SHANE KINCAIDValhalla was my dad’s legacy. We changed it to be less of a brothel to more of an enterprise within five years.Alphas got whatever women they wanted as long as the auction was consensual from both parties and we got to keep a tight rein on every pack’s secrets.Today?Valhalla has been turned to the same shit my father started.It took nearly all my willpower not to exterminate each and every alpha in the auction house for gazing at River but rest assured, every crooked man working in my fucking club will be dead tomorrow.Ria Lopez was auctioned to Kane Grey of the Greyhound pack. I called him as soon as I had intel that his mate was in Valhalla too or in this case Club Deluxe, the one upstairs that acts as a cover for what’s downstairs.Another headache called Britney O’Shea was auctioned to one of my omegas, Jamie, the same guy she fancies. I might have wanted the brat dead and banished but River wouldn’t like it if I did that.Apparently upsetting River leads to si
RIVER BROWNBreathless. Sweating.Needy.So, so much need.A need that started when I spotted them in a room full of Alphas and they bought me. Filthily paid for me with money.Forgive me Goddess, because that’s what I’m feeling right now and that’s what I want.To be filthy.To be their little filthy-“Mmhmm”, I groan into Shane’s mouth.I’m to the point of delirium that I can’t make any words spill from my mouth.My blood is racing in my body like fire licking a thick trail of gasoline. My head is drowning in their scents, mulled wine and citrus and a distant smell of sage which belongs to Connor, the man who’s watching us with eyes darker than sin itself.Shane’s lips are hard and punishing, rough yet soft, greedy yet yap definitely greedy.They claim mine in heady passion, his tongue duels with mine taking everything my whimpering body can offer.Shane Kincaid doesn’t just taste me; he feasts on me like the beast he is and I’m the prey that’s too delicious not to take mercy on.H
RIVER BROWNI’ve been sitting in my room for hours looking at a book about shapeshifters and not really reading anything.I saw Neo leave a few hours ago and it’s safe to say he was pissed off.The only one left in the house is Shane who is locked tight in his office and oh yeah, I checked.I also looked for Connor but either he was ignoring me knocking on his door or he isn’t home.I really want to talk to Connor. Start by saying I apologize for every mean thing I said because I was truly sorry.He might have killed his mother but so what? That was his deal not mine.And as bitter as it was agreeing to Brit, I didn’t know the full story. I shouldn’t have pointed any judgmental fingers either.The problem is the only way to talk to Connor or to know where Connor is; is by talking to Shane.The same man who left purple marks on my boobs.Frustrated, I walk out of my room again and straight to the door that leads to Shane’s office.I knock. He ignores.I knock again. Silence greets me.
CONNOR KINCAIDThe Goddess’ favorite.Everyone around me strived to be that.I learnt at a young age I didn’t need to be the Goddess’ favorite but Christopher Kincaid’s favorite.And what was being someone’s favorite?My father or as I like to call him Christopher Kincaid taught me at an early age that being number one in our world meant sacrificing everything.At ten years old, I sacrificed my time practicing how to be a formidable Alpha.At ten years old, I sacrificed my body to my father’s beatings just to be tough like he was.At ten years old, I did everything my father told me to do because I was his favorite among the sons he despised.I never wanted to be his favorite though. I wanted to be Shane, the boy who stood up to my father and said ‘no’. I wanted to be Neo, the boy who hang around mom and got to laugh with her all day.I shouldn’t have been my father’s favorite because being his favorite gave me scars that never healed.Scars that I see every time I close my eyes and r
RIVER BROWNMy head feels like it has been bashed in and splintered into a thousand pieces like glass.One minute I thought I was dead and the next minute…my eye sight is in two, the copper taste of my blood chokes me and the air is leaving my system faster than I can understand what’s happening.But I know what’s happening.I open my eyes and two angry wolves stare at me protectively.The black, furry one that has dark eyes and fury laced in its aura growls in the direction of the other wolf.The other wolf, the one that has brown and golden flecks in its eyes faces its opponents, claws out, teeth out and a puff of angry breath into the air about to attack.In normal circumstances I would let them fight because they are such big assholes that deserve death.Right now, my heart weeps. I don’t want Sage and Killian to fight. I would never want the brothers fighting.“P-pl…ease. D-don’t. Don’t fight”I’m sweating, my limbs feel boneless against the edge of the car seat I’m trying to sit
RIVER BROWNTwo days. Two nights. All that can be described by one word, torture.“Again”“Why don’t you take the arrow and shove it up your- “, my words die down, my teeth collide with my lips as I hold the arrow shooting at the target that’s a tree marked bullseye with a carved X on the bark.Everyone who was recruited yesterday into the Greyhound pack-Alpha Kane’s pack and into the Moon Shadow pack-Connor and his brothers’ pack, knows how to shoot an arrow by now.I’m the only one stuck and not just stuck, I’m stuck with-“Again!” Connor barks.We are in the middle of nowhere. There are just trees, a vast land of trees and short green grass such that the camp is secluded from any pack that isn’t Kane’s or Connor’s.Our tents are pitched up at the end of the small space. The black ones are from the Moon Shadow pack and the brown ones from the Grey Hound pack.The same goes to the outfits.Especially the tight leather clothing I’m wearing right now that makes it hard to breathe and l
CONNOR KINCAIDDefiant.A brat.Too close for my liking.River Brown has been driving me insane since she told me she likes being strangled.The little virgin doesn’t know it yet but that piece of information will get her eaten alive.She’s a submissive. My brothers and I have always been dominant and not every woman could handle that.Not even she, can handle that. Mate or not.Which doesn’t matter in any way because I’m not touching her after what I did last time.Kane’s pack doctor might have reduced the bruising on River’s face from where I hit her but I look at that heart-shaped face and I’m reminded of her blood.The blood that came out of her mouth as Killian raced all the way here to get her treated.Right now, the brat is testing my limits as she runs across the camp with her two loyal friends, Brit and Ria.She’s wearing the skin tight leather jumpsuit that hugs the expanse of her ass, highlighting those sweet curves and those tits that are bouncing up and down with each ste
RIVER BROWNI couldn't buy it.The look on Neo’s face, the haggard way the tips of his blonde hair fell on his forehead when all of us three went back to my tent.Something was wrong, I could feel it but I couldn't—“Sleep”Neo orders, the harshness of his voice to a minimum and I blink at him twice with a curious brow.“It's hard to sleep incase you haven't noticed”“You are cold?” He raises a confused brow, his eyes raking my face, my neck all the way down to where the blanket has covered my shoulders.It's hard to be cold when there's three of us in my bed.Connor's chest is hugging my back, his feet are tangled with me inside the blanket. His face is buried in the crook of my neck and every time he breathes, goosebumps light up my skin like rain drops.“I'm warmer than I've ever been in my entire life so no…no to cold”Neo doesn't smile and I'm almost positive I won't sleep tonight but his strikingly blue eyes gaze at me before he says,“You've never slept with a man in your bed?”
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