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"I think so if Lil comes with to help. It will be plenty of time."

"What about me?" Jena whines. She's scouting not far from Wyatt.

"Not a chance." I responded. "I won't even go, because the temptation will be too great, you are going nowhere near those guys. It will be a massacre and we are not in a position to deal with that fallout."

"I'm ready, give me the go and scout, boss." Nathaniel says, ignoring Jena. He hates leaving her out, they have become close, but knows it's for her own good too.

"Me too." Lillian chimes in for the first time. "I will meet you at the back of the truck." She and Jena have been at each other's throats because we have been giving Lil all Jena's usual jobs on this mission. Not really what anyone wants, but it's necessary. So I have been keeping them as far apart as possible.

"Make sure you get in and get out. We don't have any way to mask your scent now, so they will know something is up if you go right in. You need to come from the front and when you leave each take a different direction, go as far out as you have to to cover your tracks. Then meet up with us."

"Understood." They both say.

"We have about five minutes, get set."

I stare just like I did the first time we were brought to the compound. It's like this everytime we come back from a mission. I always smile seeing the bunkhouse and the trees lining the back, hiding all of the obstacle equipment from the road. This is my safe place, my place to feel free, but it still isn't home. I don't know if I will feel home until I find my mate though. Like a piece of me is still missing, but I don't feel sad about the thought, more like I am waiting.

"We should jump back in the jeep and keep working on your driving. You're getting really good now." Wyatt says looking back from the passenger seat.

"Aren't you tired? We literally stayed up for two days and slept outside on the ground for the rest of them." Lillian whined.

"Nah, I'm still kind of wired from all the caffeine. And I know Midge had more than me, so she is too." He winks at me.

"Sure, we can. We'll see how long before I crash." I laugh at him.

We were all quick to drop our stuff off. Jena fell right onto her bed face first, starfish style. Shoes on and everything, just snoring away. I turn off the lights and laugh as I head back out the door and downstairs.

There are several jeeps that all the warriors can use. We tend to run everywhere, but this territory is so damn big that sometimes it's just easier and better to drive. Wyatt and Nathaniel have been taking turns e teaching me to drive. They decided they were offended that I never broke any rules and didn't try to drive before I turned sixteen. It fed to a lot of eye rolling on my part and razzing for being a goody goody for days from all of my friends. They are slowly trying to figure out how much of a rule follower I have always been. Now it's a game that they try to sneak into conversation.

Today isn't one of those days though. We are both tired, but need to wind down from all the excitement, so he just has me drive around this awesome loop that surrounds this edge of the forest near the compound. It is so nice today even though we are deep into the summer. The air is warm, but not heavy and the breeze through the trees is just right. The different shades of green explode across the horizon and set my whole mind at ease after spending the last week overthinking what Mike and this. rogue king are up to, what they want from me and how they both fit into the dynamic of the royal family connection.

I love that Wyatt doesn't force me to talk when he knows I just need the peace and quiet, but he will also push me to speak when he knows I am in my head about something. We just ride in the open jeep letting the sounds and smells of the forest settle in for about a half hour before I start to really feel the hard week we just had and I head back to the bunkhouse.

I pull up and Wyatt helps guide me to parking in the garage. Why boys need these cars to be crammed in here, I have no idea, but it makes me so nervous to pull in and out of here, but Wyatt won't do it for me and will lose my privileges to drive it if I don't take care of it, so here Pam, trying not to dent or scratch anything and it take a comically long amount of time for me to figure it out. And Wyatt doesn't hide his amusement at all.

Ten minutes later we are walking out of the garage and as we get to the front door, I stop short.

"Mina!!!" I run to my friend and jump into her arms. She hugs me gently, but strong at the same time.

I pull back from her to take a look. She is the same as she was a couple weeks ago, but she is different. I can feel it radiating off of her.

"Damn, Luna. You look good. We've missed you." Wyatt walks up and gives her a side hug.

"I've missed you guys too. It sounds like you have been up to all kinds of stuff without me." She smiles at both of us and we all start to walk in. I am starving and as much as I missed my friend, I cannot wait to have one of Stella's hot meals and I have no issues dragging her along with me.

"So...how's mated life?!" Wyatt asks with a little lisp and batting his eyelashes as he sits down at our table.

 

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She laughs. "Alright, no beating around the bush then. It's been great, but there is so much to it. Everyone left us alone for the first week which was amazing!" She closed her eyes and smiled.

"Oh, yeah? How amazing are we talking? I need deets on our future Alpha King, you know for comparison." Lillian chimes In.

"Well, I have two, so there's that." She smiles wickedly and I can't decide if I want to know anymore or not.

The more they talk about s*x around me the less embarrassed it makes me, but she's also talking about Xander, my cousin and big brother stand in. I'm curious and conflicted.

"Have you had them both at the same time? I always kind of wondered how that worked. I mean having multiple mates isn't, like, rare, but it's not super common either. Do they get jealous at all?" "Nope, no jealousy. Actually, it's a turn on to watch. They are both really hot and I never knew I was into watching, but having to just sit and watch them touch each other. Ahh!"

