EUDORA.“That witch!” Zena raved the moment we were alone in my room. She paced up and down my room while I hugged my knees to myself where I sat on my bed. I was frozen in place, numb all over and no matter how hard I tried to stop myself, I couldn’t stop thinking about Alpha Rex’s words over and over again. The distrust, anger and hatred in his eyes that I never thought I’d see again were what broke me repeatedly. I shouldn’t be surprised, Alpha Rex has said and gotten away with worse but I was truly shocked and that was how I knew he was right to think I expected something to shift between us after that day.It was the only moment between us when we didn’t need to share words. When I didn’t need to draw him out of a nightmare. It was a moment that felt like I saw all of him—the parts that proved he was just like every other male and had deeply rooted desires that were unlocked by my heat—and he saw all of me, literally. “Are you really just going to sit there and say nothing?” Ze

EUDORABesides worrying that I was too big for the ladder and I could possibly break it, I was fine joining Zena climbing up into the secret opening. She tugged the latch by the ladder and it rolled back up, shutting the opening with us inside the rooftop of the greenhouse. No wonder the greenhouse looked weird on the outside. It was because the roof was made out of something that wasn’t glass, a weird way to build a greenhouse but I soon realized why it was like that when I looked around the tiny yet cozy space on the rooftop. The greenhouse was truly a font as Zena had said. There were no lights or bulbs. The only source of light was the moon, casting its beam through the only window of the rooftop and causing everything in the space to be nothing but shadows. Zena flipped a switch and the room brightened up. The LED lights were hung up from one corner of the roof to another and they switched colors momentarily. Red, Blue, Green and bright whites that gave me a clear view of the

L’s POV*THURSDAY, 4th of April**Mason’s birthday.” “The candles are melting, Luna.” Mason’s first word was Luna. While other pups in their first few years started out saying “Dada” or “mama”, my brother’s first word as a baby was my name and even though he didn’t get it correctly, it stuck and he never outgrew it. I remember the first time he said it, I was in the kitchen, cooking us a meal from what was left of the foodstuff in our house and he had fallen on his face while trying to come to me.He’d cried the name repeatedly as I came to his aid. I didn’t understand until later that the word that left his mouth was the version of my name that he could say. I tried to correct him repeatedly but he never budged. It became his personal nickname for me. Now he was celebrating his twelfth birthday and my baby brother was just the same, only a little apprehensive because of the waiting he had to do.His small birthday cake that I’d whipped up quickly that morning before going to work

EUDORA. Time seemed to still for a second or maybe more. I wasn’t even counting. I couldn’t. Not with the body that was weighing down on mine and the way my thought was spiraling around how it was possible for him to be there. When I finally snapped out of it, I pushed him off me and he landed on the floor with a loud thud. My palm flew to my mouth in horror, maybe because I didn’t expect him to just roll to the ground like that like a sack of potatoes. Horrified, I nudged his body with my foot, keeping a reasonable distance in case things went sideways. “Alpha Rex.” I called, still maintaining the much needed distance between us. I nudged him once, twice and the third time, he rolled over and I jumped back. A loud snore erupted from his lips. He reeked of alcohol and passed out cold on the floor of the room. I let out a sigh of relief when I realized he wasn’t conscious. That was the only time I was able to gather my thoughts. I needed to think it through to be able to understa

ALPHA REX. Till I travelled down to the borders of my pack, I strongly believed Logan was mistaken. It was the most bizarre news I’ve heard and I needed to see for myself. Logan was already waiting at the borders with a few of my men, including Tyrone. They showed their respect as soon as they saw me but I pushed past them, not wanting to waste another second. Logan followed closely behind me as I trudged forward, going past the fog that protects my pack and stepping onto the other side of it. The body laid there on the ground and the familiar wrinkled face of Alpha Tauren was a bluish-purple—undoubtedly a sign of death—like his arms and legs that were exposed. He was dressed in an evening robe and his legs were bare so I knew he couldn’t have walked here. His eyes were wide open and they were a lifeless sea of grey. Flies played about his exposed body parts, some going in and out of his mouth that was also wide open. The body emitted a scent that aired the fact that he’s been dea