Sorry for the delay in getting this chapter out. It's crossing timeframes with both Shattered Bonds and Spellbound, so I wanted to get my times right. If you missed it, the funeral was for Alpha Anders and Luna Calista.
We arrive in the city where Holstin Enterprises, Inc. maintains offices the following morning. My family runs a company that does two things, construction and protection. My father, soon to be my brother Xander, is CEO of the company and hires werewolves from other packs or even lone wolves who need work to do the things that we’re good at and can easily do without raising human suspicion. When we arrive, I take the elevator to the 12th floor, the floor where we have offices. My father chose this floor because humans, with their suspicious nature, don’t have elevators that go to the 13th floor. It’s considered bad luck or something but it means that the 12th floor is the only floor other than the first floor with high ceilings. Holstin Enterprises bought the entire floor and has housed transient wolves as well as others who need a safe place to stay for a long time. “Are you ready for this?” I ask Drake in the elevator. “I’m the one who wanted you to tell your mother about me. I kne
The moment the witches walk into the room, they recognize me for what I am. I stand quickly, but not faster than my mate who jumps in front of me, snarling viciously. I can tell the difference between Kella and Leana now and I know when the two of them are working together as they are right now. “Easy,” Alpha Liam says, putting his hands up. “King Drake is my daughter’s mate. He’s on our side and if you kill him, it will be an act against the Guardians.” “We understand that our alliance is new and tentative, but we wouldn’t have asked you to join us if we didn’t trust Drake. Please think carefully before ruining the tentative bond we've created by trying to hurt him,” Guardian Angel says, moving to stand in front of me and partially in front of her daughter. I notice she said 'trying' to hurt him, meaning, they have no intention of letting the witches hurt me. I already didn’t like it that Leana was standing in front of me, but I really don’t like both of them in front of me. I’m no
As soon as the house that Levana uses as her coven comes into view, the desire to turn away is gone. Drake and I carefully make our way to the front of the house. “It looks a lot like a vampire’s dwelling, only smaller,” Drake says. “I can smell the magic,” Kella says, pushing forward. “Do you sense any danger?” Drake asks, looking around and lifting his nose in the air. “No, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t witchy traps that I’ve never smelled before,” Kella says. “Avery and Amir didn’t mention anything like that,” he says as we walk to the door. “I’ll go first,” he says, reaching for the door. “Drake…” He turns and looks at me. “I’m already dead, my mates. You are not. I will go first.” I roll my eyes but he’s inside before I’m done. I rush in behind him, stepping up beside him. “That kitchen doesn’t smell like anything I’ve ever smelled before,” I say, my nose wrinkling. “That’s not food they’ve been cooking, it’s spells.” We begin to search through the first floor of
It took Alpha Leonardo almost exactly three hours to arrive. In that time, Jael found a couple bags of blood, but he is still weak. I’ve caught him staring at Leana a couple of times. The first time I snarled at him, the second, I grabbed him by his throat, letting my nails puncture his skin. “I wasn’t joking, Jael. If one drop of her blood spills because of you, your life if forfeit.” “I’m not, but I can’t help that she smells so damn good,” he grumbles as I release him. “He really is your mate,” I hear one of the wolves say to Leana. “He is,” she tells them. “I’ve never seen a vampire mated to a werewolf,” another says. “There hasn’t been a mate bond like ours in a very long time,” she tells them. “Sire, what can I do for you,” Demetrius asks me, distracting me from Leana’s conversation with the wolves. “You can rest. Once Alpha Leonardo arrives to care for his pack members, we’ll finish searching the house. After that, we’ll head home and I’ll make sure that you are fed.” “
After Mehira passed out, Alpha Leonardo got his people packed up and back on the road to get them home. As they walked out, I heard one of the men that we rescued make a negative comment about having a vampire for a Luna. “A word of advice,” I say, leaning into the car where he and the others are sitting. “I’ve never known an Alpha to tolerate anyone, let alone a pack member, who disrespected his mate and Luna. She may be a vampire, but she’s a vampire that just risked her life to save your Alpha. If, for some reason, you piss your Alpha off by disrespecting Mehira, and that causes him to kick you out of the pack, don’t come looking for protection from the Guardians. We don’t provide it to anyone who goes against our allies or our mates.” As I stand back, I can see the others who just arrived giving the guy a questioning look. “Feel free to spread the word,” I say as I close the door and head back inside. As I walk up, I see Drake watching me. “You didn’t have to do that.” “Yes I
When I told my mate that I wanted to savor her taste, I wasn’t kidding. After dropping off Alpha Leonardo, Mehira and Jaeloff at the pack, Leana, Demetrius, and I all head back to the coven. Demetrius is welcomed with open arms by most of the clan and I tell them they can bring in willing humans to celebrate his return. The party rages through the night as does my insatiable appetite for my mate. I love that she wants me inside her. She and Kella both seem to understand my vampire desire to feed and fuck, and she gives me everything that I need and want from her. The next day, we check on the humans, making sure none of the vampires went too far and then we pull out the address I found in Levana's coven and then g****e search the address. As we’re looking at an arial view of the area the map is showing, my phone rings. Without looking away from the computer screen, I answer. “King Drake.” “Drake, why are you stealing my best clan members?” King Reyes asks. While his tone is jokin
