Lyle looked like a fresh flower, like the golden Nyter, whose stalks he was holding in his back pocket now. He could feel a strange lure towards her. It was like if he didn’t sense how those lips felt on his, he would remain anxious. He was attracted to her like Icarus to the sun.
But Ryder didn’t want this. His mission was to get the flowers for his lover, make her immortal and marry her. He wanted to take her to his pack and have babies with her. He had gone too long without a mate and every night when went to bed, he missed the warmth of his human lover. She had once spent a night with him, in his bedroom, on his bed, but then also she maintained her distance. And after that… she just kept him at a distance. But that experience was enough for him. When he wanted to complete his mission with so much zeal, why was it that he wasn’t able to keep away from this pup? His wolf c
Even though Lyle smiled on the outside, when he left her, it was like someone had thrown a bucket of ice on her. But she grinned. With one hand she waved towards the exit and said, “I won’t.” Her other hand was behind him. ‘How will he punish us?’ Grisha asked lasciviously after that hot session. Lyle rolled her eyes. ‘As if I am interested.’ ‘I am highly interested!’ Grisha exclaimed with a grrrr. ‘Ask him.’ ‘Keep dreaming Grisha.’ Grisha whined and became quiet. Ryder buttoned his pants, raked his fingers through his hair with a shallow breath and then walked towards the tunnel. He could hear her footsteps behind him as he walked uncomfortably, tryi
Ryder bolted the iron gate back in its place. His anger was beyond words. The pup stole from him. She took advantage of his weakness. He stopped and stood there for a while grabbing his hair at the mere thought. He let out a haughty air and muttered a curse. “Fuck!” His anger grew and he punched the wall of the cavern. It pulverized under the impact and the splinters flew.He should have left her soon after finding the flowers, but he was distracted by her body, overwhelmed when he touched her and when he smelled her arousal. The smell of her arousal was still in his hands. He closed his eyes and straightened up and then hurried away from the cave silently. The descent back to the ground level was easy and fast. When his gaze went to the horizon, he noticed that it would soon be dusk. The entire area was silent except for an occasional chitter of jungle squirrels and cicadas who were begi
Lyle wanted her mother to stroke her hair. She used to laugh when Mila would try and make hundreds of plaits in her hair on the pretext that she was bonding with her. She recalled the apple and orange trees that her father had planted, which were laden at this time of the year. Her mother was making marmalade for her when she last saw them in the house. Mila had ensured that her daughter’s room would be covered in the shades of blue and green. The drapes, bed sheets and even the small rug on the floor were either blue or pink. Suddenly her hand touched something very cold and sharp—her dagger. She picked it up immediately. “If we ever see him again, we are going to kill him, Grisha!” This time Grisha didn’t answer. She was about to reach the o
“We should take her back to the base camp,” said Dominique. “She needs immediate medical attention.” Ryder’s panic rose when he looked at her. She was unconscious and holding her bloodied dagger. There were bruises and nicks on her skin. Did the bats attack her? Her hair was a tangled mess and there was a sharp cut on the inside of her right brow that went obliquely to her right cheek. “Is she breathing?” asked an anxious Dominique. Without replying, Ryder got up and with Dominique’s help tied her to his back. She was so weak that he hoped to make it in time to the base camp. The descent was faster. Nolan and Arya were waiting down. He wanted to take her to the base camp like yesterday but Dominique insisted, “The pup is unconscious. We need to check on her now!”
Lyle felt warm hardness near her and she moaned into it feeling like heaven. She snuggled further into the warmth and a soothing woodsy, spicy smell surrounded her. Her body became languid and she went off to sleep all over again, this time it was better. All the strain from her muscles slowly seeped out in the warmth and she relaxed. When she blinked open her eyes next, she found her face pressed against hard rock muscles of a man on whose brawny shoulders her head was cradled—and a dim light from the outside of the tent scattered its faint beams inside. In the soft glow of light, she saw that handsome, chiseled, deceiving face, Shocked as hell, she pulled away from the man’s chest but he groaned and dragged her back to him. Realization dawned upon her. What the fuck was she doing in his arms? Alarmed, she kicked him and somehow moved out of his embrace. Her hand went to her thigh where she remembe
Fear roiled her guts and she swallowed when Lyle heard that Alpha Drake had been informed and was coming to take her. If that happened, he would come to take her but the moment they would reach the Blood Moon Pack, he would kill her and killing her parents would follow that. Lyle was now not only weak in body, her mind became overwhelmed with numerous emotions and once again she felt dizzy. Her breath became shallow but she turned her face away so as not to show him. She just had to find a way to go back to the Blood Moon Pack and then escape with her parents. Lyle threw her head back and looked up at the sky. “Okay…” she murmured. Nyter was with Alpha Ryder and there was no way she was going to attempt to steal it. She scrambled to her feet but her body was shaking so much that she swayed like a bough in the summer breeze. In an instant, Ryder wa
Alpha Ryder couldn’t sleep. He couldn’t wink an eye not because the girl disturbed him. Over the last two days, he had become so used to making her sleep near his chest and wrapping his arms and legs around her that tonight when she was sleeping without a care in the world, he was edgy. He reasoned that it wasn’t him who wanted to go near her and blamed it all on his wolf, Gray, who craved to pull her next to him. Ryder closed his eyes to divert his attention. He recalled how he first met his lover, Elara, but merely three seconds later, his mind was full of Lyle. The curves of her body, her parted lips—it made him, no, it made his wolf pine for her. But Alpha Ryder didn’t repeat the mistake of pulling her to him, for this time who knew that the girl would plunge the dagger in his heart. For the entire night, he continued to lie beside her or watch her sleep with his hand propped up on his elbow. He
Lyle ran as fast as she could to get away from Alpha Drake and his men, but Drake forced her to submit to him through the mental link.“Come back Lyle!” he commanded her.“Noooo!” She resisted his call but it was so difficult that her entire body shuddered, and the she felt as if her body had become a huge boulder that she was trying to move uphill. Sweat beads appeared on her forehead as fear skittered down her spine. She started hyperventilating. “You can’t do this Alpha Drake,” she huffed via her mental link. “You promised that you would free my parents.”Drake let out a vicious laugh. “No one gets free from my pack until they meet with their death!” He spat on the ground. “Did you think that you could get away so easily fro