I locked the bedroom door behind me and finally let out a huge, exasperated sigh. I dropped my purse and briefcase to the floor. I’d pick them up and put them away tidily later. That hostile interaction had just depleted the last ounce of energy I had. Alexander had been in his office. He heard me
“No, Fiona,” he interrupted. “I am not fine with her disrespecting you.” His tone was starting to sound frustrated. But then he suddenly changed tac. “I will deal with it,” he said firmly. “I will make the boundaries very clear.” Finally it seemed like we were done with the excuses. “Thank you.”
Alexander We’d had better times in bed together. But there something satisfying about what Fiona and I had just done, satisfying in a different way than just the pleasure of teasing and touching and making each other come. Fiona had always held back with me. She kept her emotions buried somewhere
She dropped her elbows to her knees, her face into her open hands. And started crying. “All I wanted to do was be nice to your fiancée, Alexander. Please believe me. I’m so silly for thinking a woman like that would ever stoop so low as to waste her time with someone like me.” “That is not it at a
Fiona I was relaxing in the tub with my eyes closed and head back on a fluffy bath pillow when I heard Alexander returning to our room. He found me in the bathroom. I’d left the door ajar. “Hey,” he said, pushing it open slowly and taking a couple step inside. “Hi.” I rolled my head to the side
He made me breakfast in the kitchen again. It was our weekend morning routine now and one I enjoyed greatly. Each time we did this, he whipped up something different. Today started with a cup of chamomile-lavender tea and a chocolate chip scone. He had me enjoying this first course at the little ta
“Are you upset?” Alexander watched me nervously as we finished eating breakfast. “I’m fine,” I said again. “But it does not seem like Iris is paying you much respect, Alexander. If you told her last night to give us space, and the very next morning she blows up your phone like that.” I could feel
By the time we returned to our room, the air between Alexander and me had started feeling tense. To occupy idle hands, do something with myself other than just obsessing over thoughts of Iris, and I guess in an inane attempt to literally clear the air in the room, I walked around the perimeter shov
“Maybe. But I could say the same to you, Alex.” He looked down and suddenly became aware that he was holding my full weight while standing on his two legs. This was the strongest Alex had been yet, since returning from the desert. I could feel the power pulsing off of him. He was back to himself a
Fiona “I’m so glad we’re finally doing this.” I closed my eyes and inhaled a deep breath of fresh, cool forest air. The smells of pine, damp earth and my Alpha’s masculine scent combined to soothe and excite my senses all at once. Alexander pulled his shirt off and dropped it onto a large, flat
“I just can’t believe it,” Fiona said. She had the baby slung lazily but comfortably on her hip. Both of them had their blue eyes focused on Nina while she worked on packing her belongings into a big suitcase splayed out atop her fluffy white bedspread. “We’re going to miss you so much here.” “I w
Third person Having his wrists in handcuffs was still unpleasant. Lucas wondered if the sensation of wrist restraints would ever stop triggering memories of his time in captivity. But after weeks in prison, where he was given adequate food and reasonable living conditions, Lucas was pretty sure th
TWO MONTHS LATER. Alexander I slid my hands all over Fiona’s soft, wet skin, tracing the shapes of her curves. It was a relief to have mostly normal use of my hands again, though I was still getting used to the new sensation of having my thumbs free and being able to move them. I was loving this
AlexanderIt was as simple as that. Fiona ignored the stupid things coming out of my mouth, pinned my broken body underneath her and forced me to change my mindstate.She snapped me out of that dark place of near insanity by feeding me her beautiful, intoxicating body and pressing her own energy into
He knew that I was close. He let out a sexy, vibrating growl as he moved his lips up to my clit and sucked it hungrily, then returned his tongue to my core and pressed it up inside me again. I cried out his name and gripped his head with my thighs when ecstatic relief hit me like a wave. The volum
He tried to push me away, but I shoved his arms down to the bed. “Are you going to fight me, Alex? Are you going to force me off of you? Hm? Are you going to hurt me?” My voice was razor-sharp, my tone ice-cold. “Fiona—” “Now you listen to me.” I straddled his broad chest and sat down onto it. “
I’d heard Alexander throwing up in the shower, that night when he fought the vampires at the courthouse. He’d been absolutely covered in that black gunk when he returned from that first battle, and he’d used up half a tube of toothpaste cleaning his mouth afterward. But when he returned to the pal