"Sometimes, when a mate is very sick and her life partner isn't with her; providing occasional touching or making love to him, his body can go into a Crave Shock. It's very dangerous. Once it starts, it kills the mate within fifteen minutes of no intervention from his mated partner.""Jesus, what a mindfuck. Just fifteen minutes? It takes more than an hour to get to the Tower!""One hour, thirty-seven minutes. Forty-five minutes when you run there in shifted form." Eline confirmed."Oh, my God. My best friend will die!""Ismena is not gonna go into Crave Shock, Sandra. As I said, it's very rare and it only happens to mated couples who are apart from each other. That was what killed The Alpha King's father after the Queen died."Sandra's eyes widened, "Really?"Eline nodded, "His could have been easily prevented, it could have been stopped. All he needed was contact from his children—his wife's genetics are in them. All he needed was their touch but he refused it when he went into Crav
It's the middle of the night, but Alphose was still at the Tower. The meeting ended an hour ago but Wolfaraine needed him to wrap up some paperwork with him.All his life, he'd seen Wolfaraine and he'd been close to him, he thought he'd seen all sides of the male there is to see. Well, except for the weak side of him—he never allows anyone to see that—but he'd been wrong. These past few days he'd seen a different side of him.Cold, distant, heartless, and ruthless. Absolutely, utterly ruthless.He knew Wolfaraine changed when Ismena entered his life—it wasn't a visible, blatant change, but it was there nonetheless—but he never realized how much until she was no longer in his life. There was no warmth in his eyes, no life in his face as he carried out his duties, and saw to the new mission.The mission to look for every Experience Laboratory that might be associated with the Facilities and the Wolfhunters.The meeting tonight was about the progress of the mission. Or lack of. Beta Dan
Alphose needed that repeat because honest-to-God, he does not understand what she was saying. No, he heard the words clear but it wasn't making sense to him. "No, she can't be, Kassandra. Apart from the fact that it sounds so far-fetched, it's not even possib—""She's been sick for three days now. The fever kept switching on and off, on and off, she wasn't getting better at all. Harhan was there, he'd rested her and given us her meds to treat her with. We did everything by the book but it's not working and then, we woke to her confusing and her skin turning red and her teeth clattering." She was speaking so fast, her words jumbled up but she couldn't help it."WHAT!?" Alphose felt his soul leave his body. Those symptoms—especially the color change of her body—caused a ball of fear to form inside him. It's Crave Shock.Ismena went into Crave Shock. Ismena went into Crave Shock FIFTY-THREE MINUTES AGO!Alphose was already rushing back through the doors he just walked out from a few mi
"Please, you have to h-help my b-best friend, Alpha King. You have to help Ismena, you have to help, you have to help..." She shook her head miserably, "Oh God, you have to help her..."The urge came to him so strong like a tidal wave. He fisted his hands, gritted his teeth, and dug into his heels in an effort not to rush out of this hallway, out of the Tower, to the cougar clan.Because then, all his effort these past few days will be in vain. He hasn't gotten over her and he no longer thinks about her every five minutes AND THAT is progress. His chest still burns every damn time but it was no longer a massive throb of pain AND THAT is progress. His nights are still filled with the crawling need to wrap around her—in her, beside her, over her, and any other way he could get her but it was no longer a crippling need filled with burning pain that made his body fill itchy like he was at the worst stage of trying to get over an addiction AND THAT is progress too.Liar.He turned away
Desperation. Helplessness. Desperation.Those were the feelings coursing through him as he ran like never before towards his mate. In animal form, they are barely capable of rational thoughts. Just basic instincts and urges drove the animal. But these thoughts still invaded his mind. You are too late. It's been an hour.Noooooooooooo....! The denial rose through him like a tidal wave, threatening to consume him. The urge overcame him yet again; he threw his head back and howled to the sky.Fifteen minutes. That was the time it took for him to get to Eline's house. That was how fast he'd run. The wolf threw itself at the door immediately it got closer, breaking the wooden door effortlessly to pieces. It followed the scent of its mate, allowing it to lead him to the room where he should go.Eline, on the other hand, was still holding Ismena's body to herself, wrapped around Ismena—both arms and legs. Tears streamed down her face while she rocked the dead weight in her arms.Deep relie
Inside the bedroom, Wolfarine noticed the tremors of his hand as he leveled Ismena's lax body up, adjusted her, and gently pushed her body down until his dick slowly disappeared into her tight body. Thankfully, her body recognized him as her mate, making it easier for him to fill her moist channel. He wasn't gonna have séx with her but instead, he has to hold her close to him in the most intimate way a male could ever hold his woman. Her body was cold but that wasn't what his body was feeling. He was feeling his mate. A woman he'd forced himself to let go of, an addiction he'd forced himself to go without after he'd found out that he was involved in her horrible past and he was the very demon of her childhood. The knowledge was still like a knife to his gut but he shoved it all down to the deepest part of him. It isn't about him now, but about her. A muscle ticked in his jaw and a vein popped on his forehead, for a moment, he was overcome by the need to start moving inside her,
There was no need for elaboration because she understood what he was asking. "I was frantic. I tried warming her with my body but it wasn't working. Nothing I did worked..." A shudder went through her body as she remembered that helplessness, "...nothing. I was not what she needed, you were. I was about to give up when I remembered Ismena telling me everything that happened in the human world and the things she found out from her father. The part where your blood is running through her veins. It's the only part of you that was available so that's where the crazy idea came from.""What crazy idea?" Eline walked closer then, raised the corner of the bedclothes that covered Ismena's body, and gently withdrew her left hand. That was when Wolfaraine saw it. The small cut above her wrist.That was when the smell of fresh blood finally registered on his brain too.Eline stepped back nervously. "I sucked her blood with my mouth and made her swallow it back. Repeatedly. I thought that if her
When Ismena woke, she felt hazy and very tired. But at the same time, she felt...good. Not sick. Not choking on grief. Not suffocating with heartbreak. She just felt... better. What the hell happened?A soft grunt tore from her mouth as she made effort to sit up from the bed. Still feeling dizzy, she placed a hand on her head to steady herself."Oh, my God! Sandraaaaaa!!!? She's awake!" That was Eline's voice coming from the sitting room. Within seconds, the door burst open. Eline and Sandra hurried into the bedroom like their asses were on fire. "Thank God, thanks holy Jesus. Damn, I'm definitely going back to church on Sunday!" Sandra's voice was loud as she hurried closer and climbed into bed with her, followed by Eline. "Jesus, Mena, how do you feel now?""Great... But tired..." She moaned, tasting the metallic tang of blood on her lips. Or maybe, she was mistaken. "What happened?""WHAT HAPPENED!? You almost DIED on our asses, that's what happened! How dare you, Ismena Cranes