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
Fiona Nina said she’d heard the scream, too. I knew it was Iris. I knew this fire had been her doing, but still I could not quite understand… why? How? What exactly had just happened? And where was she now? Six soldiers were here in the forest suite with us, watching over me and Lexi with at
I looked down at my child. My poor baby looked up me with big, sad, red-rimmed and tear-glazed eyes. She had run out of breath for crying and was beyond exhausted. I planted a kiss on the top of her sweet little head and sent her a psychic message of reassurance. You’re okay, I promised her. We’re s
Alexander Kayden’s voice was, once again, the first thing I heard as I came to. I peeled my dry eyes open and discovered I was in a dimly lit hospital room. A machine was beeping beside me. My legs were big, formless lumps hidden under a flannel blanket. My hands, lying neatly at my sides, wer
This is what regret feels like. “What the fuck happened?” I growled again. “Where were our guys? How could this—” Kayden held his palms up again and nodded at me calmly, communicating that he would tell me all he knew once I calmed down. So I slowed my breathing and forced myself to calm down.
Fiona “Alex. Oh my god, I’ve been so worried about you.” I could hardly breathe while I waited for him to reply. “Fiona,” Alex answered weakly over the phone. “Are you and Lexi okay?” “We’re fine, my love. Oh god, it’s so good to hear your voice.” He did not reply. I heard him breathing heav
Alex was due back by noon. He was being flown in from the hospital across the country where he’d had emergency surgery overnight. I didn’t know how to talk to him. I still didn’t know exactly what had happened to him, exactly what he was going through. He hadn’t answered when I called his cell thi
“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