***“I took pity on her and showed her how good it could be, having a man inside her.” Reynard continued his chatter. “You should have heard her…screaming like a nympho.” He laughed.Ryan couldn’t take it anymore. He opened his hands and let loose an incredibly powerful blast of bright white kinetic energy, which went directly towards Reynard. But of course, it hit against his shield. The blast didn’t touch Reynard’s body at all. Rather, its great concussive force violently sent the two seated at the table, flying through the air. One, unfortunately, ended up on the sharp edge of the mirror that had exploded earlier as a result of Reynard’s scream. He died instantly.“Well, well, well…the little wolf is angry.” Reynard applauded with a wide grin. “Don’t bother wasting your energy on me. You can’t touch me.” He looked so smug. “Now, where was I? Yes, your nympho of a mother. Oh, I gave it to her hard.” Reynard’s hands went behind his head in an even more relaxed state. It was almost as
***Gloria circled the three warlocks, staring at the cloud of fiery smoke that swirled around them. She couldn’t go too close to them because the smoke gave forth some serious heat. Although Gloria had been busy fighting, she’d noticed exactly when the three warlocks had appeared on top of the building out of nowhere. And from the way they’d been chanting, it was obvious that their aim was to restore the clan’s dark energy to its full power. Well, Deloris wasn’t called the queen of spells for nothing. That spell she had cast, according to her, could only be broken if she died because she’d tied it to her life. Fortunately, those silly warlocks didn’t know that so Gloria had ignored them and gone right ahead with the battle. After all, their chanting wasn’t and couldn’t harm anyone.Besides, from the frustrated look that appeared on their faces after some extensive chanting, it was obvious they were not making any headway. Gloria hadn’t planned on wasting her time on the three chantin
***Vincent looked up when he heard sudden screams from the people that he and his team were leading to safety on the park beside the Wyatt fortress. They were prisoners of the Wyatt Clan. Vincent had thought the prisoners would join them to fight the Wyatt Clan but they all seemed so weak he’d decided to rather keep them away from the fortress till the battle ended. Besides, the plan was to burn down the fortress after the battle so the prisoners needed to be taken off the property. Some had been prisoners for centuries, some were mortals, and some were even children. There were fifty-seven prisoners in all.“What’s going…” But Vincent never completed his question. He was hit by an energy ball that threw him high into the air and sent him hurtling onto the ground. He was dead before he hit the ground.“Run.” Another werewolf screamed at the prisoners even as he shifted into a large wolf and bared his teeth at the white-haired warlock who suspended in the sky not too far above them.“
***Ryan’s eyes widened at his wolf’s words. What was that Deloris had said? He could do anything, right? Well, what if he summoned Reynard’s powers, using his own blood? He could create a point of contact, focus on that, and then drain the bastard. Ryan shrugged out of his hoodie, leaving on the t-shirt beneath. The monster’s blood ran through him, right? Why not put that blood to good use? He looked around for something to cut himself with…like a knife. Immediately he thought of it, a knife appeared in his hand.“Cool,” Ryan muttered to himself. “Sorry, Jeremy.” He groaned. From what he’d learnt recently, he was about to inflict pain on his mate.‘Hey,’ Ryan heard his wolf, ‘how about we do this together? The pain will not be too bad and you can heal faster.’And that was when Ryan began to transform into a wolfman, right before the eyes of the prisoners, Reynard, and unbeknownst to him, his pack who were watching him from behind the protective circle that had been created by Delori
***“Ryan?” Ryan heard Deloris calling his name from behind him and turned around to see the warlock, holding in her hands a change of clothes for him. “You need to shift and dress up. Gloria gave me these for you. Come.”The wolfman stared at the clothes, then at the woman who he had a feeling had figure out his secret to an extent. After all, he had no outward deformities. With a grateful nod, Ryan took the clothes and followed the woman to a shed where no one could see him. She left him and went back to join the pack.Ryan heard the shouts before he finished dressing up. He wondered what was happening. He took his time though because he had a feeling it wasn’t anything serious. Gloria was waiting for him when he emerged from the shed.“Reynard killed himself.” She said without preamble. “Used that knife you left lying on the ground.”Ryan nodded and draped an arm around Gloria’s neck. “Can we go home now?”“Sure. Are you okay?”“No,” Ryan responded quietly. “I need Jeremy.”