GAZELLEIt'd been two weeks already, and I was still cooking and serving the Terrors every night, most times without a dinner of my own even. Tonight, my stomach was growling and grumbling it's protest at being left empty for so long. I hadn't had a single thing to eat today, I was too busy learning what new recipe I could cook up for them without ruining their kitchen like I almost had two nights ago.That night Jeremy hadn't said a single word to me when he saw the mess I had made of their kitchen, he had simply smiled at me and turned away like I wasn't even there. Somehow I feared that lack of response more than any threat that he had ever served me with."What are you cooking?" A voice interrupted me from the doorway, almost causing me to drop the bowl that was in my hands.I scrambled for purchase and turned to face the intruder after I had the bowl in the safety of my palms.Jayden was looking at me from his place at the door. He leaned one shoulder against the door frame, and
GAZELLEFrom the look in his eyes I could tell that there was absolutely nothing that could deter him from the path that he was on, but the amount of salt in that bowl terrified me enough to keep stepping back instead of doing as he commanded.I didn't see him move, I couldn't even prepare myself for it before his hand wrapped around my throat in a vicious grip. "Are you trying to test my patience, Tilapia?" His voice was several degrees lower than before, and filled with anger now."No. Please... please... I...""Too late for that now." His second hand gripped my hair and he forced my head backward in an angle that sent sharp pain slicing through my neck.I cried out in pain, and his laughter followed. "Scream all you want, honey. But you would do as I say."Tears rolled down my face as pain consumed me. He was doing this intentionally, causing me pain so that I ingested the poison on my own.I saw black as the intensity of the pain continued to increase. My neck, my head, my throat,
Jordan POV Two weeks laterArgh, what the fuck? What in the actual hell am I supposed to do to get a whole fucking night’s sleep around here?The decision to suffocate the little sod couldn’t be taken lightly, under any circumstances. However, only this time, I am pretty sure suffocation is the only way I can get some rest, some alone time and an actual full night of sleep. No fucking interruptions or whining about anything. Just sleep blissful and calm, and have a wonderful sleep. Just the thought of a good night's sleep is turning me on, which I have never experienced before. Who would have thought I could get hard on over the thought of restful sleep?“Sleep is the new wet dream,” Jax mutters.A rather annoyed growl slips from my lips as I gather enough strength to roll onto my side. I close my eyes and try to force my mind to listen to my voice as I whisper the fucking never-ending mantra. “Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out,” I whisper it another three times and gro
Jordan POV Jayden just shrugs, and I kind of understand his frustration. I mean, he can’t understand mine, because the motherfucker has gotten a decent amount of sleep after all. But honestly, it seems like we are wasting our time here. It’s been damn weeks since we entered the forest for the search and yet, there is still no sign of her. Not even a footprint or a piece of clothing - nothing.I bring my hand to my chin and tap it with one finger, just to look like I’m deep in thought. While I do, Jayden looks at me like I hold the answers to any question that might pop into his mind.An idea pops into my mind, and I grin. “Well, if you would get these supposed gifts working, instead of fingering your asshole, we would have found her by now.” I shoot him another wink.“Dude,” Jayden growls and suckles in a deep breath. He holds it for a moment as if he needs to gather some goddamn patience. Why don’t you go outside and gather some mushrooms instead, smarty pants? I’m about to reply wit
Jordan POV I feel like I am breathing in water. If it isn’t water, it has to be some liquid of unknown origin, because whatever it is, it’s fucking hard to breathe, though.That’s exactly how steamy and hot the forest feels right now. I have no other option but to shrug off my shirt and tie it around my head to stop the goddamn sweat from getting in my eyes and burning away the remaining bits of my vision.It is already lunchtime as we still try to navigate our way through the trees. Casen is running ahead of us while we follow him like shadows. I still don’t want to shift yet, and neither does Jayden. First of all, if anything were to happen, I need Jax at his best to ensure we can get out alive, and besides, we are running low on clothes.The thing is that usually when we shift, we stuff our clothes in logs, but when we return, all of them are missing from where we know we left them. Not only that, I am worried about Jax eating something. My stomach has been turning all day, and the
Jordan POV “You become a woman?” I gasp out.All jokes aside, holy shit… Holy truck fuck shit, the dude’s actually crazy. And I mean crazy, looney bin type of crazy, not the regular type. Whatever that type might be.As shocked as I am, I still struggle to keep my face neutral. Well, aside from the shock, of course. I really don’t want to hurt his feelings. Or am I supposed to say her feelings now?Wait, does this mean Jayden can shift between both genders? Is this a gift he just stumbled upon recently?“I am being serious, Jordan,” Jayden says, and he stops in his tracks.I glance at him and frown. The thing is that Jayden looks genuinely bothered by whatever he claims is happening to him. He shakes his head while I watch him.“Forget it,” he says as he stomps past me. I stopped him by grabbing his upper arm.There’s no way I’ll let him drop this now that I know he’s a gender-shifter. Is that a thing? Shapeshifter is, so maybe I just discovered a new species. Damn it, my name might g
