LOGINThe moon had climbed high enough to silver the mountain paths by the time Gorm reached the abandoned watchtower.I was already there waiting for him.Both hands rested against the weathered stone wall as I stared across the valley toward the distant lights of the Mystic Moon Pack. From this height the pack house looked peaceful, almost untouched by the grief that had settled over it.The grief I had unknowingly helped create.Gorm knew better."So," he said quietly as he approached. "You asked to see me."I didn't turn immediately."I remember."The words were almost stolen by the wind.Gorm stopped walking."Everything?"I nodded."Everything."Finally, I turned to face him.His expression changed the instant he looked into my eyes. The confusion that had haunted me for months was gone.What remained was something much worse.Guilt."I remember Kellina."A smile flickered across my face before disappearing just as quickly."I remember the first time she challenged me.""The first tim
I stopped walking.The mountain towered behind us, disappearing into the evening mist. Every instinct inside me begged me to turn around, to climb back to the place where I'd seen her, where I'd seen the city hidden beneath the stone. But I couldn't.If I looked back, I wasn't sure I would ever find the strength to leave.For several minutes neither Gorm nor I spoke. The only sound was the wind weaving through the pine trees and the crunch of our boots against loose rock.Finally, I broke the silence."I know what I'm going to do."Gorm looked at me, waiting."The vision..." I whispered. "It wasn't just a vision. It felt real. The city... it was alive somehow. Not with people exactly, but with purpose. It felt like it was waiting for someone."I could still see the towering stone gates, the glowing crystals, and the woman with eyes so much like my own."The First Priestess said the gate would open when my mate remembered."The words echoed through my mind over and over again."For alm
Kellina's POVThe mountain had never frightened me before.It should have.Its jagged cliffs reached into the gray sky like the claws of some ancient beast waiting to drag unsuspecting wolves into its mouth. Fog wrapped itself around the rocky peaks, swallowing entire sections until they disappeared from sight. Even after almost two years, I had avoided climbing it.Today felt different.My dream would not leave me alone.I had seen Rogan standing there.Not clearly.Just enough to know he had been looking toward me.His hand had reached forward before crimson mist swallowed him whole.I couldn't shake the feeling that it hadn't simply been another dream.It had felt...Real."So," Gorm said, stretching his arms behind his head as though we were simply taking a pleasant afternoon stroll. "We're climbing the creepy death mountain."I glanced sideways at him."You don't have to come."He snorted."And let you wander into whatever fresh disaster you've managed to attract today?"I rolled
The cold air hit my face and felt like a knife going over my cheeks. I inhaled the deep breath of the cold and let the piercing cold into my lungs. The coldness of the mountain air and the weather outside hurt my insides but it also let me know I was still alive, still breathing whether I wanted to or not. It still felt better than the hollow pain inside that ached throughout my body every day. I listened to the noises of the mountain now and heard the howling of coyotes, wolves far away, and the night silencing the cackling laughter I kept hearing in my sleep. I looked up to the moon as it continued to grow each and every day and prayed to the moon goddess that this pain would be silenced even just a little. I stared into her glow and felt her light shin down on me but still the pain, the numbness, and the vision of watching my mate kiss the woman who had taken every piece of me that was left then heard her cackling after like the witch she is. Weeks had gone by and still nothin
“Fuck man going easy on me!” Erin bellowed as I plummeted to the ground in the sparring room for the 100th time today. I reached my hand out to help him back up. “Sorry just trying to take out some of my frustration.” I mumbled out. “Damn I know man, I know but remember I’m the one who should be pissed at you.” I glared at him quickly and he laughed. “Sorry I know shit is weird with what my mate being the fucking evil Alpha from hell and your mate well nowhere to be found.” As soon as he said it I felt the rage in me again and I punched the punching bag nearby so hard it flew into the wall behind it. I turned to see Erin’s eyes wide open again. “Shit Sorry.” I mumbled again. “So, uh maybe we should talk about it instead of me letting you kick my ass for the last couple weeks,” he said quietly and hopeful. I turned to him and took this brown-haired fool in. Erin was the only one who believed me that I was myself again. I couldn’t get anyone to really trust me except for my li
“He kissed her! He fucking kissed her!” I kept yelling in my brain as I raced up the stairs. I needed Rollo, I needed the Alpha and I was going to end this. I arrived at the door of the Alpha’s office and told the guard I needed the Alpha now, not a moment later Rollo arrived throwing his shirt on quickly. “Kellina my dear what is it? You don’t look okay?” Rollo checked me over and I knew he could see the bruises on my arm which out of just wanting to avoid the conversation I put my hands behind my back. “Rollo I need to talk to the Alpha now and need Corgan there.” “Corgan, what?” He questioned me but then stopped. “Okay, whatever you need my sweet girl.” He then turned to the guard. “You heard him go get Corgan now!” He barked and the guard jumped racing up the stairs. At that moment the door opened up and the Alpha stood there, “What the fuck is going on?” “I need to talk to you about the deal we made now please and” I turned to Rollo, “I need to make sur
“They are gone! How can they be gone like that?” I felt frustration and anger knowing that three of our best red wolves had been lost to what I best guess was the Mystic Moon Pack. My fist pounded into the cave wall as I had no other way to express my anger. I watched now as rock flakes fell onto t
I was frustrated and so sick of Kellina’s crap. I knew the real reason in my mind but I was about to admit it. The truth was I wanted her to get over it so perhaps she would consider other options like me! Let’s face it I was going to have a mate anytime soon and Rogan was gone. We could be togethe
As they approached I felt a fire that I’d never felt, it was intense and full of rage inside me like nothing before and I’ll I wanted was to kill her. Athena the one who had taken my love, whose descendants had killed my family, and who now was the one thing in my way from having my mate and my pack
The dinner the night before was rather uneventful, at least I assured it that way. It was the greetings of niceties and politeness that were all over the place. It was obvious that Laura and Sophia felt overwhelmed by the large to-do that The Luna had put on but it was her norm to go overboard. I th







