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Charlie’s POV Sex had never been a positive experience for me, but every time Nathan touched me, my body lit up like the fourth of July. Flames licking my skin and sparks flying everywhere our bodies connected. I craved his hands on me like my next breath, a soul-deep need that I couldn’t deny. Feeling the heavy weight of his muscular frame pinning me to the mattress should have terrified me, but the panic never came. Instead I felt anchored, safe from the storm swirling in my own mind. I felt cherished, protected, maybe even loved. “I need to feel you inside me, Alpha.” I whined then pressed the flat of my tongue to his beaded nipple. “And you will. But not before I’ve got you good and ready for me.” His voice was deep, gravelly, and so sexy it made my toes curl. “I’m already wet! So wet for you!” I argued. “Hmm. I think I need to judge that for myself.” I could feel the teasing grin in his voice. He crawled down my body, lifting my cami and leaving hot, open-mouthed kisse
Nathan’s POV Sliding my throbbing length inside Charlie’s tight pussy was the best experience of my life, hands down. We fit together like two puzzle pieces, meant to be locked together, connected for all eternity. And I’d never felt anything so amazing in my life. But despite a physical pleasure so intense, I felt like I might spontaneously combust, it was so much more than that. Watching Charlie shatter, fall apart in my arms then trust me to put her back together, that was the real ecstasy. I couldn’t wait to do it over and over again, a plan my little mate seemed to agree with. “Where are you going little lamb?” She was crawling down my chest, inching toward my cock, already at attention and ready for round two. “You promised.” She reminded me with a pout and a pointed look at my slick-coated cock. “Yes, I did.” I smirked at her needy whine. “Go on then. I’m all yours.” A huge smile spread across her face and my heart thudded heavily in my chest. I could live on that smile
Charlie’s POV Nathan wanted to mark me. Me. The girl from an enemy pack who had nothing to offer but some mind-mangling head trauma and a small side of half-truths I’d yet to reveal. It was almost unbelievable and way too good to be true. I told him I needed time to trust his feelings for me were real and that was partially true. A man like Nathan didn’t do anything he didn’t want to do, bond or not. But my battered heart still lurched to a halt at the thought he’d choose me when women like Mallory were his usual class, far above my own. But more than any of that, I couldn’t let him bite me without telling him my whole truth. Every last excruciating, despicable detail. I might have done a lot I wasn’t proud of in my life, but even I wasn’t disgusting enough to take Nathan’s future from him without him knowing exactly who he was bonding with. So while I genuinely was looking forward to all the ways he wanted to show me how much he wanted me, something I’d never once been in my
Nathan’s POV So much for that good night’s sleep I was hoping for the night before our court appearance. I thought a nice hot shower after working up a filthy sweat with my little lamb would put me right to sleep like it usually did. But instead, I was wide awake, watching her sleep and wondering how the hell she wormed her way under my skin so deep I'd give her anything she asked me for. Because the thing she asked me for was the last thing in the world I ever would have agreed to in my right mind. Apparently when it came to Charlie, sanity was a thing of the past. I still couldn’t believe I’d let her win our most recent argument. “I want to go with you to the hearing.” She’d mentioned one day over lunch. “No! Charlie, we’ve had this conversation before. It’s too dangerous. I can’t risk your safety by dragging you into the middle of our fight.” I lectured her in the sternest tone I could manage without an outright bark. “I know it’s dangerous! That's why I need to go. I’ll
Nathan’s POV “Get your fucking hands off my mate!” I roared. But the man accosting Charlie just chuckled. “Mate? Charlie-girl is your mate? Oh, that’s fucking hilarious!” He laughed in my direction then turned back to her. “The Hazelwood Whore snagged herself an Alpha for a fated mate. Does he know you already had an Alpha? And how much you loved it when Quade was willing to share?” My blood was boiling in my veins. My wolf was threatening to come out, pushing his claws through my fingertips. My vision was a red haze of fury. It was bad enough he was touching my mate with his foul hands but shaming her for abuse she couldn’t escape just earned him a death sentence. Charlie’s face was a sickly pale color and her eyes were filled with terror. I would do anything to erase that look from her face. And this was all my fucking fault. She would’ve been pissed at me for making her stay home but I’d rather have her angry than hurt. “I’m going to give you one chance to leave here ali
Charlie’s POV Anguish consumed me. I felt the pain of Nathan’s rejection all the way to my bones. Packing was a slow endeavor between the pain in my chest taht left me breathless and my muscles aching against my wolf’s attempts to fight me. The fist squeezing the life out of my heart hadn’t let up since the moment Nathan shoved me into the car, refusing to even look at me. And now I could feel the last dregs of blood ebbing away, leaving nothing but a dry, brittle lump in my chest. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop the stabbing pain slicing through it. I actually wished someone would open my chest and tear the damn thing out if it meant the misery went with it. Nathan had been my every dream come true. He’d been everything I imagined every night when I closed my eyes and pictured what my mate would be like . I clung to the promise of my dream guy on those nights when I had no idea how I'd survive another day. But the problem with dreams was you always had to wake up. To have e
Nathan’s POV “How fast can we move all the supplies from Winter Woods to Hazelwood?” I asked Mikhail, my Beta, thinking maybe focusing on work would be the cure I was searching for. . “It’s going to take some time, Alpha. All our trucks are packed to capacity with household goods for our pack members.” He informed me. “That’s not good enough!” I barked. “How am I supposed to feed two packs worth of people with only one pack’s food supply?” I picked up a useless ceramic knick-knack someone had left on my desk and hurled it across the room, watching it shatter against the wall as if all my pent up frustration would be demolished right along with it. Unfortunately, I’d need to launch about a thousand more baubles against that wall to even scratch the surface of the resentment brewing in my chest. “I’m sorry Alpha!” Mikhail jumped to apologize. “I’ll reach out to our allies to find more trucks we can borrow. And I’ll ask our Omegas to pack a few days worth of meals for each fam
Charlie’s POV “Shit, shit, shit! What are we going to do, Charlie? Fuck! This can’t be happening!” We were supposed to be getting ready for the party Brad demanded we attend as his escorts but Allison was too busy freaking out. “We’re going to finish getting ready and go to the party as planned. The rest I’m still working on.” I answered truthfully. Well, mostly truthfully. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t freaking the fuck out too. But saying that out loud wouldn’t help Allison or her parents. We had to play along until I could think of a way out of this mess. I knew coming here would be a risk but I hadn’t expected the shit to hit the fan so soon after I arrived. Then again, Allison had no idea her parents had been taking help from one of Quade’s enforcers, a man almost as depraved as the Alpha himself. We’d walked into a neck deep pile of poo, as my dad used to say. Every cell in my body had screamed at me to run and never look back. But I couldn't do that to Allison or her