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In the Chains of the Alpha Dinner
Tara watched Cal’s face. He didn’t like what she said and reminded her again, that she was something she wasn’t. How could she be the Luna of the Crimson Nights Pack? She knew nothing about being a Luna. Everything she’d seen within that office was so far out of her understanding. She sucked at reading. How was she supposed to understand budgeting and invoicing? She wasn’t given a chance to accept or deny this. “How do I stand in front of anyone and state that? I can’t, I never asked for it or being your mate. That was your decision.” “You are, and you will. It’s as simple as that. Anyone calls the facts into question will have to deal with me. It’s that uncomplicated. Anything else is just an excuse born from your fears of inadequacy caused by scum and excuses for authority. I see you, not some beaten down failure, who never stood a chance at succeeding. You have the chance now and it’s scaring the crap out of you. However, I am your Alpha and mate. That me
In the Chains of the Alpha The Silent Auction
Cal bid on several things for the pack, and on impulse, he bid on several things for Tara. She literally only possessed what he gave her, and she’d never asked to retrieve her things from where she lived. He’d not asked her about it and Eddie reacted just like her. They walked away from everything with brief hesitation. Cal bought her jewellery and gift certificates for stores. Home goods, and clothing. A spa package and even furniture for an antique reading nook for their apartment. He thought she’d like it later as she settled and wanted to improve her education. She’d need a place to relax and read. He wouldn’t push her just yet. “I’m sorry, I need to find the lady’s room. I’ll be back soon.” Cal, like the other alphas here, had several enforcers as security with them in the crowd. He’d seen him a few tables away. “Hold on. Let me get you an escort. You aren’t going anywhere alone.” Tara sighed. “Really. Do I need a babysitter to find the ladies’ room?
In the Chains of the Alpha Leaving the Fundraiser
Cal was struggling with all the Alphas on the council were. With the introduction of so many new she-wolf mates. The territorial and protective nature of each one of them was on high alert. It didn’t help several of the alphas came to him and expressed their lack of faith in Elmwood’s intelligence and they believed he’d be a fool with another attempt on Tara. Tara said that Elmwood’s rogue lover was jealous of all females. She’d been involved in the first attempt. Could or would she convince Elmwood to make another attempt? He wanted her home as soon as this event was over. Cal messaged Jaxon to make arrangements for the items he’d gained. They’d meet in the morning to discuss several things from tonight. He stood up from his seat, prepared to excuse himself from the table to look for her. Cal felt she’d been gone far too long. Everything he was interested in had their turn. He only needed to wait for a polite time to leave. Tara luckily returned to the tab
In the Chains of the Alpha Cal Gets What He Wanted
Tara knelt between his thighs. Her pussy ached after he’d teased her to a desperate need. She watched him lick her liquid desire from his fingers before he opened his pants and presented her with his swelling length. His knot was already forming, and she moans with delight. When he commanded her to give him head, she reached for him. “Only your mouth, no hands. Try that again. I will restrain your hands behind your back.” “Yes, Daddy.” Tara moaned as she lick from his knot all the way up his shafts before she suckled his head. Tara’s mouth bobbed on his cock as she explored how much she could take this way. He kept eye contact with her. “That’s it, you naughty little girl. Take it deeper now.” His hands took hold of her head to direct her actions, as he liked to. “Fuck yeah. That’s it, suck harder. Squeeze my cock with your throat. Hm. You want my cock fucking you, then bring me to a state where I need to fuck you or go mad.” He was into this. His hands hel
In the Chains of the Alpha Proven Right
Tara couldn’t understand his anger. She’d done everything she could to follow his wishes. She’d done nothing to shirk his authority or will. After such a stressful evening, Tara wasn’t sure if she could do this. Between her struggles to stay reasonably rational and her twisted enjoyment of what he did to her. It culminated into her, finally crumbling into a blubbering mess. Tara could no longer convince herself he’d change his mind and face the fact she was too far in over her head and her world now was unrecognizable to her. No one but Eddie ever truly wanted to keep her around, and now Cal was the second. She couldn’t stop crying, especially when Cal halted whatever this was. Play or punishment and sat her up. Tara cried herself into exhaustion and faded into sleep. When she surfaced again, it was still the wee hours of the night, and she was in bed. Cal lay beside her with his arm, holding her back to his front in a spoon shape. Tara felt drained
In the Chains of the Alpha Hearing Each Other
Don’t fit in? Cal couldn’t believe he heard her correctly. His pack was far from the blood bloods or the elite. The only reason he walked in those circles was to keep his control over his part of the city by maintaining his image of wealth and influence. “Really? Do you believe every night is like that for me? That I throw back five thousand dollar bottles of champagne every night? No, I’m perfectly happy here with my draft beer and single malt whiskey. You won’t be obligated to do things like that as often as you believe. Or do you believe no one in this pack will come to love and trust you?” Tara listened to Cal, but with her anxiety in overdrive, she saw everything and everyone acting against her. But she wasn’t sure if that was true or just panic caused by her anxiety. “I don’t know anymore.” She wasn’t crying, because she was afraid this admission would anger him. “I lead my pack with the woman and people I choose. The pack doesn’t have a say in it. Their job is
