****TRIGGER WARING****
Aria POV
I glare at the screen. I swear bad comes in threes and I’ve only seen two bad today, what’s next? I don’t know if I can handle anymore craziness.
The passenger door popped open, and Rex went crazy in the back seat as Katie lowered her body into the seat. Her purple hair covered the side of her face until she tilted her head back and moaned in pain. I could see the fingerprints around her throat. I could see the bruise swelling on her cheek and the knot forming on her nose. I took it all in stock and nodded.
“You don’t have to ask.” she said glancing over at me as she pulled the seat belt on.
I shook my head, “I wasn’t going to ask anything.&rdqu
Jasper POVI couldn't believe what Asher had just told me. I knew I never liked Leah but to find out what she was doing behind his back made my skin crawl. I know if Aria was to find out she would kick her ass. I watched as Aria talked to her brother on the phone and grinned when she asked if she could kick her ass. I called it."Ask him if we can video chat." I say before pressing a kiss to her shoulder. I know today had been a rough day all around, but we needed to get this over with.A knock on the front door distracted me as Aria relayed needing to video chat before hanging up the phone. Linc walked in carrying a box of our products and setting them on the counter. The door had barely closed behind him when Braylin walked in."I'm here bitches, where's the wine?" She ignored Lincs eyes and walked over to the counter and gave me a side hug."Hey old man, how's life? Are you trea
Linc added, "I do security for the bars, but I also am a certified bodyguard. I have contracts with celebrities and high-profile businessmen. I also work with law enforcement to help domestic victims find a safe place during trails. If I’m needed, I’m there." His eyes locked on Braylin who was suddenly very interested in a piece of string on her shirt that was loose. Asher speaks up from the screen, "I train every bartender and waiter at our bars. I also like to jump behind and help whenever and wherever I can. No one really knows about the whole billionaire thing unless they go digging." He shrugs his shoulders, "I never told Leah, guess it's a good thing now huh?" I grimace and lock eyes on Lori who is ignoring the screen and glaring at her phone. I hear Asher's phone beeps from the computer. I watch her lift her middle finger and flip the camera off subtly. I don't think anyone caught it but me and Asher. I grin, those two were about to crash. I don't know how or when, but it wa
Jasper POV Aria starts waving her hand in front of her face, "Damn the tension in here is high."I try not to laugh but she's right. Everyone around us was going crazy with sexual need. It was diverting all our attention."So, it's settled." I say trying to get back on track while Braylin and Linc glared at each other. I glance at the screen and see that Asher has left the meeting. I bet he was calling Lori. Or trying to figure out a way to deny his feelings.Aria was trying to not laugh and the uncomfortable situation we had found ourselves in. I lean over and growl in her ear, "Bet Lori and Asher get together before Braylin and Linc."She turned and grinned, "Oh you're on. I have a feeling our world is about to become even more interesting."I gripped her thigh and rubbed my thumb gently up and down, grounding myself from the insanity of this meeting. All I had wanted was to be able to give the shelter and the women
Aria POV It had taken a short time for Braylin to admit to having a stalker. Even longer for her to agree to have Linc as a bodyguard. I knew she had a huge crush on him, and if last night was any indication the heat when the two of them got together was going to either burn them alive or create something amazing. I'm just not sure which yet. It's been three days, and I feel more confused than ever. Jasper and I hadn’t talked about what we argued over that night. And honestly, I wasn’t ready to face what he wanted just yet.I turn the page of the Alley Ciz book I'm reading and get lost for a few minutes reading Jase and Melody's love story. Trying my best to not burst into laughter at the antics of the characters. That author has a way with words. Drawing you in until you feel like you are part of the story. She's one of my new favorite authors. I have no shame in saying I stalked her on social media. Reading is one of the best ways I know of
Am I ready to have another baby? I never thought I would have the chance again. I bite my lip and lean back pulling the seatbelt across my chest. I nodded my head once; I had Jasper and everyone this time. There is no doubt he will stand by me. I think back to the argument from three days ago: it's null and void now. We were going to have a baby. I was going to have to get over my fear and believe that he was going to stay. Asher had just gotten back this morning from his trip to Washington. He had Unhauled his stuff here himself and was moving into Jasper's apartment. Maybe I can ask Jasper to move in with me. I bit my lip as I started my car. It could be the best option. I turned up the radio and blasted Bad Wolves Zombie as I made my way to the shelter. I hoped the argument from the other day wouldn’t bite me in the ass today. Now that I know I’m pregnant, I want the baby. I want Jasper. I want forever. I want it all. I feel greedy for wanting the happily ever after. Bu
Aria POV“I had hoped not, but I don’t know. I mean look at me Lori, then look at him.”She glared at me, “There is not a damn thing wrong with you Aria. He would be stupid to cheat on you. Especially after searching for, you for so long. You’re his mate. Why would he want anyone else. I thought being mated meant that he would never stray?”“Maybe he just enjoyed searching. Maybe I’m not what he really wanted after all. Maybe this whole mate thing wasn’t real, and he just faked it all and marked me for no reason and now I’m stuck with a man who may not really love me.” I bit my lip and looked away, “It's been five years of searching, six weeks since they burst back into our lives. What if I’m not what he was hoping for?”“What if you are?” she asks.I shook my head, “Give me a week. We will be back next Friday. I just need to process.”Lori grabbed my arm, “What news did you get from the doctor?”I looked away and shook my head.“Oh no.” she pulled me into a hug. “How far along?” she