"And, I'm out. I can listen to a lot of things and I am not judging at all, but I don't not want that in my head everytime I have to talk to my Alpha King." Wyatt gets up and grabs

Nathaniel's arm as he approaches the table.

"What's up?" He tries to balance his plate.

"That is a conversation you do not want to be a part of."

"Huh?!"

"Mina is here..."

"I know I wanted to say hi."

"She's describing her s*xcapades with her two mates. She just started going into detail about them pleasing each other."

Nathaniel's eyes go wide. "Got it. Hi Mina, let us know when you are not gossiping." They both turn around and walk away.

"I thought they would never leave." She giggles. "Don't get me wrong I was not lying, watching my guys go at it all sweaty and animalistic is the hottest f*cking thing I have ever seen in my whole life. Then it only gets better when they bring me in, but I am actually here for you."

"What do you mean?"

"I actually saw your guys. They were at the castle for a couple hours yesterday and I think they stayed around hoping to see you, but your mission took longer than we thought. Alpha Reggie gave them an overview of what your job is now and they were trying to catch you in between.

They brought you these."

She handed me the duffle bag she had been carrying, but I didn't pay any attention to it since it looks like any other black duffle bag any of the warriors carry.

"Just so you know, they know about your mission at UMaine and that you had been taken hostage, and it took a month to get you back, no other details. They also know about your connection to the Alpha King, but not that the Rogue King is more than likely targeting you because of your connection.

Alpha Reggie gave them enough details to let them know how important you are and have been to this mission, but not enough for them to lose their temper and pack you up and take you home."

"Oh, okay." I don't know why I felt disappointed that they just went with whatever Alpha Reggie said and didn't push for more information about me. I should be happy they were here to see me, but maybe that was just out of a sense of obligation.

"Don't look like that, remember it's been a year and a half almost and this is the second time they have been this close to you, but can't see you. It seems like something is always in the way, really." "Yeah. The Goddess wants me to stay as far from them as possible so they can grow up and find their mates and to stop being distracted with a feeling of needing to keep me safe. It's allowing them to focus." "That did not sound bitter at all." Lillian laughed at me and I flipped her off. "How long have you been stuffing down that particular feeling"

"Ugh, my whole life." I roll my eyes.

"Well, I disagree. I think they have been smacked with reality and are coming to terms with it." Mina chides.

"What?"

"Just open the bag." She shoves it at me.

I open it and it's full of black stuff kind of jumbled together.

What is all this?"

"I'll explain while you pull it out. They know you have a uniform that you wear while you're here and on mission, but they thought you could use some upgrades." She smiles and I pull out the first thing. A set of wrist cuffs. With a small two inch blade stuck in each one and a few pockets for other things. I wrap them on my forearms and tie the laces.

"Oliver thought you could use the handheld weapons after your capture."

I pull out boots next. We have combats that we wear with the warriors, but these go about halfway up my calf and they also have blades tucked into hidden pockets.

"The boots are from your brother, and he must think you need weapons too." She laughs as I pull out the fourth inch blades from the sheaths. I put these on and they fit perfectly and feel like pillows on my feet.

Next is a supply belt. This one in leather, with extra hooks and D rings for who knows what, but I can guess based on the very thick sturdy look to it, this one is from Sam. On each side is an extension with a thigh strap gear pockets and more blades.

"Sam?" I look at her with a knowing smile.

"Who else would buy you bondage in the form of gear?" We all laugh.

"I'm just glad he's not here to see me put it on. Can you imagine the comments he would be making right now."

"Yes. He would tell you all the different ways he would tie your hot ass up to a bed." I can feel my entire body blush at that. "There's one more thing." She bends down and reaches into the bag, and pulls out a handful of material and passes it to me.

It's a jacket. I shake it out and put it on. The hem is cropped just above my pants so I have freedom of movement with the thick soft material. The sleeves have bands of thick leather so I can move but will be protected in a fight with minor weapons. The hood is lined with the same soft material from the body of the jacket, but lined with strips of the same leather as the arms on the outside.

"The jacket was the twins idea. Apparently, you like to scrape yourself up when you fight. This will help with all the rogue stuff too, since they seem to use a ton of weapons. It will give you an extra layer of protection.

 

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I turn around with all my gear on. "What do you think" I can't help smiling at the stuff they gave me. I don't know if they had help, based on the coordinations of the whole outfit, I should assume Sierra was involved, but it's all perfect and what I need as these missions get longer and more difficult.

"You look like an assassin. Remind me not to piss you off now that you can beat four full grown, fully trained wolves at one time and are armed to the teeth with weapons too."

Lillian laughs.

Two weeks later our tracker on the supply trucks paid off and we have found a consistent pattem of stops. Several teams are called in. We are going to finally pursue this from multiple fronts. Hopefully this will end soon. PAcks are still being attacked, but all we can do is go in and make sure everyone is trained enough to get to safety. We have noticed a higher number of survivors as we go in to help after attacks, but it's not enough for me. The attacks need to end. This Rogue King is going to have nobody to rule if he keeps on like this.

