Luna of Mine
Authors: Quinn Loftis
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Luna of Mine
Book 8
The Grey Wolves
Series
Quinn Loftis
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Dedication
This one is for everyone who has stuck
with this series now for 8 books! Thank you so very much! I am so
honored and humbled.
Acknowledgements
Thank you so much to everyone who has
supported me and cheered me on as I wrote this book. Thank you so
my husband who puts up with the late nights, and does laundry,
cares for our son and eats tons of fast food. Thank you to Megan
and Amanda for all your thoughts and input. Thank you to Candace
for taking time to read my books and give me your honest opinions.
Thank you to the Hellcats for being my voice of reasoning when I
become unreasonable. Thank you to the wolf pack for helping me get
the word out about my books! You all simply amaze me. Thank you to
my family for supporting me and for believing in me!
Thank you to the readers for taking
time to read my books when there are so many other things that they
could be doing not to mention other books they could have picked. I
am truly honored.
Other Titles by Quinn
Loftis
The Grey Wolves
Series
Prince of Wolves
Blood Rites
Just One Drop
Out of the Dark
Beyond the Veil
Fate and Fury
Sacrifice of Love
Luna of Mine
Elfin Series
Elfin
Rapture
Gypsy Healer
Series
Into the Fae
Stand Alone Works
Call Me Crazy
Table of Contents
Prieten adevãrat
este acela care te sfãtuie
s
te spre bine,
iar nu acela care î
t
i laudã nebuniile.
I cannot be your FRIEND and
your flatterer too.
~Romanian Proverb #
0
“
W
e’ve called a girls’ weekend,” Jen announced as she strode
into the dining room of the Romanian pack mansion as if she still
lived there. “I’ve had a baby, Jacque is knocked up, Sally is about
to embark on some crazy wild goose chase with Peri, and we need
some serious estrogen time.”
Vasile looked from his mate to Jen and
then back to his mate. “Is she actually asking for my
approval?”
Alina laughed. “I highly doubt that,
Alpha. I think she is just informing you that she’s kidnapping
me.”
“
And do you wish to be
rescued?” he asked her with a mischievous glint in his blue
eyes.
Jen scoffed, “Psht, as if. You and
what army could possibly rescue her from my clutches?”
“
Jen, tone it down a
little. I think your post pregnancy hormones are still getting to
your head,” Jacque piped in, as she drug out a seat at the
table.
“
Was it too much,” Jen
asked with squinted eyes.
Jacque held up her hand with her
fingers separated by a tiny sliver of air. “Just a tad.”
“
I think I can handle the
girls for a weekend,” Alina told her mate. “Besides, I think it’s
time they heard our story.”
“
Mina!” Vasile’s voice was
full of warning.
She shrugged innocently. “What? I
won’t make you look bad.”
He huffed knowing there was no way to
make him look good. Vasile remembered their courtship like it was
yesterday, though it had been over two centuries since he took
Alina as his mate. He had matured a lot in those two centuries,
thank the Great Luna for that.
“
So we’re finally going to
get to hear how the great and mighty Vasile claimed his mate? Or is
this more of a fall from grace sort of story?” Jen asked as she
grinned at the frowning Alpha.
“
I would say it’s a little
of both,” Alina told her. “Do you all want to go to the cottage?”
Alina asked them.
“
If it is a no testosterone
zone, then by all means, the cottage it is,” Jacque
answered.
“
So eager to get away from
me, Luna?”
Fane’s voice whispered through
her mind.
“
I love you, Wolf-man, but
I need a couple days of girls, chocolate, and no possessive mates.
You can help Decebel with Thia and get some daddy practice
in.”
Jacque laughed at the low growl her
mate gave her. He hated when she was away from him, especially now
that she was carrying their child, but he also knew she needed
space or he would smother her, and that in turn would lead to her
smothering him―with a pillow, while he slept.
“
I heard that,”
he huffed.
“
I’ve told you to stop
eavesdropping and then you won’t hear things you don’t like
hearing. If you weren’t so hardheaded you would take my advice and
mind your own business.”
“
Stay safe, love, and come
back to me quickly,”
he told her, totally
ignoring her snide comments, as he often did.
“
Love you,”
was her response.
“
H
ow long will you be gone?” Decebel asked Jen as she tossed
some clothes in a suitcase.
“
Just for the weekend, B.
You totally got this dad thing down, and Vasile will help if you
run into any problems,” Jen said with a reassuring
smile.
“
I’m not worried about
taking care of Thia; she’s a piece of cake compared to you,” he
told her with a smirk.
“
Dude, I can totally stay
gone a little longer if you think you got this,” she threatened as
she met his amber gaze.
“
No, you couldn’t,” he
purred as he took a step towards her and then another until he was
standing right in front of her. “You would miss me too
much.”
Jen rolled her eyes. “You get me
knocked up and suddenly you think I can’t keep my paws off of
you.”
“
Do I need to refresh your
memory of the past week?”
Jen actually blushed. “No need to be
bringing up old stuff, Dec.”
“
Oh, I definitely think
there is a need.” His voice seemed to drop even deeper.
Jen held up her hand to hold him off.
“No means no, my insatiable mate. I have a chicks’ weekend calling
my name and you, my furry love, have the wrong equipment to come
and play. I love you.” She leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss
and dashed out of his reach before he could grab her. She headed
over to Thia’s bed where she lay sleeping and leaned down and
pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Give’em hell, mini me,” she
whispered to her daughter. When she turned to face her mate she saw
that he was standing in front of the door blocking her escape. He
looked quite confident in his ability to keep her from leaving.
Thankfully, she had planned ahead. She smiled sweetly at him as she
picked up her suit case and then counted down under her breath.
“Five, four, three, two, one . . . any time now.”
Peri suddenly appeared right next to
her. She grabbed Jen’s arm, gave Decebel the finger, and then
flashed out of the room.
Decebel growled as Jen’s
laughter filled the room and then she was gone. He stared at the
place she had just stood and then he chuckled.
“Well played, Jennifer, well played. Just remember what you
always say about payback.”
He sent to
her.
“
Bring it, baby,”
she whispered back.
“
Y
ou’re sure this is a good idea?” Vasile asked his mate for
the second time.
Alina narrowed her eyes at him.
“Vasile, I bonded with you because of the man you were, not because
of the man you were destined to become. It is good for others to
see that you are not perfect. We have both grown and changed over
the centuries; I think for the better.”
“
Then why is it necessary
to share with them all of our past mistakes?” he
grumbled.
She laughed. “Oh mate, you know the
answer to that. It is our mistakes that make us who we are. Without
our mistakes we would never grow in character, or mature. Without
our mistakes we would not be able to tell our children and
grandchildren that yes you will fall, but then you will get up,
brush yourself off, and be stronger because of that fall. You know
this better than most. Let me have this time with the girls. Let me
share with them how you came to be the most powerful Alpha in our
history, and let me tell them how you won my heart.”
Vasile took her face gently in his
hands as he looked down at her. His female who had taken him on
time and time again, who had loved him through good and bad, who
knew the ugliest parts of his soul and still claimed him, looked up
into his eyes. “You tell them what you think you need to, but in
the end the only thing they really need to know is that I am the
man I am today because you gave me the honor of becoming my true
mate.” He kissed her deeply, with all the passion of two centuries
worth of love, pouring into her mind the images and emotions of his
feelings for her.