Leelie. 15 Years Ago...
"You don't get it! She's going to kill everyone. She's not like us. She's going to destroy us. She needs to die. Kill her before it's too late," his mother screams at him as he stands protectively in front of the little girl she drugged so she wouldn't feel any pain a she killed her.
"She's a baby," Jayk cries. "She's your baby, mom. No!"
"Jayk, baby. She's an abomination," his mother cries, her voice and her eyes crazed with intent. Intent Warheads experience when they need to feed the disease. She hasn't killed in weeks preparing for this moment.
Dagmar is the prettiest little girl I have ever met. She had just turned three and I had never seen anyone look at another person the way Jaykob l
Ghost is running up and down the hall playing with her new ball. She takes it in her mouth and then throws it. She'll watch it roll away and then go after it happily. I'm here for the show she's putting on. I love the way her huge floppy ears just whip back and forth. She doesn't know she's a big-ass dog and it's hilarious.I promised Jayk that I would go out and make my presence known. We needed to bait the Beta house and I have to be the bait."I got you something," I looked up at Micca and Miles who walked in with a few boxes in their arms."You mean some things?" I ask.They set the baby blue gift-wrapped boxes with black bows in front of me. The two stand there with their arms crossed looking
Jaykob "You're really going to let the twins sleep in the same room as your sister? Both of them?" Leelie asks as some of the guys bring my things into what used to be Dagmar's room. "They're her mates. She's not rejecting them," I shrug. I make my way to the kitchen. I'm not exactly hungry but I can use something sweet. "Jay, you know I'm all for giving the three of them what they want but pushing them into this is not how we should approach it. Especially with Micca. He's-" she lets out a heavy sigh. "You've been really hard on him from the start, Jay. The kid has some pretty ugly habits. Exposing Mars to that-" "Leelie, they're not kids anymore," I dismiss her. "The full moon is tonight. Dagmar will shift and this discussion will be pointless," Micca storms down the stairs and drops into the black leather couch in the living room. The scent of anger follows. Miles comes in with Ghost prancing behind
A little past ten p.m. my heart started racing for no reason and it hasn't slowed. I'm sitting outside alone with only my thoughts to accompany me. Jaykob isn't sure how violent my shift will be and thought it would be best if they weren't too close while it happened. I am a few minutes away from coming of age. I should be worried about my shift, but I can't stop thinking about what Jaykob said to me earlier tonight. Micca is an omega. A trait inherited by one of his parents, most likely his mother as her firstborn. Male omegas are rare nowadays. They were the first to be killed off when the world went to shit. The packs only kept the females to use them as breeders. High-rank females don't often make it through their pregnancies, but omega females can have kids back to back throughout their life spans without any problems. Male omegas were used for a completely different reason. They have this irresistible charm about them. From the way they look down to
Jaykob's wolf is a huge silverback. I'd never seen him shift before and it isn't very comforting. His aura screams alpha more than it had before. I feel it now. The power radiating off him is terrifying. Warheads were never supposed to be able to take rank. We were experiments created by wolves who had once been human. When they realized that former humans couldn't rise in rank the way born wolves do, they did what humans do best. They took things too far. The first group of Warheads was called The Plague. Unlike us, these wolves weren't genetically created through our parents. They were altered as teenagers just before their first shift and it broke something inside of them. They became machines used to hunt down alphas and omegas. They weren't sentient. At least, not in their wolf form. And they only answered to their creator. Dr. Ahamed Patel.The leading specialist in former shifter genetics. He became a target by the first pack alliance ever c
Fog sets over the wet grass in the late hours of the night. The lights aren't as bright as they had been when Jayk first brought me here. I feel the morning dew damping my fur and I know that I have to head back soon. I figure I can find my way back on my own. The reason for it is because I know what I'm going home to. I've been mentally preparing for it for a while now and I can easily say that I don't know if I'm ready. Yet, I feel a little excited. More than that, I feel eager to see Miles. We've gotten close lately. He holds back because he has so much to tell me. Things that include Micca and he wants him to be there for that. As the dominant of the three of us, I don't know how our relationship is going to work. Especially now that I know that Micca is an omega. I was worried before, but now I feel it more. I understand why he did what he did, I just don't understand why he fucking did it in the room across from me. He and I are going to bump heads
"This is a map of our territory," Jayk turns to face the dining room table. There's a huge map of the city stretched out from end to end. There are marbles from my old mancala game in a circle formation just outside the city limits. We are right in the center of it. He used an earpiece to mark our location. I look up at him impressed with the size of the territory. The little smirk on his dumb face tells me he's pleased with himself. "These," Leelie tosses some marbles in her hand before she puts a few of them down inside the circles. "Are the villas we use to house the rest of the pack," "How many members in total?" I ask. "Forty-six. Including you," Ashton answers. "We're not very good at recruiting," Jayk sighs. "But we do need to raise our numbers," "What are you planning to do with all this?" I ask. "I don't know yet, but right now. The money flow is going down and it's not good for business,"
Miles is in the shower when I get back up to my room. Ashton made meatloaf and I was starving. He and I are officially friends. He told me this insane story about him catching the deer he used to make the ground beef he used to make tonight's dinner. It is slightly disturbing and interesting with the amount of detail he uses. "Hey," Miles greets me. I sit up to find him dressed in a pair of basketball shorts while he is drying his hair with a towel. I instantly feel my face flare with heat as I fall back on the bed. I have so many questions about mates. First, I think I would like to ask Danica how the fuck she fought this if she knew Jayk was her mate from the moment he climbed out of that car when Gwen and I were fighting. His scent alone is getting a rise out of me. It has been from the moment I stepped into the backyard, but having him in front of me now. I have zero self-control. There is no way I am going to be able to lay here next to
The sound of metal lightly tapping against glass wakes me. Jayk is sitting on the other side of the glass coffee table tapping the tip of the custom pen Lydia gave him last year for his birthday. The words Big Daddy are engraved into it. I hate that pen and especially hate waking up to him tapping it on the glass coffee table. "Why the fuck are you sleeping on the couch, Mars? I didn't drop ten Gs on your stupid custom bed with an adjustable base to see you sleeping on the couch I know Ashton found in a dumpster," he retorts. I sit up and arch my back. It pops in several spots. When I rotate my shoulders and roll my head more pops bounce around in the darkness of the living room. Leelie is sitting in the armchair on the other side of me. Her legs are propped up on the armrest where my head had been. "What time is it?" I ask fixing my tank top. I am so glad I am wearing a sports bra under. "It's eight," Leelie answers. "In the morni