The Alpha's Baby

The spinoff begins after Book 7: Chapter 25. It tells the story of Maya Wright and Colton Evers on their journey to find her sister Wren and his father Silas, while she learns of her newfound pregnancy.

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## Characters

### Main Characters

Maya Wright

Colton Evers

Teddy Tahir

Gemini - half-succubus; Adair's contact at Striped Stout [ch 94]. Debut Point of View Chapter 126.

### Other Characters

Sabine Smith (Returns to Torn Between Alphas Book 7: Chapter 56)

MacKenzie MacEvoy (Returns to Torn Between Alphas Book 7: Chapter 56)

Xavier Evers

Tefirna - witch in Shoshone Falls, Idaho. Access to the Enrial Depths. [ch 40]

Rowena (Tefirna's daughter) & Porter (Beta of Cobalt Pack) - married [ch 61]

Fleur - turned by Alpha Shaw [ch 65]

The Cult of Necromancers (at The Feeding Place): Romain Ferrier (leader), Traymon [ch 82-83]; High Priestess Wren [ch 100], Lloyd [ch 103]

Poachers: two men + one woman (deceased)

The Cobalt Pack (in Craters of the Moon Park): Alpha Shaw [ch 56]

## Synopsis

### Ch 1 - MAYA

Maya has a nightmare that she is about to give birth in a cave; Big Mac gives a prophecy that the Alpha's baby will change their world. Mrs. Smith is delivering, Colton is upset, and Teddy is by her side. She awakens in the car on the way to Montana with her companions. They argue about their plans to find Colton's father Silas or Maya's sister Wren.

### Ch 2 - COLTON

Maya suddenly passes out, and Big Mac helps her wake up. They continue arguing about finding Silas or Wren until she tells him she doesn't want to be mates with him anymore.

### Ch 3 - MAYA

Mrs. Smith and Big Mac tells the group that they are staying to keep an eye on them. They are about to continue their journey when the car does not start. Big Mac suggests they take a bus, but Colton insists they can get the car running again. Maya tells them they need to get to Montana because Wren and Silas were last seen there. However, Teddy states that Wren is no longer there.

### Ch 4 - COLTON

Colton gets upset at Teddy and demands to know more information. He tells them that when Wren was in Helena, Montana, she told him she was on a journey to find herself and was heading to the forest outside Calgary. Maya states that she's then going to Canada. Colton insists against this decision and tells them they need to stick together because they are heading into Silas territory.

### Ch 5 - MAYA

Teddy explains that Silas had always run things out of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest but his supporters have been growing and heading east. Maya is worried Wren is a part of Silas army, but Teddy assures that she was a rogue. Colton is having issues with fixing the car, so Maya checks it out and finds that they were out of coolant. She tells Colton to bring her a bottle of water from her bag and they get the car running again. Teddy offers her a Slim Jim and gets nauseated. She begs Colton to pull over, but he refuses, so she takes the steering wheel which puts them on course to crash into another car.

### Ch 6 - MAYA

Colton rights the car and Maya vomits into a plastic cup. Colton and Maya argue about her throwing up, and she thinks about how this could mean the pregnancy test was right. They pull over again so Maya can clean up and she notices there is another car pulled up behind them with tinted windows. They get back on the road and she notices it following them, so she orders Colton to make turns, noticing the car is still following them.

### Ch 7 - COLTON

Colton takes Maya's word that they are being followed and tries to lose them, but they are descending into a valley on a windy mountain road with the cliff to Maya's side. They wonder who it could be following them and Colton and Maya mind link to talk about it further. They go on a wild car chase until the SUV following them goes over the side of the cliff. However, they are also on a path to colliding with a semi-truck.

### Ch 8 - MAYA

The group manages to avoid falling off the cliff, but the car does flip over with the airbags deployed. They manage to get out of the car, which is now totaled, and continue their journey on foot through the woods to avoid being spotted on the road. Colton decides they will camp for the night and continue heading to the next town to get another vehicle. Maya goes to scout the area and someone grabs her.

### Ch 9 - COLTON

It’s Colton. Maya and Colton bicker with each other and he mentions he found something in her bag. She becomes worried until Colton pulls out a lacy black thong. He continues to tease her and states that there is something different about her that makes him want to treat her tenderly.

### Ch 10 - MAYA

Colton and Maya flirt with each other for power over the other until they have wild passionate sex. Afterwards, Colton asks her if she has given any more thought to their relationship. Before they can talk more, someone mind links with her to move - now.

### Ch 11 - MAYA

Maya is confused and wonders if there is another Alpha nearby that mind linked with her. It’s Teddy telling her that there is danger. Colton continues to question her as she did not answer him, but instead hints they can go for round 2. Suddenly a large wolf attacks them and they shift to defend themselves, but they are caught off guard and Maya gets tossed into a tree. Another wolf appears to fight off the attacker, he is able to tear the wolf apart, but bites its front paws and lets it run free. The wolf shifts and it’s Teddy. Colton tells him to stay with Maya so he can go after their attacker, but Teddy advises him not to. They head back to Mrs. Smith and Big Mac.

### Ch 12 - COLTON

Big Mac uses her magic to set up the place they are staying at, camouflaging it. Colton thinks about how Maya has been acting strange lately and that he has been feeling different towards her as well. He’s worried that she’s becoming too important to him which would be dangerous if Silas found out because he could use her against him. He’s also suspicious about Teddy who had shown up to save them. Colton sees Teddy and asks him about the wolf that attacked them, but Teddy just says it was brown. He continues to interrogate him but Teddy explains he saved them because they were too busy doing other stuff. Colton then asks why he’s still with them, and Teddy says he’s returning the favor to them and helping them find Silas and Wren. But then he starts talking about Maya and chastising Colton for treating her like a plaything. Colton had enough, so when Teddy walks away, he wonders if Teddy is right.

### Ch 13 - MAYA

Maya is having some time to herself until she sees Mrs. Smith and Big Mac who want to talk to her privately. They pull out her red backpack and tell her they’ve seen her tests. Big Mac tells her that her pregnancy is the reason why her mother’s ghost gave the warning, to find her family before it’s too late. Maya asks them about werewolf pregnancies, but they tell her they don’t know much, but if she is pregnant, Colton will know soon because her scent will change. She asks if witches can take care of it, and Big Mac tells her she knows a witch who might be able to help - Tefirna who lives behind the falls of **Shoshone Falls, Idaho**. But, if she seeks Tefirna, they warn her price is steep and once a deal is made with her, there is no going back.

### Ch 14 - MAYA

After Big Mac and Mrs. Smith’s conversation with Maya, they head back to camp, and go with Colton for a scouting trip. She makes a fire and thinks about her and Colton as parents and decides she needs to see the witch. She wonders how she can sneak off to go see her without alerting Colton or having him ask questions. She also wonders what she will do once she finds the witch - ask to get rid of it or help in keeping it. Teddy comes out of the tent and mind links with her. She wonders how they could be doing it unless he was an Alpha, her mate like Cali’s issue with being a due destini, or maybe from her old pack. She asks him how they are able to do it and he shrugs telling her she has secrets of her own.

### Ch 15 - MAYA

Maya wonders if Teddy had noticed anything, like her scent changing. She wonders how they are connected so that they can mind link. Instead she feigns innocence, and he says she has not told Colton about their connection. She tries to shift gears by telling him it’s not unusual for Alphas to go Rogue, so something major must have happened for him to leave his pack. He dodges any real answers and realizes she doesn’t want to tell Colton because she is hiding something else. She gets angry and threatens him with a choke, but his hand burns her, and when she lets go he says her secrets are safe and she can trust him.

### Ch 16 - COLTON

The group returns from their scouting expedition and Colton sees Teddy and Maya talking. He feels jealousy and suspicious of him. He watches her for a while and realizes he wants their relationship to go to the next level, but is afraid that if they both change to make it work between them, that she might not like him anymore. He asks her to stay away from Teddy and then for her to stay with him. She jokes that he’s being weird, but he took it as a rejection and became embarrassed, so he turns away.

### Ch 17 - COLTON

She stops him and promises to stay with him for tonight. They joke about their future wedding, and she kids about bolting before it happens, but Colton took it personally and starts making their current situation too serious for Maya. They wrestle to bring back their playful mood. Soon they have sex and mind link. Afterwards, he asks why she wants to find Wren so badly, and she tells him that before she knew of Wren she was willing to go with him because he is loyal to his family. He tells her he’s loyal to her too because they are mates, connected, and so he will be loyal to her until the end. He waits for her response but she’s fallen asleep. He sleeps to but he awakens and realizes she’s gone.

### Ch 18 - TEDDY

Teddy is too on edge to sleep. He goes to watch the stars and notices Maya without Colton. He’s curious what she’s doing and justifies following her by making sure she doesn’t run into any enemies. While tracking her, he tries to figure her out as well as her relationship with Colton. Soon, he realizes not only has he lost her trail but he was also lost in the woods. He reaches out to her via mind link and realizes she’s running in circles, tries to reach out to her again to give her a heads up he was there, when Maya comes up behind him asking why he’s following her

### Ch 19 - MAYA

Maya realized that her sense of smell had been off, and she realized Teddy had been following her because she had heard him mouth breathing. She asks why he’s been following her and he gets upset that the whole group is paranoid and he’s been nothing but friendly. Suddenly, Maya scents multiple somethings, and Teddy does too. They shift and mind link strategy, running through the woods. They get to a clearing and shift back, thinking they lost them, when they attack.

### Ch 20 - MAYA

There are two werewolves, not Rogues because they moved in sync, and Maya notices their slight injuries. She believes that these are the trackers from the car chase, and they are white-yellowish in color. She remembers the other wolf that attacked them earlier was brown, so he is still in the woods. She shifts back and they force a mind link on her, taunting her. She tries to get them to tell them who they are or what they want, without a response. Teddy tells her he will create a diversion while she runs for it. She refuses his offer and attacks the wolves. In the middle of the fight, she thinks about the baby, and she loses the upper hand. Pinned under the wolf, Teddy and the other wolf stop fighting and shift back to human form. She tries to mind link with Teddy but he is silent. She realizes that they were after Teddy and he knew it.

### Ch 21 - COLTON

Colton begins to panic about Maya missing, thinking that he lost the one person he could trust to have his back. He decides to check the camp before tearing through the woods looking for her, hoping that she didn’t disappear. He notices Teddy’s bed is empty and starts to let his imagination run. Big Mac and Mrs. Smith wakes up and asks what’s going on and gets worried when they realize Teddy and Maya are missing. They hear a scream outside and Colton shifts, racing outside while Big Mac rides on a shifted Mrs. Smith. He picks up Maya’s scent, then Teddy’s, and then more wolves. He sees Maya’s wolf being pinned down by another wolf and he creeps closer to hear them call Teddy by name. He attacks the wolf pinning her and they both pin the wolf down; Colton is about to go for the kill when Teddy tells him not to.

### Ch 22 - MAYA

Maya is livid that Teddy is stopping Colton from killing their attacker. She mind links with him and asks him why, but he asks them to listen to him. Maya hesitates wondering if there was a reason not to kill the wolf and maybe get some information out of him. She tells Colton via mind link that she thinks they should keep him alive for now. Teddy continues to tell them that things are complicated and he can explain but they shouldn’t kill the wolf. Colton doesn’t want to listen and rips the wolf’s throat out. Colton and Maya shift to their human form while Mrs. Smith’s wolf with Big Mac riding her jump into the clearing. The other attacker holding on to Teddy starts speaking in a a language, and they start towards him. Teddy tells them he will handle the guy and manages to get the guy on the ground. Colton immediately pounces and they fight, but the other guy has superhuman strength and speed and manages to escape into the woods. Colton turns his anger towards Teddy, but Maya intervenes and instead interrogates Teddy.

### Ch 23 - COLTON

Before Teddy can answer Maya, Mrs. Smith screams and points to the wolf that Colton had just killed. He has a tattoo on the chest over the heart, like a scar or a brand, of a wolf with three heads. His skin is almost see-through and stretched over his bones, bald, thin with chipped yellow teeth, and red eyes. Teddy tells them they have no idea what they just did in killing him and letting the other one go. Before he can explain any further, Maya yelps as the body starts to bubble and fizz with a foul smell. Colton demands Teddy to tell them what’s going on. He tells them they’ll be marked and there is no coming back from it. Big Mac confirms that Teddy might be right, and Colton asks who is marking him.