In the Chains of the Alpha Formulating a Plan
Cal was beating on a bag during morning training, but his eyes kept shifting across the way to where Tara worked out. He’d changed when and where her brother trained. Eddie was doing well so far, but Cal didn’t want to jinx it or have Eddie guilt Tara into doing something stupid. He’d noticed quickly that Eddie played into Tara’s caregiver nature for his comfort and ease, but Cal didn’t like how Tara kept giving until she had nothing left for her and she hurt herself. He’d never felt like this about a female, ever. It had to be the mating bond of fated mates. Yeah, he was protective, but never to this extent. At this rate, he’d have to take over her training or leave the area while she trained, just to avoid the urge to protect her from any harm she might incur from her training. That was something that took Cal by surprise. She showed improvement in many ways. Elmwood was an idiot. Tara was better at fighting than Eddie. She showed the potential of being a hidden po
In the Chains of the Alpha Reaching a Hand Out
Cal sat in his office, still worked up from the training session and the news of how stupid Elmwood was. He’d reported and called everyone he needed to. Now, he debated if it was smart or stupid to warn Elmwood he knew what was coming and Elmwood’s eventual failure was a clear cut fact. Cal even contacted the human police to warn them they were aware of the trouble coming and humans shouldn’t be involved. Steps were being taken to prevent harm to humans and property. It felt odd to inform a human candidly about this. Cal knew the officer he’d spoken to. They’d dealt with each other human to human before this. Now the officer was unsure how to deal with this change. Cal answered his questions after hearing the human male go on and on about why he couldn’t understand why Cal didn’t trust with the truth. Cal used NARC’s laws as the reason. The human droned on with his many questions until he stopped and asked an interesting question. “I know this might be
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In the Chains of the Alpha Conclusion
One Year Later —Tara sat out on the poach behind the packhouse with a laptop open to a spreadsheet. She and Emily were working out the next year’s budget and the projects they’d tackle.With Emily looking after the club while they were up here. It was interesting, to say the least.Tara gave birth on schedule. It was about the only thing that was on schedule these days, and Cal was sitting on a blanket on the grass with one-year-old Natalie Nichols. The apple of her daddy’s eye. She had him wrapped around her little finger and he’d have it no other way.Eddie and his Lycan girlfriend were now running the kitchens here for Rachel. They’d mated and, well… Tara expected to hear that they’d have pups soon enough.Jaxon, well, he was back in the city. Tara wasn’t sure what was happening with him. Cal wouldn’t speak of it. But Jaxon took a leave of absence from his position for a bit. Tara wasn’t receiving the full story. But as far as she could tell. Jaxon may have two mates. One wasn’t d
In the Chains of the Alpha New Territory New Commitment
Five Months Later —Tara felt like the size of a house. She propped her ankles up on her desk and she had to eat her fries with no salt. It wasn’t the same, nothing tasted the same. The poking from inside was regular now and she couldn’t wait for the last six weeks to go by. She’d been six weeks pregnant when her symptoms started and since then, if it wasn’t one symptom, it was another. Tara would be more than happy for these little monsters to enter the world.Cal was everywhere and nowhere, it seemed. He told her to clear her calendar today because he wanted to show her their new territory. The thought of trudging out there was exhausting to her. But she’d do it because he was just so insistent. He promised they’d stay the night out there and come back the next day at a leisurely pace.“You ready to go?”“Yes, I just don’t understand why we have to do this now. When all I want to do is take a nap.”“You can nap in the vehicle on the way. Don’t worry, I’ve packed everything we need a
In the Chains of the Alpha Telling Cal
Tara could feel the ball of conflicting emotions rolling about in her head and her belly. She had a new life inside her. No matter what, she’d never be alone again. But how did she explain all of this to them when the time came?How should she explain this to Cal? He had to be expecting this. Look at the second floor. She didn’t like it necessarily. Their pups living completely separately from us with someone else looking after them. Why hadn’t they spoken about this before?Tara’s eyes closed as the elevator dinged and opened. She’d not thought that it was important before this because she wasn’t pregnant, and they didn’t have any pups. Now she thought of it.This morning, Cal was gone before she got out of bed. This was a day she didn’t train, because there were other things she needed to get done. Which, of course, didn’t get done? A few steps brought her to Cal’s office over the club.She knocked and entered when she received the okay to enter. Tara lucked out because Cal was alon
In the Chains of the Alpha The Verdict is
