ALPHA AUGUST POV It had been eight days since the attack and I was going out of my mind with grief and loss. How could I have let this happen to my family? "Alpha, will we be graced with your presence today?" Lenny pushed through my mindlink but I ignored him. "August, Maisie is asking for you." Lenny tried again, this time pulling at what was left of my heart strings. I closed my mindlink without a response, Bishop turned in the direction of the coven house and we slowly made our way back to civilization. I couldn't help but run through the last couple of weeks in my head. Things didn't make sense. How did we go from no rogue or neonate activity to a full blown attack that cost me my daughter and the love of my life? How could I have been so naive thinking I could have it all with no ramifications? Idiotic and stupid is what I've been, thinking a beast like me could have even the faintest bit of happiness that I didn't deserve. "Alpha." Maisie pulled me from my insane ramb
LEXINGTON POV I have to get her out of this wretched place before he can have his way with her. I can’t protect her here. He is older and stronger than me, especially on our home turf. I honestly can’t figure out why I care so much about this girl. My father has had many beautiful girls over the years, but never have I had an indescribable pull towards any of them. Yes, she is beautiful and I’m sure she’s very powerful since that’s my father’s weakness. He can’t pass up the chance to have a beautiful and powerful young woman to lord over, breaking them, making them submit to him. It was a game of power. He had to prove he was more powerful by dominating them, winning his own dulitional game. The girls are like drugs, and he is the drug addict and like all drug addicts, the girls are never enough, so he uses and abuses them just to throw them away. Then I have to compel the poor girl into forgetting him, just to send her back to her insignificant little life. For a little while every
MELIA POV I wasn’t able to get much sleep last night, but for the first time in a while, I was content as I watched Roxie get a decent night's rest. She was very restless and had some nightmares that she couldn’t seem to shake, but at least she was in a comfortable bed, next to a warm body, and not afraid of dying for at least one night. I was hoping it would give her the strength she needed to make it through until we could escape. I was dreading the sunrise to rear her ugly face this morning because I knew what it meant for Roxie. We stayed up half the night trying to come up with a plan, but without knowing what held our magic at bay, it was impossible to escape. There were several outside structures with doors, and if we could get to one of them, we would be able to get to the chrysoprase cabin, but what if the magic barrier extended over the length of the property and not just the house itself? How far could we actually get before they were able to capture us again? If I could ju
ALPHA AUGUST POV It took me nearly twenty-four hours to find Athena. Esme was keeping her in an underground bunker that was made for prisoners on the coven’s land. Of course Esme knew everything that was going on but Baine on the other hand was in the dark which just didn’t sit right with me. “With all do respect Elder Esme you are not the high priestess of this land. That duty should fall to Maise since she is of age but most importantly the High Priest is still alive and well so out of respect he should be informed of the discussions and the potential dangers on his land.” “With all do respect Alpha August you have no clue what your talking about when it comes to our coven’s rules or policies so its best that you as a guest not interfer with things that are none of your business.” Esme spat back at me. “I’m not here to rub elbows and play nice Esme. Either you tell him or I will.” ‘Tell me what?” Baine came up behind us. I could hear him coming but I had to be sure and time
POV ALPHA AUGUST I hadn’t spoken to Alejandra Osorio for over two decades. I had saved her and her child from being enslaved by Tiberius the Alpha of the Blood Moon pack when my dad was still the Alpha and I was an elite warrior. Tiberius was encroaching on our land during pack runs which was fine until he started having guards kidnapped and ransomed for our pack's land and resources. Instead of giving into his demands we invaded his territory, rescued our pack members, gave hundreds of enslaved members of his pack asylum and we even claimed a decent chunk of his land as a fee for all the lives we lost while in conflict with him. I still wish we would have overthrown his rule, taking all his resources and saving all his pack members but since I wasn't the Alpha it wasn't my decision to make. He hasn't made any moves against our pack since I have become Alpha so I haven't gotten my chance to kill the bastard for all the pain and suffering he had caused. Tiberius has been a terrible
LEXINGTON POVWhat was taking him so long? He either caught them or he didnt. I had been pacing the floor just below the grand staircases ever since my father had realized Melia had escaped. I had been praying that she and her friend had enough time to escape.After what felt like an eternity Alexander burst through the double doors with his flesh chard and peeling off him like old scrapped off wallpaper, with Melia in tow. He had been dragging her by her hair so she was all bruised up and filthy.He threw her at my feet and I caught her head just before it was able to hit the marbled floor as he stormed past me. There was no sign of her friend so I couldn't help but assume the worst for her."Lock that little bitch up. I gave her the finest accommodations and the ungrateful cunt tried to burn me alive. She needs to learn her place. Make sure she is one of the next ones out to the farm upstate. Mark her blood and pussy off-limits but everything else is fair game. She will learn to re
ALPHA AUGUST POVIt didn’t take Alejandra any time at all to start looking for my daughter. Why hadn’t I come to her sooner? If anything had happened to Melia, it would all be on me.I shook my head, trying to shake loose all the unhelpful thoughts and focus on the task at hand.“Do you have a clear picture of her face that we can use?” She asked, clicking her phone shut.I must have drifted because I didn’t hear any of her phone conversation.“Yes, of course. Here is the only picture I have of them. It was shortly after they had arrived at the pack house. The girls talked me into getting ice cream after Sunday dinner, just the three of us.She raised her eyebrows with a questioning look but said nothing as she scrolled through the few pictures I had of my girls.“Do you want to talk about it?”“There isn’t much to talk about. The wolf and witch counsel couldn’t know that a soon-to-be Alpha and a High Priestess procreated, so our parents covered it up. Their mother raised them for the
**Content Warning - sexual abuse, profanity.** MELIA POV I tried to open my eyes, but my eyelids wouldn’t budge; I couldn’t even groan out of annoyance. I wanted to roll over; my back was killing me. Even just wiggling my fingers or toes a bit would be sufficient for the moment. I couldn’t do anything but lie here in silence. I could feel that my shirt had ridden up a bit on my back. The exposed spot had almost gone numb from the freezing floor. So I had to assume that I was back in the basement. I just hoped that I wasn’t in the filthy, goddess-forsaken cage that kept me trapped when I first got here. *** A steel door slammed somewhere close by, making me jolt upright. I must’ve dozed off because I was now able to move my body and limbs. I finally opened my eyes, and I blinked a few times, trying to clear my vision. Looking around, I could see that I wasn’t in a cage. In fact, there wasn’t a cage anywhere in this room, but what I saw was far worse. Three of Alexander’s goons were