"Tracker, you will lead a team here." Osiston points to a place on the map about four hours North of us. Thomas, your team will take the East flank. Drive them towards the

ocean line where Nickolas and I will be with our teams to intercept. The southern end buts up to the Northern portion of the Alpha King's territory, we will put our newer recruits and all of those packs security detail heavy on those borders.

With Jena, Nathaniel and the rest of the tech team we have been able to slowly cause problems with their supply chains coming and going from the sea. This attack will cut them off completely and they will know we are onto them.

There's no turning back. Do all team leaders understand your assignments?" A confident 'yes, sir' echoes across the room. "Get with your teams and discuss your strategy. Get to know your lay of the land and remember to be aware of the invisible enemies too. Dismissed. Skylar, Jena, and Lillian, stick around."

We all stop and turn back to him and just stand there while he finishes several conversations and is apparently waiting for the room to clear.

"I have a separate mission for you three that is in tandem to this one. We have visual confirmation on Mike's whereabouts." Jena and I stop breathing waiting for him to finish. "I am placing you three here." He points to a spot on the map that is about a hundred miles from my pack's north western border, but not near the isthmus that connects the island to the mainland. That's a weird place to be unless he's planning to attack by boat, which is possible."

According to Nathaniel, he has been moving in Blue Cresceant's direction slowly over the last month. We think he is targeting you, Little One. Now whether that is because

you got away from him or because

the Rogue King wants you we don't know. What we do know is that your pack is in imminent danger." I look up from the map and just stare at him. "They have been warned and are taking all precautions, but I thought you would want to be placed in between your pack and the threat."

"Absolutely. Thank you, sir."

He just nods. "We are also working under the assumption that he thinks Jena is with you. He clearly tracked you home thinking that's where you would run to after being Captured, We may be able to slow them down by using you both as a dist

but only if you are up for it. It will be the three of you. I need Wyatt and Nathaniel on the defensive line to intercept Tracker's wave of rogues." He looks at both of us. We don't even need to confer with each other. Mike is going to die and it will be at our hands. He won't get to hurt

another girl again.

"Yes, Sir." We both say confidently. I

A week later most of the compound is packing up the different jeeps and SUV's we will all take to our initial starting positions.

I hug Wyatt. "Come back in one piece alright"

"What are you talking about? I'm not the 'try to kill me"

magnet. You be careful. I know you want Mike, but don't let him take you out in the process, he doesn't get to win like that." He pulls me into another headlock hug then moves over to Lillian and Jena.

I hug Nathaniel too. "I'll see you soon. Keep me posted on that over watch." I wink at him and he winks back.

Even though he's going to be

working with the clean up team, I

know he'll have drones in the air for Alpha Reggie and the other leaders to keep track of what's going on all the time. It gives us the advantage because any one of them watching can link us to give us a heads up."

We all climb in our vehicles and disperse like a flurry of ants in different directions. This is it, the beginning of the end... hopefully.

I didn't realize how far the site of the training compound was from the ocean and my pack. I always just looked at a map, did the math for the closest border and just always had 'it's only two hours away' in my head. It took us nearly five to get to our assigned location.

 

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When we stepped out of the SUV I could literally smell pack members on the breeze. I was so close to home and yet I couldn't go anywhere near them until this threat was taken care of. We set up camp and checked in with the rest of the teams. We were one of the last two to check in.

No one had any trouble getting to their position and I don't know if I should be suspicious about that or not. I chose to keep the idea that somebody on the enemies' side probably knows something about us moving out of the compound.

The following day, we got reports of our tech and cyber team being set up and picking up movement.

"Tracker, you're good to go. Looks like they are moving their latest shipment."

"Thomas, the team you are tracking has doubled in size. They seem to be in a holding pattern."

"Brogen, is your team ready to intercept? You have about an hour before the first wave. The lead truck seems to have all equipment, take it out before you attack, it could buy some time." "Nickolas, move your team North one supply truck has veered from the route"

It was a constant barrage of information all day. 1! forgot what it was like to have so many people in my head, it was starting to give me a headache.

"Midge, there's been no sign of Mike at all. I have a bad feeling about that." Nathaniel said over everyone, most of the chatter died down.

"What do you mean 'no sign?" Osiston asks, opening the link to several more people. Based on the look on Lillian and Jena's faces they were added. And probably the rest of the team leads.

"We saw him at his camp last night, and then nothing at all after he went inside his tent. They packed his shit this morning. I've been on this watch personally."

"We'll figure it out. Are we still the closest to his last known position?' I can't dwell on what might have been missed, he's on his way, I can feel it and he's ready for revenge after we got away from him. "If he stays on the path he's been taking for the last two days, yes you are in his path."

"We'll start a scout party and keep you updated. He's not that smart, but I'm pretty sure the people around him are."

"I want a check in every fifteen minutes from here until we find him, understood" Osiston asks, well I guess growls is more like it.

"Understood." The three of us say together.

"Let's pack up and start heading that way." I point just Northwest of us. "It didn't seem like he was following the coast, but he may be heading to the island entrance or somewhere near it." Both girls agree and we make quick

work of camp.