### Ch 24 - MAYA

Teddy stays silent when Colton asks who is marking them and feigns blacking out. Maya goes to him and slaps him. He jumps up, rambles about finding himself, and tries to deflect answering by asking them why they use their attitude as a defense mechanism. Mrs. Smith and Big Mac holler at him to spill the beans, and he tells them he joined a cult. Big Mac states she’s seen the three-headed werewolf tattoo before, can’t remember from where, but they are a sign used by necromancers. Colton tries to look closer at the tattoo to read the script written under it, but the body bolts up and grabs him by the throat.

### Ch 25 - COLTON

The grip on Colton’s throat keeps squeezing, then the corpse starts to speak in an unknown language, and then lets go. The body then bubbles and turns into a puddle. Teddy still stalls from telling them any more information, and the women decide to go back to camp to get some rest and talk tomorrow. Colton wakes up early and takes a walk around the camp, thinking about continuing their journey to Montana. He wonders if he should be going after Silas without Xavier or Greyson and what he’s going to do if he does find him. He goes back to camp and everyone is staring at him; Teddy telling them ‘I told you so’. Maya points at his neck and says there are huge black marks shaped like skeleton hands around his throat.

### Ch 26 - MAYA

Colton tells Maya to get it off, swiping like there’s a bug on him, and she leads him to the bathroom mirror. She helps him try to wash it off without luck. She recalls Teddy stating that they were marked and she realizes she can’t lose Colton. Colton goes to Teddy and demands what the marks mean but Big Mac blasts them apart telling them there’s no fighting in her tent and hands Colton a black scarf. Maya asks Big Mac if there’s anything she can do about the marks on Colton’s neck, she can’t but she tells her that Tefirna can help him too.

### Ch 27 - MAYA

Maya, Colton, Teddy, and Mrs. Smith takes turns carrying Big Mac while they run in their wolf forms .After 5 hours straight, the group makes it to Boise and decides to check into a motel. They rent two rooms, Colton and Maya sharing one, and Mrs. Smith, Big Mac, and Teddy in the other. Big Mac was going to spell the room and take away Teddy’s witch ball. Maya goes to shower and Colton tries to offer her alcohol, which she has to refuse. She then wonders what she’s going to look like pregnant and what else she will have to give up. Then, Colton joins her in the shower and she has a panic attack, she gets out and tries to calm herself and Colton follows apologizing for barging in on her. She tells him that she will help him get rid of the tattoo marks and they kiss.

### Ch 28 - COLTON

Colton remembers their first kiss in Big Mac’s hot spring. They have meaningful sex and there’s a knock on the door. Colton opens the door and it’s Big Mac and Mrs. Smith; Big Mac wants to go to a local brewery, **Red Dog**. At the bar, Maya challenges Colton to darts. Colton wagers if he wins they go after Silas and if she wins they go after Wren. But, she gets angry that he would suggest they make a decision based on a game, so he taunts her if she’s in or out.

### Ch 29 - MAYA

Maya accepts the wager and goes to get the drinks, remembering that she couldn’t drink beer, so opts for a virgin cocktail. During their game, Maya feels confident she might win the game until Colton tells her she smells different but good. He tells her to skip her turn when she freaks out thinking that her scent is changing and he might question the difference. And then, he throws three bullseyes in a row. Maya notices a group of biker looking guys glancing at them. She warns Colton she gets a vibe from them, and he looks and tells her they shouldn’t be eyeballing her. So, he grabs her butt and winks at them, but she gets mad at this display and pushes him. The group of guys come up to her and ask if Colton is bothering her. But, she’s still mad and takes it out on them verbally. They take offense and punch her in the face.

### Ch 30 - COLTON

Colton is pissed off that these guys sucker-punched Maya. He clocks the guy hard and goes to Maya to see if she’s okay, but they’ve got the whole bar watching them. Maya tells him not to shift because they can take them. She breaks a bottle over the guy that punched her and charges into the group. Someone throws a pool ball at Colton’s chest, and Maya asks Teddy for help. When a guy knocks down Teddy, he joins the brawl. Big Mac asks Mrs. Smith if they can join in on the action, but she would rather watch. As the fight dwindles down to the the main guy who punched Maya, Colton attacks and breaks his nose and continues until Maya tries to stop him. A shot gun is loaded and the bartender aims it at Colton, kicking him out of the bar. As they walk out, Maya notices that one of the bikers has the three-headed wolf tattoo on his bicep.

### Ch 31 - MAYA

Maya asks Big Mac about the tattoo they saw on the bikers because they were human and not wolves. Big Mac tells her that sometimes cults have human hangers-on or groupies. She states that sometimes they’ll offer their services, their bodies, or their souls to get in with the group depending on what they see themselves getting in return. Back in their hotel room, Colton re-enacts the bar fight to Maya until they wrestle into sex and fall asleep. The next morning, Maya dwells on how possessive Colton has been lately. He tells her that he won the game of darts despite them not finishing, and she gets upset. They argue about her taking off on her own and she realizes Colton wants more in their relationship, which scares her.

### Ch 32 - MAYA

She decides that she doesn’t want to start a relationship with him because she believes it will end badly, with him leaving once he really knew her and she would realize she wasn’t a person worth sticking around for. She feels guilty for being harsh with him, but she doesn’t say anything else, and walks out the room. But, Teddy is there and they talk about last night’s bar fight. She finds out that Teddy used to get beat up. She goes to Mrs. Smith and Big Mac’s room to knock on the door, but Teddy tells her they’re gone. Colton, Maya, and Teddy go to the diner where Mrs. Smith and Big Mac are having breakfast. Colton tells the group that the plan now is to go to the park in Montana and split up. Maya asks him what he’s going to do about the necromancer mark. Big Mac tells them that she asked her friends about the necromancer mark and hasn’t heard anything about it, and tells Maya that she knows what she needs to do to get answers.

### Ch 33 - COLTON

Colton asks Maya what Big Mac is talking about, worried she asked for another un-mating potion. She tells him it’s about Wren and then runs to get the check from the waiter. When she returns, Colton continues to press her on what secrets her and Big Mac are hiding. Big Mac saves her and explains that there is a witch she knows who can help her find Wren and can also help him with his necromancer mark. But, Colton is still suspicious and asks her why she didn’t suggest this spell for him to find Silas. She tells him because Demeter probably put protection spells on him to prevent it. Colton asks what the plan is then and Big Mac tells him they are going to Shoshone Falls. They shift and took turns carrying Big Mac on the way, Colton notices how Maya and Teddy ran side by side. He scents a wolf and mind links with Maya to be prepared to fight.

### Ch 34 - COLTON

The other wolf appears and Colton immediately attacks. Maya and Colton fight in tandem and Teddy barely assists. Colton pins the wolf down and Maya is about to go for the kill when he remembers and tells her he will do it as she might become marked too. She helps to hold him down and Colton finishes him. They shift back to human form and Big Mac inspects his necromancer mark, and is satisfied it hasn’t changed. Colton calls out Teddy’s lack of help during the attack and he tells them that now Colton’s marked they will continue following them. But then, Colton notices there is another, and a cougar attacks, which he swiftly kills. They watch the corpses to see what would happen and they both turn to human form with the necromancer tattoo. And then, Colton blacks out.

### Ch 35 - MAYA

Maya goes into hysterics realizing that even though she was pushing him away this morning she doesn’t want to lose him now. Mrs. Smith checks his pulse and tells her it’s so faint he’s not going to make it. Teddy tells her that maybe if she kisses Colton he will wake up. She gets so angry she attacks Teddy. Big Mac breaks up their fight and she begs Big Mac to help save Colton. She asks if Maya is willing to pay the price no matter what, and she swears she will as long as she can bring him back. Big Mac places some drops of liquid into his eyes.

### Ch 36 - COLTON

Colton has a vision of Maya holding a baby and she shoves it into Colton’s arms. But, he panics and drops it. He wakes up to see the real Maya and she kisses him. Suddenly she shoves him away and yells at him for scaring her. Colton feels like it’s tight around his throat and Maya notices his necromancer hand tattoos now include forearms going down his chest and the upper arms stretching towards his back - extensions for each new kill.

### Ch 37 - COLTON

They ask Teddy to tell them more about the cult, but he just tells them he only stayed with them for protection. Maya demands to know why Teddy needed protection, and threatens to hand him to the cult they next time they appear. He can’t tell them anything other than they believe that necromancy is the final solution and that those marked becomes food. Before they continue their journey, Big Mac mentions that what she did was only temporary because the mark and the dangers it comes with are still present. Colton realizes Maya had made a deal with the witch and demands to know what the payment will be. Big Mac states she only needs her nails, which Colton believes she will rip out and goes to defend Maya. But, instead he proceeds to vomit black goo in her face.

### Ch 38 - MAYA

After Colton had finished vomiting black sludge, Teddy holds out his witch ball asking if it can do anything for them. She asks him if he’s okay, and he tells her honestly that he is not. Maya decides to find out what the payment from Big Mac is now so they can continue to Tefirna as soon as possible. Big Mac tells her she does need the whole nail ripped out, just clippings, and takes her payment. They shift and continue until Big Mac tells them they need to be in human form once they get closer. And, they make it to the falls.

### Ch 39 - MAYA

On the way to the falls they happen upon a cabin and realize they are in a tourist area of the **National Park**. The wolves are all naked from shifting and they had shredded all their clothes. The wolves start pointing at each other to risk exposure in finding all of them clothing. Colton tells them the best person for this task is their kleptomaniac Teddy. Teddy submits and heads to the gift shop stealthily and manages to get inside. There is a small commotion inside and Teddy comes out with their clothes, a security guard on his tail. They get dressed as they run away to the falls. There, Big Mac starts chanting, and the water starts rushing faster washing them away one by one.

### Ch 40 - COLTON

When Colton regains consciousness after being swept away by the water, he finds himself in a cavern. They meet Tefirna, who happens to be Big Mac’s ex. She gives a prophecy to Big Mac to return as there has been a call to arms, if she doesn't there will be rivers of blood on Halloween. Big Mac introduces Colton and Maya as the main reason for their visit, and Colton removes his shirt to show the necromancer marks. Tefirna recognizes the amateur necromancers and states she can rid the death mark, and it will delay his death, but they will not stop coming after him in hopes of making him into a corpse. Colton mind links with Maya to get her opinion when Tefirna turns to Maya and confirms that she can read their minds. She tells them there are no secrets hidden from her in her chamber and turns to Teddy who apparently is thinking about changing his clothes. Colton asks what the payment will be, and she tells him his baby.

### Ch 41 - MAYA

Maya believes that Colton will finally realize the truth about her and wonders what he will say. Colton just tells Tefirna that he’s got a father to kill and to just hurry it up, but Mrs. Smith warns him to think about it. Colton, unaware of Maya’s secret, tells them he never plans on having kids and has nothing to lose by giving the idea of having one away. Maya tells him that maybe they should talk first because there could be loopholes, but he insists he wants the the tattoos removed now and they can talk about it later. She pleads to talk about it now, but Colton doesn’t want to listen, worse he doesn’t understand - he thinks that her change of attitude about the whole thing means she has a change of heart about saving him. He tells Tefirna they don’t have a baby and she can have an IOU for when it happens because it will be never. Maya tells Tefirna the deal is not valid and Tefirna states there is another option.

### Ch 42 - COLTON

Tefirna tells them the other option is for them to keep the baby, but to get the tattoo removed they would have to return a precious item that was taken from her. Maya asks what the item is, how it was taken, who took it, and where it’s being kept. Tefirna says it’s a priceless thing taken by an Idaho werewolf pack kept at their compound. Colton asks if they are part of the cult, and she tells them they aren’t but they do have other complications. They make a deal and she applies a pendant with a black stone with a clock on a gold chain. Tefirna tells them they have 3 days to collect her item or she will collect his first born. They can stay the night and in the morning the clock will start. In their room, Maya gets angry at Colton who doesn’t understand what he did wrong. She storms off to the bathroom and then jumps back out shoving him to the wall.

