I can smell her arousal. The scent hit my nose the second she opened her truck door. And it has only gotten stronger since we got into the room. My knee shoves her legs apart then makes it home against her aching sex. I kiss down her neck then nibble my way back up to that sensitive spot behind her ear. Remi moans."You're mine Remington Thompson! Mine only." I growl against her neck. When she doesn't answer I kiss the tip of her nose before I nip it. "Say it Remi." I growl as I continue my assult on her neck. I run my tongue along the pulsating vein in her throat. My canines elongate, and I nip the vein. "I'm yours. Only yours, Rage." Remi tells me knowing my hellhound is near the surface. I can feel her dragon trying to come out and play with her mate. "Then tell me why you let another male touch what's mine." Remi tries to shove me away. But she is weakened by her needy state. She grinds herself against my knee trying to ease the ache between her legs. "I already told you. He c
"Aiden...." I plead for him to end the maddness brewing inside of me. Slowly he pushes into me. His tongue flicks over my right then left nipple. This time is different from any time before. We move slowly and in sync. Aiden stare into my eyes and I see the change in them reflected back at me. No claws. No canines. My dragon and his hellhound just peak through our eyes to the one they belong too. They savor the feel of our bodies coming together. As they become one the pressure builds. A swivel of his hips. Slowly moving in and out. Holding himself deep inside of me with another swivel of his hips. I meet him; slow long deep thrust after thrust. "Fuck baby you feel so damn good. I love your tight little pussy." Aiden groans. His words cause the inferno to grow larger. The world tilts on it's axis as he kisses me slowly. My breath catches. A tingle starts in my toes. The higher the tingle climbs the more intense the building pressure becomes. The pressure builds and builds until it h
My voice is raspy, deep and low. "I can feel you right here." I take Remi's hand and place it over my rapidly beating heart. It's panicked beating mimicking Remi's. I raise her hand to my head."I can hear what you're thinking right here. Remi, you have it all wrong. My confussion is from not seeing it before now. I helped hone the weapon Payne has become. I never put two and two together. I'm confused because you can easily forgive and look past the things I have done. Yet you feel as though I wouldn't be able to do the same for you. I feel betrayed because you didn't feel you could come to me with this. Yet your family and Blaze knew. Gunner is my best friend and even he didn't feel he could trust me with this secret. My heart breaks for all the pain and suffering you've had to endure in your short life."I pull a weeping Remi into my lap and kiss the top of her head. I hold her as tightly as I can to my chest. "Your worries about me forgiving you of all you've done is pointless. Ju
When I pull into the cirular driveway of the giant white brick mansion; there's cars here that shouldn't be. We turn left and drive to the gardens of the old shifter compound. Only stopping once Payne can longer take being confined. Sobs ravage my body again. The pain of my heart and body overtaking everything. Nothing matters. I don't matter. That realization has Payne acting out if full force. I double over in agony hitting the horn of the truck. With the blaring of the horn males coming running around the house and surround my truck. I open my door and spill out onto the pebbled walkway of the garden. Sharp tiny rocks drive into my palms and knees. I struggle to right myself as my father comes barreling through the crowd. As he pushes and shoves his way through the crowd with my brother hot on his heels; I crawl away as fast as I can. "Remi, sweetheart...." My father's worried shouts sound more like whispers. Blaze and my father are on either side of me. Gunner keeps the securit
The next time I open my eyes; three days have past. I look around at the unfamiliar room. The closet door is open and I recognize some of my clothes. There's a knock at the door as my father let's himself in. "Hey sweetheart. It's nice to see those big beautiful violet eyes." "I want to be alone. I need to be alone right now." "Tell me what to do to fix this. I don't want you back in that dark depressed state. I can't stand by and watch you isolate yourself again. You built a wonderful life, Remi. You can't abandon it. There are people that love you. A business you love and that needs you to run it. There are friends and family waiting and wanting to see you." "Nothing you say or do can fix this. You lied. Gunner lied. Aiden lied. My life is built on freaking lies. The only thing I want to do. Is get as far away as possible. As far as the club; Shade and Myka can run it." "318 is your responsibility. It's not fair to Shade and Myka to dump the club in their laps and just lea
All of Aiden's emotions and certain memories assult me; coming through the thread that connects us. It's too much all at once. I clutch at my chest and stomach gasping for air. I can't breathe. I can't speak. A sound like that of a wounded animal comes from my chest. Tears sting my eyes. My heart bangs against my chest as if trying to break free. "Remi! Remi, I need you to calm down and breathe. Listen to me. Deep breath in. Now slowly breathe out." I shake my head trying to shove my father away. He's crowding me. The walls are closing in on me. Dark spots invade my vision. It feels as though my lungs are collapsing. "Remi, deep breath in. Exhale slowly. Come on sweetheart. In. Now out. In. Out." Kieran rubs circles on my back as he coaches me on how to get my breathing under control. Eventually I no longer feel the panic. As soon as I feel as though my world isn't collapsing in on me; I throw up a shield blocking everything and everyone out. I don't want to feel anything. Not my em
