NIRVANA “Why are you scared to punch me? You punch like a little girl, Nirvana.” “Why is it everyone says I punch like a little girl?” I groaned, my eyes flaring at Dane. “Remember, this is not a practice or training. Make it real. Punch like a real woman, a luna.” “Maybe I can only punch like a girl, Dane. And your abs are distracting.” My comment made Knight groan while Kailin rolled her eyes at me. “So if you see an attractive guy about to pull the trigger at you, you won’t shoot him because he’s too cute to die?” I huffed a breath. I was sweating and sticky like a pig. He’d been training me for hours when McKaye suggested that Dane teach me instead of him. When Knight gave us a go, I let my body beat up. I lost count of how many times I fell on the dirt and felt my strength was wearing off. I tried blocking his punches, but he was just so good. Considering he had long limbs and was taller than me, he could easily break my bones. “Just punch him, Vana. I’m bored to death he
KNIGHT “So I can’t even touch you now? When, then?” What happened outside while she and Dane were training must have terrified her. I wondered if she got her seer gift from her mother but was scared to embrace it. The way she looked at me right now with so many unanswered questions in her eyes made me anxious, and I just wanted to protect her and take her somewhere where no one could find us. “Sweetheart, it’s fine. You can’t hurt me.” My chest clenched to the way she hid her hands behind her back. “Knight, I mean it. Stay back.” I still sat on the bed. The guys and Kailin were outside the room. “I know you are terrified, but you can never hurt me. You have to knock me down if you won’t let me touch you. Give me your hand, Nirvana.” It was not a request. “No.” She shook her head. “I don’t wanna see your greatest fear or your pain. It hurts, and it feels like I’m invading someone’s privacy. I feel sorry for Dane, but I didn’t mean it.” “It was just an accident. You said it your
NIRVANA He can never be trusted, Dane told me, and those words kept repeating in my head. I’d been in the bathroom for fifteen minutes, and my nerves started to get in the way. “Sweetheart, we can still walk away from this. It’s not too late to back out.” Knight said behind the door. “Just give me a minute.” I breathed deeply and did the tricks I had practiced overnight. I only had one time to do this, or I would fail everyone. I took a moment to gather myself before I opened the door. “Let’s go before I change my mind. That son of bitch chose an open public restaurant to his advantage. “Shit.” “What is it?” “I don’t know what he looks like.” “Fuck.” “If you see a smug curly hair son of a bitch in his forties, then that’s him,” Dane said to our line. “He has a wife named Elaine and a daughter named Savanna.” “Is your team ready?” “Yeah.” “Got a table for two,” said the sheriff, Carter Wade. That was his cue. He played a vital role in the plan, as Eloh would never suspect
NIRVANA He can never be trusted, Dane told me, and those words kept repeating in my head. I’d been in the bathroom for fifteen minutes, and my nerves started to get in the way. “Sweetheart, we can still walk away from this. It’s not too late to back out.” Knight said behind the door. “Just give me a minute.” I breathed deeply and did the tricks I had practiced overnight. I only had one time to do this, or I would fail everyone. I took a moment to gather myself before I opened the door. “Let’s go before I change my mind. That son of bitch chose an open public restaurant to his advantage. “Shit.” “What is it?” “I don’t know what he looks like.” “Fuck.” “If you see a smug curly hair son of a bitch in his forties, then that’s him,” Dane said to our line. “He has a wife named Elaine and a daughter named Savanna.” “Is your team ready?” “Yeah.” “Got a table for two,” said the sheriff, Carter Wade. That was his cue. He played a vital role in the plan, as Eloh would never suspect