### Ch 43 - MAYA

Maya feels out of control, so angry she could actually kill Colton. But, she feels desire and fear of losing him. Instead of continuing to fight, she takes control of the situation. She throws him on the bed ordering him and dominating him into wild sex. She makes him beg, call her Alpha, and thank her for letting him please her. He passes out and she goes to Tefirna’s private chamber. Tefirna is able to mind link with her and tells her if she’s come for her answer, she must not be afraid to ask the question. So she asks her if she’s pregnant.

### Ch 44 - MAYA

Tefirna tells Maya that in order to get her answer, she needs to go through the **Enrial Depths.** Tefirna asks here what she knows about werewolf pregnancies, other than they produce young werewolves. She explains that she knows their lineages, and that both Colton and Maya come from strong backgrounds, which will make their offspring strong as well. However, there is a chance that the baby can shift in utero, and in wolf form can eat its way out of her. They get to the Enrial Depths, and Maya suddenly feels thirsty. Tefirna tells her the water is meant to entice her and she must jump into the water and pay attention to what she sees as the water is filled with dark magic. If she swallows any of the water it will immediately take her memory of the visions. Meaning, if she sees a baby while underwater and drinks just a drop of water the baby will be gone forever.

### Ch 45 - COLTON

Colton has a sexy dominatrix dream of Maya and awakens when she says he will never be Alpha enough for her. He realizes that she’s not in bed with him and goes searching for her, and runs into Teddy. Teddy follows Colton as he was looking for a snack, but Colton tells him he’s coming with them on their mission as bait. Teddy tells him he’s not going and he’s not going to help them find Silas or Wren anymore.

*+NOTE: Author has a line that Xavier and Colton not got bored of each other when she means to say Xavier and Greyson are good sparring partners when rivaling for their mate’s affections*

### Ch 46 - MAYA

Maya wills herself to take a dunk in the Enrial Depths to find answers for her future. She asks Tefirna how long she has to be under, but her answer is vague saying it depends on the person and you’ll know when. Before she jumps in, Tefirna tells her there is a payment for going in. So, she requests a security deposit, as jumping into the water and getting the truth needs payment and she needs insurance in case she decides to drink the water so that Colton’s deal can be fulfilled if he fails his option. So, as a safety clause, if she does drink, she will have to give up the thing she loves most in the world. Maya believes she doesn’t love anything so it would be easy to give into the deal if she needs to; she agrees to the terms. She jumps and has a vision of Colton and her in the park and their child with Colton’s brown eyes and Maya’s dark hair. He calls her Mama and Colton says the child’s name is Remy. She realizes she wants this child.

### Ch 47 - COLTON

Colton tries to turn the tables on Teddy, telling him he needs to continue with them to help Maya out. Teddy tells Colton that he’s jealous because Maya and him connect on an intellectual level, and Colton punches him in the face. They start fighting and Colton realizes that Teddy can throw down with the best of them when he breaks his nose. They agree to stop the fight for now and pick up when they are outside of Tefirna’s place so they can shift and battle. Colton continues to search for Maya and Teddy follows; they chat while wandering and realize they can relate to each other through their past. Colton accidentally touches water flowing from the wall and sees Silas.

*+NOTE: Colton asks Teddy which way to go, Teddy tells him left because he is always fond of westward expansion. But, when Colton sees Silas, he states that he sees him in the hallway Teddy picked to the right*

### Ch 48 - MAYA

Maya is not sure to trust the vision as a glimpse into the future or a witchcraft trick; but she knows she is definitely pregnant. She debates what she should do and gets out of the water - she is going to keep the baby. She asks Tefirna for water she can drink, but doesn’t trust what she offers. Tefirna tells her she didn’t stay for the whole vision and asks her what she did see. Maya tells her she saw her family; and is warned that what she saw may or may not come true, especially if they failed their mission. She then asks Tefirna what she wants in exchange for telling her exactly what decisions will lead her to the future she saw.

### Ch 49 - MAYA

Before Tefirna can respond, Big Mac and Mrs. Smith walked in. Big Mac is worried for Maya as Tefirna drives a hard bargain with strings attached. She tells them that the wolves have made their deals, but now it’s Big Mac’s turn. Tefirna reveals that Big Mac actually did not send Colton and Maya to her for their sakes but because she also needed answers of her own. Big Mac admits they are looking for answers about what will happen during the battle with Silas. Big Mac asks what the price will be, and Tefirna looks at Mrs. Smith, which Big Mac refuses. Tefirna decides to let her see for free as getting entertainment to peek at what she might see is enough. Big Mac looks into the water, does not go inside it, and Maya sees flashes of a glowing orb, Silas, Colton’s wolf running, Xavier yelling, Greyson in pain. Then Big Mac fell back and screamed. Big Mac says they have to go back to the pack now, turns to Maya and tells her she’s on her own.

### Ch 50 - COLTON

Colton is frozen in place while he sees his father, Silas, walking towards him. Teddy is confused as he doesn’t see anybody. The vision of Silas torments him until Teddy shakes him and he crumples into the water. He sees Maya, Big Mac, Mrs. Smith, and Tefirna come over with all the yelling he was making. They ask Teddy what happened and pulls him away from the water. The moment he’s away from the water, the vision disappears. They tell him the water has magical abilities and can conjure visions. Colton then admits to Maya that he doesn’t want to be Alpha for fear of becoming like Silas. And, if she can’t accept that, she should find another mate.

### Ch 51 - COLTON

Colton tells Maya that his past is like a scar, it doesn’t hurt all the time, but it’s there as a reminder. Maya tells Colton she has her own Silas to deal with, but doesn’t want to share with Colton. They go to sleep and in the morning Tefirna reminds them of the terms of their deal. Once they step outside the falls, the pendant will start the countdown for three full days to return her daughter **Rowena**. Big Mac and Mrs. Smith tells them they are not coming. Colton asks for a general direction of where to find Rowena as they need more information to get her and keep her safe. She tells them the **Cobalt Pack** near the **Craters of the Moon Park** have her and they are known for their trickery. The Alpha’s name is **Shaw** and the Beta is his younger brother **Porter**. She tells them if they do not return, she will have their child, and if they refuse to sacrifice their unborn, Colton and Maya’s soul will become hers, trapped inside a jewel for her throne. She takes care of Colton’s necromancer death mark and tells Maya that the other part of their deal is that they have to kill the Alpha.

### Ch 52 - MAYA

Colton questions Maya about the other deal she made. Instead of answering Colton, she asks Tefirna why she didn’t mention this detail last night. Colton gets upset that nobody is answering his question and Teddy notes they don’t want him to know. She asks how she wants the Alpha killed, and she wants blood and gore. Colton tells Big Mac and Mrs. Smith he will see them back at the pack house. Maya talks to Teddy who is depressed that he doesn’t have a purpose. He didn’t want to join them on their side quest but doesn’t want to be alone. She asks him if he wants to come hoping that he could be useful as backup. He asks if Colton wants him to come and she lies saying he does. She watches him get his things when Tefirna appears to him and whispers in his ear.

### Ch 53 - MAYA

Maya wishes she doesn’t have to say goodbye to her only allies only to be left with Teddy and Colton. Big Mac tells Maya that the Cobalt Pack must have some serious tricks to be able to have a witch like Tefirna stuck. Maya asks what Big Mac saw in the waters to get her so scared. Colton asks Teddy what Tefirna said to him and why he suddenly decided to join them. Teddys tells him Maya requested him and Colton snaps at her. She changes the subject and tells them they need to get going. She opens a mind link with Teddy to ask him about Tefirna, but instead of hearing his answer, Colton opens a mind link with her. She ignores Colton hoping to get info out of Teddy, but he keeps interrupting and trying to talk dirty. Then, Colton asks if she’s talking to Teddy so she tells him to shut up because she can’t concentrate. He replies that he can’t concentrate either because her pheromones are aggressive, and she realizes her scent must be changing. And then, she sees Teddy fall into a hole in the ground.

### Ch 54 - COLTON

Colton and Maya shift to human form and search for where Teddy fell into a hole. They joke about leaving him in there, but Maya reminds him that they are on limited time and need to find a way to get him out. Maya goes to find a stick to fetch him out but Colton is thinking to get with her; Teddy asks if one of them can stay with him to ensure they will come back for him - which they don’t. Colton asks if Maya is okay because she seems different and assures her they can finish the mission no problem. He promises to protect her when they hear someone coming closer.

### Ch 55 - COLTON

They think hikers are close by so they hide and watch two men and a woman with crossbows and silver tipped arrows. They overhear them say they were trying to capture someone from the Cobalt pack and realize they are werewolf poachers. They strategize and shift back into wolf form. The poachers are taunting Teddy in the hole, who tells them he can pay them if they help him out. But, they say they are already getting paid by the person they are hunting for. They get into position and Colton notices there is another poacher behind her. Before he can open a mind link to warn her, another wolf attacks him.

### Ch 56 - MAYA

Maya hears a noise behind her and realizes that another poacher had been creeping but was torn in two by an auburn wolf. Colton charges at one of the men so she turns back and attacks the female. Despite the hunters holding silver weapons, they are scared and not able to use it well. With the poachers now dead, Colton and Maya turn to the auburn wolf, now shifted to human form - red hair with an impressive endowment. The newcomer tells them that there’s been an upsurge of poachers recently, coming from the west as they’ve lost territory there. He tells them that they just made it worse for them because now there will be more poachers. Colton tell him they were just passing by, and the newcomer asks where they are headed. Colton tells him his name is Xavier and Maya is Cali, they are from the coast passing by and heading east. Maya tells him they are looking for someone, the Cobalt Pack more specifically. He asks if they are there for the **Bacchanal Bonfire**. The newcomer introduces himself as Alpha Shaw and flirts with Maya. Colton steps in and tells him they are mates. Teddy calls out that he’s still in the hole and wants to come to the sex party, and they rescue him.

### Ch 57 - COLTON

Shaw tells Maya that the Cobalt pack lives in the mountains around the crater, that the park itself used to be their territory until crowds started showing up when it became a national monument. Colton is jealous of the attention she is getting from Shaw, but has to keep playing their part. He feels something about her has changed and his need to protect her has gotten stronger. Teddy interrupts his thoughts to ask if it was too convenient how Shaw showed up. Maya mind links with Colton to ask if it seems too easy; why would Tefirna send them on this mission instead of doing it herself, and there is a catch they are missing. But, Colton thinks she’s being paranoid and making things harder. Shaw states he never got Teddy’s name, and he tells him Colton Evers. Maya asks Shaw what they are to expect next, and he tells her food, drink, drugs, sex, and sacrifice.

### Ch 58 - MAYA

Teddy starts laughing about getting a virgin sacrifice to help with the crops. Maya’s pendant is seen by Shaw and he grabs it, studying the stone, and asks where she got it. She tells him they got it at a gift shop, and Colton states he picked it up from a witch run store that said it would bring good luck to him and his mate. At their tent, Maya wonders how she can kill Shaw when he has been helpful to them. She grabs Colton into their tent and performs oral sex on him before they engage in intercourse; when she orgasms she calls out Colton - but is supposed to be using the alias Xavier. Shaw and Teddy - who is supposed to be using the alias Colton comes to the tent.

### Ch 59 - COLTON

Teddy saves them by joking to Shaw that ‘Cali’ has had a crush on him but he only has eyes for Maya, she ‘Cali’ uses her imagination and her mate is so secure in his masculinity, since they are into the kinky stuff. They leave and they get ready to go down to the bacchanal. While Colton gets dressed, he thinks of how Xavier and Cali are as mates, and decides to send a text  (Torn Between Alphas Book 7 Chapter 61) that Maya is pregnant, as a joke. When the phone rings, Maya is about to get it, and he decides to come clean and tell her that he texted Xavier a joke. She gets really mad, which confuses him, and she walks away from him. They rappel down the crater and are offered drinks. Maya refuses and is about to tell Colton the truth about her pregnancy, but Teddy takes the drink from Colton telling him not to drink it.