David Monroe struggle with the enforcer training. His heart wasn’t in it and his skills lay in other places, but everyone lumped him in with the other male Lycans because he was a Lycan. He’d exhausted almost every avenue trying to explain to them he’d rather be patching people up and treating pups with fevers. While he was moping during a break, his phone rang, and it surprised him to see that Emily’s name came up on his phone. “Hello, Emily. What’s wrong? Why are you calling?” He couldn’t think of a reason she could be calling him for, but any chance he got to speak with her was better than nothing. “I’ll tell you, but you have to be very careful with what you say. No one can know why you’re about to be ordered to the Luna’s office. What we need you to do, is slip out of the packhouse. If anyone asks, you’re running an errand for the Luna. That’s it nothing more. What you need to do is go to the closest pharmacy and pick up a pregnancy kit. Come back here
In the Chains of the Alpha No One Prepared Her for a Morning Like This
Again, Tara was up late the next morning. Cal was determined he wouldn’t let her feel like he neglected anything about her. From sympathizing with her, to how her emotions were toward absolutely everything, and he didn’t forget to include planning their future together.Well, he talked, and she mostly listened. What he said wasn’t bad. Tara didn’t have a problem with any of his ideas. She didn’t have much to add or at this time have an emotional connection to any of it.Now, though, Tara needed to get her day going, and she felt like something that had been dredged from a swampy pond. It took only minutes for Emily, her newest staff member, to realize there was something wrong with Tara.“If we had a cat, I’d say you look like the latest thing it dragged home. When will we see you going to a healer?” Emily eagerly asked Tara as she returned from her latest flight to the bathroom. Tara looked at her with an expression of exhaustion.“I’m fine and I’m not planning ongoing to see one.” S
In the Chains of the Alpha A Clue to Follow
“Stone dear, you know I love you. I’m your mate and partner in life. I have always advised you about everything honestly and in your best interest.” Elaine still quietly sat in the sitting room and calmly spoke to Stone. The others had slowly filtered out to go on with their day or to watch their guests leave. “Of course you are, and you have.” Stone looked out the window and watched the vehicles leave. Elaine could see he was distracted by what was going on and his own thoughts. “Then why are you being an ass and not listening to anything I say now?” She let her irritation slip into her voice and she dryly responded to him. Her annoyance was obvious. Stone’s instincts instantly alerted him to the fact that not all was good between himself and his mate. Over the years, that instinct helped him avoid many different disasters from exploding in his face when it came to their relationship. “I’m listening Ellie. I’ve always listened.” “Then explain to me if you listened to me, then why
In the Chains of the Alpha The Trip Home
No one said much of anything on the way home. The privacy divider between the front of the vehicle and the back raised then never went down. Cal pulled Tara to him and sat her in his lap. He didn’t do anything more but let her soak up his warmth and strength. He buried his head into her neck and hair. The smell of the wool sweater mixed with the natural spice of her scent. He instantly felt his aggressive feelings smooth out and gentle. It’d been difficult watching her get so wound up from it all. Tara sat there, and all but purred. As their vehicle made slow progress through traffic, it’s darkened windows gave them the privacy that Cal didn’t care, Tara turned and straddled his lap instead. She didn’t do anything more than that. But his body felt her skirt hike up and he groaned, knowing how naughty she was instinctively gravitating to for comfort. That wasn’t what their mating would ever be based on. He’d never satisfy his needs while she was seek
In the Chains of the Alpha Parting Words
Kole wanted to get back to the gathering as quickly as possible. He didn’t want any misunderstandings between anyone, let alone the two packs. There was no way he’d explain to the pack that their beloved elder and ex-alpha alienated his first born grand pup with blind stubbornness, hateful questions, and fear. That wouldn’t be happening today or any day. Kole wouldn’t risk fighting with Cal. How would it look when the Council of Alphas met? His father always forgot about that. Though the council of alphas didn’t exist during his time in control of the pack. He’d been a forward thinker of his time and moved his pack to a territory that was being noticed by the local humans. It meant he could settle their businesses in, and those humans would see those businesses as founding members of the business community. “Let’s go back down now and please be nice to her. She’s so much like Heather and you wouldn’t talk to Heather that way. Just apologize and let mother do
In the Chains of the Alpha Making Things Clear as Stone to Stone
“That’s my third pup there and his mate. Your uncle, Stephen, and his mate, Ariel. Their grown pups, Erin, and Eric. That about covers your living family here, dear. Everyone sit please. Stone has created enough excitement and drama for one day. She has a sweet soul. Stephen, treat her like you would your sister and don’t act like your father if you know what’s good for you. As for the doghouse, it’s an old guard shack that’s been turned into a bunkhouse for single wolves who, for one reason or another, don’t want to make the trip all the way back to their homes to sleep. It’s affectionately called the doghouse because often there’s trouble between the few mated wolves that stay there.” “Oh, good grief. That’s horrible.” “Oh, don’t think your grandfather hasn’t stayed there a time or two. Though these days he’s more likely to use a guest apartment.” Tara looked over the tissue at Elaine with a shocked expression. “You’re joking.” “No, I’m n