We decided to leave the SUV parked

as if we were hiking. It will mean more flexibility if we do find him and we can leave unnecessary gear here too. Jena and I have been working with Lillian and Sierra on shifting without destroying clothes, so none ofus need to worry about any heavy bags slowing us down. I

We walk for most of the day staying about twenty feet apart so we Can cover more ground trying to smell if they have been here or not. When the sunlight starts to change to a darker yellow we shift our position in a wide arc and start to head back to where we came from. We didn't find anything, but it sure beats waiting around for nothing to happen.

Once the sun set behind the mountains and the air started to take a cooler turn and dusk set in, we heard it. A crackling fire and murmuring voices. I stop and the girls follow suit, no questions asked. We are that attuned to each other and have developed a high level of trust. They listen too.

We don't mindlink, none of us want to miss anything, if these are rogue wolves. The conversation sounds serious, but whispered. They know anyone could be watching. At least they have some common

sense.

"That b*tch was supposed to be here. They f*cking lied to us. Probably set us on a wild goose chase just to see how long we would stay out here looking for her." One guy says.

I can only see profiles with them being between the firelight and us.

"Yeah? I dare you to call Mike and

tell him that. See what he says about the wild goose chase." The guy in the center pulls out a phone. I look back and forth to the girls at my sides They are here for one of us and Mike isn't here. What does that mean? We also know, some of them, at least can't mind link se they are

reliant on cell phones. We can

probably make this work.

I tilt my head to the right signaling Lillian to head the way and to the left for Jena. We are going to surround them, one for each of us.

"Osiston, we have some activity. Three guys, they mentioned Mike, but he isn't here. They are using cell phones to communicate. We are going to try and neutralize these guys and see what we can find out." "Stay safe, Little One."

"Always." I giggle at him. And he just huffs.

 

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We all get into position and I give Lillian the lead. She's in front of them now and can see what they are doing. She holds her hand up to stop us. They are all looking at something, heads close together.

Then all hell breaks loose. The silence was broken by a low, guttural growl that reverberated through the woods. I was thrown forward, but recovered quickly rolling to the side as another swipe of an arm blew past my head. I lost track of the girls, but I'm sure they were keeping just as busy as me.

A second guy joined my fight. Both of these guys were big- ish. I guess when you compare anyone to my guys they are just -ish. But everyone is always bigger than me and the stupid ones think that makes them better than me. These two were no different.

One lunges at me trying to get at my legs, I turn away and use the move I used on one of the guys forever ago and used one of his arms to swing me up and jab my elbow into the soft spot on his lower back making his muscles spasm.

He drops to recover while his buddy comes at me, grabbing one of my arms. I twist under, but he doesn't let go right away and the skin to skin rubbing burns like a b*tch. I manage to break his grip though as I continue to move behind him and kick his knee in. It was too much to hope I broke something, which would slow him down.

Bonehead number one comes at me with a couple wild punches. I manage to grab one wrist and use his forward

momentum to pull him towards me, punch his face, and knee him in the thigh. I push off of him and move onto his buddy with a side kick to the center of his chest knocking him backwards. I'm not trying to let them get their hands on me. Number one comes at me and I throat punch him as he reaches for me and number two grabs me from behind, lifting me off the ground. Number one smiles his yellow rotted smile and stalks forward, panting hard. Fighting is clearly not their main job. When he gets close enough I kick up hard, catching him in the jaw. This time I heard bones crack as his head whipped back unnaturally and he fell backwards and I let my body weight pull me and number two down and forward. I reach back and grab two handfuls of hair throwing him over my shoulder and onto his back. I pull out one of my wrist blades and stab him in the upper chest and twist the knife making it harder to heal.

I hear a yell for help from Lillian, so I leave this douche to his wounds. Number one didn't get up, I made a quick check for his breathing, nothing. Not sure how that works, but I'm also not going to question one less dickhead to deal with.

I take off for the sounds of my friends. Jena has one guy fallen in front of her, she's got two more battling for her attention. Lillian's guy has her pin up to a tree and a knife at her throat. He's talking to her, but I can't hear what he's saying over the rest of the fighting noise. I move up behind him. I'm downwind so he shouldn't scent me coming.

I put my own blade on his throat. "Where's your boss hiding?

Is he too much of a chickensh*t to come and find me

himself?" I dig the knife in. I don't care if these guys die, that really should bother me, but I can't dissect that train of thought now.

"You little b*tch. You're not worth the

trouble. He can have any p*ssy he wants and he chooses the biggest pain in the ass he could find. He didn't say you had to be pretty when we brought you back..." He swings back and catches me with his elbow. My knife digs in and slices across his throat, but not enough to be lethal. "URGH! Just for that, I'm going to f*ck you so hard up against this tree that you can't fight back anymore."

At his words I see red. My wolf and I seem to almost connect in our anger. This is the type of guy that needs to never walk this earth again. I don't even know what happened, but when I blink I am straddling him, two knives in my hands and blood everywhere.

Lillian grabs my shoulder and I flinch away from her.

"It's just me, let's go, Jena needs help.” We both take off and Jena's guys are at least smart enough to know we pose a bigger threat than they thought. They take off and we are in pursuit.