### Ch 60 - MAYA

Colton is about to start a fight with Teddy when Maya notes that Teddy is already drugged. Teddy then goes off into the crowd. Colton continues to encourage Maya to get high and join the fun, but Maya is thinking how she almost told him the truth about the pregnancy. Colton tells her there’s nothing holding them back because the job they came to do is pointless, as they don’t have a child. She reminds him that she still can take their souls, and he believes that she hunt them down. But, she doesn’t tell him she also made another deal with the witch, where if she failed she would have to give up something she loved most - and it could mean her soul, or her freedom. Before they can continue their argument, a drum beat starts up. They see Tefirna’s daughter tied up above the flames.

### Ch 61 - MAYA

Maya begins to worry how they are supposed to save Rowena from being a sacrifice. Teddy rejoins them and they watch as Shaw greets the revelers. Maya notices a redhead escorted to the fire, around their age, and was also bound in ropes. Shaw makes a speech about the ceremony about to start is to join the pack together, to better them, and comes from a place of strength. Maya mind links with Teddy to ask him to create a diversion. He jumps to the front of the crowd and tells them that as Colton Evers he would like to say a few words...

### Ch 62 - COLTON

Colton is unaware that Maya had ordered Teddy to create a diversion and is about to step in while Teddy continues to repeat that he is Colton Evers in the flesh. Maya stops him while ‘Colton’ continues to ramble about the Cobalt pack’s hospitality and allowing them to join in a murder bonfire. Shaw steps in confused, but laughs at ‘Colton’s’ interruption. Colton asks Teddy what he’s doing when he says Maya asked him to do it, which he wonders when Maya had spoken to Teddy. Shaw comes over and Maya apologizes for their behavior, they continue the ceremony when Shaw tosses things into the fire to make the flames turn different colors. He lights a torch and walks up to Rowena, reciting that he will burn the ties that bind her so that she can begin anew, anointed and freed. He then walks to the other bound and recites the same, naming him Porter. Once free of the ropes, Shaw announces they will now unite with each other to leave the past behind and go forward into the new beginning. They hold hands and walk through the fire, unscathed. Then, Shaw states they are now united and may kiss as they join in matrimony. And, they realize it’s not a sacrifice but a wedding.

### Ch 63 - MAYA

Surprised that they are at a wedding and not at a sacrifice, they wonder if Rowena is being forced against her will and she is either brainwashed or playing along for safety. They watch the couple closely and realize she might be here willingly and now is a part of the Cobalt pack. But, Maya feels something is still off. Shaw sees Maya and asks her about the ceremony and gives he a line about checking out the stars with him. Teddy tells them that the couple are going into a tent and Colton starts heading there telling them he’s going to save the witch.

### Ch 64 - COLTON

Maya stops Colton and tells him that he can’t just go inside, and Teddy goes off to continue partying. Maya informs Colton he can’t just walk into the tent because there are werewolves guarding it. He ignores her and tries to get in but is stopped by the wolves, who shift back to human form to tell him he can’t disturb the new bride and groom. Maya mind links an ‘I told you so’ and tells him she will handle it. She proceeds to flirt with them as a distraction so Colton can gain entrance to the tent. He hears noises and sees Porter attacking Rowena and attacks.

### Ch 65 - TEDDY

Teddy drifts around the party dancing and meeting people; thinking that pretending to be Colton is fun because he has a great reputation. He meets Fleur who compliments his dancing and says she’s heard of Colton Evers. She starts to kiss him and asks what his next move is, but Teddy doesn’t want to hook up with her using Colton’s name, so he tells her that it’s not his name.

### Ch 66 - COLTON

Colton and Porter fight, with Colton trying to put him in a sleeper hold before he shifts. Porter is about to pass out when Rowena tosses Colton off him and screams. Maya runs into the tent and mind links with Colton about what happened. He tells her it looked like Porter was attacking Rowena, so he started fighting Porter until Rowena intervened. She tells him that she took care of the guards but what is the plan now since they might have misread the situation. Porter starts to get back up when both of them pounce to prevent him from shifting. But, before they reach him, they area blasted by Rowena. Colton tells her they are trying to save her and Maya mentions her mother. Colton tells her they are leaving to Shoshone Falls and Rowena refuses.

### Ch 67 - TEDDY

Teddy tells Fleur his real name, but she doesn’t mind the lie. They kiss and Teddy wonders what it would be like if it was Maya instead. But he ignores the thought and gives her oral sex followed by intercourse. Afterwards, they dance but he worries that Maya might have seen him. Fleur asks Teddy if he’s been to Shaw’s parties before, which he hasn’t. She tells him Shaw can’t have a mate so every party is like an orgy; she goes on to say he deserves a mate. Teddy asks what she means and she explains that every party is Shaw’s chance to experience what having a mate is like, so he’ll choose someone to try to create a bond with. She admits that she was picked last fall but it didn’t work out. She tells him she thinks he’s going to pick the woman he’s been eyeballing, his friend Cali (Maya).

### Ch 68 - MAYA

Maya asks Rowena to talk, she explains that bringing her back was part of deal she made with her mom. She gestures to her belly so Rowena gets the sign and extinguishes her fireball. Porter joins her side and they kiss. Maya explains that there was the Cult of Necromancers that marked Colton for death so they went to see Tefirna where Maya went into the Enrial Depths and as payment she told them to bring Rowena back with a time limit tied to the pendants, and if they failed it would be bad. Rowena starts to laugh and explains she joined the Cobalt pack as the resident witch because she’s in love with Porter. Colton tells her they are going back to her mother, and her husband can come too. Except, Rowena says she’s not going back unless she’s kicking and screaming.

### Ch 69 - TEDDY

Fleur tells Teddy she wants more, but he’s too shocked that Shaw wants Maya for his one-night stand. He decides to use Fleur to get more intel on Shaw as he can’t find Maya or Colton. He asks her if there is a secret sex dungeon that Shaw brings the girls to, and she tells him there’s  a private crater. He tells her he wants to see it and she leads him to a tiny house. She gets the key under an ornamental rock and shows Teddy the posh sex den. She leads him to the bed and starts kissing him. He tries to get into it, but he keeps thinking about trying to warn Maya and tries to mind link with her - but she’s too far away or shutting him out. Suddenly, Shaw busts into the room angry they are inside.

### Ch 70 - MAYA

Colton and Rowena face off, and Maya worries that the guards might come back or if they start fighting that either they will lose to the witch or Tefirna might get upset that they harmed Rowena. Porter stops them, and explains that Tefirna forbade Rowena from marrying him, so they ran away. But, Colton tells them he doesn’t care they love each other because he’s not dying for them. He shows them the tattoo markings and Rowena tells them it’s not her problem. Colton gets upset and tells Maya they should just get pregnant and give Tefirna the baby, which makes Maya mad, and Rowena notices her holding her belly. She tells them she’s willing to bargain as long as they stop attacking. She tells Porter that they should take this chance to get out. Colton gets upset that they start having a side bar and Rowena admits that she is not the only one terrorized by family. Porter tells them that Shaw is a ruthless tyrant who leads the pack into sex parties because of his own mental instability and lack of a mate; threatened prima nocta with Rowena. This is where the Alpha can bed whomever he wants, and he wanted Rowena after their wedding ceremony. He further states that Shaw mentioned that ‘Cali’ was supposed to be his mate this evening. Rowena tells her that Shaw will come looking for her at midnight.

### Ch 71 - TEDDY

Teddy tries to protect Fleur from Shaw but she runs to him, kneels, submits and begs for his forgiveness. She chants like a zealot and Shaw ignores her to address Teddy in explaining himself. Teddy just shrugs saying he wanted to get laid, but a clock starts chiming it’s midnight, and Shaw starts looking psychotic. He yells at them to get out because he has very special guests coming. Teddy realizes he’s going to get Maya, and blocks him from exiting. Fleur starts getting hysterical and tells Shaw that his name isn’t really Colton but Teddy. Shaw grabs Teddy a foot into the air and throws him. Teddy gets up and attacks Shaw, and starts losing. Before Shaw goes for the kill, Teddy gets the witch ball from his pocket and holds it out, but nothing happens. Fleur questions how he thought he could go up against Shaw. Shaw says it will be his ultimate pleasure to kill Teddy and use his blood as lube as he beds ‘Cali’ (Maya). Suddenly, the crater starts collapsing, and a boulder falls crushing Shaw.

### Ch 72 - COLTON

Colton is upset that Shaw was trying to get with Maya. He is also upset that he’s the kind of Alpha drunk on power that they throw their influence and authority on others to hurt and dominate those closest to them. Maya and Colton start to bicker at each other for not having a plan when Porter breaks up their argument. He tells them there is an underground tunnel that can take them out of there. Rowena tells them that she is willing to help them if they will help her escape her mother after the fact. Maya agrees and says they need to find Teddy before they can leave. Suddenly, the tent flaps open.

### Ch 73 - MAYA

Teddy walks in with Fleur covered in red dust. She notices Teddy looks like he got beat up. Porter notices Fleur and introduces her as a new member of the Cobalt Pack. He tells them that Shaw went to Boise State to prowl for women and met Shaw. After he did his thing, she begged him to turn her as she thought once she was a werewolf, they would be mates. Teddy vomits and Maya goes to take care of him, asking what happened. Teddy tells them that he was hooking up with Fleur in a sex den, which turned out to be Shaw’s personal place, and Shaw found them. Fleur blew his cover, so Shaw attacked him, where he freaked out and pulled out the witch ball, and then the place collapsed on Shaw. Rowena asks to see the witch ball and tells Teddy he was lucky because there are many types of witch balls and his defuses magic. And, the craters have magic to support the structures within them. Colton asks Rowena why she worked for Shaw instead of just leaving. Porter tells them in the beginning they were just like any other pack, but then Shaw changed. Suddenly the whole place rumbles and they make their way out to the tunnel when Shaw jumps out.

### Ch 74 - COLTON

Shaw starts screaming at the group, getting the attention of the passed out partygoers. He accuses Teddy of brainwashing Fleur and kill him and ‘Xavier’ and ‘Cali’ kidnapping the bride and groom. Rowena steps up and tells him she’s tired of his reign of terror. Colton realizes that Maya and Teddy can mind link as the only explanation for their actions. Teddy throws the witch ball at Shaw and Colton, Porter, and Teddy shift. Porter is taken out first, Teddy goes to protect Fleur, while Colton injures himself leaving himself open to Shaw’s attack. He’s about to go for the kill on Maya when Rowena forces Shaw to shift back to human form and tosses him into the wall. When he shifts back, Colton rips out his throat, and the rest of the Cobalt pack starts running after them.

### Ch 75 - TEDDY

The group runs as fast as they can through the tunnel away from the Cobalt pack thirsty for vengeance for their Alpha. Fleur tries to run towards the mob to rejoin them once they get to the opening, but Rowena seals it. She rides on Porter’s back while they all run away. Soon, Fleur refuses to go further, shifting back to human and crying about what just happened. Teddy tries to calm her down but she tells him he was the only family she had. Teddy takes pity on her for being a young wolf with a dictator leader and promises to keep her safe. He tells the others that they should rest up there since Fleur cried herself to sleep, but Colton is upset that they have to wait. Maya stops them from starting a fight and Teddy thanks her through a mind link, which Colton notices.

### Ch 76 - MAYA

Maya tells Colton that Teddy and her can communicate through mind link. Colton gets even more upset and asks if that means they are mates. After yelling some more he asks if Teddy is an Alpha. Teddy states he’s not. Maya states she is not. Colton tells them he is not going to be part of a due destini and Maya should choose right now. She tells the others they will check the perimeter and asks Rowena to secure the area with magic while she drags Colton away so they can talk. He continues to ramble about her choosing until she screams she wouldn’t choose either of them. She tells him she doesn’t know why they can mind link but it was since they met but they are not mates. The only one she is mated to is him, and he kisses her in happiness that she chose him.

### Ch 77 - COLTON

Colton knows Maya wants to tell him more but he won’t let her, instead enjoying her body and relief that she chose him and is not mated to Teddy. They have wild passionate sex. After he feels she’s still trying to tell him something, so he holds her close and waits. She asks him about his family, other than Silas, because she has been thinking about families and how both of theirs weren’t so good. She faces him and holds his chin, looking into his eyes, and places his hands on her belly. He doesn’t take the hint and tries to move his hands from her belly to between her legs. She stops him and puts it back on her belly, and he starts to get worried. She tells him she’s pregnant.

