I turn to the direction Danis’s fork is pointed in and find both Alpha and Beta walking towards us.Roman’s face is set in that hard line again and Fen… isn’t looking at me at all. Danis grumbles from where he’s seated but my eyes are on my mate. I watch him for signs of a bad mood.Apart from the fact that our mate bond has grown stronger, I can tell Roman’s mood from several other things.To begin with, clenched and unclenched fists, check. Super protruding jawline, check. That stance he takes where his body seems to get into this position of extra masculinity and super predatory, check.Desire is slowly stoking its flames in me and I find myself staring and swallowing, because who knew Roman could be sexy when he’s moody?“That turtleneck is a limited edition.”Fen sits beside Danis and shoots me a smug smile. This is a two-person bench. Three people aren’t meant to sit on this bench. I vacate immediately because I don't want to sit on it anyways.Roman takes the seat opposite the
Roman kisses the answer away from my lips and even when I opened my mouth to begin he shushes me.“Think about it for a while okay? Make a decision when you’re ready.” I’m ready now, but the look in his eyes tells me he won’t listen to me even if I am ready. At least not right now. He spoke of me wanting time to heal, and I may need that. I may need time to heal fully, but I'm sure I can do it here.The energy in his pack is conducive for healing. Though we’ve run into some trouble, we’ve pulled through together.My smile returned because of him. I can heal perfectly with him.“Why does Scarlett look like she took away some kid’s candy?”I reach to smack Danis’s arm but Fen pulls him away swiftly. “He apologizes.”“I do not.”“Apology accepted. Thanks for being the one with manners, Fen.”Danis rolls his eyes and Lunch passes in peaceful ambiguity. Danis and Fen operate….a friendship type of sunshine feeling.They look comfortable in each other’s company and I recall what Danis sai
Roman doesn’t ask me his question again when we meet the next morning but I don't want him to. I prefer he doesn’t.He’s always gone out of his way to show me how he feels. Maybe this time, I'll go out of my way to show him how I feel too.“You’re distracted.” His hot breath tickles the side of my ear and I giggle lightly before turning to look at him.He looks stunning, as always, and the sight of him makes me smile.“Maybe I'm just happy. I feel today will be a good day.” Roman smirks and leans in “Is this because of the news I broke yesterday, the one about the reaction of the elders in the Alpha council?”I nod and avert my eyes from his alluring blue ones. My reply to him should be a surprise. A very cool surprise that I will make happen.I can make him wait, I will make him wait.But for now “Do you think there’s anyone in that locker room?”Roman’s eyes dart forward to the door on the left and he focuses for a second before shaking his head “No one’s in there.”I smile “Good.”
I cum at the same time he does and Roman leans against me panting.I made the Alpha pant with the force of his ejaculation.“Want to go another round, Alpha Roman?”The title does the same thing his kitten does for me. That title from my lips, makes the skin of Roman’s skin gleam, and his eyes light up with stoking desire.Roman kisses half a chuckle away from my lips and I release the other half as he sucks on that patch of skin on my neck.He murmurs something against it.“Do you know this spot seems to make your pussy throb whenever I suck on it?”He sucks on it again and I feel my walls clenching, more than clench, they pulsate. I groan as I hear the belt of Roman’s pants drags against the fabric of his slacks. I moan even more when he pops the button of those pants and I hear the rumble of fabric as he pulls them down just a bit.My gown is half off me now. The zipper has been pulled and the top is down my body enough that my breasts are fully bared. My nipples are so hard I ache
“The janitor’s closet is off-limits for now. Vivienne sensed a gas leak and we had to close it down.”I read the message with a smile on my lips because, yeah, there was a gas leak.I chuckle so hard my ribs hurt and my jaw aches.My jaw aches! but it’s a pleasant ache. Roman didn’t make me feel like I did a bad job, and though the fear that I did do a bad job was there, I know the experience was enjoyable for him. He came half in my mouth and all over my face, and did he moan my name? Yes.He went “Fuck. Scarlett!” My body warms at the thought of it again and I turn around in my chair. It swivels easily and Roman’s scent surrounds me.His scent is so heavily steeped into my clothes, into my skin, that I do not know what to do with the reality of the fact that someone owns me so totally.He knows me so completely his scent now feels like it’s mine.I freeze as knocks come from the door and I swivel around so fast, I almost miss the curve.Roman chortles as he walks into the office an
Roman’s pov.Scarlett shows me the text message from Hunter and she explains why he might be doing this.It could be the effect of Hunter being injected with wolfsbane while inhaling her masked scent. Wolfsbane isn’t just any ordinary element, it can do a lot of damage in its raw form and it is very lethal to werewolves. It can also be used as medicine and in this case. Scarlett has infused her scent as part of the medicine. They went in at the same time, the wolfsbane, and her scent, so now, Hunter might just need her as much as he needs the wolfsbane.He will feel a natural compulsion to be near her, to be close to her, just so he can feel well and stop being feverish. He’ll crave her the way he craves the wolfsbane he’s using to stifle his mate bond.Or Hunter is being the person he’s always been because he can’t stand the fact that there might be a woman who does not want him. He’s going after her, fully aware that she is with me, and that means he isn’t sorry for what he did the
