“He’s finally cracked,” Grayson dered to me.
The wolf he’d been starving for weeks has finally cracked. Grayson had kept him alive but starved,
healthy but ravenous, he finally broke after weeks of a meal just out reach.
I walked down to the cells with him. I would stay out sight but I wanted to listen, I wanted to know. If he
was willing to talk and tell us how we could keep this life of ours together.
“Talk,” my mates voice was chilling as it echoed in the cell.
1 hugged the stone wall and turned my head to hear everything clearly.
“You,” the prisoners voice was so weak and strained. “You are truly smart I’ll give you that,”
“Talk.” Grayson repeated.
“He wants you to grieve. He loved his brother, you killed him now he wants you to be broken,” The man
gave us a small shred of words.
“I’m well aware,” my mate was monotone bored that he was not getting anything new.
“But the son. The son wants more. He wants. Wants everything you’ve built, wants it all for himself,” the
famished idiot gave it up.
“Even if you kill the alpha the son is. He’s. H–is gonna be the problem. No doubt he’s the smart here…”
his voice falling over itself. D
“…that’s what I know,”
“Feed the man,” Grayson ordered. “Get him fluids. Get him well,”
The son was the brains, the father was the fury. Grayson would run with information. If this son was
greedy he was foolish, and if the father was angry he was distracted.
I knew it was awful but this news didfort me. They had shorings we could take advantage of,
and with my heat sooning (wanted the leg up on these men.
He turned the corner, grabbing my hand and walking briskly ahead.
“Grayson?” His hurried pace towards the direction of his office.
No response, he was stone faced moving ahead through the people. I couldn’t feel what was rumbling
around inside of hun why he was so sure to get to his office.
He got me behind the door locking it and picking my up by my waist.
“Graysont” I gasped as he set me down on his desk hissing me as he cupped my face.
He was desperate, his fire heating me up and consuming me.
“G–Gray, Grayson.” I tried to talk to him but he pressed himself against me, k*ssing me deeper and
deeper into this
sudden distraction.
“He can’t have this,” he whispered to me in between his l*ps on my skin.
“He wants all I have but this.” he looked down at me, flushed and needy, all due to him. “My woman
here,” he pulled me by my legs against him. “All for me in pure bliss. This he will never have,” he
grinned.
I let him enjoy his relief as he consumed me. His hands were so rough and touched me so delicately.
By the end we had found ourselvesughing on the floor exposed to the world.
“Weak men try to steal, stupid men take revenge against those in the right. We will survive this,” He
told me rubbing
his thumb on my cheek.
“You know you may not feel as euphoric as this if you’d talk to me about your worries,”
“But I don’t want to worry you. You should have no worries, you’re about to bring our babe into this
world. You need a clear head.” He grinned.
“Oh my!” Iughed. “For such a brooding man you certainly will be putty if we have a daughter,”
“I have no idea what you could mean,” he k*ssed me.
I hummed andid my head on his chest soaking up this moment. This road we were on was not going
to be smooth. but I knew he was right we’d survive it, we will be lying here again without anything
hiding in the shadows.
Eventually though I had to do my duties as Luna especially today. Today that couple we blessed were
having their binding.
Letting the people celebrate and enjoy themselves even when we knew we were being threatened was
important. We couldn’t allow this enemy to keep us locked up here.
“I have to go and see Vivienne and prepare her for her binding,” Iughed as my mate grabbed me in a
bear hug.
“She’s fine,” he growled. “She has her mother, sister and cousins and friends. Just give her a high five
before the ceremony and she’ll be fine.”
“The man of duties and responsibilities says I should skimp on mine?” I have a falsely shocked and
acquisitory tone.
“I knew what you would do to me keeping me tied to you with your magic b*dy. That’s why I kept you at
arms length,”
he k*ssed my back.
*Oh so so romantic.”
“I was terrified I’d be utterly absorbed once I let my guard down,” he k*ssed my n*eck. “I was right,”
“Too bad muster. I have duties and so do you,” I wriggled out of his arms. “I’ll see you tonight at the
binding.
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Vivienne was beaming as she got ready for her binding. I didn’t do much to help her prepare but did
give advicecond helped braid her hair.
She looked very different from me on the morning of my binding. So sure of her mate and giddy to
bewithlm, practically vibrating from her excitement.
I was doubtful, and scared. I was as silent as the grave and preparing myself to give my life to a man
had only starred getting to know
We’d had a different kind of love story but the love was there. Nothing ever goes as nned but we’ve
done pretty good from where we had begun.
She didn’t get all the ceremonies and rituals I did or the fighting andpetitions all she had to do was
bind to the man she loved. Wouldn’t it be easier if Grayson and I had been able to do things simply.
What if what if‘
I remember how I’d felt before I had left my home. I knew he was holding back and no matter what I do
no matter how dedicated I appeared to be he wouldn’t budge.
To think of how far we’vee in such a short time.
I left her to get ready myself putting on a ck boat n*eck long sleeved dress with a circle skirt. My hair
was half up and half down withrge curls. I wore white gold jewelry and a sapphire head piece my
mother hand gave me on my eighteenth birthday.
I like more ssic and natural looks and I knew Grayson did too. He was waiting downstairs and I
slowly walked down to him. His breath caught in his throat.