"We caught up with several guys, No Mike. Four down and we are chasing two now." I basically scream into the mind link. I don't think I have ever had to report in while chasing down someone before. It's a little irritating.

I have no idea what direction we are running in. I do know that we are not letting these guys get away from us though and we have adrenaline on our side right now. They shift as

they head over a ridge and we lose them for a few minutes, then I hear the unmistakable sounds of growling We shift immediately and let our wolves add their speed. We see our rogues engaged in a fight with pack wolves, my pack's wolves. I can smell the familiar scents as we cross into the patrol border lines.

 

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The clash of fangs and claws echoed through the forest, and the wolves exchanged ferocious blows. The movements are so fast it's hard to tell who caught these guys. I am stuck momentarily watching the beauty of the movement. Then I see it, the dark gray, almost black wolf with a small white patch on his front, crouches down and snarls at one of the mangy looking rogues.

Oliver.

It's Oliver's wolf and he's beautiful in his furious glory. Before I can even say anything, he lunges at the rogue, clamps down on his neck and rips back. The rogue stood no chance against him. He turns towards the other rogue engaged with his partner.

"Oliver! I need him alive!" I shout through our link and it feels almost rusty and slow.

Oliver's wolf whips his head towards us as we run forward, then looks back to the rogue lunging forward and sinking his teeth into its back flank. The rogue howls in pain, but there's enough damage that he can't fight anymore. The rogue falls to his side panting and whimpering.

Oliver's patrol buddy shifts and it's one of the teens that trained with us forever ago. I can't remember his name, but he has certainly grown up. I don't pay much attention though, I only have eyes for my friend. I slowly walk up to him, still in my wolf form and he lets out

a little growl which makes me pause. Then he shifts and stands there in all his naked glory.

I shift back, fully clothed and he gives me a curious once over. I can feel Lillian and Jena behind me, they have shifted too.

"Oliver." It comes out like a whisper.

"You're here?" He says it like a question, but it also sounds accusing. I nod and take a tentative step forward. "But not to stay?"

I shake my head 'no.' "I'm sure you all heard the rogues are on the move, we chased these two here after we took out four others. We need to question this one. I'll find out where Osiston wants him." "That's it? All business now. Too caught up in being a warrior to even check in with your friends?" Yep, he's angry with me.

My breath catches, but before I can say or do anything else I am tackled to the ground by a white and ginger wolf who starts aggressively licking my face. I hear exclamations from the girls, but I start to giggle and it feels amazing. "Sam, stop! I'm so gross, covered in blood and dirt and who knows what else." He licks my face one more time and then jumps off of me shifting. He also stands up completely naked. Reaching a hand down to help me up.

"I had to see it with my own eyes, you're really back!" His smile is infectious as he picks me up in a hug and spins me around.

"Midge!" Lillian shouts as the underbrush around us starts to rustle aggressively, then my brother and the twins run

out. My brother doesn't even stop crashing right into me. "1am so happy to see you!" He breathes into my hair.

"Me too!" I tighten my arms around his neck.

"Tiny, what's going on?" Cam moves to my side and I look up at him. I let go of Mateo and give him a hug around the waist then moved to Dakota before answering again. I don't want to keep explaining myself.

I pull a silver collar out of one of my cargo pockets and take it over to the rogue. He's shifted back to his human form, his injuries too much to handle. I lock the collar around his neck.

"You try to shift the sliver in this collar won't kill you, but suffocating while being poisoned slowly by the silver will."

Then I stand and turn to my guys.

"Yes, Oliver, it's all business right now. I need this rogue alive, for now." I side-eye the rogue. "He needs to be questioned. Can we put him in the cells until I have my I orders?" I look back to the twins who are glancing between Oliver and I. If he is going to be a d*ck then so am

in the

1.

"Of course. Any idea how long you'll be home?" Cam asks, staying neutral.

"No, we didn't think the rogues would make it this far. We need to connect with Osiston and Alpha Reggie and have

our guys expand the perimeter they have set to include where we found these guys."

"Declan, take this guy down to the cells. Little Bit, it's late or early depending on when you slept last, so let's get you and your friends back to the packhouse, cause you know Luna Ava will kick your ass if she finds out you were on the

territory and didn't stop."

At the mention of my friends I turn around and look at Jena and Lillian hanging back, but still flanking me like the dedicated soldiers they are.

“Oh, umm, Jena, Lillian,” I gesture to

each girl. "These are my future pack leaders. Cameron and Dakota, future Alphas. Mateo, my brother and the future Beta. Oliver, future Gamma and Sam, future Delta. Declan is one of their warriors. Guys these are two members of my team. Sierra, Wyatt and Nathaniel are stationed with other groups."

"Come on, shorty. You have some explaining to do." Mateo puts his arm around my shoulder and leads us back towards my pack.

I'm home.

 

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We are in the home stretch of Skylar's story. I hope to give some clarity to a few plot points. I hope to give the characters you love and hate the story they deserve. This has been a work of love and fun and creativity I didn't know I was capable of.

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Many have asked for the guys POV while Sky has been gone. That has always been a part of the plan, but I need to tell Sky's story first :) The ADHD can be a real b*tch sometimes and once I'm off track, there's no telling when I'll get back on! LOL!

