APRIL It all happened so fast. One second I was at the top of the pole undressing with one arm, the next, I was grabbed from the very top of it and pulled down before having my panties ripped off and my pussy filled with a harsh thrust. The scream I let out was immediately pushed back into my throat when another dick filled my mouth until I made a choking sound. I blinked back, tears from the intensity and unexpectedness of the intrusion, before looking up to find Nick.“I bet you’ve been wet from the very second you touched that pole,” Xander teased from behind me as he spanked my ass harshly, making me arch and push my ass further into him. He wasn’t fucking me, that word didn’t suffice for the animalistic way he was thrusting in and out of me like he owned me and had the right to break me to literal bits just for his satisfaction. What he was doing to me was much more suited as mindless pounding, the type that knocked your soul out of your body and triggered the most feral aro
APRILThe first phase of the Jaw wars was child’s play, for me at least.It dictated that everyone whose names were released on the final application list was to do an online exercise that would help them fan out the competitors for the major phase of the competition that would determine the winner. For the first phase, we were required to record a seven minute long video presenting a speech on a topic of our choice relating to national unity amongst the various beings in the country, both human and supernatural. I put my heart and soul into the presentation because I had my eyes on the cash prize and I planned to bag it no matter what. I made sure I submitted on the first submission day even though there was a three day submission period and made sure every I was dotted and every T was crossed to increase my chances of moving to the next phase.Only ten finalists were chosen afterwards and I was gobsmacked to realize that Nick was one of them. For him to have made it to the top ten
APRILThe money I earned from private tutoring sessions wasn’t worth the danger that came with it sometimes. I’d just finished tutoring a second year student whose parents were worried about her failing out because of the company she was keeping these days, and because she was on her phone half the time, I had to repeat every point countless times before it sunk in. In return, I ended up staying much later than was necessary and I’d only just left a few minutes after 10 pm. I made a mental note to send her parents a hefty bill at the end of the month for having my day wasted and putting me in danger of going home late. Normally, I wouldn’t do that, but today, there was a dreadful chill in the air that forced me to do so. For the last five minutes, I’d been feeling the odd sense that someone was following me and it didn’t help matters that the streets were almost empty asides from people that were closing their stores for the night. I kept trying to ignore the feeling because each
NICK She seemed to have felt my presence this time around. I’d been watching her closely of late, but she never seemed to notice until I did so while some strange men were tailing her. Even after they left, I kept watching her and I could tell that she knew she was being watched by how she kept looking over her shoulder after every step she took.Frankly, I knew I shouldn’t be trailing her and watching her every move, but I couldn’t help myself for some reason. Recently, I’d become obsessively interested in her every move. I knew all the classes she took, all the tutoring sessions she taught, and every student board meeting she preceded over. The need to know every bit of her schedule started as a random itch in my brain, but after these past few weeks, it’d become an obsession, an integral part of my daily routine. So far, I hadn’t witnessed any odd or dangerous activity, and I assumed her life was reasonably safe. Until tonight. I was shaken when I saw those loan sharks corner
APRILI couldn’t sleep a blink no matter how hard I tried, it felt like I was at the gates of hell and about to be hurled into the bottomless abyss. That’s exactly the juncture my life was at, because let’s face it, nothing could be more of a hellish experience than having your organs harvested to pay off a loan even though you’ve risked everything and worked your ass off for years for that same reason. Knowing those selfish loan sharks, they’d probably hire a wack doctor to perform the organ extraction and I might end up bleeding to death on the surgery bed and they’d happily dump my body in the nearest lagoon. My life couldn’t end that way, not after everything I’ve struggled to live through to forge a better path for myself despite the harsh cards life had dealt me. But how on earth was I supposed to avoid such a horrid fate when I had no idea where I could gather the ridiculous amount of money they’d asked for within a few days? That’s the one question I kept asking myself rep
XANDERIt’s been an hour. A fucking hour.The women before me were three of the hottest chicks in our college, and two of them were worldwide accredited swimsuit models, so they had bodies that had licked gravel floors just to get access to, and yet…They’d been caressing me, shaking their asses, touching each other, and giving me strip teasing shows for an hour, and none of that had succeeded in getting me a boner. As time passed, I started to get frustrated and irritated by their attempts.I was genuinely confused at their failure to excite me because I’d had rounds of mind-blowing sex with them before, taking turns with each of them until they were worn out or watching them finger themselves while I jerked off. So, if they’d succeeded several times before now, what made this evening any different? I was clueless on that front. To make things worse, the only time I felt my dick twitch excitedly was when I imagined that either of them was April. It wasn’t even deliberate, but when
