RIVER BROWNThe ripple of his deep voice carries in the air and vibrates against my skin.My nipple puck as my hips buck taking every lash of his tongue like the good girl, he just declared me to be.I drown in his scent, in his taste, taking his tongue, matching the crescendo that’s us kissing like maniacs.Teeth gnashing against teeth, tongues fighting and him winning, his teeth biting my bottom lip before he sucks it like it’s supposed to give him energy.My pussy clenches when Neo goes ahead to play with my nipples.Not soft. Not gentle.But hard.His kiss is punishing.Him pinching my sensitive buds feels like he’ll draw blood and I damn know very well he’ll suck that blood and I will be hornier than ever before.By the time he goes to my neck, my heart beat accelerates like a motor engine. I growl for more knowing very well I’m out of breath and the building pleasure rioting in my body will be enough to bring the roof of the room down.My mates pick up on that.A second later, t
EPILOGUE: KINCAID BROTHERS’ POVNEO KINCAID“Keep you boys away from my kids”, Kane grumbles, I chuckle looking at said kids.Callum is dressed in a tux, his unruly dark hair carefully gelled back, an action that took Shane more than ten minutes.More than looking like a little gentleman, his little hands are all over Jessica, tickling her.Jessica Grey, Ria and Kane’s daughter, chuckles until a second later, the fit of giggles turn into tears of happiness.Callum removes a handkerchief from his tiny pockets, wiping the tears on her eyes and cheeks.The second he touches Jessica’s lips with the handkerchief, I’m already headed in his direction before Kane even thinks of punching my face to the ground.“Cal, hey. Come here.”My boy kisses Jess’ cheeks before he runs to me and I have no doubts he took over Connor.He’s cheeky like that.I kneel when he stands in front of me and I push lint off his suit.“What did we say about lying low when it comes to Jess? You know her father wants yo
RIVER BROWN“The event is nothing but a formality, Mal. You know that, baby”“You chose her to be your Luna, that doesn’t look like a ‘formality’ to me Landon. You chose her instead of me- ““I love you”, Landon caresses her cheek, I watch with a knife stuck to my ribs as they make out, as they tear clothes off each other with lust, as they proceed to the bed reckless of my presence just by the door.The bed dips to accumulate their bodies, the bed covers shift in abandon as they kiss like reincarnated lovers.I’m still standing by the door, trying to take sharp inhales of the cloying air, trying to breath as if that would make the events in front of me sting a little less.The irony isn’t lost on me that there are hundreds of people downstairs waiting for me and my mate.The same mate who is rocking into a naked woman that happens to be my younger sister.I open my mouth to say something, to call them out on their behavior but my voice balls in my throat traitorously refusing to com
RIVER BROWNThere are Alphas like Landon O’Connor who are blessed and favored by the Moon Goddess.There are she-wolves like my sister Malia Brown who are destined to be great Lunas as compared to the size of their wolves.Then…there is me, the abomination and apart from me I didn’t know anyone else who was weird until today.Brackenridge is my home. Any other place rumored not to be Brackenridge is cursed and forbidden to step into by not only the alpha but by the Moon Goddess too.These men in front of us are not from Brackenridge.They are cursed by the Moon Goddess.They are…rogues. Rogue alphas.I’m still dazed by everything when Landon’s grip on my arm tightens and he whispers,“Accept my rejection, River. If you don’t, these men will kill us all. Think of your sister and your aunt, do you want their deaths to be on you?”His words cut every nerve in my body and I can feel myself bleed in the inside.The three men are standing a couple of feet away from us looking very much like
CONNOR KINCAID“Put it on and hop onto Shane’s arms. You are ours now”I said that minutes ago, my wolf barely able to contain the overwhelming feeling inside of us.Landon O’Connor has owed us for eons and tonight the mission was to take Brackenridge away from him.To destroy him and his weak betas.The mission however changed. The night took us all for a ride and even if my brothers don’t say it, we all felt it. Shane most especially.We are Alphas. Apex predators. More importantly we are rogues and we live by it with pride.Rogues however never have the privilege of getting a mate. Believe me, we’ve searched, and for a time, we were good with that.Mate or no mate, Shane, Neo and I had each other. Brothers till death. Brothers who ruled the world for years without following the rules of this realm.That was until her-The woman with the raven dark hair, full pink lips, high cheekbones and a face so pretty it pissed me and my brothers off.We smelled her in a crowd of people.We k
RIVER BROWNShane is the most insufferable Alpha I have ever met. He might be more insufferable than Landon and that’s saying a lot.Immediately they leave, I stand up and run to the door trying to pull it open.It’s closed shut and I sigh in annoyance.Did they leave me to die alone in this empty cabin? Or are they going to come back and finish the job?I run to the kitchen and I’m met by the grandest kitchen I’ve ever come across.A large kitchen island stands in the middle holding a fancy sink and bowls of fruits that I can’t tell are fake or real.At the corner stands a grey side by side large fridge and Shane’s words ring in my mind.‘Help yourself to whatever you want’I’m hungry and scared and so confused that food is the last thing on my mind right now.The minute I see the barrel of knives by the counter, I take two knives.Knives are good for self-defense. I could stab Shane or Neo or the other guy who hasn’t said a word to me since the party and escape before their wounds