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We follow the guys, Mateo hasn't taken his arm off of me once in the whole ten minutes we have been walking. Sam has had a running commentary the whole time. He met Lillian once while he visited Sierra a the Royal pack.

"So Little Bit, I see you got our gifts, what do you think?

Pretty amazing right?" He looks back over his shoulder at me.

"Yes, everything has come in very handy." I smile at him.

"Who's knives did you use first?" He wiggles his eyebrows.

You wouldn't know that we were just in a fight, covered in blood with five guys dead and one in captivity based on the way he's talking.

I roll my eyes. "Oliver's actually, saved my life and let me get to Lillian." I saw Oliver stiffen for just a second and then the smallest nod of the head, like he didn't want to acknowledge the compliment, but couldn't help himself. He's upset with me and we really need to talk, but alone. "Told you they would be the most useful." He grumbles at Sam.

"Damn, I guess I owe you lunch." Sam huffs, slapping him on the shoulder and passing him to reach the truck first. The truck. It's so silly, but I missed the truck, riding around

in my spot between the twins, Sierra crammed in the back with Sam. The guys load a couple of bags. They must have been doing the same thing we were, camping out waiting for anything to happen..

"We got the message from Xander about the rogues and have been running wide patrols everyday, we wanted to make sure that we kept whoever these guys are off the island." Cam reads my mind like he always does. "Do you have anything you need to pick up?"

"We left our truck and gear, but we have everything that is important on us." Lillian jumps in, probably feeling my hesitation. "We don't need any of it right away."

"Something I am very curious about since you all arrived in your wolf forms." Mateo raises an eyebrow at me.

"That is a story that involves drinks and Mina, but she's busy getting ready to be the next Luna Queen."

"More stories and more drinks." Sam says from the back of the truck.

"Let's go grab it now so we don't have to double back and if these guys have friends nearby we can handle them and they can't steal your gear or sneak up on us while we get you checked out.." "Okay. Let's go. We have been up for a long ass time." Jena chimes in as she moves to the bed of the truck and climbs in while Sam and Oliver lift the bound rogue into it.

"What are you doing?" Mateo asks. "Get in the truck, you're

injured, two of us will ride back here." -

“Thanks, macho man, but it's good, I want to be here in case he decides moving is a good idea, I owe him for some fractured ribs and this serious black eye." Jena points out and Lillian and I laugh. "You're mad about a black eye? You didn't beat the sh*t out of the guy who broke your arm." I ask.

"That was different. He was hot as f*ck and it was a total misunderstanding."

"Is that the line he used when you threw him in your car and you decided to edge him Lillian smirks.

"I got mine and he did break my arm." Jena shrugs and sits down her back to the back of the truck cab. "He also stole from the Royal pack and tried to beat his mate and his side piece. So he deserved it."

All my guys are stunned into silence. "Pick your jaws off the ground, let's go get our gear. I told you our stories require drinks." I move to climb in the front seat in my usual spot.

Once I sit down it dawns on me that this might not be my place anymore. "Is this okay? I look at Kota who is climbing in beside me."

"Why wouldn't it be?"

"I..umm..it's just been a while.. I don't want to take someone else's place." I look down at my hands folded in my lap.

Why am I so weak and timid around them? It's frustrating. "It's no one's place but yours, Smalls." He says low into my

ear. It took me a second to let my breath out.

"So does everyone call you

something different?" Lillian breaks the trance kam in with Dakota and

as I look over my shoulder, I see ske knows exactly what she did." I rolt

my eyes. "I mean the Alpha King Warrior Brogen call you

'Little and

One'

and all the warriors call you Midge.

But I think I have heard each of them

call you something different."

"Yeah. It started as a joke and stuck. Xander actually came up with Midge too, I'm pretty sure." :

"Where to, Tiny?" Lillian laughs and I roll my eyes at Cam who is just looking at me, not angry, but I think he's not super happy to see me either.

"Let me get our SUV's location from Nathaniel. Hold On."

"Nathaniel, I need the GPS coordinates to our SUV. We met up with the Blue Crescent Pack and we have a prisoner. We are going to take him back to their cells and get cleaned up. There are five down. Osiston or Nickolas, we'll wait for your orders."

Not even two seconds later I get a ping on my device.

"Big brother was watching wasn't he?" Lillian smiles.

"You know he was. He was probably watching the fight and taking notes so we can watch the replay and critique the fight."

"Warriors seriously record their fights?" Oliver asks climbing in his side of the truck, looking skeptical.

"That's awesome! We should totally do that." Sam says, following suit on his side.

"Not all warriors do, but when you have one of the youngest, most advanced and diverse teams that can do the surveillance and the

team leader happens to be a gigantic pain in the ass and tends to get herself into trouble..."

 

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3-2

"Excuse you! You have been along for almost every round of trouble, missy, shut it. I also know Nathaniel is watching so I use the tech to my advantage. I'm sure he has eyes on us now because I get the feeling we are the only ones who have seen any action at all and he's bored as f*ck."

"Obssessed much?" Oliver snipes from behind me.

"Jealous much?" I quip back.