“I know
***The albino looked at the photo in his hand, his face etched with grief. The love of his life. His wife. The woman he’d been with for over a century. She was no more. Killed by the bloody wolves of Stanwood Pack during the battle that saw the collapse of his clan. That little girl had no idea what she and her savage bunch had taken from him. If she did, she wouldn’t have made a deal with him. His thirst for vengeance was definitely more intense than the need to live.The Jackal had been given an assignment. An assignment that was supposed to be very simple and easy. An assignment that was going to give him a second chance at life. A second chance? Really? Who said he wanted to live? How could he, after everything had been taken away from him? In any case, he was not fooled for even a second. Definitely not by some arrogant little bitch. The Jackal knew that the silly girl didn’t have any intention of allowing him to live. He didn’t need to consult zoltar to know that she was going
***The Jackal smiled with satisfaction when he heard Ryan’s hair-raising scream. He’d always wanted to go out with a bang. Well, what a bang. He was finally ready to meet his maker.His mission had been a simple one. With his gift of glamour, he was supposed to disguise himself as the Alpha of Stanwood Pack…Jeremy Stanton. Then he was to manipulate his mate, Ryan, to think he was having a dream. He wasn’t supposed to say a word to Ryan. All he had to do was give him a smile, a light caress, and a few pecks along the jaw. That was it. Although his powers had drastically diminished after the battle between the Wyatt Clan and the Stanwood pack, the Jackal wasn’t worried at all because he was supposed to be in and out of there in not more than two minutes. That was a piece of cake. He was The Jackal after all.But what the little bully didn’t know was that he had his own plan. His plan was to stick it to the Stanwood Pack who had wiped out his clan, by taking out both its alpha and his m
***“Ryan?” Paige breathed through her tears as she watched Ryan’s demeanor change right there before her eyes. Although she could still see the pain in his eyes, he suddenly seemed to have developed a…thick skin of sorts. He didn’t seem as he had just moments earlier…as if he was about to die. He looked…dangerous. “Ryan…” Paige wasn’t afraid of Ryan. She just felt uneasy. “I’ve called Dad and Phillip. I’m sorry for causing all this but we will fix it.” She spoke softly, trying to calm Ryan. She didn’t know whether it was working, but that was all she could do. “I don’t know how but I promise, we…”“Alpha?” Deloris called out softly when she appeared inside Ryan’s study, cutting off Paige’s tirade.The warlock’s eyes widened when she took a look at Ryan. Just one look told Deloris that something was very wrong. There was a wildness about him…almost as if he was having a hard time holding on to his control. He paced like a caged bull. The Ryan pacing before her looked nothing like the
***Ryan’s eyes went to the clock on the wall immediately his eyes opened. It was already past noon. He noticed immediately how different he felt. His senses were heightened…sharper. Although he was lying down, he felt energized. He felt as if he could do anything. For a moment he closed his eyes, allowing the energy to flow through him. Ryan couldn’t help but wonder where all that vitality was coming from. When he opened his eyes again, he looked down to see what was causing the slight weight on his stomach. A smile lit up his face when his eyes met the beautiful blue ones of his mate. They were slightly reddened but the blue still stood out.Ryan didn’t have to be a genius to know the cause of his mate’s reddened eyes. Hell, he could feel the wetness on his stomach where Jeremy’s head lay. He’d pushed Ryan’s t-shirt up to enable him have contact with the flesh. He was no longer naked as he’d been in his Ojah state, earlier. He’d pulled on black sweats and a black t-shirt. Jeremy loo
***“Too much emotion can bring a warrior to his knees. What Jeremy felt when he felt the presence of that baby…I’ve never felt before.” He rasped. “That intense, unconditional love… It was shocking, it was unexpected, it was overwhelming, and it reduced him to a position of complete submission. If he gets the slightest feeling that you don’t want the baby, it will destroy him. So I ask again; don’t you want the baby?”The relief that washed over Ryan was instant. He’d heard all that he needed to. “I want it.” And Ryan realized he’d meant nothing more. That baby growing inside him was part of him and he loved it already.“Good.” The Ojah looked relieved.“So he’s okay with it?” Ryan asked in a small shaky voice. “He’s not freaked out by my abnormality?”“Your…” The Ojah growled low in his throat. “You really need to stop thinking that way about yourself. Remember that very first hand-job he gave you? In the hospital, after I’d…” He trailed off. At Ryan’s nod, he continued. “Did you se
***Alpha Jeremy Stanton shot out of bed. He turned his head to make sure that his mate was beside him in bed. Ryan was sleeping peacefully on his back with his face turned towards Jeremy. The alpha got out of the bed but didn’t move away from it. Something had woken him up. Better still, someone had. Someone was in the room with them. But who would risk being caught snooping in none other’s room than his, Jeremy wondered. He could hear a heartbeat besides that of his mate. It was faint but it was there. Apart from the heartbeat, he could smell whoever it was. It was a sweet scent, almost like Ryan’s. Maybe whoever was in the room with them wasn’t a threat. But what did the person want in the first place?Jeremy moved away from the bed but stopped when he noticed that the further he moved away from the bed, the fainter the heartbeat got. He crouched down and looked under the bed but there was no one there. He looked down at Ryan’s face, angelic in repose, and listened to his heartbeat
***“Get the fuck out of here, Stan,” Jeremy said lazily as his fingertips tenderly stroked Ryan’s, cheeks and jawline. “Better now?” Jeremy’s voice dropped to the sexy bass rumble that never ceased to melt Ryan.He nodded. “I needed that.”“I know.” Jeremy’s eyes shone with so much love.