Chapter: 152Lyra Nightbane POVThe moon moves fast through the sky, and the big opening day for my new custom hockey gear shop, LEO, finally arrives in Ironvale City.Early in the morning, a giant flower truck screeches to a halt right on the gravel lot, and the delivery wolves start placing dozens of beautiful pine-basket flowers all over the wooden front deck.Theresa stands there totally dumbfounded, her jaw dropping open. Who sent our shop so many wild mountain flowers? She runs straight to the big delivery wolf and shouts, "Who paid your truck to bring these baskets here?""Our paws are just paid to drive the wheels, female. Our snouts do not know the sender's name. Go look at the little paper cards stuck in the leaves if you want to know."Theresa had already searched all the green leaves with her fingers and found zero names, which is why her boots ran over to ask his truck. "Forget it then!" she huffs.Fixing her bright purple dress gown, she turns her legs around to walk back inside the
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Chapter: 151Lyra Nightbane POV"Are your bones feeling any warmer now, Elowen?" Vespera Crowe asks, his deep alpha voice sounding super worried as his big paws hold her thin elbow.Elowen Frost lets out a tiny, weak laugh from her pale chest. "Much warmer, Alpha. The winter sickness is not a big monster today, so your heart can stop shaking.""Do your gray hairs think you are still a tiny pup running in the woods?" Vespera Crowe huffs, glareing down at her tired face. "Our joints are getting super old now!"Elowen Frost looks down at the wooden steps, her eyes turning a bit dejected. "My brain still feels like a young female wolf! The exact day my fur first met your eyes feels like it just happened yesterday under the moon."When our boots reach the big private study lodge, Vespera Crowe helps Elowen Frost slide her bones into a soft leather chair before turning his sharp snout straight toward my face. "Open your jaws and tell my ears what your tracker came here to say, Mirelle.""Hold your tongu
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Chapter: 150My face drops a bit, looking super dark. Remembering Kaelen’s icy attitude back when the marriage contract was ripped up, it is a very hard thing for my tongue to explain to a child. After all, Darius is just a small pup, and his heart will feel super sad if he knows the real pack drama."Please tell my ears," Darius says, tugging hard on my sleeve like a stubborn little wolf. "Please, please, Mirelle!"I have zero choice left but to let my tongue speak. "Your dad had another female pup running in his den at that time... so...""He was married to Mommy and he kept another female wolf in the bushes?" Darius snaps, his small fists clenching with pure anger. He knew there was a bad reason behind the split, but his brain never expected it to be a cheating mate. What female pup? He just thinks Kaelen is a total rogue traitor. Darius spits out angrily, "Male wolves are pure trash!"I let out a big chuckle at his sharp tongue. "Aren't you going to grow into a male wolf too, little tracker?"
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Chapter: 149Lyra Nightbane POV"Really?" Kaelen barks out a deep, rumble of a laugh, his bright yellow eyes locking straight onto my collarbone with a giant, playful gleam under the shadow chamber lamps.Liora nods her tiny head like a good little pup, her voice completely innocent. "Of course, Daddy! Mommy has soft milk inside her chest, but your bones are just flat like the ice rink!"Kaelen’s big mouth stretches into a teasing smirk, his sharp fangs showing just a little bit as he glares right through my shirt. "I cannot believe your words, little one. My paws have never touched her fur there, so my eyes cannot tell if you are speaking the truth.""Mommy, let Daddy touch your fur so he knows!" Liora chirps happily."Kaelen Blackthorne!" I gasp out loud, my face turning so hot I think my skin is going to catch fire. Has his alpha beast zero shame in front of a tiny cub? "You are going way too far!" I yell, wishing the stone floor of the shadow chamber would crack open and swallow my boots whole
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Chapter: 148Lyra Nightbane POV"Why are your eyes staying so quiet?" Kaelen asks, his alpha voice sounding super cold like winter ice.I press my back hard against the bedroom door, my hands shaking and wet with scared sweat. "I saw Mirelle Ashen down in the hallway."Kaelen stops and looks at my face. "So what if you saw her fur?""She told my ears a giant secret, Kaelen."He stands there completely quiet, waiting for my tongue to move.I take a deep breath to find my courage. "She says your wolf sent bad rogues to ruin her skin inside that vault. Is that the truth?"I look straight at his big eyes, hoping he says no, hoping his beast is not a mean monster."Yes," Kaelen says.My ears start to buzz like wild bugs and my throat feels like it has a huge rock inside it. "Why? Why did your claws do that? Did your wolf never love her skin? How can you be so cruel to a female?""Are you getting this angry just because of that girl?" Kaelen asks, his eyes turning from mad to totally calm."Is this a sm
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Chapter: 147"Alistair told your tongue a giant lie!" Mirelle laughs like a demon. "The male beast who mated with your fur in the dark that night did not belong to any far pack land!"I keep my boots moving, refusing to stop my legs. Mirelle is just throwing random words to make my mind crazy. But why is her mouth doing that? I don't know, but my wolf is completely sure she is not kind enough to hand me the real truth. She is probably just telling giant lies to trap my paws.I turn my head around one last time to glare at her ugly smile. "Stop wasting your breath, Mirelle! My soul will never be fooled by your tongue, and I will never believe a single word you say!"Mirelle doesn't even get mad at my shout. Instead, her mouth lets out a super happy, creepy laugh. "My beast has been totally stupid and failed to hurt you so many times, Lyra. But even a stupid wolf cannot fail every single winter... my claws must win at least once!""The wolves who break the moral laws of the Moon Mother never win," I
