Tristan. ‘Fuck’. I made my way across the ballroom as fast as my human legs would carry me and sought safety at the Alpha table with Roman and some blonde he was chatting away with.I slumped back into a seat and tried in vain to keep my eyes away from the dance floor. Damn I really was a bastard. She stood in the middle of the floor, eyes down looking completely lost, and I couldn’t say I blamed her. I never dreamed that the desire to mate her would be so strong that I couldn’t hold her long enough to have one dance in public without my wolf trying to take over. How the fuck was I ever going to treat her like a Luna if I couldn’t hold her hand let alone actually mate her, without risking her death?Nox was unusually quiet in my head as I tried to process everything, letting my eyes roam the gathered crowd and completely ignore the ridiculous conversation Roman was having next to me. The

  Cali.Well, my first day at Blackrock certainly hadn’t been what I expected. It was early afternoon and I had spent most of the day locked away in my new office researching mating ceremonies. I sat back in the chair and closed my eyes, enjoying the silence for a moment.My parents, as promised had brought me several bags of clothes this morning, just in time too as I had no idea how I was supposed to go about my new Luna duties without any clean underwear. We had enjoyed a quiet breakfast in a small dining room in the west wing of the pack house before they left to head home.Watching them drive out of the gate at the end of the very long driveway had tears springing to my eyes. My whole life I had only been able to rely on my parents and myself. No one stuck around for long once they figured out how different I was. For the first time in my life, I would truly have to fend for myself here.The morning ha

  CaliThe voices grew increasingly loud as I made my way through to the entry hall of the pack house.“What are you on about? No! You said you wanted out.”“No, I didn’t I said you could buy me out. We invested together you can’t now sell it and keep it all yourself. Its half mine!”“No, it’s not you walked away from the business. Its your own damn fault that I’m having to sell in the first place.”I stepped fully into the entry hall to see two men dress similarly in jeans and t-shirts and each sporting angry expressions as they ignored the wildly gesturing Grant in favour of screaming at each other.“What’s going on?” I asked loudly at the fist lull in the shouting. But my question was ignored as they kept at it.“Any idea what this is about?” I asked stepping over to Grant who seemed frazzled by the w

  TristanI groaned as I rolled over to grab my phone of the bedside table, pissed off that someone was calling me when the whole pack knew I was running patrol at night. It better be fucking important.“Yeah” I answered my eyes still closed and not bothering to look at the caller id.“Tristan.” Roman’s voice came through the line, had I been a little more awake, I probably would have taken pause at his tone.“What the fuck Ro, what time is it?”“Its four…” I interrupted him before he could continue.“What the fuck, why are you waking me up?”“We can’t find Cali.”  “What do you mean you can’t find Cali?”“Julianne called me half hour ago when Cali was an hour late for their meeting, she couldn’t get hold of her and was worried. She went out shopping with

  CaliThe pain in my shoulders had gotten worse in the hours I had been folded up awkwardly inside the cage, I had tried shifting into several positions but each one just caused pain in a different part of my body. The throbbing in my head had receded and the bleeding had stopped, finally, although I expected I looked a state, I had had to wipe blood out of my eyes several times before it stopped.I had finally gotten my opportunity to put my plan into action about two hours after I woke up when a guard came in with a small plastic cup of water for each of us. My mouth was parched, and I swallowed the water in one gulp, instantly wishing for more, but I had no doubt that asking for it would do nothing but piss off the giant of a man that had brought the cup in.He was dressed in threadbare clothing and his face and arms were littered with scars that did nothing to detract from the dangerous aura he gave off, although I