### Ch 78 - MAYA

Colton is in denial. Maya thinks about how bad he’s taking it and how it makes her feel. His shock turned into anger and she starts to cry. He asks her a million questions ending with ‘are you sure it’s mine’ which really got her emotions going. She gets enraged, puts him in his place, and walks away. She runs into Rowena who is casting charms and they talk, Maya hoping that she can help in dealing with Tefirna, Rowena says she’s willing to try. She decides to go back to Colton so they can talk things out, but he’s gone.

### Ch 79 - COLTON

Colton thinks about Maya’s pregnancy after he has run back home. He realizes he almost gave Tefirna their child and wonders why she never said anything. He wonders if she withheld information because she didn’t love him. Instead of thinking about how he reacted to her, he thinks about how she didn’t tell him when they were supposed to be mates. He finds himself in front of the new pack house lake and blacks out from exhaustion.

*+NOTE: Author writes that Colton felt like a bigger fool than Teddy, which says a lot, since Teddy was the biggest fool he’d ever met and he met his share of vampires. However, Teddy is a werewolf. Also, Colton returns to the new pack house that he hasn’t been to yet, and his return is not mentioned until very late in the Torn Between Alpha’s timeline*

### Ch 80 - MAYA

Maya is upset and disappointed that Colton had run away after she told him about the pregnancy. She decides to continue to Shoshone Falls to fulfill their end of the deal and Teddy and her can go find Wren. Teddy asks if she’s okay and if she wants to talk about why Colton left. She tells him that she’s pregnant; in his awkward way cheers her up and offers to be a stepdad for the kid. The group sets off, in their human forms, and soon encounter a cougar. It shifts into human and addresses Teddy that they couldn’t escape.

### Ch 81 - MAYA

Maya realizes Colton was right about having Teddy in the group being a liability since the cult members seem to continue coming after them at the worst time. Teddy talks to Romain, the cult leader, babbling about being misplaced. He says one minute they were together, then the next they abandoned him. They are about to grab Teddy when Maya steps in and tells them that he’s part of her pack now. Teddy continues to ramble that since they left him he joined a werewolf pack and Maya wonders how the group and get out of the 6 cult members advancing on them and another 5 in the woods; wishing Colton hadn’t run away. She challenges Romain and tells him if he messes with them, he also messes with the Redwood Pack. But, he calls her bluff and the cult members attack.

### Ch 82 - MAYA

Maya shifts and attacks Romain, who dodges, and kills another pack member instead. Rowena casts some spells to set up Porter to shift and kill another one. Maya notices that the cougars have the ability to withstand Rowena’s magic and realizes they are really outnumbered. Romain mind links with Maya, treating her like an Alpha, so she decides to take him. She holds her own until she thinks about Colton, and Roman gains the upper hand. She mind links with all the others to tell them to run away, who agree, except for Teddy who tells her he will sacrifice himself so they can get away. She refuses to allow him to do so and they begin running, but they are surrounded, and Romain is about to go for the kill on Maya. But, Teddy tells him she’s pregnant, and Romain knocks her out with a rock smash to the head.

### Ch 83 - TEDDY

Teddy watches as the cult members gather the rest of the group up while Romain takes Maya. He feels guilty that she tried to protect him and wants to protect her and the baby, blaming himself as the cause of their current situation. They are bound with ropes charmed by a spell that makes it tight and unbreakable. Maya is dropped on a stretcher enchanted to float off the ground. Fleur asks Teddy who the cult members are and he tells her they are villains that he escaped once. She asks where they are being taken, he tells her he doesn't, but he sees the mountain peak they are heading to. Romain talks to Traymon about offering Maya for the **canem daemonium** and how they’ve only been giving the hellhound small offerings, which explains their waning luck. He states that the werewolf fetus will guarantee them good graces with the hellhound for months. Teddy is guilty that he had told them Maya was pregnant because he thought they would give her mercy. They reach their destination, **The Feeding Place**, which Teddy remembers as a dangerous compound he once escaped. They are kept in a caved in mine shaft with the ‘door’ a line spelled to keep them in. Porter is upset and decides to step over the line, when boils sprout over his leg and begins popping open with acid.

### Ch 84 - MAYA

Maya dreams of Colton at their pack house in Oregon, mentioning the Cali-Xavier-Greyson throuple and how they don’t have to deal with that. She tells Colton it’s his fault for getting Cali with Xavier. They go for a walk in the woods and he asks her if she wanted to run away from the drama they deal with at the house. Soon they are kissing and soon are making love. And, she wakes up in the dark mine shaft. She sees Porter nursing his leg and asks where they are. He tells her that they got caught by the cult and are trapped, because if you try to leave, you will end up like him. She hears a ticking sound and notices the pendant she’s wearing is moving the hands of time backwards. Rowena tells her she cast a spell on it to buy her more time as she can’t nullify the magic. She asks her how long she was knocked out, and Rowena tells her 2 days.

### Ch 85 - COLTON

Colton and Xavier are on the porch of the pack house sharing a beer after the fight with Silas. He tells Xavier that he has to go back to Maya and deal with her pregnancy. Xavier berates him for leaving her. He gets a car from the garage and takes off and remembers how his brothers bonded over killing Silas. During his drive he realizes how much he loves Maya and how much he hopes she will take him back.

### Ch 86 - MAYA

Maya takes stock of her surroundings and gets information from the others during the 2 days she was knocked out. Rowena offers her some water, warning her that it took them 2 days to get it from inside the shaft. She gets mad at Teddy for telling them she is pregnant and he apologizes thinking that it was going to save her life, but tells her that now the cult wants the baby. Teddy reminds her that she promised not to abandon him and told him he was part of her pack because they were friends in hopes that she would forgive him. Teddy tells her that they are the the cult’s stronghold called The Feeding Place and they are protected by demons as they pay homage to a demonic entity. A cult member comes to give them a tray of rotten food which makes Maya nauseated. Porter tells them he’s been watching the rotation of people who come in for meals and hopefully they can ghost out with one. Maya asks why Rowena doesn’t use her magic but she tells her the place is cursed and what energy she did have went into turning back the time on the pendant. Porter hopes that they can contact Colton since they are mates; Rowena can cast a spell to magnify the bond so they can communicate long distance. She refuses to go to Colton for help and they tell her to swallow her pride for the sake of their lives and her baby’s. She agrees and finds herself in a car that Colton is driving and asks him why he abandoned them when they needed him.

### Ch 87 - COLTON

Colton is driving when he happens upon Maya’s hologram-like hallucination. She asks him if he can explain why he ran away and abandoned her or if he will keep running like a coward. He gets angry and tells her running away is better than her lying. She tells him by running away he escaped being captured by the necromancer cult who now wants to sacrifice their child. He had set up his excuse as him running away was so that he could defeat Silas, but she explains that after he left the cult caught up to them. He asks her what he’s supposed to do and she gets annoyed and wonders why they bothered contacting him in the first place. He asks how he’s supposed to handle everything she’s telling him and she tells him to forget about it as it’s not worth it. He asks her if she just contacted him to complain about it and she tells him that she was asking for his help but he complains that he’s driving and she’s just yelling at him. He realizes he’s driving blind and tries to pull off the side of the road, but has collided with something. Maya realizes what happened but she fades out.

### Ch 88 - MAYA

Maya thinks about how Colton wasn’t supportive of her going to find her sister Wren. And, Big Mac’s mom had given her a warning which she doesn’t know why. She is surprised that she let him make her feel hurt and disappointed. She asks Rowena why the connection died, but she says sometimes it happens. Rowena asks if Colton is coming to help and Maya tells her she was right from the beginning that they are on their own. She asks Teddy how he escaped last time. He tells her he slipped away when they were on a hunt to feed it. She asks what is it, and he says the dog, or a cerberus to be exact. He explains that it lives in the belly of the mountain and the cult uses the mine shafts to get to it’s lair. They have to feed it every moon (not specified which part of the lunar cycle) to maintain their immortality. Fleur asks if Teddy had sold his soul with the cult, and he says he escaped once he found out. A cult member then comes in on a minecart and Fleur starts yelling at him and tries to rush him, but as she goes over the line she erupts in boils that pop acid. Maya stands up to protect the group when the cult member tells her that Romain has sent for her and the baby.

### Ch 89 - COLTON

Colton’s car is totaled and the driver of the car he hit is passed out. He pulls him out of the car in case the vehicles explode and takes off into the woods in his wolf. He tries to go back to where he last left them so he can try to track them from there. He worries that the cult had come for her already and that’s why they were disconnected. He tries to mind link with her again but gets nothing. He tries to figure out how he can find out where the cult is and decides to call Big Mac. She tells him that the cult is guarded by a demonic hellhound in a ghost town and would need someone else to help him the rest of the way. He has someone in mind….

### Ch 90 - MAYA

Maya steps up to the cult leader while the rest of the group tells her not to go. She follows the cult member deeper into the mine shaft that smells terrible and is getting warmer. She looks into shafts the branch from the path they are on and sees horror and depravity. When they get to cooler air she tries to get closer to the cult member who is leading her and realizes he is protected by a force field. She’s about to turn and run away when the cult member speaks to warn her not to do it. He then points for her to go into an opening in the rock, stating Romain is waiting.

### Ch 91 - COLTON

Colton is panicking because Maya is in trouble and he has no plan on how to save her. He realizes he knows someone who never had plans: Gabriel Jackson. He calls him up and asks if he can help save his mate and baby from a cult who wants to sacrifice them. Gabriel tells him congrats and he has his back, but he’s in the middle of something, and asks if Adair can assist. Adair tells him to go to **Striped Stout**, a dive bar outside of Jackson. Colton remembers the place, and Adair tells him to ask for **Gemini** and tell them Adair sent you.

### Ch 92 - TEDDY

Teddy can’t sleep; he's so guilty. His biggest regret is falling in with the necromancer cult, and he remembers back to the Arrowhead Pack, who hunt humans for sport, and how he was supposed to kill a human as initiation into the pack. As he was going for the kill on a little boy, the father had shown up in a loving scene, and he realized he didn’t want to be a part of the pack where his family would never show him the same love. He goes to comfort Fleur, seeing himself in her, of wanting to feel safe and protected. He goes to Porter to come up with a plan for escape, but he gets upset saying Rowena and him have already done their part. He examines the walls and hopes that the way out is actually in.

### Ch 93 - MAYA

Maya walks into Romain’s office and notices that it’s very classy. She sees there are 2 cult members at the door and she decides that no matter what she will try to save her pack. She tells Romain that she wants to make a deal. She tells him she can have him without a fuss as long as he lets the others go. He tells her he might take the deal but the pack might be happy as followers; and proceeds to tell her about the cult’s lore. Romain orders for the food to be brought in while he explains that the cult is a family who doesn’t have to be a shifter or a witch in a coven. But, they all gain power and strength from Cerberus. When he feeds he rewards them with power and luck as a blessing because he doesn’t have to hunt for food himself. She eats a turkey leg and starts to believe everything Romain is saying

### Ch 94 - COLTON

Colton goes to the Striped Stout and asks the one-eyed barkeep about Gemini who points him to the back room. He finds a woman with bright red hair cut in a bob with golden eyes and asks if she’s Gemini. She tells him in exchange for a palm or tarot reading, which is 20 bucks, she can point him in the right direction. He pays for a palm reading of the right hand and she tells him that his heart line begins in a place that shows restlessness in his relationships, and that he doesn’t hold anyone close except his twin. He could grow close to someone else if he let himself and there’s been a big change in his life recently, related to family, with a hint of darkness. Then, she calls him by name and tells him that there’s a darkness inside him that he’s afraid of because he’s a werewolf. He gets upset and threatens her, but she just transforms her hair and tells him she’s Gemini.

### Ch 95 - TEDDY

Teddy is still inspecting their cell, determined to step up to be the next leader in place of Maya. He notices some rocks and begins climbing the wall when Porter asks him what he’s doing. He explains how he’s trying to find them a way out. Fleur thinks it’s hopeless but Porter is questioning if Teddy’s idea will work, but Teddy gives them a pep talk to hopefully get them to help move some rocks. They start moving the rocks but some were too hard to move, and after a while they are tired and sweaty with the thought that maybe the plan is not going to work. Suddenly, a rock falls down and they feel a breeze come through. Then, Teddy tries to remove a rock to make the hole bigger.

