His energy softened when I uttered that last sentence. I felt the change, the relief, in my entire body. My Alpha gave me a long, hard look. “You and Lexi have made me a better man than I used to be,” he said somberly. I reached out and ran a hand through his long, fluffy blond hair. He leaned i
“Where is he? Please tell me he is alive. Please, Donovan, punish him if you must, but do not kill my son. Please, let him live…” For the first time in her life, Scarlet had been reduced to begging. And Donovan seemed to be relishing seeing her in this state. She did not enjoy providing him with
Yes, he must have been asleep. He didn’t remember leaning back against the wall, with a jagged stone digging right into the base of his spine. He must have passed out and slunk back into this awful position, from which he slowly shifted forward now, wincing at a sharp, stabbing pain between his shou
Fiona I woke with a jolt, partway through turning my body over in my sleep, and gasped for breath. My hand instinctively reached out for my husband, but my sweaty palm only found cool, empty sheets on his side of the bed. “Hey. Are you okay, sweetheart?” Footsteps neared. Then I felt the mattres
Before I could get up and out of bed, though, Alex grabbed my wrist and pulled me back to his side. I flew across the silk sheets easily. “Fiona,” he said quietly, looking deep into my eyes. “I need to say something to you.” “Okay.” My heart did a little overtime, unsure if this “something” was
Our guests finally arrived a few minutes before midnight. Our little night owl was wide awake so we carried her with us to greet them at the front of the palace. A servant was easing open the back door of the limousine we’d sent to retrieve the foursome from the airport, just as my husband and I rea
“I like them.” “Me too.” He reached out to take Lexi off my hands. She cooed at her father and melted into his chest. “We’ll need to actually have some conversations with them, of course, in order to develop an informed opinion. But I like their energies.” Alex raised his eyebrows, interested.
I opened my eyes. Alex was rubbing oil into his hands, straddling my waist and waiting for instructions. A new kind of shiver surged through me, this one full of ache and adrenaline. “You want me to boss you around a little?” The sultry sternness of my own voice surprised me a little. He nodded,
“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