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Falling: The White Wolf Book Two, page 1
Falling
White Wolf Series Book Two
A.B. Marie
Copyright © 2021 A.B. Marie
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018675309
Printed in the United States of America
To all of the bad ass bitches who need some help from time to time. We get it. I get it.
"While others look for what he can take, a true king gives back."
The Lion King
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contact
Introduction
Main Characters
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Afterword
Acknowledgement
Book Links
Contact
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Introduction
My name is Addy Scott... and nothing makes sense anymore. After my shit-show of a birthday, the stacks of cards keep falling down around us.
Down, down, down.
Nine mates.
Someone in the pack is out to destroy everything the alphas have worked so hard for...
Witches, rogues, and the council are out to get us.
This means war.
No more, I won't stand for it... and if the alphas won't step up? We will.
Falling, the second book in The White Wolf Series, is a 77k word novel. This is a reverse harem, meaning the main character has more than three love interests and doesn't have to choose. Why choose, anyway?
This book is intended for readers over the age of 18. There may be triggers for sensitive readers, including, strong language, mature adult content, and situations.
Also included in the series: shifters, mages, vampires, steamy scenes, hot men, m/m, and adventures.
Main Characters
Addy Scott - 25. Female White Wolf - Omega. White hair, silver eyes, 5'11". Works in the schoolhouse as a teacher for young shifters and in the infirmary as a healer on the weekends.
Brenton Scott - 65. Male White Wolf - Alpha of the Freedom Pack. 7'0", white hair, golden shifter eyes. Mated to Meredith Silva (deceased). Children: Addy. Elite guard trainer and owns the pack construction company.
Darius King - 64. Male wolf - Alpha of the Freedom Pack. Dark brown hair, golden shifter eyes, 6'3". Mated to Majory Harolds (deceased). Children: Triplets - Alden, Bennett, and Oliver.
Alden King - 27. Male wolf - alpha. Dark brown hair, golden shifter eyes, 6'4". Trainer for the elite guards.
Bennett King - 27. Male wolf - beta. Dark brown hair, golden shifter eyes, 6'4". No occupation.
Oliver King - 27. Male wolf - omega. Dark brown hair, golden shifter eyes, 6'4". Works at Brenton's construction company and on-call for the infirmary.
Preston - 25. Male panther - beta. Black hair, golden shifter eyes, 6'0". Works in the library. Parents and siblings unknown. Was adopted by Hannah.
Leif - 25. Male bear - omega. Brown hair, golden shifter eyes, 6'2". Works as a subsitute teacher and a healer in the infirmary. Siblings: Landon, Lucas, and Lani. Parents are deceased.
Kendrick - 25. Male dragon - alpha. Blonde hair, golden shifter eyes, 6'5". Works for Brenton's construction company. Siblings: Kendall, Kylie, and Kaiden. Parents deceased. Grandfather: Dmitri, alpha dragon on the council.
Eitan - 25. Male mage. Black hair, glowing green mage eyes, 6'0". Works in the crop fields. Parents and siblings unknown. Was raised by Lorraine.
Mateo - 98. Male vampire. Black hair, red eyes, 6'1". Owns Poppy's with his sister. Siblings: Kimmy and Avery. Parents deceased.
Chapter 1
Addy
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I collapse onto my knees and stare down at my lap. My translucent, purple gown is covered in debris from be collapsing on the ground…
The entire area around me is silent aside from the heavy breathing from the circle of men around me. Even my father is quiet, which is shocking.
I just don’t understand what is happening, why, and what the hell the Goddess was going on about me being her vessel. Apparently I have tasks to complete, pulling together all of the shifters, mages, and vampires together and forming several Freedom Packs all over the world.
Sure. Because the council and their rogues will absolutely go along with that.
Oli mentioned the crescent moon mark on my head while the others were still forming along my body, and I can still hear Selene’s tinkling, musical laugh bouncing around my brain. Either I have finally cracked, or… I don’t know. This is impossible. There has never been a shifter to receive a mate mark for another species, or more than one mate for that matter. My eyes are watering as I try to make out the marks on my arms. I can’t see the marks too well through my dress… But according to the men on their backs around me, I have three wolf marks, one bear, a panther, dragon, eagle, mage, and vampire marks littering my body from my shoulders to my feet. I’m assuming the rest of the marks are runes… Why the hell I would be ‘gifted’ mage powers is beyond me. I’ll probably end up electrocuting people just for fun. Or on accident. Or…
“Addy?” Oliver breathes out and I blink my blurry eyes back open and glance over to him. He’s panting for breath and continues to glance between me and his forearm, which is now bare since he has ripped off his shirt. His mark is of a meadow filled of wildflowers with a black and a white wolf howling at the crescent moon. “You’re my mate?” He smiles wickedly and howls to the sky and I send him a watery smile.
