MY MATES PROMISES

I looked to my side and I forced to peel his hand of my laps but forced his hand to stay on my laps.

“ I am so sorry” he says, I looked into his eyes and hissed.

I tuck my fists under my armpits and scowl.Maybe I wanted a fight. But as I lean back in the leather seat, its cushions welcoming to my sore back and legs, exhaustion sets in. I don’t have the energy to fight. Maybe… maybe I just wanted to feel in control for a little while.

You're okay," he says, his voice gentle.

Jake reaches over and pats my thigh, and even that minimal touch does things to me, quiets the fight in me. I feel my wolf padding around within, settling like a dog against the arm of a couch. An undeniable connection binds us together now. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I'm too tired to parse the emotions.

Unable to help myself, I glance in the rearview mirror and see that Asher has his gazes locked onto Jake and Lucas’s  hand on my thigh. I feel my nipples harden, and draw in a shaky breath. I don’t know why the fuck my wolf likes her men to be possessive, but it’s clear that I like it too.

On some wolf-level, I want nothing more than to slide my hand up Max’s thigh, unzip his pants, take him out, and stroke his big cock. On that same level, I want to wrap my lips around him and suck him off while watching the men in the backseat are left hard and wanting.

I take a shaky breath, interally telling my wolf to calm down. She might want to follow her instincts and desires only, but I have other things on my mind. Besides the fact that I doubt Max wouldletme suck him off, if only because he wouldn’t want Orson seeing me like that.

Damn it.His possessiveness is far too sexy.

Asher’s gaze meets mine in the rearview mirror, and his mouth curls into a sexy smile. I hate that I suspect he knows my mind is in the gutter, and that his mind is right there with me. My only savior is that Max has no idea what his touch has done to me.

“This lead is a big one,” Jake says, drawing my gaze back to him. “A better lead than any we’ve chased down so far.”

“ I will not only protect you , I promise to also save your father”

Hope blossoms inside of me.Was one of my pack members spotted?

“Alright, Jake, Thank you,” I say, my voice fading. I want to lay my hand over his in my lap, hold it as I fall asleep, but I’m wary of what Orson will think too.

After a few seconds,Jakeremoves his hand and I distract myself from the empty feeling in my chest with the passing scenery. My dad is being held captive, my daughter needs to be found and a real weight of saving other packs is on m. Having all my mates assuring me of a better future, the malignant sludge returning to strength. That unsettling thought spurs a question. “I really hope we find my daughter, I miss her, I want to see what she looks like”

“ She is everyone of us daughter” He says.

“ The war ahead is a tough one,the woman we and your daughter will face is a tough woman, Ethan’s wife is a dark witch,You need to start learning to control your magic, your magic might be dark but you are not born to be evil , you are born to save the kingdom back to Lucas and you will be his Queen”

“ I don’t want to do anything for this stupid man? I said with tears dripping down my face.

“ That’s your destiny” He said.

“ What about me, I am her mate? Jake ask.

“ Your journey with her will end soon” He said.

“ No way, I never plan letting go of her, she means a lot to me” he says.

To be honest I love Jake, he proved his love to me than anyone I have ever expected, he proved to me that he was willing to protect me .

Lucas just sigh with no words.

I shut my eyes because there is disappointment lingering in my heart. There’s no winning against my eyelids as they finally clamp shut, closing out the world.

In the darkness, my mind tumbles through surreal dreams. My dad appears, I think to call out to him, but my voice can’t reach across a wide ravine separating us. I glance down into the deep scar it carves into the earth. Streaming through the gully like an oily black snake runs a river of pitch.

When I stare into it, a cold sweat breaks out across my body. Then I hear something calling out to me. It’s not dad, it’s a little girl’s, I flipped my eyes open trying to figure out what that dream was all about.

I look around and Blinking against the sun, I assess my surroundings. We’ve stopped, that’s the first realization that dawns on me. The car no longer rumbles beneath me. My door’s open, the three men I rode with stand in a semicircle staring in at me. Asher’s dog jumps down from the front seat and sits at Asher’s foot.