Jordan POV A grin that forces its way on my face, along with the murderous spark that dances before my vision. “Then you hunt down the bastards that touched her.” Jayden stares at me.“No one should be forced to live like that. If what you are seeing is real, you need to stop it even if it ends there,” I tell him.He glances around as if the answer to his prayers is somewhere near, but as soon as he realizes it isn’t, Jayden sighs and nods. “Fine, I will tell her,” he whispers and returns this gaze to mine.If not more, at least now I know he has taken my words seriously, and he isn’t saying this just to put my mind at ease. I offer him a weak smile and slap my hand on his shoulder. “Good, come on then, let's find this sister of mine. Then we can focus on finding your mate.”His eyes widen again as he gasps out, “You want to help?”I shrug. “We may not see eye to eye, but we are still family. Family help each other,” I tell him and gently squeeze his shoulder.“You seemed pretty pisse
Jordan POV My eyes scan the men again, none of them react, so I carry on. “Has a bad attitude and rainbow-colored hair. Parents named her after a flower, but she is more like algae. You know, the sort you want to get rid of it, but keep it around to feed the fish. Or maybe she is more like an obnoxious weed. Major pain in the ass, but a pain I kind of want back, so perhaps you have seen her around?” I joke. None of them laugh, just stare at me.Jayden leans toward me, and they raise their spears and step closer. “Looks like we are doing this the hard way, then,” Jayden mutters to me.“Oh, so you have a plan?” I perk up, more than happy to see if his big brain can come up with any way we can get out of this. I still kind of don’t want to shift in front of humans, even if the humans in question are clothing stealing, spear pointing, not-so-talkative assholes.I glance at Jayden as he raises an eyebrow at me and whispers. “Why, do you?”I grin and lean a little closer, keeping an eye con
JEREMY She looked like she wanted to be anywhere but here, and confusion was drawn on her face like a tattoo. "This is a prank." She stated with a shake of her head. "Please, I promise to stay out of everything that relates with the Terrors or the Girlfriends." I almost laughed out loud at the panic in her voice, but I refrained and kept a straight face instead. "I would've thought you had more balls than that, but I guess I was wrong." There was no way I was going to try to make an ally out of someone who was walking, breathing cowardice. If she didn't want any bit of revenge then so be it. "Wait!" She called out to stop me as I walked away from her. I turned back to face her, my eyebrows arched in silent question. "What do you want?" "I already told you what I want, Gwen. You're either brave enough to be a part of it or you're not." My gaze trailed over her from head to toe. "And something tells me you're on the side of not." "How do I know that you're not mislead
JEREMY'S POV I couldn't possibly be imagining this. This place was deserted to a very large extent. Something was most definitely up. Every single person that had walked past us or even peeked through their windows at us since we strolled by casually had been either female or child. It was Jayden that finally responded to my comment. "No, it's not just your mind. This is actually a space dominated by anything other than the male wolves." Jordan made a show of sniffing the air. "There's no single scent of a male wolf within a 50 mile radius of this place." "What do you think could be going on?" I asked. This was seriously crazy. There was no way in hell that all of the men in the pack had just decided to step out on the same day. Especially not after the number of traps we'd had to get past on our way here. "I think there was more than one trap left waiting for us." Jayden didn't sound too pleased by that possibility. Not that I could blame him, I wasn't pleased by it ei
JEREMY'S POV I couldn't possibly be imagining this. This place was deserted to a very large extent. Something was most definitely up. Every single person that had walked past us or even peeked through their windows at us since we strolled by casually had been either female or child. It was Jayden that finally responded to my comment. "No, it's not just your mind. This is actually a space dominated by anything other than the male wolves." Jordan made a show of sniffing the air. "There's no single scent of a male wolf within a 50 mile radius of this place." "What do you think could be going on?" I asked. This was seriously crazy. There was no way in hell that all of the men in the pack had just decided to step out on the same day. Especially not after the number of traps we'd had to get past on our way here. "I think there was more than one trap left waiting for us." Jayden didn't sound too pleased by that possibility. Not that I could blame him, I wasn't pleased by it ei