RIVER BROWNThe darkness hovers around them like a plague brought upon by the fury of the Moon Goddess. The scowls on their faces are the same ones I have seen on bandits, rogues and everything monsters consist of. Their eyes, dark, chocolate and blue are so menacing that the more I stare into them the more my bones rattle with fear.It’s been one week in the cursed lands.One week confined to their apartment.One week of being alone with Greta who’s done nothing but been sweet to me.I don’t hate her.But I hate them.I hate Connor because he strangled me. He hurt me; I still have nightmares ever since he choked the life out of me.I hate Shane because deep down I know he doesn’t like me. That he was the first one to order his brothers to kill me.I also hate him because that night in that car, his hands held my waist like I was fragile glass that would snap without him. Like I was important, despite being rejected by Landon.And Neo? I hate his blue eyes; I hate that warm smile he
SHANE KINCAID‘Take a good look in the mirror, son. Look at those eyes, bask in the darkness they hold, be the darkness and embrace what you are. A monster in the making. You killed your mother today, tomorrow it’ll be your mate. Better yet, your brothers’A monster.Being called a monster by my own father hurt when I was a ten-year-old pup. Nineteen years later and I wore the word ‘monster’ like a brand on my forehead.I embraced it and lived like a monster because being one made me feel like a god.A monster owned the whole world.A monster killed with no remorse.A monster was an Alpha without a heart.A monster couldn’t be changed, couldn’t love, couldn’t get hurt.And this monster certainly didn’t have a mate, wasn’t going to mark her and wasn’t absolutely going to fall for her.Ten seconds are gone and little Miss Invisible is still hiding behind my desk, thinking that if she pretends to be invisible, I’ll ignore her presence.The alcohol might be in my system but my wolf and I
EPILOGUE: KINCAID BROTHERS’ POVNEO KINCAID“Keep you boys away from my kids”, Kane grumbles, I chuckle looking at said kids.Callum is dressed in a tux, his unruly dark hair carefully gelled back, an action that took Shane more than ten minutes.More than looking like a little gentleman, his little hands are all over Jessica, tickling her.Jessica Grey, Ria and Kane’s daughter, chuckles until a second later, the fit of giggles turn into tears of happiness.Callum removes a handkerchief from his tiny pockets, wiping the tears on her eyes and cheeks.The second he touches Jessica’s lips with the handkerchief, I’m already headed in his direction before Kane even thinks of punching my face to the ground.“Cal, hey. Come here.”My boy kisses Jess’ cheeks before he runs to me and I have no doubts he took over Connor.He’s cheeky like that.I kneel when he stands in front of me and I push lint off his suit.“What did we say about lying low when it comes to Jess? You know her father wants yo
RIVER BROWNThe ripple of his deep voice carries in the air and vibrates against my skin.My nipple puck as my hips buck taking every lash of his tongue like the good girl, he just declared me to be.I drown in his scent, in his taste, taking his tongue, matching the crescendo that’s us kissing like maniacs.Teeth gnashing against teeth, tongues fighting and him winning, his teeth biting my bottom lip before he sucks it like it’s supposed to give him energy.My pussy clenches when Neo goes ahead to play with my nipples.Not soft. Not gentle.But hard.His kiss is punishing.Him pinching my sensitive buds feels like he’ll draw blood and I damn know very well he’ll suck that blood and I will be hornier than ever before.By the time he goes to my neck, my heart beat accelerates like a motor engine. I growl for more knowing very well I’m out of breath and the building pleasure rioting in my body will be enough to bring the roof of the room down.My mates pick up on that.A second later, t
SHANE KINCAID“You ready to rodeo this shit?”Connor yells.I grip the chains harder, my boots sinking into the sand. Then I take one good look at the old man from his high seat looking at us like he thinks a couple of wild boars will be able to get rid of us.I’ll kill these beasts. I’ll pass whatever trials he has for us.And when we are out of here, I will fuck my mate senseless and mark her again if need be just to show the old man his daughter is mine.His daughter will always be ours.“Ready”, I retort over all the noise and the upheaval.Silva latches on to the neck of the boar up ahead in seconds.That’s one boar down.And the other is boar headed to us while we still can’t shift.“One.”I can hear the amusement in his voice.My brother is having quite a little bit of fun in this.I would find the whole situation funny if it wasn’t for the fact that we’ve been dangling in a dark room for days taking beatings from omegas we could have well killed.I’m pissed at everything.I’m