Drake is as excited about our pup as I was hoping he would be. He says he can’t smell him or her yet, but now he’s sniffing me multiple times a day, making me laugh at his sweet antics. I decided on steaks for dinner when my parents come over. Knowing that I need to keep my iron levels up for Drake and our pup now, red meat has become a daily occurrence in my diet. Drake and I have spent this week looking for a new place to live and I’ve been setting up my new office at the council. I’m very excited to begin my new position. We have sessions starting next week and when I talked to Riley, she wanted to know if I had any ideas about where she could stay when she’s in town. It gave me the perfect excuse to not sell our little apartment. This way, Riley or any of the Guardians can use it when they come to town. When I told Drake we needed a bigger place, I hadn’t meant a 5000 square foot home on 10 acres, but he’s been looking for places just outside the city, in between the city and t
Alpha Liam took the opportunity while we were alone to let me know that if I hurt his daughter or grandchildren in any way, that he would hunt me down like the Alpha wolf he is and kill me. I made sure he understood that I recognize the precious gift that has been given to me and that I appreciate the benefits that come from being mated to his daughter, but that I would love her, even if she didn’t come with those gifts. “So, a baby, huh?” he asks. “Yes, Alpha.” He looks at me a long moment. “Call me Liam. You’re my daughter’s mate and my grandchildren’s father.” “Thank you, Liam.” “Make sure you bring Leana to the pack to have her and the baby looked at soon.” “I will.” He nods and looks around. “You did a nice job choosing this place. She’ll be happy here. You’ll be hard pressed not to have a revolving door of guests with a nice place like this. A place where wolves can run.” “Thank you, I want Leana to always be happy with me and to never have a reason to regret her decisio
Nineteen Years Later“Mom, why do we have to go to this Beta ceremony?” Genevieve, my daughter, one of the twins, asks.“It’s not a Beta ceremony, Gen. The vampires don’t have Betas, you know that,” I tell her.“They’re second in command, mother, that makes them Betas,” she argues.“And besides going to see your cousins take their place as the mates of Urien’s second in command, it will be a good opportunity for you to look for your mates.”Malin’s daughters, Kayleigh and Sasha, found their mate, Lorenzo, the son of Ennata and Demetrius. Demetrius had been Drake’s second in command until he decided to retire with Ennata and move to the city to help Xander and Maeve with the witches. Now Lorenzo is taking over as Drake’s second in command.“Mate or mates?” Marcella, the other twin asks.Unlike me and Malin, both of our twin daughters are identical twins. It caused a lot of worry for me and Malin while they were growing up, wondering what would happen if our daughters were mated to one p
Watching my mate on her birthday had been one of the best feelings in the world. I know every man in all three packs had hoped that she would be their mate. But she isn’t. She’s mine. All mine, forever. And tonight, I get to claim her in the last possible way, officially making her my Luna.Last night, we’d watched as Malin had taken her official place as Luna of the Canyon Ridge pack. It was special for Quinn, but I’ll admit to feeling jealousy when Cohen announced to everyone that Malin was carrying his pup. After finding out at Quinn’s birthday party that my sister, Emlyn, Quinn’s sister, Leana, and her sister-in-law Maeve were all pregnant, and now hearing that her twin is pregnant, I suddenly realize that I want a pup too.I’ve never given much thought to how many pups I want. I need an heir, and of course, I’d like to have a little girl that has Quinn’s sweet personality, but otherwise, I hadn’t thought much about it. Until now. Now I know that I want pups with Quinn. I don’t eve
I’m exhausted and pleasantly sore between my thighs, but I don’t care. I’m wearing my mate’s mark, wearing my new necklace, and it’s my birthday. Emerson skipped warrior training this morning to spend extra time with me. We’d finally fallen asleep and I’d slept soundly for a couple of hours laying on top of his body.I feel his fingers softly rubbing over my back.I grumble, knowing he’s trying to gently wake me up.“I don’t want to get up either, birthday girl, but we have a party to get to,” he says.I snuggle against him, not budging. He chuckles. “If you don’t get up, I’m going to take you again.”“Is that supposed to be a deterrent?” I ask him.“You must be sore, Quinn.”“Not that sore,” I say, looking up at him.His eyes darken. “Damn, you are one sexy woman, Quinn. And you look fucking incredible wearing my mark. You know what?” he asks, sitting up and lifting me as he gets off the bed and walks into the bathroom carrying me.“What?” I ask.“I want to take my mate while I look a
