Thalia felt her face burn in embarrassment. She would be very grateful if the ground could open up and swallow her whole. She tried to look away, but Carter's hold on her chin was too strong. She couldn't even tilt her head, much less move it.
Carter saw her flustered expression and grinned, rubbing her swollen lips with his thumb. Knowing that the reason her lips were swollen was from his kiss gave him a truly gratified feeling. "You can pretend all you want, sugar. Act like you don't want to give in to me. Resist what your instincts are telling you is the right course of action. But you will give in to me, and it will happen eventually. It might frighten you, this feeling you get when I'm around you. There will come a time when these feelings captivate you, leaving you drunk from the rush of giving in to your desires, supple and wanting. You will learn to embrace it soon. Thalia, you just need to stop fighting it. You are not a coward, so stop acting like one
Under the influence of his dark aura, Jake and Shayne stiffened. However, Renard didn't move. He simply arched his brows and smirked. He was baiting him, taunting to make a move. Carter suppressed his anger and, without a word, sat opposite Renard. With his five enforcers behind him, Renard looked confident. Shayne boldly stood behind him in response to the unspoken provocation, while Jake stood solidly beside him as his beta. For a while, neither of them spoke. Instead, they just sized each other up.Renard was a sleazy bastard, thin and lanky, with a greasy smile and a golden chain around his neck. Two golden teeth glittered when he grinned. It added a physical element of evil charisma to his already dodgy profile.Though he looked like he couldn't take anyone on in a serious brawl, Renard was known for his swift and agile fighting style. He took the Alpha title after slitting the throat of his uncle. It would have been quite
Renard shrugged, causing the many golden chains around his neck and wrist to jingle as he cracked his neck. "Who told me? Is that something you even need to ask?" He took out his cellphone and tapped it a few times before turning it around and showing a video loaded on a site called shifter tube. "That pretty little wolf's glorious act of sacrifice to save another is all over social media, Atherton. It's not that I'm trying to be nosy, but you can't ignore what is right in front of you. I want you to know I am trying to be kind here. At least I went through all the bells and whistles to put my suggestion forward. I went through the trouble of arranging this meeting with your beta when I could have enjoyed a good sauna and bath with a new little toy instead. If I were you, I would agree with my suggestion to give me your cute little she-wolf that will cause numerous problems. With me around, no one would dare to touch that little girl of yours. I don't like damaging my fine assets. I
Once Jake returned, he spoke with extreme certainty. "We are going to be on the hit list of every other pack. With this video out on social media, our pack will be attacked, repeatedly, sooner or later."Carter nodded. "I know. I think Marcus is behind all of this. He has to be the one who planted the amateurish time bomb hooked up to Thalia and Kim's car while they were shopping. Since he knows about Thalia's powers, he probably hid somewhere to record her and force her to use them. After she used them, he got the recording, knowing full well right now he has no way of taking her back by force. He probably thinks that if he can't have her, we can't either. He is trying to pressure us to either expel Thalia, or he will just wait until the pack he is hiding with comes to take her away.""Marcus wants Thalia's power because he understands he is completely average without them. It leaves him unable to move forward without them," said Shayne. "H
Ordinarily, Thalia wouldn't have reacted to anyone as she did with Dominic. But Dominic was a really gorgeous-looking guy. His attitude was good, and his dominant vibes weren't bad either. With sandy blond hair and green eyes, he was just like a prince out of a movie, a bit like her dream prince charming. With Dominic around, her body's response was always 'oh yes, he is the one,' but her wolf was a different story. Though she didn't stop Thalia from getting closer to Dominic, she didn't hide her disdain for him either. Even now, Thalia could feel her wolf's languid 'meh' as if showing her contempt for Thalia's mediocre taste.Thalia's heart, well, it was all sorts of confused, like what she was doing was wrong. That this was entirely wrong.Both her wolf and her heart only wanted one guy.'Shut up,' cursed Thalia inwardly. She knew that no matter how much she wanted Carter, he was bad news. So it was better for her to s
Thalia flushed red when her mind fully registered the sentence Carter had just spoken. Oh God, her breath caught, and her stomach dropped. Carter has been a source of her wet dreams for a very long time but did she ever think of actually doing it with him? In reality? No, she had never fully considered it and thought it was all a game between them. A sick and twisted game, mind you, but a game nonetheless. What's up with these reactions? She snapped at herself, wasn't she supposed to move on from her Carter-mania and keep a safe distance from him for the sake of her peace and quiet?Immediately Thalia's inner brat was triggered, and she pounded on Carter's back, "Let go of me, you dumbass! Is your girlfriend not giving your itsy bitsy dick enough attention?! Are you really so desperate to cling on to a female who rejected you?"Carter's voice dropped even lower. "Don't fuck with me right now, Thalia. I don't mind taking you right here and no