"I don't know your team and the idea of some guy watching and recording you all the time sounds sketchy to me."

"Eww. When you Say it like that, yeah."

It was a quiet drive after that. Thank the Goddess it didn't take too much longer to reach the SUV.

"Midge, I'll take the keys and follow."

"It's okay we can both go. I don't think Jena is going to leave her hostage any time soon." I look out the back window at my friend.

"Although watching her yell at your brother this whole time has been entertaining. I didn't know we could even have sexual tension with these brands on, but I can feel it through the window from here." I smiled at Lil's comment, but looked back at my brother and my friend again. Huh, it does remind me of when Slerra and Sam first started hanging

out. I'm going to have to pay close attention.

Lillian goes to jump out of the car and I move to go with her, but Dakota stops me. I look at him confused.

"Stay, Oliver can go with Lillian and make sure she gets to the packhouse."

"But, I..."

"No, stay, please." The look in his eyes was somewhere between pleading and serious. "I! want to talk to you."

This was going to happen sooner rather than later, but !

figured I would be accosted by all the guys at the same time, not have to individually talk to them about leaving and avoiding contact.

I nod, "Okay, I'll stay, but I have to get out to give her the keys." I don't give him time to think. I climb over and jump out. The keys are tucked into the back of one of my leg pockets. I pull them out and hand them to Lil. "Stay close, the terrain gets a little choppy around this area."

"You act like I don't drive ever." She rolls her eyes.

"No" Jena shouts, "We don't let you drive because you suck at it. Good luck Oliver, I hope you don't get motion sick."

Jena and I laugh, cause she isn't joking one bit. Of all the things Lil is good at, driving she never really mastered.

Oliver regarded me then swiped the keys from Lil's hands."

Hey! What the hell?"

"Since I know where I am going, this will guarantee that we

get there, and in one piece." Jena and I start laughing again. I follow Oliver and Lil to our SUV.

"Smalls, you said you would stay." I forgot that these big ass guys could be such babies.

"Grabbing something, relax." I head back to their truck and throw Jena her jacket and a blanket. "If you insist on riding back there you might as well try to be comfortable. It's not going to be a shortride. Sleep while you can too. We've been up for almost 48 hours."

"Yes, ma'am." She winks and I stick my tongue out at her before I climb back in the truck.

I notice Sam is messing with something in the back and then sits down next to my brother.

"Did you kick him out? What is so bad that you can't talk to me in front of the rest of the guys?"

"Is it so bad that we just want you to ourselves, Smalls?"

"That's fine, just not normal." I hesitate.

"A lot has changed since you left Tiny.

"Like what?"

"Not as attached at the hip as we were. We all have jobs to do now. The full transition starts when we turn 18." That was all Cam said. That's not cryptic at all. "Now do you want to tell us what really happened the night you left?”

"Honestly, no. It's something I have been working on

forgetting. And before you all try to force me. I'd rather tell all of you at the same time so I only have to relive it once. It was one of the worst experiences and I have grown a lot since then."

"We can see that." Dakota tries to lighten the mood a bit by giving me a once over. I shove him back with my shoulder. "Thank you for the gear. I really do love it. You guys seem to always know what I need. Thank you for the necklace for my birthday. I was really surprised, I didn't think you all would remember..."

"How could we forget your birthday Tiny? You are too important to forget something like that." I just nod again and look down at my hands. "We just wish you would have reached out, let us know you were okay, anything. We were right there, more than once. Xander gave us one letter and that was all the response to each of our letters to you."

"You know I wasn't allowed to.."

"That's bullsh*t and you know it." Cam's harsh words make me look up at him. "We were able to get things to you and we know that you are everybody's favorite. I bet Warrior Brogen would have hand delivered a letter if you asked him to."

"Stop! I am not the favorite, and I'm

tired of double standards all the time. I didn't want to, okay! I have been the weak little sister, the weak second born Beta my whole life. Then everything revolved around my attachment to you guys. I was

noticed because of you t

and

Sierra being my friends. I was only seen as good at fighting because of you guys. Not because of my own talents or hard work. I needed this for me."

My tone is getting higher as I talk. "I was always going to go to training no matter how many tantrums you threw. How I got there sucked ass, but I got there and have done nothing but bust my ass."

"Just answer this, because Alpha Reggie flat out refused to even talk about it. When you were captured and imprisoned for a month." He took a deep breath and let it out harshly.

There's that growl again. "Yes we

was

know about your capture, and no, Alpha Reggie did not want us to know about it, but dad thought our reaction would have been worse if it kept from us. Did he, did they, did that asshole touch you, while he had you? From what we got of your friend Jena's story, there was a lot of mistreatment of the women who were captured." He almost choked on the words.

"No." I whisper and close my eyes. "Not me." I look behind me out the window at Jena. "But I witnessed more than I wanted to, but it's not my story to tell."

Cam's shoulders relaxed a bit and his anger seemed to simmer down a bit. I lean on his shoulder and reach for Dakota's hand.

"I'm okay, and for now I'm home, can you work with that? I promise we'll talk, some stuff is just hard and I don't want to say it more than once." He huffs, reaches for my hand and laces our fingers together, keeping his gaze forward and the other hand on the wheel.

