Alpha ColtHer hand slips into mine. Carefully she steps into the hot water. She lets out a hiss as her foot touches it.“Too hot.” She mutters through clenched teeth.“It will be good for the aches and pains.” Normally, I would recommend an ice bath. But these were not aches and pains from over training.She lowers her body into the water, continuing to hiss as the water covers her. She sits between my thighs. Her hands using my knees as a support as she makes herself comfortable.I try to keep my hands to myself. Every part of me was desperate to touch her. Every part of me ached to be inside her and have her legs wrapped around me. But I had to play this carefully, she was finally turning a corner. She wasn't fighting me anymore.To my surprise, she leans herself back against me. Her head rests on my shoulder, her back pressed against my chest.I could see how the water made her breasts bob a little. Her nipples were rock hard. “Lilah?” I mutter, trying to clear the dirty thoughts
LilahThere was something he wasn’t telling me. I thought at first that it might have something to do with the blonde. But I watch as his blue eyes glaze over, he frowns. “What is it?” I ask“Drake has disappeared.” He mutters, his teeth clenched.“You think he has gone to find her?”“If he has, he has just granted himself his own death.” Colt squeezes my hand a little and gives me a wink. “Come on, let me introduce you to my uncle.”"You don't want to look for him.""No. I'm going to stay right here with you."He leads me the rest of the way down the staircase. Turning us in the same direction as where the blonde went. There was already a lot of noise coming from the end of the hallway. I find myself tensing up at the sound. It seemed like every little thing had me on edge lately.“Magnus likes to throw a welcoming party.” Colt tells. “Don’t worry, I will be right at your side.”“Why?” It wasn’t really a question that I wanted answering. But the word tumbled from my mouth anyway.“H
Alpha ColtSleep takes Lilah before I get a chance to say anything. Her demand almost makes me smile. Yet the demand seemed so out of place for her.I lay right next to her for the next few hours. Listening to the gentle, content snores coming from next to me. I wanted to stay with her all night. I wanted to watch her sleep but I still had the problem with Drake.Quietly I move myself away from Lilah. Being careful not to disturb the bed too much. Her body flips over and she uses her arms to pull the pillow into her. As I waited for Callie to arrive, I continued to watch my mate. I had vowed to protect her, yet, I was failing. It didn’t matter if they were coming after her or me. I would make sure that nothing else would touch her. I knew right then and there that I was willing to die for her.I open the bedroom door before Callie gets a chance to knock. “Are you sure you are okay with this?”“Yes. It’s fine. I think she just caught me off guard. You know, I wasn’t expecting her to s
Alpha Colt“Me? What the hell have I done?” Callie demands. “It’s not because of something you have done. It’s because you can get close enough to Lilah. It means that Snare has been watching us. She is doing exactly what she did at White Crescent. She is playing every single one of us.”“So what are we going to do?”“I know it's a big ask Callie, but I need you to stay inside the packhouse. If she is posing as you, we will find her. I am not going to let her get her fucking hands on you or my mate.”“I won’t be able to go to Drake’s funeral?”“No.”“Not even outside for some fresh air?”“No Callie. I mean it when I say you need to stay here. Linc will go on a rampage if something happens to you. At this point, I don’t know what else Snare is capable of. She killed her own mate, something that is unheard of.”“You want me to watch Lilah?”I had thought about it. I thought that maybe it would be the best option. But I wasn’t prepared to let Lilah be tricked by Snare again.“No, you ca
Lilah.I already knew that I had overreacted. There was just something inside of me that hated knowing that he had been with another woman. I knew he wasn’t a virgin. But there was a difference between a one night stand and shacking up with someone for two years. Especially when he had been tracking me too.“They’re just words.” I mutter back when he tells me that he wants me. It felt that he had been trying so hard to make me trust him and yet he failed to tell me about something as important as this. “You’re only telling me because she is here.”The tears had stopped. The sadness had been replaced with an emptiness.“I didn’t think it was important. I honestly never thought that I would see Kaitlin again.” He tried reaching for my hand again, but I didn’t want him to touch me, not until I had a clear head.The annoying thing is, I knew that deep down, he was right. Even if he had found me when I was younger, it wasn’t like we could of had a relationship. He was eight years older tha
LilahI couldn’t bring myself to talk to Colt. Not about any of it. Several days passed and we saw very little of each other. He would still sleep in the bed next to me, but mostly, he was gone by the time I woke up. I only knew he had slept there because of his scent.The day after Kaitlin made her announcement. He tried apologising, over and over. But I just felt empty. I couldn’t even cry, even when I tried. I don’t know what it was, maybe I was in shock?Colt told me he would give me some space. The only request he had was that I had to stay in the house because Snare was still out there.Anytime someone walked by me, they would give me a look of pity. News had travelled fast and everyone knew that the King had bastard children. Children that weren’t mine. Children that connected him to Kaitlin.I still hadn’t heard from Linc. In fact, I hadn’t seen him since the night I had shown him the photo. There was no way that I was going to bring it up with Colt. I just had to hope that Li
