The God of War - Editing

Max POV

At the back porch of the pack house, I shifted back and got a pair of sweatpants stashed there. I inhaled the scent of the blanket and looked at the dark sky before getting in. I thought about how much I missed her. Where are you, little wolf? I whispered to myself.

With her sweet scent around me, I could not think of anything else than finding her. With the blanket in my hand, I walked to the war room, and Terry was the first to smile. “The Witches I brought are helping Sarah break the spellbound of the ones Connor found. Soon they will all be working with Sarah to find Julie, Max.”

“Good! Ares and I cannot stand all this waiting and knocking on doors that are getting us nowhere.” I was anxious for it to work anything we tried before was a dead end. “Ares cannot feel her for days, Terry. That is driving us mad.”

Terry had a tired face. He also had not slept in days. “She might be in a pack cell, Max and the Silver must be blocking her connection with Ares. She is alive and well. You would have felt something if the worse had happened.” I could not even think about the worse. I cannot live without my mate.

My father and General Carson noticed my presence in the room and walked towards me, and then it hit me hard. I fell to my knees, gasping for air. My neck was burning, my claws extended, and Ares started to scratch my neck to make it stop.

My father, Terry and the General tried to hold my hand to stop the scratch. “What is it, son?” I could hear my father’s faint words floating inside my brain. I shook my head, indicating I did not know what was happening, but I was sure it was coming from my mate.

It stopped. My breath was ragged, and I reached for Ares. My eyes were flashing, going from green to gold, I held tight to the blanket with her scent, and I saw it. I saw with Ares’ eyes the Witch torturing her. I saw Michael holding her and Tania watching the scene, pleased with my mates’ suffering.

The image was brief, and the pain returned. If I was feeling it strongly, I could not even imagine what my mate was feeling. I heard my father screaming for help. My mother came and put her hands on me, trying to calm my soul with her Luna-kind aura.

Ares’ roar from her suffering made everyone in the room get down on their knees. He shifted, ripping the sweatpants and dashed outside. Ares ran for hours to calm down, his mind was stormy, and he was trying to make the visions appear again in detail. I revisited the image several times, and nothing inside that room gave away her location.

Ares stopped on the top of the mountain, and looking at the new moon already turning crescent, he unleashed a painful howl. We heard other sad cries coming from the pack. They were feeling their Alpha’s sadness.

I was hopeful that now Ares would be able to talk to Aphrodite. He lay down and covered his eyes with his paws. “Can you reach her now, Ares?”

“I can feel only her pain of being alone. It was all our fault. I told you we should have left this land, Max. You did not listen to me and agreed with her to go fighting and leave her alone.” His voice was stormy as his mind. “You didn’t even want her. I had to fight with you for you to accept her.”

I narrowed my eyes. “That is not fair to bring this up now, Ares. I love our mate as much as you do. I am suffering too.” I knew he was upset, but bringing up the past would not solve anything. I had accepted her and would never wish anything to happen to her.

Ares stayed quiet, looking at the sky. “I cannot fail her again, Max. I have done this for many lives. I do not want to find her again in another generation. I want her now here forever with our pups.”

“You knew her before, don’t you? That conversation in the war room before we left to defend the pack was what you meant. But how is it possible?” With everything happening, this was the first time I brought up their conversation from before.

“Yes. I am trying to remember how it was possible, but I need help remembering. Aphrodite showed me our lives together as Gods before. Max, our souls are bound together for eternity, and I am not ready to lose her again.”

“We won’t lose her, buddy. Let us try to calm our minds and sleep, Ares. Maybe more images will be shown to us now that at least you feel something.”

That was the best decision we made. We emptied our minds and dreamed about her and our stunning black pups playing in the fresh snow. Peace engulfed my mind, and a smile adorned my face. And before I felt my father’s snoot nudging our fur, we saw Jordan petting our little wolf and her awful feeling towards him.

Ares jumped in position, and my father’s wolf stepped back to give him room. Ares stuffed his chest and had determination in his bones. Now Ares knew precisely where to go and who would be his next kill.

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Julie POV

“I am sorry, Jules, I got distracted by Tania’s screams, and that monster got us.” I could feel how sorry she was for what had happened. I knew it was not her fault.

“That is all right, A. Ares and Max will be here soon, right? We will be getting home away from those monsters.” I was holding tight to the possibility of seeing our mate again.

Aphrodite lowered her head. “No, sweetie. We are on our own here. We have to fend for ourselves, Jules. Those Silver binds don’t let me contact Ares.” I was hyperventilating. Our mate had no idea where we were, he could not feel us, and soon uncle Michael would come back with that Silver crop or, worse, the Witch.

“Jules, come down. I need you to help me get out of here.” I closed my eyes to calm down and expected her to pour love inside me. I could use some now to feel better. But nothing came from her. “What is the Witch doing to us? My neck still hurts.”

“She is trying to break the mate bond. The mark will disappear with her spell, and we will no longer belong to our mate.” Aphrodite sighed. “She will not be able to erase our mark. It is unique. Ares and I are bonded in a different way than other mates. We were the first-ever mates created by Selene. We lived in different times together, Jules, and we are destinated to do great things for Selene.”

“What are you saying, A? Have you been pared with Ares before?” She smiled inside my mind, only thinking about Ares. “Yes, Jules, we are lovers for eternity, and we had powerful children when we walked among Gods.”

I could feel how proud Aphrodite was of her previous life. “The Witch is doing dark magic, Jules. That goes against anything Selene believes. She won’t break the bond, but she will kill me, and Ares will die too. We only appear in the same generation. If I don’t exist, neither will Ares.”

I hate what is happening now. I thought I had escaped from all of this. “I don’t want you to die. Max and I would not be able to live without a wolf. What is happening is not fair. I have done nothing to those people neither did Max.”

“Jules. my powers are bound by those chains. Soon the little pups inside you that I was hiding will be noticed. It will not take long for that monster to notice the change of scent and that there are three hearts inside this room, not only one.”

Happy tears fall down my face. “Am I carrying pups now, A?” Aphrodite laughed at my tears. “Yes, Jules. Two handsome twin pups that will look as handsome as our mate.”

“Listen to me, Jules. The binds prevent me from using my powers, but the pups are mighty and strong inside you. You can concentrate and use their powers to get us out of here. We can’t wait for Ares. I do not think he can feel us with all this Silver.”

I was confused about her words. The pups would be Alphas, but an Alpha also had to wait to receive their wolf. “They don’t have their wolves yet, A. How do they have powers?”

“They will be born with their wolves Jules. That is the reason they were giving to us. Both are protected inside you, and the Silver may not affect them as it does to me. I will help you. I cannot pour love inside you. You will have to be strong, or we will not leave here. You will feel fear and panic when I call for them, but you will hold tight for both of us, ok?”

Fear and panic were nothing new to me. I had felt it inside me for years before Aphrodite showed up. “Yes, A! I want to go home and have those monsters locked for life.”

Aphrodite laughed. “There is no locking them, sweetie. The little ones inside you will kill them all. They are worse than their father.”

Max and Ares saw Jordan. Now they know he is involved, and they know where to find him. Can Julie use the twin’s powers while they wait for Ares? Leave your comments below.