The rest of the drive was silent.

There was no way I was going to be

able to have any more conversation

with them right now. Emotions were too high. Apparently me leaving was still a point of contention. Even when

my intentions were very clear Maybe after we have been here a couple days and my returning stops being a new novelty we can talk, until then I have to keep my focus on the job. Mike and the Rogue King are the target, the top priority.

I am dozing on and off as we drive about an hour and a half before we get to the stretch of land that connects the island to the mainland. Once we cross it will be another half hour until we get to the packhouse A realization hits me suddenly. "Does your mom know I'm coming? Should I link her?"

 

Chapter 0430

3-3

"Are you kidding? Everyone knows you're here. Sam practically melted everyone's mind shouting it over the link."

Kota laughed at me.

"I'll have to figure out where we are all staying. I didn't even think about being this close to the pack. We weren't sure what these guys had planned."

"You have been gone too long. Your team will stay at the packhouse, like all important guests."

"Okay, that works. I'll talk to Mateo about my room at the Beta house. That is if my dad hasn't converted it to something else."

"Again, are you kidding? You'll stay in your room at the packhouse. No one has touched it since you left. We actually all kind of avoided it." Kota looks pointedly out the window so I can't see his face. "Umm, Okay. That works, as long as we aren't in your way. Like you said, I've been gone a long time. I'm sure things have changed, just let us know if we are in your way, or anyone else that is in the packhouse now."

We pull into the driveway and a hot pink clad figure is standing on the porch tapping her foot. I take a deep breath. This should be fun. We all pile out of the truck as Sam and my brother unload the rogue and Oliver pulls up on

the curb with our SUV.

"What's going on out here? You boys are never home in the middle of the day." Her dramatic gasp is audible. "What the hell is she doing here?! I thought you kicked her out of the pack." She snarls at me. My wolf raises her hackles and I let a small growl rumble out of me. "I have been training with the Elite Warriors..."

"Don't lie to make yourself sound better. You aren't old enough to be an Elite Warrior and you're a weak little second born Beta, who can barely defend herself." She steps towards me, a smirk on her face. I've never called her out on her treatment of me in front of the guys and she's never been so blunt in her hatred. She probably thinks it's because she scares me and the guys won't do anything..

I move to step forward, but Kota wraps his arm around my waist and Cam steps in front of me.

"Might I remind you that you are a guest in the packhouse out of courtesy. You need to show respect to our pack members and our guests."

Lillian and Jena walk up beside me, flanking me, looking stern but not unpleasant.

"This is the b*tch that has been messing with you isn't it?" Lil links the two of us.

"No way! This skank? Please can I punch her in the face?

She looks very punchable." Jena chimes in. I

"No, she's still a pack member. We can't just beat her up

because we want to. You need proof and a cause. She's the worst kind of trouble" I replied, a little defeated.

How is it that these two, like Sierra, picked up on the animosity between Kaley and I and no one else has a clue?

Our discussion is interrupted by a blur of motion in the form of Luna Ava flying at me from the front door. Dakota jumps away from me, just barely out of his mom's path as she reaches me and pulls me into a bone crushing hug.

"Oh, my sweet girl! I've missed you."

"Luna Ava, you act like you didn't just see me a couple weeks ago." I laugh into her shoulder.

"You were safe then. No one was chasing my girl, no one was trying to take you from us again."

"Luna Ava, I thought we were going to start going over plans for our fall celebration party." Kaley tries to bring attention back to herself.

Luna Ava squeezes me tighter and whispers into my ear. "

I'm sorry, this can't be avoided or helped. I will explain later."

"We have had a change in plans due to some activity at one of the borders. I'm sorry Kaley." Luna Ava looks me in the eyes as she pulls away from me, takes a deep breath, schools her face and turns around. "We have a meeting with the Alpha that cannot wait. Skylar, where would you like your prisoner? We need to deal with him quickly so we can get his information to the right people. And we need to get you and your friends settled in their rooms and then you can tell

me what you want for dinner. Lucas will be so excited to see you, we just didn't get much time at the castle, you were so busy with your work with the Alpha King." She wraps her arm around my shoulder and guides me inside, Jena and Lillian following behind.

I don't know what they did, but Kaley let out a growl as we passed. Nothing more was said until we were all the way upstairs on the guys' floor.

Luna Ava looks around before heading to my room, like she's waiting for someone to jump out and say boo. She leads us to my door after than and grabs the handle gently and slowly, like she's afraid to open

it.

"Please dont be upset at the state of it. I would have had everything put back to rights if I had known you were coming today."

"Huh?" She opens the door. It looks like someone has been Camping in here and all the guys scents are all over the room. "I thought Dakota said they all avoided my room, what is all this?"

My bed is perfectly made, but there are piles of blankets everywhere. It looks like after a party and everyone sleeps wherever, too drunk to drive home.

"Hmm. Well, don't believe a word of that. Those boys have all been kind of lost without you and Sierra round. They actually have a rotation of who sleeps in here, but none of them touch your bed or your closettrying to preserve your scent."