Aeryn’s pov"You better stop saying such fucking nice things or you’ll make me cry." I said, mindlinking Storm."They’re fucking true, though. You deserve to be treated like the rest of us."I knew half of the men didn’t agree with Storm, but that didn’t matter to me right now. The people who meant something to me agreed, and they all bowed their heads towards me, showing they respected me. An Alpha bowed to no one, and them bowing to me was too fucking much.I quickly wiped away a few tears and took a sip of water, making the lump in my throat disappear.I took a few deep breaths to calm myself down and turned to those who refused to bow their heads to me, saying, "no matter what you think of me, you must have noticed a shift inside your pack. If you don’t want to listen to me, that’s fine, but listen to the members of your pack. Your mates, sisters, daughters, and mothers aren’t satisfied with how they are being treated. Many lives have been lost due to this war, and you will need yo

Aeryn’s povIt has been a week since the peace treaty was signed, and Aunt Kat has been visiting packs and testing women who’ve come forward. The oldest woman they’ve found is fifty, so that means that even before Betram Goldacre started financing the school, someone was already running things.Betram has barricaded himself in one of his compounds. It took us a while to find him, despite the help of everyone. The bastard has way too much money and power for someone who isn’t even an alpha. People aren’t loyal to him out of some sort of respect or admiration, but they’ll follow the fucking money.I’ve heard my parents talking about what they’ll do when they find him. Dad really wants to kill him, but we need answers first. Mom said that she doesn’t want dad to go to that dark place again and that she would rather see someone else question Betram Goldacre."Maybe Storm can do it." Delta offered, but I was pretty sure he’d want to kill Goldacre just as badly as dad did.They’d figure it o

Storm’s pov"What do you want it to be?" Aeryn asked while we were walking towards the hospital to get the ultrasound that would reveal the sex of our baby.Aeryn loved walking everywhere. I think she just liked the freedom of being able to go wherever she wanted to. She was never allowed to walk around at the school; I mean, there was a big ass fence around the whole fucking property. And at my old pack, she was driven everywhere out of safety concerns.In a perfect fucking world, it wouldn’t matter what gender our baby was. If we have a girl, she could follow in her mother’s footsteps, but life would be hard. She would always have to live up to the image of the first female alpha. If it were a boy, he’d be like the rest of the Alphas, but it would come with its own problems, I was fucking sure of it.I sighed, "I don’t fucking know. Our baby just needs to be healthy and strong."Aeryn stopped walking and snuck her arms around my neck. "So you have never secretly dreamed of having a l

Eve’s povI smiled, seeing Aeryn and Storm together. That’s all I ever wanted: for Storm to be happy. I didn’t care if he became the next alpha; I only wanted him to have a good life and be a good person.Being the alpha’s mate isn’t going to be easy, and people will think things about him and insult him, but Storm really doesn’t seem to mind. Which is a relief. I wish Lex could have seen Storm like this. The exact opposite of his father. Storm didn't care about power; he wasn't paranoid or mean.This Storm in front of me isn’t a man people need to fear; he’s open, and it makes everything I went through worth it.That’s not to say that if I could change things, I wouldn’t. Oh, I definitely would. I wouldn’t be taken by Ruby and tortured for weeks. I would have taken Storm away from all of this and never told Lex I was pregnant.But if I had, this wouldn’t have happened. We wouldn’t have peace. A dozen girls wouldn’t get a chance to find their families, especially now that they’ve got t

Eve’s pov"So any Dutch names that are fucking cool?" Luna Leia asked.I shrugged my shoulders, "I don’t know. Dutch people use a lot of English names, but maybe Moos or Koen for a boy. Maan or Roos for a girl. I really don’t know; I just named Storm after my father, Mathijs, and his first name I liked when I was younger. But there’s no need to include a Dutch name."Luna Leia seemed to think about it: "And they’ll have to deal with the pronunciation all the fucking time. Like your name is pronounced differently too, right?""Yes, it’s Evelien, but I’m used to people saying Eve by now." I said, nodding my head."Okay, now that we have that out of the fucking way, tell me about Zayn."My eyes went wide, and I started to blush instantly. "Tell you what?""Well, he’s been coming here to take you on a walk for three weeks now, and I was just wondering what was going on. I’ve seen the way he fucking looks at you.""We’re friends. We both needed a friend, and he’s easy to talk to."Leia didn