Book 2: Chapter 64
A/N: YAY HAPPY 2022!!!!!!
Please read this and comment on the paragraph you like best.
I am at a loss and a dilemma. I feel more confident than I did when I started, so I want to write out all the hot and steamy bits to make you all happy, but this book is probably the highest rated book that doesn’t have outright sex in it (that I know of).
Like…I WANT to keep the PG-13 equivalent rating, but also, I WANT to write out all the steamy bits. The only way I could realistically do that would be to make this book split up, but I don’t want to do that either, because I personally hate that.
* I can either take the hit on the rating and post anyway, and therefore lose readers who weren’t looking for that. (I mean like at that point I may as well edit the chapters of Kaiden’s book that had it too, or make older chapters longer.) (I do read comments.)
* Split the book and loose readers, because it becomes confusing to find the book you were reading and go to chapter 60 or 70ish. I could also repost everything in its own book and you’d still have to find where you were, which is also annoying.
I chickened out in City Wolves, but like I’m on my seventh book (some aren’t ready yet, but I think they count at over 100,000 words) I dunno.
-John-
I was put in an impossible decision, but one I would have to make if I wanted my mate to be safe… As it was our bond was not secure. I had only marked her… I needed to mate her too. It would keep the witches from doing something I couldn’t think of or plan for. To us, it was sacred. The mark was usually more than enough to stop any wolf, even if it wasn’t a true mate. This process was given respect because it was our creator that gave it, but for witches they only married.
It was rare that a creature not made by the Lady, or not directly blessed by her as an exception receive one…. Heidi was a special case though. She was a hybrid, from a couple already blessed by the Lady Moon and the Lord of Night.
“John, are you ok? You look about ready to puke.” She asked. I had spaced out a second.
“I am, but I can handle a little turbulence.” I half lied.
“I feel so strong…. Maybe I can heal you some more?? She asked sweetly, but I immediately shook my head.
“I would actually like for you to stop making your hands glow if that’s alright.” I commented as smoothly as I could, standing up on shaky legs.
“Father below… um. It isn’t working.” She said quietly. Her rat came out her pocket. It seemed even though he could become a goat man, he preferred being small and close to her. “Alright.” She responded to whatever his little whiskers wiggled, and slowly they became normal.
“You look tired Heidi.” I commented, but she shook her head.
“No! I’m ready to go with you!” She stomped her foot, but she wasn’t fooling anyone.
I kissed her softly, knowing full well I shouldn’t have. I wondered… was this how mortals felt when they were being drained by a vampire… but the tingles it gave made it worth it. She kissed me back, falling into my arms on purpose. She held onto my chest, rubbing it gently. “You can barely keep your feet under yourself little mate.” I chuckled.
“No… I want to keep feeling whatever this is.” She mumbled. She listened to my heartbeat, and I hers. It was steady, thumping as if she’d ran a marathon….
“…. How do you feel?” I asked, knowing my eyes became my wolf’s. He still wanted to try and mate her, and I internally sighed. He was stubborn as his namesake.
“Like I could lift a car…” she said with a small smile. “But it seems to be fading and I have to take more of whatever this is.”
“It’s my life force Heidi…. Your magic is as you said flesh based.” I smiled weakly, feeling myself become normal the moment she let go.
“Oh my Lady I’m so sorry!” My little octopus let go, taking the intense tingles with her.
“Don’t feel too bad…” I smiled, standing up and popping my back. She probably saw she’d turned me on, because when I looked back down at her, she was red as a tomato. I leaned into her ear, and nibbled it a little. She gasped. “Maybe when you know how to use that power, you can do it later.” I whispered.
“Um… we’re going to be late!” She squealed, and I let her lead the way, scampering all the way to the car. Sparkle was still worried I was hurt, but I managed to fool Heidi. I was drained, but not so much that I felt weak anymore…. It did ironically feel nice after at first I felt sick.
I wondered did the Horned One make vampires…? Maybe Heidi would know.
I cranked up the little red truck, as even though it was older and more dinged up, it was my original car. I loved this old thing, and my mate didn’t mind. For that I was glad… many other she wolves of well off lineage would snuff at this, and demand I drive a new car, not an old one like this one, or the hand me down orange one.
“Say Heidi… who made the vampires?” I asked curiously, and she hesitated to answer.