Why the fuck did I allow my sister to answer my phone? I knew I would be hearing from Aria soon. Jana and her family had surprised me after Aria texted me. I had run to the bathroom when Jana yelled out that Aria was calling me. Now she wasn’t answering her phone. She was pissed. I knew what she was thinking but she couldn’t be more wrong. I would never cheat on her. I slammed my hand against the door after she hung up on me after I got Eli to take the tablet to her. She refused to even look at my face on the screen, but I could see the pain in her eyes. I call Asher’s number, “Get Lori here now. Aria is running again.”“What the fuck do you mean she’s running?” he asks as he walks into my office.I hung up my phone, and glared at him, “She called earlier, Jana answered, and she pulled a runner before I could explain, get Lori in here before I go ballistic. I’m not going to let her sit around wherever she is with our son, thinking that I cheated on her. I know how her mind works. I
AriaThe doors were locked, I had a cup of hot chocolate on the table in front of myself, and a glass of milk in front of Eli. The game of Monopoly in front of us. I was about ninety nine percent sure my four-year-old was kicking my ass at this game. Yet, it didn’t bother me. What was bothering me was Lori’s text saying she and Braylin were crashing my week away with Eli.“Auntie Lori and Braylin are coming to hang with us.” I say softly as I watch him count his moves across the board, assisting him only when he asked me to. I was so proud of my smart boy. I knew I was lucky he was as advanced as he is.“Yay, they can play too!” he said happily as I ended up handing him more money. How I was losing to him when I was helping him play was beyond me but seeing him so happy was more than worth losing to a four-year-old.“Do you think Daddy can come play soon?” he asks, looking up at me with his big blue eyes. I bit my lip and looked away, “Not right now baby.” I said as I moved my piece
Braylin Ten Years Ago I wring my hands together in front of me, my nerves firing on all cylinders. I feel like my anxiety is about to take over, yet I know I have to do this. I have to talk to the one man in the world that understands me better than anybody; the person who has always been there for me: my father. After Mom left us when I was five, I never wanted to disappoint him the way she did, but I'm honestly afraid I'm about to do more than disappoint him. How do you tell your father that his sixteen year old daughter is confused about everything that she is? How do you tell him that you don't understand what is going on in your own mind? That the feelings you feel are so overwhelming that you want to follow them. That's not a choice. Should I feel ashamed? Should I feel guilty? I'm not even sure how I feel. I just know that I am confused and everything inside of me is screaming for me to follow my urges. Only my dad could possibly be the one to answer and tell me it's ok
I must not be the type of soul that people want to save. There has to be something wrong with me. My parents turned their backs on me when I was still a pup. Walking away from being parents. That’s not normal for wolves. Most wolves crave being in a pack. Having pups is part of the DNA of a wolf. Yet my parts just walked away like it never mattered that I existed. Then falling for my ex-husband even when he wasn’t my mate and allowing him to break me physically and emotionally, mentally. I must attract the bad, there’s no other reason I can think of that he would come back here today and rush me when I left for work. Ranting and raving about how lucky I am that he wasn’t killing me for getting him locked up before. I hadn’t heard he had made bail. He threw me into the house and grabbed my arm, breaking it with how strong he was. My wolf hiding , not wanting to come forward and protect me from this monster. She was weak, submissive, she was too afraid to come out and protect herself.
LoriWe made it through Aria and Jaspers big day, and I finally felt like I could breathe a sigh of relief. The planning had been made harder by my anxiety of going out, having the guys pick up things I had ordered only to find they weren’t the right color or look that I had planned. I was tired of not being able to go out without Asher by my side.While I love him and want to have a life with him, I need to be able to go back to work, to go shopping, to be able to breathe. I couldn’t let what James did to me stop me from having the life I wanted to live. And right now he was winning.Asher held one hand while I held Sirus’s lead in the other. Yeah, I had managed to run from him when I thought I had been lied to, but my adrenaline had taken over. My flight or fight had kicked in and apparently, I am a runner. Thank goddess I had my wolf because I definitely am not a runner on any normal occasion.We slowly made our way around the driveway of what Aria and I now lovingly called the com
AsherI flipped Lori onto her hands and knees then pushed against her upper back to make her lower her chest and head to the bed. Pushing her ass higher in the air. Presenting herself to me. My wolf ached to come out and take hers just like this.Smack! Smack!I peppered her ass with hard slaps against her ass, turning her pale ass to red, “No Asher! Stop! You can’t spank me! I am not a child!” she screeched, and I couldn’t help but grin before I spoke.“You can’t leave me like that ever again. If you are pissed off at me you come to me, Lori, I don’t care how pissed you are. You come to me.”“I will!” she cried.I pressed a finger through her slit and groaned at the feel of her dripping with my cum. “You are my mate, my only mate. The only woman that I have ever truly loved. So we don’t run away from our issues, we face them head on together. That is something I promised you when I saved you, now I need you to promise me.”“I promise, Asher, I’m so sorry.” She sobbed into the pillow.