Alpha Colt“Kaitlin. It is in black and white. The twins are not mine.”“They have to be. I didn’t sleep with anyone else!”“You must have done. It is the only explanation. How else would they be a hundred percent match to you?” On so many levels, I felt relieved. I wouldn’t have to find a way to fit the boys and Lilah into my life.“Colt, they are yours. You saw them, you looked at them, they both have blue eyes, exactly like yours..” Kaitlin wails at me.“Magnus has the same fucking eye colour as me. And so do a lot of other Lycans and wolves. It proves nothing.”“Colt, please, these results, they have to be wrong.”“Did you touch them?” I ask Linc. He was the only one that had carried the envelope.“No. The results were not for me.” He held eye contact so I knew that he was telling me the truth. Linc wouldn’t lie to me.I turn back to Kaitlin. “Take them away. I don’t want them here.”“But they are yours, Colt. They can’t be anyone else’s, it is impossible. You cannot deny them fro
LilahI don’t say anything to Callie. I couldn’t tell her that I thought Linc had faked the results. It had to be the only reason he was looking at me that way. I should have been happy. Colt believed it. But what if it was another lie? “You must be happy?” She asks as she hands me a glass of lemonade.“That he is not the father? Well, yeah.” I mutter. “But you are still hung up over the Kaitlin issue?”“He dated her for two years.”“It’s not exactly the first stupid thing he has done.”“There are others he has knocked up?”“No, that’s not what I mean. He wasn’t always like this, the tough exterior. He used to be a bit of a goof. His dad was always on his case because of some of the shit that we would get up too.”“Like what?” Colt didn’t speak much of his past, but it was the same for me.She raises an eyebrow at me. “You really want to hear how dumb men can be?”I shrug my shoulders, because anything was better than thinking about this lie.“We were about fourteen when we bunked o
Lilah The next morning, I find Colt packing up the office. “Going somewhere?” I look around at all the half packed boxes in amusement. “We are.” “We are? Did you try talking to me when I was asleep?" He laughs at me, “No, you said you wanted to live in the apartment.” “You’re joking right? None of this shit is going to fit in there.” He had more than enough boxes to fill the bedrooms. Plus it would have remnants of her and I couldn't be somewhere like that. “I thought that’s what you wanted?!” He stops packing and places his hands on my small bump “Once, but there was barely enough room for me and ….” I hadn’t mentioned her name since I had set her on fire. Any time there was a fleeting thought, I would push it away and focus on something else. “You can say her name. She can’t hurt you anymore.” “No. Even thinking of her is giving her time. Anyway, what about when this one comes along? A town centre is hardly a place for a newborn wolf or Lycan.” He presses his lips to my ch
LilahPulling the blade from my chest. My lungs quickly expand, desperate to suck in some oxygen after what had just happened.The wound above my heart, knits itself together, removing almost all trace of nearly being stabbed to death. All that was left was my blood soaked top. For just a single moment, I was afraid to move. Afraid to look at the damage she had done.Linc appears in front of me. His dark eyes searching mine, her blood coated the skin around his mouth and his chin. He stretches a hand out towards me and pulls me to my feet. “You survived.” He mutters, running his eyes over me, “Not very many of the others did.”As I look around, I see that Callie had stopped jerking about, but her eyes were closed and her body was now motionless. Aiden was hunched over, weeping over Ivy’s body, surrounded by dead Lycans. “COLT!”“Here,” His voice is faint in my head. He was still flat on his back, from where Daphne had knocked him down. “You have to burn her.”My eyes flicker across
Lilah“Snare?” My voice breaks when I say his name. I thought he was long behind us. “What does he have to do with this?” “You should have listened to him. He was watching you. Just as grandmother requested.”“Your grandmother?” Everything was quickly unravelling. Everything that Daphne had ever done or said was all lies. Out of everyone, she had played me the most, lied to me the most. She had used my emotions to get what she wanted and I had fallen for it, again and again and again.“It really was you. You are the one that made the hospital cave in on us. You almost killed yourself!”She chuckles. “I knew I wouldn’t die well not completely. But the pissy Hybrid had to get involved, didn’t she. Sharing things that shouldn’t be shared. You and I, we could have been great together. A descendant of The Greats and me, a strong and powerful witch. But you ruined that. No matter what I did, you and your special Colt could not be torn apart.”“What about the photo?” Colt croaks from the gr
