THE AWAKENING

“How can there be two?”

The question, delivered in Tieran’s quiet, deliberate tone was edged with uncertainty and echoed throughout the closed room.

Cassandra remained rigidly silent as the seer removed her weathered palms from Cassandra’s slightly rounded belly and looked as bewildered as the rest of the Barrachius clan inside the room.

Tieran, the Alpha of Clan Barrachius glared at Cassandra as if she were to blame for this upset in his plans. Cassandra glared back. It wasn’t her fault she had an overactive womb.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” she snapped, moving away from the seer and straightening her shirt. It was bad enough she already felt like some kind of lab experiment gone awry, now she had to deal with this? “Maybe the prophesy is wrong.”

“Impossible,” Tieran retorted, though his eyes told a different story. He turned to the grizzled woman looking pensively at Cassandra’s belly. “What does this mean?”

“I do not know,” she answered truthfully. “But it cannot bode well. The prophesy clearly stated there was one child. I must consult the Mother Goddess for answers.”

“Great, get her on the phone and get some answers so everyone can stop staring at me like I’m the devil,” Cassandra grumbled.

Jandin bowed low to whisper in her ear, “The Mother Goddess is the moon.”

Oh.

She cast a thankful smile Jandin’s way for his explanation but she felt like an idiot. Of course, the Mother Goddess was the moon.

How obvious. Not.

have been part of a kooky religious cult instead of some paranormal underground species that just so happens to be caught up in

all the pairs of eyes staring at her for answers she couldn’t give. “I’m

said and immediately Cassandra bristled. She hated when he bossed

because Tieran told her to, but because she couldn’t stand another minute being

two at a time. Since discovering she was the Prophesied One, all manner of unpleasant things had been forced upon her — including losing her virginity and being

was hungry enough

bedroom as she waited. Tieran, the Alpha, and consequently, one of her baby daddys, insisted on feeding

wouldn’t be a big deal that Tieran felt obligated to feed her, but as it was, neither wanted the roles that

might’ve tried to find a way to rip his

hormones had been kicking into overdrive and sometimes she couldn’t quite

his arms or beneath him, but when he looked at her, there was nothing but pure lust glazed over the veneer of anger and resentment and that just killed whatever might’ve been possible between

times the amount of stupid that it mattered

period of her Breeding Time and now that she was pregnant, she

would oblige couldn’t actually stand to be around her unless he was forced, didn’t

didn’t think Tieran would have sex with her ever again but as it was, he couldn’t help himself just as

an invisible thread wound itself tighter around them, drawing them ever closer to one another. Which

Cristophe had told her that it was an evolutionary protection for the species.

protect his mate when they

the finer points of being a werewolf. She’d been shocked to learn Cristophe was with the werewolves when previously he’d disdained their