### Ch 96 - MAYA

Maya realizes the food had to have drugs in them as Romain tells her to bow to Cerberus to make all her dreams come true. After the turkey leg she eats a basket of golden fried shrimp, a rack of baby back ribs, a bowl of mashed potatoes...She tries to stop by closing her eyes but she sees a vision of Colton. She opens her eyes and has another vision of her grandfather. But, she realizes that Romain is now feeding her and whispering how it’s all so amazing. She is starting to become brainwashed and Romain tells her that they wanted Teddy as a sacrifice because he has extra magic. But, Romain tells her that her baby would be the ultimate sacrifice, and she snaps out of it and wonders how she can escape.

### Ch 97 - COLTON

Colton tells Gemini that Adair sent him, and her hair flashes different colors. He assures her that Adair is not looking for her and it’s actually him that needs her help. He tells her his situation and she tells him he’s withholding information so she won’t risk her life for a liar. She waves him off but he tells her that he left out that there was a large dog with three heads involved. She agrees to accompany him for a few thousand dollars; she rides while he’s in his wolf form and they make a pit stop at a motel on the way to the Feeding Place. She had informed Colton that they couldn’t just jail break everyone, they had to defeat the Cerberus, because the cult draws power from it and will always keep coming back. While he’s drifting off to sleep, he thinks of Maya, and suddenly feels that she’s with him. But, when she pulls back slightly, it looks like Gemini for a second, before he sees Maya’s face again...

### Ch 98 - TEDDY

Teddy finally gets the rock out so that all the other boulders tumble down. He worries about Maya and thinks that he feels protective of her. He feels drawn to her, and has been since they met, admiring her strength. But, he also states he likes to be protected by her. He sees Fleur start getting hysterical about falling rocks and dying like Shaw. Rowena tries to calm her down which makes it worse. He thought about how they met and hooked up while she calls him a loser and dumb, that he’s no Shaw because Shaw was a man. Suddenly they hear footsteps and Teddy knew that Fleur was going to give them away. Teddy apologizes while he raises a rock above her head, and waits to see if she will scream

### Ch 99 - COLTON

Colton knows something is not right even though he sees Maya he feels that its not her. She flirts with him sexually and he is more confused by how she is acting as she is more aggressive. He closes his eyes, and when he opens them, Gemini’s face is on Maya’s body. He gets turned off and stops her. He wakes up and runs to Gemini’s room. She tells him that she’s the love child of a succubus (her mother) and a human (her father). He agrees not to say anything as long as she stays out of his mind. Before they continue on their journey, he asks Gemini if she can send Maya a message.

### Ch 100 - MAYA

Maya pretends to be under the influence of Romain’s spell and asks to see Cerberus. He tells her she first has to meet the High Priestess to be blessed as she’s the hellhound whisperer. She feigns being amazed that there is such a person and wishes to see the High Priestess. He leads her to a shack where the High Priestess resides, sitting on a gold throne wearing all black and a veil over her face. Roman asks for a blessing on a sacrifice and him and Maya are permitted to kneel at the throne. They are allowed to look upon the High Priestess’ face and Maya sees that it’s Wren.

### Ch 101 - MAYA

Maya cannot believe that it’s Wren sitting as the High Priestess of the necromancer cult. Romain tells her that he has brought a wolf and her pup as an offering to Cerberus. When Wren looks at her, she gives no indication of recognition, and Maya gets worried. She recalls when they were younger and her grandfather had ordered Wren to attack Maya. She looks at Wren in her current state and wonders if she was ever good, wondering if she really left the pack meant she changed. Romain begins spouting appeals and Maya notices that Wren must be under a trance. Then, Wren tells Romain she’s not sure if the subject is right for the ritual and needs to talk to her one on one.

### Ch 102 - COLTON

Colton begs Gemini to send Maya a message. She agrees and asks what the message will be, but he begins to ramble about not being a baby holder, but a baby thrower, into their mother’s arms. Gemini makes fun of him and tells him to try again. She hums with her eyes closed and tells him message sent. Apparently, they are now heading to the Feeding Place via car. He asks her how a succubus works and decides to press further on how she knows the message was sent to Maya. He demands to know if she sent the full message to Maya.

### Ch 103 - TEDDY

Teddy is ready to strike Fleur if she screams or tries to give them away. Rowena and Porter tries to discourage her, but Teddy doesn’t want to chance it and tackles her, covering her mouth instead. They then overhear the cult members have an argument on who has to collect bones or wash blood off the all. They continue to try and make their escape, Teddy making a deal with Fleur that if she cooperates now she can hate him later. They go through the tunnel and happen upon a fork in the road and he realizes he remembers that the left will take them to freedom and the right will help them to find Maya. And, he wonders which way should he lead them?

### Ch 104 - MAYA

Wren tells Romain that she can’t properly assess whether Maya is a worthy sacrifice unless she speaks to her alone. Maya thinks that Wren recognizes her, but Romain starts to take her away. She pretends that she wants the High Priestess approval and wants to talk to her. He takes her into another room and orders cult members to restrain her. Wren reappears on another throne and they wait their turn while other cult members come in and ask for her blessing or pray at her feet. Soon she sends everyone away and it’s just them. Maya asks if she’s drugged, why she’s there, and does she know who she is. Wren tells her she is there because she is meant to be there and she does know who Maya is, her sister the runt. Wren tells her she knows herself as well, because she’s a survivalist. She further explains she started having visions of Cerberus making the world a better place of shifters. She asks Wren if she ever came looking for her after the Alpha kicked her out.

### Ch 105 - COLTON

Colton is still bugging Gemini about the message being sent to Maya. She tells him it is what it is and then orders him to pull over the car. He asks her how they are supposed to get into the mountain, but she thought he already had some kind of plan, as it was his part of the deal. He shifts and she rides on his back to the base of the mountain. There they scope out the sentinels guarding the area and Gemini notes that they must have recruited more people the last she saw them. Colton states they have less than a day to get Rowena back to Tefirna. He begins to think that Maya was willing to give up the child without consulting him and decides to kill all the guards. But, Gemini says she has a better idea.

*+NOTE: Tefirna gave the group 3 days to return Rowena. One day was spent getting her out of the Cobalt Pack. When they were ambushed by the necromancer cult, they were in the middle of the second day. Maya was also told she was knocked out by Romain for 2 days - well beyond the timeline, which is why Rowena uses her magic to turn back the time on Maya’s pendant. She then messages Colton while he is driving/ Colton left after day one was down to run back to his pack house and then they defeated Silas. On his way back, he gets that message from Maya and crashes his car. He then goes to Jackson to get Gemini’s aid and spends one night in the motel, by now it is already at least 3 days.*

### Ch 106 - TEDDY

Teddy had tried to get Porter and Rowena to go deeper into the mountain with him, but Porter threatened him, so he instructed them on the way out while he continued on his own to get Maya. He had asked Porter to take Fleur with them but he refused until Rowena insisted. He makes it to the inner sanctum and wonders if she’s in the high priest’s chamber and how he was going to pull off saving her. He wonders how far he was willing to go to save her, if he was willing to sacrifice himself.

### Ch 107 - COLTON

Gemini tells Colton they have to become cult members in order to get through. She points to two sentinels going on patrol and tells him they just need to relieve them of their robes so that they can look like them. Colton knocks them out and takes their robes, realizing that they are human and look like college kids. He puts the robe on and Gemini laughs at him as it’s tiny on him, but she touches his arm that sends a jolt through him. She shows him another entrance and they almost make it through when a cult member calls out to them to halt.

### Ch 108 - MAYA

Wren tells Maya that she didn’t go looking for her, that she did wonder what happened to her, but she figured she was dead. She heard that she was still alive because there were rumors about her. Instead of telling her about the rumors, she places her hand on the Maya’s belly and tells her its valuable. Maya gets upset and threatens her. Wren laughs and says their grandfather was wrong about her and wonders if he knew she would be like this and that’s why he sent her away. Wren asked what happened to Maya and she summarizes her time until now. She tells her it’s an interesting story, but it’s too bad she ended up as an offering with her highest ranking sentinels. She is going to bless her for the offering of this type and has a special place for her to stay.

### Ch 109 - COLTON

Colton holds back fighting and listens to the cult member who only wants to inform them about gathering for a meeting. He tells them its mandatory and they follow him. He loses Gemini in the crowd of sentinels. He tries to go to her but is stopped and ordered to take a drink, he declines, but is ordered to take one. Gemini catches up with him and they both take a cup and fall into formation. Romain comes out and greets them and tells them that the High Priestess has made a proclamation and that they have a guest who is pregnant.

### Ch 110 - TEDDY

Teddy wonders how deep he’s willing to go for Maya. He states his feelings for her weren’t just romantic, but he cares for her as a person. It’s then revealed that Teddy had known Wren was in the cult too, had stood next to him during his first sacrificial ceremony. He tries to mind link with Maya but is still unable to. He sees the room where the High Priestess is and tries to go back out, but a familiar voice calls out to him by name. Wren.

### Ch 111 - COLTON

Colton pretends to drink from the goblet while watching Romain, unable to contain his anger. Gemini senses that Colton is about to do something that can give them away, and stops him. He feels a warmth pass through him which calms him down, and he realizes that she was doing something to him. He agrees to keep a low profile when Gemini drinks the Kool-Aid. Colton dumps his drink into a plant which wilts instantly and attempts to mingle with the cult members to get more intel. They praise that Romain was able obtain a pregnant guest to appease it, and mention it was better than the original plan. Romain was going to sleep with all willing sentinels until a child was conceived, but they were glad they weren't the ones to be sacrificed. Colton almost gives himself away by squawking about the pregnant woman being sacrificed, but he manages to play it off a miscommunication. They clarify the baby and the woman will be fed to Cerberus.

### Ch 112 - MAYA

Romain leads Maya away while she thinks about her conversation with Wren. He takes her to the Holding Place, which is a large iron cage, and locks her inside. Maya continues to pretend she’s drugged and asks him to explain the ritual. He tells her it’s different every time and depends on what the High Priestess declares. The Holding Place is near the Cerberus pit so he can grow used to the sacrifice’s scent and accept it when the time comes. He tells her that he can’t reveal to her what will happen during the sacrifice and to ignore the screams she hears because those are the smaller sacrifices. And then he leaves. She tries to mind link with anyone in an attempt to get out of her prison, but is unable to. She then feels a flutter in her belly and gets determined to protect her baby.

### Ch 113 - TEDDY

Wren tells Teddy that he was destined to return to the necromancer cult. He’s about to ask what she meant when she attacks and binds him. She yells at him for returning after he had run off and left her behind because when they first met, they promised to look out for each other. She tells him that they were both outcast werewolves who were supposed to look out for each other, but they got stuck in the cult, and he abandoned her. She then admits that she sent the shifters to get him so she could punish him personally. Teddy tries to bargain with her about letting him go and he can take her to Maya. But, she informs him he’s too late, and he realizes that not only has the cult taken over Wren but Maya now knows that Teddy didn’t tell her the truth about her sister. Teddy asks how she became High Priestess and she explains how she used her talent in coming from an abusive pack to play the part to get in with the cult. Teddy then tells Wren to take him and let Maya go.

### Ch 114 - COLTON

Gemini asks Colton what their next move is, but he’s still freaking out over the information he received on the cult sacrificing his mate and baby to the demon dog. Gemini gets annoyed and tells him that the Cerberus is deeper in the caverns and if they were going to sacrifice her she would be closer to it. She tells him her specialty is escaping and offers to use her succubus powers to sense Cerberus's energy and head in that direction. They try to get away unnoticed, but a sentinel asks where they are going. Gemini wink-winks that they will be back in a few minutes. Colton gets offended and starts to wonder if Maya had complaints about pleasing her. Gemini asks Colton about Maya, but he refuses to say anything. She asks if he loves her and if she’s worth the risk, and he realizes he does and will always be worth it. Gemini tells him she feels a buzz inside her where the demon dog must be. They make a turn ending up in an area of bright light and hear voices.