“Can you unfreeze these old folks now?” Stan stood staring at the monitor, his hands on his lean hips. “Damn, this is one interesting read.” He muttered. “Even to my unprofessional eyes.”Jeremy laughed when Ryan buried his face against his neck with a groan. Now that he was down from his high, he was suddenly mortified he’d acted so shamelessly.“You can always freeze his arse, you know.” Jeremy drawled.“Oh hell, no,” Stan growled, making a dash for the door. That got him raucous laughter from both Jeremy and Ryan.The satiated couple got themselves presentable after Jeremy cleaned them with his boxers. Then they got back into the position they’d been in before Ryan froze the three. Unlike before,
***“Okay, that’s it,” Ryan growled. “I need to… Call him Deloris.” He swung his feet off the bed and sat up. The monitor went crazy.“Alpha Ryan, please.” Dr. Sanders quickly attached one of the electrodes that had fallen off Ryan’s chest.“Ryan you have to fight it.” Deloris ran her hands through the hair of the agitated werewolf.“I can’t anymore.” He grunted. “I don’t want to. It’s becoming too painful to ignore. Please, Deloris. I need him.”Deloris turned to look at Mama Cora with desperate eyes. They had been in the room for a little over an hour. Between Deloris and Mama Cora, they’d had to constantly calm Ryan down. Unfortunately, their spells were no longer working on the nerves of the alpha’s mate. Dr. Sanders claimed he needed just about forty-five minutes more to complete the whole test.“Call him.” Mama Cora said quietly. They could all see how aroused Ryan was. No one could miss that obscenely blatant bulge in his shorts. “Maybe he can calm him down enough for us to con
***Ryan heard them before they entered the Villa. He heard Deloris’ laughter and wanted to go meet her but didn’t want a repeat of what had transpired with Stan so he stayed put. When the door eventually swung open, Jeremy entered first, followed by Deloris, and then the rest. Ryan simply stared from his perch on the windowsill. He noticed that Dr. Sanders sniffed the air tentatively before stepping fully inside.“Ryan…” The Deloris opened her arms with a delighted grin. “Come here, baby. We won’t bite.”“Speak for yourself.” Stan drawled, earning himself an elbow from Jeremy. “Ouch.” But he didn’t even flinch. His amused gaze remained on Ryan.“You must be enjoying it here.” Deloris drew a grinning Ryan into a warm motherly hug. “You look great.”“I’m enjoying it very much.” Ryan sighed, hugging her back. “I’ve missed you.”“Same darling. Same.” She gushed. “Everyone says hi. Your mother says to tell you she’s missed you and needs to hear your voice more.” Deloris added with a frown
***“He’s a man, Stanley.” Mama Cora said with an incredulous look. “That’s the most ridiculous analogy ever.”“Just saying,” Stan murmured with a shrug.“Actually, I’ve thought of it.” Dr. Sanders muttered.“Me too,” Jeremy grumbled. “I mean there was what happened with Nash. Then the guys on the Island. Then the alphas…”“The alphas?” Both Stan and Deloris asked with a shocked look.“Uh-huh.” Jeremy nodded. “That day we went to meet the alphas…they were all drawn to Ryan. Wanted to be around him…talk to him… It was almost as if there was a force that was…”“How many days ago was that?” Dr. Sanders asked with a frown.“Six days ago,” Jeremy answered.“Any peculiar irresistible scent…odour?”“Yes actually.” Jeremy groaned. “All I need to do is get a whiff of that mouthwatering scent. Then I’m ready to go no matter the time or place or how exhausted I am.”“Can you remember when you started smelling it?” The doctor pulled out a tablet from his bag and began to scribble away.Dr. Sander
***Jeremy smirked as he watched the chopper land in the clearing. Trust Stan to go for the chopper he thought, amused. Ryan was still asleep after keeping him awake throughout the night. He hoped the three experts who were getting out of the chopper would help him understand what was happening with his mate.“What the fuck happened to you?” Stan shouted with a concerned look as he jumped out of the chopper whose blades were still whirling.“What do you mean what happened to me?” Jeremy frowned with confusion.“You look sick, man,” Stan stated bluntly as he strolled towards Jeremy. “You look like you haven’t had any food or any sleep in weeks. What the fuck is going on?” He asked, giving Jeremy a one-armed hug.“I feel fine, asshole.” Jeremy growled, extending his hand to shake Dr. Sanders’. “How are you doc?” He smiled at the head physician of Stanwood pack.“I’m good, Alpha.” The elderly doctor responded, observing Jeremy warily.“See the way he’s looking at you?” Stan rasped. “You
***“Please, Jer.” Ryan whimpered, feeling his whole body tremble with aftershocks. Even those were intense. “No more…”“One more,” Jeremy murmured as he leaned down to lick Ryan’s wound close. “I want you to come one more time.” He took Ryan’s lips again in a tender kiss. Then he raised his head to look down into Ryan’s pleasure-ravaged face. Damn, he loved watching Ryan lose it. “Wrap your legs around me, baby.” The alpha of alphas’ voice oozed so much sexiness Ryan moaned and did as instructed, giving himself over to the pleasure that he was already feeling along his spine.This time, Jeremy made mad, slow, passionate, sweet love to his mate. He expertly stroked his cock inside him, rubbing over and over that tender bundle of nerves that pulsed with so much sensation Ryan drooled. They moved in unison, so in tune with each other’s needs. Each gave exactly what the other craved. They were totally in sync with each other, making their love-making intense, erotic, and breathtakingly s