Kaia POV

By the time I leave the hospital the moon was shining brightly in the sky. Her ethereal beauty glowing across my pack lands, making it look like the most innocent of places.

You wouldn't have thought a deathly battle had erupted only a few hours ago. It's astonishing that we were able to keep them away from the central buildings, away from those who wouldn't be able to fight back.novelbin

Hector and I had extracted some information from Marc, but it appears he wasn't entrusted with that much information on the White Moon pack. Not as much as we thought he would have been anyway. And what he did tell us, we already knew.

He planned to forcibly mark me, Hector having done so completely ruined his initial plans.

He was going to claim the lands back for himself and use it to take over the adjoining packs...he wanted power.

Once I had given him an heir, he would have killed me and sacrificed me back to the moon, he would have let the White Moon pack carry out their wishes with me.

He was unconscious in the cells by the time we had finished with him, Hector wanted to snap his neck but I needed the council to hear what had happened, I needed them to know of the threat we still face. And, how they had been so blinded by his actions...a few on the council even helping him.

The head doctor checked me over and was satisfied once my wolf healing was kicking in to let me help with minor injuries. Not that he could refuse me really, I was his alpha after all.

Exhausted, I head back to a quiet alpha house. I expected to find Alora sobbing on the sofa but when I walk upstairs to find her asleep in her bed, a level of relief washes over me. I thought she would have gone after him...I thought she would have regretted her choice. Maybe I was cruel in making her decide, making her choose between us. But he had been the one to put the wheels in motion long before I had even set eyes on him.

I can't witness her with him, I just can't be part of that. If she had chosen him, I think I would have let her go. But I wouldn't have seen her again, I couldn't condone what she would have gone back to. Which would have broken my heart. I had gone from envying her when I was Than's wife, to loving her and wanting to keep her safe.

Closing her door quietly, I move towards my room finding Hector on the bed working on his laptop.

As soon as I walk in that pull to him heightens and I can't let my anger overrule it, not again. I let it take me, succumb to the pull to him. Because this male won't let me down, this male won't use me for his own gain.

"I thought you'd be asleep." I murmur as soon as my head hits the pillow. I really needed to shower but I was just too exhausted.

"Not a chance, my wolf wouldn't let me sleep knowing you were at the hospital." He places his laptop down and pulls me into him.

"The borders are secure, the pack is safe..." I had played every detail out in my head but there was one thing I have tried to understand, how did Than know we were in trouble.

"How did Than know, how did he get to us in time?"

"Ezra contacted the Dark Phantom pack to send a high alert for the borders. Riley received the call, Orpheus was with him at the time.." Hector murmurs as he inhales my scent at my neck. "Orpheus?"

"Yes, he must have informed Than. Raised the alarm."

I nod, that would make sense. Orpheus was still at the Dark Phantom pack with Rosa...he would have informed Than immediately.

Something, I'll need to remember for the future, to be careful what I say around him. I'm sure he could be trusted, but Medea was cousins with Orpheus's father..they had a family connection.

I reluctantly move myself off the bed, walking into the ensuite and turning the shower on. As soon as I step into the hot running water, I suddenly feel cold. Memories that I would choose to forget coming back to me. Everything. "Are you okay?" His lips nibble at my ear, his comforting arms wrapping around me.

"So are you staying in my room now?" I turn my head back slightly with a raised eyebrow.

"After you jumped me in the car..."

"I jumped you?"

"Oh yes."

"Hhmm keep dreaming.." I moan out as he starts to kiss my mate mark. Maybe I did jump him but he was the one that pulled me over to him.

"I remember everything Hector...everything." I sigh out as I turn to him, placing my hand upon his bare chest.

"I'm sorry." He grips me closer to him, my body pressed up against him.

""What for?"

"For everything, for not seeing the bond between us, for letting my anger at Than take precedence over us. For making you leave."

"Looking back, I needed to leave for my own sanity. I needed to find my father, because if I didn't I would have spent the rest of my life waiting for him, waiting for him to tell me to return to him. I would never have known the truth if I hadn't of left. I also couldn't keep fighting against the mate bond you had with another..."

"I need you to listen to me, the mate bond I had in the past was nothing...nothing compared to what we have. The day Beckett died...we had rejected one another. We both knew I was far deeper in love with you than I had ever been with her. You are my everything Kaia." "Hector.."

"No, you need to understand. I kept things from you, the past because I didn't want to see you go through the same pains again, reliving everything. I wanted you to be more than that, be more than what had happened to you. Because you are Kaia, you are everything and more."