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“It’s a good thing we got to you when we did,” Kenzi said cheerfully. “He was getting ready to kill everyone who worked at that bar if you didn’t give him your bond by the next full moon.”My stomach twisted. “Shit. Really?”“Oh, yeah. That seems to be your schtick. Sacrificing yourself for others. Would you have done it?”Would I? I’d deliberately kept myself at a distance because I didn’t trust them. It didn’t occur to me that he would use them against me. No wonder there was so much desperation in their smiles. I’d thought it was just because they’d been ordered to be nice. Did they know that they were cannon fodder?Would I have sacrificed myself for them?There was a knock at the adjoining door. “Food,” Jax said roughly.Amelia and Kenzi both gave me a look, and I nodded. They opened the door and slipped through. Jax walked through with a large bag. “Soup and bread. I wasn’t sure what your stomach would be able to handle. If it sits okay, I’ll send Finn out for something more sub
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Jax“Would you have left me there? If the roles were reversed? Would you have come for me?”When she rolled her eyes, I knew I’d hit the mark. She stopped believing in herself a long time ago. Stopped believing that she was worth anything. It clouded every decision she made.“It’s not the same,” she argued. “You have responsibilities. You are in charge of the largest pack on this mountain, and you love it! I told you to let me go.”“Have you so little faith in me that you don’t think I can protect you and my pack?”“I think every second that I’m with you, we are all in danger. You. Me. The pack. Even if we do leave this town, Emerson will just find another way to take me. He doesn’t give up.”“Neither do I,” I roared. I didn’t want to lose my temper, but I was so done with her flimsy excuses. “I am stronger than him, Anna. He can try a thousand times. Or maybe, I kill him and rid us of the problem entirely.”“If you kill him, you could start a war.”“I’ve all but declared war on him a
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AnnaEmerson got the human police involved? Of course he did. He couldn’t drag me out of town, but he could get the police to do it. The question was whether this search was legitimate or if Emerson had paid these two officers to drag us away.I pressed my ear to the door.“Missing woman? That’s horrible,” Kenzi said loudly. “It’s just me and my two sisters here. My brother and sister-in-law are next door, but she’s really not feeling well. We can let you take a peek through the adjoining door, but I would appreciate it if you didn’t disturb her.”What was she doing? Hurriedly, I ran to the bed and pulled the covers up to my chin. I thought about pulling them all the way over my head, but that would definitely look suspicious.The sounds were muted, and I held my breath. Jax positioned himself between the bed and the adjoining door. A moment later, it opened. “Jax,” Kenzi said in a stage whisper.“These officers want to take a look at Sarah and make sure she’s not the missing person t
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JaxI struggled to wrap my head around the amount of power Janelle had. Since the dawn of time, wolf magic and witch magic were separate. Wolves were content knowing that witches couldn’t touch wolf magic.And yet here was Janelle who could manipulate a whole pack. I wanted to recoil in horror, but Janelle looked so damn alone on the floor. I had a feeling this was not the first time she felt like a monster.“The magic you are born with does not make you an abomination,” Saul said quietly from behind me. “Obviously your family has this magic for a reason, but we can all agree it is not so abusive that alphas can gain more power. Can he still use that power now that you’re out of the witches’ reach?”Janelle shook her head. “The magic won’t sever instantly. There are layers and layers woven into the bond that will gradually fade. His hold on his pack is loosening, but it’ll take time before they’re all free.”“Huh. So he didn’t need to get his hands dirty to kill anyone. He could put a
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AnnaI woke up feeling far more refreshed and relaxed than I had in weeks. The dingy motel room was nothing like the luxury suite Emerson had imprisoned me in, but that didn’t even matter to me. Jax was holding me in bed. I had friends surrounding me. I was safe.And relaxed. Jax and I had spent well into the dawn hours screwing each other silly.Both of us somehow felt that if we fucked enough, we could make the mating bond stay.That wasn’t how mating bonds worked, and we both knew it.Maybe we were just making up for lost time.When I opened my eyes, light flooded the room. Jax was still curled around me, but he was fully dressed. With a frown, I opened my eyes. He gave me a soft smile.“What time is it?” I asked huskily as I sat up.“A little before noon. Saul and Kenzi are out scouting the town, looking for spots where Emerson might post wolves and attack. Finn and Amelia are mostly arguing, and Janelle is sleeping. Saul gave her a tonic, but there’s nothing he can do about her m
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Irene bit her bottom lip. “On one hand, I want to say that it would take an immense amount of power, but I didn’t sense that kind of magic in Janelle. Also, I could be wrong. The alpha would be the crux of the magic. All bonds lead to him. She’d just have to weave magic through him, and the bonds would do the rest. So it’s possible she’s not all that powerful after all. She just has a terrifying kind of magic. Did Jax bond with her? She can manipulate his bonds.”I shook my head. “She says she needs permission.” A thought struck me, and my eyes widened. “Do you think she was lying?”“Maybe,” Irene said slowly. “The only bond work I’ve ever done was darkening your mating bond. I had to borrow magic from all three of the Darkwyn witches to do it, and even then, I could only do it on Jax’s end. I did need his cooperation to get in, and it was only cosmetic. Like, throwing a towel over it knowing that eventually, it would burn away. What Janelle is talking about is much more intricate. Sh
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JaxI made a note on my phone for rain ponchos and tried not to growl. It was strange planning for such a long journey as a human and having to think about things like rain. Food.Medical supplies. I frowned at Amelia’s text.We don’t need motion sickness pills. We’re wolves.Her response was immediate. And do you know if Saul or Anna or Finn have ever been on a boat? I haven’t. How do you know we won’t get sick?Damn it.Put them on the list.I hadn’t wanted us to split up. I didn’t like any wolf being out on their own, but Amelia apparently wasn’t as happy being away from the motel room as I thought. She was only in the next store, but I didn’t like that I couldn’t see her.I like it even less that the bond wasn’t there. I couldn’t feel her either.Hats. Sunscreen. Loose clothing that we could move in. The captain had also mentioned that we’d be sharing two cabins, so I went to check out the bed rolls in the sporting goods store..Watched.Immediately, I stilled as my wolf’s voice c