“It’s rude for a woman to outdo the bride,” he looked at me like I was the goddess herself.
“You haven’t seen her. The way a woman shines when she marries the man she was meant for, no one
in the worldpares,” I batted myshes at him.
Him in his ck shirt and ck pants. It was his color of course with his dark hair and gray eyes. How
could look any
better.
“You two are going to make me the most beautiful grandchild,” Amaria called to us from the kitchen.
She had been teasing us at our much more intimate manners with each other. I also had this feeling
she knew I was
going to get pregnant.
I found her looking at me with this proud look and love in her eyes, once I swear I caught her looking at
my stomach.
My heat was surelying any day. There was a baby that would almost certainlye from it, and
only my mother.
and Grayson knew.
We walked out to the pavilion greeting everyone with smiles and hugging our people.
This is what we’d needed. What our people deserved. They had taken on this war without second
thought and bare the
duties of warriors, defenders, soldiers.
It felt so good to the children running around and ying, their parentsughing at them being so
carefree. This is the pack I had fallen in love with, the one I had wanted to make my home.
We ate the roasted pig and Grayson and I sat next to the happy couple making conversation with them.
Even Charlie and James were enjoying themselves as they spoke to Arron and Leon.
After a while we led the party to the ceremonial Arch where I had bound myself to Grayson. I looked at
its old winding moss covered branches, the sensation I had experienced lingering on me.
Grayson held my hand and brought it slowly up to his l*ps giving me a long k*ss on my knuckles.
“My Netta,” he whispered.
Amaria cleared her throat as she took her ce in front of the betrothed.
“We bring this pair that have found and chosen each other before you mydy,” She called above to
the Goddess.
“They have discovered each other along their oaths and have promised to now walk their paths
together,”
“Theye here to make their souls one under you,”
The couple came closer and they bit into one another. Neither of them copsed the way we did,
neither showed signs of hearing the other, but their love was just as deep as ours.
We all started to filter back to the pavilion to dance and eat dessert to our hearts content. Grayson
ced his hand on the small of my back as we walked and a dozen memories came to my mind and I
leaned my head against him.
Charlie rushed up beside me disrupting our moment of peace.
“Charlie?” I gave him a bewildered look.
“How did it feel to bind?” He asked me..
“What?” I stoped in my tracks shaking my head at him.
“How did it feel when you knew you and Grayson were binding?” He continued his insane line of
questioning.
There were two other female Alpha’s in our generation. One from another bloodline of Alphas but not
as long as ours of course. The other was a blessed family who was surprised with a daughter. Charlie
was expected to vie for both of
them and bind to one.
But my
mother would have called me the moment she knew he was ready to do so. Charlie would havee
to my parents first. He was the man who walked the straight and narrow because he wanted nothing
more than to be the best Alpha for my family’s pack.
“It’s as if you’ve found where you’re supposed to be, like you are at the center of it all, and it’s the best
and most important thing you’ll ever do,” Grayson answered him.
“Why?” I grabbed his arm. “Are you interested in someone?”
Charlie huffed. “No,” before he walked away his brows knit together and his jaw grinding from side to
side.
Grayson wrapped his arms around me before I could go after my brother. “He’s not ready to talk about
it yet. When he
can question him to your heart’s content,” He told me his voice dancing on my ear making me shiver.
is
you
I shuffled my feet and slumped against him before we walked back to the crowd of blissful people.
“A dance sister mine?‘ James grabbed me from my husband.
Iughed at his instance. I loved this yful side of my baby brother. “You never dance, well, only for
mama,
“Lets just say I’m homesick,” He smirked. “You know for a man I hate his people worship him. And
you,” He looked me dead in the eyes..
“James don’t ha-,”
“He’s put you in danger that will possibly take your life and the life of your baby and you still defend
him,” He growled
at me.
I gasped in arge breath and stumbled back as my littlest brother stomped away from me.
“I think if he’d wanted to avoid cleaning up the foulest smelling shit he shouldn’t insult you,” Grayson
spit in the direction of my brother ring down his fading figure.
“Dance with me?” I turned and wrapped my arms around his n*eck.
He wrapped his arm around my waist and glued me to him. I kept my one hand on the back of his
n*eck and gazed up at him inplete adoration.
He swung and spun me around the dance floor and my dress disyed me in grace and elegance. Our
pack pped and awed at us as we glided around.
After a song or two we stepped out of the lights, but as we did the world started to spin.
“Hnngh,” I crumpled against Grayson who instantly caught my weight and kept me upright.
“Ate?”
“Don’t make a scene let them enjoy tonight, get me to the house,” I told him.
He got me down to hte path toward our house and that’s when I couldn’t keep myself upright. He
scooped me up.
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“Goddess be,” I grabbed him doing all I could to keep my ws in.
“NNgAhhhh,” I wailed as my muscles red.
He got me upstairs and the first blood curdling scream left me. I wasn’t going to live through this. There
is no way, no one can live through this.
“Shhh, shhh.” He got me into the tub and sted me with cold water, it started evaporating on my skin.
“I’m here
Netta,”
“Help me, help me, help me,” I cried as my b*dy curled up and jerked.
My heat hade.
Chapter Comments
Kimberly Rivera
why is there no mention of her wearing the ring he gave her
Tricia Huett
why can’t he get over himself? he acts like his opinions the only one that exists.
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