Ares’s POV
Something was going on with Ari and it was starting to really concern me. She was giving off WAY too much heat. I could sense she felt drained, hot, and something else, I couldn’t quite pin down. Every time I smelled the air around her, I smelled her arousal, but it was very faint and subtle, but still there and I didn’t know why. When I asked her, she got defensive and pissed at me for questioning her. I didn’t appreciate that. She started ignoring me, so I gave her space since she didn’t storm off and she just turned around to talk to her friends. I made due talking to Lane, the Beta of Slick Paw Pack. I could tell Ari wasn’t sure how to feel about this guy, but I have had enough dealings with him to know he isn’t a bad wolf, he just has an ass for an Alpha.
As I was talking to Lane, Fen showed up making a fool of himself because he was clearly drunk on wolf wine. I hate belligerent drunks. They remind me too much of my father and it just sends my blood
Ares's POV I thought about it for a minute. “We mated the night of the claiming. So...this is day 2 AFTER the claiming…you don’t think this is the start of her heat do you?” I started to get a little concerned. I had planned on leaving with Alec tomorrow morning and taking Ari with me. Her father said this wouldn’t happen for at least another day or two. “It could possibly be her heat starting. Did you notice her...scent? Was it growing stronger?” Harmon was asking, implying her arousal scent that attracts other wolves. “It’s subtle. She said she got aroused because I made a remark that she thought was me flirting with her!” I reflect. “Well...did anyone else notice her scent?” “Not her friends...Lane didn’t...but...Fen noticed...does he normally notice her?” I questioned feeling Eros’s jealousy begin to rise. Eros was not happy to even entertain this thought. We thought he was just drunk since Lane suggested that. Harmon chuckled and
She started kissing my neck on the mark she gave me. It was sending chills up my spine and sparks down to my cock. I couldn’t let things progress. We HAD to get to safety. “Not here baby...I’m going to take you somewhere safe. You can have me all you want once we get there.” I wrapped her in the robe and picked her up bridal style as she moaned and cried. The heat was starting to cause her pain. She-wolf heats varied in severity and intensity depending on the wolf’s rank. They could be mild and last for a day, usually only for omegas. Or, they could gradually get worse and worse in intensity and strength much like human females going through their menstrual cycle. The Gamma’s, Beta’s, and Alpha she-wolves typically felt dizzy and hazy for a day or two, and then it hit them and they heated up and became a sex fiend for about 3 or 4 days. During that time they would go through waves of severe pain if their mate was not physically inside of them, spilling their
“I know baby, I know. I’ll help you as soon as I can, but we can’t stop here. It’s not safe!” I try to pull my hand away but her strength is overpowering mine and she won’t let my hand go. “Mmm…” She moans. I can feel her desire, the fire inside her is growing. She is starting to visibly sweat. Shit, another wave of her heat is coming on. I slow down my driving to give a little focus to what my hand is doing to her pussy as she moves it around. Eventually, she gives me a little control over my own fingers and I gently start moving two fingers in a circular motion on her clit. That makes her hotter, and wetter. She arches her back and spreads her legs as wide as she can in the passenger seat. Fuck this is so hot! I wish I could just pull over and fuck her brains out, but I know we will be so screwed if I stop now. I slide two fingers inside of her and use my thumb to rub her clit. I can’t really look at her and what she is doing because I have to keep my eyes
Ari’s POV I woke up in a haze. I didn’t recognize my surroundings and I couldn’t see Ares, but I could smell him. I was laying in a soft white bed. It smelled faintly of him, but the scent was strange. It wasn’t quite all of Ares’ scent. It was different, faded. The bed was so comfortable, that I didn’t really care where I was at the moment, which isn’t really like me. I didn’t know what was going on and that scared me. “Shit, she’s waking up….how do I know? I can sense she’s scared! Mate bond dumbass! I’ll call you later. I have to let you go!” I heard Ares say to someone, apparently on the phone. Sienna instantly grew jealous. That wasn’t like her. Why was she being so territorial? “Hey princess…” Ares came up next to me beside the bed and grabbed my hand and kissed the top of it. “Ares? Is that really you?” My vision is blurry and I am still burning up all over but I instantly feel the tingles and shocks graze my skin when he touches me. His scent
