Cj and Josey sleeping in my room to protect me from the bad guys without a doubt in their minds and here I was doubting. My mother slapped me alright. Slapped me with words but enough to pull me out of my head and to accept fate.
“The moon is giving me a choice. She armed me with powers, the strength and my wolf in case I decide to fight. I can choose not to fight and let people suffer but she chose me knowing I would not allow that. I have to fight! For my virtue, which should be my choice how and with who I choose to lose it to. For my family, for my friends and my pack. I have to fight mom.” As realization hit me. It wasn’t just about me.
I’m the key to all of this. I kiss my mother’s cheek and run to the pack house. It was time to end this.
I mind linked Max asking where he was and he told me he was in his office. I ran upstairs and just barged into his office to find my dad, my grandfather, uncle Deacon and Reggie.
I close the door and I look at Reginald. He could use a bath with all that stench as I wrinkled my nose.
“Ahhhh there’s the girl I wanted to see. We have been looking for you.” He says to me and I walk to him and I grabbed his hand roughly which earns me a chuckle from him but I pay him no mind. I wanted to read his mind.
I saw his brother and sisters. The brother that I was supposed to mate with. No lie, he is handsome. What a waste to be so evil. I then saw a memory of them agreeing to meet up in five days which was two days from now. I let go of his hand and step back from him. He wasn’t stronger so Scarlett was right.
“Right now, you’re just a normal wolf. A rogue or maybe not seeing as your part of a pack that wants to rule.” I say as he looks at me in shock.
“How did you do that? What are you? A witch?” He asks me and I shake my head no.
“I have many powers but a witch I am not. The moon has placed me on this earth as a gift to you and your siblings. I just found out about a new power I possess.” I say to him as I pick up a pen from Max’s desk and toss it in the air as it floats. Reggie looked at me then at the pen and then at me.
“Don’t miss the fun part.” I say pointing towards the pen. He looks back at the pen to see it crumble into nothing and his eyes bulge out.
“That is my gift to you.” I say to him and then I walk to go stand next to my dad and grandfather.
He follows my every move and then throws himself on the couch.
“He is supposed to meet up with his brother and sisters in two days. They agreed to meet at a diner a few hours from here. He has his stash of elixirs hidden at a hotel in human land. I’m sure Max filled you all in on his man-made strength.” I say to the men standing in this room.
They nod their heads.
“Someone needs to go to that hotel and get the potions from his room.” Dad chimes in and Grandpa offers to go. I give him the hotel details and he leave the office.
“What are we going to do about him and his meeting in two days?” My dad asks. Max scratches the back of his neck and Deacon clears his throat.
“I think we should kill this asshole and drop his body off at the diner. That should send a clear enough message.” Deacon says.
“I don’t think that’s a wise decision” Max says and dad nods in agreement.
I step forward and stand in front of Reginald.
“How about I take control of his mind and have him betray his family. He can go to the meeting and pretend he took over this pack. Scarlett can join him and they return with information.” I say to them still looking at Reginald who’s looking at me with so much fear.
“That works too.” Deacon says.
“What if they see right through him? They have that witch with them” Max said to me and I nod.
“If Reggie is discovered, I can make him attack his own family and die in the process. There is black magic but mind control takes ages to reverse back.” I say and in my mind, I was guessing. I had no idea how powerful this Vera was and if she could reverse my powers.
“Let me call a witch friend. Lady Rose should know a thing or two about mind control” my uncle Deacon said. Max chuckles dryly.
“I’m not surprised. A witch too huh?” He says to Deacon.
“Well, I am a man with needs and Rose helped with those for quite some time. She was very dominant and powerful. What a woman” he says and takes his phone out and starts dialing a number as he walks out of the office.
Uncle Deacon and women.
Reggie was very quiet for a man with so much to say not so long ago. My gut was telling me he was planning something. Maybe to escape but I sat down opposite him and kept my eyes on him.
“Maybe we should just kill him and drop his body off in human land.” My dad says to us. Reggie growls and grabs a wooden step stool and breaks the legs to throw them at my dad but I stop them midair and Max is by Reggie within seconds holding him up by his neck.
“Yeah, he’s not so strong anymore. Just a smelly rogue.” Max says looking into his eyes.
I let the wooden objects fall to the floor as uncle Deacon walks back in and looks around the office.
“‘I walk out and then you guys decide you want to kill him? No fair!” He says and we all laugh a little.
“Rose just confirmed your suspicions, Sabrina. Even if they realize that Reginald is not himself, it could take days before they break the control.” He says to me. I look at Max and he drops Reginald to the floor.
I walk up to Reginald who moves back until he hits a wall. I kneel down to him and smile.
