Instead of answering me, this ho of a man walked up the stairs to his bedroom. Not wanting to deal with it anymore, I followed him and grabbed his wrist to stop him halfway up the stairs. He froze as our skin touched, then yanked himself away from me.“What is wrong with you?”“Don’t fucking touch me, Anna. I’m not in the mood.”“You sure were in the mood ten minutes ago.”He hardened his glare at me, and then, suddenly, it softened. He stared at me with so much hurt, so much love I didn’t know exactly what it was. All I could seem to do was stare back at him and wonder what his damn problem was.One moment, he hated me. The next, he was looking at me like this …“I’m fine,” I said, answering the question he was giving me with his eyes. “Don’t worry about me. You’re the one who left while I was supposedly inheat.” And then I strolled back down the stairs, ignoring the stares from the other guys, and walked to the kitchen to make myself some breakfast or lunch or whatever the hell meal
My eyes widened slightly, nipples hardening under my shirt. After that night in the woods, when my four masked best friends had run after me and devoured every inch of my body, everything was supposed to go back to normal. We weren’t supposed to do it a second time, or a third, or even a fourth, and none of us were supposed to catch feelings for each other.But I was knee deep in feelings and heat.And, gods, I wanted them to take me tonight. Hard.“Let me go. I didn’t do anything,” I said, yanking myself out of his grip and backing up until I hit Tyler’s taut chest.Tyler snatched the back of my neck, his claws almost piercing my skin. “You didn’t do anything?” he asked, pulling me back and against the wall, pinning me there. “You didn’t do fucking anything, huh?”“No,” I said.Though … part of me wanted to lie and say that I had done something. I wanted them to be angry. I wanted them to be jealous, I wanted them to admit their feelings for me, and I wanted Alpha Asher to feel like
“If I’m your mate, then why haven’t you mated with me yet? Why haven’t you bitten me?”Well, that was Asher’s fucking idea.So, I released her jaw and crossed my arms. “Asher, you wanna take that one?”Asher bared his canines at me. “No.”“You’re an annoying fucking ass,” I said to him, gritting my teeth and glaring at him. Later on, I was going to kick his fucking ass for all this shit he had been forcing us to do. “He doesn’t want any of us to mark you until after your father”“If you wanted to mark her, you could’ve,” Asher growled. “Yes, I said what I fucking said, but I was protecting you. I’m not going to let us go through what we did again. I can’t fucking carry that on my back for four more years.”Anna shook her head, as if she didn’t understand where this was going or what we were even talking about. Hell, I didn’t blame her. Sometimes, with Asher, I didn’t fucking know either. He was even more of a closed fucking book than I was.But in his sick, fucked up mind, he thought
She might’ve been my only female friend in Blood moon, but I didn’t want her to know the monster that my father really was, mainly because I didn’t want to involve her. I wanted her to worry only about herself and not me.“I would’ve never thought to mix vampire blood and herbs, and I’m a bartender.”“Yeah, well …” I scratched the back of my head and added more blood. “You know …”She didn’t know. She had no fucking idea. She didn’t even know what we were making this potion for. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that we were making it because my father wanted to kill my four guys and take me to experiment.“Yeah, I get it,” she said, then looked around the room to make sure the guys were still upstairs, doing gods knew what. They had been in Asher’s room for the past hour and a half, coming up with some sort of game plan. “I heard that James was at the tavern the other night.”I rolled my eyes and grabbed a couple of empty potion containers, pulling off their corks. “Yeah, he was.”
