They trailed down the hill in silence. Elise made sure she was at least five feet apart in front of him at all times; she dared not turn, and she never gave him the satisfaction that he might have some kind of hold on her. After a while, they made it to the roads, she recalled. She felt it was close enough to use her powers as she tried her telepathic channel to call for Hayden. "Can you at least act like I am not a ghost?" Rygan interrupted; moons, he was so stubborn. The moment she turned to him, she could see his gaze momentarily move to her lips. A look that caused a warm rush down her spine. “It is taking everything in me not to punch the fucking daylight out of you,” she retorts. “He is close, so please…” “I won’t speak a word if you do not want me to; I’m not that dishonorable,” he says to Elise. A flash of hurt crosses his face, and Elise's shoulders slump in return. They stare at each other until the sound of dry leaves crunching gives a sign that someone is getti
A fight to the death, the deadly silence ensued with tension to the alphas stance. "We really shouldn't be doing this right now, please!" She starts But both alphas' gazes were filled with nothing but bloodlust and a crippling intensity; Hayden wasn’t backing down, and neither was Rygan. Elise feels her finger scrape her skin till blood flows, and fear courses through her entire body as she stares at them. “You both need to stop this; please, you do not need to fight.” “I will fight for you, Elise, because you are mine, and I will kill this male who has caused you nothing but pain and who touched you.” Hayden's mouth opened wide as his canine protruded out. His eyes were glazed red, like ruby stones, but now his white orbs were painted pure black from the poison messing with his head. *He is infected, and you know it. I know I can’t kill him, but I have to find a way to put him down. He is a liability right now with the poison,* Rygan sends through the mental bond. She kno
“Hayden, no! Please, no!” she begged as she clutched onto him; he had shifted back to human, and his body was badly riddled with holes from the bullet attacks as he shifted back. The entire forest had gone silent from her piercing scream as hot tears spilled from her eyes as she held Hayden’s body in her trembling arms. “Why? Why, after what I’d done to you, I deserve this instead, so why did you block that shot with your body?” "I told you, I would give my life for you," he sent down the bond. "I know I cannot fully have your heart or you in this life, but I will have you in the next," he said. Elise shook her head, her eyes filled with tears of regret and sadness. “You can pull through; I know you can; please don't do this to me,” she begged. The sky darkened, and a storm brewed closer as they lay on the ground. Rygan watched, distraught and shocked, at Hayden's bloodied body, yet his eyes scanned as he heard the humans gaining closer again. They had taken out over 40 men,
There was no way out; Elise could barely think, and Markus' wicked laugh echoed across the room as she looked up at the monster. “You fucking monster, I will kill you!” Elise raged; the cell rattled from her anger as she pulled on her chains and tried to shift again, but her silver chains reacted, causing an unbearable burning shock down her body. He wasn’t lying about the pain from the chains. “You better respect the boss, you little bitch!” One of Newman's men rushed forward, putting his hand into the cell to grab Elise, but he’d never expected her retaliation as her teeth latched harder on his hand, grappling his fingers with her teeth till they heard a grotesque crunch. “Arghh!” The human male screams in horror, pulling out his arm to see both his index and middle finger are missing, and Elise spits them out with a snarl. “Fucking bitch!” He cries as blood settles and sputters out. Another man helps the wounded man out of the room as he screams curses at Elise's name as
Tazmin's POV... I still cannot comprehend everything that had been revealed; how could I have been so stupid? I trusted Kaide with all my heart, my sworn brother in battle, who was always there for us. How couldn’t I have seen the brewing plan between him and Alvira? All this time I was blinded to the truth; a stupid part of me had tried to push the guilt down and had tried to get Rygan to believe that their punishment for Elise was justified. I never knew I was being brainwashed into it by my friend, whom I sought as family. But they had planned it all. And I played a part in it, a pawn in their game, and I believed Kaide time and time again when he told me Elise's body couldn’t be found; we all did, and so I stopped asking. He was the one who told me to pursue my happiness and not think of the past, who would have thought he needed me to be distracted with Vienna, who I was utterly in love with. And even as my mate Vienna’s nights were filled with tears and sorrow for he
Back at Markus Newman's prison: . . . ••• Elise's face fell the moment she recognized that voice and the daunting silhouette that stood in the shadows. His wicked gaze and lips stretched in a smirk as he came forward and into the light. Kaide. Elise had never felt such grappling rage and hatred from seeing a person, Kaide, whom she once trusted and almost gave her love and affection to. Now she could see him as nothing less than a revolting monster standing with a wicked smile on his face. “You…” Elise muttered, and Rygan answered beside her with a low growl in response to sighting Kaide. He hissed out in response to his throbbing wound that was still healing slowly from Elise's blood, but no one was aware of it, not yet. Elise's body trembled with an unfathomable rage in her blood that boiled seeing him; it caused a lot of memories to emerge, especially when he locked her up and lied—she killed the virus baby—and how he threw her away with no hesitation. “Hello, E
Rygan was in a rut. Elise was frozen by the fact that his body was in a rut while they were trapped in a dungeon; it was dangerous for him to be unguarded and so powerless to his feral side right now. “Elise, mate,” he grunts, his breath getting hotter as Elise approaches closer to where he sits up. She raises her arms to palm and caresses his face in her hold, feeling how warm his skin was. “Rygan, look at me. Can you control it? You have to," she mutters to him. She held his face, peering at his gaze and studying his storm-grey pupils that were now dilated and glazed with lust. His temperature was getting hotter, and it wasn’t good for the healing. “Fuck..it can't-ugh,” he groaned. Elise felt panic take over as she didn’t know what to do at that moment. If it was anything like the first time they met in that dark cell, she knew it wouldn’t take long before he completely lost himself. They were just an earshot from the door, but he couldn’t hold his lust any longer as he
Rygan’s rut had seemingly calmed from their five minutes of pleasure, and now his mind felt clearer with each passing minute. “I think I have a plan that can get us out of here,” she said to him. The tiredness in his gaze cleared; they knew there was no time to spare. “You might not like it, but you only need to trust me, and no matter what, don’t stop me,” she muttered to Rygan as she relayed the plan to him. As he fully understood it, the plan was set in place. Elise crept up slowly to the barred window; one of the bars was weakened and shaky, almost undone. She prayed the guards were occupied enough as she dug in slowly, hoping the metal wouldn't make a sound. Rygan was her lookout as she watched the shadows pass, but “Someone is coming, El; you need to get down,” he warned. “I’ve almost got it,” she whispered back. Even as her hands burned from exerting a bit of strength, she didn’t care as this was their only chance. “El!” He barked again. And just in the nick of time