Gray’s POV“Get the fuck out now,” the vamp growled again, clawed hands dragging down the glass like nails on a chalkboard.I raised my hand slowly, pushed the door open with my elbow and stepped out with my palms up. “I don’t mean any harm.”But they didn’t give a shit. The second my boots hit the asphalt, one of them tackled me. I hit the ground hard, my knees scraping concrete as a heavy elbow crushed into the back of my neck.Fuck. I wheezed as pain lanced through me.“Stay down, mutt,” i heard them hiss.The fuckers moved like trained killers. This clearly wasn’t the first time they’d slam someone face-first into pavement. My cheek was ground against the gravel and I could taste the blood in my mouth.Fucking hell.“I’m just looking for someone,” I managed to spit out through gritted teeth. But i hadn’t even completed my words before I heard the sound of hells coming towards me.It was definitely the vampiress.WHen she appeared in my line of sight, all I could see where her leat
Julissa’s POVThe air between had changed. It was charging with electricity and the look in Kane’s eyes made me aware of every single thing.Of his arms around me, water dripping from my naked skin onto his shirt, and i could his heart pounding against my ribs. I tried to squirm out of his grip, but my limbs were still dazed from the panic of nearly drowning.“Kane,” I breathed, “Don’t…”But his eyes were wild and hungry, looking at me like I was the answer to every fucked-up prayer he’d every said to the goddess. It had my pulse pounding in my throat.“Put me down, Kane.” I rasped, squirming in his grip. However, it only made my bare pussy slide over something very hard between us. Oh gods! “KANE!”But he didn’t let go of me.Instead, his arms tightened, and he roamed his eyes down my body shamelessly, taking in every inch of me before crashing his lips onto mine.The kiss didn’t feel like a kiss. It was brutal. His mouth took without asking and my body betrayed me with a full-body
Julissa's POVI’d kicked Ashton out, yelled at him, and told him to never touch me again—and for good reason. He tried to force himself on me. He fucking tried to kiss me when I’d made it clear I belonged to Roman. But still, the moment the door slammed behind him, a sick pit opened in my stomach.Because I wasn’t completely innocent either.Asher had been my rock.For the past two months, when Roman was still deep in that coma and I wasn’t about to see him, it was Ashton who stood beside me when the pregnancy tests turned positive. When I was hunched over the toilet every morning, vomiting my guts out and crying from the smell of soap, Ashton was the one who held my hair. He was the one who got me crackers and rubbed my back in silence when I didn’t have the strength to even cry. I’d been so lost, so numb, and Ashton… he’d made me feel less alone.So I understood why he might’ve thought there was still a chance. That maybe my leaning on him was permission. Maybe I blurred the lines a
Ashton’s POVI reached out across the bed, expecting warm skin, soft breath, maybe her tangled hair spread across the pillow. But my hand hit nothing but cold sheets.My eyes snapped open, and I sat up with a curse lodged in my throat.Her side of the bed was empty.And not just empty. It was also cold, telling me she’d been gone a while. Long enough for the heat her body left behind to disappear completely.What the actual fuck?I gritted my teeth and dragged my hand down my face. The room still reeked of sex. Her sweet human scent was faint on the pillow, and my wolf wouldn't stop howling in my psyche for his mate. I don't even know her fucking name.My cock twitched from the memory of last night, but the second my mind registered that she’d left without a word, everything inside me turned sour.I stood from the bed fully naked as my muscles tightened with irritation. Usually, I was the one who left or kicked women out of my bed once I was done. No one ever walked out on me. Especia
Ashton’s POVI didn’t come here to meet anyone. I came here to drink and drown the bitter taste of Julissa from my mouth. I needed to feel the burn of liquor sliding down my throat until I forgot the way her lips used to part when she gasped under me, or how she laughed when she thought I wasn’t listening. I didn’t want to remember any of that tonight. I just wanted to be fucking numb.But the second I smelled that scent, something inside me snapped like a wire pulled too tight.My head jerked up before I even realized what I was doing.The woman was standing by the bar with her dark hair tumbling past her shoulders. She wore black jeans that hugged her hips which swayed to the beat without effort. As though she felt someone looking at her, she whirled around and her eyes met mine, making my wolf howl loudly inside me.Mate!Shit I must have said it loud because the woman cocked her head and raised her brow at him like I’d told her she had spinach in her teeth.Fuck.She clearly didn’
Gray’s POVI’d been driving all damn day and now it’s night.Since the GPS kept screwing me over, I’d thought for a minute that Julissa gave me the wrong address to keep me away from the truth. It was like I was going around in circles, dirt roads that didn’t exist, and dead ends that looked more like trap sites than missed turns. I was ready to find the damned device out the window. But finally, it had shut up, and the cabin was now in sight.The wood was clearly faded, and the cabin had a couple of broken windows with a few boarded up from the inside. Weeds swallowed the porch, a clear sign nobody had been there for a while. With a grimace, I pulled over a good distance away and killed the engine. But as I made to open the door to step out, a flicker of light came from one of the windows.That wasn’t right. No one should’ve been there. From what I knew, this place had been abandoned since Julissa and Ashton ended Nathan. But someone was inside, and I wasn’t about to barge in blind.