We all knew how much she had been hurting. But while I wanted to understand her pain, Asher wanted to eliminate it. He thought that keeping shit from her was the best way. And while he might’ve been wrong about that, I could tell right now that he couldn’t stand to see Anna this way, so torn up.When she had cried in my arms last night, he’d looked devastated. Absolutely fucking devastated. And when she’d sobbed about how she couldn’t remember some things that had happened in the past … maybe he’d feared that she’d forgotten how much he loved her too.“Maybe she’ll tell Jake,” I chimed in for the first time tonight.“Or maybe she’ll fuck him,” Tyler said, trying to get under Asher’s skin.“Jake isn’t going to do shit with her,” Asher growled. “Not alone.”I sipped my drink and let Asher live in whatever damn fantasy that went on in his head. Sometimes scratch that, most times I didn’t fucking understand him. He thought that Jake, who was one of Anna’s mates, wouldn’t try to get with h
JAKEAnna had detailed more encounters than I could count.I knew she needed to talk to someone, so I held in my anger with her father and held her for the entire night until she finally fell asleep in my arms after crying her eyes out. She needed me right now.Staring out the window into the forest, I wondered why the gods would do something so horrendous to Anna. She had gone through so much fucking torture all by herself because she thought it was normal.It didn’t make sense, and it wasn’t fair to her.At one a.m., I heard the guys walk into the pack house. Asher growled about something having to do with Anna’s ex-boyfriend, then barreled up the stairs and down the hallway. I gently rubbed Anna’s head and closed my eyes, wondering why we hadn’t seen this before.We had spent so much time with Sina as children and teenagers. How could we have fucking missed that she was being abused at her own house by men thirty or more years older than her? Why hadn’t we seen it? We were her fuck
While my nightmares used to be about Anna’s father tearing her away from me, all I had been dreaming of lately was Anna hating me for the rest of my shitty life. She’d always turn in the other direction, smile, and laugh with the others, leaving me the fuck out.Someone pierced their claws into my neck, dangerously close to my artery. I growled in response, kicking the guy off me and killing him instantly. The other four came at me harder and faster. My vision blurred with the blood loss, so I had to make this quick.From either side of me, two jumped toward me. I stepped out of the way, letting them smash into each other, and then I slashed their throats and killed them too. Stars filled my vision, and I knew that if I didn’t heal soon, I’d pass the fuck out for real.After tearing into the fourth’s underbelly until his guts spilled out, I turned toward their leader and sank my teeth into his neck, ripping out his pathetic throat. And when I had killed the last rogue, I shifted into
“gods, are you an idiot?!” I asked, eyes wide and teeth aching … teeth aching to rip into someone, to kill them for the wounds they had left on my mate’s body. Heat quickly engulfed my body, making it flushed and pounding and red.Why couldn’t he understand that even though he was a fucking jerk sometimes, I still cared about him? If I hadn’t, then I would’ve left here a long time ago. I’d escaped Dad’s estate without him finding me, so I could’ve easily escaped his pack house.Even though I’d tried before, I didn’t really want to leave. I never wanted to leave them.After running my hands through my hair, I let out a low growl and turned back to the potions. I didn’t want to say it out loud because I feared that I’d look like a dumbass. Lucas,Jake, and Tyler knew that Asher treated me like shit sometimes. And my stupid ass still liked him for some damn reason.None of the guys moved as I continued packing the potions. I pursed my lips and stared down at the liquid, making sure to use
When she began muttering,“No,”over and over again, I nodded to the back door.“Open it up,Lucas. We need to get her….”Suddenly, Anna snapped her eyes open and stared up at the dark night sky. Tears began pouring down her face, her cheeks becoming blotchy. “No!” she said, shaking her head and twisting even more in my arms. “No! They can’t.”I didn’t know why she was crying or what kind of daydream she’d just had. I wasn’t as good with emotions as Lucas was, but I clutched her tighter so she wouldn’t thrash around so sporadically.“What’s wrong?” I asked.“They … they want babies!” she shouted, her cries becoming louder and completely controlling her body. Her breathing became heavier, her voice raspy. She looked around frantically. “They want babies!”“Who wants babies?” Lucas asked her.Instead of answering him, she jumped out of my arms and looked around the forest, shaking her head. Strands of her brown hair whipped around under the moonlight. “We need to stop them. They want the b
“Anna,” she whispered, lips trembling. “Oh, my Anna. There is so much I didn’t get the chance to teach you about who you truly are, about the power you wield, about the family and species you come from.”“Mom …” I whispered, still attempting to understand what she had just said.She scrunched her face and grunted out in pain, her grunt turning into a scream. “The baby …” She looked down at her stomach and grabbed the thick chains in her hands. “You have to get out of here, hide somewhere. They’re coming for you, Anna. They’re coming soon.”“What are you talking about? What’s…”Mom let out another scream and spread her legs. “Anna, go! Only you can stop this. Find your real father.”Suddenly, the door to my left opened. I didn’t want to leave Mom, but I couldn’t let them see me. Whoever it was, wherever this was … I needed to figure out what was going on even if this was just a dream.I crouched behind a large dresser and hoped that the men wouldn’t see me, seeing as the room was basic
