CONNOR KINCAIDMy kids. My triplets.My dad was a piece of shit and I vowed not to fall in the same caliber yet here is fate and it bit me in the ass big time in the father department.Callum, I think. I don’t even know their names, or their expressions or the type of thing they like to do for fun.Callum spent all night sleeping on my arm.I didn’t sleep a wink. From the surprise, from the surge of happiness and pride filling my heart to the brim? I have no idea.All I knew was I couldn’t blame her.She was banished, they rejected her. What was she supposed to do?I spent all night watching them like a hawk, watching my mate slip into the bed with a paper-thin night dress that had me and Killian going all sorts of crazy.I watched as she fell asleep and the loyal of the bunch, Niko hug her all night.Then there was the girl. My baby girl. My little princess. My Sadie.Goddess, I had missed so much.But I made her a promise.I would leave the next morning so as not to startle the kids
SHANE KINCAIDThe bartender slims his eyes at me, wiping the clear pale glass with a rag that looks like it’s been years since it has touched any water or soap.He masks it all with concern as he asks the same question he has been asking me for three years.“Are you sure you haven’t had too many?”I look at him and I answer the same way I’ve always answered.“No.”The same drill occurs.He pours me another glass of this filthy establishment’s alcohol, topping my glass and asking himself whether I’m not going to die one of these days.I can’t die though. Not the way I want to anyway so I stay.I visit the same bar, spend a decent amount of my day time here while the other amount of time I spend in my office, brooding, signing treaties, acting like I’m content with life and it’s the same without…her.The small glass feels miniscule as I take it in my hands, swirling the brown liquid like it somehow holds the answer to everything.It doesn’t have the answers though.The answer itself is
NEO KINCAIDFive years and counting since we last saw her and now, she is here, carrying her…our children.I got the call in my office.Three words. I found River.And from henceforth I hopped into my bike, beating traffic like a mad man to get here.I didn’t realize I’d find a crowd; that I’d find children clinging to River’s safety.That’s not the only thing I found though. Her displeasure and her resentment towards me bore her eyes like a suit of armor.I probably deserved her bile and more but that didn’t mean it stung a little less when the same disdainful eyes she had used to look at me turned soft when she stared at Connor.Five years, River.Five years and I thought I lost you.“Are they…mine?”That semblance of peace that was hanging in the air minutes ago, crashes down and splinters on the ground.River’s mask is back on. Her kids hug her tight.My fists curl at Shane’s words.Yeah, real original, Shane.Shane takes the sight in front of him a little hard and River, ooh she
RIVER BROWN“Mommy, I don’t like it here”, Sadie speaks, her little eyes on me searching on whether I share the same sentiment.What am I supposed to tell her? That I don’t like it here too?That the same bed we are sleeping in has so many memories of me and them, memories of my babies being made right here, memories that ache so bad.“I know, baby. Go to sleep.”I nudge. Niko and Cal snore their way into the night, Sadie still holds onto me scared out of her mind.“We’ll go home tomorrow?”“Yes.”After Levi Shaw is out of the picture, we’ll go back to our normal human lives.“With Cal and Niko?”“Yes.”“And Meemaw?”“Of course”, I chuckle.“Can Aunty Brit come too?”“I love you princess but you have to sleep, please.”Her eyes shutter close and after a few minutes her snores litter the room and I slowly unwrap her hands from around me getting out of bed.The night has been too overwhelming than the whole journey of coming back to this world, to this realm.Then it became harder when
NEO KINCAID“You asked me to help you forget her. Two years ago, you said you couldn’t forget her. A year ago, you told me your wolf doesn’t speak to you regularly and now you?”“Want her back”, I voice, my teeth grinding.“You said she came back because she wants to protect her children--.”“Our children”, I correct.“Right, your children. But she hasn’t spoken to you and your brother, has she?”“No and it pisses me off.”“Is that why you are here?”“I’m here for you to help me get her back!”“Neo--.”“I’ve been coming to therapy since she left, trying to kill the insanity inside me and it has not worked so advise me on what to do not to fuck up so I can get her back.”“Do you want her back?”“What’s that supposed to mean?”“I have our therapy sessions, Neo and in one of them you confessed that you were holding yourself back when you guys were in a relationship. You were hiding a part of you from her.”“She’s not into domination, I couldn’t even give a fuck about that because I want
RIVER BROWNCall it being in heat or his eyes looking at me like they would burn the world for me the minute he said ‘frisky’.Either way, I don’t know when I jumped into his arms.I don’t know when I ran my hands in his hair trying to teach me and Gypsy that Connor was here and he wasn’t leaving us any time soon.I would never allow him to leave us again.Was he surprised for a minute? Yes.But when that surprise melted away, his lips came down on me hard, yanking my feet up his waist, his hands holding my waist, careful not to drop me.We treaded up the stairs careful not to wake anyone up and most especially the kids.I would get one passionate kiss from Connor and go back to the kids.That was the deal.Except…“I’ve missed this tight pussy, hear how she welcomes me home?”“C—Connor—Oh--Goddess!”“Not Goddess, princess. She’s not the one you are dripping for, River. She’s not the one filling this cunt.”He curls his fingers, the lapping sounds of us connecting splicing the air in
SHANE KINCAIDShe has done one thing since we got reunited.And that’s put me in my place.Brutally. Devastatingly.Hit after hit. I’m surprised I’m not rotting in some shallow muddy grave.I deserve it but still. I can’t take anymore hits, not with Sage breathing down my back and certainly not with the overwhelming pressure to find this Levi Shaw guy.Part of me wishes to find the bastard, kill him secretly and lie to River that we are still looking so she won’t leave us and go back to her human world.She’s dead wrong if she thinks she’s leaving me again.Cry and insult me, but don’t leave baby.Hate me, but don’t leave.“Do you love her?”The woman standing next to me on the other side of the house asks.I gaze out to the patio, out to my own backyard and watch River run around with our kids laughing and smiling so much than I’ve seen her in days.“Yes.”I mutter.Iridian looks at her daughter through the glass floor-ceiling window and smiles a little.“You hurt her; you know? Whe
RIVER BROWN“You want that one?” The heavy timbre of his voice contrasts to the situation.Shane points at a puppy that looks too sad and wounded to be adopted by Niko.Niko is a menace, if that puppy lands in his hands, he will torture it.Kneeling on the ground, the material stretching over his muscles in a way that makes even the woman who owns this shelter fan her face every five minutes, Shane Kincaid looks delectable.Delectable enough to kill though.It’s not like he was staring at me the whole ride here and I could tell he wanted me to jump in his lap while he drove.Just like old times. Except this would never be like old times.“Mommy?” Niko asks me.Shane’s eyes fall on me and I huff.“Fine but if anything, and I repeat anything happens to it, you will be responsible young man”, I scold.Niko grins.Shane still gazes at me and I fix him with a glare.“Alright then, you can have Bolt. He’s a bit shy but all he needs is a home”, the woman with the name tag ‘Hannah’ says openi
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