Nova POV“It is safe now Sofia. The mean men are all gone. Can you wait for Nova at the training grounds? I need to speak to her?,” Dad gently told Sofia. She slowly looked around before standing up and following his instructions. Dad hesitated as she walked away and shouted, “ Sofia I want you to know I love you.” “Dad! What happened? Why didn’t they use poison on you? How did the Order find us in the first place?” My dad let out a heavy breath before turning to me and saying, “ I don’t know. But we have much to discuss and little time to do so.”Confused I asked him, “ Why don’t we have time?”“I have a theory as to why they didn’t use poison.I feel that they may have thought poison in my case would be a waste. They had been planning to kill your mother. When a member or a marked and mated pair dies the one left behind is significantly weakened. Usually causing depression and sometimes death from the breaking of the bond. This last symptom is rare but not unheard of. Usually mates
All I wanted to do was curl into a ball and continue to cry my eyes out but I couldn’t. Richard and Sofia needed me. The first thing I did was get money from the safe as I had been told. Then I packed a a small bag of clothes, weapons and other necessities for me and my siblings. I also made sure to grab a few pictures of my parents as it would be all I could remember them by. I didn’t spend too much time looking at them and also avoided looking at my mothers body. I couldn’t afford to do either because if I did I would break down and be no use to anyone. I was about to start pouring gasoline to prep the house for a fire when I saw Floofy-Miss-Floofyness. It was a dumb pink dear stuffy that kind of resembled a marshmallow. Sofia couldn’t sleep without it and Mom had made it for her. Even though it wasn’t a necessity I decided to make an exception. She had lost enough tonight, we all had, she didn’t need to loose this too. After I finished pouring the gasoline I dropped several lit m
THREE YEARS LATERLife after my parents died was hard. Being a 15 year old halfbreed, who had yet to get her wolf who now had to raise her younger siblings. Not impossible, just a hell of a lot more difficult.It definitely helped when my wolf Elly entered the picture. She was strong. Not surprising considering I carried beta blood. We began eating better as she could hunt faster than me. The heightened senses also made it harder for others to surprise us. We had many run-ins with rogues. Most were hostile, but a few were good honest people. We began travelling together and slowly we became a family. A pack. Eventually we found a relatively safe place to settle and begin a new life. We built houses, a school and even a hospital. Our number was made up of all kinds. It was mostly werewolves, but we also had quite a few vampires, witches and surprisingly a few hunters. Most of the supernaturals left due to corrupt leadership, being born rogue or being falsely accused. A good friend of
NOVA’S POVBEEP BEEP BEEP BEEPI barely opened my eyes before once again shutting of my alarm. It was only 530 am and I didn’t need to get Sofia and Richard ready for school yet. If I was quick I would have time and frankly I wanted more shut eye.Stupid Clayton. He kept me up all night gushing about an invention Alexia made with her magic. It’s a thin copper coloured chain that apparently allows hunters and witches to join our pack link. It is also specially coded to each members DNA to keep enemies from stealing it.I’ve got to admit it sounds awesome. However would it hurt him to talk to me about it when the sun is up? I’ve got a seven year old and a three year old to take care of. But no him and his half nocturnal ass need to keep me awake too. He’s my best friend and Alpha but he’s also a huge fucking jackass. I was drifting back to sleep as I heard Richard’s voice in the room next to me. “Nona!!!!! I’m stuck! Nona help!”I reluctantly left my warm comfy bed before releasing my
Nova’s POVOur pack house wasn’t as large as most pack houses, but our pack also wasn’t very large yet. I felt like this would probably change as we were getting new members regularly. After all most packs assumed all rogues were blood thirsty criminals. It was even rarer for a pack to admit multiple species. This made our pack a safe haven for any rogue supernatural or hunter who just wanted home.Sure some more progressive packs would let someone of a different species join but only if their mate was in the pack. However, Most packs would kick out members who had a mate from a different species though. What a load of shit! Every time I thought about that and how most of our members had been rogues for that exact reason it pissed me off!The pack house was roughly the size of a church. It had an open concept living and dining room with stairs leading up to the Alpha residence. Through a door off the dining room you had to cut through the kitchen to reach the offices of our ranked mem
It’s now been a week and I had delegated my responsibilities to the other members of our pack. Clayton didn’t need to worry as much as Amelia being the Luna could easily cover for him. But it would not be fair to expect her to handle all our responsibilities. I also just finished saying goodbye to Sofia and Richard. Usually they make a big deal if I leave them with someone overnight let alone for a few days. However Amelia was their favourite person on the planet. Partly owing to the fact that they never seem to hear the word no from her. They even referred to her and Clayton as their aunt and uncle. So given who they were staying with they didn’t make a fuss. I started putting me and Clayton’s bags that Amelia packed for him in the trunk of the car. When I was just putting in the last suitcase when Clayton came out to join me.“Of course you only deign to show up when the work is done,” I say while closing the trunk door. Clayton sprouted a Cheshire worthy grin before telling me,”
The first thing to capture my attention upon seeing the castle up close was twelve beautiful square towers that seemingly pierced the heavens. They were connected by reinforced wide walls and the whole thing looked to be made of white granite. Tall, wide windows were scattered across the walls in an asymmetric pattern. Along with symmetric hole, presumably for archers in the case of attack. Intricately decorated wooden doors marked the entrance of this gleaming fortress. Looking at it gave me a feeling of awe and intimidation.“I don’t know what’s so impressive about it. I prefer the forest around our territory”Elly commented in my mind. “Of course you do,” I mentally replied while internally rolling my eyes. I agreed that the forest around our pack was great but that didn’t mean I couldn’t appreciate the beauty of this castle at the same time. Walking, I took a moment to look at the courtyard as well. A large area to my left, with moss coloured grass had multiple warriors training a
We had been exploring our rooms for ten or so minutes when there was light knocking at Clayton’s door. He walked to the door and upon opening it we saw a pretty girl with caramel coloured skin and curly raven hair. She curtsied in a simple baby blue dress before saying to Clayton,” I have the luggage of you and Beta Nova. Where would you like me to put it?” Clayton replied, “ Thank you for delivering them in such a timely and officiant manner. You can just leave them on our respective beds and we can unpack ourselves. The bags should have name tags if you have trouble figuring out who’s is who’s.” She nodded slightly before taking the bags off a trolley. Once she finished we quickly unpacked haphazardly not bothering to keep things folded. Both of us were too hungry to care much about our clothes getting creased. We started the trek down to the first floor for some food. I’m not sure what was cooking but it smelled delicious! I had never smelt something this delectable. The smell wa