I think Mike is warming up to Lyric. But is she warming up to him?
LYRIC I think I’m going to make it, I know I can. One little misstep and the spiked beam barrels at me. I turn, but not enough, and two of the spikes cut into me. A sharp excruciating pain shoots through my leg and arm before I feel the heavy hit of the beam swinging back and knocking me off the obstacle course. All the breath wooshes from my lungs as I fall anticipating crashing hard onto the frozen ground. Suddenly warm arms grasp me. Holding me tight. It feels like… comfort and protection. The sparks that travel over my skin ease the hot searing pain I feel in my leg and arm. But only for a moment. How badly was I hit? I had never felt an agony like I did now. I could still feel the sparks and tingles but they were being overridden by the thump of my heart and the burn where my wounds were bleeding. I think I got hit harder than I thought. Everything wobbled and my eyes couldn’t hold focus. “I think I need medical attention.” It was the last thing I remember before passing ou
LYRIC I finish stuffing the last of my clothes in my bag and let out an audible sigh. This isn't what I had in mind when I had been detained. I thought I would be executed or sentenced to time in the dungeons for my crime. That they would keep my boy safe while I paid for my malfeasance. I was ready to accept that, to do whatever it took to keep my pup safe. What I didn’t expect was for King Kellen to order me to accompany his elite warriors and Beta Mike to the Golden Circle pack. The King had already assigned a team of elites that had left just over an hour ago. We would be leaving sometime this evening. “Mommy, why are you packing? Are you going away again?” Zane stood in the doorway, his little hand grasping Lizzy’s. He looked so sad, his lips forming a little pout and his eyebrows drawn tightly together. It made my heart ache to have to leave him again. But this was the deal I made to keep him safe, hidden from the monster who created him and stole my sister’s life. I cross
MIKE We arrived at Golden Circle and have been here for two days now. Lyric had already set up a control center, upgraded their technology, and linked their systems to the satellite so we had an overhead view of the convoy of vehicles that still sat unmoved approximately 20 miles from the kingdom's border and Golden Circles. Tobias and I had set up security around the pack borders and were monitoring where the weak points in said security were. I have to say they were pretty welcoming to the bear shifter once they found out he was a second in command to Mathias and Lamia, alongside Hunji. That’s what we were doing at this moment, running the perimeter with a few of the Golden Circle warriors and the elite warriors from New Moon, checking the range on the coms Lyric had programmed and switched to a secure channel that couldn’t be hacked. *Were in position.* I mind link my mate. *Copy that.* She replies immediately. Her voice, a sweet sound in my mind reaches Duke who begins to mel
MIKE Brett and I race out the front door of the pack house, Tobias is still outside where other warriors are running toward the tree line. I begin to shift yelling at Tobias “You hear that?” He shouts back and I watch him begin to shift into his larger-than-life beast. My wolf's paws hit the ground just as Tobias’ beast forms and he lets out an almighty roar. With Brett on one side and Tobias on the other, we rushed toward where the warriors who were under attack were stationed. Duke pushes hard and fast, his ears perked listening for unseen intruders. If they took out the warriors at the border they could easily be moving inwards toward the center of the pack. We reach the edge of the border and we halt in our tracks, the scent hitting our noses first. The snow-covered ground is stained with blood, wolf and human body parts are scattered and strewn around the area, resembling a scene from a horror movie. I shift back to my human form, unfortunately, I wasn’t wearing a uniform, a
LYRIC “What in goddesses name was that?” I rush to my mate's side, unbothered by the cold and my naked body on display. I was more concerned with what I had just witnessed. I could hear the screams through the coms and one by one they went offline. On the monitor I was watching a dense fog rolled in, coming from the direction of the convoy, spreading faster than a disease in humans and engulfing the border of the Golden Circle pack. I wasn’t afraid of a fight. I was a trained warrior and I feared for my mate. ‘Mate needs us. Go help mate.’ Note kept repeating over and over until I finally gave in to her demands and rushed from the control room, shifting as I sprinted from the pack house and headed to where the fight was happening. When I came upon the scene, I was just in time to see Twenty-Nine drag Jonda away and I assume the Shadow Witch, use his magic to render warriors motionless and set his beasts upon them. With horror I watched my Beta fight a beast, tearing the thing's th
MIKEI find some clothes on the chair in the room and shoot off a quick mind link to Rhett letting him know I saw Jonda. It’s the right thing to do.The short conversation wasn’t easy, but he was a day and a half out from us and was packing up his gear by the time I cut off our mental connection.I didn’t have to contact Kellen or Lamia; I was sure Tobias had already done that.I would be having words with my wolf later on but now I needed to go find Lyric. I wasn’t happy at the way she walked out of here. And wasn’t happy that she led me on. I could smell her fear, and I wasn't angry that she feared intimacy. I was angry at myself for trying to push her, for being me, and for attempting to take advantage.But waking up to her, I just couldn’t help myself. That kiss was everything I never thought I would feel, could feel. It was the wake-up call I needed.The revelation that she was my fated mate and I wanted to claim her. No if’s no buts. Any doubt had been erased from my mind with t
MIKE Back in the room Alpha Brett had assigned for me, I find Tobias behind the tiny desk that sits in the corner. Due to the Golden Circle pack not being as big as the palace, obviously. Tobias and I were sharing a room. He looks up from the papers he was reading and gives me a look, raising an eyebrow. “Shut it, Toby.” I bark as his mouth opens like he was about to say something. I don’t need to hear his condescending advice or listen to him joke about my situation. I was mad as shit at myself as it was. She may have initiated that second kiss, but it was me who jumped all over her and was ready to lay her flat out on the table and take what I wanted. With or without consent and no remorse. I was wound up tighter than a top hat. That wasn’t like me. I wasn’t that guy; Duke wasn’t that wolf. I acted like a desperate manwhore, which only part of that would be true. I was a manwhore. Until I met Jonda. But even now, I only wanted Lyric. My wolf was adamant he was going to mate wi
LYRIC I didn’t think I would be able to sleep. Not with the impending doom that hovered over the Golden Circle Pack. Over me and mine. I thought calling and talking to my boy would help. It did but only for a few moments until he passed the phone to Lizzy. Who told me that Queen Tala had come to sit with them as well as Olivia, the former beta’s mate. My mate's mother. They had brought the little prince with them. She also told me security had been ramped up in the wake of what happened here and the Shadow witch's threat. They now had four guards posted outside the suite at all times. It made me and my wolf feel just that little better that they were safe and being taken care of in my absence. I closed my eyes willing for sleep to take me, yet also anticipating that when I did the nightmares would come. I was on edge as it was, and Note was on full guard. I wasn’t sure when I had fallen asleep, so over-exhausted that my body naturally let me fall into darkness. At first, the vis