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
Nina: Check this out. My new routine on the aerial hoop, my new obsession! In the video, Nina was in the middle of a big, mirror-walled room—clearly a dance studio. Her hair was down and long, a pale blonde color that made her olive skin look darker by contrast, and crimped in tiny waves. She was w
Alexander I was texting Fiona with a dumb smirk on my face when I heard sounds of movement approaching our bedroom door and snapped right to attention. I was already opening the door by the time the man reached the doorstep. He had just raised his hand to knock and froze when he saw me. It was a p
Running outside was the perfect time for thinking, too. Something about the journey out and back, and the simple, instinctive movements required from the body satiated my wolf. I always felt calmer and more centered after a run. Kayden was quiet for a while after I caught him up on all the details
Fiona I was alone in my office preparing some final notes right before the morning meeting when I received another text from my fiancé. Alexander: How are things going over there so far? You have an idea yet of what time I should expect you back tonight? I hesitated, thinking over my options. If
I walked to the ladies’ room at a casual pace. I never wanted to arouse attention around this kind of thing. I made sure all the stalls were empty first, then locked the main door. And then hurried over to a toilet just in the nick of time. I threw up as quietly as I could, hoping against hope that
“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