I had Conrad on the line a minute after rolling past palace security onto the service road that led to the highway. He answered, “Alexander,” then coughed loudly. I pushed a button on the back of the steering wheel to lower the volume on the car speakers. “How are things back home?” “Things are
Fiona Alexander responded to my text just a few minutes later. To my relief, his tone was light and understanding. He wrote: That’s too bad. Good luck with everything there and let me know when you’ll be home. I replied: Of course. I’ll keep you posted. Three moving dots told me Alexander was ty
“There’s something else I wanted to talk to you about, as well,” I told Brandon. My attorney was a tall, sturdy man in his early forties with youthful facial features that contrasted sharply against his prematurely pale gray hair. He had stern gray eyes that were slightly magnified by black-rimmed
I knew Fiona was busy at work. But it couldn’t hurt to give her a little more encouragement. Send one more text that would be waiting for the next time she had a break and checked her phone. I wrote: The pics don’t have to be sexy. I just want to see your pretty face. Missing it. X There was no tr
Alexander The sun was just starting to set when I reached the pit. The men down at the bottom of it looked truly miserable. They were hot, thirsty, tired, hungry. Covered in dirt and dried mud. I could see marks on the walls of the trench that told me they’d done their best to try to scramble up a
Fiona I couldn’t believe it was almost ten o’clock when I looked at my watch. “I’ve kept you here way too late,” I told the three colleagues who had been working with me all afternoon and evening. We were nearly finished with the proposal I’d promised to have ready for our client by morning. I cou
“I could keep you awake,” he said suggestively. Alexander was standing a few feet away, unbuttoning his snowy white shirt. He took it off and hung it on a hook on the door. Then he walked over and crouched down, coming to kneel beside the tub. “I think that would also put me right to sleep right n
I snoozed my alarm and told Alexander I absolutely had to get up when it went off again in seven minutes. He smiled sleepily and grabbed my wrist, dragged me close to his warm body, and then pulled the covers back up around my shoulders. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the shiver of comfort that slid
“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