XANDER Amaris looked at me and gestured for me to follow her. I recognized Ezekiel’s voice instantly, so I was afraid of what I was about to witness. Death was too good for the bastard. I wanted him to rot in that cell for centuries without any reprieve. Zane explained that they did not lift his command to not move or talk, and I doubted that Zane or Emma would do that any time soon. We entered her bedroom where Ezekiel was standing over a very much younger Emma. She looked like she could not be any older than nine or so. It must have been right after he took over the pack. “I won’t say Papa was a traitor because he wasn’t a traitor,” Emma said as she glared up at him, unflinching despite the angry Alpha aura rolling off him. He crouched down in front of her and sneered at her. There was a sick and twisted gleam in his eye at her challenge. Both she and Freya said that she never submitted no matter what they tried to or actually did to her. “Good because what I have in store for y

EMMA It was finished. I never had to revisit the trip into the chaos that was my mind again like that. My mind was a place where nightmares loved to play. Many of those nightmares were actually just memories. People filtered in and out of the room for the past hour or so. They wanted to make sure that I was okay, so I did not say anything about it because I knew that they were fairly scared about the whole ordeal. My mates had been quiet since I woke up, but they had not left my side once. They both acted like they were afraid that I would disappear if they were not right beside me. I could not blame them at all. What we went through was a narrow escape. I did not ask about anything yet, but I would eventually. I knew that they had been in my mind, but I was not certain what all they saw. I really hoped it was not everything that I had to witness as well because that was a lot of horrible bullshit that I never wanted them to witness. Especially not the cells. Oh well. There was no g

XANDER “This is the private training facility for the Ancients,” Zane explained as we all filed into a room larger than any of our pack training fields. We all looked at the additional people in the room curiously. There were at least an extra fifty people than I was expecting. They all leaned against the walls, brimming with excitement, and not even trying to hide it. Someone must have spilled about today’s training session. Today was the first day for our people to see how Gaisreen fought. We had never seen it before except the little bit that Kai and I saw from her memories. That was not a great indication though. However, Emma had been very vocal on how brutal training was for them. If they stood up against Nokaura then they must be excellent. “Do not mind us, Princess. We are just here for the show,” Commander Frost chuckled and waved her on. Emma rolled her eyes and turned away from him to hide her smirk. She was excited already and had not even begun yet. We all gathered i

XANDER “Emmaline! Again,” a man barked out. I looked around, confused about what was going on. Kai stood beside me and appeared to be just as confused as I was. The last thing I remembered was falling asleep with my love in my arms after a great round of sex. The three of us had been fully sated for the time being. Sex with our girl was always mind-blowing. She thrived in our personal brand of animalistic hunger. She came to us virginal, but we thoroughly corrupted her in the most delicious ways possible. We were standing in the middle of a room that was obviously meant for training. Weapons lined the marble walls. There were windows that casted bright sunlight throughout the room, illuminating stone pillars and archways that were covered in artwork depicting battles. They looked a lot like the dreams that Emma shared after the Nokaura attack at the bar. A young blonde pup pulled herself up off the ground and wiped the blood from her lips. She was a just a pup, but those eyes were

EMMA I would take him with me one way or another. That boy deserved better than what his father was giving him. This was something I truly hated about Gaisreen. It was not fair that the boy could be hurt because he was worried for his mother and loved her. Seriously, like the fuck. “Have him,” he said with an indignant huff. My fist cocked back, and I threw it as hard into his face as possible. He was knocked out cold but not dead. My fist had done some serious damage though. The medics would probably just rebirth him instead of taking the time to fix him. He was lucky that it was all I did. I turned around and knelt in front of the little boy. I tore part of my shirt off and gently wiped the blood away from his face. “My name is Emma. What’s yours, sweetheart?” I asked with a soft smile. I did not want to frighten the boy, especially after what I just did to his father. “Dylan,” he said quietly. Dylan was a young boy probably no more than eleven or twelve. He was tall for his ag