Alpha ColtHer breath quickened as she kept her hand steady on my chest. Annoyance maybe, or maybe she finally accepted that someone was lying to her. And that someone was Daphne.She shakes her head at me and moves away. “You’re wrong, Colt.” “Why are you refusing to see what is right in front of you? Even after all the shit you have been through, you still want to believe her.”“She won’t lie to me.”“How many times have you heard that? How many times are you going to keep forgiving her?”“She doesn’t need forgiveness this time because it isn’t her!”“Then who? Who do you think it is? And don’t you dare say me, again!”“That Ivy girl.”I wasn’t about to tell her that Aiden isn’t certain about her, because that would just give Lilah more reason to blame her instead of the real culprit. “Ivy was with you.”“Maybe she planned something, maybe she set something up.”“You don’t believe that. You are just trying to convince yourself.”“Fuck off, Colt.” She sits down on the chair, crossin
Lilah Making my way down the steps, I’m hit with a cold breeze that almost takes my breath away. Looking back, I see Colt and Linc deep in discussion, but at the same time, I could hear Daphne down below, her quiet sobs filling the silence. “Daphne?” She stops crying and her hands appear through the bars of her cell, “Lilah? Is that really you?” Stepping in front of her cell, she pulls me in for an awkward hug, holding on tightly. “Lilah, you have to make them understand.” “I’m trying.” I mutter. “But Colt still thinks you still want revenge, that’s why he is blaming you. He is refusing to listen to me.” “You’re not wrong. I did want revenge, but only because I was angry. When I saw Linc's dead body, anger was all I felt but then… I saw him, standing in front of me, like he had never died, only his eyes were black and all the anger, it disappeared.” “Do you know what happened with the hospital?” I ask quietly She shakes her head. “Linc told me, but it doesn’t make any sense. Ho
Aiden“You want me to find out if she had something to do with the explosion? Dad, she was with me and mum when it happened.”“Well someone is hiding something.” he snaps.“I agree,” Linc nods his head at me“It’s not me, at least, I don’t think it is.” Daphne mutters from her corner. “It just doesn’t make sense.”I tell her what Ivy told me, and what she had said to my mother. Daphne violently shakes her head. “I have already said, it wouldn’t work that way.” She glances up to my father, “I don’t know what you saw, Colt, And I don’t know what you mean by the light being under my skin. But I am not responsible for everything. You have to stop blaming me.” She leans her head back against the stone wall. I could see the light flickering along her neck.“You’re doing it now.” I stare at her“What?”“The light that dad spoke of.”She looks down at her hands and rolls the sleeves up. Her mouth falls open as she stares at them. “What’s happening to me?”“You’ve not seen this before? What
Alpha Colt.“Clear the room.”Callie, Aiden and Ivy all make their way out carefully stepping over the shards of china, when Lilah starts to follow, I grab her arm. “Not you. We need to talk.”She scowls at me and tugs her arm away, letting out a groan. I wait for the door to be closed and to listen to their footsteps as they walk away.“Don’t bother, Colt.” Lilah growls at me.“With what?”“You are going to try talking me around. Convince me that Daphne is the bad person. But it’s not her Colt, it’s you.”“What are you talking about?”“This is what it’s all been about, isn’t it?”“Lilah, you are not making any sense.” I literally had no idea what she was going on about.“You never wanted me to have a sister. You wanted me for yourself, with no one around to get involved. But one by one, everyone that has been a part of my life has died. Dad, my mother. Halle, Drake, Grant, my children. The list goes on and on Colt. Who is next?”“It doesn’t mean it’s all my fault.” I snap in frustrat
Alpha Colt“No,no,no,no,no.” Linc mutters from next to me as his hand starts disappearing. His dark eyes flick up to where my mate is and back to his hand.“She’s dead!” It was the only thing that made sense. It was why Aiden was hugging his mother, it was why I could hear my mate crying. And it was why Linc was losing his hand all over again.Ivy says nothing. She watches my son and Lilah with wide blue eyes. A slight frown forming, but the frown quickly disappears when she sees me looking at her.“I will go and help.” She declares and starts climbing over the rubble towards my mate and son.“Well, I guess we didn’t need to kill her after all.” I mutter to Linc“If she’s dead, so is her magic.” He shows me that he can move around freely. “It's gone.” He beams at me but those dark eyes show an emptiness that seemed to go on forever. I could deal with Linc later, right now my mate needed me more.Aiden carries Daphne's body over the rubble back towards me. While Ivy helps to keep Lila
Lilah.“Mum, just calm down.” Aiden is growing frustrated with my pacing. “Please, just sit down.”“You are my son, why are you keeping me locked up?”“I’m just following Dad’s orders. What the hell happened in there?”“I don’t know.”“How can you not know? You were in there when the first explosion went off.”“Daphne was still unconscious. I was holding her hand when the roof started caving in. Colt, he pulled me away. He blocked me from the falling ceiling. He….” I knew he was blaming Daphne, but there had to be more to it. There just had to be.“Aiden, you need to let me go out there!”“No mum. Dad made it clear, you are to stay here with me and Ivy.”“Daphne is my sister!”“And she is the one who did this!” He glares at me with his grey eyes“I’m not so sure.” Ivy mutters from the window.“What?” Both Aiden and I speak in unison.Ivy hadn’t spoken a word since we had been in the house, well not to me anyway. She had spent the entire time watching what was happening from the window