“No buts,” Anna said, calling over our waitress to order. “I’m hungry.”After mazing morning—besides the fact tha t Lucas had asked about Dad—I sat in the lobby of the doctor’s office with Lucas and Jake, waiting for Dr. Stormmark. My knee bounced uncontrollably, my nerves getting the best of me. I didn’t have to come to the doctor to get my IUD checked.I had two more years of it being usable, and I could check to make sure it was still inside me at home. There was a string that I felt around for multiple times a week to make sure it was still in place, especially while I had been dating James, my ex, after the move away from Loodmi.While I didn’t have an appointment and the waiting room was packed full, the nurse said she’d get me in within a few minutes. I filled out the rest of the paperwork that she had given me and returned it up front, then collapsed back next to the guys.“I’m nervous,” I said, clutching my stomach.“It’s going to be fine, Pretty Bird,” Lucas said, gently ru
Gods, I felt so alone. Not even my doctor would help me.Before any security could arrive, I pulled on my clothes, flung open the door, and stormed down the hallway. Other doctors tried to block my way of getting out they probably wanted to arrest me or some shit for putting my hands on one of their colleagues but they didn’t know half my story. Nobody did.I pushed everyone away and hurried out the door to the waiting room. As soon as I spotted Lucas and Jake, I burst into tears and ran toward them. They stood almost immediately, Lucas taking my hand to ask what was wrong and Jake quickly pushing people out of our way for a quick getaway.Thankfully, we escaped before the police or security showed up and hurried down the cobblestone streets of south Bloodmoon, taking back alleyways to flee the town as quickly as possible. I didn’t want to stay here another moment.What had been a nice morning turned so sour, so quickly.“What did they do to you?” Lucas asked. His voice was tense, as
“What happened?” I asked, instinctively knowing something was wrong with my mate.“Nothing.”“What. Fucking. Happened?”She turned her back toward me. “Noth-ing.”“Why the fuck are you so aggravating?” I said, growling at her. My gaze dropped to her throat, like it always did, my canines aching to sink into her and claim her. Maybe then I would finally be able to get inside her head and figure out what she was thinking, what she was hiding from me too.“Me?!” she said, whizzing around on her heel to stare at me. “I’m aggravating?!”“Yes,Anna, you are.”“You’re the one who won’t let me out of your sight!”“For your safety.”“If anyone cared about my fucking safety, they would’ve helped me years ago!” she shouted, but then she immediately pressed her lips together, as if she had let something slip out of her mouth that she didn’t want anyone to know about.But I didn’t understand it.After tearing her gaze away and staring at the floor, she turned back around and ran up the stairs. I fo
He sank down in the water, leaned his head back, and let out a long sigh. While I imagined Lucas would be one to take baths, I could never imagine Tyler in one even though he was sitting across from me.Once I pulled my knees to my chest, I took in every aspect of this man. He was always so tense, so crazy, but now, he was quiet and looked sorta, kinda peaceful. He opened his eyes, leaned over the side of the tub, and pulled a bottle of bubble bath from the cabinet under the sink.My eyes widened even further. “You take bubble baths?”Tyler’s eyes darkened as he dumped the bottle the entire fucking bottle into the tub with us, making the bubbles pile up far past the edge of the bath and spill over onto the floor, a mess that I didn’t plan on cleaning up. It’d be a good surprise for Asher tomorrow morning.“I bought it for you the day before you showed up in bloodmoon,” he said.“Wait,” I said, sitting up in the bath and focusing my gaze on him. I wanted to really understand this becau
JAKE.In the midstof a tense breakfast, Asher stopped mid-chew and glanced at the table, his eyes glazing over, the way they did when he was talking through the mind link to one of the warriors in our pack. I watched him carefully and listened as Sina moved around upstairs in her room.Suddenly, Asher shot up from the table, eyes completely golden, and hurried toward the front door. “Jake,” Asher called before looking back at him, “watch Pretty Bird. There are two of her father’s men at our borders that we need to take care of.”Tyler stood up from the table, his eyes turning almost black, then stormed out the front door before Asher could. But Lucas lingered behind with me, his movements slower than usual.“You don’t want my help?” I asked, knowing that I’d be more helpful than Lucas .“Lucas,” Asher growled because we all knew that Lucas would be the one to fuck Anna alone next if we left him with her.They were the closest out of all of us and had always had a connection that Asher
Once he left, I stumbled into the pack house.Anna pushed me down onto the couch. I held a large hand over my abdomen to hold the bleeding wound closed, my chest rising and falling quickly. As Anna scrambled through the house to find the medical supplies, I took a deep breath, bit my tongue, and slipped my fingers down into the gash. I felt around my insides to try to find the bullet, but it was lodged too deep.When Anna came back over to me, she stared at me in horror. “What are you doing?!” she exclaimed, pushing my hands out of the way and using a utensil to slide into my wound. “You have to be careful! You can’t just poke around inside there.”Within a few moments, Anna clamped down on the bullet with the utensil, winced, and slowly pulled the bullet out of me. She dropped it into a small dish, then cleaned the wound with some alcohol and some potion that we had bought from witches who lived down in Bloodmoon.“What did they lace this bullet with?” Anna asked, picking the piece of
Once Elise left, I eyed Lucas’s pocket, where he had hidden that circular loop thing that all the guys had been exchanging on our walk over here. Thankfully, the tavern wasn’t as busy as it was at night, so we had the whole corner to ourselves, and they could do whatever the hell they were planning.“All right, well … we gotta use the restroom.”“All four of you at once?” I asked when they all stood.They didn’t even answer me as they walked through the tavern to the restroom together, like they were part of some sort of cult or something. Pissed off, I angrily tapped my foot on the ground and stared at the men’s restroom door. I shifted in my seat, rubbing my thighs together and feeling the wetness between them already. My underwear tightened around my hips, and I discreetly tried to loop my finger around it to make it a bit looser.But when I tugged, it tightened even more, almost as if it was locked on to me.Breath catching in my throat, I glanced back up at the restroom and tugge
As soon as the last few words left my mouth, the witch’s face paled. “Vampire blood?”“Yes.”“But you don’t do magic. You’re a human.”“Give her the fucking blood,” Tyler growled.Once the witch placed down the herbs, she disappeared into a back room. I shifted back and forth on my feet, glancing over at the others, who all waited impatiently for her return.“If you guys want to be strong against the potions that my father creates, then you need to be willing to drink vampire blood. Your wolf powers won’t heal you alone.”My gaze landed on Lucas, who looked to be doing better after I gave him the healing potion this morning, but his cheeks were still a bit pale. When we got home, I would have to give him some more medicine.“Are you sure about this?” the witch said, clutching a vial of vampire black blood.“Yes.”She took a deep breath and handed the vile to me. “Please be careful. This stuff is very dangerous. If you need help or directions on how to use it, please come back to my sh
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