JORDAN'S POV "It's quite easy to make demands like that when you're sitting safe behind an office desk, isn't it?" I spat out before I could stop myself. Something about the woman made me want to vomit. She irritated the fuck out of me and I was always fighting the urge to simply wring her throat with my bare hands. "Excuse you?" Her eyes were oozing fire as she trained them on me. "There's just three of us. And yet we're constantly being pitted against a full army of wolves by ourselves." "You're Alphas." She deadpanned like that could justify everything in the world. "Doesn't make us infallible." I bit back. "Maybe if the board could be a little bit more considerate about the kinds of missions we were sent on, we wouldn't have a revenge on our hands now." My tone was becoming a lot more disrespectful with each word that came out of my mouth and I noticed my brother stiffen beside me. One of his palms dropped on my thighs, calming me down without words. As expected,
JAYDEN'S POV As soon as Sarah took my hard cock into her mouth, a groan traveled out from my throat. She might be obnoxious and irritable and all of the other depressing shit, but she certainly had a lot of use in the sex department. I grabbed a fistful of her hair to hold her head in one place, then I pulled my cock out of her warm mouth and jammed it back in with enough force to have tears spilling down her face. Her gag reflexes kicked in and she started to make room at the back of her throat for my throbbing member to visit more easily. I didn't even bother with slowing down, I just continued to fuck her mouth all the more violently. By the time I felt the pressure building in my balls, I pulled out, then dragged her off her knees until she was standing in front of me. "Did you like that?" She asked me with a sultry smile on her face. "I'm yet to decide." I spun her around and bent her over the back of the deckchair I was sprawled in when I first came in here with Gwen and
JAYDEN'S POV I didn't bother with waiting for them to snap into action, I was beyond confident that my demands would always be met so I turned on my heels and went in the opposite direction of the open doorway of the room. As expected, the footsteps of the two women escorted me down the stairs and all the way to our suite. When Jeremy came to me fuming that Jordan was beginning to act stupid I hadn't known how to react so I had done the only logical thing, go after my twin. "Jayden, I..." Gwen's annoying voice took over the space in my head as she tried to give me an excuse of some sort. "Can you do yourself a favor and keep your mouth shut, Gwen? I would ask you to speak when I have absolutely no choice but to listen to your annoying voice." That shut her up pretty quickly. My face pulled up into a smile as silence stretched between us all the way to the suite. "What the fuck is she doing here, Jayden? I take it that you intend to punish her?" Jeremy still sounded terribly
GAZELLE'S POV I either didn't hear right or I heard completely wrong. Did Jordan just say he would have one of the Girlfriends bring dinner up to my room? My eyes moved up to meet his in obvious shock, and I noticed he wasn't even staring at me. He was too busy glaring at Sarah, who looked just about ready to have the earth swallow her up, to pay any attention other than the verbal acknowledgement that left me in shock. "What the hell, Jordan?! Are you fucking this pig? Is that why you care so much about her? I would've thought you had better taste than that, being Jayden's brother and all." Sarah's voice is high pitched and ringing with enough disbelief. Just as much as I felt up until het words registered in my skull. What? What was it with everyone and making disgusting assumptions today? Jordan's gaze finally landed on mine and his glare turned icier. I could totally see how he would be pissed off over the fact that people are now assuming he's having... eww with me.
JORDAN'S POV I was feeling a lot of different emotions, all of them in the negative. Gazelle's presence beside was doing a lot more than I expected it could to keep me calm and collected. The spoon in my hand lifted oh so slowly up into my mouth, carrying with it ice-cream that should be divine, but just tasted like sawdust. "What are you guys doing in here?" Jeremy's voice carried through the semi-open doorway. We both looked up at the sound of his voice, one of us frozen in her place. I glanced at her in a very brief way but she didn't even look back, her eyes were pinned on him as he strolled into the room. "Nothing that should concern you." My voice held a finality that would get anyone else to back off, but this was Jeremy I was speaking about. His face morphed into a huge smile. "Ah. You could've invited me to join in the fun." His eyes flickered between Gazelle and me, a knowing smile on his face. I almost gagged at the suggestion he was making. "Gross. Get your s
GAZELLE'S POV After what happened the previous night, I didn't think that I would want to attend another ball night. The plan was to remain in my bed and see Jenna later in the evening since she wasn't ready to see me this morning. But my little rest was caught short as I was sent a reminder of my punishment. I got off the bed dutifully and changed into a loose fitting outfit. I got my cleaning equipment and began my dirt. I cleaned up my dorm and thankfully, some cleaners had already cleaned the girlfriend's floor so I didn't have to deal with the obnoxious girls. The boys dorm was already cleaned so all I had to do was clean the surroundings and the boyfriend's suite. I took my time to clean because I didn't want them around when I was cleaning. By the time I was done with half of Wolverine, the ball had already begun and wolves were beginning to arrive. I spent one more hour cleaning before heading to the Boyfriends suite. There was no one at home which was a