have to do anything,” Sophie tried to reason with her; “we don’t know anything about who sent this, or what their intentions are. Like Dimi said, it could just be a poorly executed attempt to lure you out into the open.” It’d been so long since my sister had sided with me against her that I wasn’t sure that I heard her correctly. “We have no way of knowing how much of this is fact and we’re already stretched thin with your impending fight against Candice. Not to mention how all eyes are going to be scrutinizing your every move be
Rite of Power 68: Smart Moves
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Rite of Power 69: Friendly Foes
Neither Nathan nor Sophia was particularly thrilled with me when I declared their race a draw. Not only had I not been able to be there to see who got to the door that was chosen as the finish line, but neither was willing to rely on what Erik had observed. Part of me thought they’d rather call it a draw just as an excuse to race again later. Once we got Erik down to the secure wing, our betas split off from us to be seen taking care of our normal evening tasks for us. If all four of us seemed to be unreachable for too long people tended to take notice, but if just Dmitri and I were absent while our betas filled in for us, people assumed we were tearing each other’s clothes off. Kalliope wasn’t surprised to see me, not after Dr Martinez and Xandikos told her that I’d made of habit of visiting her daily while she was in her coma. She didn’t even seem all that surprised to see Dmitri there with me. But she couldn’t disguise the shock and c
Rite of Power 70: Jailbird
This was a bad idea. I knew it was a bad idea, but Selene promised we’d abort the plan if any little thing didn’t go exactly as planned. With any luck, it would only be a two hour drive out past a building and then a two hour drive back home. Even Selene hadn’t seemed particularly optimistic to test herself with such high stakes. I liked it less that we’d had to leave Nathan behind with Sophia to cover for us, but if something happened to keep us from returning, he was the next in line to take my place. I would’ve rather of left Sophia behind, but with her preference towards women, she couldn’t take up the mantle of Alpha and continue our family’s legacy. Instead I was left with Blake, who was more
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