Emerson and I have been together every night for the past month. He’s tried every possible position, explored every inch of my body and found places that even I didn’t know I liked being touched. But tonight feels different. I can feel it in the air around us, feel it in him, and feel it in our wolves.“What does my sweet mate want for her birthday?” Emerson asks me.“You. Just you,” I say and he leans down, kissing me slowly and deeply, as I wrap my legs around his body.“Just me, not my mark?” he asks, his warm breath blowing against my ear and moving to my neck, making me shiver.“Having you means I get to wear your mark and I ge to put mine on you as well.”He growls as I lift my chin, exposing my throat to him. I feel his canines graze over my mate mark, the feeling of it so much more intense now that it’s my birthday.“Not yet,” he says, before flipping us over. “I thought my little Guardian might want to be in control on her birthday, to ride me any way she wants before sinking
The day has finally arrived, the day when I can leave my mark on my mate and it will finally, finally stay. I’ve been looking forward to this day for years, literally years, since the first moment that I recognized Quinn as my mate.Even though I know I can’t leave my mark until midnight tonight, I still wake my mate by sliding inside her. I look forward to my evenings with Quinn and waking up with Quinn. I make a point to see my mate throughout the day. Then nights and mornings are when it’s just us and I can be me and she seems to thrive on me being me. I was so terrified for so long that I would hurt her, that I’d scare her off, that it never really occurred to me to trust that the Moon Goddess would give me the exact mate that I needed to fulfill every dream and fantasy that I’ve ever had. But here she is, in my arms, screaming my name. Fuck, I love waking up to her body contracting around mine and my name coming from her mouth.Even though I’m behind her and we’re both laying on o
I love being in Emerson’s room. Well, it’s ours now. Going to bed at night is so much more enjoyable. And everything about Emerson has begun to fall into place. During the day, he still shows me affection, more than he used to, but it’s at night that he strips away his reserved side and gives me everything that he is. And what a man he is.Our first night, he was careful with me, in the sense that we didn’t have sex. But that didn’t mean that I didn’t have one of the most intense nights of my life, at least up until that point. I know my mate wants control, and I’m happy to give it, as long as he gives me what I want. Just to be sure, I ordered some sexy lingerie, wearing it every night, just so Emerson can rip it off me. It seems to be all he needs to let go. And oh wow, I’m not even sure I realized how many ways my mate could take me, but Emerson wasn’t kidding when he said he wanted to know all the ways he could make me come by my birthday. It’s like he’s on a mission and every nigh
I let her sleep about an hour before I wake her. We need to get ready to have breakfast with her sister and Cohen before we head back to our pack. I pull her into the shower with me, laughing at her sleepy grumpiness.“None of that or I won’t wake you up like that again,” I say to her.“I need coffee,” she pouts as I push her under the shower. “And how come you’re not exhausted?”“I didn’t have as many orgasms as you did,” I say smiling, exceedingly pleased with myself. I counted ten. I made my mate come ten times. Now, I need to see how I can increase that number.“You know, you called me greedy, but you’re awfully greedy when it comes to giving me orgasms,” she says as I wash her hair.“Are you complaining?” I ask, smiling at her.“Nope. I like that greedy side of you,” she says and I laugh, truly laugh.“And, I love seeing this happy side of you,” she says softly and I look down at her.“You did this. You make me this happy,” I say, kissing her nose.That seems to make HER happy and
I wake for the first time with my mate in my arms. I’m not sure I’ve ever slept through the night. It’s not that I don’t sleep, but I tend to toss and turn. I can tell that I didn’t move all night, my body, mind, and soul all at peace having this fascinating and incredible woman beside me.I look down at her, her white, blond hair spread out across my chest, a stark contrast to my dark skin tone. I’m not sure I expected her to give herself to me so completely. I kept Clint’s words of advice in my head, and he wasn’t wrong. Quinn giving me control over her perfect body, letting me taste her and fill her had been beyond anything I’d ever experienced, well, at least until I’d had my first orgasm inside her. I thought I’d died and gone to the Moon Goddess’ realm. Yeah, I know I’m going to want to taste and fill this woman every damn day. I can already tell that I’ll never, ever be able to get enough of her. And now, I’m excited to find all the ways I can dominate this body and to see what
There is something extremely attractive about Emerson being so dominant. I can tell he’s on the verge of losing control and the only thing keeping him in check is dominating my body. And oh, holy mother Moon Goddess, is he dominating my body.I’ve touched myself, found my own release many times in my life, but this…this is way beyond anything that I’ve ever made myself feel. And he hasn’t even moved past my breasts. I didn’t know it was possible to come just from your mate sucking your nipples, but I’m here to tell you, it is possible. At least if you have Emerson licking and sucking on them like they are the most incredible thing he’s ever put in his mouth.His hands are everywhere, his mouth is everywhere, and while I want to be a participant in this, our first of what I hope is many matings, he’s overwhelming my senses. On top of that, he seems to want and need control and I’m willingly giving it to him.When he commands me to say his name when I orgasm again, I feel heat flooding m