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MINDY.“Arlo?” My voice almost didn’t come out. My heart was thudding so loudly that it felt like it would jump out of my chest. I was nervous, but I couldn’t deny the excitement I felt when I heard his voice. “This is Arlo. Who is this?” He asked. I could picture him smiling at the other end, and it made my shoulders relax.“Mindy. My name is Mindy…” I answered, but I got lost in what to say next.“Hello, Mindy. Do you need something from me?”“I need you.” I blurted out.Dead air.What did I just say to him? I felt my cheeks burning. I sounded so needy. It shouldn't be like that.“Okay.” I expected him to laugh or mock me, but there was nothing. His voice turned serious when he spoke. “Are you okay?”“Nadine is…” I attempted to continue, but I nearly choked, so I decided to stop. I didn't want to experience the pain of not being able to breathe like what happened when Nadine took me out of the territory.The Alpha command. The Alpha specifically instructed me not to discuss the Mo
XANDER.“Are you fucking nuts? Why would I run as Council Head?” Maddox chuckled and shook his head after Gray said that they could file a candidacy for him. “I can assure you, I have people who will support you. If Dad was not in a bad place, I would nominate myself.”“Still a no.”“Are you afraid of Jacob?” Alpha Gray asked.“Fuck, no. But I’m not stupid enough to run, so all attention will shift to me when I'm trying to lie low at the moment. I made the mistake of showing Catherine the big warehouse. Running against her father for that election meant they would campaign against me. I cannot afford them using her against me.”“Then you’re afraid of him.”“I don’t care what you think, but I’m not going to put my ass on the problem that you started.”“I need help! Or we will both rot in hell!”“Just you. You and your father made a big mess on the Council. I’m not part of that.”“We gave you a permit to transport…”“Stop your fucking mouth from talking!” Maddox growled as his coiled ha
XANDER.It was almost dinner time, and I remained seated in my chair inside my office at the training building, facing the window adjacent to the security building entrance. I’d been watching this view for many hours already, waiting to see if Maddox would visit Nadine so I could go there as well. I needed to sort out a lot of paperwork, but I couldn’t concentrate. All I could think of was my conversation with Carlotta earlier. **FLASHBACK TO A FEW HOURS AGO.After lunch, I headed to the training building to start working on the paperwork that I’d been ignoring for the past couple of days. I used it as an excuse to get away from Maddox while thinking of a diversion that I needed to do tomorrow night to make sure Nadine would be safe.I was not even in my office for ten minutes when a knock came through the door.Carlotta. She followed me here as she ate lunch with us at the packhouse. “Come in,” I told her as I closed the folder that I was holding and secured all the documents on my
XANDER.It had been over an hour since my mindlink conversation with Kenzo, and he still wasn’t doing anything. I expected him to take action right away, not when everyone was asleep.I only have 24 hours before the full moon. Everything needed to take place tonight, or tomorrow night will end up in chaos.I saw Carter enter the security building earlier, but Rico didn’t leave. He was still inside. And then, a few minutes ago, Carter left the building. I wondered if he told Rico to connect with me once Kenzo was inside.I hope he did. I could surely see Kenzo if he entered through the entrance, but there was also the exit on the other side, which I couldn’t see.I was still contemplating if I should connect with Rico when a figure appeared in the middle of the grounds. My heart thudded loudly as I finally recognized the form. Kenzo. And he was heading for the security building, where Nadine was. I closed my hands into tight fists and closed my eyes. I talked to my wolf and told him
NADINE. “Was he the one you were on the phone with last time?” Xander’s cold voice came, and my whole body froze. Kenzo’s body became rigid, too, before we slowly loosened our arms around each other and let go of our hug.I felt like I had done something wrong when I had done nothing wrong, like when he caught me talking to Jace on the phone.“No! No!” I repeated this while shaking my head. “It was Jace! I was talking to Jace! Jace is my nephew, Xander!”But it seemed Xander wasn’t hearing it. Before I could explain more, he had already grabbed Kenzo by his collar and threw him out of my cell. Kenzo flew and hit his body somewhere I couldn’t see, but the loud thud that erupted in the air indicated that Xander had thrown him far and hard.He then shifted his attention to me, his eyes dilating while Rico stood outside my cell, color draining out of his face as he watched Xander strode toward me.I stepped back as he stepped forward until I had no more space to move, and my back hit the
NADINE.“Fuck me, Xander,” I told him, my eyes boring deep into his. “No. This is not…” He shook his head.“It’s not rape if they don’t smell you on me or if there were no cum down my thighs..”“Nadine… No.”“I want you to. I’m giving you consent.” His eyes dilated as his jaw tightened. He was controlling himself.“Let us both out of the misery of missing each other,” I added.And that did it.Xander’s mouth crushed into mine as he cupped my ass, scooping me off the floor and slamming my back against the wall, making me whimper in pain.He was kissing me bruisingly hard. My body was tired, but the harsh way he was holding and kissing me gave me strength and energy. Or maybe his blood in my veins did the trick. But whatever was giving me strength didn’t matter. I was just happy to be in his arms.I forgot where I was and what was happening in my life the moment Xander ripped my pants and inserted his hand in my panties, reaching for my aching core and massaging it. It didn’t take lon
GAMMA KENZO.My heart was gripped in pain. Everything I believed about Xander was a lie.The man in front of me was a devil. I thought he was different from Maddox, but he was just like the rest of the Trevinos. They were spawns from hell.But at least Maddox tried to hide his wicked ways behind closed doors, but Xander was doing it out in the open.“Enough… Please…” Nadine’s voice broke, and my heart shattered. She was screaming earlier, but she was losing her strength. Xander succeeded in breaking her.“Enough…” I murmured to myself as I rattled the bars again, my whole body shaking from my cries. This was my fault. I shouldn’t have taken Xander’s bait to mark her. He surely was finding ways to punish her, and I was fool enough to believe that he would just let me mark her. “Stop that, you fucker! Come here and face me!” I bellowed, using all my strength to rattle the bars one more time. I had connected to my second in command to find the extra key to the basement floor, but he sa
MINDY.I prepared Nadine’s dinner later than usual, so it would be easier to give her the dagger that I slipped inside my pants. But just as I was nearing the building where she was, I could hear loud commotions, and then I saw Alpha Maddox’s car parked outside of it.My heart thundered, and I was terrified he would have me searched before letting me in, so I discarded the dagger in the nearby bushes. It was better to be safe than sorry.I doubled my steps, wanting to know what the noises were about. The lights on the ground were on full beam, and in the middle was a man with his hands tied at his back. There were three men around him, and one was carrying a big bucket of water, dumping it onto his head. A loud growl erupted from the man’s throat, and I almost fainted. Kenzo. That was Kenzo’s growl.I tucked the food box tightly under my arm and sprang forward as my heart continued to thunder. I wondered if the Alpha found out he was against him incarcerating Nadine, as most of hi