“That’s just Estel,” Miles said. “You have nothing to worry about, baby.” “Is she mated?” I snapped, though I could tell the answer just by looking at her neck. It was clear of scars. Just covered in blood and dirt. “Uh, no,” Miles said nervously. “Huh.” I pressed my lips firmly together, glaring at my other mate and the unfamiliar woman conversing in hushed whispers. She looked upset about something, and he had a sympathetic look on his face. When he reached out and started rubbing her arm, I couldn’t stop the growl from spilling from my lips. “Easy, lapachka,” Lenny said in a tone that was too amused for my fucking liking. “Your claws are showing.” “Fuck you,” I snarled. Mick’s head snapped up when he heard me. He looked worried, and rubbed the woman’s arm one more time before running over to me. “Hey, cara. I didn’t think you would be up. Boyd’s back.” “I see that,” I said through clenched teeth, still glaring at the woman. “Hey,” Mick grabbed my chin and turned it towards
Rodger POVI paced the front porch of the old hotel, still littered with the mayhem from earlier. Warriors and pack members were still clearing bodies from the battle, but that isn’t what is concerning to me right now.It’s the room I found in the belly of this place. Locked behind what I assumed was a utility closet, until I got close enough to feel the dark energy emitting out of it. When Kai and Alexi pried open the door, they were even stunned by what they saw.Alexi went back to the pack to help Boyd get situated, but Kai stayed with me. He was as worried as I was about the room. Now we’re just waiting for my sisters to get here before making any assumptions.“Should I call for one of the Alphas to come too?” Kai asked me.I shook my head. “No. Not yet.” I’d like to know what it is we found first. Plus, I am not sure of how they will react to all of the discoveries. There were some details in there I wasn't prepared to see.Kai looked guilty all of a sudden, probably sensing the
I felt sick, not wanting to see those images again. Kai kept his eyes downcast, maybe with guilt because one of the images clearly had him in it as well.The wall was covered with pictures of my daughter. All from compromising positions. I knew what she had been doing with the others after everything came to light before we left Broom StiXXX, but I never wanted to know the details of such acts to this extent. I wasn’t aware how deeply ingrained she was into the lifestyle the others took part in.Driana looked all over the wall, as did Paulina. I knew when they got to the still image of her with Kai, because they both turned to look at him accusingly.“I’m…. I’m deeply sorry,” he kept his head bowed.“Sure you are,” Driana scoffed. “Have the Alphas seen this yet? I imagine it is them, you and…. .many others should be apologizing too. Not us.”“Not yet,” I said. I felt exhausted, more so than before. “I didn’t know what to tell them. I don’t know what this place is yet.”“Isn’t it obvio
“What about a spatula?” Jamie’s teeth glistened from his crooked smile. The two of them started going at it, Mick growling and yelling as Jamie antagonized him. “Good job getting the attention off you,” Lenny chuckled in my ear. Miles’s chest rumbled with his own amusement against me. “Hey, Chloe,” Riley smirked at me, leaning forward with his head resting over his folded hands. “Did Lenny, an unmated wolf, just whisper in your ear?” “That’s not the same,” I lifted my chin, sending a glance at the shewolf down the table. “He’s my babysitter.” “So you spend a lot of time alone together?” Riley looked absolutely devious. “Are you accusing me of something, cat?” Lenny asked in a hard voice. “I was accused, even though it was bs,” Estel muttered, earning a possessive growl from me. I don’t know her from shit and have smelled her on my mates the past few days while things were tense between us. It’s so fucking different. “Is that my dress?” I sneered, my eyes sweeping down her body.
Miles POV“Fucking ridiculous,” Ivar snarled in my head.“I agree.” I watched as Chloe and Lenny left the room, trying to hold back my irritation until she was out of earshot.“She needs more guards than just Lenny,” Mick whispered to me.Dave chose that moment to snore really loudly, and Riley had to elbow him in the gut.“We’ll go,” Riley sighed. “Come on, papa bear. Time to wake up.”“Where are we going?” Dave looked around the room with an irritable expression. There was still tension from Chloe’s outburst that I’m sure he could feel.“To babysit.”Dave grumbled, “I fucking hate kids,” but got up to follow Riley anyway.“I wanna go too!” Winnie whined, and got up to follow, but Cindy reached over and pulled him back to his chair.“You just want to see Boyd. Beau will let us know when it’s time to see him, honey.”Winnie sat with a huff, crossing his arms over his chest and slamming his feet onto the table. “Miss priss and her cranky butt gets to walk out when she wants but I can’
Estel POV “What a shit show,” I sighed as Emily, Cindy and I walked together outside. “I think it’s safe to say that their Luna hates me.” Emily giggled. “She’s just overprotective, like any mated shewolf would be with her mates. Whispering in Mick’s ear was your mistake.” I grimaced. “I wasn’t whispering in his ear. We were just talking.” “With your heads close together while she watched,” Emily smirked. “She doesn’t know you. Of course she got defensive.” “So the Alphas can’t even talk to other shewolves without their Luna’s wrath?” Cindy scoffed. “You did nothing wrong, sweetie. She just needs to get her panties out of a bunch.” “You don’t understand because you’re not mated yet,” Emily looked at him carefully, like she was trying to decipher something in her head. “You can’t really control your possessive side. Your wolf kind of takes control in those moments.” “And you just need to piss all over your loved one, and piss everyone else off in the process. I got that,” Cindy s
“This is what Alexi was talking about?!” I asked in horror, staring at the polaroid pictures Beta Desmond brought back from the hotel.After our much needed run, where our wolves could physically connect after so long, Miles, Mick and I returned to the pack house to shower and eat before going back to the meeting room at the warrior center. As soon as we walked in the pack house, the Beta asked us to meet him in my mates’ office to see what it was they found.I turned my head, my eyes taking in all the details of each photo of a photo. They were all of me in the midst of fucking someone. I cringed, knowing who had first seen those pictures.Rodger.Well, if he didn’t want to admit I was his daughter before, he sure as hell wouldn’t now. There’s evidence here of me fucking half of the men from our Broom StiXXX family.I could feel the displeasure in both of my mates. Mick wasn’t even featured in any of these. Well, he might be in some. There were several close-ups of my face, maskless.
Shame was still weighing heavy on me as we made our way up to the bedroom. I felt exposed and raw. It’s easy not to care what others think of you when you’re in a place you hate, like when I was in my first pack, or when you are living among others that have lived similarly. Being the Luna of this pack, a pack I have come to care for deeply, makes me scared of what the normal, wholesome pack members would think of me if they were to ever find pictures and videos of me from my past. How would they react? I never, ever cared about what Cameron, his parents, or his pathetic, ranked wolves thought of me. I went through the motions of being a Luna to survive, but never cared. Here, in Setting Sun Pack, I care. I care so much that it's eating me up inside. I was silent the entire walk to our room. I wanted to take a shower and get this dirty feeling off of me. “Do you still think we’re mad at you?” Mick asked, a lot more gently than his tone before. “Because if you do, that’s total bull