Blessing of Luna (Wolfgods Book 1) by Blaise Ramsay (best books for 20 year olds TXT) 📕

 If I fall here, I would have let them all down. They’re counting on me. Jill, Kain, they’re counting on me. Gabriel, my dad, Rob. Damien opened his eyes just in time to side-step Nathaniel’s punch. His body completely relaxed as he effortlessly dodged the lycan’s blows.

“What the hell?!” He tried lunging again with the same result. He began panting. His teeth clenched in anger. “There’s no way you can be this good this fast! Kain’s a nobody!” Again and again he swung and kicked only to miss.

Eventually Damien grabbed Nathaniel’s fist, gripping it tightly in his hand. “He’s not a nobody, Nathaniel. If he was, you wouldn’t be trying so hard to dishonor him. Your problem is you’re hiding all of your uncertainty and low self-esteem behind a false sense of power and confidence.”

Damien borrowed Kain’s legendary round-house kick, his heel finding its mark against Nathaniel’s jaw. The force sent the alpha skidding on his heels across the ring. He lunged at Nathaniel, taking him into a submission hold to the ground.

“When this is over, you will apologize to Kain for disgracing his name and to Jill for demeaning her like you did. Got it?”

“Fuck you!” Nathaniel gasped as Damien tightened his hold. He struggled to free himself, each attempt proved useless. “Fine! I forfeit!”

Damien let Nathaniel go, rising to his feet. The defeated alpha huffed and puffed on the ground on his knees.

“Well done. Very well done.” Kain patted Damien’s shoulder. “I have nothing more I can teach you. You are now an alpha in your own right. Congratulations.”

Me? An alpha? Damien’s eyes widened in surprise. “Kain, I don’t want the title. I’m not ready. Actually,” Damien’s words were cut off as Kain walked over to Nathaniel, towering above him.

“The rules stand, Nathaniel. You are hereby stripped of your alpha title and sentenced to be banished with your beta to the mountains.”

Nathaniel clenched his teeth, growling through them and glaring at Lune who stood up against a tree shaking his head.

“Wait!” Damien’s voice rang out, silencing the crowd.

Kain turned to watch as Damien made his way over to the kneeling lycan.

He reached out his hand. “No. It’s not right. I don’t want the title.”

“What?”

“I don’t want the title. What I do want is your help. We already have too many enemies as it is. We don’t need to fight amongst ourselves,” Nathaniel looked at Damien’s hand. “Will you help us?”

Damien saw Nathaniel’s eyes soften as he took his hand. “Yeah.”

Kain nodded. His grin as wide as Damien had ever seen it. “A wise choice. For a newborn.” Kain chuckled, earning a playful shove from Damien.

“This from a ‘hazbin’?” Damien smirked thinking he got the better of the older alpha until he once again found himself flat on his back. Okay…still…so wrong…

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The fight left Damien’s muscles sore on so many levels. When Jill offered to give him a back rub in the hot springs he never knew existed just a short hike up the mountains he was quick to agree.

“Ow.” Damien cringed as Jill messaged his shoulders, trying to get the knots out of them.

“You are such a big baby sometimes. That was amazing by the way. You fought so beautifully and gave Nathaniel mercy when he clearly didn’t deserve it.” Jill rested her cheek against Damien’s shoulder. “You really are so amazing, babe. You continue to astound and baffle me. You have such a pure heart and soul.”

“I’m not special, Jill. Everyone expects so much out of me. I don’t have a clue what I’m doing or what I’m supposed to do.”

Jill’s hand running down his chest to his stomach combined with her warm tongue licking his neck froze the words in Damien’s throat.

“You aren’t alone. You have the respect of every alpha in the packs present. Our people love you. Our pups adore you. Why is it so wrong for them to see you as a symbol of hope?”

Damien hadn’t thought about it the way Jill described. The Purifiers were supposed to be symbols of hope according to what she told him.

Jill’s hot breath in his ear sent trembling chills down his spine. “My love, I’m with pup.”

Water flew in Jill’s face as Damien shot up out of it. His eyes wide, his chest heaving with anxiety.

Jill shook her head trying to get the water out of her face. “I was late so I had Kyle take a test. It came back positive. Damien, I’m pregnant.”

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Silence lingered between them for what seemed like hours.

Jill watched as Damien paced the floor of their tent, his hand running over his face multiple times. “Damien…are you angry?”

Damien stopped pacing. His hand ran the length of his face prior to glancing over at Jill. His heart felt like a rock in his chest capable of falling through his body to the ground. She was looking at the floor as she did when she felt he would reject her.

To comfort her, he dropped to his knees in front of her. Using his finger and thumb on her chin, he raised her head. “No Jill. I’m not angry. I’m actually really excited. It’s just I don’t know the first thing about being a father; let alone to pups.” It still felt weird to call them that. His thoughts shifted to the upcoming war and the probabilities Jill had given him about pup mortality.

Jill had been elected to take on Lilith. Now, there was no way he was letting her fight. Not when she was carrying his children.

The sudden wrapping of Jill’s arms around his waist brought Damien’s attention to the beautiful woman in front of him.

“I’m so glad.”

A squeak escaped Jill’s throat as Damien quickly lifted her onto his hips. The thin material of her