When I opened my eyes the first thing that I felt was the dull pain throbbing in my head, followed by the feeling of cold tiles underneath my cheek. This was the reason I didn’t drink heavily often, it always ended badly for me. Still, falling asleep on the bathroom floor next to a pile of my own vomit wasn’t the worst thing that had happened to me after a night of heavy drinking. It took me a few minutes to pull myself together and drag myself off the floor so that I could determine the extent of the damage I had done to myself. The only problem was that moving around made every single part of my body ache, even my skin felt sore. “I am never fucking drinking again.” I groaned as I stepped through into the bedroom. “That is probably for the best. You were such a mess last night, at one point I was really worried about you.” Franklin replied.“I did drink a lot, but I can take it.” Well sort of. Although the splitting headache and vomit breath begged to differ. “I didn’t mean like
It had been a while since the last time I had woken up in the forest with blood in my mouth but it was something that I was starting to get painfully used to. That didn’t mean that it was getting any easier, every time I woke up in this position I was worried that this was the time that my wolf had done something unforgivable. I would worry until my wolf calmed down enough for our connection to stabilise and my memories of the previous night started to come back to me. Today was no different. I remembered Brianna pleasuring me but after that things got a little fuzzy. I know that my wolf really wanted me to mark Brianna, I just hoped that he hadn’t done anything to hurt her while he had full control over my body. My wolf growled at my silent accusation. He was still a little feral after last night but I was able to read some of the intention behind his growl. He was angry that I was accusing him of doing something to hurt our future mate.That was a good sign at least, when he took
Rowan didn’t let me go back to my room until a couple of hours after dawn, and even then he made sure to post a couple of guards outside my room. He told me that it was for my own protection but I could see the suspicion in his eyes when he spoke to me. Maybe I should have joined Kaiden for some of those poker games he liked so much. Then I might have learned to lie a little better and Rowan wouldn’t have been able to see straight through me.‘Bullshit.’ My wolf interjected.She was still pissed off with me for almost letting Mason mark us. She was acting as though the whole situation was my fault, as though she hadn’t enjoyed what he was doing just as much as I was. She was a damn hypocrite.“This is getting us nowhere.” I mumbled to myself.It was probably the lack of sleep but I was having trouble focusing on one thing at a time. Right now I needed to focus on finding a way out of this pack before Mason had a chance to finish what he tried to start last night. I had paced the floor
The dull ache in my chest had slowly been getting worse, I knew it was because of the rejection but that didn’t make me feel any better. Brianna had looked as though she was doing okay when I left her but as an alpha I wouldn’t expect her to let others see her pain. It would make her look weak.Hopefully she wouldn’t hold the rejection or the pain against me and we can still be together after this. If I could have gotten away without actually saying the words I would have, but alpha Dalton had to send that stupid omega with me to report back to him. I had no choice other than to do what I did, she had to understand that.“Will you stop fidgeting, you are driving me crazy.” Franklin took another sip of his coffee. He was just as nervous as I was but his way of detailing with it was to complain whereas I preferred to keep moving. Although I had to admit that complaining had some benefits too. “I just can’t believe that for the second time in two days, we are waiting for alpha Dalton t
Alpha Kennedy kept me waiting for his arrival, just as I knew he would. He thought of himself as more important than a normal alpha, he wanted everybody to do things on his terms and to his timescales. That was fine by me, it made him predictable and easy to manipulate, something I intended to take advantage of today. I was seated at a table in the middle of the cafe with Rowan and my gamma, Pierre. Many of my top warriors were seated at tables around the room, providing safety in case alpha Kennedy wanted to try anything stupid. I didn’t think that he would in the presence of humans but the evidence I had against him was pretty damning, and people tend to lash out when they feel trapped. Many of my warriors had opted to order lunch while we were waiting but I couldn’t afford the distraction and opted just to have a coffee instead. In hindsight that probably wasn’t one of my better decisions, after quickly draining my second cup I was already starting to get jittery and alpha Kenned