NIRVANA “As far as I know, that was not my fault. I’m innocent. I was dead, and how would I know someone was capable of bringing the dead back to life? And it wasn’t my choice to wake up from the dead. Unless you have written laws about it, I’m still innocent.” “Turn yourself in so this problem won’t escalate, or I will be forced to order a shoot to kill on you.” “Fantastic.” “Do you think this a joke?” His eyes blazed. “No.” I looked at him straight in the eye. “I’ve been chased by your people. I almost died running away from you. Do you think I wanted this? But as I look into your eyes, you are more desperate than me, Council Hartwick. I recognize haunted when I see one. I guess he has something you hold dear. Who is it? Elaine or Savanna?” His eyes glowed in anger, and his face reddened in rage as he fisted his hands on the table and said, “You don’t have the right to drag their names into this conversation.” I just poked the big bad bear. I meant a werewolf. “Then you can’t
KNIGHT “So, what exactly is she?” Carter asked me, tipping his head at my mate. “I’m just human like you,” she replied as she heard Carter. “She’s joking, sheriff. She’s more powerful than any of us,” Kailin said. “She’s not a werewolf, but looks can be deceiving.” “She’s like Zarah?” he asked. “She’s not a witch, but she has a witch and werewolf blood in her. To make the story short, she’s cursed by a warlock.” I smiled at Carter’s enthusiasm for learning about us. Despite being a human, he fought against Aciano alongside Califf, Sebastien, and Kain. “I have a spirit inside me,” Nirvana told him, making him gasp. “Don’t worry. It’s not what you see in Insidious. I’m in control of the wolf spirit, and she’s on our side.” He let go a shuddering breath. “That’s good to know.” He then looked at me. “I saw a man transformed into a wolf, then Shadow is a hybrid. I walked into a portal created by a witch, and now I just met a woman with a wolf spirit inside her. I think my life is g
KNIGHT “Wow. Did you hear that, Alpha?” Luka laughed. Our little fun moment was cut short when the double door swung open. Victor, Dane, and Zarah entered. We all rose to our feet and waited for the verdict. “Nirvana Thorne, Luna of White Moon Pack has been acquitted on all charges.” Victor put the paper on the table and scribbled his signature. “Alpha Knight Blackwell of White Moon Pack, you are appointed the head of the council advisor. Don’t say no. I won’t take no for an answer.” “Priestess Zarah, It would be my honor to hire you as our witch advisor on all witchcraft, arts, and enchantment.” He turned to Dane. “As for you, you are free of any debt or obligation to the head council or any obligations in the Werewolf Council. As of now, young man, you are a free agent. If you wish to join White Moon Pack or continue working at the agency or any organizations that fit your expertise, your file remains buried in the council.” “Thank you, sir. I let my mate decide,” said Dane, m
NIRVANA “Let’s get married today.” Shock should be forthcoming, despite the fact we talked about getting married soon. Still, the towel almost fell into my grasp. “What? Why?” “I wanna marry you today,” he said with determination, as if getting married were just a walk in the park and then buying Boba tea. I barked out, laughing. The shock was wearing off. “It’s not possible. We have to register and get our marriage certificate.” “Then we’ll do it online.” “Wow.” I was even more surprised that he wanted us to get married today and that we only had to register online. I tightened the towel around my chest and strode towards him. “What’s the rush, baby?” He cupped my head and kissed my lips. “I want to marry you. I mean, why wait, but I promise I will give you the grand wedding you deserve. I wanna be your husband and call you my wife.” “Why, being your mate isn’t enough?” Teasing, I squinted my eyes. “I want a government legal document proving you we are married. I want to we
