As light seems to shine through my eyelids and a strange but intoxicating scent surrounds me, I smile as I stretch but freeze as pain explodes throughout my body and the reminder of where I am hits me.I forget about the scent that is surrounding me and cautiously open my eyes to look around, I am surprised when I see reds and golds surrounding me instead of the dull grey I have been looking at for I’m not sure how long.I test my arms and legs again just to make sure that they aren’t still secured to either the small military cot or the cross rack. My eyes go a little wide when other than being sore I can move them freely. Another wave of fear runs through me as flashes of my fight with Kolby and the look in his eyes when he finally had me pinned to the floor underneath him.I sit up carefully and look around wondering if he had knocked me out before taking my virginity there on the floor of that cell and then maybe moving me to his chambers so he could do it again. Not being able to
I let out a low moan as my tongue then battles with his before letting out a whimper as he suddenly moves us making my back hit the wall next to the closet. I continue to return his kiss slowly sliding my hands up his chest to encircle his neck unconsciously pulling him even closer.He responds by pushing me harder against the wall before moving his arm from behind my back to have his hand sitting on my hip and then slowly sliding his other hand down from my neck to sit on my other hip, gripping my hips tightly as he pushes himself even harder against me allowing me to feel his want twitching against me.I let out a low moan of pleasure as he breaks his kiss and trails his lips along my jaw gently nipping every now and then as he makes his way down my neck. When he gets to the junction between my neck and shoulder, where his mark will eventually sit, he opens his mouth and latches on sucking hard sending a wave of intense pleasure through me to settle low in my core.I whimper as I fe
When I hear the water finally turn off, my heart stutters a little as a shiver of something that I have never felt before runs through me at coming face-to-face with her again. Not liking this feeling that has shown itself and wanting to look more into it I walk over to the bathroom door and gently knock. She doesn’t answer me, but I know that she is standing just on the other side. I take a breath and say,“I had some food brought up for you…” I pause for a moment, hoping that she would open the door, but when she doesn’t, I sigh.“I will be down the hall in my office if you need me.”I turn and walk away from the bathroom door, leaving the bedroom and then my champers heading for my office. I open my private office door, walk in, close it, and then walk over and around my desk. I sit in my chair and go over my feelings. Eldridge chuckles at me.“It’s called fear, my friend.” “Fear… Bullshit. I have never been scared of anything in my life…” Vincent then joins, chuckling too.“Ther
I move, shut the door with my foot, walk over to the small receiving table next to the entrance and put down the tray of food. I then move back over to the door and lock it once more placing the key back into my pocket. I then walk over pick back up the tray and walk over to the bedroom door. Shifting the tray into one hand I then knock on the door and say,“Lunch is served.”I chuckle a little as she snaps back through the door,“Are you going to let me out?”“Are you going to behave?”“Yes.”Something in her tone and the slight shiver that worked its way up my spine told me that she was lying through her teeth and was going to try and escape again. I place the tray on the receiving table next to my bedroom door and pull out the key.I unlock and slowly open the door. I leave the tray of food where it is as I step inside expecting and knowing that she is going to try to do something as soon as I enter. I take a couple o
I wake to the wonderful warmth and feel of sparks that spread over my skin and through my body. I haven’t had that good of a sleep since I was a young vampup just after everything finally settled down once my mother returned and we became a family once more.I pull her a little tighter up against me and place a soft kiss on the back of her shoulder. Cole lengthens his fangs, wanting a taste but instead of sinking them in and just taking, I want her consent first. I place another kiss on her neck and then slip out of the bed. As I enter the bathroom, I open my link with Julian,“Julian, the Pride?” “The Innocent have been relocated, the participants have been detained for punishment and the Pride itself has been levelled.” “The Male Cheetah from the dungeon?” “My apologies, Nat, but He slipped away.” I clenched my jaw at the news that he had gotten away. I was looking forward to torturing him as he had tortured my mate. I wanted to hit something. Hunter and Cole each wanted to kil
I hold in my scream as the whip connects again and again with the skin on my back. Closing my eyes I take a deep painful breath wishing that each time I had passed out, that I wouldn’t wake up again. Not expecting the next lash I can’t stop the scream that leaves my lips.I sit up with that scream still stuck in my throat, I look around panicked expecting Graves to be nearby just waiting for me to wake. When I don’t see him I relax a little placing my hand over my heart and taking a few deep breaths.My eyes go wide when I realise that I am not secured, knowing that Graves wouldn’t want me to get away or fight him in any way, I then look around again, only this time a little slower.I am surprised when the room seems to be plain, there is nothing in here to say that someone actually lived or even stayed here. I would have thought that Graves’ chambers even with him being a male and a warrior, there would have been a little more of a masculine vibe to it.It actually looked like a gues
It is then that I look down and see that she is telling the truth and I have a shirt on that isn’t mine. Before I know what I am doing I slip my fingers to the collar, pull it up against my nose and take a deep breath. I close my eyes at the intoxicating scent of Oakmoss and patchouli with a touch of Vanilla. I then feel that stirring in my head again as it purrs and I hear that female voice once more,“Mate!” I shake my head, no he couldn’t be, could he?I snap my eyes open and look at the female before me again as she says,“It can be a bit of a surprise, can’t it?”“What?” I whisper finally finding my voice,“Finding one’s mate…”I slip down the wall to sit on the floor pulling my knees to my chest and resting my forehead against them as I mumble,“But I’m… I’m a runt… I don’t have a mate… I’m only good for service and breeding… We don’t get mates…”I glimpse as her eyes flash red and feel her aura increase as a wave of anger comes off of the female making a shiver of renewed
I had wanted nothing more than to spend the morning cuddled up to my mate using our aura and touch to help her heal and recover, as everyone does once they meet. However, unfortunately, with what I was in the middle of I didn't have that luxury, so I instead spent the morning walking the castle talking to some of the warriors and serving staff and all seemed to have a good report for the Princess.I then make my way down into the kingdom’s Pride. I walk the Pride and unlike the smaller Prides, this one is like its own little town similar to some of our bigger clans and a lot of the werewolf territories.I enter a few of the stores and as with the servants and warriors within the castle they too have nothing overly bad to say about the Princess herself or the way she oversees the Pride, though a couple of her high Council members were questionable.I spoke to a few of the older members who remembered what it was like under her father and they also agreed th