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AnnaIt was Jax who announced over dinner that he was closing talks early.London balked. “Neither we nor our witches have made any progress.”“My clan has become too dangerous. There has been a direct attack on a guest. Until I know who attacked her, I would like to err on the side of caution.”Maeve’s gaze slid to me. “Removing temptation?” She purred.I gritted my teeth. The whole dinner had been tense. Jax had been right all along. He considered the other alphas enemies, and now he had good reason.Emerson had turned his third in command to betray Jax. Maeve was ready to pin everything on me, and she was willing to kill now and ask questions later.And London was walking around with guards bathed in magic. Glamour magic? Some other kind of magic? It took time for me to study it and try and pinpoint what the magic did, and I couldn’t just stand in the open and stare at the guard.Not to mention the problems we were having outside the alphas. Irene hiding her magic.Lunessa capable
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JaxThe sound of the water hitting the tile was deafening. There was no other sound in the shower. In my arms, Anna was as hard as stone. She was collecting her thoughts, and I let her as I smoothed my hands up and down the side of her body.“Have you ever let your wolf make a decision about your pack?”“I follow his instincts, but he doesn’t make day-to-day decisions. Why do you ask?”“Because that’s what you’re doing, right now. You’re letting your wolf make the decision.The only reason we’re bonded is because of our wolves. But you, the human half, the part that has to run and protect a pack? You would have never chosen me. You’re never going to love me, but you’re still putting your pack at risk. Your leadership at risk.”My heart skipped a beat. She wasn’t mad or upset. Her voice was neutral, her words even.She’d thought about this, probably since the day I installed her into my bed.Was she wrong?“Every decision I make is for this pack,” I told her in a low voice. “I’ve sacri
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“All night.” I tucked her wet hair behind her ear and kissed the top of her head.“Jax, I…” she bit her lower lip and closed her eyes. “I may need a couple of minutes before I’m ready again.”“That’s not what you were going to say,” I growled with narrow eyes.“You’re right. It wasn’t. I decided maybe I didn’t need to speak at all.” Slowly, she lowered herself to her knees and looked up at me.I couldn’t make her talk. I couldn’t make her say whatever was on her mind, whatever truth she wanted to confess, so I let her take my cock in her mouth. I let the pleasure course through me, and I gently tangled my fingers in her wet hair as I fucked her mouth.“Anna,” I grunted and pulled away. My heart hammered in my chest. “Come on, baby. I want you pinned under me. I want to feel the heat between your legs.”Hauling her up once again, I cradled her against me. Anna wrapped her legs around me and buried her head in my neck. Whatever was bothering her, the orgasm hadn’t chased away her fears.
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AnnaThe sun rose over the horizon, and I stood by the window and stared at it. Jax’s promise to fuck me all night long fizzled after he brought up food. We ate, and he’d held me, but when he asked me to talk to him, I hadn’t known what to say. So I pretended to sleep.And he pretended the same.He walked out of the bathroom fully dressed. It would still be several hours before the alphas departed, but it was our last chance to talk to Cam, assuming Maeve’s guards would even let her. Saul had already texted to complain that they almost didn’t let him in to his own infirmary.I was planning on going alone, but Jax had immediately vetoed it. He wasn’t even letting me call Amelia or Finn.Something weird was going on with him.“You could get more sleep, and I could talk to Cam.”“Really?” I turned and cocked my head. “Okay.”I sat back on the bed and watched as he looked at the door, the window, back at me, and frowned. “You know what, we should go together. Then you can get some sleep.”
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“What? Oh, no. Um…Anna. Sorry, still sleepy. What was the question?” I would table the Jenson conversation for another day. “Are there any witches with you? Like, Cam perhaps? Or Lunessa?” “No, I’m alone. What’s going on?” “There’s a witch glamouring themselves as me, and they took Cam.” Instantly, Irene was awake. “I still have some of her blood. I can use it to track her. Meet me at the cottage.” I hung up and relayed the message to Jax whose features darkened. “Track her with that magic she didn’t want to tell me about?” “Not the time.” We made it to Irene’s cottage in record time, and she was already at the door. She was holding a cloth with blood on it and chanting. She barely glanced at us before she threw the cloth in the air. It started to float. “Hurry. Follow it.” Jax opened his mouth, but I touched his arm and shook my head. His questions for Irene were going to have to wait. “If Cam is dead…” I murmured. “It doesn’t matter. Maeve is not going to touch
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Anna“No!” Racing toward Lunessa, I pulled her back down and placed my hand on her chest.The magic was there, buried deep, but I couldn’t draw it out fast enough.Jax shifted and launched himself at Amaya’s twin, whatever her name was. He knocked her out of the air and sank his teeth into her. I focused on drawing the magic away from Lunessa, and when I was done, Lunessa gasped for breath. Jax yelped and flew through the air.“A null,” the black witch hissed. “How interesting. A null and a wolf. Where did you come from, darling?”She hadn’t known?Lunessa stood, but the black witch shook her head. “Don’t bother. I’m already done here.”She disappeared, and I ran to Jax’s side. He was slowly shifting back. “I’m fine,” he muttered. “I’m already healing.”Turning, I raced to Cam. As soon as I knelt down by her, wolves shot out of the trees.Some of them were from Jax’s pack. Jenson came with Irene in his arms.London. Emerson. Maeve and all her guards.I should have known that Lunessa’s
