Moonlight Wolves Box Set
Sarah J. Stone
Contents
Book 1: Lukas
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
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Book 2: Kato
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
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Book 3: Grant
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
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Book 4: Finn
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
Book 5: Ethan
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
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Book 1: Lukas
Chapter 1
“Annie, you need to come to the Pack bar. There’s a rogue here.”
Annie stopped in her tracks, her blood going cold. She had just gotten off work and was walking to her car, four books tucked under her arm and teetering on the verge of collapsing to the ground. Annie readjusted her grip on the books and started walking again, a new determination in her gait. Her grip on her phone tightened as she gritted her teeth.
“What do you mean there’s a rogue there?” Annie asked her close friend, Kato, who was on the other end of the line. She couldn’t really wrap her head around the idea. Rogues walking into Pack territory was not only forbidden, it was a death wish. Rogues were considered potentially dangerous shifters to any pack, and packs around the world were given permission to kill rogues on sight if they felt it was needed.
“I mean a damn rogue just waltzed into the bar with his hands up, saying that he needed to talk to your father immediately,” Kato answered. She could hear his voice rising just like it always did when he was frustrated. Annie loved Kato, but he wore his emotions on his sleeve like no one else. Everyone knew when Kato was upset, angry, happy, everything. It was something she’d learned to love about him. In the pack they grew up in, emotions and true feelings were hidden behind steel doors.
“Okay, where is the rogue now?” she asked him, getting into her car and starting it up, throwing the books she had in her arm in the passenger seat. She quickly pulled out of her parking space and started heading towards the bar. Luckily, the bar was only about five minutes from the library, where she worked.
“He’s talking to your dad right now in the back.”
“What?” Annie exclaimed, swerving out of the way as she almost hit another car from shock. “Who the hell let that happen? My father does not need to be anywhere near the rogue.”
Annie’s father was the alpha of their pack, and if he died from a rogue, chaos would ensue until another shifter was crowned alpha. Also, the knowledge that her father was in a closed office space with a rogue that may be a shifter murderer frightened the hell out of her.
Rogues were the scum of shifter society. For the most part, these shifters were wolves that had done something to be kicked out of their pack. It was extremely hard for shifters to become outcasts, so these rogues were mainly the murdering types. Some shifters left packs for various reasons and became rogues of their own free will, but no sane shifter would ever think that leaving their pack would be good. Pack life was what kept shifters sane. Leaving the pack brought on mental issues from isolation and loneliness. The main saying was that every rogue out there was insane, for one reason or another.
Regardless of who or what this rogue was, Annie didn’t like what was happening. Why on earth would a rogue willingly come into the bar? And why the hell was he looking for her father?
“Annie, your dad let him in to talk to him,” Kato told her, breathless, as if he was stressed beyond belief from what was going on. “The guy came in, said a few things to your dad and threw out a name, and then your dad immediately told the guy to follow him. Everyone there was stunned.”
“Is anyone back there with my dad?” She felt like she was going to throw up from the nerves. If anything happened to her father, she would rip that rogue apart with her own perfectly manicured nails.
“No, he told everyone to chill out and wait for him, then left with the guy and wouldn’t even let Ross in,” Kato told her. She shivered when she learned that Ross, her father’s personal bodyguard and right-hand man, wasn’t in there with him. “I wouldn’t worry, Annie. Hann is one of the strongest and wisest shifters around. No matter what this rogue has up his sleeve, your dad will see it coming.”
“Where are you? I’m pulling up right now,” she told him, wanting
to run immediately to the back office of the bar as she pulled into a parking space. She saw Kato walk out of the bar briskly, spot her car, and hang up his phone as he walked over to her. His tall frame made him easy to spot, even among other tall shifters that were milling about outside the bar. They probably all had heard the news and raced over to see what was happening. Annie couldn’t tell if they were there to see drama or protect their alpha. She hoped it was the latter.
“Hey, Annie,” Kato said as they met halfway to the bar. Annie walked right past him, not slowing her pace a second.
“Anastasia, it’s a bad idea to just go barging in there,” Kato warned her, using her full name, on her heels as if to stop her.
Annie snorted. She was going in there to figure out what the hell was going on. And to find out if her father was okay. “You said the back office?” she asked as she walked into the bar.
Several eyes met hers questioningly. Annie, being half shifter, half human, wasn’t the favorite member of the pack. However, she was the alpha wolf’s only child. Therefore, everyone had to, however grudgingly, respect her in some form. Now, they all watched as she rushed her way to the back of the bar, walking down the hallway that led to the bathrooms and the very back office, where workers clocked in and the managers stashed the money for the night in the safe.
Without even knocking on the door, Annie barged through the office, slamming the door behind her. Her father was sitting down in the office chair, with a tall man standing in the middle of the room pacing, his arms crossed against his chest. She assumed this was the rogue.
“My darling,” her father smiled at her, not looking at all angry, offended, or hurt. He looked . . . relaxed. Like having a rogue in the middle of his office was nothing to worry about. “I knew you’d come barging in once Kato called you. I’m afraid you’ll find no rogue to fight here, though.”
