Reyna wasn’t new to pain but as something other than rage and anger slammed in her system, her eyes snapped open.
Next to her was a sleeping Cain but it was obvious that he wasn’t sleeping well. He was lying on his stomach half frowning and pale as a white sheet.Distress and anxiety were blasting off his skin, smacking against her. She didn’t know what he was seeing in his nightmare but whatever it was .. it was really bad.His brows were furrowed and he was dripping with cold sweat. His fear and distress were enough to make him forget about her pain that he was causing her by gripping her hand with his claws unsheathed.He was so caught up in his nightmare that he didn’t even notice that she was awake and sitting next to him.With his senses he should have noticed it long ago but clearly his nightmare was so worse that there were no signs of Cain waking up. He was grunting in pain and the harsher waReyna jerked awake at the sound of someone knocking on the door, she frowned -blinking her eyes she took in her surroundings. She wasn’t in her room this wasn’t her pack and whoever was knocking on the door needed to jump right off the edge of the cliff because it wasn’t even morning yet. She sat up straight in the bed and looked around her brows scrunched up unconsciously - Cain was not in the room. She took a whiff and realized that his scent was rather feeble like he left the room hours ago. But then almost immediately she suppressed those nonsensical feelings why would he stay though? Was she so nuts in her head that she was expecting to wake up while being coddled by him is that it?The knock on the door became incessant and Reyna cursed hopping out of the bed she strode to the door before pulling it open and giving her dear visitor a scowl. It was Diskant. “What?” Damn, it came out j
Mated“If I were, to be honest. I don’t really have any idea.“ said Reyna as she stretched her hand out and pointed at the outline of Glenn’s pack. “This is where Glenn usually kept those whom he wanted to punish. It's an open outskirt with an underground cave that’s generally used as the prison to keep the trespassers locked up. But I don’t think Glenn would continue using this now that the situation is like this. He knows that I have a good understanding of the pack maybe he will try to make subtle changes that might make it difficult for us to look for my parents.“The situation was unpredictable and completely out of her control, Reyna knew Glenn well enough to understand that he might not possibly want to kill her parents but he will definitely try to s
“What’s wrong with you?” Diskant walked inside his office like he damn near owned the place it was one of the downsides of making your best friend the beta of your pack.There was a very good chance that they will take your authority as negligible sometimes.“You better learn how to knock Diskant.” sighed Cain as he took his seat and sat down rubbing the space between his eyebrows. “You do not barge in your alpha’s office whenever you feel like it. I have told you this many times.”Diskant shrugged looking at him like he was trying to look past his soul.That bastard was sure nosy as hell. He took t
Cain had to give it to his beta, the bastard could piss off a corpse and have him jump out of his grave to have a fistfight with him, stifling a glower he gritted out “ I sure as hell know what she is and what she isn’t, thanks for letting me know that though” Bringing his mother in this conversation or ever was a bottom line for him and not in a good way.His mother was a literal example of victimizing herself, she will put herself on the high pedestal as if she was better than anyone else, try to bit off more than she could chew and when she failed - she would make herself, a victim. She was cantankerous, bitchy and a social butterfly who liked her kitty parties more than she liked her kids. He didn’t even remember her face now because she appeared in his life a lot less than a known passerby.Anyway, his mother wasn’t a prime example of what he will call a decent mother, she would often complain about the injustice of the wo
“ I don’t understand why are you so wary of me” Her expression very sad Bree sighed heavily as if Reyna was an eight-year-old trying to rile her up. Oh, she was even better than an Oscar-winning actress, no wonder Sawyer was fooled by her tactics. Reyna just hoped that the other members of the pack were a little more smart than that little princess and knew what exactly Bree was trying to do here, the pretending skank put down her coffee mug as she continued “ I know that you and I have some issues, something that I will understand but there is no need for you to be this aggressive towards me. We are in one pack and that means that we got to have each other’s back”“ Look harridan here,” said Reyna flatly “ you might think that you are smart but you are not, I am aide remember? I can feel all your warped emotions slithering out of your skin. So, yeah, forgive me for not believing a thing that you are saying when you are a
“ What's going on?” Cain had been working in the office that what was he told Diskant but he was actually busy sulking in his office, needing the privacy that he required to fight off the haunted sight from last night but the more he tried to keep his mind blank the more he was reminded of how he lost control of his instincts and his wolf and hurt Reyna, the sight of her bloody arms kept flashing in front of his eyes and the gloom seem to settle more and more on his shoulders.He wasn’t a brooder but he couldn’t believe that he had let his emotions take control of him again, as if the memories of Sawyer being restrained by two old human boys, that wild, petrified and terrified look in her eyes .. of his mother’s obnoxious acts were not enough, now he had another memory that was going to haunt him.He just wanted to be left alone so that he can just mull his ‘oh not so happy memories’ and just die a little bit
