Her Night Wolf (Fall Mountain Shifters Book 5), page 19
As for me and my alphas, it took a long time to get our pack back to a sense of normal, or at least a bit of normal before the war that will always haunt our souls. We honour the dead by living, though, and that’s what I’ve told many, many wolves over the years. We lost a lot of people that day, but they aren’t forgotten, and they never will be.
Silas and Ragnar are bickering over the mechanics book as I look over at Valentine, and he softly smiles at me.
I reach into his mind. “How is your cousin?”
I know he goes to see him when I leave to see Serendipity, mostly to keep himself busy and a little in part to make sure I don’t go with him. He doesn’t want me around his cousin after how we met, and I’m not rushing to go with him. His cousin has stopped drinking after the war, and Valentine will never forgive him completely, but he is family.
“We had a meal. He is courting a female,” he tells me, speaking out loud over the argument.
“Good,” I tell him. We continue talking for a bit longer as the fire burns into embers before we shift and run back up to the castle over the lovely grassy fields, past the ruins of the old houses that were destroyed in the war. None of us have decided to rebuild them, not yet anyway. We run straight into the castle doors, and right in the doorway stands a little boy.
Our little boy.
Who always misses me as much as I miss him when I go to see his sister. He wants to meet her and protect her as a brother would do, but we struggle to explain why he can’t. One day. One day, they will meet.
I shift back, dropping the clothes in my mouth on the floor and pulling them back on me before going over and picking up my beautiful son. I spin him around, making him giggle, and I tuck his dark curls behind his ear.
Seraphim leans against the door, smiling at me. “He always knows when you’re back, and you’re lucky I guessed where he went as I’m too fat to chase him now.”
She pats her large bump of a stomach. I look down at my son. “Have you been causing Auntie Seraphim trouble, Kendric?”
He gives me a toothy grin, even missing a tooth that he lost last week biting into an apple. He cried for an hour straight until Silas explained that a missing tooth makes him a wolf warrior, and gave him another sharp dagger—which I hid later with the rest of them. I look at my sister as my mates walk over, finished getting changed. “Thank you.”
She laughs. “I’m going to get my mate to rub my swollen feet until I feel better, and don’t expect to see me for the night.”
“Say hello from me!” I shout as she waddles away. That baby is due any day, and I can’t wait to be an auntie. None of us expected Seraphim to come out with the shocking news that she was pregnant, over a normal breakfast, right between a conversation over a new training building and whether Jesper was old enough to train with our army, which he wants to join. We all scented it when she walked in, and that was enough to silence the conversation for me at least. Apparently, she met a male wolf in the America lands, and that was that. I didn’t even know she liked males...but she told me one night that she liked him. Just him and that other males are still useless to her. But he didn’t want to have anything to do with Phim the next morning. It was a one-night stand.
Three months later, she found her mate. A beautiful female wolf healer who came for an audience with us to discuss new healing techniques after she was prompted to the head healer for one of the plazas. They found out they were true mates that night. Her mate was delighted to hear about the pregnancy, and they plan to bring the baby up together in the castle. I know my sister is healing from deep wounds, from the first baby she had sadly lost. This is the right thing for her, and I know she’s happy. Her fears will fade when she holds her child.
“Five years old and you’re already stealing my mate,” Silas playfully grumbles, poking at Kendric’s stomach, and he giggles louder.
“My mama,” he replies, holding my neck tightly. He’s lucky he is so gorgeous. I tickle him as we head inside to the warmth as winter slowly creeps up, chilling the air.
“Dadda, when do I get to shift?” he asks Henderson as Ragnar and Valentine close the doors. He asks this question every day now, and my mates believe it’s his awareness of his wolf that is prompting the questions. Silas swoops him out of my arms and spins him around in the air.
“Soon, son,” Henderson says and kisses the top of his head.
“I want to run with you,” he tells us. He speaks so well for a young one.