“Who the hell is this?” the stranger asked. He wasn’t pacing anymore. Now, he was just staring at Annie with what looked like mistrust in his eyes. The man was very tall, even for shifter status. He and Kato would probably be the same height, which was rare. Kato was the tallest person Annie had ever met. She eyed the man, hating that she admired his appearance. His blond hair was short, but just at the edge of becoming shaggy if he didn’t get a haircut soon. He had slight stubble, as if he hadn’t slept or shaved in a few days. Annie mentally cursed at herself as she quickly realized that his dangerous man was also hot as hell.
It didn’t matter, though. If he posed a threat, Annie would take him out without batting an eyelash.
“Who the hell are you?” she countered, crossing her own arms and glaring at him as well. She lifted one of her eyebrows, looking for a challenge. His own eyebrow rose at this.
“Please excuse my daughter, Lukas,” her father said, standing up and walking over to the two of them. “She’s a warrior, this one. Always willing to jump into a fight when she feels her honor is needed.”
Lukas, the rogue, had a slightly astonished look on his face as he looked from Annie to her father. “This is your daughter?” Annie knew the question he was silently asking.
“Yeah, the big alpha leader of the Moonlight Maine Pack has a halfie for a daughter. What a crazy world this is,” she told Lukas, rolling her eyes, but easing up slightly as her father walked by to get a drink, patting her head affectionately as he went. “Now that I’ve crossed off ‘shock and confuse a rogue’ from my bucket list, why don’t you tell me who the hell you think you are. What are you doing here?”
Lukas smirked slightly once he heard the words “bucket list” thrown at him, but his face immediately hardened when Annie started questioning him about his motive.
“Annie, darling, go easy on the poor fellow,” her father advised her as he poured himself a glass of water.
“Go easy on him? Dad, this is a rogue. Standing in the middle of your office. Tell me what the hell is going on.”
Lukas looked at her father, questions looming in his eyes. After a brief nod from her dad, Lukas took a deep breath. He didn’t look like he wanted to tell her what he was about to say. He looked like he’d rather not talk to her at all.
“What I’m about to tell you has to stay within this office for safety reasons. If your pack learns about this, chaos and fear will run rampant through the ranks. This is why your father brought me back here in this soundproof office. No shifter will hear our conversation.” Lukas sighed, sitting down in a chair as Annie’s father sat back at his desk. She remained standing, arms still crossed. “Do I have your word?”
Annie only nodded after a gentle nod from her father. “Alright, you have my word. But note that it’s a reluctant nod.”
Lukas smirked slightly again, and Annie wanted to wipe that smirk from his face. He got on her nerves, and she’d only known him for a good three minutes.
“Noted. Now, as you have so cleverly deduced, I am a rogue. I was drifting through the Transylvania Woods, when I came across a rogue group being led by a shifter named Kaiser. They welcomed me into their little society immediately when they found out I was a rogue. As you probably know, rogues don’t do well alone. Isolation from their pack is not . . . well, I welcomed this group. I needed to be with other shifters. Kaiser and I became friends. He started telling me what they were preparing for; why they were in the woods, what their goals were. I shrugged off the whole conversation we had, thinking it was just a dark dream the guy had . . . .”
Annie looked from her father, who now was looking into his glass, to Lukas, who wandered off into thought. Out of everything Annie had thought about, why a rogue was in Maine talking to her father, she never thought it would lead to discovering that there was a society of rogue shifters living in harmony. But where was this going? She couldn’t help the deep interest she had.
“They said they were going off for a hunt. I didn’t want to go. Felt off. It was . . .” Lukas stopped to take a breath, his face still a mask with no emotion showing. “I learned that they had attacked one of the Romanian shifter packs a few miles away. Slaughtered almost every single member. I left in the middle of the night after I learned that. No matter what you think of rogues, I do not stand for the slaughtering of innocents.”
“I can’t believe this,” Annie said, confused. “I’ve heard nothing about an attack in Romania. That would have been huge news. We all would’ve heard about it.”
“The leaders of every pack know,” her father interrupted. “They told us immediately after it happened. An investigation is still ongoing–this only happened three days ago. We were told about what happened, but were asked to keep it a secret until they find enough evidence to pinpoint who did it and what happened. They wanted to save shifters from fear and chaos.”
Annie knew who her father was talking about. The Elders. They were a bunch of really old shifters and used their life experience to rule. They dictated the rules and codes that the shifter society was supposed to live by, while also setting up guidelines to how shifters could become rogues through criminal activity. The Elders also had their own police unit that investigated any murder that happened involving a shifter. As well as keeping order within all the packs, the Elders also monitored and took care of any human that knew about shifters being a real, living thing. And from the stories that Annie heard, they weren’t exactly nice when dealing with the humans.
“So, why are you here then? Why come to my father in Maine and not the Elders?” Annie knew there was more to the story. It hadn’t added up yet.
“When Kaiser and I had our little chat, he said a few things that stuck out. One of those things just so happened to be his quest to kill everyone in Moonlight Maine Pack while their alpha, Hann Bellova, watched. And then, he would slowly torture and kill him.”
Annie’s mouth went dry. She swiveled around to see her father, who seemed a little off but not at all scared, angry, or upset. He looked just like he always did, carefree and ready to have a good time.
“How does this Kaiser shifter know you?�
� Annie asked her dad, a little afraid of what he was going to tell her.
“Well, a long time ago, I killed his father,” he answered, scratching his head and looking as unconcerned as ever. “That’s probably why he said that. It’s just a revenge thing, darling.”
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