Seems like Ivan is a bit different from what he first came off as. But can Nova find it in her heart to trust any man?
The sparks that flow over my skin at Nova’s touch have me closing my eyes and biting back a moan. I can easily see how this would be addicting, which worries me. Even if she joins the pack, can I accept her as my mate? How long as she been here? Why does no one else know? Is she a harbinger of something worse happening? The easiest way to find answers to these questions is to ask her, but I can’t do that until I get her to my room. We hurry up the stairs and make it to the floor of my gamma and delta’s families. Straining my ears and scent the air, I can tell that no one is in the hallway and I nearly sprint across the landing, Nova able to keep up with me easily. The stairway that we just came through is private, just for the leadership of the pack and their families. We use it as a way to escape in times of attack, especially to get the pups out. It’s not that it’s a secret, it’s just faster. What is secret is the stairwell that is behind
I don’t know how to react to the alpha. He scares me. He has so much power over the city. Over me and my fate. I could piss him off and he could have me killed with just a flick of his hand. But, so far, he’s protected me. Yeah, he chased me through the Warren, but it seems like he just did it so that he’d be able to get me out of there without anyone seeing. I’m not really that gullible to just believe what he tells me, but his actions seem to support what he’s said. Now he’s left me in his room alone. He didn’t even lock the door. He gave me clothes, told me to get comfortable, and said that he was getting me food. Taking a deep breath, I look around the room. His scent fills me nose and, now that it isn’t augmented by the scent enhancer, it’s very pleasant. More than pleasant. I almost want to roll myself in it. To envelope myself in it and never emerge. It’s spicy and very masculine. Fuck, it’s making me horny.
When I walk into the bathroom, I can see that she’s made use of the products that were laid out on the edge of the tub. I wish that I had thought to bring out the even better stuff. The shampoo and conditioner and soap that I save for my mom and sister when they visit the packhouse that I got from Paris. But Fang is laying on his stomach in my mind, his tail wagging and his tongue lolling out of his mouth in pleasure that she smells like m. I have to admit, that is a pleasant bonus to this arrangement. She’s obviously used some of the bubble bath, but the bubbles have started to disperse. I can see her beautiful pale skin, the curve of her full tits, and the swell of her hips beneath the water. My dick swells in my pants and I can’t help but move forward to get a better look. I knew that she was gorgeous when I saw her at dinner tonight. That damn rogue mark on her fac doesn’t detract from that, though it does piss me off that she isn’t a part
Both of us are breathing heavily and I can feel aches and pains coming over my body as the adrenaline leaves my system. Goosebumps spread all over her skin and I realize that she’s naked and wet with bubbles still clinging to her skin. Turning, I grab one of the towels from the counter and toss it at her. She catches it with a snap, showing that I threw it a lot harder than I meant to. “Clean up. I’ll put clothes outside of the door.” My voice is terse and I’m barely suppressing everything that I’m feeling. “Alpha – “ she starts, but I’ve already turned around and am halfway out the door. “Just fucking get dressed, Nova!” I yell, slamming the door. I quickly walk to the other side of the room, opening the balcony doors and stepping outside. Calm the fuck down, asshole. You scared the shit out of her! Fang yells at me in my head. I pause in my pacing and turn towards the bathroom door. Shit. I did
My wolf fucking attacked the alpha. The alpha who knew that I was a rogue. The alpha who currently has me locked up in his bathroom. In the packhouse. With a dungeon in the basement. Shit, I’m so fucked. I hurriedly rinse off the last of the bubbles and dry myself off. Quickly sneaking my hand outside of the door, I grab the clothes that Alpha Ivan left for me, though I don’t know why I’m bothering to get dressed. I’m likely just going to be killed outright when I leave this room. All I can think is that I’m going to die tonight. These are the last seconds that I have alive. Still, I take care as I dress myself and brush my hair. It at least postpones the inevitable. Having nothing else to do but face the alpha, I walk out of the bathroom and into the bedroom. I just look around long enough to find where the alpha is so that I can direct my groveling towards him. I immediately lay prostrate on t
I think that I go into some kind of shock when the alpha says that he thinks he is my mate. From the stress of having to constantly be on vigil with Roy around, to being found out as a rogue and running for my life, to my wolf attacking the alpha, I just can’t handle it anymore. My body just shuts down. I don’t know how I respond or even if I do. I don’t know what the alpha says to me. What I do know is that he seems to understand because he doesn’t get upset. He wraps me up in his arms and pulls me into the bed with him. I think…I think that I was shaking. I know that I was breathing really hard and that the alpha tucked me in tight against him. He rubs my back and cuddles me into him, whispering soothing words into my ear. I don’t know how long it takes, but eventually I fall asleep cuddled in the arms of the only man that scares me more than my father.--- There’s the sound of heavy breathing in my ear. Almost like p
