Elsa“Then why didn’t you come looking for me? If you really wanted me that much Finn. Nate found me. He saved me. He wants me for me. Not for my blood!”My temper was growing shorter and shorter. And not just at this moment. I had noticed it in the last few days. I wasn't the girl who just accepted my life as it was, she was gone.“I didn’t know you existed.”“Exactly my point."He rolls his eyes at me."And now, somehow, you think you have this claim to me. You don’t. It’s as simple as that.”“He’s just using you.” He grumbles“Like you’re using Craig and Farrah?”His eyes narrow at me. “It’s not the same.”“It doesn’t matter why or how you use people, Finn. If you use them, you are the same as everyone else.”As I turn from him, he grabs my hips and pulls me back toward him. “You don’t get to decide when we are done.”“We were done before you met me.” I pull myself away and stomp up the stairs. It was a petty response, but I wanted to get away as far as possible. Even if that only
NateIt had been days since I last saw her.Not hearing her or seeing those baby blue orbs was leaving a hole in my heart.I had my men search the forest for her. They found some lingering humans and took them as hostages, but none of them seemed to know what we were talking about. Or who Elsa was.Why hadn’t she come back? What had she gotten herself into?“You need to stop beating yourself up.” Mason mutters“Are you serious?” Lola snaps back. “It’s his fault she’s gone.”“Where would she go? It’s not like she has a safe place to go.” Mason shrugs his shoulders.“What if she was kidnapped? You said her mother came here. What did she want?” Lola demands.“She didn’t want anything.” I growl through gritted teeth. "Other than to tell me that Finn would come for her one day. Do you think she went to him?”They look at each other with wide eyes but don’t speak.“Someone say something.” I mutter“She wouldn’t. She doesn’t like him.” Lola gives me a weak smile. "But maybe….”“Maybe what?”
Elsa“Take it from me. Whatever you say to him. It won’t change what I have planned.” Finn smiles at me. “That’s if you can even speak to him.”I scowl. I hated the fact he knew so much about me.“You just told me you were going to kill him.” I was keeping my distance. Pacing the bedroom as he leans against the wall, watching me.Why did everything have to result in death?“It’s the only way you will be mine. And this way, you don’t have to choose.”“I….” I was beyond surprised. How could he think that I would be happy? “I have already told you, Finn. I will never be yours. If I can’t be with Nate, I won’t be with anyone.”“I’m doing this to make things easier for you.” Finn is still smiling. My comment didn’t seem to phase him in the slightest.“To make things easier? I love him. Do you really think killing my mate will make things easier for me?”“You don’t love him. You are just caught up in the mate bond. That will disappear the moment his heart stops.”I stop to really look at h
NateAlpha Craig is uncontactable. I tried. Mason and Lola tried. Even Farrah. It was even more concerning that he wasn’t responding to his own daughter.Farrah sits uncomfortably on the chair. Perched on the end, as if it would keep her safe. Her hands are bound together in her lap. Mason had placed tape over her mouth too. Mascara lines caked her cheeks from the crying.Her knee quickly jiggles up and down. I hadn’t seen her do that in a long time. It was how I knew she was actually afraid.“Shall I just kill her? Surely that will make her father come to us. He will want revenge.” Mason is smiling at her. He wasn’t exactly a fan of hers.“No way. If anyone is going to kill her, let it be me.” Lola grins from my other side.Farrah lets out a muffled yelp. More tears run down her face as her eyes plead with me.“No.”“NO??” Mason and Lola chime. “Are you mad? She could be telling her father all sorts of lies.” Lola glares at me.“She could be.” “Alpha, she's too much of a risk.” Ma
ElsaFinn had been making more and more advances as the week progressed. Pressing his lips to my cheek just as Nate usually does. But when Finn did it, a cold shiver would make its way down my spine.I didn’t say anything. I figured silence was my best option. To not overreact after he threatened to rape me.He watched me more and more. He wanted me to leave the bathroom door open when I showered. So I stopped showering.He watched me dress every morning. Ignoring my tears when he wouldn't give me privacy. So I stopped getting changed even though my clothes were filthy.He tried to demand that I sleep naked. But when I took the pillows from the bed to sleep on the floor, it seemed to be the final straw.“What the fuck do you think you are doing?”“I don’t sleep naked. It’s weird.” I mutter, settling myself down on the thick carpet.“You don’t sleep naked with him?”“No, I don’t. I need something between me and the sheets.”“I want you to sleep in the bed.” His yellow eyes search my fa
ElsaHe seemed to have thought of everything. There was no way I could win. Whatever he had planned, he had also played out different scenarios. Ensuring his plan would succeed. I felt like I was drowning in failed ideas.“I don’t know.” I whisper. My eyes were on the man, bleeding out at the table.“He told you there were others in my pack.” He points up to the camera. "I heard him."“He didn’t say who.”“I want names, Elsa.”I turn my head, just a little to focus on his yellow eyes. “He didn’t say any names. He knew it would be too risky.” I swallow the lump forming in my throat. “He knew that I couldn’t be saved.”“Who?”“He didn’t tell me a name.”“Yes, he did. He told you that Vella was working on a plan.”“Vella?” I had forgotten that. I let out a snort. “How is Vella going to help me?”He kicks Jace’s body out of the chair. Jace crumples to the ground with a sickening thud. Finn takes the seat, unphased by the pool of blood on the wooden table and chair.“You tell me.”“Vella h
Nate“There are concerns within his pack.” Vella mutters.Everyone’s eyes were on him. All the Lycan’s had come over the last few days, just as Vella had said. And now the latest arrivals were in my packhouse, hanging on Vella’s every word.“Concerns?” Alpha Rex of America’s Greystone Pack asks“There are members that do not want to follow Finn Carter’s ways. They would rather remain a secret.”“Then why haven’t they done anything?” Alpha Brock from Black Night asks sarcastically.“Because they have been told to wait.” Vella stares Brock down.“Because of the girl, your girl?” Rex cocks an eyebrow at me.“Yes, she is my mate. You have already met her.”We had been having the same conversation for days. Repeating all the information for the newcomers. Today, it was Rex. Brock was sitting in just in case he had missed something.“You can’t communicate with her?” His eyebrow is still raised as he stares at me with his grey eyes“No. We believe that Finn is drugging her in someway. Or may
Elsa.I had heard him.After all this time, I thought he had given up on me. It was such a relief to hear him. Even if it were only seconds of his voice and at the end of a phone.Finn had come to me earlier with a mobile phone. He had pressed it into my hand. It had felt like some kind of trick. All the numbers had been glued down except the answer call button.“When I call, answer.”His instructions had been simple. He said nothing else. There was no warning to not try anything stupid. Maybe because he knew that I had given up trying. Hearing Nate’s voice. It gave me so much hope.Finn cut the call after a few seconds. He had left it going long enough for me to recognise Nate’s voice, but not long enough for me to shout something.I hear a key fumbling in the lock of my door. It's finally pushed open. A large man fills the doorway. A man I had never seen before. He glares at me with his dark eyes.“We need to move.” He tries to grab me and seems surprised when I pull away."Get off