“Don’t worry, this won’t hurt at all. Even though I wish it did.” I say to him. I grab his head and have him face to face with me. His eyes locked on mine, I erase the war and have him think he had won and killed Max and I. I had him think uncle Deacon was in the dungeons with everyone else that wouldn’t submit.
I let go of his face to punch him and knock him out. I stand up and look to the 3 men all looking at me with awe.
“That’s it. He will wake up soon so I think it’s best we drop him off at the border in a car with Scarlett.” I say and I quickly remember,
“Which reminds me, I need to do the same thing to her for their stories to match.” I say and Max nods as his eyes glaze over and we knew he was linking someone.
Two minutes later, Damon walks in with Scarlett. I walk up to Scarlett and grab her face so her eyes locked with mine and I did the same thing to her.
I knocked her out as she fell and Damon caught her from behind.
Uncle Deacon growled and we all looked back at him.
He raised his arms in surrender.
“Sorry, that was my wolf. She is the mother of my pup.” He says and we all nod in understanding.
Max has Nicole come in and they carry Reggie and Scarlett to the borders. I’m left with dad and uncle Deacon.
“I need a moment to myself to think and clear my head. I also need to see my brother and sister. I have so much to tell them.” I say and I walk to my dad and hug him then do the same to my uncle. I walk out and follow Josey’s scent to her room.
I walk in to find her on the phone and when I hear male voices, I decide to stop listening in. She’s smiling and blushing so I leave her room to go looking for Cj. I follow his scent to his room and I knock.
I knock because Cj is a boy now and he thinks I didn’t notice the porn stash he has but I saw everything and I did not want to walk into anything that would make me want to burn my eyes.
He opens the door and he’s fully clothed. Thank the goddess.
I walk in and throw myself on his bed. He joins me.
“I saw mom today. I just found out I have a new power and she also knocked some sense into me.” I say and he sits up to look at me.
“Yes, she came by your room and we had breakfast with her. She mentioned going to look for you after spending some time with us.” Cj says to me.
“Told me my mate is a hybrid and I will be meeting her soon. She also said this war is bigger than us and we will be making some allies outside the pack. My mate is part of that.” He said to me and I smiled.
“Well, I just hope you find happiness with your mate. One of us has to get that smooth sailing from the start.” I speak. I then pick up a book and tear a blank page from it. I have the page float in the air and destroyed it. CJ’s jaw dropped and I giggled.
“This is insane! If you’ve got that then you don’t need an army!” He says and we continue making jokes and after some time Josey joins us and I show her my new power. She has me try it with water and I’m only able to turn a ball of water thrown at me into little droplets.
I fill them in on what we did with Reginald and Scarlett and all that’s happened since I woke up. After we all had lunch together, I decided to go to my room and think. I closed my bedroom door and threw myself on my bed.
I know I had a fighting chance with the evil family but I know if they captured me, I’d kill myself before someone stole my virtue from me. Mac and I almost went all the way but he regained control and put an end to it fast.
I’ve been telling Max I was ready but he told me the timing wasn’t right. It seemed right to me. Now the timing will never be right. All this fighting seems to escalate to an even bigger fight so I’ll never have the right timing. Something always comes up and we can’t ignore it.
An idea lit up in my head. I had control of my life. It was up to me how this was going to happen and if I wanted it to happen.
I had to make the time. If I have to fight wars all my life then I have to make the timing right in my life. I mean, yes part of my decision to lose it is because I’d rather lose it to someone of my choosing than have that taken from me.
In a perfect world, I’d be 18 and possibly stressing if Percy knocked me up after a magical night on my 18th birthday but life had other plans. The chance to complete the mating bond was stripped away from me and I cannot allow that to happen again.
I feel rushed and it’s not even Max, that’s rushing me. Which I’m super grateful for. It’s life and the curveballs I seem to be catching from it.
If I wanted a magical night with Max, I was going to make it happen before life throws another curveball at me. I needed help so I linked Nicole and Josey for this. My brother begged to be left out of this and I laughed at him.
I had Nicole keep Max busy as Josey and I turned his room into a romantic haven. All that romantic stuff. I had the balloons and candles. I wanted magic and I was going to get it.
I left Josey to finish up while I ran to my room to get dolled up. I took my time getting ready as I wanted everything to be perfect. I had Nicole give Max his outfit that I picked out and linked him to wear it. He asked why and I told him to do as he was told.
I’m probably the only person in the world to get away with doing that to him. I loved it. I finished with my make up as Josey walked in brimming with excitement. We walked into Max’s room and I was in awe of the room. It looked great. The whole room screamed romance. Josey showed me what she had done to the balcony and wow. She had champagne too. There was a knock on the door and we froze for a few seconds.
This is it.
The night that changes everything.