APRIL Maybe I was suddenly hearing impaired because there’s no way he just asked me that. Yeah, that had to be it. I could also further back up that claim by the fact that his sweaty bare chest was far too distracting for me to make proper sense of his words. His body was sinfully delicious, glinting with sweat in a way that made my insides rumble with desire. And those insanely built biceps? Those had to have distracted me as well. “Come again?” I dared to ask even though I knew his ultimate rule hinged on never having to repeat his orders. That question made his face contort with anger as I’d expected. He looked at me like he was looking through me, waiting for me to realize what he’d meant even though I was sincerely confused. “What have I said about having to repeat myself? Why do you constantly make me question your intelligence?” the fact that he spoke so calmly and still managed to annoy me had to be some sort of hidden talent of his. “I heard you, I’m just not
ACE The sound of my paws stomping the forest’s grounds had been echoing for hours. I’d ran through every corner of the forest since 10 am, and now it was almost sundown. I knew the entire expanse like the back of my palm because I’d been running through it on the 12th of every month for the last two years now.Today marked the second year. 12th July, the day I had my heart ripped from my open chest. Since that day, I haven’t had need for a heart because she took it with her when she betrayed me. Every vulnerable moment of intimacy we shared was my weakness, but now that I had no heart to develop any need for that, I was stronger than myself. Despite getting rid of that weakness, she had been running through my mind randomly for the past two years. I wished there was a way to quiet my mind. To burn those memories to ashes. To break free from the shackles of being stabbed in the back by the woman I’d have given my life for in a heartbeat. On some days, I succeeded in completely blo
PROLOGUEAPRIL“Sandy, stop making your brother cry. You promised that you wouldn't do that today, remember?” I groaned as my oldest child terrorized her little brother. She shrugged, laughing, the mischievous glint in her eyes matching that of one of her dads whose character she’d inherited; Ace. “It’s so easy to make him cry, I promise I wasn't even trying. I’m just being myself,” she flipped her dark lush hair over her shoulders, the glossy and stunning sight also resembling that of her fathers. She was such a daddy’s girl that she took every last bit of her being from them; her drop dead gorgeous looks and her fearless, stubborn personality. According to her dads, she got her stubbornness from me and not them, but I refused to believe that. “Sweetheart, putting a worm in your brother’s shoe doesn't count as being yourself,” Nick stifled laughter as he walked into the living room, dressed handsomely in suit that was identical to our son Samuel’s. “I’m a prankster and an anima
APRIL“Well, it’s a good thing I know exactly where that asshole is,” Nick’s mom said, the anger in her voice superseding his.At least Xenia’s trip across the world had proven to be the answer to our problems. But now, we had yet another broken hearted mate to add to the mix, and just like me, the pain sprung from parental issues. However, there was no time to dwell on that. The moon goddess had given us an opportunity to reclaim the peace in our city, so we had to focus our all on that. After the city was secure, we'd find a way to tend to our broken hearts and find the emotional healing we all deserve.But for now, all that mattered was find Nick’s monster of a father and putting and end to his evil attacks. “Are you sure this is the place, mom?” Nick asked as we pulled into the empty driveway of an abandoned factory in the middle of nowhere. “I'm certain. I'll never forget it because I traced his assets all over the city in a bid to uncover proof of his evil agenda, but he cau
APRILWe all followed behind him, running until we stopped outside what seemed to be a prison cell. There was a woman dressed in tattered clothes and covered in dust cowering in a corner and hugging her knees to her chest, and something about her was oddly familiar. My mates also seemed shocked by her presence, but not in the same way that I was. The look in their eyes told me that they knew something about this mystery woman that I didn't know. Before I could even ask about it, Nick grabbed the iron bars and broke them off with a deep growl before running into the cell and wrapping his arms around the woman. That? That was the most confusing thing I’d ever witnessed. And I needed answers right now.I started to stomp towards the cell when Nick said a word that made me freeze in place, understanding washing over me in a thousand waves. “Mom! It’s you!”I blinked repeatedly, awfully confused. “Mom?” Ace and Xander looked away from the emotional reunion unfolding before us and nodd
