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Chapter119 All’s Fair In Love…
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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Noah?” Ava called as she walked through the front door of the lake house, dumping her bags by the front door. “When did you get home?”
The large home was nearly completely dark and silent, but the cheery fire dancing in the living room fireplace told her that barring an extremely uncharacteristic lapse in judgment, Noah was somewhere nearby.Sure enough, no sooner did she flick on the living room light than Noah appeared barefoot at the back doors. He shook leaves from his closely cropped hair as he slid the glass door panels aside and stepped inside. As soon as he saw her, his face lit up.“How did it go?”Ava was across the room in a flash, flinging her arms around him. He caught her as she wrapped her legs around his waist and buried his nose in her hair.“God, I missed you,” he groaned. “It feels like it’s been too damn long since we’ve been in our home together.”He pulled bacRelated chapters
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12:30 PM“Earth to Ava! How is this not inspiring something in you?”The fingers snapping in Ava’s face caused her to blink back into the present…and then blink again in surprise at the enormous stone figure rising up out of the Upper New York Bay before her, “Oh, wow…where did that come from?”Beside her, Aiden chuckled and held up the pamphlet he picked up from the kiosk outside of the ferry dock, “According to this, France all the way back in 1884 as a sign of friendship and a celebration of independence. Hmm…maybe the Alpha’s should’ve had a statue commissioned for tonight?”From her other side, Bren snorted, “I’m glad to see that the moment hasn’t been wasted on you, Miss. I’ve lived a few hours from New York City my entire life and have never seen the Statue of Liberty.”Ava shrugged, raising her phone to capture of picture of the towering figure li
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter121 Hellfire
6:38 PMAva went crashing to her knees right in the center of 4th and Broadway, surrounded on all sides by the hundreds of families, tourists, and native New Yorkers that crowded the city’s sidewalks at any given time. Every single one of them seemed to fade from her view as she was suddenly filled with overwhelming heat. There were times, back when she’d been imprisoned in the dungeon, that guards would get their rocks off passing the time during their slogging shifts by watching the smaller inmates squirm by putting out their cigars and cigarettes on arms, throats, faces…any bit of exposed skin they could get their filthy hands on.She’d been on the receiving end of that special brand of torture play a time or twelve, but that pain was child’s play in comparison to the tsunami of agony ripping its way through her muscles, her skin – not even her teeth and hair were safe from the pain.“Ava!” Aiden dropped to the
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter122 All’s Fair In Love And War
Xavier didn’t bother asking for an explanation. He didn’t care. He was already half-transformed before he’d even consciously thought to give Alexandre the reins.One moment there was a man; the next, there was a beast as Xavier burst into his half-formed state. The hulking black beast took off toward the helicopter, gaining speed on all fours before launching himself at the bitch in white.Laser-focused as he was on his target, he didn’t register the other beast; its massive form crashed into him with all of the force of a freight train. The momentum sent Xavier flying, his large, furred body skipping off the wet tarmac like a stone.He threw his body over his shoulder, coming up on all-fours and digging his claws into the cement below, coming up just shy of the edge of the skyscraper they stood on. Xavier’s barrel chest heaved as he stared down the other male. Noah was big, easily half a foot taller than Xavier in his Wolfman state.