“The Horned One’s son… the Vampire King Victor tried to cheat the Master in an unfair game of dice to save his town… and for it he took his soul, and destroyed the city. He gave it back after he was buried by what was left of his family, but normal food wouldn’t do anything for him anymore. He drained his family manor dry, his servants, and even their cow in a mindless hunger once he crawled out his grave. It is his curse, and those affected are hungrier the stronger they are…. He may never feel full, nor can he die because the High King wove it into his being, making him a King. His family rose, eating their friends and other family members until the Hellsong family exterminated all but the former Prince and King Victor.
“Wow….” I said looking ahead, and pulling into the parking lot.
“I actually got to meet him once when grandfather had all the Kings over… he was terrifying. He looked at me like I was a Caprisunny.” She looked at her hands, and I tried cheering her up.
“Or a Mountain Done.” I chuckled, and she frowned at me a bit.
“…..Very Funny Dave Chappett.” She grumbled.
“Sorry.” I said sheepishly, letting her out the car. “I’ll tell you why I asked that in a minute.”
We went into the packhouse, being greeted with more genuine bows of respect than I’d seen since we got here. Defeating Aikesh, and basically declaring war on my brother seemed to have earned me more respect than the sentencing of Jess it seemed…
I ignored them, marching my way up the stairs to see my father expecting me. He had a cup of white wine along with mother, leaned over a map of Russia. “Finally. Did you two finish your mating ceremony?” He asked as if it were the weather. I assumed for one so old, it probably was.
“No, we had some complications.” I mumbled, and he looked at me with a smug smile. I realized now the mistake of my wording….
…. Don’t you dare! I linked with crossed arms, and he put his finger to his chin.
“It isn’t that complicated son, maybe me and Aemi can show you if you can’t figure it out.” They laughed at us. I put my hand on my forehead.
“Lady damnit!” I growled.
“We kid, but maybe next time be a little later and take a shower.” He grinned, “Wisp texted me details after they left, he’s here.” Father pointed to pretty much the middle of nowhere way up north. No towns, no humans, just ice, even on the map…
“He’s trying to make a backup plan. My guess is that if the witches don’t help him, he’s going to try and take the gauntlets to the goblins to sell.” He mumbled. “I don’t understand his logic… he may be an exile, but he could have still taken a pack and a mate out there.”
“Where’s his true mate?” asked Heidi.
“The short of it: Hunters. The Long: Rekellia was how the Hunters found the original StoneMoon, and why it was eventually destroyed. We’d set up camp, though it was still a little early. Enough light for someone to see his mate shift. She did. They found her tracks, and followed her home. They sent a raiding party almost as big as a village…” He looked at his mate and sighed. “I had told them both time and time again to stop being so sloppy since we were living in a time where this kind of thing was common. Humans are vengeful and won’t care if you eat them or not… they only see you as a monster. Never forget that.”
“It is why we don’t eat humans outside the territory.” Said mother.
“I can just about guess that he blames you for that too.” I mumbled, but he shook his head.
“Surprisingly enough he doesn’t. We traveled together until he started listening to Brutus, I disowned him, maybe I shouldn’t have. Then he wouldn’t have clung to that fool’s words.” He looked heartbroken. I could imagine anyone would be, seeing as how he not only raised my brother, but also had him as a valuable pack member for so many years.
“Father you did what you could.” I said with crossed arms.
“Yes, and you need this.” He handed me two tickets first class to the middle of nowhere that were one way… Though… they weren’t to where he was, but rather almost exactly where the witches’ coven was in Greenpine. “Your way back is High Matron Theophania of the witches. They have a private jet.”
“You seem to be having second thoughts.” I mentioned, but he shook his head.
“I booked the soonest flight I could, and even then, it’s still nearly three days from now.” He said with a small smile.
“Alpha Ron we’ll try and bring him back alive.” Said Heidi, giving the man false hope. There was no way in hell he’d come quietly.
“I know realistically you can’t promise that. I wished you both would have known him before all this. He wasn’t a good person, but he was my son… one I can no longer claim because of the treason at my doorstep.” He left out his office, and I stopped my mate from going after him.
My mother did, and I could faintly hear them talk in their bedroom. “Let’s go.” I mentioned to Heidi. She nodded, not hearing anything, but I heard my mother’s whine as she began to cry. This was breaking them, and it seemed anyone who knew him personally.
But that still couldn’t mean that I rolled over and let him kill the King.
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