NIRVANAThree months laterThis man wrecked me in every way possible, in a good-to-be-true way. The private island Lycan Alpha King Sebastien owned was more beautiful than he described, and we were here for the third day of our honeymoon. Yes, honeymoon. Knight asked me to marry him again, and I said yes before he could finish popping up the question. And here I was in bed, legs spread at his mercy. His searing gaze burned my skin. He stood at the foot of the bed, naked, and my hungry eyes devoured him. He was perfect from head to toe, and those muscles and his long thick erection in his hand with a small drop glistening in the slit of his crown.I licked my lips, squirming in bed. Knight knew precisely how to drive me crazy. My hands fisted above my head. No matter how I struggled, the rope laced with magic he used to tie didn’t even budge—no thanks to the book of spells my mother’s own. Dylan sent me a box full of my mother’s books and tools. Knight found out about it, and he u
NIRVANAI smiled at Carter. “Yeah. I’m a werewolf.”“You look wonderful, Vana. If he’s over you, come find me.”“Cut the shit, Archie.” Knight chuckled as he hugged Archibald. “Glad you could make it.”“I would not miss for the entire world,” Chance was the one to reply.Kain and Dane were engrossed in their conversation at the corner.“Hey.”Kain hugged me. “I thought we lost you.”“So do I.”“We wouldn’t be here without you.”“You all keep saying that when it was more of a team effort.” I patted Dane on his arm. He remained at Kain’s pack of assassins to protect Kailin and our allies. “You take care of my best friend, or I will rip your throat out.”“You can stop threatening him.” Kailin, in her beautiful blue gown, came and kissed me on the cheek. “I will be the one to rip his throat out if he betrays me.”The tapping of a spoon on the glass caught my attention. The whole pack house went silent, and the music stopped. Our attention went to Victor, Lennox, and my grandfather, who no
NIRVANAI shuddered at the loss of his thick dick inside me.“On your knees, Nirvana.” He growled. His breathing was rougher.“I don’t bow nor kneel to anyone, but sure.” I was too eager to do as he commanded me to, so I moved to my knees and faced him.“Open your mouth for me.” His eyes almost glowed. His jaw locked harder, every part of his body tensing.I opened my mouth as he gathered a fistful of my hair and gripped it, pulling me closer to his erection.“Now suck me.” He flexed his hips as he shoved his cock past my lips.I took it too eagerly, one hand gripping the base, the other on my knees, balancing myself on the bed. I swirled my tongue around him, sucked, and stroked him.My mouth stretched around his girth. I struggled to breathe through my nose, my eyes watering as I tried to accommodate him without gagging.“Relax your throat. You can take all of me.” He pushed my head into his cock, and quickened his thrust until a guttural groan erupted from his throat.He threw his
KNIGHTI stopped at the edge of the bed and watched Nirvana strip off her clothes one by one. Nothing fancy, even her skin tone bra, but her body, though, the sexiest and hottest fucking thing I’d ever seen, always would be and forever.She was on the last thing, her cotton panties, and there she was, the same body and curves I’d felt many times against mine, and the same woman I fell in love with over and over again, smiling at me as she spread her legs wide apart, revealing her always smooth and waxed pussy.Her cheeks flushed as she slid her hands between her thighs, and a low groan rumbled from within my chest as she let go of a shuddering moan.I found myself gripping my erect cock, stroking it. Locking her searing gaze against mine, she lay on her back, inviting me into bed. She didn’t have to do that because I intended to join her and make her feel what I longed for over a week.I crawled into bed, joined her, and braced my forearms on either side of her shoulders. Then I held
NIRVANA“No freaking way! That’s impossible.” My eyes grew wide as I stared at them one by one.“Is it, though?” McKaye said. “We trained for months.”“To fight that freaking monster?”“Your bloodline is some kind of link to an ancient warlock from Greece,” McKaye explained. “And you were the only one who could kill that son of a bitch.”“Yeah. My mother’s side from my grandmother were witches.”“And you don’t have a gift?” Knight asked me hesitantly.“No. Why? Should I?”He glanced at Zarah.“You’re a witch, Zarah. Can’t you jag my memory or something?”“It doesn’t work that way.”“Then I’m sorry to disappoint you, guys, but I don’t remember fighting an evil warlock named Cyrius.”“What about him?” Kaleb, the beta, tipped his chin at the alpha.Alpha Knight finally groomed himself, looking hotter and smelled so good.I couldn’t help but smile, and every time I looked at him, my heart skipped a beat. “No.”“You’re lying.”“Excuse me?” I arched a brow at him.“I can hear your heartbeat