I make King wait for me while I use the bathroom. That’s what I’ve decided to call the alpha’s wolf until I learn something different. He has the air of a benevolent king and the white spot on his one ear looks kind of like a crown. The name seemed fitting to me. I could hear him pacing back and forth outside of the bathroom door, impatient for me to join him. I quickly use the bathroom, brush my death and wash my face. No point in showering when I’m likely going to have to do that after our run anyway. I step out of the bathroom and King nearly knocks me over as he pushes at the backs of my legs to try and hurry me out of the door. “Alright, your majesty! I know that you want to go out, but can I get some shoes at least. Your human has to have a pair of flip flops that I can borrow,” I say laughing. King huffs out an annoyed puff of air but heads to some doors which I assume are the entrance to a closet. He turns to gi
When I am heading down the stairs, I hear a commotion at the top, but I don’t pay any attention to it. I’m gone, running full out to get the fuck away from the asshole that used me for a fucking bet. How the hell do I keep getting stuck with all of these fucking pricks? The rogue alpha. My father. Now Alpha Ivan. The only male I know that isn’t an asshole is Cody and I have no idea where he is right now. I feel bad for Alpha Ivan’s wolf. He seemed like a great wolf, but I wouldn’t be seeing him again. Especially with how fucking fast I am. I can hear the alpha running after me, his wolves’ claws hitting the wood of the stairs, his panting breaths as he tries to catch me. But that’s only because of my werewolf hearing. I was across the yard and into the trees faster than he made it down the stairs. There was no way that he would catch me. I don’t believe what he said about me being his
“You’re mine and I’m not letting you go.” That’s what Ivan…Fang had said when I told him that I wasn’t good for him. He and Ivan had just laid their feelings out for me. They want me. And they’ll do anything to keep me. And then Fang took me in that devastating kiss. Fuck, this man knows how to use his mouth, Bite says in the back of my head. She’s not wrong. I can already feel my panties getting wet from just the kiss. It’s methodical, calculating, and utterly devastating. I had stiffened the first time that he touched me as a reflex left over from my times with the rogues. But with the help of Bite, the matebond, and my own growing feelings for Ivan, that went away fast. Bite had come forward and was sharing my awareness as Fang basically worshipped my mouth. She wants to badly to introduce herself to her mate, but I think that she knows that if that is going to happen, I have to be comfortable being here. She has to find a way to get me to stay here. And Ivan is the
Move over, Fido. I wanna taste her too, I say in our mind to Fang. But Fang doesn’t respond. Well, ok. That’s not completely true. He doesn’t respond verbally. He moves our leg so that one of them wedges between hers. With her pressed against the door, there is no wiggle room. He’s pressing between her legs, directly against her pussy. Opening her legs releases the scent of her arousal into the air and the scent of her musk makes my cock pulsate, not just twitch. I want to be the one making her feel like this. FANG! I bark at him. Give me back my body. Fang literally growls, curling into her body and using our grip on her ass to rock her on our leg. I can feel the heat of her core against my thigh and her panties have started to get wetter. It rubs her arousal against our skin and knowing that she’s this aroused already has me clawing at the barrier that Fang has erected to get to touch her myself. Fang isn’t having to rock her hips anymore, she ‘s moving herself again
The growl that rips through me is filled with not just my fury, but with Fang’s as well. It shakes the mirror and the items on the sink countertop. She can’t leave. I won’t let her. She’s mine. My mate. My everything. I’ve already started to fall in love with her.That’s a lie. I am in love with her. I started falling the second that I saw her and I’ve been falling every single day since. If she leaves and I hit bottom…I’ll never recover.Pushing down my anger and practically shoving Fang away from the forefront of my mind, I try to be calm enough to talk to her. “I can help you find him – “But she’s already shaking her head. “No. The second that he knew that you were after him, he’d be in the wind. You’d never find him. It’s me or nothing. And I’m not leaving him. He’s too important.” Her jaw is set in determination. Her eyes are steely. Changing her mind is going to be difficult. Is this why she was saving all that money? To go find him and what? Leave the p
