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ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS 209: Not for me!
LOGAN Did I hear right? Or was this a vivid hallucination? “Come again for me? What did you just say?” I sounded way too pleased as I asked, barely able to contain my excitement. There was shock somewhere in the mix of all that joy, but it was the lesser emotion so it was easily overwhelmed by my glee. Scarlett obviously didn't share that emotion with me, instead, she looked freaked out by what she said and just froze to a spot with a wide-eyed look of utter shock and disbelief. I could easily tell what was going on in her head, not her exact thoughts but the several other emotions that were swirling through her mind. “N–no, you misheard,” she swallowed uncomfortably, getting up from where she was crouched beside me and starting to pace up and down the office. “I– I…. No, we ju— just, no,” she stuttered, running what I could easily guess were sweaty and anxiety ridden palms down her dress repeatedly. Was I such a horrible person that the thought of us being mates pushed her
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SCARLETTMy heart was heavy all night and my wolf was endlessly yearning for her mate.After a sleepless night of fighting off my wolf’s desires, I decided to log into my employee profile at Logan’s company and take a day off from those on my work calendar that were meant for vacations.I feared that if I walked into that company with the hormones raging through me, I’d rip Logan’s clothes to shreds and let him do with my body as he pleases before the end of the work day.Until I was able to get the mate bond’s urges under control, I wanted to create a safe distance between myself and Logan. I still hadn't admitted to myself that we were truly mates, and I had a feeling I’d be proven dumb once he laid a finger on me and set my hormones ablaze.I was thinking of Logan a little too much for my liking so I desperately needed a distraction.Reading through my favorite romance book hadn't worked because each smut scene made me thing of Logan’s fangs buried in my skin, and surfing the inter
ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS 211: For the most gorgeous woman
SCARLETT“She’s not in here, buddy,” Logan answered dryly.I rolled my eyes at Logan through the mirror at the same time that Blake pushed the door open, looking around frantically and only relaxing when his eyes landed on me.“Scarlett,” Blake called, his eyes bouncing between myself and Logan with jealously visibly filling them as he wondered why we were barely an inch apart, “is he bothering you or something?”“Yeah, he is,” I mimicked Logan’s dry tone from earlier.“Touch me and I’ll break every bone in your fingers,” Logan threatened wearily when Blake started to make his way towards him, stopping him in his tracks.“Logan, you can’t threaten your way out of everything, It’s unbecoming,” I reprimanded him, shifting nervously in my chair because both brothers were watching me closely.The intensity in both their gazes was causing a storm in the pit of my stomach, especially since an awkward silence had fallen after I spoke.“I can’t make any promises concerning that, because unfor
ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS 212: I Love Her
ALEXI fucking love her, don’t I?Slender fingers threaded the strands of my hair and pulled on it, forcing a moan out of me as our tongues intertwined and moved in perfect harmony. I let her lead, only nibbling on her perfectly plump lower lip whenever the opportunity presented itself.God, yes. I love her.I mean, the other morning when we’d kissed, I’d confirmed without a doubt that Scarlett was the love of my life, she was my entire life bundled into a graciously ethereal being, a woman whose beauty was a miracle in itself.We’re kissing again now, and I’m reminded of the certainty I felt that day, but somehow it felt much more overwhelming and I had to ask myself once again if I was in love with her, and just as I’d expected, the answer is still yes. I doubt it’ll ever be possible to tire of her, of the unique way she makes me feel, or the way everything feels right whenever she’s near.I’m still struggling to keep my racing heart at ease when she moans in my mouth and I feel my
ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS 213: Sleep tight, Princess
SCARLETTMy legs were barely able to support me as Alex helped me out of the car.“Having a problem walking?” he teased as he intertwined our arms and wrapped another protective arm around my waist to hold me close to himself.“Not at all, I’m doing great on that front,” I shot back a sarcastic reply that made him laugh heartily.I loved the sound of his laughter, the rough bass that put me at ease whenever I was lucky enough to make him laugh.“I’d have had to carry you if I succumbed to my primal instincts and fucked you right after you came,” he whispered as we walked into the restaurant.I nudged him playfully in the side, trying to keep my cool as I looked around the glamorous restaurant. Everyone and everything looked like they fell from a money tree or had been baptized in pure gold.Which made sense since a restaurant such as Winston’s was only frequented by celebrities and old money benefactors. I’d only seen pictures of it in gossip columns, so it felt like I was dreaming as
ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS 214: Willing to give you a shot
SCARLETTI’d seen his handwriting too many times not to know that it was him.Logan had a unique way of using the cursive writing technique, and I’d never thought he’d be using it to write a love letter to me even in my wildest dreams.I let my eyes gloss over the title behind the envelope, taking note of the excitement bursting through me as I received confirmation that Logan was in love with me. One of the reasons I’d been scared to let myself bond with him was because I thought everything he felt for me was built on lust and nothing more.After watching his engagement with Ashley go up in flames, I was scared of being nothing other than a rebound, or the nearest warm hole to find solace.Now that I knew that he’d only let her go because he fell in love with me somewhere along the line, it seemed like a worthy sacrifice and I was suddenly eager to learn about when it happened. Smiling, I quickly opened the envelope and unfolded the letter I found inside.It’s Logan,I knew that alre
ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS 215: Harder to betray
BLAKEWas this what it felt like to fall off the wheels? I was losing my fucking mind.I thought a week would be enough to find an alternative to handing over the only woman I’ve ever loved to my pack, but it wasn't. Every waking moment was spent scourging through ancient books in search of a precious stone or magical creature alive that could take her place, but the harsh truth I learned was that she was truly one of a kind.There was no one who could take her place, who could bring my pack the redemption that ran through her veins. No one.Knowing that she was unique in every sense of the word made me stupidly fall even deeper in love with her which in turn made it much harder to betray her. The week’s deadline I was given to hand her over had elapsed four days ago and now I was staring at a summoning email from the overall head of the operation—Lucas Shahato.I was parked outside the gate of my pack’s hideout, wondering why the weight crushing down on my chest wasn't getting any li
ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS 216: Bonding Journey
LOGANI looked over the schedule for the thousandth time to make sure everything was in place.The itinerary for an entire day of dates with Scarlett was staring back at me as I nervously paced from one end of my office to another. I hoped that everything would be to her taste and that we’d find something meaningful to bond over.But first, I had to figure out how to ask her out on a date without scaring her off.“Scarlett, would you do me the honor of….” I groaned, pressing a palm against my face as I realized how overly formal that was.“Uh, hey there,” I wore on a practiced smile, “how about an entire day of dates together this weekend? You down?”I cringed at the poor delivery and the fact that it seemed nonchalant and lacking in the enthusiasm that I’d have loved it to convey.“If you’re free tomorrow, how about we spend the day together?” I sighed, unsure what was still missing asides how I was stuttering like an idiot.“Scarlett, can we maybe sp—”“A simple ‘wanna hang?’ text w
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ENTANGLED WITH HER ALPHA STEPBROTHERS EPILOGUE
SCARLETT “How many minutes apart are your contractions?” “Can you feel the pups crowning already?” “Should I get the midwives?” My husbands circled around me like vultures readying their prey, asking me a million and one questions like I was not as clueless about childbirth as they were. They’d read a library worth of childbirth and parenting books from the moment I found out I was pregnant and yet they were as nervous as a completely ignorant parent would be. “Stop hovering over her, please,” Hyacinth sighed and rolled her eyes as she walked into the birthing room, “the birthing process will begin any moment and I’ll need you all to either be quiet and or absent so I can get to work.” They all murmured amongst each other before finally falling quiet. “I’m going to give you a mild anesthetic so you don’t feel a thing and sleep through it, alright?” she turned to me with a kind smile and I nodded. I felt nerves already wrecking my body upon hearing that, I was reminded of the c
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LOGANThree long yet amazing months went by and the D-day finally arrived. I couldn’t believe that I was about to be married to Scarlett and it seemed that neither Blake nor Alex could believe it seeing how nervous they were while getting dressed for the ceremony. We’d watched her become the best version of herself in the last three months and judging from all the power and potential she radiated, even three Vaughn men might not be enough of a match for her. Still, I was beyond elated to see what a marriage as unique as ours had in store for us in the coming years. And for the rest of our lives. “I still can’t figure this shit out!” Blake whined as he wrongly knotted his tie for the hundredth time and Alex and I laughed at him. “If you’re too nervous to knot your tie, maybe you should just sit out the wedding ceremony,” Alex teased him. “Yeah, it’s a small wedding anyways. We’ll just add your name to the marriage certificate and crop you into the pictures for the wedding album,” I
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SCARLETTWe did it? “Yeah, we fucking did it,” Logan’s excited response made me realize that I’d asked that question out loud instead of in my head as I’d assumed. “And that’s only because you had the balls to put yourself on the line when we weren’t willing to take that risk,” Alex added, flipping a pancake effortlessly with a slight tilt of the pan. Inwardly, I rolled my eyes at his stellar skills, wondering how he was able to pull that off when I couldn’t even do it while carefully using a frying spoon. “I’m going to take a wild guess and say that you’re no longer focused on our victory over the Shahato and you’re now hating on everyone that can make a proper pancake unlike you,” Blake said through a chuckle. I narrowed my eyes at him, picking a grape off my plate and throwing it at his head for teasing me. “Ow!” he exclaimed when it hit his forehead. “Serves you right,” I grinned before taking a generous bite of my sandwich. That led to back and forth banter, and as much a