LoriWas I mad at Asher, kind of. Was I more pissed at myself because I wanted this to be real, but my own mental issues was trying to convince me that he was a liar. Yes. However, I should have listened to my wolf. I should have listened to what she was telling me the entire time I was running away.That he is her mate. That she belongs to him. My wolf had claimed him, point blank period. And to find out that that bitch had come here to try and blackmail him for money, who the fuck did she think she is.I go to run past Asher, ready to go find that bitch and take her down. No one threatens what is mine. And Asher is mine.He grabs me around the waist before I can run past him and lifts me over his shoulder in a fireman’s hold and tells Aria, “We will be borrowing Lori’s old room for a bit.”I hear her laugh as he carries me down the hall cursing and punching at his back, before he slaps a hand down across my ass.“You can’t spank me, Asher!”“I just did, and if you don’t calm the fuc
Asher“Leah, I don’t know why the fuck you are here, but if you don’t get your cheating ass back on a plane to Washington, I will make fucking sure that Jasper kicks you out of this pack and makes it to where no pack in the states will accept you. You just ran my mate of with your lies. I will end you if I ever see you around here again!” I growl. I turn to leave, to follow Lori. To explain that Leah was my ex. That Lori was my mate no one else was.Leah grabbed my arm and turned me back towards her, “That fat girl was so not your mate baby, you could never go for someone like that,” she rolls her eyes and laughs before crying out as I wrapped one hand around her throat not holding her tightly just enough to get her attention.“You listen to me, that woman is worth a million of you. She doesn’t cheat, she doesn’t lie, she doesn’t try to be manipulative and unlike you she knows how to be faithful.”She narrows her eyes at me, “you better listen to what I have to say Asher. I have video
LoriI can’t believe that I made love to Asher, finally. I thought I would freeze up from the words that James had said, but being with Asher was like breathing. Easy, fun, and so much more than I could have ever imagined.I pulled my favorite jumpsuit, that had nude underlining with black lace over the stomach and chest with pockets and soft material at the legs. I looked in the mirror and was proud of what I saw, taking a moment to lift my hand to the new mark on my neck, the mark showing that I was taken, that I was wanted, loved and claimed by my mate. I sighed happily, Asher walked up behind me and pressed a kiss to the mark, his eyes locked on mine.“I can feel how happy you are,” He whispers in my ear.“I feel like I don’t deserve it but want to keep it so badly it hurts.” I say.He nods, “I get it, I don’t feel like I deserve this, not after what happened in school, even though I was trying to protect you, I still hurt you. Then when I found you and Aria, I just lashed out, an
LoriI can’t believe the asshole tore out my birth control. At the same time, I was thrilled that he wanted to breed me. That he wanted us so badly that he did it.He lifted me onto my knee’s to straddle him.“What the hell, Asher?”“Baby, I don’t want to hurt you so what we are going to do is I’m going to have you take control for now. I want you to lower yourself on me until you can take me completely. What you are going to do is you are going to rise and fall and take your time. Ride me. Take me in your hand, Good fucking girl, you are such a good girl for me. Now place me at your entrance, yes Lori, fuck you are going to make me cum so fast.”I preened at his praise as I followed his instructions. I slowly eased down a small amount, gasping at the feel of the head of his thick cock stretching me. The small amount of pain disappearing at the overwhelming amount of pleasure that I was feeling as I inched my way down his cock.“Fuck, Asher please I need, please just please!” I cried;
AsherAfter getting the approval from Lori, I quickly called our home inspector and the housing developer to put in our bid for the homes and the land surrounded Jasper and Aria’s new home. I could hear Lori squealing on her phone from where I sat.I am so thankful that I have been given the chance to give her happiness back. After everything I had put her through, everything that asshole put her through, she was happy again.Lori walked back into the room and stood in front of me, nibbling on her thumb, I could smell her arousal, but I wasn’t going to force her to do anything she wasn’t ready for.She took a deep breath, nodded then climbed into my lap facing me. I smiled and wrapped my arms around her shoulder. She leaned forward and softly pressed her lips to mine. I could smell her becoming anxious when I wasn’t deepening the kiss.I pulled her closer, her breasts pressed against my chest. Deeping the kiss and pushing one hand into her hair and the other on her hip. Grinding her a