### Ch 115 - TEDDY

Teddy remembers that Wren and him had been through the mountains trying to survive and keep moving. They never talked about their pasts but shared a connection in being vulnerable. They stumbled over the abandoned mining town with the other strays and stayed longer than expected, at least a month. The first thing he noticed was the tattoos, then the hushed conversations, then the ceremonies with hallucinogens. The first fear he had was of the old man dying a slow death when being eaten by Cerberus. The second was what he saw during the hallucinations, the scales he grew and his tongue being split in half, it was like he was becoming a reptile. Wren and him and planned to run away to Canada because he had a kind cousin who had been an ally to him and had left the Arrowood Pack. Wren asks him to repeat, and he begs for her to take him instead of Maya. But she laughs at him because she already has Maya and she doesn’t need to give her up for him because she’s going to kill him.

*+NOTE: Teddy previously stated that he met the Cult of Necromancers when he was sleeping in front of a church. Now he states that he and Wren stumbled upon the abandoned mining town with the other strays.*

### Ch 116 - COLTON

Colton notices that the people in the shadows are Porter, Rowena, and Fleur - who is unconscious in Porter's arms. They tell him that Teddy saved them and went to look for Maya while they are trying to find the way out. Colton gets mad because they are leaving and still haven't finished anything with Tefirna. They tell him to go find Teddy, save Maya, and they will regroup after they make it out of the cult compound. He insists they stay and help him because Maya is pregnant, but they tell him that they are aware and need to get Fleur out as she's a liability. Colton asks if they can at least stop by Tefirna's when Gemini informs them she feels the Cerberus energy getting stronger. He follows Gemini into the tunnels until a gust of wind blows Maya's scent.

### Ch 117 - MAYA

Maya hears the screams getting louder and the ground shaking every 15 minutes, but she can't find a way out of the cage. She notes there couldn't be more than 5 hours left on the pendant clock and running back to Shoshone falls at full speed would take 3 hours. Suddenly, she gets a whiff of Colton's scent and dares not to believe that he would be there. She sees a small lock and shifts her finger so that a claw can jimmy it open. She sneaks out of the cage and up to the doorway and clotheslined the guards outside. One guard has a whip for a weapon, but Maya takes it from him easily and uses it to tie him up. The other is a female that shifts into a cougar and Maya punches her in the nose, knocking her out. A third guard comes out of hiding and Maya shifts, taking him out. She runs off trying to find where the others are when she runs into someone else - Colton.

### Ch 118 - TEDDY

Teddy continues to beg Wren to spare him, but she's not the same person he knew anymore. She shows the full torso skeleton tattoo that is identical to the one Colton received when he killed cult members. Suddenly, Romain runs in to inform Wren that the captives have escaped. He tells her they had gathered for the Circling Ceremony and they had found a way to escape. He sees Teddy and tries to attack him, but Wren blocks him and tells him to check on Maya to ensure she's still caged. She takes Teddy through the tunnels and takes him to the feeding pit and kicks him over the edge.

### Ch 119 - COLTON

Colton and Maya meet; he kisses her and notes that she is now sporting a baby bump. She breaks the kiss to smack him in the jaw and asks where he has been. He explains that Silas and Nolan are dead; remembering that she was Nolan's Luna. She asks if it was worth it to leave her, which he responds that it was, and she slaps him again. Maya then notices Gemini with him and demands to know who she is. Colton introduces her and tells Gemini to stay away from Maya after the succubus checks her out. Maya asks Colton if he's seen the others and he tells her of Rowena, Porter, and Fleur heading out; regarding Teddy he insists they forget about him. Colton tells her they need to leave but Maya informs him that her sister Wren is actually the High Priestess. While they argue about staying, they feel the ground shaking, and she tells them that Cerberus is starting to take sacrifices again. Colton continues arguing that they need to save themselves.

### Ch 120 - MAYA

Maya tells Colton that she doesn't need to be saved by him, that she was doing fine until he came along. They continue to argue about leaving when she tells him that she wants to save Wren too as she thinks that the cult has brainwashed her. He reminds her that they still need to get Rowena to Tefirna first and they can come back and get Wren after. She finally agrees to the plan when Gemini suddenly tells them that she needs to go; they separate. When Colton and Maya reach the part of the cavern where there is light, they start rushing towards the exit. But, Wren and her sentinels block them. Colton finds out Maya's sister while Wren finds out Colton is the father of Maya's pup. Wren tells them she can't allow them to leave and the sentinels are about to attack them when there is an explosion at the entrance followed by smoke filling the tunnel and loud sirens sounding.

### Ch 121 - COLTON

Colton notices the sentinels jump back to protect Wren and Maya protecting her stomach before the tunnels fill with smoke and covers them in darkness. He tries to reach out to Maya but feels nothing, so he drops to the ground on his hands and knees. He can't see with all the dust, can't hear with all the noise, and starts to panic. He hears Maya calling out for him in addition to Wren ordering the sentinels to not allow her escape. He reaches out and grabs someone thinking it's Maya but before he can kiss her in happiness, he realizes it was a cult member, and knocks them out. He tries to get her scent but gets nothing.

### Ch 122 - TEDDY

Teddy falls into Cerberus' pit with Wren waving down at him. He finally reaches the bottom and tries to be as quiet as possible to not attract attention. He feels the walls has little footholds he could use to try and climb out of the pit. He gets 10 feet up before he sees the next hand hold a few feet away, and reaching it would require a small leap. So he jumps.

### Ch 123 - MAYA

Maya is also unable to see anything in the chaos, but hears Wren screaming. So, she moves in the opposite direction of her. She starts getting affected by all the dust and smoke and begins to throw up until someone knocks into her, realizing it's Colton. He leads her outside and they look for a hiding spot so they can catch their breath. They get to a boulder and start arguing until Colton realizes that she was throwing up right before they found each other. He's worried something happened to the baby and starts rambling until she shuts him up by covering his mouth - stating he's starting to sound like Cali. She realizes she's no longer mad that he abandoned them, is grateful that he came back to help rescue her, and that she loved him. Instead of telling him, she says that she never asked him to be concerned about her or the baby. Even though he looked hurt, he tells her to shut up and kisses her.

### Ch 124 - COLTON

Colton kisses Maya and tries not to think about how he might love her before their issues are resolved. He puts his hand on her belly and Maya pulls away from him. Colton decides that they should go find Rowena and Porter before Tefirna takes their first born child, which Maya states he's saying it like they will have more. He jokes that they will have a whole basketball team of kids at the pack house. Instead of responding, she tells him they have to get Wren and Teddy first because if they tried to leave now, after the explosion, they could get recaptured while Wren has been brainwashed. He asks her when did she start caring about anyone other than herself, which upsets her, and he tries to reason that she shouldn't care about them. She insists that Wren is her family, but Colton yells that he is her family, and if they don't leave they can't save their family. She gets sarcastic that suddenly he's concerned about them being a family when he had run off earlier. He starts to argue again when she suddenly doubles over and clutches her stomach.

### Ch 125 - TEDDY

Teddy tries to jump for the next foot hold but ends up falling back down painfully. After slamming to the ground, he's afraid that he's been noticed by Cerberus, then hears an explosion. But, Cerberus is there: 3 heads with yellow razor fangs, bushy black fur, a short thick tail, pointy ears, and glowing red eyes. Teddy tries to placate the demon dog like it was a regular dog but ends up shifting into wolf form to defend the oncoming attacks. He's able to dodge some attacks and notices that the middle head is the 'brains of the operation' or the 'Alpha' and thinks if he can neutralize it, they others will fall as well. But, before he can do damage, Cerberus bites his left shoulder.

### Ch 126 - GEMINI

Gemini hears another explosion and hides in the shadows from cult members running towards the exit while she continues to find Cerberus. She gets to a cavern full of dead animals and reaches an area that is closed off with bars. She uses her powers to transform into vapor, floats through the gate, and materializes on the other side. She gets to Cerberus' doghouse and hears Teddy and the demon dog fighting. She admires Teddy holding his own until Cerberus bites him and he shifts back to human form. She believes it's a shame that Teddy loses and watches as the demon dog gets closer to eat him. But, suddenly, a serpent's tail tipped with red and burning with flames comes out from Teddy and gouges out the eyes of the middle head.

### Ch 127 - MAYA

Maya realizes that she's not in pain but only feels strange. Colton begins to panic that there is something wrong with the baby when she feels a calming warmth and an out-of-body experience that makes her feel stronger as well as a protective urge to shield the baby from harm. When the sensation subsides, she notices Colton staring at her, and tells him that it's clear they have to leave now. Colton appears to be in a trance and she slaps him. He tells her that she was glowing and then he felt a warmth that made him feel like he was in a different world. Maya thinks it's strange that he felt the same thing she did, but believes it must be her pregnancy hormones and that they were connected or in tune with each other. They argue if they should shift to escape the area full of guards and Colton suggests they run toward the explosion in the direction of Porter and Rowena.

### Ch 128 - TEDDY

Teddy notices the serpent tail poke out Cerberus' eyes and is afraid of the same thing happening to him. He looks for a dragon or snake close by but sees nothing but darkness. He watches as Cerberus' left and right heads fight now that the middle Alpha head is no longer in commission and decides to escape. He drags himself away from the demon dog and jokes that the serpent-thing could come back and use it's tail to cauterize his bite wound. Gemini tells him to be quiet but he continues talking thinking it's the 'Snakey'. She tells him that Cerberus better live or she will become his worst nightmare - literally. She leads him to the barred gate and vaporizes to reappear on the other side. He starts to think he's hallucinating but she tells him to hurry up and use his other power before Cerberus can come after him. Teddy continues to ask her to help him when she asks if he's afraid of being who he really is.

### Ch 129 - MAYA

Maya decides to follow Colton and gets undressed so they can shift. She feels that their mate bond is stronger and that there is a new link tethering them together. They shift, run towards the explosions, and mind link that they are looking for Rowena and Porter so they can return to Tefirna. They get close to the exit and shift back to human form to watch the cult members putting out the fire at the mill and Wren on top of a hill shouting orders. Colton has to remind her not to go to Wren and Maya realizes that Rowena and Porter are her friends and may have set the explosions for her.

### Ch 130 - COLTON

Rowena and Porter show up and Colton tells them he doesn't apologize for thinking the worse of them since they left him alone in the caves. Rowena confirms that they did set of the explosions but they did it for Teddy and Maya. Colton is jealous that they care about Teddy, and of hearing it next to Maya's name, but thinks it's because Maya's pregnancy has an effect on him to make him feel so possessive. Rowena is happy to see Maya and tells her after she left with Romain, Teddy helped them escape, and he stayed behind to look for her. So, after they ran into Colton, they found dynamite and set them off to cause a diversion for all of them to escape. Maya asks what happened to Fleur and they tell her she kept trying to blow their cover, but when the explosions started, they lost her in the chaos. They ask about Teddy but Colton tells them that they have other business to take care of first and turns to Maya for confirmation.

### Ch 131 - GEMINI

Gemini thinks that Teddy is trying to be humble about showing off his powers or that he's too worried to use it. She wants Teddy to hurry up and get out of her way so that she can deal with Cerberus on her own. She tells him to use his snake tail to break the bars or slither between the bars and to stop keeping her from dealing the demon dog. She realizes that he doesn't know what he really is and tells him that beings like him tend to dwell in caves. He tells her he was born a werewolf of the pureblood Arrowood pack but he left it. She tells him he left because the Arrowood pack are elitists who believe they are the supreme race of supernaturals and that they abused him for being different. She informs him he is a rare breed with powerful gifts - probably the first of his kind: part werewolf and part jinn.

### Ch 132 - MAYA

Maya is torn about abandoning Teddy when he went back for her but it was his lies that got them into the mess they were currently in. He not only didn't tell her about Wren, he didn't say anything before Colton killed the necromancer. She makes the decision to leave Teddy and Wren behind and they wolves shift; Rowena riding on Porter's back. While they run, she feels guilty for leaving everyone behind, even Fleur. She thinks about how out of control her life has become since she got with Colton and proceeds to fantasize about them together.