RIVER BROWNA few days of being here and Brit and I have searched for them to no avail.It doesn’t help talking to Osiris—my father because he has relentlessly refused to let me see my mates no matter how I ask my mother to knock some sense into him.“I chose them. I’m old enough to make my own decisions. I have made my own decisions for a long time long before you even showed up in the picture.”“Osiris- “, my mother pleads.My father’s face softens but that mask of overprotectiveness is back as soon as he holds my eyes tenderly.“I’m here now and you do not have to do anything you don’t want to.”“You think I don’t want my mates? I love them, they are my mates!”“Do you know if they are? Or did they tell you they are your mates and you went along with it.”Britney scoffs next to me.I fight the urge for an eyeroll because deep inside, his question boggles me.I admit at first, I didn’t feel anything towards them that classified them as my mates.Sure, they called me their mate first
CONNOR KINCAIDMotherfucker.The silver digs into my wrist, at this point it might as well be filtering into my bloodstream, weakening Killian and I.Shane’s the one who’s taking this harder than ever.Pissed as ever, exerting energy he doesn’t have trying to free himself, I know the silver stings him harder than all of us.“I’m calling it now”, Shane grunts, the chains rattle from the damp ceiling, “this is the last time we let any of River’s family members close to us. There was the delinquent sister and now there’s the psychotic father.”I cough.Blood taints my lips, almost choking me.Feeling the blood tainting my teeth, I smile and then I erupt into a full-blown pained chuckle.Curse our fucking luck.After all we’ve been through, to get River, to get the kids and the only thing stopping us now is a pissed off father-in-law who thinks we’ll corrupt his daughter.Our mate for Goddess’ sake.We’ve corrupted her so much, not even another man can breathe down her neck.We filled her
SPECIAL CHAPTER: ALPHA OSIRISWhen life has taken a lot from you, quite literally and figuratively, nothing surprises you anymore.I’ve seen everything the realm and the worlds have to offer and nothing in my entire lifetime has boggled my mind since.They call me a traitor, a traitor I have lived.My people were fickle and if I was a man who cared about the rumors and the backlashing, I would have slaughtered them. Had some peace, enforced the power I craved so much in my youth.Yet one thing changed in the equation and life was as meaningless as the walls I erected to keep the outside world out.My lotus flower died.My human mate left me to rot in this wretched world.Not a single day has gone by not wishing I could join her wherever she went.Humans believed they went to heaven when they died.Werewolves believed there was only two paths in the afterlife. To the Goddess or to hell.I hadn’t done a lot in my life that made the Goddess like me but I would have done anything to join
NEO KINCAID“Iridian? Lotus flower, is that you?”Osiris asks like he’s floundering in a vast pit of his own self-loathing and guilt.I can’t imagine what it’ll feel like knowing he has twenty-six-year-old twin girls, one of whom he just threatened to kill for the punk standing pale next to him.My little boy grins, turning around to look at us.“Meemaw, he knows your name”, Niko says.Iridian slowly steps forward, lips quivering, her hands covering her mouth to stop the sobs.A few of the shit betas and omegas in the room with us murmur.Some of them might know her.Some of them think she’s a fraud.But most of them smell it in the air.River and my kids smell like Iridian, only different.And Iridian smells like what she is. A human.Maybe that’s why Osiris picks Niko from the floor and in his hardened scarred arms taking painful steps to meet us.A minute ago, I thought we’d take out Osiris and get to the displeased omega who’s only gotten paler.Right now, we all watch as two love
CONNOR KINCAIDFor a myth guy and for a guy who’s been a traitor to his species, Osiris didn’t earn the title for the most powerful alpha in the realm for nothing.We thought we were rogues.Osiris makes us look like a bunch of fools from Brackenridge.You can tell by the infrastructure in Gozam, the gravel-built houses surrounding the castle for protection.There are the omegas guarding the gate and as we move inside the city, there’s the betas guarding the inside of the city, guarding the outside of the grotesque gothic mansion up ahead.Each tumble of the jeep we are currently occupying raises our guards up.River’s father might be some bigshot but bigshot or not, we don’t give a shit about his power or his city or his shit guards that stare at my kids like vermin.As soon as we get Levi, we are out of here. Back to normal. Back to making up to our kids for missing in action in all five years of their lives.River and the kids are up ahead in the jeep halting in front of the castle
RIVER BROWNI have been biting my nails since they disappeared into the woods.At some time in the night, Gypsy alerted me she heard screams. I wanted nothing more than to let my curiosity take over but the thought of leaving my kids stopped me.They left us with a couple of omegas to protect us.And then there’s Gio who’s protecting the premises with a bat in case of trouble. We all know that bat won’t stop anyone but I let the old guy think he’s doing something.Mom hasn’t stopped looking out in the woods yet and I get her.Brit is out there too and by the look on her face when she left, she’s determined to see this through to the end.I’m determined to put this behind our backs and start a life without wars and hunting and constant danger.The Moon Goddess might have heard my prayer because the trees by the west ruffle and the moon’s light reveals the triplets’ faces.Brit follows behind them but that’s not the only one tagging along.Some guy is being yanked and forced to walk beh