APRILGlinda was confirmed to have been dead for good, but our hellish experiences still didn't cease after her death. Personally, I was still grieving my mother and the wonderful life I would've enjoyed with my parents if she hadn't swooped in and turned things upside down. My mother’s burial was an emotional moment for me and I broke down completely while delivering the eulogy. The guys even had to come upstage and keep from falling apart some more. The days that followed weren't any greener, especially with the dark void around the city worsening and swallowing us into a vortex while I was still grieving.Of course we were terribly confused as to why the spiritual attacks had carried on even after Glinda’s death, but no one had a reasonable answer to that. It was fucking frustrating having to watch people in pain almost every damn day. It sucked the humanity out of one’s soul and replaced it with nothing but bitterness. The only thing that was clear to me about the pattern of
APRIL“You rotten lads, you couldn’t just mind your damn business? This is your fathers’ karma, why did you have to dig your stupid snotty noses in it?” she hissed angrily, overly displeased that she’d been found out by us.“We should be asking the questions,” I responded, upset that she hadn’t even made an effort to explain herself, “we came here thinking this whole fiasco was orchestrated by Glinda, only to see that it’s you, mom?!” The disappointment in my voice was thick, but she obviously didn’t give a shit about my feelings because she broke into hysterical laughter. “Mom? I’m not your fucking mom you idiotic little whore,” she rolled her eyes, and then she snapped her fingers, causing her face and physical appearance to warp instantly. Suddnely, she was a silver-haired woman with countless ancient tattoos of the moon and a shiv stuck in her heart that told us more than we needed to know. Later on, the Alphas had given us a more detailed tale of the day they finally took dow
APRIL It’s been almost a month of back to back horrors breaking out in the city.We’d successfully chased the rogues out of the city and the sorceres were stationed alongside the armies by the borders, making sure that no more enemies were able to breach our defenses and get in.Heaps of bodies had been buried over the weeks and the entire town was reeking of grief. Loved ones were being mourned in different corners of the city were candles were lit beside framed photos and bouquets of flowers. Each photo of the dead that I saw brought me close to tears, but for children’s photos, my heart literally ached and felt like it was going to explode. Living in a place that was shrouded with pain and darkness was suffocating. Even though the sun came out each day, it felt like there was a dark void enveloping the city because everyone was in a sunken mood. We had to find Glinda and put an end to her attacks before the city was ruined beyond saving. Our search for her so far has proven fu
APRILThe ticking clock in the ICU waiting room was the only audible sound.Xander had been taken in for an emergency operation a while ago and we were still waiting to hear back from the doctors.When we arrived at the hospital, he was barely breathing, and it seemed like they might’ve stopped his heart for the surgery because I couldn’t feel even a shred of his presence through the bond. On our way to the hospital, we’d dropped Natalie at one of the safety bunkers where security and magic borders were keeping people safe. If she was here, she’d have been a great distraction for me. And god, I’d do anything to be distracted from this godawful unending pain. My chest fucking hurt. Every nerve in my body was on literal fire. My head was pounding as though a line up of high school bands were in a competition. All I could think of was the pitiful state we’d found Xander in a while ago. The way he looked helpless and near death’s door. The way his blood was like a second skin masking
APRILThe city was a mess. A bloody one.“Natalie, stop using your fucking phone or you’re going to get us killed,” I whispered to my best friend whose face was a mess of dry tears. She glared at me. “If I’m going to die, I need Hector to know that he was the best sex I ever had and I always wished we became more.” I frowned at her, both disturbed and confused that she’d picked that as the most important thing to put in order in a life and death situation. What a freaking clown.“Nat, I’ve told you a thousand times, you’re not going to die,” I bit out, “Nick asked us to stay hidden here and he’ll come get us, and I know he will.”I reminded her of the instruction we’d gotten almost an hour ago when chaos broke out in the city.Apparently, some rogues breached the city’s gates and began to brutally attack every living thing in sight. They've been killing anything in their way and no one is exempt from their wrath.Not women. Not innocents. Not children. Not animals. It was a battle
XANDER Today, just like every other day for the last two weeks, we’d split up to search for Brooke. April was able to fully recover from the effects of the poison she was heartlessly fed by Brooke after a full day or more. Once we were certain that she was in a perfectly healthy state, we decided to go on a hunt for Brooke to make her pay for hurting our precious mate.No one seemed to know where she was. No one had seen her since she ran off that day. Even the city cameras had no footage of her since that day. It was almost like she’d vanished into thin air after that day, but we refused to give up on our search.We even had the authorities officially interrogate everyone she knew, especially those she worked with at her modeling agency, but no one had any reasonable information to share with us that would narrow her search.Even her personal assistant only heard that she was missing from us, he’d assumed she was taking a mental health break when she didn’t come to the office for