### Ch 133 - TEDDY

Teddy corrects Gemini that he's a wolf and not a snake. She insists that she saw him fight with Cerberus and realized it when he summoned his tail. He tells her he didn't do it and asks how she knows his name. She tells him she just knows things and introduces herself. He doesn't think she's with the cult members and she tables her origin story because Cerberus is getting closer. He then asks her what a jinn is but Cerberus appears. He dodges it's attacks while Gemini tells him to unleash his power and harness the dog's energy to command it. He shakes his butt and tries to coax a snake tail out, which Gemini makes fun of him for. She call him over to the gate and clear his mind as she's going to use visualization. He focuses on the word 'Escape' and feels a tingling sensation down to his tail. Suddenly, he hears a click and the gate opens, and Gemini tells him to get out of the way before Cerberus jumps at them.

### Ch 134 - MAYA

Maya continues with the fantasy of having sex with Colton, but also thinks about the "L word". She tries to not think about saying it as she also doesn't want to accidentally mind link the thought to him. She is lost in the fantasy when Colton suddenly interrupts the dream to tell her via mind link that what she was thinking was hot. She starts to panic that he might have heard her thinking about the "L word" but he informs that he wished he mind linked her sooner because he only got the last part of her fantasy. They wonder if their pup will be a mini version of one of them and she starts to daydream about being a parent. Colton then challenges her to a race of 3 miles. She agrees and is winning when she feels a jolt in her stomach that makes her shift back to human form. The warm feeling in her belly becomes painful and she notices blood between her legs.

### Ch 135 - GEMINI

Gemini grabs Teddy out of the way and slams the gate shut in time for Cerberus to knock his heads into it. The gate rebounds open and Gemini runs to close it before Cerberus jumps at them again. She watches Teddy screaming and running in circles trying to look for his tail and offers her coat as he's naked. She then offers to tend to his shoulder wound and removes her shirt. He starts thinking lewd but she rips the shirt into bandages and beings applying it. When she's done Teddy is watching her and tells her she's nice when she isn't talking. He starts rambling about getting out of there and finding something to eat when she turns into vapor then floats into his mind to make him unconscious.

### Ch 136 - COLTON

Colton stares at the blood coming from Maya and is worried about the baby until she shatters his fingers and he snaps out of it. She groans in pain, begins to sweat, and her eyes roll back until Colton experiences the same thing she is, thinking it's the mate bond. Once he lets go of her so she can lie down on the ground, he no longer shares the sensation of pain with Maya. She goes unconscious and Colton keeps trying to wake her up until Rowena tells him that she won't awaken until her episode plays out. Colton starts yelling at Rowena that she's a witch and probably did something to her. She tells him that it's Tefirna's doing. Colton asks why Tefirna's trying to the kill their baby when she originally made a bargain to obtain it from them. Rowena checks Maya out and tells him that the baby is not dead and that Tefirna is sending them a warning. Colton is confused and points out that the pendants are warning enough but Rowena tells him that they should never have dealt with Tefirna in the first place. Colton tries to explain but Rowena tells him he still doesn't understand; that Tefirna doesn't play fair, and even if she gets what she wants from the deal, you'll never be truly free of her.

### Ch 137 - TEDDY

Teddy is in the Oregon woods and spots Maya darting through trees. He tries to chase and catch her when she pounces on him and accuses him of lying to her. He insists he thought she [Wren] was in Canada, but she doesn’t listen to his excuses. She tells him he’s going to pay when he awakens from his vision and realizes he’s still in the cult cave. He sees Gemini going towards the demon dog on the other side of the bars and thinks she’s dancing. She tells Teddy to be quiet so she can try to lull Cerberus to sleep and infiltrate it’s dreams and take its powers. She tells him she was able to do it to him but he woke up. She goes on to explain that she is going to unleash the beast’s power instead of having the cult hoard it. He passes out and dreams about being in a void. Suddenly, a golden goblet full of golden liquid materializes and he drinks it. He sees a shadowy figure coming towards him when he realizes he’s no longer dreaming and the figure is Wren.

### Ch 138 - TEDDY

Wren greets Teddy and his friend; Teddy sees Gemini now looking tired and Cerberus ready to attack. Wren starts to taunt that Cerberus will now get his snack and she will happily watch them be devoured since the other prisoners escaped. Teddy is relieved to hear Maya made it out. He watches Wren take a skeleton key on a chain around her neck and open the gate. He wonders if he should shift and run away and watches as Gemini dodges Cerberus’ attack. He realizes he can’t leave her as she was the one who helped him awaken his jinn powers. He shifts into his wolf and attacks Cerberus’ hind leg to take out it’s Achilles tendon. Gemini asks him if he has a plan, but he is unable to answer in his wolf form. Cerberus hears Gemini and goes after her. Teddy takes the opportunity to attack it’s left head. But, it expected this, and bites Teddy’s left shoulder again. Wren laughs and Cerberus goes back to Gemini, but Teddy manages to jump and bite down on Cerberus’ spine. When it tires out, Teddy notices Gemini turn to vapor and go into Cerberus’ ear. When Cerberus’ heart stops beating, Gemini returns and asks him who killed it. But, Wren comes charging at Gemini and bashes her head; Gemini falls to the ground. Wren starts screaming and scratching at her face until she starts convulsing. Blood starts coming out of her mouth and she comes after Teddy with a knife.

### Ch 139 - COLTON

Colton shakes Rowena, demanding she explain herself. She tells him that Tefirna will do anything to stop him from completing his end of the deal and is using the baby as a distraction. She states that the baby is a great prize for her and she won't take chances of losing her bargaining chip. Colton tries to think about what she's saying and wonders why Big Mac led them to Tefirna. He asks Rowena what they should do, but she tells him they can't do anything. Rowena checks on Maya and uses her magic to clean her up. She tells Colton to get Maya dressed and he gets suspicious that Rowena is being a typical witch, speaking in riddles and code and being negative. After he dresses Maya and picks her up, he asks Rowena what they need to do now, and she tells him that he needs to kill her mother. They make it to Shoshone Falls and checks the pendant that they still had some time left. Maya wakes up and asks what happened; Colton explains that she was bleeding and in pain because Tefirna wants their baby. They jump into the water and realize that Tefirna is still preventing them from reaching her in time. Colton manages to make it into the cave with Maya and they run towards the witch's chambers until their pendants burn and disappear.

### Ch 140 - MAYA

Tefirna suddenly appears to Colton and Maya and they wonder if they made it in time. Porter and Rowena are suddenly brought into the chamber from the water as well and joins them. Colton demands acknowledgement from Tefirna that they had upheld their end of the bargain by bringing Rowena to her. She tells them that they indeed brought Rowena back but did not hold up their end of the deal as they arrived just a bit too late. Colton argues that they made it in time and she is trying to twist the outcome as Tefirna insists that they may have made it on time but Rowena was not presented to her until a full minute after their time had run out. Maya is overcome with emotion realizing that her unborn baby was about to be taken by an evil witch. Rowena comes to their defense that Tefirna is not being fair, but she states that a deal is a deal. Colton and Maya mind link each and discuss attempting to rip out Tefirna's throat when Rowena suddenly magically attacks her mother. The mother and daughter pair begin battling each other with magic and Colton tells Maya that they should run away while Tefirna's distracted. Maya doesn't want to leave Rowena and Porter behind but ultimately decides to protect the baby. They run into the passageways and look for the exit until Tefirna's guards block them. They double back to the fight and realize the guards overpowering Porter and Tefirna winning the battle with Rowena; she blocks all the doorways with water. Colton tells Maya that he is going to join the fight but Maya needs to hide and not get involved. She watches as Rowena and Porter are blasted by an orb of energy that knocks them unconscious and at least five guards in chainmail and possibly silver daggers attack Colton. She screams and Tefirna comes towards her stating they have unfinished business. Maya is paralyzed until she feels the warm sensation again. She starts to glow and feels a power that blasts out of her with a bright light. When she looks up she finds Tefirna dead.

## Cultural References

-Pringles - (ch 1) Teddy offers the group snacks during their car ride

-Hogwarts/ Hufflepuff/ Gryffindor /Ravenclaw/ Sorting Hat/ Muggle - (ch 3) Big Mac teases Teddy that one becomes a witch by going to this school in the UK; Teddy acts as the Sorting Hat and says he is team Gryffindor, Mrs. Smith is team Ravenclaw, Big Mac is team Hufflepuff, Maya is team Slytherin, and Colton is a muggle.

-Sperry's - (ch 3) Teddy states he's wearing these shoes; Colton states these send a message that he never gets laid

-AAA - (ch 3) Teddy states he has AAA membership for this car insurance

-Slim Jim - (ch 5) Teddy's snacks

-NASCAR - (ch 7) Colton states the car following them was doing some maneuvering like these cars

-Anthropologie - (ch 14) Maya compares Big Mac’s tent to this store

-Netflix - (ch 14) Maya states a campfire is the caveman’s Netflix

-Twilight - (ch 14) Maya states Cali would want to paint each other’s nails and talk about love triangles like this movie

-Taylor Swift - (ch 15) Maya wonders if she’ll willingly listen to this singer because of how much she’s been mirroring Cali’s situations

-Human Torch - (ch 15) superhero character Maya states Colton once believed he was

-John Wick - (ch 18) Teddy states he can’t compare to this retired hitman

-WASP - (ch 19) Teddy states he is this White Affluent Schooled Person (I didn’t even know what this meant until I looked it up)

-Sabrina - (ch 24) Maya states she’s been watching too much Sabrina; referencing Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

-Hot Topic - (ch 26) Maya tells Colton that his tattoos make him look like he should work here

-Mary Poppins - (ch 26) Big Mac tells Maya she doesn’t carry around her bag.

-The Exorcist - (ch 30) Colton spins the heads of the biker guys in Red Dog

-Etch a Sketch - (ch 32) Maya describes Teddy shaking his head

-Yelp - (ch 41) Maya states she is going to trash the doctor that told her she was interfile here

-Alien - (ch 44) Maya thinks that being pregnant reminds her of the chestbursters that pop out of the space scientists

-Jim Jones - (ch 45) Colton calls Teddy this cult leader

-Clueless/ Paul Rudd - (ch 46) Maya tells Tefirna that she can’t give her this actor as the thing she loves most in the world

-J. Crew - (ch 48) Maya states that the future Colton looks like he came out of this catalogue

-Axe body spray - (ch 48) Maya states Colton has this in the back of his medicine cabinet

-Wikipedia - (ch 48) Maya states there is no page on the Enrial Depths she could have read

-Clearasil - (ch 51) Colton asks if he needs to bring this for a high school wolf pack

-Proactiv - (ch 51)

-TikTok dance - (ch 51)

-Jaws - (ch 51) Colton’s fear

-Norah Ephron - (ch 52) Maya thinks her future family is out of this kind of movie (romantic comedy)

-Lassie - (ch 54) Colton calls Teddy this dog

-PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) - (ch 55) Maya states she’s never seen anyone in Oregon with artillery

-Kool-Aid - (ch 60) Teddy tell them not to drink this

-Pokémon - (ch 71) Shaw laughs at Teddy when he brandishes the witch ball

-Wheaties - (ch 74) Colton thinks Shaw must be eating this

-WikiHow - (ch 87) Colton asks Maya if he should look up how to deal with their situation

-TikTok - (ch 91) Colton calls up Gabriel who jokes he didn’t call to ask what his favorites are at the moment.

-Vine - (ch 91) Gabriel says he misses this

-Instagram/ Reels - (ch 91) Gabriel is explaining the new features

-Tetris - (ch 95) Teddy makes a game out of climbing the walls

-PornHub - (ch 99) Colton tells Gemini her parental units story would make it on this

-Terminator - (ch 102) Colton thinks his message to Maya sounds like him

-Brawn - (ch 105) Colton states he’s more of the the brawn paper towel man - buff, manly, and well muscled

-James Bond/ Q - (ch 105) Colton states he’s not like this character - crafting dashing approaches and off the wall escapes

-Lunchable - (ch 114) Colton tells Gemini that the cult wants to offer up his child like it was this

-"I Wear My Sunglasses at Night" - (ch 128) Teddy tells Gemini this; a song by Corey Hart

-motorboating - (ch 132) Colton feigns innocence to Maya's chest

-The Secret - (ch 133) Teddy states that Gemini will start reading this when she tells him she's going to use visualization

-Snickers - (ch 135) Teddy is craving this candybar