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SCARLETTAgain, they’d come to my rescue at the perfect moment.Unlike the last time, I refused to lose faith in them, so seeing them was more than an answered prayer, it was the confirmation of a truth I’d been steadfastly holding unto.I felt relief course through my entire body as the army pounced on the Shahato warriors, shifting to their wolf form and ripping our enemies apart before they had the chance to rejoice over my burnt corpse.Suddenly, the regret I felt when I was thrown into the portal that brought me here washed away and I was pleased with myself for following through with the baiting plan that brought us this far. I had a feeling that after this battle, we’d finally know peace and harmony instead of the chaos and despair we’d had to endure for months now.I was so lost in imagining a time of calm and quiet that I even forgot that fire was slowly creeping towards me as the altar behind me burnt away. It was when I smelt thick fumes suffocating me that I looked behind
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LOGANI still felt shitty and stupid for how immature I’d acted when Scarlett disappeared behind that godforsaken portal.Blake didn’t deserve to be choked so heartlessly when all he did was keep me from breaking my foot to pieces—because believe me, that was my intention when I started kicking that rock. Yet, he’d stopped me from hurting myself foolishly and I repaid him like an absolute asshole.I knew I’d apologized, but it didn’t seem enough so I made a mental note in the back of my mind to make it up to him somehow after we rescued Scarlett.“Guys! Over here! Quickly!” Hyacinth called out to me and my brothers and we rushed to where she was bent over on the floor and holding a glass shard.“What did you find? Please give us some good news,” Alex practically begged as he crouched beside her.“Their sorcerer must’ve mistakenly dropped this while closing the portal in a hurry, and now I know exactly where those bastards took her,” she jumped to her feet and Alex followed suit.“Wher
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ALEXFan–fucking–tastic!This bloody plan blew up in our faces just like I’d predicted it would. Those cunning bastards just zapped our mate through a portal and I couldn’t feel her through the bond from the moment they disappeared into it.I guessed that neither Blake nor Logan could feel her either because they equally seemed like they were going mad.“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck this!” Logan yelled on the top of his voice while kicking a rock repeatedly until I heard a toe snap and blood started to ooze from his boot.That didn’t stop him though, he kept spitting profanities and angrily kicking the rock until Blake ran towards him and dragged him away from the rock and set him on the floor.“What the hell is wrong with you, Logan? How the hell does that fix shit!?” Blake leaned forward, placing his hands on both knees while screaming right into Logan’s face.Instead od answering, Logan reached out and gripped Blake’s neck and started to twist it with rage burning in his eyes. I immediat
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SCARLETTThe morning of the full moon had finally arrived, and just like everyone else, I hoped that things went according to plans.None of us could handle any surprises because the chances of the plan going smoothly hinged on us being in complete control. To ensure that nothing went wrong, Hyacinth got a team of sorcerers to cast truth spells on the army in a bid to uncover any hidden spies from the Shahatos.Once we confirmed that every warrior was loyal to us, we finally let them in on the plan for the first time since we’d hatched it.Afterwards, Blake and Alex guided them through morning drills and helped them memorize the parts of the plan they were instrumental to, Logan and I kept Hyacinth company while she and her group of sorcerers did a location spell.Unlike the former location spells they’d casted to locate me when I was captured, this was much more likely to work because she’d used the blood of the prisoners that were recently executed. She assured us that with a team o
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SCARLETTOnce again, Hyacinth had to come to our aid.We rushed Alex home and called her to come by the house as soon as possible. After ten minutes that felt like an eternity, she finally arrived and got to work on speeding up his healing. She explained that he invested wolfsbane and that’s why he wasn’t healing even after Blake and Logan cleaned and bandaged his wounds properly as soon as we got home.Hyacinth fed him some potions, but when they didn’t work, she told us that the wolfsbane had been in his system for far too long so she would need a powerful spell to magically detox him of it so his wolf could heal.While she convened with the powers that be on the required spell for such a crucial procedure, I paced the entire room worriedly while saying prayers to the moon goddess and ignoring the words of comfort being thrown my way from Logan and Blake.For some reason, I still felt fractions of the fear and pain I felt when I thought he was going to take his life just to prove a
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SCARLETTAn hour passed and I immediately rallied Logan and Blake into the car to go in search of Alex. The longer we went without being able to contact or find him, the more I regretted listening to Logan and Blake instead of my wolf.And now because of my negligence, we were all worried out of our minds for Alex.It was almost nightfall and neither of us could reach or find him still. And believe me, we’d tried everything we could possibly think of. Logan tried to track his phone but his men found it dumped in a roadside bin and had no other means of tracing where he went from there because the traffic cams in that area were all busted.After that dead end, we’d all gone around the city in search of him but we couldn’t pick up his scent talk less of find his car.Normally, we’d have assumed that he was just somewhere blowing off steam and stayed home to wait on him. But ever since the marking ritual, we had a much stronger bond and could feel each other’s emotions and a while ago we