Ares’s POV “BECAUSE!” I shouted. “BECAUSE WHY?” She screamed back at me. God her body was a fucking temple and she was denying me admittance at the current moment. She was pissed at me for taking her away from her father’s palace. She didn’t trust me. I felt it from our mate bond. If she would just let me touch her, I could reassure her, but she wouldn’t let me near her. “Because I created this place to keep my father and his warriors out! I outfitted it with state-of-the-art retracting steel doors and windows and scent blocking barrier technology years ago!” I shout at her. I hated reopening old wounds, and she was making me do just that. She was scratching at my scabs that had barely healed emotionally. I didn’t want to revisit those memories but she was giving me no choice. I sat at a chair across the room and put my head in my hands fighting back the tears that were welling up in my eyes as flashback after flashback surfaced. “HUUUUUU!!!” She scre
Ari’s POV I can’t believe he can show past projections! We weren’t even touching! Father always had to touch the person he was passing the projection to, but I guess because we are mates, the mate bond must connect us on a deeper level that he doesn’t need to touch me! I got so caught up in my own shock and amazement that I didn’t realize Ares was not saying anything, and he looked like he was…shaking? I could barely tell but he was. “Ares?” I call to him in a calm, mellow voice. He doesn’t move or even look at me for that matter. My body was on fire! Every now and then I would get these jolts and aches that made me feel like vomiting while being kicked in the guts, but I made it through them. Sienna was whimpering for Eros and seemed wiped out. She barely spoke to me. After Ares didn’t respond, I call for him louder, “ARES? Baby?” He still wasn’t responding. He felt, lost. Our bond was so strong, I felt his fear. I had to go to him! I
Ari's POV ‘Do you, Ares Cain Martin, take Arianna Marlina Erickson, as your bride, mate, and QUEEN?’ My father was standing in the throne room wearing his regal crown and robes. Ares was kneeling beside me in front of my father. ‘I do, in every way I can, I DO!’ Ares declared loud and proud for all to hear. There was a massive crowd of people surrounding us and filling the throne room to the brim. I don’t think I have ever seen so many gathered in our throne room as I do now. ‘And do you Arianna Marlina Erickson, take Ares Cain Marin as your groom, mate, and KING?’ My father turns to glare at me where I am kneeling beside Ares, our fingers laced together as we hold each other’s hands side-by-side. I look at Ares and he lifts our intertwined hands and kisses my knuckles, giving me a longing and loving look that melts my heart and soothes my soul. I smile, ‘I do! With all of me, I DO!’ A tear of joy trails
Anika’s POV Oh, my goddess! I cannot believe I have finally found my mate! He is SO GORGEOUS! I probably looked like a lost puppy, drooling all over myself staring into his eyes, like the last meal I ate was - never and he was a big juicy piece of steak! Eventually, my friends snapped me out of my daze and I couldn’t have been happier to realize that my mate is the beta of Ares’s pack - the Freedom Ridge Pack! Granted, our pack has never been on the friendliest of terms with the Freedom Ridge pack; the pack is now under “new management” with Ares’s father being murdered and all, so maybe under Ares’s control, things will be better, right? I feel bad for the guy. That totally sucks! You go to your first Mating Ball and Claiming and your dad gets killed...that's a tough break! My heart ached for Ari and Ares having to go through all of that. I’m so excited to see the pack though! It is every she-wolf’s dream to meet their mate and then be swept off to their new pack to
Ari’s POV - After my first doctor’s appointment to check on the baby, I was so emotional. Ares was emotional too. We spent the evening alone together, bonding. We needed time to ourselves to feel close and decompress after everything that had happened recently. With this trip to Hawaii nipping at our heels, we felt it important to spend what precious time we had alone together as much as possible before the baby comes and more things get in the way. The next morning, Ani came bursting through our bedroom doors to wake us up. She was overly excited about this trip. We both may be about 2 months pregnant, but that wasn’t slowing her down from attempting to get to the beach and show off that gorgeous figure of hers. She ended up convincing Ares that Alexia needed to come with us to ‘heal’ herself from her rejection. He couldn’t say no when he knew everything Alexia had gone through. She had been moping around the pack house since she rejected Lane and knowing Fen was now dead helped
Ares’s POV The match was challenging, but not too difficult. After Councilmen Horis declared Ari and I the clear winners, the entire council as well as the other alpha’s bowed in submission and swore their fealty and loyalty to us both. It didn’t take long for the media to get word, and thus, the circus monkey’s are at it again, only they are starting to get worse. It was a relief finally ridding the world of that disgrace of an alpha. The fact that he openly admitted to murdering my father was icing on the cake - an added touch to the reasons for his death. His pack will end the horrid practice he was fully taking advantage of and I will send my father’s former beta to go and run the pack up there for the time being until we can find a better solution to managing our new pack territories. Ari has been scared to death of everything that has happened, and I don’t blame her, but I did reassure her multiple times that I would be fine and everything would be okay. I think she can fina