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Anna“Murder? You’re fucking kidding me!” I stared at Amelia in shock. It had only been two hours since our cellphones had gone down. Finn had gone out looking for Amelia and Jax and returned one hour ago to report that they weren’t in any of the stores.Two hours of agony, of thinking that Amelia might be dead. Finn was ready to lose his mind, but my mating bond was bright and throbbing. I just couldn’t figure out how to use it to communicate to Jax. To figure out what the hell was happening with them.Turns out, he was in police custody. Human police custody.“Who the hell do they think he murdered?”“You. And Janelle,” Amelia said quietly. “They don’t have any evidence, but they’re going to hold him for the longest amount of time possible. That’s three days. He’s requested a lawyer, but conveniently, the only criminal lawyer in town is on vacation. They said it’ll take two days to get someone here. We’ll never get our pack lawyer down in time either.”“They have to have bodies to b
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A fresh chill washed over her, causing goosebumps to rise along her arms. Her scalp prickled, and her chest tightened. Now that she considered that possibility, it was swiftly followed by a stark truth staring her in the eye. If someone did come for her, there wasn’t much she could do.As a human in a pack of shifters, she had little recourse for self-defense. She’d have to have a gun in hand at all times, and she didn’t have access to that sort of weapon. Even then, a shifter could easily tear out her throat before she knew what was happening. She was defenseless. And worse, there was nothing she could do to protect her baby, now or in the future.Hayden pulled her close into the fiery heat of his body. “Mica, Mica,” he crooned. “It’s alright. Nothing is going to happen to you.”“You can’t know that.” As much as she wished he was strong enough to keep every threat far from her, Hayden was only one person. He couldn’t be at her side at all times, and he had to take care of his pack re
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MicaMica grabbed a washcloth and dumped too much body wash onto it. She focused on the lather of suds, trying to pretend as though she wasn’t shaking all over. This wasn’t right. Hayden should be going into the challenge with full strength. Not healing from injuries like this. It didn’t matter if he was saying that she wasn’t to blame.She was. He knew it. She knew it.“I’ve allowed the demons to delay the challenge too long already,” Hayden said.She glanced at his face. His eyes were closed, face lifted slightly toward the shower head. Was he deliberately not looking at her? Or was it just from how exhausted he was? His muscular body sagged somewhat, as though he was fighting not to lean against the side of the shower.Mica wiped the dampness from her face and started washing his body. She could be strong for him. He was facing death; even though it made her chest ache to think about it, she couldn’t let herself break down. Not yet, at least. He was strong. The strongest person she
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“I… I trust that you want what’s best for the pack. I trust that you are a good man, Hayden. Right now, that’s enough for me to want more,” Mica said.They lingered, each searching the other’s eyes. Hayden saw the spark of a promise in Mica’s gaze. The tension that had been making his wolf on edge eased. His shoulders relaxed. It would take time, yes, but so long as Mica was willing to give him a chance, he would prove himself worthy.“How have things been while I was gone?” he asked.Mica shook her head. “We’re going to run out of supplies. Our food is low, and as for everything else… I don’t know what happened, but we’ve lost a quarter of our blankets. Not to mention medical supplies.”Hayden leaned into her touch as she resumed washing his body. “I stopped in to see Ryder. We got a message from Monroe, and I had to order Ryder to be strapped into place to keep him from leaving the medical room.”Mica winced as she glanced up at Hayden’s face. “He’s not happy with me. But it looks l
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He stripped off his boxers and threw them into the hamper as well, then headed into the bathroom. The glass door was shut, and Mica stood, concealed by steam and fogged glass, under a stream of water.Hayden knocked on the door, making her jump. He tugged the shower open. “Mind if I join you?”Mica’s hair was hidden under one of those silly-looking shower caps. But her body… oh, her body! Now, this was a sight he would never get tired of seeing. Her heavy breasts were soft with their pink velvet peaks. Her round, soft belly and flared hips. The drab, baggy clothes she always wore hid so much of her. Not just her body but her vibrant personality as well.There was nobody better suited to be his mate. Nobody else in the pack would stand up to him like she did. Nobody would give him dirty looks or tell him that he was a jackass.Tearing his eyes from her sexy body, Hayden looked at her beautiful sea-green eyes. Exhaustion smudged dark circles beneath her eyes, but a small smile tugged at
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HaydenHayden shook out his muscles, grimacing at the pull of his most recent injuries. Not only had Echo gotten him pretty good, but Kai had reported back that he and the team Hayden had sent into the forest had found a beast-demon nest. The last few hours had been destroying the eggs and hunting down the hatchlings.The team entered the mudroom at the back of the house and shifted to their human forms. Everyone had received some sort of injury, though fortunately, it wouldn’t take long for any of them to heal. They pulled on the boxer shorts that were kept in the mudroom, all except Finn.Blayke brushed back his hair and gave Finn an envious look. “Wish I could shift back and forth with my clothes on. Maybe it’s a type of magic that can be taught?”Finn gave him a dirty look. “You can’t teach being half—well. Half wolf.”“All of you, take care of your injuries and then get some rest,” Hayden interrupted. The last thing he wanted was for the pack to know that Finn was half-demon. The
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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
