BLAKEIt’s been three days of reckless torture, and yet, I’d learned nothing.The best and worst characteristic of the Shahato pack was their unwavering loyalty to their people. It was the reason why Wathoni had betrayed me without blinking an eye and it was the same reason these prisoners weren’t breathing a word of information about their pack’s possible locations.I nodded at Xander—the most ruthless torturer under my employment, and immediately he got the signal he turned on the switch behind him. Next, gnashing of teeth and mangled screams followed as the men before us felt the brunt of the electric chairs they were bound to.When I’d had enough of the hellish noises, I snapped my fingers and Xander turned off the switch. Heavy breathing and trembling noises echoed through the torture room as the men regained themselves or at least a semblance of control.“Nicholas, is it?” I walked towards them, my eyes trained on the man in the middle who I knew to be an army commander from the
BLAKEI blinked for what must’ve been ten times in a row.How the hell was she doing that? I was far too stunned to speak or move.Scarlett was indeed special, and not in the way a person you loved automatically seemed special, no. She was uniquely crafted, blessed by the moon goddess and gifted with a light that illuminated her room and the hallway I remained planted in.Something, a force greater than I’d ever felt, was suddenly draining me towards her like a magnetic force field.That very moment, her skin shone even brighter and her hair turned silver at the tips, making my mouth drop open in wonder. I didn’t know whether I should more worried than mesmerized, but my wolf was so enchanted by her that I couldn’t focus on any emotion other than awe.Slowly, that awe seemed to fill every nerve ending in my body before morphing into adoration. I wanted to go to her and worship at her feet, I could feel that desire burning through me and it was gradually being amplified by my wolf.I f
SCARLETTI loved how awfully happy he was, like he’d won the lottery.“Are you ever gonna stop smiling?” I pressed a kiss to his cheek, pleased at how it raised to indicate that his smile had widened at the question.My lips were swooped in an all consuming kiss, one that sent heat scattering all over my skin and tugged on the new bond that now existed between us. It was exquisite and I finally felt complete, the triple linking around the mate bond within me was proof of it.“I’m never going to stop smiling,” he said as he pulled away, a cute boyish grin lighting up his incredibly handsome face, “nothing could possibly compare to how amazing I feel right now, so why the hell would I ever want to stop smiling huh?” he asked before showing my face with kisses while I giggled.When he finally stopped, I needed a couple of seconds to catch my breath. And yeah, he was still smiling.“I hope I didn’t scare you though? With the uh… lights and floating stuff,” I swallowed, eyeing the spell bo
SCARLETTEver since Logan heard of Blake being mated to me, he’d been walking on eggshells around me.It had only been a day since it happened but because of his weird and evasive attitude, it seemed much longer. I could guess what was possibly going on in his mind, but I didn’t want to force it out of him in case I was wrong.In the meantime, I’d made plans to ease his worries, but it was meant to be a surprise. None of the guys knew about it, and if possible I’d like to keep it a secret until the very last minute despite the chances of that working being incredibly slim.Logan and I had been working from home for a while, so we were the only ones in the house while Blake and Alex had headed to their respective work places. We were cooped up in the library, one as gorgeous and spacious as the one the beast gifted Belle, and he’d been answering countless calls in order to avoid having an actual conversation with me. But I didn’t plan to let it go on for much longer.So, as soon as he
SCARLETTI repeated the short chant thrice, just to make sure I didn’t miss a thing.Soon, my entire body was bursting with power like I’d never experienced and I found myself fearlessly marching towards the giants—or at least the few that were left after the others had met the Vaughn men’s wrath.My hands were suddenly holding flames that I could wield as a weapon, and despite how much of an upper hand that gave me, I felt my courage shrink when I came face to face with a giant. He was huge and intimidatingly tall and I suddenly wanted to shrink into a hole.That foolish hesitation of mine gave him an opportunity to push me to the ground with a simple flick of his gigantic thumb to my forehead. Then he hovered over me, watching me like I was a familiar sight even though we’d never crossed paths.I thought of screaming for help so the guys would come to my aid, but my wolf urged me against doing so. Somehow, she believed that I could handle this all by myself and o was trying my harde
SCARLETT“No!”“Hell no!”“Fuck no!”All three men voiced their displeasure simultaneously, making me roll my eyes in defiance. It’s almost like they’d forgotten how little control they had over the decisions I made, if we couldn’t make a decision together then I wouldn’t let them make one for me.Backstory?We woke up this morning feeling more refreshed and connected than ever—all thanks to the marking ritual and some mind blowing sex—and we all blurted out the same idea at breakfast as a result. Of course we said it in different words, but the crust of the matter was that it all pointed to luring out the Shahato.It was decided that we needed to set a bait for them they way they’d done to us a number of times because the only way we could crush them once and for all is if we had the upper hand for once.However, the second I offered to myself as bait, they all seemed to lose their shit and shut down the whole thing without even bothering to listen to the well thought out plan I’d de
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
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