For the hundredth time that night, Corinne's mouth stretched into a long yawn and she had to rub her bleary eyes to stay focused on the papers that were scattered across her desk. Sleep was trying to take over her after such busy days looking for Seraphina and Diego. But at least Dewey had been able to find some evidence that would be able to lead the armies of all the allied packs to their hideout. All that was needed was for her to focus a little more on her duties as a commander...
“I told you she was hunched over that table for hours.” Declan's voice startled her, making her turn toward the door of her room to find her brother and her mate standing there, staring at her with expressions that were somewhere between amusement and judgment.
“What are you doing here?” She yawned once more, stretching her spine as Hunter guided Declan's c
"Are you okay?" Corinne's murmur reached Hunter as she stroked his arm, however, as much as he wanted to, he didn't look away from where his wolves were taking William from the chair where he had been chained for the last few days, always watched over by Aiden or, mainly, by Belle. "I will be. I just need to do it.” He squeezed her hand, needing to breathe in her scent for a moment “Just... Stay with me, okay?” "Always." Corinne promised, at the same moment his cousin was finally dragged towards them, with a furious expression and deep bags under his eyes making his face even darker. “What? Has the day finally come when you have decided that you will kill and end the threat to your sovereignty?” William spat, disdainfully “Are you going to tell your cat to get your hands dirty instead of you? That’s why you brought her?” “Corinne is my mate and the Luna of this pack, so be respectful.” Hunter growled, fighting to keep his temper under control
His words, as Hunter had expected, sent a wave of silent shock through everyone there. William, however, did not seem to share that feeling and much less showed any satisfaction. Instead, his eyes glowed silver with anger, while his fangs grew.“Is this your plan? Putting such an important decision in the hands of the pack, who have no responsibility for what happened to my father? You think you can escape even that kind of responsibility, you piece of shit! I was right from the start! You grew up to be exactly like your father...!”“Stop right now, William!” Corinne warned him, stretching her hands in the air “Or I will have no mercy.”“Damn witch! I know perfectly well what they want to do! They want to force these wolves to choose you, because you are all they know! But I
As she ran into the forest, with her tigress so excited she was about to break free, Corinne found herself thinking about how magic was something fascinating, but also scary. All her life, she had felt those intuitions that were like a needle in her bones, warning her when something bad was about to happen or when she needed to stay alert for danger. But perhaps because a part of her had always known that it was part of the magic in her blood, Corinne had done her best to ignore it all since she was a child, burying herself deep inside until those sensations were nothing more than pale reflections of themselves, dormant and weakened. But not now. It was like something was drawing her in, but not in a good way. Like a nerve in her body had extended a long distance and was now being used to pull her closer, causing agony that she could only get rid of when she found something... Or someone. “Stop!” she shouted, jumping in front of Hunter's wolf
“Quickly, everyone. First children, pregnant women and the elderly.” Isabelle's voice instructed all the wolves who were being taken to the basement below the pack school, where they could be protected from the battle that was to come “And leave some space for the wounded, too...” she sighed, regretfully “We might we need.”“Tell the elephants to stay on the front lines. Cougars are better at stalking, so they should stay at strategic points to surprise those mercenaries!” Near Corinne, Hunter ordered the warriors who were still there, waiting to be able to join their fellows who were already on the borders containing the advance of Seraphina's mercenaries “Use all the armor we can make with the metal the swans sent us, even those that are not yet completely finished. We need to protect everyone as much as possible. And, you.” For a moment, Corinn
“Oh, my dear…” Juliet lamented at her words, with a loving smile on her face, holding her youngest with just one hand so she could get closer and caress Corinne’s face “You were always the opposite of that woman. And always use this gift the Gods gave you for good.” “It’s very recent.” Corinne lamented, “I've spent years denying this and I still haven't even used this magic to do what really matters: freeing us from Seraphina.” “No, you are wrong.” her stepmother denied it, with tears in her eyes “For years I tried to bring Eli back to me, break that spell and make things go back to the way they were before, but I never succeeded. Not until you showed up. And I thought about it again and again over the years, but I could only come to one conclusion. It wasn't just my bond of partnership with your father that brought him back. Maybe it wasn't that at all. Was you." Juliet stroked her hair “That woman thought your magic was still dormant, but she was wrong. You wer
The mountains in swan country were the perfect hiding place for Seraphina, Corinne now realized that. In addition to being remote and steep, most had large, deep, dark inner caves where anyone could easily hide, especially with a sorceress nearby to make them invisible for a while. Hell, if only Corinne had listened to her instincts sooner and tried to convince everyone that the missing swans were having their feathers plucked to produce some kind of potion...By instinct, as she finished climbing a few more meters of that mountain, towards another cave, Corinne looked in the direction where her mate, his cousin and all the wolves that followed William were surrounding the mountain, preventing all the mercenaries there from climb in search of her. At least Hunter still seemed safe and free from any injuries, but her tigress was still writhing in agony, wanting to be there too, protecting him.