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Chapter: 93ROWAN ASHCROFT POV“Are you seriously going to eat that entire bowl of wild berries before the hockey game starts, Kael?” I ask real loud, my hand resting flat on my big, round stomach.“My internal wolf needs all the strength he can get if your boots are going to force me to watch Ronan slam into the ice walls for three whole hours,” Kael Thornridge says back with a huge grin, his tongue licking red juice off his bottom lip. “Besides, our little pup inside your belly is the one who is actually hungry for the fruits under the moon.”“The pup wants to watch the hockey match, not eat your whole bowl,” I say, and my boots take a small step closer to his large frame inside the Alpha’s Sky Den.“Come sit right here on my lap, honeybee,” Kael commands with that deep, warm alpha voice that always makes my she-wolf feel super safe and happy. “The Blackwood Territory team is skating out onto the white ice on the television screen right now, and my arms need to be wrapped tight around your wais
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Chapter: 92KAEL THORNRIDGE POV“They are not that vague at all, Grandfather Alaric,” my voice booms out across the grass while my eyes stay locked on the hockey field.“Going that way on the ice course is not going to give her she-wolf any advantage anyway,” Nyra Vale shouts out to our faces, and her words finally make Orson Hale see that his plan is a totally bad idea.“Then that young she-wolf needs to stop being so soft on the hockey ice,” Orson grumbles real loud. “My fingers have a huge amount of pack resources riding on this game.”“You picked the wrong wolf to win, Grandfather,” Ronan Thornridge laughs from his large folding chair just a few feet away from my boots. “Come on, mate! We are going to take home the whole big victory pot today!”“Forget about that hockey hoop mark, honeybee,” my mouth yells to Rowan out on the field, because if my mind has to choose between my old grandfather and my brother Ronan, my soul is choosing Orson every single time. “Go straight for her hockey puck an
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Chapter: 91Rowan POV"Are you seriously going to make me scream your name in front of the whole pack?"I glare at Kael as he pins me against the leather seat of his SUV. His eyes flash amber, that dangerous glow that always makes my wolf go crazy."I don't care who hears." His voice is rough, all gravel and need. "Let them know exactly who you belong to.""You're impossible." But I'm already arching into him, my body betraying every word out of my mouth.He grins, that smug Alpha smile that makes me want to hit him and kiss him at the same time. "And yet here you are. In my car. In my territory. Letting me do whatever I want.""The driver—""Can't hear a thing through the partition." He nips at my neck, right where my mating mark should be. "Now stop making excuses and scream for me, honeybee."I hate how much I love when he calls me that. Hate how my whole body responds to just two words from him."I hate you.""Your wolf says otherwise." His hand slides up my thigh, and I forget how to breathe
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Chapter: 90ROWAN ASHCROFT POV“Nyra is running out the door right now to put face powder on Kael Thornridge,” I say to the empty dressing room mirror while I try to fix my own shirt.“I am right here, Rowan, and I just want to hear what the big Alpha is going to say to your face,” Nyra says as she walks back inside with her big makeup brush. “You look so great for the hockey interview, so stop shaking your hands because your internal she-wolf is looking super pretty.”“Hi, Kael,” I say when my boots walk out onto the big ice broadcast set, and I see his huge frame standing right there by the chairs.“You look totally beautiful tonight, Rowan,” Kael says, and then he leans his face right next to my cheek to give me a quick pack greeting.“What are you doing here at the Bloodmoon Gallery show, Kael?” I ask him, and my heart starts going super fast. “This is completely crazy for our hockey show.”“I am here because my wolf wants to prove my true love to your she-wolf,” Kael says back to me.“We hav
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Chapter: 89ROWAN ASHCROFT POV“Losing my hockey job at Thornridge Tower?” My voice sounds so fake when the words come straight out of my mouth. “My she-wolf used to calculate that a layout like that would represent the most terrible thing under the moon, but my spirit knows way better now.”“Your mind can still turn the whole ship around,” Marcus Hale says to my ears, his eyes getting very serious about pack business. “Your fingers can put out a big public statement, or your mouth can execute a huge live hockey interview right now.”“And what is my tongue supposed to say to the whole pack territory, Marcus? Should my voice admit that my animal made a huge mistake with her and then let her out of the mate bond paper so her she-wolf would not fight my name in front of the elders?”“The layout represents a very hard mix of things,” Elira Moss says, her face looking like her mind truly understands my pain.“Your deep voice needs to stay super low right now, Kael,” Marcus whispers fast, his eyes dart
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Chapter: 88KAEL THORNRIDGE POV“Look at this guy, he is my number one biggest screwup, and his name is Kael,” Magnus Thornridge says really loud to the whole pack room.“Magnus, stop that right now because that is a super mean thing to say to your son,” Valentina Moreau says with her thick accent. “Kael runs your whole entire Thornridge Dominion hockey empire for you, so he is doing a great job and he deserves huge respect.”“Oh, wow, you are hugging me right now, Valentina,” I say, and my voice sounds super surprised because I do not get hugs from anyone. “This is pretty weird for my wolf, but okay.”“I am just so happy to finally meet you, Kael,” Valentina says, and she sounds very warm and nice. “I know you missed the big family pack dinner last night.”“Yeah, I am sorry about that, but I have a huge amount of hockey work at Thornridge Tower,” I say. “Now we are meeting here at the Bloodmoon Gallery instead.”“He was running the empire good for a minute,” Magnus grumbles really loud. “But the
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