Cyrus"A heist?" Bonnie repeated."Yeah," Madoc replied enthusiastically. "Just like the movies! Sunrise Corporation has its hands in many pots. Some public and some underground. I need you to stop another organization from muling a competitor's product and then turn said product over to me.""What's the product?" Goldie asked."Heroine," Madoc replied simply.Bonnie scoffed. "Absolutely not.""Absolutely yes," Madoc replied. "Believe me, Ms. Black, you don't want to defy my superiors again.""Where is this cargo supposed to be?" Blayze asked, defeated."You're all aware of the Mega Mart ten miles from here on the highway?" Madoc asked. "What's now a multi-billion dollar company with twelve thousand stores nationwide started right there at the first-ever Mega Mart location. A Sunrise Corporation competitor and kingpin in the heroin trade uses Mega Mart Trucks to ship the product there. Sunrise Corporation wants you to intercept the trucks and take the contents.""I'm sorry," H
Harlow"Woah!" I examined Brat's mating mark."I'm freaking out!" Brat said. "This isn't just something you can take back. A mating mark is for life!""You and Liam just met yesterday?" Stella asked. "That's insane!""You're not helping!" Brat said with tears in her eyes. "He's supposed to go back to school in a couple of days. And his poor dad… How is Dax gonna react when he finds out that I cradle-robbed his baby boy while he's mourning his mate? I'm twenty-two. I'm supposed to be the YOUNGER woman!""Ok, ok," Stella said. "The mating mark is only permanent if both partners have marked each other. Otherwise, it fades after a week or so. Did you—""Yes, I marked him, too!" Brat said. "And the mating bond... It's very real. Like, it actually kinda hurts to be away from him, and he just went back to his dad's place to take a shower."The thought of holding a bond like that with another person was almost unfathomable. I loved Cyrus. I was sure of it. And having a biological bond t
Harlow "So what do you think?" Brat asked as I looked at my reflection in her body mirror. She was letting me borrow one of her dresses for my date with Cyrus. "I don't know," I said, squeamishly, "Has more flowers on it than I'm used to." "No problem!" She grabbed an armful of outfits from her closet and threw them down on the bed. "I'm not trying to be a pain in the a** about this." "No need to explain yourself. It's my job to make sure you look smoking hot." As I began sifting through her pile of clothes, we heard a knock at the door. "Come in!" Brat said. Liam entered and gave Brat a big kiss. It went on for so long it started to get weird. They eventually settled down. "You need something?" Brat asked. "I was heading out to pick up some groceries. Want anything?" "Nah. Unless you wanted to pick up something sweet, like ice cream," Brat added. "Will do." They gave each other another uncomfortably long kiss before Liam left. Brat turned to me with a big smi
Harlow The minute we hopped over the seat, our mouths began devouring one another. I let out a small gasp when he reached under my dress and ripped my panties off. "Those were my good underwear!" I said. "Not anymore." He then took out a condom and ripped open the wrapper, but before he could put it on, I took it from him. "Let me," I said, pushing his back against the seat. I placed it over his tip and unrolled it all the way down. Afterward, I turned my back to him and lifted my skirt. "I want to watch the movie too," I said coyly. I then grabbed hold of the seat in front of me and pressed back onto him. The moment he was completely inside me, a loud moan escaped from my lips. I quickly covered my mouth, so I wouldn't draw attention to us. Laughing, we both looked around to see if anyone heard, but no one had. "You might want to turn that volume down," he said as I rocked back and forth. "You gonna make me?" I asked, clenching myself tighter around him. He felt so good.
CyrusHarlow and I didn't say much for the rest of the drive back to town. Windows rolled down, the cool desert breeze helped to relax me, but not enough to rid the frustration I was feeling about what Harlow wanted me to do.Turning her was all I thought about. I wanted it to be me just as much as she did, but I didn't know if I could bear it if something went wrong. The last time had nearly destroyed me.When we got back, Harlow pulled her car up to her trailer and ran inside to throw on a change of clothes. Or, as she put it, "I don't want to smell like movie popcorn and sex before I see Madoc."Madoc. Just hearing his name made my skin crawl.I'd finished taking the last drag off my cigarette by the time she came back out, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. We walked across the highway and around the back of the garage together."Did you want to do something after I'm done?" Harlow asked as we approached the entrance to the cellar."I need to head off," I replied."Oh," she sa
Harlow"You like it?" Cyrus asked as if he couldn't tell by the expression on my face.In front of my trailer, next to Cyrus's bike, sat a vintage motorcycle with a paint job that matched my car exactly."I LOVE it! Is that a Triumph Thunderbird?"Cyrus nodded. "1956," he said with a smile."And the paint?""Wilderness green, just like your car.""Where the hell did you get this?" I started to get teary-eyed."It was my dad's," Cyrus replied. "The paint job I called in as a favor from a body shop in Skeetwood County.""Are you sure you wanna give this to me? I mean, if it was your dad's?""I want you to have it," Cyrus said, pulling me to him.At this point, I couldn't stop the waterworks if I'd wanted to."This is the most incredible gift anyone's ever given me," I said, wiping a tear from my cheek. "Thank you." I pulled Cyrus down to kiss me. Then I asked, "Can I sit on it?"Cyrus laughed. "Of course. It's all yours."I walked over to the bike and ran my hand along the
BonnieI had everyone's undivided attention. Even the ancient Ernest Hewlett was fully alert."Respect isn't given. It's taken," I insisted. "Sunrise Corp's unwillingness to negotiate means our only option is to unshackle ourselves by force.""With all due respect..." Jedediah Goode said through clenched teeth. "Do the Alphas honestly expect our packs to confront Sunrise Corporation head-on? They're a juggernaut! We'd do no better than a paper sailboat against a battleship.""Yes, and the last thing we want is to awaken a sleeping giant," Mayor Reed added."It's not just about confronting them head-on," Blayze countered. "It's about bleeding them dry. Death by a thousand cuts. If Sunrise Corp believes that this is only the beginning, they'll see trying to control us as a waste of time and energy.""The Alphas are right," Tank agreed. "Sunrise Corp is all about economic viability. The last thing they'd want is for their profit margins to take a hit. And taking the vampire out will
Harlow"Get your hands off her!" Cyrus's voice boomed from the bottom of the cellar stairs. Within seconds, he shifted and charged forward as Madoc released me and put his hands up."Woah, woah! I just gave Harlow her birthday gift. That's all," Madoc said.Cyrus didn't listen. Before I knew it, Madoc was on the floor, and Cyrus was on top of him."Cyrus, stop!" I cried. "He wasn't doing anything to hurt me!"Cyrus now had Madoc's mangled wrist in his mouth. He looked over his shoulder at me with his wolf eyes and let out a low growl."Please, let him go," I begged.He released Madoc and slowly shifted back."What was he making you do?" he asked as he picked his cut up off the floor."He wasn't making me do anything!" I shouted angrily. "I was just hugging him to thank him for my gift.""Why are you crying?" Cyrus asked, gesturing to my tears.I wiped the tears from my cheeks. "Madoc set up a call with my dad. That's all. I haven't so much as heard his voice in years. I'm ju