“You’ll never be able to run as fast as us,” Ragnar challenges. Ragnar sprints down the castle, much slower than he can actually run.
Kendric wiggles out of Silas’s arms and starts running after him. “I can!”
Henderson runs after them both, chuckling.
The castle walls groan, but I know the castle secretly loves having so many children running about. It’s alive with joy.
Valentine kisses the top of my head. “I’m going to have a shower. Join me?”
The promise in his words makes me shiver.
“I—” Silas starts, but Callahan’s voice interrupts.
“Do you want to say goodbye to us before you disappear for the night?”
I turn to look down the corridor as Callahan and Breelyn walk down to us, their beautiful little girl holding hands between them, her black wings ruffling in the air. She’s half wolf, half angel. But she’s all angel in our eyes because she looks exactly like Callahan, except for the wings being so dark. Callahan picks his daughter up as she reaches for me, helping her. She’s only two and a half years old, and I’m definitely the favourite auntie.
I press kisses all over her cheeks. “Are you excited, Frida?”
She nods. “Come, too?”
I shake my head. “Not this time. You’ll have fun with your mum and dad though. I’m sure King Deimos will make a fuss. He always does when anyone comes to visit.”
I know they’re travelling to the Fenrir Kingdom today, taking a few things from us but mostly for a holiday, which is what Deimos’s kingdom is well-known for. The Fenrir Kingdom, renamed by King Deimos, is nicknamed the pleasure world.
“I can’t wait to take her to the beach,” Breelyn tells me, taking Frida from my arms.
“I think you’ll love it,” I reply with a smile.
“How did it go?” Callahan questions, his voice kind.
“Normal,” I reply. There isn’t much else to say, but I appreciate that he and Breelyn came to check on me before they left.
“Enjoy yourselves,” Silas says, patting Callahan’s shoulder and smiling at Breelyn.
“Are you going to come back with another surprise this time?” Valentine questions, eyeing the toddler, who was the surprise they came back with from a previous trip.
“I will try my best,” Callahan teases.
Breelyn’s cheeks burn as she gently whacks his arm. “Let’s go before I change my mind.”
“I love you too, my little wolf,” he tells her.
She winks at him, and they head out the doors.
I rest my head on Silas’s shoulder, watching Callahan fly his family into the skies, the sun setting above our pack.
There was once a rejected wolf…
And she became the queen of the wolves.
The End.
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The End of Mai and her Alpha’s story for now! I could barely believe I was writing the ending but I have loved writing this series and thank you to all my readers who have read them. Thankfully, I am continuing on the Her Wolves world with Serendipity’s story. “Cough” Dragons ;) “Cough.”
She will have three books, and they are in the same series.
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Thank you to everyone who helped, edited, poured me coffee or inspired this book in my mind. A special thanks to Helayna, who saved this series a million times over.
The next book in the series, Fall of Embers, is on pre-order already. This is the end of Mai’s/the alphas storyline but there will be three more books in the series based on Serendipity. You can click here for the link for Fall of Embers
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Fall of Embers
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I was trained to be the dragon king’s mate when I turn eighteen. His pure, blessed by the gods, fire queen.
But my fate was never to be his.
My name is Serendipity Fall and I’m the only wolf shifter living with a bunch of immortal dragon shifters in a city I can never leave. Since I was young, I’ve always known that on my eightieth birthday, I will meet my mate for the first time… but I don’t want a mate. I don’t want the dragon king god who rules my home town from his golden castle. I don’t even know what he looks like. All I know, anytime I mention his name, everyone blanches in fear.
I have a plan to escape from his city and find my real family. To be free.
I won’t be his fire queen because in the darkness of the embers, I found him.
The dark wolf I crave.
We will be together, even if our love is going to destroy everything.
Even if it brings the Wolven Gods down upon us all.
This is a full-length reverse harem romance novel full of sexy alpha males, steamy scenes, a strong heroine and a lot of sarcasm. Intended for 17+ readers. Book six of eight.
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