The air is dry, laced with dust. Light radiates from every surface. My sight takes forever to adjust. “Where are we?” I ask. “The sun?”

“It’s bright in the desert,” Asher says with an edge of snark.

Jake shoots him a glance. "A stop for the night."

"Isn't it amazing how fast a landscape changes when you travel through mountains?" Lucas says, studying the landscape like an explorer.

I feel my pupils constrict as I follow his gaze and finally the world appears out of the white light, expansive, desolate, empty. Except for the diner behind the boys, the landscape is a russet plane with distant rocky formations and a slate-gray streak of road cutting through it.Squinting, I peer betweenLucas and Jake at the silver can of a restaurant behind them. It looks like a classic American greasy spoon and I think to myself, a fatty sandwich and some soggy fries sound pretty good right about now. “We grabbing a bite?”

Jake, squinting like the Man With No Name, nods down the road. “There’s a motel a short distance from here where we’ll bed down. Figured we could all use a little nourishment before settling down for the night.”

“Night? They get those around here? Doesn’t even look like they allow shadows.”

I hop out of  the car and start a series of stretches to reawaken my limbs. Man, how long was I asleep? I've been a pretty light sleeper for a long time. When sound means a Blood Mage is coming to cut your veins open and attach their test tubes, you learn to be alert. It's strange that my instincts failed me in a car with three men. Scary even. The kind of thing that could lead to me being hurt again.Or did my instincts tell me I could trust them?It's a notion that instantly makes me alert.

“Let’s grab a table,” Lucas says.

"We can keep an eye out for rattlesnakes. This is their natural habitat.," Asher says, drumming his hand on his laptop case absentmindedly.

"You talk to people a lot, don't you?" I ask, the words leaping from my mouth before I can stop them.

He grins in response. "Only a couple people who had adjusted to my weirdness."

"Ah, so we're in the adjustment period," I say, like that explains everything.

He laughs.

Jake steps between us, frowning. "Food time."

Asher falls in line behind him as he heads for the restaurant and I make to follow, but Lucas places his hand on my shoulder. I halt and glance up at him. “Hang back please.”

Jake pauses, throws a curious look back at us, then a wordless message transmits between the twins.Give me a minute with her, I imagine Asher thinking. Jake  continue into the diner while Lucas and I remain by the car.

The look in his eye makes me afraid to ask what’s up. He reaches into the car and for a split second, I think he’s grabbing a silencer or something, and this is the end of the line for me. It’s an absurd thought, but I can’t shake the feeling tha tLucas might want to kill me

I sigh furtively with relief when he retrieves a yellow tennis ball from the floor of the backseat. Lucas eyes me and smirks knowingly, but doesn’t say anything yet. He turns to the dog, presently relieving himself against a rock until a considerable moat encircles the stone.Good lord,

Lucas hurls the ball and I lean against the side of the truck while the dog bolts after his toy. As he recedes, his tan coat blurs into the backdrop, disappearing into the hazy sizzle of the horizon. “Good throw,” I say.

“THe dog needs the workout,” Lucas says. Then he turns to me and I’m not ready to fall under that intense gaze. “I am so sorry?”

I feel naked in his eyes, and not in the fun way I’d enjoy right now. There’s nowhere to hide the truth. Panic sets in, its symptoms of brow sweat and flushing conveniently excused by the unforgiving climate.Just lie.

“I promise to protect you.” He says but I could see the wolf inside me wants to feel him I do not want to have any of that.

He only squints back at me. I feel my wolf growling nervously, licking her lips and hanging her head. The dog returns the ball, dropping it at Lucas’s feet, then sitting patiently before him. “Why don’t you give it a throw?” he suggests.

I glance down at the tennis ball, strands of dog saliva matting its yellow fibers. Using one foot, I roll it atop the other, then kick the toy in a long arch that passes through the low sun. “Nice kick” Lucas says.

The memories of the sex beween me aand Lucas back came flushing to my memories still one of my best sex ever but i feel dirty , I want to have that passionate sex again but the memories of my pregnancy began to run through my head and how I searched for our baby back then.

“ Fuck you !Fuck you Lucas! I hate you! You torment my life, why did destiny toe me to you?