I spun around the instant I heard her voice. /What was that?/ Alba demanded, every fibre of my body tensed./ What did she say?/ I knew she was seated somewhere behind me, her gaze scorched into me the instant I hesitantly set foot down the aisle. /For the pack, for the whole fucking shifter nation/ Alba had muttered over and over. Each footstep felt like it was just one closer to the gallows. Yet the instant Alba heard her delicate voice he abandoned every plan and spun us around to find her. My eyes met hers and it was too much. Hers shone with fearful emotion, her dress the colour of an immaculate sky, twinkling under the torchlight. “Please,” she added softly as Austin sought to grab her wrist but she evaded him with a twist. Standing defiantly upright, staring directly at me as the crowd started to whisper. When Zaw stood up I saw the flash of his knife and lost my control. “Get your hands off her!” Alpha Austin rose up, and suddenly Kate was enclosed by the two brutes again
I saw it all. Every second of Kate’s triumph. When I finally woke up from the sedative the doctor had already gone. I remembered everything though. There was no point hanging around, for what medicine on earth could she offer me to remove the guilt that suffocated me.In my drunken, petty, spiteful desperation I had offered Felix as a tribute. So Dex would hold and caress me, his skin on mine. Yet this whole time I mistook the demon for my ally. He never once cared about my happiness.So yes Dex held me, cuddled me close to him. I felt his warmth and inhaled that bonfire scent straight from the centre of his chest. Hell, I even felt his pulse beating against my cheek. But it was for nothing.I had offered Felix as tribute. Berlarot, in his twisted mockery, had taken his child.That is the summary. The only conclusion that can be made. I had no idea I was even pregnant.The price I had paid for my foolish ego boost was too devastating to even start thinking fully about. Staggering bac
When the mate bond clicked it felt like a huge, searing spotlight had turned on. My reality switched into a sharper focus, all I can see is Dex. All my head, heart, soul and body want is in front of me. The fact he had already asked me to be his Luna before the bond meant everything.Knowing our wolves were meant to be as well as each other, I'm just soaring. Since he swooped down to me on the balcony…I can't describe it but it's like we were always going to end up here. As long as I kept my heart going for him. Here we are. We stopped walking to the packhouse, Dex swirling me around to him in a circle as I laughed. "Mate," he growled again, yanking me into his arms. This time his hands weren't trying to console me or quell my fear.They were hungrier, needier as his kisses grew firmer, his hands on my ass and upper back. "I have so much to tell you," I breathed, "I don't want to keep any secrets," but he kept clamping his mouth to mine, muffling my words. I could feel his sly, sex
I exclaimed in surprise, “Dex no, I’m yours. I was yours months ago. I just couldn’t admit it to myself” before losing my words in another deep, hungry kiss. Our tongues entwined, as our wolves connected. There was something deep within him that I didn’t know about, there was loss in him. I sensed the heaviness as the sliding pieces of our souls began to align. It only made me love him more. Pain, just as there was in my history. Perhaps we were more perfectly matched than I thought.Even so , these deep thoughts soon evaporated under the influence of his bonfire scent and tingling touch. My mind fizzed with excitement as I slowly hitched my thigh against Dex’s hip, opening myself up for him. When he grabbed his cock and guided it to my entrance I let out a little moan of need.The head of his shaft was immediately soaked in my juices. I wanted him so badly I was almost mewling in pain at him moving his length away. I craved the sensation so badly it made me whine in his huge arms.
He sat up as I flung the material from my body, feeling the rough patches in panic. /Shit that's blood, it’s definitely blood/ Raya confirms as I take a step backwards.“Kate, come listen for a second,” Dex urged, pulling himself up to sit as I ran my hands through my hair. I couldn’t sit, how could I dive back into his arms and bed now with my best friend's blood on his clothes?/He hasn’t cheated, he wouldn’t,/ Raya argued, /but has he hurt her? Our sister?/“Dex what’s happened, I need to know.”He stood up from the bed grabbing a pair of grey sweatpants. He came towards me with his white shirt, the one from the ceremony a few hours ago and wrapped it around my shoulders.“Come back to bed, let me explain,” he said, softly taking the shirt from my hands. “I’m not fragile, I just need telling now,” I replied firmly. Stood in the middle of the darkened room, only the lingering light of the full moon to see with which he sighed and put his hands on his hips.“Rosie took a bad blow in
It feels like a completely fresh start. It sounds cheesy but this is my chance to get everything right. Waking up with Kate in my bed for example, just as it should have been months ago. It isn’t one of those awful dreams where I imagine her there, only to touch her bare shoulder and wake up with a thump. She’s here, perfectly messy, rumpled, maybe even snoring a little bit.I nuzzle my nose into the back of her and plant soft kisses along the nape of her neck, down her spine. Mate. Alba is still reeling, though the pieces are all connected and the bond already secured. My mark tingles, healed but now a sensitive spot of skin, in between two twisting tattooed ropes. Under my fingers the small raised edges where her mouth took my flesh hums with sensation. I wonder what Kate feels like as I slowly guide my fingers up and over her shoulder towards her collarbone. With the brightness of morning filtering in I can see the room is a mess. Her blue dress is scattered on the floor, trous
The dining room quietened as we walked in, clearly we were a hot topic of conversation. Drama for generations.“Good morning everyone, apologies for keeping you waiting but as you might be able to tell…I found my mate,” and kissed Kate’s hand. A happy murmur went up in the room. Luna Madeline was the first to offer her congratulations, getting up from her chair, walking stiffly in her black ruffled dress to squeeze Kate’s hand and whisper something in her ear. She blushed and kept hold of Luna Madeline’s hand. She gave me a kiss on the cheek and whispered “your girl did amazing with that map. So brave..”I nodded, proud that she had found the courage to take such a risk. Over mindlink last night as she slept in my arms I was briefed about how she had given it to Alpha Frank. Knowing that even if I had rejected her, or Austin harmed her the information would still be out there and have stopped my murder, if not the wedding. I owe her so much.Alpha Frank followed next, slapping my sho
In the end it was an easy decision to jump in that sports car. I felt like crap, my stomach was still killing and the idea of heading to lectures and seeing Felix, Matt, Cherry and all those others who must despise me was too much.Why not start again. There is no reason to think the world starts and ends with Fyrestone. I don’t have to like Austin, I’m not leaving Fyrestone for love. I’m leaving my dumpster fire of a life and starting again.I almost bottled it this morning. Watching the sun come up on the top of the accommodation block, it was beautiful, calm and fresh. I had my arms wrapped around my legs, only the sound of birdsong. The black rock that contains Berlarot was next to me, quivering with energy. Maybe if I had never got involved with the demon, if I was just a girl who had made up some shit and got caught out I could endure this storm. This anchor around my neck, Berlarot, his weight and guilt is pulling me downhill with him. The water will rush over my face and drow