Ari's POV“Baby there’s no rush, we have all the time in the world,” Ares moans as I continue to rock myself up and down on his thick and engorged glorious member inside me.“I don’t care! I need you and I need this NOW!” I moan out as I slam myself down on him harder and harder, feeling myself growing closer and closer. As I get closer to my peak, I feel my emotions are quickly getting away from me and for some reason, as I reach that magical peaking moment, I burst into tears as I cum all over his throbbing shaft inside of me.“OH ARES!!” I cry out, “I can’t lose you! I can’t!”He lifts me up and flips us so he's on top of me now. I feel his nee
We left the diner to go back to the council headquarters where our room for the night is waiting for us. I’m exhausted all the time now, and I can’t wait to put my face into a pillow. We said goodnight to my dad and settled in our room for the rest of the night. As I laid my head on a pillow on the bed, my phone went off. Someone text me, so I rolled over and grabbed my phone from the bedside table. Alexia: I’m going to reject Lane. Me: Really? Are you 100% sure about this? You know I will support you either way. Alexia: I’m sure. I can’t even think about that place. I just can’t. Me
Ari’s POV In the council chambers, I see my dad currently in the middle of some big speech to all the alphas and elders. Ares and I stood quietly in a corner until he found his seat at the panel. He led me to his seat, and sat me in his lap, placing a gentle kiss on my temple before smiling and nuzzling his nose into my neck and inhaling my scent. He apparently needed a moment to calm down and relax because as he was inhaling my scent, I felt his whole body instantly relax. That made me feel good - knowing that I had the ability to calm my mate just by him inhaling my scent. As my dad finished his big long speech that I had paid no attention to, I hear the voice of the prick I loath more than anyone else in this world, “Ahh…so glad you could join us Alpha Ares, LUNA Ari! We thought you were too busy playing house to grace u
After a while, the witches settled down a bit and actually welcomed us in. We sat down in their main greeting room and one of the mistresses brought tea for everyone. “It’s not much Alpha, but we do pride our coven in our generosity towards those in your territory and pack. We are loyalists after all.” One mistress stated while sipping her tea. Something was bothering me and I knew what it was but I didn’t want to raise any alarms with Ari so I tried to be cautious in how I approached the subject. “What’s wrong?” Ari whispers to me from behind me. “Nothing. I was summoned to the council. I told Trace I couldn’t go right now, obviously.” I whisper back to her as she nods and relaxes back into her seat.
Ares’s POV “To what do we owe this pleasure, Alpha?” the coven mother asked in a very husky and labored voice. “We come seeking your wisdom and talents,” I state in a flattering manner in an attempt to make nice with the witches. We may be still in our own pack territory, but we were definitely out of our depth in the middle of a coven of witches, even if they were white witches and friendly with our kind. “What is it that you seek?” “We are in search of answers to help one of our own.” I responded just as vaguely as she was with me. “We are here trying to find answers for a half-breed madam,” Ari interjected. I glared at her
Ares’s POV After a few more hours of driving into the mountains we finally arrived at the location I knew to be the Sisters of the Moon’s coven headquarters. We had to dip down a side street in the small mountainside town due to the paparazzi that seemed to be accumulating in every area we went. “What are we going to do? They are swarming around that place!” Illyana says in a very concerned voice. “Relax! Throw these on.” I toss back trench coats, sun glasses, and hats to everyone to put on. Sometimes covering up as much of your identity as possible is the only defense. As we hop out of the SUV and begin walking towards the crowd and coven entrance, a photographer notices us. I immediate
As I hop out of my Range Rover, I see that a council elder is standing at the door waiting to greet me. It’s not a very far drive from Slick Paw to the council headquarters. Even though they have a chamber in Black Claw’s palace, their central offices are located about 2 hours away from our pack. It’s located on the edge of 4 pack territories and looks more like a four-story office building than anything else. From the outside and those not a part of the supernatural world, you would never know this is the seat of Wolf Nation, outside of our capital in Black Claw. “Alpha Fen, to what do we owe the pleasure?” Elder Peter smiles, holding his arms out in a greeting. “I’ve come to speak to the council. It won’t take long.” I declare. “They are in session. I will let