I couldn’t tell how many of them were down there but it sounded as though there were a lot of them. They crashed through the front door and started making their way through the house like a pack of rabid dogs, screaming and shouting as they moved from room to room.“What are we going to do?” I whispered, my eyes darting around the room for a place to hide and coming back with nothing. “We have to hide, there is no way that we can fight our way out of this pack.” Franklin replied, looking just as panicked as I did. He opened a window then took hold of my hand and led me out of the room. He ran to the end of the hallways before jumping up to pull on a string that I hadn't even noticed was there. It was difficult to spot and that was what Franklin was counting on, he was hoping that the werewolves would assume that we had fled through the open window rather than hidden in the attic. It was a long shot but what other choice did we have right now? Franklin gave me a boost into the atti
I was sitting in the kitchen, nursing a cup of camomile tea in the hopes that it would calm some of my nerves. It wasn’t freaking working though. What I really needed was to know if Mason and Dominic were safe but nobody in this stupid pack would tell me what was going on. Most of the strongest pack members had left with Mason and none of them had come back yet. It would probably be so easy for me to escape at the moment, so how come that was the last thing that I wanted to do. The only thing I wanted was to hold Dominic and Mason in my arms so that I could know they were both safe. It made no sense for me to care about either of them in this way. One of them had rejected me and the other one wanted to claim me regardless of my own views on the subject. Yet somehow both of them had crawled into my heart and were refusing to leave. It was as confusing as hell and even my wolf couldn’t deny it after last night. Why did I have to come to this realisation when neither of them were anyw
Brianna went to bed shortly after ten but the rest of us stayed in my office to discuss the problem. I knew that Rowan and Pierre weren’t convinced that we should waste our time trying to save Dominic and Franklin. They didn’t say anything but I could tell that they thought it was pointless, that alpha Kennedy would have killed them long before we got there. They were probably right but I had to try, otherwise the guilt would eat at me. It was me that had sent them into that pack and deep down I knew that the plan was flawed. I had rushed into it because I wanted to get him away from my future mate before they could develop feelings for each other. I shouldn’t have done that and now his potential death was on my shoulders and I wasn’t sure that I could live with that kind of guilt. We had spent the last three hours looking at maps of alpha Kennedy’s territory, looking for any kind of weakness and coming back with the same answer. The problem wasn’t getting into the pack, that was go
The last three days had passed by as a haze of constant sex interspersed with a few hours of rest now and then. It had been amazing, but I was beyond relieved when my heat finally broke at some point last night, and I was able to get a few hours of uninterrupted sleep. I wouldn’t quite go as far as saying I was well-rested, but at least I was starting to feel a little more human than I had in days.I stretched out my muscles and slowly pulled myself into a seated position.“Where do you think you’re going?” Mason asked while looping his arm around my waist and pulling me back down onto the bed. He pulled me against his body so firmly that I could feel his cock pressing against my ass.“You can’t seriously still be turned on. You have just spent the last three days screwing my brains out and besides, I probably stink.”“You still smell delici
I waited for Raymond and his ex-mate to gather what they needed and leave before letting a low growl leave my throat. I couldn’t understand why everyone around me couldn’t comprehend why I didn’t want the worry of what the council would do next at the back of my mind throughout my heat.This would be my first real heat since I was a teenager and there was a good chance I would get pregnant after it. The last thing I needed was to go back to my pack and get into a fight with the council while potentially being pregnant.“There is no need for that sunshine, we will take care of you.”Dominic and Mason closed in on me from either side and started kissing me on my neck and shoulder. It felt as though their hands were all over me and the sensation of their touch and their lips against my skin was enough to dampen the fire on my skin and ignite one much deeper inside of me. As much as I w
The witch’s apartment was packed with so many plants and flowers that the air was thick with pollen and moisture. It was so intense that I made it difficult to breathe too deeply, and the tension between Raymond and his ex-mate didn’t help with that.She had allowed us into her home but was still doing everything in her power to make sure we were all aware of how unwelcome we were there. She had told us to stand at one end of the room while putting herself at the other end of it with her hands on her hips. Even though her apartment was small, there was still enough space between them that it would be difficult for Raymond to sneak in close enough to touch her.“I am waiting,” She growled.“I’m so sorry sweetheart. I should have never rejected you but that is something I can easily rectify. I Raymond ….”The woman held her hand out to stop h