Hunter's povRoman steps out of his building with her. I feel something in me still at the fact that he’s down here. Here with his assistant, who has told me she is with him, but even his mate wanted me. His assistant will be no different.My breath catches when I see her because she’s stunning. The black dress drapes beautifully down her body and the thigh-high slit teases my vision. It’s a dress I'd like to see any woman in, and it fits her perfectly.The smile she gives me is cold when she stops in front of me.“Good afternoon Alpha Hunter, I got your text.” Roman stands a few paces away and doesn’t look at me. There’s no friendliness in his stance and no warmth in his posture. Something prickles the back of my mind, a faint possibility, but I discard it. Aria had to have done something to get him to give her the wolfsbane.The thought of him getting intimate with my sister has my blood curdling, but Roman would never do that. He’s too noble.He probably considered the years of f
Scarlett's povRoman drives us to one of the most expensive restaurants in town.There is barely any traffic on the road so the ride is smooth and enjoyable. I tell Roman how I had a cousin that died suddenly when I was eighteen years old.He was an Alpha. One of the rare few not born to Alpha parents. His father, my uncle was a beta and his mother was an omega.His death broke them because he was so kind and nice for an Alpha. Alphas are usually self-obsessed pricks who think of nothing but themselves and their well-being.Roman gives me a look at that but the smile on his face is undeniable.I speak on how his body was never found but how his bed sprouted worms the night before. It freaked the whole pack out. Days later traces of his blood were found in the woods. The pack shaman concluded that he had been cursed. Traces of magic were found all around the pack. In the woods, on his bed, I felt something I never felt during those years, and it was the loss of a loved one.I believed
Hi wonderful readers.First of all, I’d like to say thank you for reading so much and so far. Thank you for the time invested into this book.Without you, nothing would have been possible, so thank you for that.We have come to the end, and while it is a bit abrupt, I’d like to clarify some things.The book is already at 290 thousand plus words, I was really worried about its readability because anything longer would probably scare readers off. I don’t know how everything usually operates because I am a mildly new author on the platform and this is my first completed book, but it felt like Luna Scarlett was getting long, and if I was to go further into settling some other points in the story….. It’d have been way longer.Now to pick up some of the points I left unfilled in the story (Without giving any spoilers of course.) (Okay, maybe one spoiler, or two :)The fact that Hunter’s mother killed Oliver: I’d say this would have led into a whole other story, and it will, it’s basically
Roman carries me in his arms.Diane is helped along by the mage.We’re laid on beds and the pain from the contractions almost makes me pass out.“Your body’s burning, Scarlett.”I feel water enveloping me and I hear Diane’s low low grunt as she’s laid into the pool too.The contractions make everything feel hard and painful. My mind slips in and out of a haze and the water is red, so red, but through it all Roman stays with me.His red eyes are as clear and pure as two scarlet moons.The indoor swimming pool is converted into a labor room the moment the doctors arrive. I open my eyes weakly to see a whole team of them, strange faces in blue overalls, and the smell of the hospital lingering in the air.The contractions hit again, and this time Roman helps me onto a table as I grunt and cry my way through them.This is stronger than anything I've ever felt.I hear one of them tell Roman firmly, “If you want to be here, wear one of these.”Roman is back at my side in less than a minute,
Scarlett’s pov.Each blast of energy I let out makes me grit my teeth in pain.The doctor and Myrtle watch me with calm eyes and though it rips my heart to see them standing there like that, I don't stop.The shield over me shimmers with each blast of energy I release and I can see the impatience filling them because they can’t touch me while this is still going on.There’s an impatience to the way Myrtle grits her teeth but I can't bring myself to be happy at that…. because I'm killing him.Hot heavy tears flow down my cheeks and I burst into a sob because I can hear the sound of his pain each time I release my power.His shield is directly linked to his power, to him.I’m like a bomb in a can. He is the can.He can’t contain me.He can’t keep me in.I will go off as many times as I need to. I am a woman. My energy is endless, but while I do it… he suffers.It’s either I stop and get my stomach ripped open, my baby… my child will be killed.I would never forgive myself because it wou