“Like it hasn’t already,” Gregor snarled, nervousness crossing his features. “There will be a rebellion soon. I suspect tomorrow at the latest. And the kingdoms can’t even fucking accept me looking like this, a half-human and half-demon face stuck like this forever. How will they… How will they accept me as their new leader?”Elise pulled her hand away from me and took Gregor’s face in her hands. “I accept you just the way you are, Gregor,” she whispered. “They will too.”He stared down at her for a long time, hard gaze softening. And finally, he dropped his head and rested it against hers, his body tense. “I can’t fucking do it. I don’t want to do it. They’ve done nothing but belittle me since I was a child.”My heart clenched at the brokenness in his voice. It reminded me of Elise’s after she was attacked by werewolves years ago. She had come to me in tears and told me that nobody would ever love her, that nobody would ever look at her the same. But I hadn’t seen her any differently
“We’ll fuck you when we get back. This is serious.”After she finally snapped her mouth closed, I wrapped her into a coat because it was getting chillier down in bloodmoon, especially at night, then nodded to the guys. The only person who might have some idea about James was gregor, Eise’s boyfriend.We walked through the chilly fall forest toward bloodmoon, the sounds of the night echoing around us.Sina stepped closer to me and wrapped her hand around my forearm. “Where are we going?”“To see Elise.”“Elise?” she asked, eyes wide. “What does she have to do with this?”“Not her, but her boyfriend.”“You think Gregor knows something?”Branches snapped around us from a couple of small squirrels scurrying through the woods with nuts. I pressed my lips together and stared ahead at the horizon of lights illuminating from the town.“He knows more than I do.”Once Anna pursed her lips, she nodded and looked at the ground, tensing so suddenly that she came to a full stop on the outskirts of
If what the guys had said was true and I couldn’t trust Jaroth, then I needed to at least figure out why he had come here. He had to be here for a reason other than my father. But why? Why would he show up this late at night too?Once I opened the back door, James glanced over Asher’s shoulder at me. I pushed through the guys, who would barely move an inch for me, and stared at my ex-boyfriend, who looked like he had rushed over here in a hurry.“What’s up?”“Don’t talk to him, Pretty Bird,” Asher snapped.But we needed to figure out why he had come.“I need to talk to you…alone,” James said. “It’s important.”“Don’t believe anyone other than your mates,”a soft and distant female voice that wasn’t my own drifted through my head. My brows furrowed momentarily, an uneasy feeling building in the pit of my stomach.“They all want to use you for your power.”I stared at the dirt and swallowed hard. The voice almost sounded like … Mom’s.“You’re more powerful than them all. You’re the only o
One hand holding my tit, the other sprawled against the back of my opposite thigh, Asher didn’t say anything else to me as he rammed his cock into my pussy and pulled me into the air in a reverse cowgirl position, using nothing but brute strength to hold me up.Every time he rammed into me, my breasts swayed in the air. I clenched around him, moaning, begging, and pleading for him to come inside of me. He gripped me tighter and picked up his pace, pounding into me.“Pretty Bird, you’ve been waiting for this, haven’t you?”I bit my lip and nodded. “Yes.”“You like being bred by us.”“I love it.”He shoved himself harder.“I love it.”He trailed his hand to my other breast, groping them both and somehow still ramming into me as fast and as hard as he could. He growled, teeth grazing against my soft spot, and sank the first tip of his canine into me.“I love it so much,” I whimpered. “Oh God! Give me your cum. Please, please, Asher.”He swore under his breath and stilled inside of me. On
Lucas’s shirt that I must’ve worn to sleep last night pressed tightly against me, the design stretching far across the chest and my nipples hard and poking through the material. “Please, Lucas.” I grasped my breasts and tugged on my nipples until I moaned. “Please, give it to me. I’m desperate for your cock.”After grinding myself against him for a few more moments, he finally broke, pulled me off the bed, and turned me around so my back was pressed against his chest. With his large, callous hands, he pushed down his shorts to his knees and grabbed my elbows, plunging himself inside of me.“We really shouldn’t be doing this,” he murmured against me, his canines brushing against my soft spot. “We should’ve waited for the others, but I can’t seem to give a fuck anymore.”I moaned and curled my hands into the sheets, my tits bouncing against my shirt with every thrust. “It feels too good,” I said in a breath. “Too fucking good to wait anymore. They’ll come when they…”“Oh fuck,” he said,
Goddess, I want to,” Jake murmured against my lips, keeping them millimeters away from me, teasing me even harder. The beast inside me craved them so badly right now, even more than when I was in heat. “I want to so badly.”“Jake,” I cried, the warmth overtaking my body. “Now!”While I needed him more than ever, he walked up the prison steps and out of the concrete building toward the pack house with me in his arms. I ground myself up and down on him, rubbing my clit with his growing bulge through our pants.“Breed now,”the beast inside me commanded.“Breed now.”“Breed now,”I repeated, sinking my hand between our bodies and into Jake’s jeans. I gripped his cock in my hand and stroked it up and down as he carried me. “Jake, you need to take me right now. I’m begging you. I need you.”Heat, power, intensity burned inside me, from the inside out. A deep desire built in me.“I can’t,” Jake said through gritted teeth, as if he was trying to hold back. “I made a pact with the guys that once
I wanted her to love me just as much as I loved her, just as much as she did the others. Could she ever love me that much? Were all these doubts and insecurities just in my head? Had I ever been built to mate with someone as strong and powerful as her?“Jake,” she whispered, “talk to me.”“I-I’m sorry.”Fuck, I didn’t know what else to say. How could I tell her that I felt left out? I found it so embarrassing, so terrible to say aloud. It wasn’t like they had done something to make me feel this way. I just was awkward as fuck sometimes.“Please tell me that you didn’t” she paused for a few long moments, her voice frail and wavering, as more tears piled up in her eyes “do anything with Havana. I’m sorry if I hurt you in some way, Jake, but please … you couldn’t have.”“What?” I asked breathlessly, unsure if I had heard her. “You think I would cheat?”A single tear rolled down Sina’s cheek, but she quickly turned away from me. Moments ago, she had been training to be the strongest speci