Brianna had pulled Mason and me to one side so that she could take us through her plan. She thought she was being clever but I thought her impending heat was frying her brain because her plan made absolutely no sense. She wanted us to use her heat as a way of making the council members incriminate themselves in a way that she could use against them.It was never going to work. The council were too cautious to slip up in such a way and even if they weren’t, her plan was flawed. Blackmailing someone who was trying to blackmail you was precarious at the best of times, but doing it when your mind was clouded by lust was suicide.“We need to think of another plan, one that doesn’t put you in so much danger,” I replied.Brianna whimpered, causing Mason to shuffle a little closer to her and wrap his arms tightly around her. I hadn’t meant my voice to sound so harsh but Mason and I weren&rs
There was something wrong with my mates, I had been getting feelings of stress coming from both of them all afternoon and it only seemed to be getting worse as time passed by. It was an extra distraction that I really didn’t need when I was already struggling to trace their location using our bond.Adding to all of that, the man who had rescued me from the council seemed determined to share his life story with me. It sounded as though Raymond had been through quite a lot at the hands of the council but there was a time for sharing such stories and this wasn’t it. There had been more than one occasion in the last few hours where I had to bite my tongue so I wouldn’t tell him to shut the fuck up.“Do you have a plan?” Raymond asked as he took hold of my shoulder, halting my progress.“Of course I have a plan,” I growled. My tone wasn’t great but considering my curren
I was strangely calm as ex-Alpha Kennedy’s men dragged me through the forest towards their lair. That was because I knew that despite all of his posturing, he couldn’t kill Dominic and me without also killing or seriously harming his own daughter. Even he wasn’t crazy enough to do that. So, he must have had some other plan for us.I watched with interest as we entered the makeshift camp where Alpha Kennedy was now staying. We moved too quickly for me to see everything but from what I had seen, I was pretty sure that his mate and his son weren’t there. There were only a handful of tents and a few boxes of what I assumed to be supplies. There couldn’t have been more than a dozen people left in the camp and most of them were the mates and children of the warriors who had intercepted us.From the intelligence that the council had shared with us, this was only a small fraction of the people who had left to join
Getting caught red-handed by the council’s assistant was embarrassing enough but having them drag me into a room and hold me prisoner while both my mates watched was next level. I was meant to be a strong female Alpha and everything about today was making me feel more like an Omega.I had to watch helplessly while my mates were sent away on a dangerous mission and then once they were gone I was brought over to the table and pushed into a seat. There was something about the way the council members were looking at me as I adjusted myself within the seat that told me things were only going to get worse from there. I had to bite my lower lip to stop myself from making any sarcastic remarks while I watched them shuffling their paperwork in front of me.“You thought you were so clever when you were making plans with your weak human mate and your broken Alpha, didn’t you?” One of the council member’s assistants g
It didn’t escape my notice how even though so much had changed in the last few days, I was basically right back to where I had started. Standing in another dark alleyway looking for clues so that I could trace someone’s movements.Franklin had joined us shortly after we left our pack’s territory and he was now helping us in our search. He had left the pack shortly after the council had turned up but he didn’t go too far away. He had been dealing with the council a lot longer than I had and he knew we would be needing his help before long.He was even less happy about going along with the council’s orders than I was, although even he admitted that we didn’t have any other viable options. With the pack almost completely under their control and the potential for them getting backup from some of the nearby packs, it wasn’t going to be possible for us to overpower them without risking Brianna’
I don’t know how Dominic could stay so calm while our mate was in the hands of our enemies. I knew that he was used to hiding his emotions from others. It was just one of the skills he had picked up while working for the council alongside his parents but he was much better at this than I gave him credit for.There was barely any sign of stress on his face as he listened to the information that the council members wanted to share with him. Meanwhile, I felt as though I was barely holding onto my anger. My wolf was begging me to let him take over so that he could rip every single one of them apart and I was having trouble thinking of any reason good enough to deny his request.Nobody had dared to declare war on the council before because they feared what would happen to their pack if they did. But our pack was strong and we had many strong fighters, what would the council do if we decided to reject their authority? Could they really use