Stars Above Lonely Nights — Michael Brown novel Chapter 22

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Nova POV:

As we reach the forest line everyone separates to strip their clothes before shifting, I wander behind a large tree with Jax following close behind.

Turning to him I stare into his eyes as I slowly lift the top over my head and undo my bra leaving my breasts on show with my nipples hardening in the fresh air. I step out my shorts leaving myself bare in front of him, hearing him growl lightly as his eyes flicker over my form, he quickly strips out of his clothes his eyes dark. I glance down and see his quickly hardening member making me bite my lip and wink at him quickly, before stepping back with a grin and shifting to Kia quickly making him huff out a laugh as Kia runs out from behind the tree.

Seeing Reed she bounds forward licking his face to show she’s missed him, he rubs his face into her neck gently purring in greeting. As Kia stands proudly looking around we see Axtons wolf Rex hesitantly stepping towards us, staring down at him for a moment we then hear Zeus pad out from the tree and she turns her head away from Rex wagging her tail at Zeus. Padding to meet him they join heads softly as they nudge each other rubbing their body’s closely together. Rex drops his head pawing at the ground showing slight distress at what he sees and turns away from Roses scraggly brown wolf who walks up beside him. Zeus let’s out a loud howl as the others join us and breaks into a fast run leading us towards the meeting place.

After 20 minutes of running Zeus slows to a stop gesturing towards some trees indicating everyone to shift and get back into their clothes they carried in their mouths.

Slipping behind the trees we all get dressed quickly as curiosity towards the imminent meeting grows. Stepping out everyone gathers together with Jaxs hand on the small of my back keeping me close to him.

“He will be here any minute” Jax informs everyone as we wait patiently.

“Zeus and Kia seem closer” he links me whilst we take a seat on the ground enjoying the warm sun.

“They do don’t they” I agree, “Kia adores him.”

With that he smiles before leaning over and brushing a lock of my hair away from my eyes, “better” he whispers looking at me clearly.

I reach over to squeeze his hand as I tilt my head towards the sky but not before I see Axton staring at us with hurt across his features and Rose staring at me with hatred clear in her eyes.

“Ready?” I hear Laurence ask as he stands looking towards the far side of the small clearing.

“Always” I hear Jax agree standing up, he reaches his hand down to help me stand up being the gentleman that he is.

Everybody follows suit and comes to stand alongside us as 5 large brown wolves and 1 tall muscular brown haired man walk out from the bushes. Gazing at him I get a sense of familiarity but taking in his appearance of a tanned body littered in scars and his bright blue eyes I cannot explain it.

“Good morning Beta Kingsley” Jax says clearly reaching a hand out to shake the man’s calloused one.

“Good morning Alpha Jax” he replies, “thank you for organising this meeting.”

“My pleasure. As you can see I have gathered Alpha Brent who you have met before” hearing that the man named Kingsley reaches his hand out to shake Brent’s outstretched one, “and I have also brought along Alpha Axton and his new Luna Rose from the White Mountain Pack for you to meet.”

“Good morning Alpha Axton” Kingsley says shaking his hand also. He turns his attention back to Jax ignoring Rose as he does so. Kingsley takes in Laurence and Theo next to him and nods in greeting before his eyes settle on mine.

“And who do we have here?” He asks softly looking at me.

“Good afternoon Beta Kingsley” I gently say, “I am Nova.”

“The Nova?” He enquired with a cocked brow.

Laughing awkwardly I lift my hands in a show of acceptance, “I am the ex-Luna of the White Mountain Pack, I have previously reached out to you to try and discuss what you are after.”

“It’s a pleasure to finally meet you Nova” he says with sincerity clear in his voice.

Smiling graciously I look back to Jax shifting the attention from myself, “I thought I would let you know Beta that the packs in attendance today have all looked into their pack history’s to see if we have had any families under the name Prince, unfortunately no packs have. The Moonbeam Pack unfortunately couldn’t make it today however they assured me they also had no history of a Prince family residing in their territory’s.”

Hearing that information I see pain flicker across Kingsleys face momentarily before he hides it behind an expressionless mask. “Thank you for enquiring Alpha Jax, I appreciate the effort in which you have gone to.”

“I’m aware it may be overstepping our boundaries but after the show of aggression on the White Mountain Pack we were wondering if you could explain why the Rogue Beta was looking for Athena Prince?” Jax questioned.