SHANE KINCAIDCrazy and mad with need isn’t what I can call everything I’m feeling right now.When I wake up from the bed, she’s gone.Her scent, her face, all of her is gone and I’m too pissed to wake Connor up and tell him the truth either.My feet meet the burgundy carpet and soon enough I’m wandering to the bathroom.She’s not in the bathroom.I’m out of the room in seconds.A surge of relief only washes over me when Neo’s voice strums the hallway.She’s with Neo. I have to see her.By the time I take a corner to Neo’s room, the bastard is guarding the door with his phone against his ear as he speaks to someone.He hangs up when he sees me.I should question who that was. Should question that impassive look on his face that screams ‘something is not right’.But I can’t.Why?I tasted her all night.She bled on my dick, I took her virginity, I took her and the feeling afterwards?The feeling right now? I feel rejuvenated. Better. Stronger. Hungry. Hungrier than ever.This isn’t how
RIVER BROWN“No one’s going to hurt you, okay?”Neo hands me my coat as he corners me against the edge of the door, that flattering smile sending waves and waves of paralyzing nausea inside of me.I nod.The only reason I’m going to Shane half an hour later after he mentioned he was going to Los Angelo is because I’m well aware Viola is tagging along.I can’t let her win.Not after these men claimed me, not after whatever riot and chaos is going on in my heart at the thought of losing them.“I got you this”, the small box lands in my hands and I slowly tear off the brown material binding it.Underneath it, another small box with the picture of a phone greets me and I look at Neo with amazement.A phone?“Our numbers are on that. You can’t speak but I’m expecting you to communicate to me using that”I open the box, a black screen stares at me.I pick it up with unsteady fingers, turning it on and going to messages. Yeah, I’ve seen Brit use hers a couple of times. Operating this gadget
RIVER BROWN“Now tell me why your body shivered when you saw Viola and tell me why the fuck I smell fear from you for mentioning her name?”Caught like a deer in headlights, I said--well technical typed- ‘nothing’.Shane didn’t buy my words. We landed in Los Angelo, he insisted on leaving me with his omegas to which I refused and a few hours later, we were waking him in the same bed, having breakfast together and everything was flowing smoothly till right now.“I underestimated you, didn’t I? You think you’ve won because he let you tag along? You’ve barely won anything sweetie. Call this the honeymoon phase, they’ve tasted something new and they’ll keep it for a week before they toss it. You’re an experiment, River. I’m the real deal”Viola practically spits in my ear as she holds on to her purse and we both glance at Shane who is making phone calls a few feet from us.I don’t dignify her with an answer though.Why?Because she made me mute and two, retaliating with words will only ma
RIVER BROWN“Watch your words”Are they mere words?Why do I feel like I’m the only one in the dark?Humans don’t exist, right?“Ah the little lapdog is all grown up. Heard your mate was slashed in half like a piece of steak, how’s everything going for you?”“How about I show you how grown up I am, you piece of shit alpha- “, Brit tries to lunge at Alpha Darren before Jack and the other omegas from our pack hold her back.Alpha Darren doesn’t feel any sort of remorse as he shoos her away like a bug.“Enough! You want a war? Me being here is invitation enough for you at come at me with everything you’ve got. You want a bloody revolution, do it but this is the last warning you are getting Danvers.Stand down, fall in line, prevent bloodshed”Alpha Darren looks like he is contemplating his decision.Like the decision is as hard as naming everyone in this room.Say yes that’s the right answer. Stand down because even if it’s Shane alone right now, my mate will kill him like he eliminated
CONNOR KINCAIDI was all for sharing her when we took her for the first time but Shane took her out of the city without my permission.She left without a fucking word.And as I’ve come to realize since daddy Christopher put his hands around River’s little neck, the thought of waking up and finding her gone plagues me more than I care to admit.Neo told me to sit my ass back in New Hawk and let Shane be with River for the meantime.I tolerate my brothers; some might even say I go to the extent of thinking of them like they are my extra limbs but Shane?He didn’t think this through.He didn’t think when he brought her to Los Angelo to stop a revolution no less.I scanned the perimeter and not even my omegas had spotted the two mercenaries I took out from the next building or the sniper hiding in the parking lot.That would have ended up pretty badly if I hadn’t shown up before Darren sent his hound dogs on my mate.I’m getting her out of here though.But right now?My princess humps her
CONNOR KINCAID“Stay”, I tell River.Her eyes dart at the men behind me then back at me.I know, princess. They are seven men all including their alpha who is the easiest target.The fact that he called her a bitch makes my conscience feel a little cleaner than what I’m about to do.Except I never had a conscience so good luck to Darren and his boy band of a pack.She nods back a ‘no’.I try to listen to her. Goddess, do I try to listen to her but we both know after what Darren just said this is ending in two ways.I kill Darren and his men walk away.Or I kill Darren and his men stick around enough to join him in hell.Wiping her hair from her forehead and tucking it inside her helmet, I kiss her forehead.I turn on my heel.Darren’s one step away from thumping his own chest because he got my attention.“Finally, some fun and all for a pretty little thing that has already been damaged to be of use to anyone else”Darren. Darren.He just doesn’t know when to quit, does he?I don’t dig
RIVER BROWNI’m shaking on behalf of Darren by the time Connor reaches up to him.The distance between us is marred by blood. A lot of blood on the ground.A lot of blood on Connor.And as Darren keeps on running his mouth, deep down I know he’s going to be next in joining his men to whatever heel they are right now.When Connor lifts his arm, his claws glinting against the dainty lighting of the underground parking lot and I see the rivulets of blood dripping from said claws, I swallow the pulsing in my throat.I shudder at the bloodshed.Darren deserves what’s coming.I shouldn’t feel sorry for him.I shouldn’t encourage Connor to end him.But deep inside me, dread fills me whole and threatens to wobble me down a cliff.I can’t stop Connor.Darren…Darren is going to die.“Connor?”I still.My whole body feels like I’m standing on a circle surrounded by fire. A lot of fire that warms me up and burns me till I can’t breathe.What?What’s happening?‘Breathe in. Take a moment to adjust
RIVER BROWN“How are you and Gypsy doing right now?”His forehead lands on mine, droplets of water cascade down between us and I shiver at his touch, at his voice, at the turn of events and at everything in general.‘We are fine and you don’t have to treat us like we are frail sheep or something’Gypsy barks.I smile.Connor’s eyes bare a hint of a smile as he rubs the cold shampoo on my hair, his fingers digging into my hair and making me more relaxed than I was when we reached to this motel.“So this is going to be a thing now, isn’t it? Shane will lose his mind when he meets Gypsy”Oh yeah, he will.I have a feeling Gypsy is about to be a handful than I am.“Ask him about us shifting. About them marking us”, I tell Gypsy, my body lax and nervous.For them to mark me, a mating ceremony must take place.They’ve already had me but are they ready to mark me? To propose? To marry me? To make me their Luna officially?‘Are you sure? We can wait till we go back home. We can ask when they
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