I wake once again in the alpha suite. I had been exhausted from Bite arriving and had passed out after she claimed him when he walked in the door.This time, there’s one big different though. I’m wrapped up in something warm that smells fucking divine. The heat that envelopes me and the scent, like cinnamon and apples, lulls me into semi-doze. That is until I realize what the warmth around me is. It’s a body. The second that hits my brain, my eyes pop open and I try to sit up. But the strong arms that are wrapped around me keep me pinned to his side. I look over and see that I’m in Ivan’s arms. His eyes are closed, but he shifts closer to me while simultaneously tucking me even further into his side. His lips brush the skin of my neck and arousal like I’ve never known lights up my system. His voice is whispered and gruff with sleep. “It’s too early, little rabbit. Go back to sleep.” His legs thread through mine and I can feel his cock, thick, long, and very hard, again
I wake up all at once, a gasp leaving my mouth as I try to get my bearings. It takes entirely too long for me to realize that I’m in Alpha Ivan’s bedroom, laying on his bed. Alone. I strain my wolf hearing and scent, attempting to see if anyone else is in the suite with me, but I seem to be alone. I’m not sure what woke me up with such a start, but something feels different. Not exactly wrong different, but definitely…different. Like something’s happening…inside of me. It’s almost like when I shifted for the first time and I immediately turn my mind away from those thoughts. They’re too painful. Too horrific. I had been in the rogue camp still. In the “red tent,” called that for the amount of blood that had been lost to virginities and punishments. I had been on top of a male, one that had just been brought to the camp and was being trained as a sex slave. When the shift came, it was nothing that I could have stopped. Especially not the first shift. And the rearranging
I carry Nova to our room, taking the stairs as smoothly as I possibly can. I don’t want to wake her. She’s already been through so much in her short life and she deserves the respite that sleep can give, even if it’s just for a little bit. I’m nearly up the second set of stairs when I hear footsteps coming up behind me. I stop and turn to see who’s there only to see Jude. And he looks pissed. Eyebrow cocked, I turn back to him, Nova still and quiet in my arms. Jude pulls himself up short when he sees her passed out against me. He hurries up to me and whispers in his low, growly voice, “Get her to bed and then meet us in your office. We’ve got things to talk about.” I don’t even have to ask him who “us” is. I know that it’ll be him and my other three best friends. The same friends who also happen to be in charge of our pack with me. Giving Jude a nod, I turn and move a little faster up the stairs. I don’t know what’s got them pissed, but I know that it’s better to cut it o
Nova fell asleep leaning against me in the car. She’s still recovering and her crying jag left her exhausted. If I hadn’t been so worried about Nova and what seeing me killing her father in front of her would do to her, Roy would have been dead before he had gotten to say half of the shit that he did. How? How did my father allow Nova to go back into his care without checking in on her? By all accounts, even his own, Roy is a shithead. The biggest fucking piece of trash that I’ve ever seen. He should have been taken care of years ago and Nova been brought to live in the packhouse as a member of the former beta family. Instead, Nova was left alone and at his mercy for years. While she sleeps, I can’t stop touching her. Nothing pervy. I have my dignity and honor as an alpha and a male that doesn’t take advantage of she-wolves. But any exposed skin, skin that when against mine causes the fated sparks to bloom everywhere…well, that’s a bit different. My fingers brush t
I don’t know where I go after the confrontation with Roy. I walk out of the dungeon and I just keep going. My entire life, I had thought that there was something wrong with me. That I was the cause of my sperm donor’s anger and mistreatment of me. He had wanted a boy and was pissed when he got me. Maybe I was a pain in the ass as a kid, though I don’t remember it. I always did whatever Roy told me to do or just stayed out of the way. He scared me too much for me to do anything else. Did I just remind him too much of my mother? She had always pissed him off more than anything. Maybe that was part of it? But then to find out that I went through all of this abuse, anguish, and heartache simply because he was jealous of his older brother? It’s like every single one of the wounds that he has given me over the years have been reopened and I’m dealing with the pain all over again. It’s the most mind-numbing pain I’ve ever felt, and I’ve been through a-fucking-lot of pain. It
Roy’s story comes out in fits and starts between him being an asshole and having to stop because of the pain that he’s in. His wolf is still trying to heal him. It’s just not working. Is it bad that I’m finding satisfaction in that? The Goddess will have to give me some leeway here because I just can’t find it in me to be upset about it. The story that Roy told went like this: He was the second born of the beta of the pack. His brother, Robert, was given everything: all of the attention, all of the support, all of the power. (Huge eye roll from me, but I could feel Ivan tensing beside me. I know that Roy was glossing over shit and making himself the victim, but it seems that there is more to it. I’ll have to ask about it later.) Roy was left to fend for himself and he had always known that he would be a better beta than his brother. Roy had a mind of his own, ideas to help the pack succeed, and the ability to make people listen. Robert was just a people pleaser. He wo