"She's mated! They sealed the fucking bond! Then he destroyed her. Aiden will answer to me! Not for sealing the bond. But for leaving her wanting death afterwards!" My father's anger causes his voice to slightly raise. Something slams against the table. I'm assuming it's his hand. "Keep your cool! And keep your voice down! Remi will hear you. She told you to leave him alone!" Gunner scolds my father. "I don't understand. They were happy together. I know they sealed the bond. I seen the marking on her arm, and the bite mark on her shoulder. Why would she want to die? What the actual fuck went on that day?" Xavier talks cool and calmly to the Dragon King. "Apparently they sealed the bond accidentally. Then he got a text about his baby. Remi lost it. Her dragon was forcin a shift. It was brutal to watch. Can't imagine the pain she felt. She was begging for death." Gunner summarizes the situation leaving Payne out of the equation. Everyone isn't privileged enough to know that Payne is
Minutes pass by as I shuffle through Aiden's memories. Female after female passes before my eyes. None of them resemble each other. It's as if Aiden was at an all you can fuck female buffet and he sampled the whole damn buffet. They all had two things in common. One, they were all beautiful. Two, they all wanted to bare his children. A few of them had a child before they got with Aiden. It was heart breaking to see how he interacted with their children. Treating them as if they were his own. After seeing this; there's no way he could tell me he was fine with not having children. My heart broke all over again. I want to stop digging. But I owe it to myself to look for the truth. I continue to flip through his memoried like a rolodex. I figure out how to skip through them until I find the ones with Savanah. Like so many others; Savanah is a clingy attention whore. The night he tells her about me; she totally loses her shit. Like full on batshit crazy. She throws stuff around the house
"I have a question. How do we know Skullz isn't the traitor and you're both helping Chance and Bael?" Gunner asks standing along side Aiden and Xavier who have taken up the position of blocking me from Vlad and Skullz view. "If we were the one's working for Bael and Chance; your sister and the twins would be on their way to hell with Bael. Not sitting in a room specifically designed for her to give birth comfortably. I wouldn't have invited you all here to figure out our next move or even told you we are her mates as well. If I was conspiring against you."Skullz stands there with his head hung low. When he raises his head his eyes lock on mine. I see the questions in his eyes. Do I trust him? Do I care for him as I always have? Can there ever be more between us? The answer is yes, I trust him. Skullz has been a part of my life almost as long as Aiden has. Skullz has proven time and time again he would lay down his own life for mine. I don't have to question his loyalty or devotion.
I shove away from Skullz. Remi yanks me into her side pleading with her eyes for me to calm down. "Talk." I demand staring Skullz down. "The first time I scented my mate was the night Remi was attacked. Her seventeenth birthday. Her scent was strong, but it was mixed in with yours. I was sure I was mistaken. Especially with the way you were acting. And everyone saying that Remi was your fated mate. I mean there was no way she was my mate if she was your fated. So, I thought what I was smelling and feeling wasn't right. The more time I was around Remi, I knew she was my mate. I never said anything or came forward because she never showed any signs of feeling the same. So, again I was confused. Vlad here picked up what was going on with me at 318 for casino night. He was having the same problem. Neither of us wanted to step on your toes. Neither of us wanted to force anything with Remi. Remi and I are so close because of the bond we share. Not just because we're friends. She's my mate
When I walk back into my bedroom, everyone is here. I can't believe that my kidnapper called in my calvary. Tears cloud my eyes as I rush over to Aiden and my babies. I hug them as tightly to me as I can. "I can't believe he called you. He said he would. He did." I mumble into Aiden's chest. The twins begin to stir and whine a little because I'm squishing them. One by One my family passes the twins around. Aiden and I look on with pride. "So, what's their names? Remi refused to tell us until you got here." Kallista asks Aiden bouncing on the balls of her feet. She's dying to take my son away from his father again. "Ashton Romie Ramos and AshLynn Yanessa Ramos." Aiden says finally passing Ashton back around the room."Those are perfect names." My father beams with pride as he holds his first grandchild. AshLynn squirms and we all hear a noise and my father cringes. "I think she left her father a surprise." Kieran says handing my daughter to her father. Aiden looks lost as hell. I b