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Ava shifted uncomfortably in the plush upholstered seat as she peered around the tastefully decorated room. The pleasantly packed bookshelves and walls decorated with calming landscapes were designed to put people like her at ease. But, even after all of this time, she still found it difficult to get settled in enough to concentrate on opening up.Which is a ridiculous concept in and of itself, she scoffed to herself. The idea that relaxation in any form is redundant…and not to mention utterly frustrating–“Ava.”Her therapist’s soft but firm voice drew her attention back to the present. Right. She was at therapy. Where she had called this emergency session because, every so often, her anxieties grew just a touch too loud to handle on her own. “You know that this only works if you want it to,” her therapist, Dr. Kim Schuster, reminded her. “You know, you usually only get this uncomfortable when you’re withho
Alpha's Caged Mate Chapter127 Prisoners of War
The sounds of gunfire could clearly be heard echoing through the dense brush of trees as Xavier and his convoy raced through the untamed wilds of northeastern woodlands. The ride was hard and unforgiving; there were no trails to follow, no roads to smooth the way, for the simple fact that the Red Moon dungeon was strategically located in the harshest environment available within their region. Where the logic stands that to keep a prison as big as Red Moon’s hidden somewhere remote, it made it hell to reach in case of emergency. But then, Xavier supposed, there probably weren’t very many instances that would constitute an emergency worth risking the time and resources required to make such a trip.Typical, he snarled inwardly. In the six months since their world had gone completely to shit, it had become painfully clear to Xavier that the true enemy wasn’t the asshole humans vigilantes or even Noah perpetuating his mother’s ill-conceived war. No, wh
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The helicopters hovered above the arena as long dark ropes unfurled from the gaping voids of their cockpits, and soldiers in white began to descend into the Trial grounds. The largest chopper in the group tilted downward, and Xavier watched in horror as gun turrets descended from the vehicle’s hull.Just as he shouted a warning, it was drowned out by the spray of rapid machine-gun fire that bathed the stands where his people, his allies, his mate stood watching on in bewildered shock. It was a stroke of luck and good fortune that Emmaline and Marnie Adair had insisted on attending the Trial along with several other representatives from their coven.The witches were quick to respond, throwing up glimmering shields that did an excellent job of deflecting the rain of bullets, sending them careening off to join the hundreds of other projectiles currently reducing the two-hundred-year-old structure to little more than kindling.Xavier roared his fury and shifted, sna
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“The nerve of you is astounding, Adair. What, pray tell, did you think you would accomplish by bringing them here?”The hostile vibe Ava had picked up even from a dozen yards away and through several inches of bulletproof glass somehow didn’t manage to improve by coming into close proximity to the…finfolk? The Selkies, Marnie had called them. People who could turn into seals.It seemed ridiculous, given her own circumstances, that…well, anything really, could surprise her at this point. And, to be fair, it wasn’t the existence of seal people that was currently throwing her for a loop; it was being hit, once again, with the staggering realization of just how little she actually knew about the world around her, her own wider community.And it wasn’t just Ava, either. Through their bond, she could feel Xavier’s mind whirring, struggling to quickly process the new influx of information. Even now, after all this time,
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Ava blinked in and out of consciousness as searing pain ripped through her abdomen. Whenever she surfaced, the renewed shock of pain would cause her to take a quick breath inward that would send yet another, even more, intense wave rocketing through her, sending her back into oblivion.It took a couple of tries and several hours for Ava to wake and stay awake; the pain finally dulled to a thrumming ache. When she could finally open her eyes without her eyelids feeling as if they were made of lead, the first thing she saw was Jack’s pensive face hovering over hers.And the second thing she registered, along with an intense sense of déjà vu, was Xavier’s equally pensive face a little ways off, slumped in a nearby chair.“This feels awfully familiar,” she quipped, her dry throat making her joke sound more like a croak.“Really? And to think that I was just beginning to forget what it was like trying to glue you back togeth
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First came the rat-a-tat-tat of machine guns. Then came the screams.All around her, bodies flew into motion as she stood with her phone gripped numbly in her fist.“Ava,” she heard Noah’s desperate voice faintly through the other end of the line as if through a fog. “Ava, what’s happening? Talk to me! Has it already started, damn it?!”Without a word in response, Ava ended the call with a flick of her thumb, far too thrown by just how quickly the tide had shifted today. Neia hadn’t just crossed a line – she’d obliterated it and re-drawn a new one in her image.Ava sprung into action, doing the first thing that came to mind as she ran to the nearest emergency call button and smashed it. The system was relatively shiny and new, having only been installed after her run-in with those sadistic bastards in room 701.Now, flashing warning lights lit up every hallway in the building. The blaring alarm made it im
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