Alexander I did not want Fiona to feel what I was feeling. To let an empath touch me and share my internal world with her right now? That would be akin to torture. I wouldn’t wish this pain, this misery I was feeling on anyone. Least of all my beautiful, perfect wife or my innocent daughter, b
She scoffed loudly, but she did stop walking. “Alex, no. Stop it with that. I am your wife and I am going to touch you—” She took another step. “NO!” I roared in a strange, unfamiliar voice. “I don’t want you to fucking touch me, Fiona! Just fucking leave me alone right now, please!” She froze.
Fiona I passed a sleepless night tossing and turning in the big bed I was currently sharing with my best friend instead of my husband as I would have preferred. But I was grateful to have her, since he was unavailable to me – in a diversity of ways, it seemed. Nina had stayed by my side through
I could not help but stare, stunned, into the nursery for several minutes once I caught sight of it. The small room was unrecognizable. It had been burnt to a crisp. And there it was—a big rectangular hole in the wall with a dark, creepy passageway behind it, through which a cold breeze drifted in
Nina’s eyebrows went up. “What made you think of that?” I told her about the photograph that we’d lost to the fire. She knew what I was talking about—I’d shown it to her. I told her about Conrad’s most recent email, too. In which he’d offered to pass down to me more of Alexandra’s family photograp
Brandon took a step backward, bowing his head. He waited patiently with his eyes on the floor, I think knowing I just needed a beat to regain my composure. I knew I was in the wrong, the way I was treating him, but I was too irritated to apologize again. “I’ll figure something out,” I grumbled i
Fiona “I don’t care,” I told Alexander’s doctor, shutting the man up in an instant. He had sat down and jumped right into recapping things that I already knew about my husband’s physical injuries. But that wasn’t why I had called him to meet with me. Brandon had told me about Alexander’s fathe
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
“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