It's been hours since Remi and the others went missing. My phone keeps vibrating in my pocket. When I finially pull it out to check it; it's a number I don't recognize. "This is Aiden. Speak." I growl into the phone not at all worried about how I might come across to the person on the opposite end of the line. "Aiden, it's Vlad. We need to talk. It's about our mate. Remington." "She's mine! Only mine!" I growl into the phone. "No she's not. I've gotten her somewhere safe. The twins are safe. At least for now. There's a traitor walking among you. He has Blaze. I got to the scene just in time to get our mate and the other females to safety. They're all here. I'm sending you the address. Bring just the ones you know beyond a shadow of doubt that you can trust. I'll explain everything once you get here." Vlad hangs up leaving me speachless for a moment. I snap my head up looking at everyone in the room. No one here would dare to double cross me and Remi. Flashes of a soft pale yellow
I'm in the middle of a meeting with a vendor for 318 when a flash of images fills my mind. Gunner and Weston rush into the office shooing the two males from the booze delievery company out of the room. "Blaze and Kane's vehicle was found on the side of the road smashed to pieces. No sign of either one of them. Tianna's car was found a few feet away down the small ravine. We gotta go Aiden." Gunner says helping me out of the chair. "Remi was in labor. Where's Remi, Tianna, and Kallista?" I ask forcing myself to finally move. "They were taken. We think Blaze and Kane are on their trail. We don't have all the answers. Xavier and Skullz are at the scene now. Come on! We're going to catch the fuckers scent and go after them." Weston says. I point over at my truck and throw Gunner my keys. It feels a little awkward to have him here. But since Doc and Waylon got him from under that spell Mace casted; he's been trying to do everything he can to make up for the damage he feels he caused. D
Kallista calls Aiden, but doesn't get an answer. I continue to do breathing exercises. "Where's your go bag?" I point to the bag next to the couch in the little sitting room of our suite. Kallista helps me waddle across the room. I have another stabbing pain in my vag and stop walking. I cross my legs and pray the twins don't fall out. "I know it has to hurt. But we have to move. I called Dr. Williams. She knows we're on our way." I nod my head at Tianna, but the pain is too much. Blaze flashes into the room and picks me up. He carries me down the stairs through the house to the garage and puts me into Tianna's car. He pushes the seat all the way back; then leans the back of the seat as far back as it will go. "Follow me. Kallista, keep calling Aiden and Xavier. One of them has to answer. I'll call Kieran. Remi, keep doing your breathing exercises." We all nod our heads and he closes the door. We follow behind his SUV. We're just past the clubhouse when a huge truck crosses over in
The day after my zombie moment is peaceful. Tianna, Kallista, and Aiden's sister, Trinity all come over to keep me company while Aiden works. I feel horrible about all the time and hours he puts in between the mechanic shop ran by the hellhounds and 318. I try to keep in touch with Shade as much as possible to see how things are running and to help out as much as I can. She's training someone to take over for her because she is also going to have to leave in a few weeks. Aiden tells me he has everything under control, but I still worry about my business going up in smoke. I'm about to fall asleep during movie number three when I hear Aiden's heavy foot steps stomping up the stairs. Instead of turning to come to our room he heads towards the nursery. I realize the banging and racket coming from that side of the house has stopped. When I move to sit up all three of the females laying in my bed jump up. "What's up? What's wrong?" They yawn and stretch their sleeping asses out. "Nothin
The grumpy old fae answers on the first ring. "What now Aiden? You have my ass so busy I had to hire another crew to take on some of my other clients." Amos grumbles. But if I say I'm hiring someone else for a job; he bitches my ass out and insists he's the one doing it. "I need the twins' nursery done. Like yesterday." Amos huffs and puffs. I hear him whistle as he flips through the pages of his daily planner. He grunts acting as if he will be too busy. I know what he's doing. He wants more pay for the perfection and rush job only he can do. "I'll pay you double the agreed upon price. Remi, could have the twins any day now. We need it done and fast. And we both know; only you can do what we want done as fast as we need." I listen to him tapping his fingers on his desk. "You don't have to pay me double. Just the original quote plus half that. I'm fae. We both know I can have that nursery done with the snap of my fingers. Besides you and Remi are good people. I'm only gonna cut yo
"Okay, Remi. Tell me what's going on." Dr. Williams says as she pulls out a few hand held machines, a measuring tape and her stethoscope. She lays them on the bed as I explain what's going on. "I started having pains. They're not contractions because they're sparatic. They don't last long. What hurts the most is; it feels like the twins are about to come falling out my hooha." I pant as I continue to try and breathe through the pain in my vag. Dr. Williams lifts my shirt and tucks it under my tits. She measures me, takes my blood pressure then heads back to her bag. Sitting beside me on the bed she squirts some gel on my stomach and begins using a probe wand looking thing on my stomach. When the sound of my baby's heartbeat fills the air I know what this machine is for. "Ordinarily, I'd do this down at the office. However, since we're doing a house call today. I'm going to have to do it here. Remi, I need you to remove your pants and panties. I'm going to check to see if you're dia