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The Alpha’s Awakening Forty One.
Atlas’s POVHunter was lucky, as he laid asleep in his crib, he was completely oblivious to everything that was happening around him. Everyone else remained glued to the televisions, some giving me updates whenever they popped in to check on my sleeping mate.“I get why she did it!” Aesha slumps in the chair next to me. Casting her eyes over Aria.“You’re fifteen, what would you know about it?”“She’s spent her life cooped up, locked away from the world, never allowed to travel further than her pack. She finally snapped. She couldn't take it no more and now she has something more important to protect."“Glad to hear that Athena has caught you up!”“Actually, Athena was busy. It was that guy, the one who wanted to see you.. Simon!”“And what exactly did Simon have to say?”“Not a lot, well not when it came to what’s happening back in his pack, but he spoke a lot about Aria. Answered my questions. Did you really kill her family?”Really? Thanks a bunch, Simon!“It wasn’t me, it was Ryan
The Alpha’s Awakening Forty Two.
Atlas’s POVTala is trying to take over, isn’t she? Just like how you did with me.‘If I remember correctly, you wanted me too!’But it was what you were planning anyway!‘Yes but that changed, remember! You wimped out!’Well, fuck you. I like it this way better!‘You like it better?’ I had never had a past host tell me they preferred it. They had always died out. Ryan had been the only one strong enough to cope with it.Course I do. I still get to be with Aria. I still love her, but I haven’t got all the hard work of sorting your life out!‘Interesting.’When I thought I was going to die, I was ready to throw everything I had at life, but this, this is so much better!He fades out and I feel him hovering around in the back of my mind, quietly humming to himself. A noise that I was gradually getting used to after all this time.It still seemed strange, a man that wanted to hand his life over when everyone else had fought against me so hard.“Is Aria okay?” Athena pulls me from my thou
The Alpha’s Awakening Forty Three.
Aria’s POVI remembered how I felt that night. The fear, the pain and the shock as I watched Moon Bay get burned to the ground. It felt just the same as I peered out through the small window of my cell. Everything was on fire. People running around screaming, fighting. Dead bodies laid crumpled on the ground. The smell of blood filling the air.Thick black smoke swirled into the sky. This wasn’t supposed to be happening. We were supposed to have the upper hand. After everything, all the shit that I had experienced, the deaths, the loss, it was time to be who I was supposed to be.“Let me out, Atlas.”When I turned around, the door was already open and Atlas was gone.“Go to Hunter!” He links meI had no intentions of doing that, I knew that wherever Hunter was, he was safe. I could feel it in my heart.Humans, there were humans everywhere, their scent rolled across the land. They were here and their numbers and more were coming. How had they found us? Everyone was fighting for their l
The Alpha’s Awakening Forty Four.
Atlas’s POV“She did what?” I snap as Aesha’s words tumbled from her mouth. “What were you even doing down there? I told you I wanted you to stay away until I’m sure that the medicine worked.“Well, whatever it is you are giving her isn’t working. She is turning into something else. She sounded so cruel. So manipulative.”“Trust me, it’s working, I saw her eralier.”“You didn’t see her the way I did, Atlas. There was rage in her eyes, she was trying to order me to do something in the same way as you use that weird voice. What if she had? I would have let her out and then who knows what she would have done. I felt safer around Frederick!” She folds her arms over her chest and turns away.“Safer with Frederick?”“At least with him, I had a fair idea of what was happening, even if it did turn out to be lies. Here, you tell me nothing.”“It’s for the best.”“For the best? I may only be fifteen but you don’t know half the shit I’ve done.” She raises her voice, but her eyes suddenly go wide
The Alpha’s Awakening Forty Five.
Atlas’s POVHuman after human, I tear them apart. Promising myself that I would get my revenge for what happened to my mate.The scent of blood swirled in the air as the humans screamed begging for their lives. They should not have come to war if they were not prepared to dieYou have to stop. This isn’t going to bring her back! Ryan pleads with me.But this is what they came for. They came for us and I had no intention of letting them leave.Humans tried to run, trying to escape their deaths and yet the Lycans and wolves seemed to have a whole new reason to kill. They wanted revenge for Aria’s death as much as I did.As the remnants of the humans laid scattered across the grounds, I instructed my men to check that no one was hiding amongst them. The last thing I needed was a human that could escape to tell the tale.Shifting back to my human form, I go back to Aria’s lifeless body. Pain exploded through my chest all over again as I held her close. She had been taken away from me, fr
The Alpha’s Awakening Forty Six.
Atlas’s POVEveryone stayed out of my way except for one. He never spoke but it wasn’t like I could get rid of him either. His constant looks of disapproval and tutting were starting to grind on me.‘Ryan, if you don’t start keeping your disapproving looks to yourself, I will take that concoction that I made for Aria and block you altogether.’You’re losing it!‘Fuck off!’You need to talk about her!‘Will you shut the fuck up!’No. I loved her too and now, now you are just shutting down. Do you even care how I feel!‘You didn't love her, not like I did.’ There, I had said it. The overwhelming ache of my heart was almost too much. ‘But you got what you wanted, didn’t you, Ryan?’He is quiet again, because he knew exactly what I was referring to. The day he attacked her family. The plan he had made with Aria's sister, Seren. He had got what he wanted all along. A child with the woman he was mated too.It’s not like that. I made a mistake. He mutters at me, but I could feel that I had h
The Alpha’s Awakening Forty Seven.
Atlas’s POVThe small girl remains asleep for hours. Whether it was shock or tiredness that was causing her to sleep so heavily, I couldn’t tell. Her blonde hair was dirty. There were blood stains around her finger nails. Her blood splattered clothes were too small for her, torn in places too. Her feet were bare and didn’t look like they had been cleaned in days, maybe weeks.Hunter stirs in my arms, making little noises and I watch as the girl's face screws up. Like my son's sounds were causing her some distress. Calling for Aesha, she comes into my office and takes Hunter from me, casting a glance over the young girl.“Still not woken?” She asks and I shake my head.“I think she might have needed it.”“Sleep? She was with humans, surely they were looking after her, she is just a kid. At least you haven't killed her. Does that mean you are going ahead with what I suggested?"I don't respond. But I had investigated the girls feet. The hardened skin, the old scars, the clothes that wer
The Alpha’s Awakening Forty Eight.
Atlas’s POVOver the course of the next few days, it was almost impossible to get anymore information out of Bethany. The moment she felt threatened, she would clam up. Hiding herself away, never leaving the house and refusing to speak to anyone. The only thing that would coax her out of her hiding spot was hot food. Today, it seemed like the smell of food wasn’t even working. I would have to go and find her when I was done.“Some great idea of yours.” I mutter as Aesha sits at the breakfast table with Athena and I.Athena cocks an eyebrow at me. She didn’t have a clue what I was talking about, but her gaze hit me hard. I had allowed Athena and Aesha to stay in the packhouse. In some ways it helped me feel close to Aria. Yet, it always seemed like they were watching my every move.“Is this about the funeral, Atlas? Because you can’t keep putting it off forever. Aria isn’t coming back.” I heard the undertone in her voice. She was trying to be assertive but she was grieving like the res
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