Thalia kicked and screamed throughout the ride, but Carter didn't let go of her every time she tried to scamper off his lap, he would knot her hair in his hand and hold her head up until her arched back started to hurt, he would stare down at her until she backed down under his dominance and continue with his spanking. With every act of defiance, his spanking would get harsher than before. Finally, Thalia gave up when her eyes started to sting and all she could feel was the streaked pain on her butt, when she stopped Carter paused as well “ do you want to start counting as a good girl now?”Thalia breathed and with extreme patience retracted her claws back “ one you dimwit! One! Happy now ?”Carter arched a brow his lips tilting up with amusement, his mate was a tough one. Even if she was submitting to him, she didn't want to submit without a fight. Dan and Jake have turned their h
Carter put her down just as he promised and because Thalia was hoisted on his shoulder for the entire time, she didn't know that Carter has already brought the two of them to his room “ what was that? I think I misheard something” he didn't, his tone clearly dared her to repeat what she just said but at the same time he was hinting her not to say something that he didn't want to listen.She shouldn't. She knew that she should keep her mouth shut, the dark, murderous energy circling around was enough to warn her not to push her luck. That she should just keep her mouth shut and just get on with it, at least her losses would be cut short a little.“ I said I want someone else other than you -” it happened so fast that Thalia didn't even get the time to yelp.She didn't even register the wind knocking out of her system, as Carter
The kiss was frantic, wild and filled with desperation. Thalia had never been kissed like that before, she has never experienced anything like this. In short, it scared the hell out of her, Carter was like her own fucking magnet, he was wrong for her in so many ways but her heart still called for him. She never knew what it was like to let her desires control her. She was always in control at least until Carter barged into her life. It was safe to say that the two of them were bad for each other but the problem was that, despite knowing this Thalia couldn't control her hunger for Carter which mirrored his desire for her, weakening her self control. She knew on an intellectual level that she shouldn't entangle herself with Carter and stay away from him but he was testing her self control, and with her wolf's obsession with him, it was getting harder for her to ignore him. Not only because she wanted him but also because she was starting to see him as her ow
A loud echo of bullet shot echoed in the clearing as Carter pulled Thalia away but it turned out that his actions were useless because even though Cruz seemed to have aimed for Thalia the bullet didn’t hit her but instead hit him. “ No! Carter!” Thalia shrieked as she held Carter’s body that went limp against hers, as she looked at the painfully twisted face of her mate, Thalia was able to feel the echo of her mate’s pain through their mating bond and that was how she found out that the bullet wasn’t just an ordinary bullet it was specially made for putting down shifters with just one shot. Silver bullet dipped in wolfsbane and moulded with together with the holy water, her stomach churned as she felt the acidic sensation Carter was feeling while shaking her head as she cupped his face and crouched down with his head in her lap. “ No, No … No... No.. she tried to use her blood on his wound but it was of no use, she couldn’t heal him no matter how much blood she poured into the wound.
Thalia waited for Cruz to turn around, once she was sure that he was engrossed with her mother’s corpse and the stupid pentagram thingy, she flicked the pocket knife in her hand. Her gut was burning like someone has doused sulphuric acid on her skin and lit her up on fire, it was a pain like she has never felt before and because Cruz has stabbed her with a silver knife her healing was painfully slow and she was sure that she was going to pass out. He hasn’t just stabbed her for collecting her blood, he has left her to die…blood soaked her hoodie and dripped onto the concrete floor below her. As she moved her hand trying her best to slice the belt off her body, she could feel her wound throbbing with every move until it started to hurt with every breath that she took. Tears filled her eyes but she didn’t stop, it was hurtful but she knew that it will liberate her somehow. One strap down. Two straps down. Once her hand was free, she pulled the straps of the metal table that was tyi
With a great leap, Carter felt his wolf lunge against his surface as he growled, “ Renard!” Before springing and shifting mid-air as he rushed towards the wolves behind whom Renard was hiding. Every bite and slash of his was filled with anger and vigour, he didn’t care about the blood that was matting his fur or the corpses he was leaving behind, his eyes were on the prize and that prize was none other than Renard’s head. While he rushed towards Renard, the latter’s wolves tried their best to slow him down, they bit and clawed greatly affecting his movements but Carter was like an impending doom that was coming after Renard, nothing stopped him. He didn’t care about the bite on his neck, the claw mark on his hank and nor did he care about the blood that was dripping down his muzzle, all he cared about was reaching Thalia as soon as he could. Pain and blood loss was slowing him down but Carter couldn’t care about that, not when his mate was in danger. Especially, not when this f*cker