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AnnaThe tap had run dry.As the liquid started to spurt and grow foamy, I put the glass down and smiled apologetically at the wolf waiting on the other side of the bar. “Sorry, it’s going to be a few more minutes for that beer. I need to change the tap.”“No worries.” The woman flashed me an easy smile. “It’ll give me a few more minutes to look over the menus. I’m loving all these new choices. Is that your doing?”I gave her a quick nod. “Just let me know if you have any questions. I’ll be right back.”“I’ll do it, Anna,” Josh volunteered as he sat down the crate of clean glasses he’d just brought up from the back. “I know you’re busy.”“Great. Thanks, Josh. I appreciate it.”“Anything for you.”Hiding behind what I hoped was a friendly smile, I turned to address the newest customer who’d walked up. “Welcome to Hair of the Dog. What can I get you?”Hair of the Dog. Not the most original name for a bar in the middle of werewolf territory, but it was well-run. Emerson had installed me
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The wolf in the corner spot was Lionel. One of Emerson’s guards. He had a tablet open in front of him but liked to watch the television. He was easily distracted by sports updates. He came in every Wednesday. Three stools down from him was Marko. He was one of the staff members at Emerson’s house. There was at least one a day which told me they were the ones who gave Emerson reports about what I did at work.On the side facing the liquor wall was Elonso. This was his first visit, so he wasn’t on Emerson’s rotation. That made sense. Two seats from him was the female wolf. Maria? Maris?This was only her second visit, and she paid cash and hadn’t given me her name. I’d only heard her use it when she answered the phone.She wasn’t particularly dominant, and she worked mostly on her computer. From her phone calls, I gathered she was a planner of some sort.On the other corner was Noah. He was barely old enough to drink and had the kind of face that turned beet red whenever I looked at him
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The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 3: chapter 46
Knowing she was pregnant would only make that target on her back even bigger.Tess frowned at her. “Are you okay?”Mica struggled to reign in the anxiety that was no doubt leaking into her expression. “Disappointed. A baby would be a welcome beacon of light in these dark times.”She hoped the strange lilt to her voice could be mistaken for sadness. She didn’t have the mental energy to explain everything to Tess, nor did she want to. Not only were these raging emotions making her feel hollowed out inside, but Tess shouldn’t be the first one to find out. Hayden should.Once Hayden knew and they had a plan for moving forward, she could tell Tess the truth. Hopefully, she’d understand.Right now, though, there was so much tension in the splintered pack that if it was known she was pregnant, it might push the pack to no longer wait for the challenge… which was meant to be tomorrow afternoon.“I’m going to rest,” Mica told Tess, managing a small smile. “And you should as well. We’ve been th
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MicaMica didn’t know how she did it, but Tess managed to smuggle in a pregnancy test. Now, Mica sat in the bathroom, staring at the positive result. Her stomach was queasy, and now that she thought about it, she’d been feeling that quite a lot lately. Her body hurt, she always felt tired, and she had chalked it all up to stress.Pregnant.Even though she and Hayden had been having a lot of sex, and she had made the deliberate choice not to use condoms, she still could hardly believe it. Her period had always been all over the place. It wasn’t unusual for her to skip three or four months. She’d always been told it would make getting pregnant more difficult.Counting back, it had been, what, five months? Time passed so quickly that she hadn’t bothered to think about her last period. Before Hayden and the special ops team had returned to the Bluebell Valley pack, at least. So what did that mean? How far along was she?She peeled up her shirt and studied her stomach, looking at it from a
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Hayden“I’m just saying that maybe this ritual is worth the risk,” Maverick said. His arms were folded over his chest, and there was a doubtful look on his face. “What will it hurt to try?”Hayden shook his head. “We can’t risk a demon getting free. We don’t know what will happen. For all we know, this ritual is something the demons put into the world to—”He cut off as Finn shuddered. His eyes widened, and his head snapped around, toward the house. “Something’s happening.”Mica.With a curse, Hayden wheeled around and raced for the house. The team fell in step behind him. The pack looked up from their tasks, startled, but Hayden didn’t give any orders. He threw open the front door and took the stairs two at a time. He kicked open the door leading to the room where Echo was kept.Mica, Tess, and Elin were all inside. Tess rang an old brass bell manically, the clanging echoing through the room. Elin held a lighter in hand, racing back and forth to light candles as Echo spun around in h
