Fiona I stopped my anxious pacing for a moment when I was right in front of Nina. She was sitting cross-legged in one of the armchairs by our café table. “Am I crazy, Nina? Am I being really extra about this?” “No,” she said firmly. “Fi. You’re not the one who’s crazy here. I have looked in th
“Fiona?” I whipped my eyes over to Nina. “What? Sorry—did you ask me something?” “I asked if you want me to try reaching out to Kayden,” she said meekly. She waited a beat before continuing. “He and I didn’t talk about connecting after the… thing. I could try him, though, if you want.” She hel
Third person The blustery cold outside had turned Iris’s nose red and numb. She left her mud-soaked boots at the door of her bedroom and hurried to the kitchenette to start some water boiling for tea. It’d been wet and gross out in the tool shed behind the rose garden. But she went there because s
After a few minutes, she heard a door squeaking open and falling closed, and the sounds of voices grew quiet and then disappeared. Slowly, she pushed through the big double doors and peeked her head inside. The kitchen was empty. Maybe only for a moment. Iris darted through, heading for another d
Iris had been feeling quite proud of her to plan to sneak into Alexander and Fiona’s rooms through the secret passageway. She was feeling very pleased with herself. Smug, even. But there was something that she did not know. She did not know that Alexander had rigged this passageway entrance with
The soldier stopped running when we reached the end of the hall but he didn’t let go of us. He just used one hand to hold some kind of radio up over my head and shouted into it, “FIRE! FIRE IN THE WEST WING! CALL FOR FIRE SERVICE AND ALL EMERGENCY UNITS!” Where was Nina?! I squirmed in the soldi
Alexander I remember hearing Kayden’s blessedly familiar voice, but it was distant and echoey. I couldn’t make out what he was saying. It was a whisper, I thought at first. But no—he was just very far away. He was shouting… but he was too far off for me to hear. I tried to reply, but couldn’t
Then I was being lifted up off the gurney – with difficulty, by people who weren’t strong enough to lift my weight – and then dropped down clumsily onto something else… a stretcher, I assumed… Maybe whatever pain meds they’d given me in the helicopter were already wearing off. Or maybe that reckle
“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