KNIGHT Apparently, Sebastien had an apartment in Paris, where Zarah sent us. We made a quick change before strolling around. Our trip wasn’t well-planned, but we didn’t have time since our honeymoon to Seychelles was canceled. “You look beautiful.” I fixed the scarf around her neck before I held her hand. “So you’ve been to Paris?” “Nah. I hadn’t been out of the country. My first trip outside was through the portal to Italy.” “Really?” I was surprised to hear it. “Yeah. I told you I loved what I experienced with you and wouldn’t change it for anything.” “You haven’t told me how you made the deal.” “We’re gonna talk about it?” We took a taxi to the Eiffel Tower because that was where she wanted to go. She said it would be romantic. I couldn’t remember if I had ever been romantic or given flowers to a girl before I met Nirvana. If seeing the iconic tower would put a smile on her face or add to her experience and memories, then who was I to stop her? I would give her the moon i
NIRVANA Our first day of honeymoon was incredible, and it involved a lot of sex. Last night he fucked me hard, and I came three times. I admired his strength and voracious sexual appetite, and sex was beyond good, but I was hoping to stroll around the city today and try some Foie gras. Before we got up from bed, he made love to me and called the room service for a full French breakfast by the balcony. As I got up, I still had a satisfactory smile on my face. Still wearing the hotel robe, I opened the window to the balcony, and the view of spectacular Renaissance architecture took my breath away. It was an excellent idea for an oil painting. “What’s our plan for today?” I grabbed the Viennoiserie and tore it in half before I took a bite. “No plan. We go wherever our day takes us.” Knight sat so relaxed on the chair, crossed his legs with a cup of coffee in his hand. “Really?” “Yeah. It’s our honeymoon. We can do whatever we want. Maybe we’ll have lunch in a restaurant and then
KNIGHT My stomach twisted a knot as I watched Nirvana asleep in the confinement at the Night Stalker Pack. I couldn’t believe I had just done what I had done to save her. I knew she would probably not forgive me for what I’d done, but I made the toughest decision, and she left me no choice. “Shit. Is that—?” Califf stared at me in disbelief. “What the fuck, Knight? What did you just do?” With my chest clenching, I looked at him. “Saving my wife.” “I’m confused. When you called me asking for my help, I did not expect you to do this.” “Babe—” Shadow smiled widely. “Who’s in the confinement?” “You’re not gonna believe it. Come and see, baby.” “Holy shit.” Her eyes widened as she stared down from the two-way mirror and stared at me. “Nirvana? Did you lock up Nirvana? Why in the hell did you do that?” “I have reasons.” I crossed my arms over my chest, determined to prove what I did was best for my mate. Nirvana hadn’t woke up, and I knew she would be terrified thinking she was he
KNIGHT “There’s only one way to find out,” Zarah said. All of a sudden, Nirvana stirred. She woke up and jolted to sit on the bed. Her eyes wandered around the confinement. The solitary had wolfsbane spray and a silver-plated bar behind the walls, and it had an automatic lock when the alarm went off. It was impressive. Nirvana got up from bed. I took off the boots, and Zarah kept them away from her. “You should let her know she’s okay, or she goes crazy and tear this building apart,” Califf said. “Hello? Is anybody there?” she talked wryly. “Poor thing,” said Shadow. “I can’t watch this, Knight. I know you’re trying to save her, but not like this. You just broke her trust and betrayed her.” The words trust and betray just stabbed me in the chest. “Hey! Can anyone hear me?” She took a step away from the bed, wary, and then took three more steps. At the corner of my eye, Zarah shook her head. “She’s smart. She’s gonna figure it out I’m involved, and she’s gonna hate me, Knight.
NIRVANA That bastard! He betrayed me, my own mate. My. Own. Fucking. Husband. I sighed and scratched my head in annoyance. I hadn’t tried teleporting. Maybe it would work, but that was the only move I had left, and they could never know that. “Sweetheart, stay put!” “Don’t call me that.” Anger boiled under my skin, and my muscles contracted. “Don’t tell me what to do, asshole! I hate you. Right now, you’re the last person I want to see. Get out! We have nothing to discuss if you don’t let me out of here. I don’t wanna see your face ever again. Do you understand? Fuck you!” I stepped closer towards them, only the shield spell that separated us and for me not to claw those eyes out— they were beautiful and sad, but I couldn’t care less. Staring at him in the eye, I let my anger simmer. “You and I are over. I don’t give a shit of defeating Cyrius. Good luck saving your people. I’m not one of your kind anyway, so I’m out. I’m fucking out.” When he dropped his gaze as if guilt tor
KNIGHT “I’m surprised you arranged this meeting, Alpha Knight, Alpha Califf.” Victor entered the conference room at the Werewolf Council. “I apologize for inserting it into your busy schedules, but this is important.” “May I know what it’s all about?” “My mate can’t fight against Cyrius anymore.” “Why? What happened?” Concern and worry filled his eyes as he looked at Califf and me. “She saved me from dying, and the price made her vulnerable.” “I don’t understand.” “He fatally fell off the cliff and was not healing,” Califf answered. “Nirvana traded her life or something to save him, but the price she had to pay was losing her physical protection from risk.” “I hope we can keep this information just inside this room. We were just attacked by a pack loyal to Eloh. We might have eliminated them, but there’s more coming. She got wounded. She might have healed herself, but she becomes vulnerable.” “Understood. Where is she now?” “She’s staying at the compound.” I looked at Calif
KNIGHT “That’s a good idea, Lyon. But how are we supposed to do that?” Zarah huffed a breath. “Let’s get out of here.” “If you can trap as powerful as Nirvana, maybe we can trap Cyrius, too, then we’ll kill him.” “Ambrose could have done that. As long as no one can wield the dagger other than Nirvana, and you’re not willing to risk her life, then our plan won’t work. And it seemed that that was what Sophie saw of Cyrius’s future before he cursed and killed them.” “Is it possible to make a swordstaff and put the dagger at the tip so everyone can wield it?” I turned to Zarah. “It is. I know a blacksmith, but the problem is, will the dagger allow itself to be touched or attached to another weapon.” “I’m sure you can work it out, Zarah. If you can make it as strong as a shield and a portal, I believe you can make it work.” “You put so much patience in me, but not on your mate.” Her words hit me hard in the chest like a knife. I looked outside the window. “I know I’m selfish, but w
NIRVANA Despite being imprisoned in this solitary confinement, I still felt our mating bond. I could feel if Knight was pissed off or worried about something, and it just confirmed that something was wrong when Shadow came in a hurry and called Zack out of the room. “What’s going on?” I felt suddenly helpless inside. They must be talking through their pack link, but when Zack left quickly, my desperation rocked me, and my chest heaved. “Shadow, please?” She made a deep sigh before she faced me. How she looked at me, I knew something terribly went wrong back at the vineyards. “There’s been an attack at the vineyards. That’s all I know. Knight left with Califf, Zarah, and the guys.” “Then you should let me out, Shadow. I need to be there. I can help.” I stepped closer to her, but the invisible walls kicked me back when I went too close. “Shit. God, I hate magic!” “It’s not up to me, and I don’t know how to take it down.” Please?” I believed her. “Then call someone. Aira. She’s
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