THEO The undercover infiltration went a lot easier than we thought it would. I had to give it to my girl that she was a fucking badass extraordinaire in all things. She was a pro with it even though she was new to it. She would have made an amazing undercover agent for our pack, but thankfully she had a more important role, which she was also a pro with. My mother insisted that Brynn took to her Luna role better than she had. That was a huge compliment because my mother had been a brilliant and fantastic Luna. One thing that I knew about my mother was that she would never lie about it nor would she pass out that compliment just to boost my girl’s confidence. The Council’s warriors easily detained those who fought against them. People were easily confused, frightened, or angry depending on their role in this pack. Not everyone was innocent here, and we would be idiots if we just blindly accepted them. There was no way that they were unaware of what went on in this pack. It did not ma

THEO Jackson and I were head back from a meeting with a neighboring pack. They were hoping to gain our support with trade negotiations with their pack. They would supply us with propriety shifter medicine, formulated for every part of a shifter’s life while we would supply their warriors with specialized training. Mike and Tris definitely fell back into their routine as if they had continued training alongside each other all of these years. I supposed it was like falling off a bike. Many pack members were so fucking excited about the rigorous training protocols that were very serious. My phone started ringing. Why was my mother calling me? “Hey, Mom. What’s up?” I asked her. “Do you know when you’re going to be back here?” Her voice was controlled, but I could still hear some strain in it as well. I looked around where we currently were to determine that. We were not too far from the border. “Twenty minutes or so. Is everything okay?” There was noise in the background that I co

THEO I did not know Ziyah’s story, but it had to have been really fucking rough for it to elicit that reaction from the vision. I felt an echo of the emotions that my girl experienced from the vision, and that echo indicated that her story was not an easy one. Elle called Brynn out on us expecting, and I was really fucking happy. We both were. My girl was carrying our pup inside of her. I could not wait to see her stomach grow and the first time I got to hold our pup in my arms. Each new first would be absolutely phenomenal just like each new first with Mira was. Ziyah and Dante came back into the room. She held herself with composure even though I was certain she was not feeling that on the inside. I was thrilled that Dante found his mate. Brynn and I had both been immediately fond of him from the first time we met him. There was just something about him that easily drew you in. Not to mention that he had a fucking hilarious wit, which could put anyone at ease. Plus, he saved our

BRYNN The darkness receded, but I did not know how long I had been out for. My eyes remained closed because I did not know if I was alone in the room or not. My body was strapped to a chair, hands cuffed behind me, and legs tied together too. My body felt like it had been hit by a train. Everything fucking hurt. ‘Moira, are you there?’ I felt a flicker of her emotion but did not hear a response. If she absorbed the wolfsbane then it probably weakened her quite a bit. I just had to pray that Kalen was okay and sent a prayer up to the Goddess for her protection. The only other sound in the room was soft breathing, which I ventured a guess to be Jackson. My eyes opened slowly, blinking repeatedly against the harsh light in the room. It was a concrete room, with no window, and a door on the far wall. I bit my lip hard when I saw Jackson. He was shackled to the chair just like I was. Fucking hell. He was covered in bruises, cuts, and blood. There was no telling how much damage the cr

THEO I had felt like I was drowning underneath the weight of my mate’s pain and injuries. It had killed me that it took so fucking long to track her down. I had never felt such fear in my entire life than what had flooded through me from the moment that I realized something was wrong with her until the moment that she was treated. However, even then, I still held a lot of fear within me that anything could go wrong while she healed. What I had not expected was that Dante and Ziyah would show up with Kade and Elle because Ziyah wanted to try to heal both Brynn and Kalen. It was like a sign from the Goddess right then and there. I had never felt the level of power that radiated from her while she healed my mate. It took a continuous twenty minutes, but the cuts, bruises, rebreaks, and everything had been healed. She was even able to siphon the wolfsbane out of Moira. The last thing she had said was that there had been a bit of pressure on the womb from all of the trauma, but she was a