There was no booze in the Alpha King’s coffee today. I would have smelled it. “Well, Father, what’s new with you on this fine Monday morning?” I asked, taking a seat opposite him under the picture window in his study. The day was indeed sunny and clear, the air fresh with the scent of damp earth.
Fiona I found myself wishing I had a couch in my office. I wanted very much to lie down for a minute after the photo exchange and everything else that happened. Then that idea got me drifting off into a fantasy about… if I did have a couch in here and Alexander came to visit the office during my
I held my face in an expression of cool confidence, despite suddenly feeling overwhelmed with this conversation. I don’t know how I’d gone through my whole pregnancy so far and not even considered my plan for maternity leave, but it just wasn’t something I’d been thinking about. “I should discuss
Alexander I couldn’t get Fiona off my mind all day. I led the pack on a ruck march and spent the entire hike thinking about her. Not just about our morning activities, which did keep floating back to the front of my mind. But also… The past few months that we had spent together, I’d changed.
I texted Fiona again on my way to our room to clean myself up. I asked her how her day was going and how she was feeling. And told her I couldn’t wait to see her tonight. Fiona The texts I saw from Alexander when I next checked my phone were heartening and made me feel hopeful. Maybe Nina wa
Alexander “Aww,” Fiona said when she walked into our bedroom and saw what I’d done to it earlier. Our nightstands, her desk and the dining table all held small bouquets of blooming white roses in crystal vases. And the fresh gold sheets on our bed were dusted with white rose petals. She sniffe
It was a thin, delicate platinum band with a flawless princess cut diamond in the center, flanked on either side by sapphires and then two smaller diamonds beside those. It struck me as her style. I only hoped she would not think it was too over-the-top. The center diamond was… kind of huge. In th
Fiona The pieces started falling into place when I saw the ring in the bottom of my champagne glass. Then I looked up and discovered that Alexander was kneeling at my feet. An overwhelming feeling of relief rushed through me, even before conscious thoughts about exactly what he was doing cou
“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