I did not have any time to register what Sapphire had said before we were through the gate and speeding through the forest drive towards what I assumed would be the packs town and pack house.   My mate.   “Eva? Are you okay?” Lila asked as one of her hands shook my shoulder in an attempt to get my attention.   “Yeah, I’m fine, I think I’m just beginning to get a little nervous is all.” I gave her a reassuring smile before turning away from her and watching the trees flash by outside the window.   “Sapphire, I thought you said you didn’t think we had a mate?” When I told Lila I was nervous, I was being honest, but it was not about meeting the pack I was now Alpha of, if was about finding I had a mate right here in this pack and I was not sure how I felt about it.   “I didn’t. I never felt that pull to find them. But that was definitely our mates’ scent.”

“We’re getting close, I can feel it.” Sapphire practically shouted through our mind in her excitement.   “Calm down, we’re an Alpha, I don’t think we should be acting like a schoolgirl with her first crush.” We had only been running for about five minutes and her anxiousness to meet our mate was driving me insane. I could not imagine how she would react when we actually saw him.   “You have been watching too much Netflix if that in a comparison you understand.” I could feel her roll her eyes at me and laughed in response; she was being extra sensitive now that she had caught the scent of her mate.   “I thought you were a wolf, why are you getting catty?”   “You went there first.” I guess she technically had a point there. “Ehh, how much further?”   “I know just as much as you do Sapphire, just calm down a

**Trigger Warning: Pediatric Death**   “Charge again.”   “But Doctor…” The anxious nurse stuttered. “She’s been down too long.”   “I said charge again!”   “She’s gone Cross!”  Dr. Grimm stated as she grabbed my forearm.   Before me laid our ninth pediatric trial patient, a little girl of just eight years old. Alice. She was a ray of sunshine on a very dark floor of the hospital, always smiling and taking ever treatment with a smile. And I had killed her.   I stood there still as a statue, staring at her, little Alice.   “Call it Dr. Cross.”   I couldn’t. I couldn’t call time of death on another child. Handing the paddles to the nurse behind me I fled the room like the coward I was. I could not be in there any longer, I could not do this anymore. This treatment was supposed to save lives, children’s lives, and ins

Waking up to the sunset coming over the horizon and a cup of hot, fresh coffee in my hand was an amazing feeling. I sat at the edge of the cliff overlooking the valley below and just breathed in the fresh air. The fog dancing and playing through the trees below made the world look almost like a fantasy realm.   The morning I spent finishing the camps’ set up, gathering kindling and firewood, setting up a fire pit on the rivers smooth stone edge so as not to risk it spreading to the surrounding forest. When I finished moving stones to surround the makeshift fire pit it was mid-morning and already quite warm, sweat forming all along my skin. I found my canteen was empty already and moved to fill it in the cool water from the spring fed river, but while I was kneeling along the water’s edge, I heard shuffling behind me, along the forest’s boarder.   My eyes trailed the bushes along the forests entrance, an though I could not make out anything a

As I approached the camp site the smell of rain and grass invaded my senses and made my head spin. I couldn’t understand how Lila managed to stay away from her mate’s scent, because if Blake smelled half as good to Lila as Valen did to me, there was no way I could live with him as his heavenly essence filled the halls I walked daily.   “Alpha, we weren’t expecting you so early.” Savien, one of Amethyst Mist’s top guards was saying through mind-link as he approached me in the form of his large sandy colored wolf.   “It’s not that early, the sun has already risen.” This was true, but the sun had just begun to rise. “How did last night go?”   “It went well, until the human seen something in the dark that frightened him.” The warrior’s voice sounded a little smug, and I got the impression he knew exactly what had scared Valen and was even a little proud.   “You thi