“Apparently you’re all my mates.” My voice cracks and he presses his lips together and his shoulders tighten up to his ears. I shakily stand and glance around the yard and see that the pack is being shooed and escorted out by my dad and Darius. I didn’t even hear any of that – too consumed with this insanity. And staring into Oliver’s golden eyes.
The others are just blinking down at their arms and I hold my breath when Bennett stands up and shakes his head. He looks so furious that I feel my heart breaking already. I just know that he’s going to say or do something awful, and I don’t have the mental capacity to deal with that right now. I hold up my hand and shake my head.
“Can we all get some sleep and talk about this tomorrow? I really just want to go to bed. I’m exhausted, my body is wrung out, and this is obviously a big… change in our lives. Please, Bennett, just one night.” He glares at me and shifts into his wolf, his clothes ripping and tearing off of his body before he races out into the forest. I glance around at the others and chew on my lip. “Well… good thing my new cabin has so many rooms, huh?” I breathe in a deep breath through my nose and sigh. “Go home and get some rest, guys… Come over for breakfast or something.” I turn around and rush through the alpha house, ignoring them calling my name.
I make it to my room in record time and slam the door and hang my head.
Maybe I can get some sleep, wake up in the morning, and get a re-do on this birthday. I can’t wrap my mind around having so many mates, especially Alden, Bennett, Kendrick, Eitan, and Bane… Alden has to be a right mess about everything going on with Stefi, Bennett still hates me… I imagine that Kendrick has to be confused as hell since he’s been having ‘mate dreams’ and thought his dragon mate was ready for him and was probably making plans to leave the pack to find her.
Eitan likes men and is in a committed relationship with Bane… And Bane, my one-night stand… how the heck did he get wrapped up in this? Did the Goddess just have a grand old time picking out my mates from my conception, or was this more recent? Also why three wolves? Is it because they’re triplets and they were chosen at conception, or is it because she didn’t want to split them up? Or do they also have a bigger purpose?
If only there was a way to talk to her again, maybe shake her a bit. I need more information. Am I going to turn into the different species? Am I going to be crowded in my mind with my wolf, a dragon, a panther, and a damn eagle? Am I going to be able to use mage powers… Am I going to be drinking… blood now?
I lock my door with a sigh. I shuffle my bare feet on my way to the shower and ignore the mirror as I toss off my gorgeous purple dress and step into the warming water. I keep my eyes closed as I wash my hair and body, wrapping myself up i
I stumble my way to my nest and curl around a mountain of pillows and blankets, blowing out a long, slow breath to try to get some sleep. These next three months are going to be a nightmare. We will all have to take the mandatory time off and we’ll see how it goes, I guess.
I know I won’t have any issues with Oliver. Leif and Kendrick will be trickier since they’re raising their siblings, and Mateo will have to hire more help for Poppy’s so that Kimmy isn’t alone or having to work 24/7…
The Goddess has always been a pain in my ass, never seeming to do much of anything – allowing us to all suffer and watch our loved ones die. Her sibling gods just abandoned their ‘children’ and left her to clean up the mess, and look where that got us? Not much.
She tried, I guess… I just don’t understand what happens now. Do I mate all of them then just… travel the damn world, starting and ending wars to rebuild our society? I mean, she didn’t really hand me a manual for this shit.
How do we go up against rogue vampires, mages, and shifters? Our council that has their own guards and elite soldiers? Armies of witches that are wreaking havoc all over Earth killing shifters for their stolen power?
We already have enough to worry about in our own pack, and I can’t just abandon my people to do the Goddess’s bidding. My dad was poisoned, someone is luring our females outside of the wards, Stefi poisoned herself to get pregnant and the pup might be Alden’s… Now there are ten of us that won’t be working, training, or scouting for the next three months. At least that gives us time to figure out our new lives, if I have any… powers, and how we can work together.
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Someone is banging on my door and I toss another pillow over my head. I’m not ready to face this day just yet.
“Come on, Addy. Breakfast time then we’re having our new family meeting! Don’t you want to see your new house?”
I grunt, stand up, and stare down at my naked skin. I shake my head and grind my teeth. The marks are still there. The runes are still there. I press my lips together and head into my closet and toss on some leggings, a t-shirt, and toss my hair up into a ponytail. I grimace down to my bare arms and worry about covering up… Not that the entire pack doesn’t know what happened by now… It’s just. Fuck my life.
