The Sixes

chapter 1

Brianna 

"Bri would never do that," Kate says.

I'm sitting at my laptop in my room with my best friend Kate and her fiancé, Priest.
"You know I can hear you, right?" I remove the earbud from my ear.

"I swear you guys keep underestimating me. I would think you'd know by now that there is almost nothing that I wouldn't do."

My mind flashes back to when they dared me to jump naked off a cliff into icy water last weekend. spoiler alert. I jumped. I even got a scar from a nasty rock that bit into my left asscheek to prove it.

Kate eyes me and says, "You won't do this."
"Is that a dare?"
"Don't you want to know what it is?"
"Gimme your worst." I wink at her, and a machievious glint rises in her eyes.

***

"No fucking way." I turn to walk away, but to my detriment, the boat is only that big, so I don't get far.

"No, no, no, you already said yes." Kate pushes me closer to the dock extending from the island.

"I dare you." She picks up her handbag as the priest loads all our luggage onto something akin to a hotel lobby cart.

"I hate you."

"You love me." She gives me a final push and I scramble down the steps of the boat.

"Not right now, no."

"You're overreacting." Kate takes  Priests' hand as they walk down the dock towards the big -no huge- mansion perched in the middle of grass and trees. Perfect for shifting.

"Contrary to popular beliefs, not everyone wants to be at The Sixes at the beginning of mating season."

She snickers and looks back at me, where I'm walking a few feet behind them. "Oh, Bri, but you've never been at the sixes till you're in bed with one."

I dont want to hear about her and Priests' great alpha sex or how she indeffinitely wants me to get with one of the other alphas, so I ignore her as I admire the sights around me.

Even from a distance, the sight still manages to impress me. Nestled deep among the dark woodland, the mansion represents timeless elegance and lavish. As night fell, the warm glow from the mansion's many windows created a golden tint on the finely carved stone exterior. Multiple chimneys extended from the slated roof, their silhouettes striking against the fading sky.

The mansion's enormous entrance, framed by arched windows and beautiful brickwork, welcomed memebers from different packs with a charming warmth. Multiple expansive balconies and patios graced the front, providing beautiful views of the surrounding woodland. A beautiful waterfall cascaded smoothly into a crystal-clear pool below, producing a quiet murmur of water. The falling water, illuminated discreetly by strategically placed lights, gleamed like liquid silver in the evening.

As I approach the mansion, a few steps behind my rebellious best friend, the smell of pine and fresh water mixes with the cold evening breeze. The surrounding forest seemed to cover the mansion, with towering trees creating a natural curtain of privacy and tranquility.

It's crazy to me that a place that oozes this much elegance is the literal breeding ground of overly hormonal shifters trying to get through the very first wave of breeding season madness.

But the pack mates don't only come for the house. They come for The Sixes.

There's the twins- Priest and Reid, yup there's two of him,

Zeke- the orphaned royalty,

Noah- the brute,

Nicholas- his sheer size will scare you shitless, or shirt-less?,