SHANE KINCAID‘You are not leaving with this bastard’Sage grumbles and I’m right with him on this one.I was right with him too when we took out the kid without thinking twice. He chose this road, he chose to side on the wrong team, he deserved death.Connor catches on what Sage just said but my little brother isn’t backing down.Always hard-headed.Always putting himself at the front line when we are at war. That was Connor.Right now, Sage and I are looking at my brother and we get the feeling he is not bluffing.Connor is negotiating with the intent to go with the old man if that means River gets to live.I’m torn between my mate, my brothers, my father.“I wanted you to be an omega, boy. You had the spirit, had the resilience and you took after me in more ways than I could explain right now.Your mother was right, Con. You were good, hundred times better than I was”“And you will be, with me by your side. You will be”, Con takes a step further.Ten feet in and he’ll be able to re
RIVER BROWNAll I can feel is the copper metallic taste of my own blood in my mouth.The pain has become tolerable a little but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel sick.That doesn’t mean I don’t feel like my whole body is spliced in two and nothing will ever be the same again.We are running.How I figured that out is because I can feel the fur beneath me tickling my face, getting sticky with my own blood, I can hear whoever is carrying me breathe cold air into the night and while he pants like the clock is ticking.He doesn’t feel like Killian.No, this wolf is smaller. Scared like I am.The wind doesn’t care about me and my rescuer, not at all.Why? Because this is the Goddess laying down her thunder on me.Sealing my fate by ensuring I don’t make it out alive.One minute the wind is caressing my face, the scent of wet grass, exotic herbs and wet fur accosting my senses and the next minute, my rescuer loses his balance.The world spins, like it has been spinning since this torrid night
RIVER BROWNHope is a dangerous thing. Because once that hope is taken away, all you have left is this tremendous pain that keels you over and stabs you again and again till you can’t breathe.I toss the sheets still clinging to my body away; I swallow through the pain that rips me apart from the back until my feet are standing cooly on the floorboards.Then?I try again to regain the hope that I think isn’t lost.I open my mouth; I move my tongue but nothing happens.Nothing comes out, not a sound, not a scream, not a word.I’m mute and that information has my body reacting.I sob into the nearest wall I can find which happens to be Shane’s chest.“You are okay”, he pats my hair, I sob harder.I’m not okay.I’m mute.I’m broken. Far worse than I was when I came here.“Vi, what’s the diagnostic?” Connor’s hard voice is directed at the woman who’s still here witnessing my weaknesses.Feeding on everything bad happening to me.Chuckling at what I’ve become.Useless. Weak and never to be
SHANE KINCAID“Don’t look at me like that. I deserved to do more than slash that bastard in half”The brat props her ass on my desk.Connor chuckles, in a good mood like Neo.“You did good”Neo praising her has nothing to do with the fact that she chopped our father in half in front of us faster than we could shift and rip him apart ourselves.Like a scorned woman, she bested an older omega and that took experience. Hella lot of experience.“Yeah, I did it for Jamie, not you. I mean sure I was and I’m still wrecked by Jamie’s death but how could you have fallen for a trick like that? What? You think River is human? You think just because silver exists, humans also exist?I could have told you myself it was a trap. How…how is she?”“You can check up on her yourself. She’s still sleeping and still mad at us”She should be mad.Should be hurting and we want to be there for her.Last night, she was too weak to fight us all off and we were too adamant on staying in her bed.We stayed.Her
RIVER BROWNWhen Brit told me about a meeting involving Shane going to Los Angelo and the elders probably deciding to let him take Viola to said place, I couldn’t sit around and wait.I couldn’t exactly tell my best friend that her pack doctor is a conniving bitch obsessed with Shane, Connor and Neo.No, when it comes to Viola, I’ll deal with her myself.But while trying to take Viola down, I’m stuck being nice to them.Right now, I’m stuck on Shane’s lap. He doesn’t break eye contact as he breaks the disappointing news to a stunned Viola,“Cancel the meeting”“Shane I can’t just—”“And close the door behind you”I smell her jealousy and irritation from a mile away and it makes me want to shout hard with victory.But victory isn’t going to taste like this. Victory will be in the form of me taking everything away from her.Shane’s fingers dig into my butt and I whimper like a cat in heat.Taking down Viola will be hard.Hard because his erection presses on my core and I grind myself ag
NEO KINCAIDHer head dips back, and Shane’s mouth feasts on her neck as Connor shields her from the throng of people dancing around them.I know that look on my mate.It’s the same look she wears when she comes. The only differences right now are that she’s not drunk, she’s saner than I am right now and she grabs them like she wants them inside her straight away.She sashays her body between them wagging herself like a forbidden fruit and my brothers don’t hold back.We almost lost her and that’s what scares us.That is what is pushing them to act like this. To act like teenagers who can’t wait to be in a girl’s pussy for the very first time.To claim her and imprint on her so that their scents cover her from enemy lines.That’s what we alphas do. We sense danger and we protect. This is them protecting her.Tonight?I see it in Connor’s eyes. I smell it in River’s scent that flogs our whole club more than the booze and the smell of cigarettes hanging in the air.I sense it in Shane.A
NEO KINCAID“Viola. Viola Tate”Her name leaves a bitter taste in my mouth but the rest of me isn’t as shocked as I should be.Maybe because my ex-mate claimed to have found River lying on the ground bleeding and Jacob Castaneda dead next to her.Her story hadn’t added up that night. Shane and Connor were too worried about River dying to have questioned anything.And I admit, Jake’s life and Viola’s lies hadn’t mattered that night to me either.Britney O’Shea had killed our father. River hadn’t healed completely. Emotions were running high that night and she took advantage of that.“Why?” I snag a chair from the corner of the room, settling myself in it.Jake coughs. Dried blood still sticks to the edge of his mouth.“W-why did you not let her heal me? Why is another pack doctor here and not her?”Because Viola would run her mouth to Shane as soon as she saw him. She’s always been loyal to him and at a time where she mattered more to me than anything, I had almost hated Shane for it.
RIVER BROWN“You smell so good, baby girl. Almost makes me want to say fuck it and devour you whole right here”The more words they spew the more I feel like I’m melting and there’s nothing that can stop me from falling.The world around us turns non-existent as Shane’s steely hard erection pokes my ass, straining against his pants, trying to reach to the part inside me that craves him so much.Connor doesn’t let me down easy either, his lips claim mine in a dance of fiery passion that has me seeing the stars dance in reckless abandon in front of me.But more than stars, the pressure inside me begging wants to see more than stars with these men, I want to see heaven. I want to scream and beg.‘More. More please’My mind roars.Connor sucks on my tongue tracing my bottom lip, learning how my lips feel like I’m a new schematic to a building he can’t figure out.I can’t figure them out. I can barely figure myself out as I hear Ria…I think call out to me.Shane’s palm gropes my butt, his
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