My entire forearms are covered in sleeves of tattoo-like markings. My left arm depicts a meadow of wildflowers with three wolves and a panther chasing each other under the crescent moon, while my right arm shows the same background with a bear, an eagle, a dragon, and two men back to back staring up at the moon. One man is in the shadows with drops of blood dripping from his mouth, and the other is in the light and he’s covered in runes. My vampire and mage.
All of the animals and the two men are blank, as if they need to be filled in with crayons… I’m assuming they will color in once we mate, but the wildflowers and meadow are exploding with a plethora of colors, like a damn rainbow. I didn’t get a decent look at the others, aside from Oliver’s, but his only showed me alone with his black wolf in the meadow howling at the moon.
I amble over to my bedroom door, opening it up to find Oli waiting for me with a massive smile etched on his handsome face. “Mate.” He whispers and pulls me in for a bone-breaking hug. Fuck I missed his scent. I feel a pull to him, thanks to the new bonds interconnecting me to all of them. “Let’s eat then we’re all heading over to your cabin. Your dad and mine went out and wrangled everyone up to come over. They’re also moving Kendrick’s and Leif’s siblings here and Hannah is moving in to help take care of them while we figure everything out. They were muttering about adding another addition onto your cabin to fit everyone.”
I just blink at him and he chuckles and leads me to the dining room. I clear my throat and chew on my lip. “This is a lot, let’s just eat and have our chat.” He smirks at me and guides me to my normal seat beside my dad and he plops down right beside me. I glance around to see how exhausted everyone appears; poor Mateo looks so pale that he looks like he’s about to crawl under the table for a nap. I grimace when I see the glances Darius is sending Bennett and I bite down on my tongue so that I don’t lash out at him.
I see the platters of steaming food in the center of the table and roll my eyes as I stand and scoop up eggs, bacon, and toast onto my place and begin to eat. They all follow after me and it’s a silent affair as we slowly finish our meals. I take my time peeking from one person to the next. My father is absolutely glowing and can’t hide his smile. To his left sits Preston who is just staring at his plate but seems well-rested. He doesn’t have his signature cocky smirk lining his lips, but he’s also not freaking out, so that’s a plus.
Leif is beside Preston and is just blinking down at his food with a frown as he slowly finishes his meal. I’m sure he’s freaking the hell out about not being around his siblings, living in their cabin together for the foreseeable future. They’ve been his everything since he was ten years old. He’s been their dad, their brother, their confidant. He’s been raising them on his own since he turned sixteen and moved into their own cabin. He walks them to and from school, sets up help on the weekends when he works at the infirmary… He’s amazing and I’m proud to be his mate. With all of them surrounding me, I feel peace, more peace than I think I ever have in twenty-five years.
Kendrick is sitting beside Leif and is already on his second portion. My big dragon. We had a fling of sorts for a while during my heats, and he broke it off last year when he began to have dreams about his mate… Me. His face is blank but I’m assuming he has the same feelings that Leif has. He came to us a little older than Leif was, and he’s been taking care of his siblings on his own since the beginning. Darius and my dad would check up on him, drop off supplies, and offer assistance, but it took a long time for Kendrick to be open to help.
Alden is to the left of Kendrick and looks as pale as Mateo. I can’t imagine the position he’s in… A crazy ex who believes she’s his true mate… She poisoned herself to become pregnant and came up with some elaborate story that they went off into the forest and chased each other in wolf form and mated while she was in heat… Which is impossible since she doesn’t turn twenty-five until next June and should not have had a heat until after she receives her mate mark… She’s still in the infirmary, getting weaker by the hour, but at least the pup is growing healthily. He has to be out of his mind. He’s technically the next alpha after his father abdicates, and I’m sure my dad will step down with Darius when it’s time. Now that Alden and I are mated, we’re technically the next alphas… Except now we have our own basketball team that will be running the pack… All different species, which is, I guess, how Selene believes it should be done in the Freedom Packs. Like a council, without all of the backstabbing and murdering of innocents, I suppose.
Mateo is to Alden’s left, no food in front of him. Vampires can eat food if they wish, but not much. He has a glass filled with blood set in front of him and he hasn’t touched it at all… Lately he’s been worrying me. He looks gaunt, exhausted, and hasn’t been feeding himself properly. His last several feeds have been from Oliver and me, and he won’t open up about it. Well, no time like the present. He’s my mate now, and I’ll just bite him if he won’t talk.
Darius is at his regular spot, at the opposite head of the table from my dad and is just pressing his lips together and seems to be ready to open his mouth and ask all of the questions that none of us truly have the answers to. I feel you, D. I feel you.
