Hey guys - Sorry updates were waaaay off last week. It will likely continue this week too. Lots going on at the day job. But we'll get back to six chapters per week really soon.
Fati left with her parents to head to college today. I haven’t seen her in week. Hadn’t talked to her for weeks before that. It’s been less than a month, but it feels like forever. And now she’s gone. There’s nothing that I can do about it. I’m sitting in my apartment, mindlessly flipping through the channels on the TV that I rarely use. I rarely have the time to watch TV, but now I can’t seem to muster enough energy to do anything else. Suddenly, there’s a knock at the door and I can scent my two best friends. “Go away!” I call out from the couch, knowing that they’ll be able to hear me. “No chance!” Ethan calls back. “You’re not wallowing tonight. We’re going out!” “Fuck that shit!” I call back, but I still push myself up and off the couch. I walk over to the door and unlock it, not even bothering to open the door before I turn back to the couch. They both walk in, Finnegan huffing out a lau
Come on, Fati! We can’t be late for the first day of classes,” Ollie calls to me from the foot of the stairs. I have my door open and thank the Goddess Above that everyone was already up and down at breakfast this morning for the first day of classes frenzy. Angela had told me that as the days wore on and people got more settled in, that wouldn’t be the case anymore. But for now, the school year was new, there were new wolves in the packhouse, and life was bright and shiny. Our wolves wanted to make a good first impression.“Give me five minutes!” I call down to Ollie as I loop a hair tie around my long French braid. I never wear my hair down, usually pulling it into a long ponytail. But, again, since today is the first day of school, I wanted to put in an extra effort. I had done two long French braids down either side of my head and wanted to curl the front pieces that I had pulled out to frame my face. Problem was, I have an impatient wolf at the foot of the stai
I stand in the clearing in front of an altar to Hecate that we have set up in our backyard. We share part of our land with my parents, meaning that it backs up to the woods and is near a stream, making it peaceful and close to nature. Behind us, the backyard is packed. My parents and three siblings, his parents and three siblings. And that’s just our families. There’s many of the other trios with their families. The Elite. Members of my coven. Selene and Thor. Hecate of course and her group of men. It’s fucking insane just for a pregnancy blessing. But even though it’s been a year after the show down in the Underworld, we all are finding everything that we can do to celebrate. It just brought home the fact that you never know what day is going to be your last. Spend it how you want to gain happiness and love. So that’s what we’re doing, getting a blessing for Nathan and my baby. The baby that we were specifically brought toget
Two days later… I stand in line with the other graduates from the college of Health and Human Development at Arcadia University. My gown feels like a furnace trapping the heat inside and I almost wish that I had taken Finnegan and Ethan’s dare to just go buck ass naked underneath. I could change into my wolf and run home to change before my father would ever see me. Of course, he’d still know. He always knows somehow. I think it has to do with some of the gifts that he gleaned from his mating with my mother and from being an oracle himself. Mom…I wish she was here. Sometimes I can see her when I astral project onto Hecate’s plane, but I wish that she could see me graduate from the career that she encouraged me to do. Her death during the fight with Fenrir outside the gates of Valhalla nearly destroyed our father. When a wolf loses his mate, a piece of his soul dies. Some less powerful wolves will die with their mates, t
The day is spent hanging out with Caleb’s family and mine, along with about 50 other graduates and their families at a huge barbecue. It’s a day full of fun, food, and family and I love it. But I have been waiting for tonight.I’m so proud of Caleb. For finding something that he wanted to do. A way to help people, like he’s always wanted to do.It’s more than I’ve been able to figure out.As a luna in this huge, country-wide pack, it’s my responsibility to find my niche. The thing that I can do to help keep the pack going. Papá became the head of the college. Ba researches all of…well everything for the pack from fighting styles to vacation spots. And Mom is the main Oracle of the pack. They had it all figured out within a year of getting their gifts and I still haven’t even gotten my gift, let alone figured out what I’m going to do with the rest of my life.But I need to put that out of my mind. Because tonight is all about Caleb and the new set of lingerie that
I’m seated at a spot on the patio at one of the local brunch places. It’s meant for families, a play area with soft turf and a smaller area for babies outside next to the patio. I got here for our reservation early after walking here. Selene had things that she wanted to talk about and I often find it easier to move during those conversations in my head. Might as well do something productive. Julie, the owner, comes over to the table. “Hey, Meredith!” “Hi, Julie. How are you? How are the pups? And Joe?” I ask her. Julie has become a good friend and Gael, Hakeem, and I had helped her with the capital to get this place off the ground. Because of that, we are the only people that actually get a reservation here. She says that if you really want something, you either arrive on time to get a seat or its worth the wait. “Joe is perfect. The girls are giving me gray hair trying to figure out their major at the college. And the twins have just
I sit in my office facing away from my desk, looking out through the open double doors that lead out into our yard. Though it’s a yard in the loosest sense of the word. Most humans, hell most werewolves, love to have an open clearing behind their house. A place to set up a patio or a pool. A place for pups to play or cookouts to take place. But that’s not what our yard is. We have a very large front yard that showcases the front of our house with a large porch across the front. But the back of the house is surrounded by trees. The only clear area is a path that goes through the trees, leading to a circular clear space about 50 feet in. The path is about two people across and I have a clear view from the desk in my office. It’s where Citra used to commune with Hecate on the Astral Plane, similar to how Bella has a large flat rock that she sits on by the river behind their house. I used to watch her out there, my wolf unable to stop
My lungs feel like they’re exploding, longing for air. I know that if I just open my mouth, let the water in, that it will be over. But it turns out that the more human I become, the more difficult it is to intentionally drown myself. Through the mindlink, I hear Hermes say, Stop fighting it, polemistí mou (my warrior). Let the Lethe in and then we can let you up. It all sounds so simple, especially to a god. Just breathe in the healing waters of the Lethe, the famed river in the Underworld where all ills are cured. Where Hercules gained his near invulnerability. Where traumatized souls came to forget after their deaths. According to Michael, the archangel who had been my guide as an angel, their god was able to give his “holy power” to those that he deemed worthy. But he was unable to take it away. That was the “world’s work,” for all were made in their god’s image and all were full of his glory. He was unable to take that away from them.