Reyna stilled, the final string of her rationality snapped just as her heart dropped to one of the deepest pits in her stomach. It must have stopped beating too because she felt like she was dying. Moved? Moved where? Reyna for the first time feels a sort of helplessness that she had never felt before even worse than the one she felt when Glenn sent her dad to the frontline in the battle. At that time she knew that her mum would save her dad even if he was on the brink of death. She had a sense of surety because her parents were somewhere she knew she could get to them.But now, she didn’t even know where they were ..or how they were doing. Reyna tried to speak but her jaw was locked like it has been gelled together by something. She couldn’t speak a word and the suffocation in her chest became worse and worse, she wanted to vent, to ravage something or more like someone, so he won’t let her go huh? He wanted her so much right? Fine, then she would just take
Though the desire to burn the entire world and watch it burn quenched a little, Reyna still felt awkward this was the second time Cain was doing something for her without asking anything in return and well that made her all weird and bubbly, she wasn’t sure if she disliked these emotions but they threw her off from her track like a stupid surprise and Reyna didn’t like surprises, and she didn’t like someone trying to get in her life either, sure she was cool with solving each other itches once in a while like a one night stand but she didn’t like intimacy, like cuddling and whispering sweet promises. That made things complicated, Reyna didn’t like to complicate things. She was always the kind of person with the ‘ you stay in your lane and I stay in mine’ motto.But how was she supposed to keep to her lane if Cain make her feel things she didn’t want to feel?“ You can let go Cain” unbalanced by his sudden acti
Her father escorted her out of the lodge, down the patio and through the trees on the path that led to the artificial lake sitting in the middle of the forest. That was the spot where the two of them first realised that they were mates, both of them thought that the mating ceremony would be a lot more meaningful if they were to hold it there. As they walked past the last of the trees and entered the clearing near the artificial lake, she noticed that the rest of the pack was sitting on both sides of the aisle and at the end stood Cain together with Diskant who has very gracefully —— that was to say fought with the other enforcers to get the spot as Cain’s best man. Behind the podium was Aron who was going to play the role of the priest and let them exchange their mating ceremony vows. Her father stopped at the start of the aisle and then turned to look at her before clearing his throat. “ I will say that I am not a fan of that emotionally unstable wolf—-”“ Dad” Reyna rolled her ey
As both wolves jumped at each other Nolan and Daniel who were waiting for their chance rushed in before they slashed open the shifter-resistant ropes freeing Valentina and Mike but they left Daxton tied without even looking at him causing her mother to angrily hiss. “ Daniel, don’t make me hurt you.” Only then did Daniel free her father who sat up straight and despite looking rather worn out glared at Daniel. “I got you, honey,” once Nolan was done slicing the ropes that were bounding her with a pocket knife and pulled her away from the fight as he noticed that the coppery scent of the blood seemed to have seeped through the very pore of the wooden warehouse. But Reyna wasn’t the slightest bit nauseated by the thick scent of blood, no …all the blood, growls and hatred that was oozing out of Cain at the moment was inciting her wolf who snarled and clawed in the air urging the wolf to take the wolf’s head off in just one big chomp. Even as she and her parents moved away from the brawl
Cain stood there in front of her with eyes coldly glinting as he looked at Robin, his mouth was curled in a cruel snarl but he didn’t move probably because Robin had his man point a gun at her parents. Robin chuckled with a harsh bite to his laughter. “ You are really good, Covington. You found us much faster than I have expected you would. It’s a shame though I was hoping for a final climax before sending you away.” Cain’s nostrils flared as he stared at Robin without blinking his eyes. “ You won’t kill them,” said Cain, his voice was carefully controlled but Reyna could sense the anger brimming off him and why wouldn’t he? The man just watched another male try to claim his mate overriding his claiming mark. “ If you do, then Reyna would never go with you, you know that right?” “ I wouldn’t like to kill anyone here,” said Robin. “ But will I kill everyone in this room including myself? I will. If that's what stops you from taking her away from me? I will do that definitely. Esp