Carter groaned as he banged his fists on the steering wheel of the car he was driving. He tried to stop the ringing and pounding of blood in his ears but then again no wolf would take any obstruction including the one he was facing when he was in a hurry to get to his mate, he could feel the slow churn in his stomach, the pain pounding in his veins like little hammers drumming down on his head, stomach and every freakin pore of his body and here he was staring at Renard and his wolf as they surrounded him and his pack mates. Jake peered out of the windshield as he counted the wolves that were standing outside. “ One, two, three…damn that f*cker brought at least fifteen wolves to take us on, maybe he wants to bury us in an early grave.” “ Like he will get a chance to do that,” grunted Shayne from behind while looking out of the window as well. “ Fifteen, I think I can take them, we have been in a worse situation before haven’t we?”“ We have been,” rasped Dan as he rubbed the back of
Thalia saw his madness, that crazy glint in his eyes as he fervently drew the pentagram on the floor with her blood that he has collected, an angry flush crept on her face as she glared at him. “ You can stop with that bullshit of yours you see? Disrespecting my mother, causing her life to become a mess because of you and then digging her body out of the grave, none of these actions says that you loved her. You are the reason, she is dead, all right? You rejected her, when she wanted you to claim her, you didn’t do it and yet you didn’t let her go. You framed her for being crazy and a kidnapper who went mad because you refused her, till the end you painted a totally different picture, all because you wanted to hide the hideous things that you have done, so what are you doing all this for?”Cruz’s head snapped up, as he straightened up and twirled the knife in his hands, eyes hard as he predatorily moved towards her. “ You don’t understand, I never wanted her to die you see? I wouldn’
“Did you find her?” asked Carter as he rushed out of his lodge that was at the centre of the pack and rushed to meet with Shayne who shook his head. “ I have checked the kitchen, the pantry, even the small shack where she used to stay, I can’t find her.” “ This is ridiculous, where did he take her?” said Carter as he tugged on the locks of his hair with his hands. “ No one saw him leave the territory, his car is parked in the garage so how can he take her away in such a short period of time?” An hour ago, he did not send Brandon to call for Kim, there was no way he was going to send Brandon to call for Kim leaving Thalia alone with him when he was still suspicious of Brandon, so when Kim came back and told him that it was Brandon who sent her to see him, Carter knew that something was wrong with Thalia at once and he rushed to the lodge to see what was going on but there was nothing as if she wasn’t even there at the first place.“ I can’t find Brandon,” Jake whom Carter sent to see
Thalia’s wolf arched her back as she prepared herself to lunge at Cruz but Thalia knew that it was going to be of no use, so she hurriedly said, “ You killed your brother right? You sacrificed him for my mother?” In her memories, she remembered a brown wolf lunging at her mother to protect Carter when her mother tried to claw Carter’s heart out, if that wolf wasn’t Cruz then surely it was —— Brandon.Cruz jutted his chin out Ashe nodded, “ That’s right, should have kept his nose out of my business. He said he loved Lydia but he crushed her throat right in front of me, he was even going to go after your father and end his misery so that he will not suffer much from the loss of his mate but I got there first, I took care of your father first and then took care of my dear brother, I left him half alive and left another wolf with his face clawed so badly that no one would be able to recognise him. Everyone thought that the body belonged to me and I died while taking care of your father, a
Have you ever tried to stuff your brain until you can no longer stuff anything in it? Well, that was what Thalia was going through right now, she didn’t know whether Cruz was saying the truth or not but she felt her brain sort of freeze as she shuffled back and said, “ This is a joke right? This has to be a joke.” “ You can deny it all you want, sweetie but you know it in your heart that it's the truth,” Cruz smirked as he kicked back on his chair. “ You remember it all but you just don’t want to accept it, I know I get that feeling too… I felt the same way when I found out that my mate mated with a f*cking submissive, she could have done so much better than that gutless submissive wolf but she just had to do something to piss me off.” “ Or maybe she genuinely liked him,” said Thalia before she took another look at the basement, she knew that Cruz would not just capture her for no reason, there must be something more to this, now Thalia hoped that Carter would be able to sense her
Thalia’s eyes snapped open as she took in the surroundings around her. The place wherever she was, it was just sad —— the windows were boarded up and there were also panes of wood that were hanging off the doors and if that wasn’t enough, crude insults were sprayed all over the walls. She didn’t have to think about where she was anymore, with just another glimpse of the surrounding she knew where she was —- she was home. The one where everything went downhill. And she wasn’t in the living room, no she was in that one place she hated with all her core, it was the basement. The exact same one where Carter was locked up by her mother, she sucked in a breath and somehow pushed herself to sit up straight, her feet weren’t chained but they were bounded by something, when she looked down, she realised that it was shifter resistant ropes. She muttered a curse inwardly but her curse stuck in her head mid-way as her gaze fell on something much more hideous that was sitting in the corner. Ori