KNIGHTWhen Kailin called urgently via our link, I thought someone was in trouble again in the tasting room, like the twins.I had struggled the past week without Nirvana, but I never gave up searching for my mate. Scratch that. I once considered jumping off the cliff, and there may be a minuscule chance she would appear and come to save me. But somehow, her promise kept my sanity intact.Everyone helped me check for the lost women or unclaimed bodies in every morgue in the region, but none of them was Nirvana, and I couldn’t find a record of her death either. I felt so relieved and hung in a thinner thread as the days passed, and there were still no signs of her.The underworld was back to normal— no more viruses or killings, thanks to my mate, and my uncle was offered a job at the council while I barely hung in there and not dealing with my loss. I barely slept, or I found myself in the woods mourning. I lost some sense of self-love and belongingness. I couldn’t work, and I hadn’t
NIRVANA“Grandpa! Where the hell have you been?”“Vana?” His eyes widened like he’d never seen me in years. He ran in my direction and squeezed me into a tight hug. “Oh, Goddess. Thank Goddess.”I chuckled as I hugged him back. “It’s only just been a week, Grandpa. You’re overreacting.”He looked me in the eye from head to toe, cupped my head, and kissed me on the cheek, and he was about to get all teary-eyed.“We don’t do that, Grandpa. Where have you been, anyway? I was worried when you did not pick up my call.”“What do you mean?” There was pain, confusion, and relief in his eyes.I slumped my ass to his couch. “You’re acting weird. What’s going on with you? How’s the pack anyway?”He came sniffing me, making me freeze. “You’re a—”“A werewolf?” I scoffed. “Yeah, since birth. Duh. You taught me how to shift. Don’t tell me you suddenly forget about it.”There it was again, the staring, and then he smiled. “I’m proud of you, kiddo.”“Of course, I just sold two pieces of my paintings
KNIGHTGasping for air, I woke up on the ground. The blood’s bitter, sweet, metallic taste dried on my mouth.A shudder of terror rocked through me as I got up. It felt like a new day, or nothing happened last night.Trees stood tall, leaves dancing against the soft breeze. Sunlight streaked from the sky.I saw broken trees on the ground from a distance, a reminder that something had happened around here last night.“Guys!” I went to Califf, shaking him. “Cal, wake up.”He sucked in a breath, staring at me. “What happened?”“I have no idea.”Luka and McKaye stirred and froze as they realized we were still in the forest.“What the hell?” McKaye looked at his naked self.“Did we win?” Sebastien dusted the dirt off his body.Alpha Frye came from behind us, confused, eyes roaming around. “I think she did it.”“Fuck. Nirvana. Where is she?” Terror filled my chest. “I can’t feel her.”“We’ll find her.” Michael, Grady, and Ryden went separate ways to find Nirvana.“Nirvana!” I called her nam
NIRVANA“Asina? Wow. You are gorgeous.” I was surprised to see her standing before me. For the first time, she showed me herself— a beautiful and tall woman with straight long, dark hair, brown eyes, and a smile that could bring men to their knees. She was truly captivating, a real strong heroine in a white flowy dress. “Am I dead?”“About to if you won’t wake up.”“I can’t. There’s too much pain and loss. I can’t do this, Asina. I’m too weak compared to his power. He killed everyone I loved, and I want to die along with them. I give up. And you leave me alone there.”“Nirvana, you take it all wrong. You don’t need me to win the battle against Cyrius. All you need is your courage, your strength, and your heart.”Frustrated, I sobbed as I fell on my knees. “He is powerful to stop, and you’re telling me to use my heart and my strength? I don’t have strength anymore. I can’t even level a percent of his power.”“Because you believe you can’t.”“Are you kidding me right now?” I growled in