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Chapter 77
Briccia turned up her nose and couldn't help but enjoy that smell even though its owner wasn't exactly someone she was most looking forward to seeing... or was he?She took a deep breath, asking the Goddess to give her all the poise she needed not to throw one of her potion pots at him on sight and opened the door to greet Maddox with a forced smile.He stood with his fist raised, ready to knock on the door.“Come in,” said the girl without a single inflection in her voice, and the Lycan entered the hut with some discomfort.“Hello,” he greeted without knowing what else to do.“You took your time getting back,” Briccia pointed out, remembering that it had been more than two days since she had thrown Maddox naked out of her house. Well... at least she had given him a blanket.“I didn't want to bother you,” Maddox replied.“You're not bothering me. Sit down.” The girl pointed to one of the high stools at her kitchen island and came to the Lycan's side, carrying a small box in her hands.
Chapter 78
“Snouts up!” Aidan growled that inner command as he discreetly beckoned Brennan to come closer. “Look for the scent of your former lycans. If there are others here besides Hernan, I need to know.”His wolves obeyed instantly, looking for every possible clue that could lead them to where those strange smells were coming from.“What's going on?” asked his Beta arriving next to him. However, Akela's open communication was the first answer he got.“They are almost here. They’re not many, but they're not well,” the wolf growled.“What are they talking about?” Brennan asked, worried.“Crazy wolves,” Aidan muttered. “Someone released some of them and is leading them here.”Brennan wasn’t understanding anything. “But... isn't Raksha the only one who can free a wolf?”“Raksha helps when lycans don't know how to get their wolves out, but if an old lycan knows how to expel his wolf, he can get him out just fine,” the Alpha replied.“There is no trace of other lycans, only Hammi's,” Akela assured
Chapter 79
Aidan opened his eyes slightly at the brightness coming through his window, then settled back by Summer's side. The she-wolf had stayed with him all night, keeping watch over the poisoned wolf while Akela and the rest of her pack worked with the mad wolves.Rhiannon hadn't slept either, but a couple of hours before she'd sent her to the cabin to get some rest. Aidan had used the time lapses of the wounded wolf's resting periods to interact with the freed wolves and bring them back to reality, but he was undoubtedly not in the mood to ask the tough questions, so it was Akela who took over for him.“Brat, you need to rest, too,” said the huge Alpha wolf approaching.“I can't. If anything happens to him—”“Nothing is going to happen to him. At least the wolves are already controlled and calm, and outside there are two paladins guarding us. We'll be fine,” Akela assured him. “But you have to rest brat. From what I’ve been seeing... we may soon go from being a youth hostel to a nursing hom
Chapter 80
The Alpha felt his she-wolf's arms close around his neck as he kissed her cheek. He had finished taking in the last of the mad wolves—who were no longer mad, thank the gods. All except the one who was wounded, but it seemed that very soon he might make his decision as well.“I don't even know how to thank you for doing this,” Rhia said, touching his chest.“It's strange,” Aidan acknowledged, pulling up a chair to sit and having the girl sit on his lap. “I was never affectionate with my blood family, I remember that well. I loved my parents because they were my parents, like I was genetically designed to love them, but the connection was...”“Justified,” Rhia helped him.“Exactly. They were my parents. I loved them. Period. After what happened with my mother and what Maddox taught me about my father... all of that slowly broke inside me. For days, all I could feel was a huge emptiness, and now... Now I finally feel like I have a family that needs no justification. I have a family in yo
Chapter 81
Rhiannon felt Aidan's hands cross over her chest as he hugged her from behind.“Are you all right, love?” he asked, dragging her back a couple of steps so that she could look away from the fire in the fireplace and sit on top of him in an armchair in the living room of their home in the main community.“I was thinking about Maddox and Briccia, about all the things I can remember about the priestesses... but I honestly don't know how to help them,” she murmured.“As far as I know priestesses don't have destined mates, or so Briccia told me,” Aidan remembered.“That's right. The priestesses belong to the Goddess, but I can't remember a single law that says they can't have a mate, even if it's not a destined one,” Rhiannon mused out loud. “After all, there are many lycans, like Hiro, for example, who lose their destined mates, and if they want to be with another lycan who agrees, they are free to join.“Maybe that's not what's holding them back,” Aidan said. “She is, as Maddox says, your
Chapter 82
The temptation was too great. Choosing was a premise of the Goddess, following elemental instincts, never forcing wolves to do something they didn't want to do, but what about lycans? What about destroyers, and priestesses, and laws?“I can't let you mark me, Maddox.Her lips trembled and right then Maddox sent it all to hell.“Briccia, do you think the Goddess loves you?”He saw her smile with confidence. She was, perhaps, the only lycan in the last few centuries who had felt so blessed by her.“The Goddess loves me,” she assured him.“Then beg the Goddess to stop us!” Maddox growled before capturing her mouth in a deep, desperate kiss. His skin burned, his whole body seemed to burn as she tried to resist.“No... Maddox... Wait, don’t—”But suddenly her words were directed at someone else, and the lycan could hear her perfectly.“Bhremi... no! Bhremi!”Maddox stepped back to see the small golden she-wolf emerge on her skin, turning it a very pale gold. The girl opened her eyes and Ma
Chapter 83
“We're going to be fine. I promise we're going to be fine,” Milo assured, and Maddox just closed his eyes, throwing back his head in the airplane seat.“Do you feel that way too?” he asked him.“Yes, but not because of the she-wolf, but because of you and... Briccia. I like her,” Milo confessed.Maddox felt the lump in his throat, and a dry, sharp pain, as if his heart was slowly being crushed.“Milo, I feel like I'm going to die,” he said, misty-eyed. “I'm tired of what I am. You're the only good thing I have.”“Don’t forget Rhia and that jerk Casthiel... There are people who love us...” Milo reminded him, and Maddox sighed. “Maybe, when it's all over, we should go far away.”His lycan didn't answer. He just clung to the Keqzhara's hilt and tried not to think of anything else as a man from the crew came over to tell him they were about to arrive at their destination.Maddox had never been to Salvador de Bahia, so he pulled out one of the tablets that had been made available for him a
Chapter 84
Lidora Nader had ceased to be the Crazy She-Wolf of Asthan the moment she had returned to being the Nanny of the Last Queen. Yet she continued to roam the forests with her herbs, her potions, and her stories to amuse the children.She was the first one Aidan and Rhia turned to when Bhremi settled on the rug in front of the fireplace in their living room, howling every two seconds as if she were a she-wolf rejected by her mate.“This is not good,” the old woman murmured, checking on her. “Bhremi is depressed, but Briccia is worse. I've never seen her so bad. It's as if my little girl had broken. She hasn't eaten, she hasn't slept, she won't stop crying, she's sure something bad happened to her wolf.“Her wolf?” Aidan asked, raising his eyebrows at that use of the possessive.Lidora looked at him, narrowing her impish eyes.“Do you want me to tell you what I really think?” she asked in a whisper and with an air of complicity.“Of course,” Aidan crossed his arms and ducked his head to he