The scarlet glow in his eyes grows in strength and all the dots come together in my head.Elara was never abducted. She orchestrated the attack.The strangeness of the wolves that attacked us was because she had infused them with the gene mutation she stole from me, and Ironclaw warriors weren’t able to do anything but die at their hands, because they had never met anything like that.They couldn’t take over the pack totally, because, like everything that’s stolen, it’s never stable. The look in Elara’s eyes makes me chuckle as another truth hits me and I let her get himself to full strength. I let the shift take him over, and in a moment of nostalgia, the scent of jasmine comes carried on a gentle breeze as little lines appear in the wind.They blaze to life with bright but silent lights, each one swaying as if blown by a light breeze. I see the lines extending through the wall behind me, the room where all those in the packhouse are being held currently. I see them in my mind, from
Roman’s pov.The bond between me and Scarlett stretches taut due to the distance and it’s the first time I've felt something like this between us.Feeling her and barely feeling her at the same time.The cars pull up to the gates of the mansion and I can tell my packhouse has been taken over by foreign forces. No one makes themselves visible when the gates come open, everyone is hidden but the moment we drive in, the gates slam shut faster than they ever have.The feeling of arrows already poised at us sends a light tingle down the side of my neck and I send a message to my father through the mate bond, ~Take the children to the safe house. Drive there like it’s what you always meant to do….Stay safe Father, and keep the children safe.~My father sends a feeling that echoes low on the mindlink, one that tells me he will obey my words to the letter because he is a wolf under my command, and I am his Alpha.But as a father and someone who’s watched me grow into who I am today, he’s
“Scarlett.”A brief silence punctuated by mumbled words and then the word comes again.“Scarlett.”The tone is more insistent this time and my eyes flutter open as a headache burrows it’s way through my head. I groan as i open my eyes fully because my head hurts a lot.Surprise steadily flow s through me when i realise i have been bound. I can barely move my hands or my feet.I try to struggle against the ropes but i can’t, and the voice comes again.“Psst, Scarlett.”I raise my head just the slightest bit, unable to see through the large mound of flesh that’s my belly.I feel my baby moving andd kiclkin, the discomfort stinging me like pins.“No, no need to raise your head.It’s me… the mage.”My fuzzy head clears up enough to remember where i am and what happened to me before i blanked out. I feel my body go rigid as shock courses through mel, a healthy dose of shock and fear.No.I struggle against the ropes.NO. NO. NO.Hunter wouldn’t dare.Hunter would never!“Hunter!”My heart
Walking through the halls of the Nightshade pack has me feeling… not nostalgic.I can remember wallking through here when i came here with Danis once. We delivered wolfsbane to Hunter.Then simply being in the compound had shaken me. It had made images of me back here float around in my mind, and then i knew Hunter would have done something horrible to me and Maya if he had gotten his hands on us.I don’t know what must have caused the sudden self proclaimed change in him, but i wouldn’t risk myself and anyone i know depending on that.I’m only here because Hunter knows who i am now. He knows i cannot be hit or hurt by him, without him suffering consequences.“About the conversation we had the other day.”I turn to look at Hunter and i see the way he maintains eye contact with me for a second before looking away to stare at something else. His voice comes out more sulky than i imagined he wants it to be.“I only knew Oliver.I didn’t have any relationship that was out of the normal w
Scarlett’s pov.It’s a bloodbath.I feel the tang of blood on my tongue, the smell of death in the air, I smell the power leaking off Roman, and as it leaks off him, it goes into me.“Roman…”My voice is hoarse and croaky. I can barely hear it. It’s a rasp that leaves my throat feeling sandy and hollowed out yet Roman hears it.His head snaps to me the moment I whisper his name and I realise now why everywhere seems so silent. There’s not a sound emanating from the forest, not from the archers in the trees, not from the warriors Roman brought along, not even from the birds - probably already scared away by the violence, or the attendants - scared into silence by Roman, currently dotted in large splatters of blood. Roman’s presence jolts when he comes to me.I feel his aura wrap around me faster than anything i have ever felt before, and when he cradles me in his arms, i feel the shift take over him and his claws retract, the red glow from his eyes fade, the heat radiating from him d
Roman’s pov.The world pauses as I feel Scarlett’s anxiety spike through the mate bond.It’s a thick and heavy feeling in my gut.My head snaps to her, searching for any traces of what might be happening and for a minute all I can feel is Maya telling her there’s something wrong with the boy.There’s something wrong with Axios.Before anyone can pull another breath, I feel my wife fill herself with power so pure it leaks into me and sets my nerve endings on fire.“Everybody down, Now!”The blast of wind Scarlett releases makes a boom when it rips out. Screams come from the attendants now on the floor, the shrill whistles of arrows are almost masked by the boom of air but not quite. I see the arrows fly back with the force of a snapped twig and they find targets.Scarlett fills herself with that power again, needing not even a second to fill herself up, already primed for an attack while I'm still trying to make sense of it all.The orders come from my lips not a moment later, “EVERYO