COLE'S POV
I hit the counter with my fist, Xander stepping up next to me as the anger and rage take more of an effect and we snap.
"I CAN'T BE HERE... I CAN'T BE THIS CLOSE AND NOT TOUCH HER... I'll be in the barracks if you need me!"
I then stormed out of the house and headed over to the barracks. Once there, I walk into Alexander's office and have a look at his patrol map and schedule. Unfortunately, with all the help I had been giving him before, there is nothing here to do.
I pace the office for a while trying to bring the anger and rage under some sort of control but it isn't working the only way to make it lesser is to be with Skyler but with just how she reacted there is no way she is letting me close to her, anytime soon. I just hope it doesn't take us too much longer.
I am just leaving the office when I see the calendar Alexander has on the wall. I am surprised it has been so long. I walk over to the desk and pick up
SKYLER'S POV I have been waiting for Cole to return so I can spend some time with him and start getting close to him once more. I smile a little to myself when I see him exit the house and sit on the porch. He just sits there and watches, it would be nice to know what he is thinking but he has our link blocked, I then see Samuel trip, Emma, he then runs off without so much as a look back to see if she was alright, so I catch up with him and say, "Samuel, that wasn't very nice..." "I didn't mean to, Mummy, it was an accident..." "Samuel! The truth?" "But Mummy, she called me a Wolfie pup!" I giggle a little to myself as it was Emma's way of calling him a Mummy's pup without actually saying it. "But Samuel, that is no reason to trip her over..." I quickly look over to where Emma had fallen and see that Cole is with her, picks her up and heads back to where he was sitting on the porch. "When Emma comes back to play, I want
COLE'S POV I got back from King Noah's territory a few moments ago and heard the pups outside playing. I walked out the kitchen door and smile at what I see. I then sit down on the porch and watch as Skyler plays with Samuel, Emma, Marcus and Claire. I ponder and still can't believe, even after all this time, that my brothers allowed her to keep both Samuel and Emma as Skyler confirmed to me that they are the result of what I did to her that night. Samuel is so much like me that it is scary sometimes, and Emma, well, she is a spitting image of Skyler in both looks and personality. She will be one strong-willed she-wolf when she grows up. I smile, thinking that if Skyler's mother hadn't been killed, and she wasn't put through all the abuse from her father and brother, she would be a totally different person. As I watch her now, I can see the Alpha/Luna she should have been, but I know that even though what she went through with her family was something no one should h
SKYLER'S POV With having the twins, I didn't get to spend more than one night with Elijah when we first mated and then, with the resurfacing of one of my bad memories, I only got to spend one night with Nathan as well. So, being here with Cole, I have lost complete track of time. I feel like I'm 18 again and spending imitate time with my mate for the first time.I have fear, excitement, nerves and extreme pleasure running through me, on their own as well as combinations of all of them. Cole has been wonderful, giving me so much pleasure as well as receiving the pleasure I give him. I stretch and let out a mix of a moan and a growl as Cole tightens his arms around me and kisses along my shoulder to where my mark from each of them sits. He sucks on it as he whispers for the thousandth time, "Skyler, this is absolutely beautiful... And I'm glad I can now be proud that you are wearing it... I have finally proven that it deserves to be there..." "Co
SKYLER'S POV "SKYLER! SKYLER!"I woke up to my brother James yelling from downstairs and the sun shining in my eyes. I stretched my sore muscles, that were slowly recovering from my punishment last night. I look at the clock and gasp as a shiver of fear runs through my body. It's after 8 in the morning and I should have been up at 5:30 to make enough breakfast for the entire pack. I look at my alarm and realize that it had gone off, but I had slept through it, not that it was actually surprising as my punishment last night was one of the worst I have had in a while. I only just got up to my room and onto my bed before the pain made me pass out. I get out of bed and up onto my feet as quickly as I can and ran into my small bathroom; I did my morning routine as quickly as I could, missing my shower, not that it mattered when I had it as my showers are always cold. I throw on a pair of black skinny jeans, a long-sleeved t-shirt to cover the scars and the new cuts on my arms, and I ad
SKYLER'S POVThe next morning, I actually wake up with my alarm. I'm extremely stiff and sore. I'm sure my bruises have bruises. I slowly get up and make my way into my bathroom. I use the toilet, then hop into the shower. Oh, how I wish I could shower downstairs as the hot water doesn't reach the attic. I don't even think the Alpha had the hot water connected all the way up here, just another one of his daily punishments. If I can get up early enough and be as quiet as possible, I can occasionally steal a warm shower on the next floor down, but that is usually only like once a month, so it won't be this morning. I grit my teeth so they won't chatter as I wash the grime and dry blood off my body as quickly and as carefully as I can, then I wash the blood out of my hair, turn the water off and get out. I move into my room and sit down at my vanity, the only thing my dad the all-mighty Alpha would allow me to keep from my old room, looking in the mirror my eyes land on the 3 large scar
SKYLER'S POV I finished preparing the special lunch for the visiting Alpha. I had just completed the cleaning of the kitchen from my cooking when I feel a sharp pain run up and down my back and into my arms and legs. I try to hold in my scream and hold on to the kitchen counter hard until the pain passed. Once the pain has passed, I slowly make my way to the stairs. I put my hand on the rail and suppress another scream as another wave of pain runs down my spine. I wipe the tears from my cheeks and freeze as I see my fingers. They now have claws instead of fingernails. Just as another wave hits, I realize that my body is getting ready to shift. As I wait for this wave of pain to subside, I frown, realising that I shouldn't be shifting yet. I shouldn't shift until the moon rises, but I am. When the pain finally subsides, I let go of the railing, and then ran out the back door, through the woods, until I make it to the flower field. I had always told Mum after we found the flower fie
ALPHA COLE MASON'S POVThis is one thing I hate about my job, I hate having to travel to the other packs and having the Alpha's of those packs kissing my arse, but if I want to keep my allies and my treaties up to date either me or my brothers have to visit each one. Unfortunately, I drew the short straw today and I'm the one that has to do the visit to the Midnight Lake Pack. On the bright side, I might find my mate. We each believe we will, one day, meet our mates on one of these alliances or treaty updates. We, or should I say I am hoping that we won't have the same mate. I don't know if I or my wolf Xander would be able to share her. My name is Cole Mason and I am one of 3 Alphas from the Royal Blood Moon Pack.I am traveling today with our Beta Max Fight. It's a long 6-hour drive from our pack to the Midnight Lack Pack. I hate these long drives. I would have preferred to have run in wolf form, but I am tra
SKYLER'S POVI hear someone say something softly to me but I can't make out what is said over the pain running through me. I think he just re-broke the ribs Alice had just finished healing. I then feel two arms wrap around me and lift. I feel like I'm floating. I know that they are not the Alpha's as they are not cold like his have been since I was 7. These arms are warm and then I am surrounded by this divine scent of chocolate and rain. That is when I realize that I am being carried in a pair of strong arms belonging to someone that I don't know. I feel sparks everywhere his arms touch my body even through the thin layer of clothes I was wearing, but now instead of feeling scared, I relax as I feel comfortable and safe like nothing can touch or hurt me. I snuggle closer to the warmth, inhale deep, and fall back into darkness.I jolt up with the sun in my eyes, looking at the time to see that it is 11 am and p