Reyna stared at Bree with a disgusted expression. “ You are … have you ever seen anything past your own selfishness? Did you even care about what happened because of your stupid desires? Sawyer almost lost control of her wolf! And if that isn’t the worst thing, two enforcers died——”“ They were not supposed to die!” snapped Bree with her eyes looking a bit feverish. “ I never asked the loners to kill the pack mates, but they were in their way and they … and Gerald found out that it was me because when the two females couldn’t get past them without hurting either of them, they called me and he..he heard my voice and threatened to tell Cain. I couldn’t…I couldn’t, I couldn’t let him go, it’s his fault for being too nosy.”“Nosy? It was you who asked those loners to kill them! And for what they heard your voice? Then you should have taken the consequences of your actions like the good person you act!” Bree looked at her with eyes that were glowing and panted hard. “ I am a good person,
“ I saw that Robin guy go in there,” said Diskant as he jumped down from the tree. “ He was still wearing the mask of Mike but he didn’t look like him at all, that faint swagger and those haunting eyes, he looks like some corpse or something, I swear I felt a chill crawl up when I saw his face. Like how can somebody be this expressionless, and here I thought that Reyna was exaggerating when she said that the guy was as much of an emotional fool as a dead body. Turns it she was right,” at Cain’s glare, he cleared his throat and continued, “Anyway that’s not what is important, it’s that the guy went in that old warehouse and I cannot see anything past that, can’t catch a glimpse of what’s going inside.” “ He is keeping Reyna there, that’s all I need to know,” Cain flexed his jaw as he stared at the warehouse with a calm that his body and wolf both didn’t have. His body was burning with a kind of energy that was enough to drive him crazy. He was no longer as anxious as before but he was
The wolf under Cain dragged a figure into the light —— Damn it. It was Bree who was being dragged on the broken wooden floor, gagged, bounded and with her face swollen like she has been beaten badly but at least she wasn’t bleeding and with her shifter healing she was slowly getting better. Her eyes shot to Reyna and at once Reyna was able to feel the fear, trepidation and dread that was coursing through Bree. Her eyes were darting around madly and her mouth seemed to be working nonstop but Reyna wasn’t able to understand a single word. Reyna sucked in a breath through her nose, with her mouth taped she had no other choice. She peered at her parents who were lying unconscious and a surge of anger and grief rose in her heart, if she could she would have killed Robin here and now for touching her parents but she couldn’t no matter how much she tried to struggle against the ropes she couldn’t, all she could do was to glare at Robin who smiled back at her with a feverish glint in his e
Cain had to admit that it was one of the hardest things that he had to do, but he did as Diskant told him to because f*ck him —— Diskant was right. He has to keep a clear mind if he wanted to deal with Robin. But God help him because he didn’t believe he would be able to do it. He drew in a breath as he turned to his enforcers, “ Robin is probably taking Reyna where he is keeping her parents, if my hunch about him is right, he would want her to see the condition of her parents so that her spirit might be crushed. We need to follow that car and wait for the right time to barge in when their guard isn’t up.” Nolan snorted as he got up from the ground. “ He is a f*cking idiot, if he thinks he can crush my Reyna’s spirit, she takes after her mother and nothing can crush her.” “Damn right,” muttered Daniel as he rolled his sleeves and got ready to punch some shifters’ butts. Then he turned to Cain and patted him on the shoulder. “ Don’t worry, he might have her but he wouldn’t be able
If the smoke hasn’t caused the wooziness to sweep away all the senses in her head, blurring her vision and fogging her thoughts, she might have been able to fight the effects of the chloroform ..maybe she could have used her powers to take care of the intruder but then her world started to spin, tilt and with a loud bang darkness fell all over. As she fell, she was aware of the other females whimpering and fighting their way to stay conscious but the dose of the chloroform was too strong for any of them to stay awake. Reyna wanted to fight and protect the other females that were her responsibility as the Alpha female… wanted to yell at the bastard to leave the rest of the females alone but she couldn’t even open her eyes much less speak. Her raging wolf, snarled and swept her claws in the air wanting to shift but she couldn’t free herself, she wasn’t able to fight the darkness that was falling and swallowing her completely.Hidden in the dense forest, behind the tall and canopied tre
Reyna felt shitty because no matter how much she tried to focus on whatever story that Kerry was trying to tell her, she couldn’t get a word in her head of it, she knew that the older woman was trying to get her mind off Cain but with her occasional zoning out there was nothing she could do… she just couldn’t concentrate. She had thought that with so many people around her she would be fine but to her surprise, she was distracted. In fact, it was better to say that she wasn’t even surprised, with her mate infiltrating a secret hideout of a pack that was involved in criminal activities… it was hard to think of anything else. She couldn’t stop obsessing over what Cain was doing whether he was fine or not.. what if Robin was there and sensed his presence then what was he going to do?Reyna found herself chugging down mugs of coffee, crossing and uncrossing her legs and she was feeling so damn edgy with all the emotions that were pouring in and out of her, it was as if she was hyperventi