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Mica squeezed her eyes shut tightly. Her stomach churned. It was exactly what she thought—they weren’t even going to try to save Echo, too certain in their own knowledge.“It has to happen soon, Hayden,” Ryder said, his voice low, urgent, and… sorrowful. “I can’t keep holding my tongue. You are my Alpha, and I’ve tried to respect your decisions, but the situation is becoming untenable. This is my mother and my sister we’re talking about. I will tell Mica, if that’s what you would prefer.”“No,” Hayden answered.Why? Why did he not want Ryder to tell her? Tears filled Mica’s eyes and she crept away, not wanting to hear any more. Was Hayden afraid she’d let Echo go? Did he think it was up to him as her mate to tell her that he was going to kill her mother?He doesn’t consider it killing Mom, though. He considers it a mercy, freeing her from the demon.It didn’t make Mica feel any better. She carefully opened the kitchen door, slipped through, and softly closed it. Her heart pounded in h
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MicaMica stared at the page. She’d been reading for so long that the words were starting to blur, but if she was right in her interpretations here… She blinked, rubbed her eyes, and focused again. As she reread the section, her heart started to beat faster.“And the demon was taken from its host and trapped in the stone,” she whispered. “Where it was trapped for all eternity.”She scanned the rest of the page. Hope swelled through her, even though she fought against it. It had been so long since this started, she wasn’t sure she could take it if this didn’t work. But there was the ritual all laid out. The way to force an aura-demon from the person it was possessing, and trapping it into an inanimate object. Once in the object, the demon would be trapped until said object was destroyed.Her mind whirled as to what they could use to trap the demon inside of Echo. There was a size limit to work with. A rock would be the best; then she’d put it in a plastic, air-tight box and bury it as
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Monroe laughed. “Spoken like a true female. Completely wrong.”Spencer and the rest of his people burst into laughter as well. They all stalked away, taking their torches with them. A flash of lightning flickered soundlessly in the distance. Hayden turned to his pack. They watched with uncertain gazes.“Two days,” he said loudly. “And then you will know you put your faith in the right Alpha. We will have Bluebell Valley, and things will get better.”He smiled at them reassuringly. As they dispersed, Finn and Blayke sidled over to him. Finn spoke in a low voice.“Spencer is the only one not showing signs of possession,” he said under his voice. “Everyone else is either claimed or at least influenced. It’s spreading.”Hayden nodded once. Finn would prefer they take more decisive, more immediate action. Hayden couldn’t blame him, knowing his history. He had a particular reason to hate demons, seeing how they robbed him of any chance he might have had to have a normal family, a normal lif
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Hayden“Stay here. I’ll be back shortly,” Hayden ordered as he stalked back to the bedroom. As he threw on his clothes, he frowned. Mica was dressing as well. “I said—”“I’m your mate. I’ll stand with you,” she said shortly.Hayden shook his head. “You’ll stay within the property bounds.”Mica huffed at him but didn’t respond. The two of them were ready quickly. Mica swept her hair into a bun as they headed downstairs. Torches lit the night, dozens of Monroe’s pack carrying them as the flames flickered and glowed. Hayden’s wolf snarled at the sight of Monroe, standing with his toes against the PCP piping at the gate.“Ah, decided to join us, did you?” Monroe drawled. “I was starting to think that your little challenge was all talk and no action.”His people laughed. Hayden ignored the low-hanging fruit and stopped just inside the protective barrier. “Are you finally going to accept my challenge, or will you continue to be a coward?”Monroe smirked. “What do you think I’m here for? It’
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“Brother coming through,” Ryder called from outside, then he stepped into the entrance. He grabbed a pair of shorts and yanked them on, carefully not watching Mica and Hayden. Mica kissed Hayden’s cheek. “I’ll be up in a bit.” He nodded, and Mica slipped back outside. It was utterly dark now, and she had to use a flashlight to navigate the camp. Everyone else could simply see in the dark but with her weak human eyes… But nobody brought it up, not like they wouldhave in other circumstances. She headed upstairs once she was satisfied everyone was set for the night. Hayden waited for her in bed, scrolling through the most recent demon research on the laptop. He closed it and set the laptop on the nightstand as he grinned at her. His hair was damp from the shower, the smell of soap mingling with his manly scent. Mica grabbed a nightgown from her dresser and changed. “I don’t like that nightgown,” Hayden told her. “It’s old and worn.” “And comfortable,” Mica snarked. “Yes. Whi
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MicaThe beast-demon stalked along the boundary's edge, snorting as it tested the protections. With Hayden and the rest of the special ops in the forest, Mica had ordered that they let the demon wander and not engage. Hayden had taken all the best fighters with him, meaning her order was gladly obeyed. Nobody wanted to tangle with the beast.Unfortunately, such a sight was getting more common. Even the children who used to scream and hide now ignored it, snuffling around the edges of the property. Its twisted horns glowed in the rapidly oncoming darkness. Clouds shrouded the sky, making it even darker.“Hayden will be back soon,” Mica told Tess as she nervously looked at the beast.“I know.” She shook her head. “Let’s go back into the house. I don’t trust the sources that say the beast-demons are dumb. I don’t want it to report back to Monroe about what we talk about.”Mica nodded. That was the smarter idea. The two headed into the house and went up to Mica and Hayden’s room. With all
