Paisley and Frannie ran off. Sage turned around and followed the others, her cheeks still warm as she thought about what had happened, and the fact that she’d be working at Mugshots, a bar and grill that thevodfrequented.
What if she saw Canyon Wheeling there? She should dump a drink on his head, but he knew her real last name, and so she’d have toavoid him at all costs.
♦Part 3—Present Day
Sage was placed into the job at Mugshots. She put her issues with spying on thevodaside to keep her daughter safe. None of thevodvod, the KSRT officers, ever came to the bar, and that made it easier. She hung out with somevodand dated a few, discovering exactly what she’d always thought, they were mostly good guys who just wanted to do the right thing. Of course, they were lying to her from the start, because they had to hide theirwolvennatures and pretend to be human, just as she had to hide herfoxennature and pretend the same.
Sage continued to go to ‘treatment’ every month, not realizing what was happening until it was too late and she was locked in, again. Every time she got herfoxenessence back and was locked into the treatment suite for three more days, she got more pissed.
Paisley was escorted to her vihvee’s (grandma’s) house and back each month and there were no more incidents.
Thefoxennever did move back to the street where Khain had stolen Paisley and thevodhad come to call, although Abigail still had full access to Kurzwell Townhouse from the spinning bed inside Kurzwell Manor.
Dahlia, being half-angel, a dream traveler,andhaving given her life to save an innocent, got to choose whether to live again or stay dead and of course she chose to live again—she wanted to check out what was up with the hot wolf guy. But, because divine intervention is convoluted sometimes, she wasn’t able to return directly home. She ended up in the world where Heather had left her pendant, tasked with retrieving it. Crew followed her there and they hung out with the king until thedragenand his mate figured out how to retrieve Dahlia’spendant (and her mom!) from a world where giants live. Everyone made it home safe, and Dahlia joined the team, with the power of animation and illusion.
Sebastian quickly discovered Abigail White wasfoxen,and so he kept his investigation mostly underground, to avoid dealing with the prejudices of the officers around him. He soon discovered Abigail was also a witch, with powers the otherwolvencouldn’t fight or understand.
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Six weeks later, just before Christmas, Beckett met Cerise and her ‘little sister’ after they’d gotten in some trouble. Cerise mind-controlled Beckett to help them, which he would have done anyway. The trio drove out to California with the traitor wolf, Grey Deatherage, on their tail. Grey forced Cerise to use her pendant to summon theactual demon,which caused a big fight that ended with Cerise’s pendant and Grey being pulled into the Pravus and not seen again for several months.
Grey was happy to reunite with his angel friend Azerbaizan, who is the celestial Father of the One True Mates, and who had been held in the Pravus by the demon for the last 25 years.
Cerise’s ‘little sister’, whose name was discovered to be Lillian, turned out to be a quarterwolven. She was forced into shifting by a confrontation with the demon and she helped fight him off. Lillian reunited with her family, and they have also joined the team, moving to live near VF.
Most importantly, Cerise and her power of mind control joined our team of heroes in the ongoing fight against the demon, moving to VF just before Christmastime.
Heather discovered she was pregnant, and her baby girl wason firein her belly.
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Things settled down till spring. Bruin thebearenwas ostracized by his kind, but thewolvenliked him just fine, so Bruin worked with the police, Mac especially, more than the firefighters.
In March, Bruin and Mac were sent to Chicago in hot pursuit of the traitor wolf. What they found was Mac’s mate, Rogue, and she did not come quietly. It was a fight from start to finish, just the way they like it. Their story ended with already-kidnapped Rogue being kidnapped again (by Rex and Soren, two newfoxenbad guys), then rescued and this time going home with Mac because she wanted to. Rogue joined the team, bringing her ability to unlock anything with a touch.
Rogue had Boe living at her home in Serenity. When thewolvenpromised to treat him right, she handed him over to them, and he still lives in her house to this day, with awolvenguard.
Rogue is a twin. Bruin said prophecy about her sister, Amaranth, and our heroes have been searching for her ever since but haven’t found her yet.
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A few months later, during early summer, Mac and Rogue took Bruin out to the Honey Depot, which Willow owns. Bruin met Willow and fell head over heels, on the ground, tongue out, but would not act on his attraction. He couldn’t believe sweet, beautiful Willow was his mate, because there was only onebearengood enough for Willow: the prophesied BOGI (Bear of Great Insight). Bruin decided he couldprotectWillow until this BOGI guy showed up, which gave Rogue time to convince Bruin thathewas the BOGI. After this realization, Bruin could only purr, especially when Willow returned hisrenquato him with a touch.
Ella gave birth to the first everwolfengels, Track and Treena, who were conjoined at the back and successfully separated.
Ella’s sister gave birth to two males who showed no sign of being fathered by a demon and therefore were allowed to live.
Sebastian was pulled off of the Abigail White investigation and put on round-the-clock surveillance of the maybe-probably demon babies, while Canyon and Timber took over the Abigail White investigation, in addition to thefoxeninvestigation.
Leilani, the time traveling One True Mate, showed up just in time to keep Bruin from being blown up. Bruin went to confront Serenity’s Fire Chief, for trying to kill him, but B3, who is also Bruin’sfather, was busy using thefoxenwitch Abigail White to summonthe actual demon, rather than admit he screwed up.
Bruin and Willow showed thebearenthe truth and stirred them into fighting the demon. Thebearenmanaged to chase Khain back to his own world, then they invited formerly ostracized Bruin back into the fold by making him Serenity’s new Fire Chief.
Willow joined the fight, bringing her empath power.
Bruin and Willow left within days to restorerenquato all bearen around the world, while Bruin’s twin brother Conri Bloom stepped in to run the fire department in Bruin’s absence.
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