“Seraphina!” Corinne growled, with her fangs hurting as they grew, her tigress roared with the need to attack that woman, even though she knew she couldn't do it so carelessly. “Mother!” Diego shouted, too scared by her presence for who was the favorite son “I... I was about to guide her into a trap and deliver her magic to you! I just ended up going too easy on her because I still consider her my little sister, and...” “Knowing your nature, I believe you still haven't been convinced since our last conversation, haven't you, my daughter?” Seraphina took a step closer to Corinne, completely ignoring her other child. "You disgust me. You have always disgusted me, ever since the time you took me to that infernal chamber to torture a tiger in front of me for the first time!” Corinne spat. “And you always disappointed me, worrying about inferior beings like those instead of focusing on what really mattered: your magic.” The sorceress shook her head
“Bunch of sons of bitches!” Hunter growled, counting the neck of yet another mercenary who tried to stick his fangs into him, preventing him from trying to climb that mountain to reach his mate.Once again, he raised his head toward the cave where Corinne had last entered. He hadn't seen anything go in or out of there, but it was taking too long for there to be nothing in that place. And, hell, knowing that that bastard who'd tried to kill Declan was still lurking around, probably more than willing to do the same to Corinne, Hunter was more than willing to break the promise he'd made to her.If that witch caught him, then let her break all his bones or something. As long as he could give Corinne the chance she needed to kill her and get it all over with, so that his wife no longer needed to be in any danger.
"Alice! Alice!”That voice sounded at the same moment Alice opened the coffee shop's door, making the small bell overhead tinkling. Her eyes were heavy and her shoulders were so low that they seemed to be almost touching the floor, but she still forced herself to smile at her best friend, just as Lucy got up from the small table where she was sitting and came running over to her."Oh, dear, I'm so sorry..." Lucy whined, and, as always, Alice could see in her poor friend's blue eyes that she had been crying "Are you okay?""Yes, I'm fine." Alice tried hard to keep that smile on her lips “It was painful to see Mrs. Williams in that coffin, but, she was suffering so much the last few days...” she sighed, as her friend held her shoulders and guided her to the table where Lucy had left “The only thing that consoles me is that she was always saying she wanted to rest. She looked so peaceful at the funeral... I think she was finally able to make it.”“That bastard son of hers really refused
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Sunny Calibur was exactly like the sorceress who had plagued all the packs in the region years ago. That's because, as much as her parents hated it when someone used that name, that woman, who had been dead for many years, was her grandmother. Maybe she shouldn't think that way, but for Sunny, it was just the truth and she was fine with it, just as she had gotten used to the looks the tigers from her mother's homeland gave her, whenever her mother's family paid a visit.“Here they are!” her mother, Luna Corinne, cheered happily as the Valiant carriage pulled up, and Sunny just shook her hands with a smile on her face.“I told you they were just a little late because of the mud last night's storm caused.” She assured, tucking a strand behind her mother's ear, before she and her parents approached to greet her grandparents and her uncle.“Oh, my dear.” Her grandma was the first to get out of the carriage, with a huge smile on her face as she hugged her “I swear you look taller and more
"This is ridiculous! Get out of my way, Isabelle! I have the right to enter this room!” Hunter grunted, on the verge of despair, but Isabelle resorted to moving out of the door to his and Corinne's room.“Not while you’re acting like you’re the one giving birth.” His cousin snorted, placing one hand on his hip while holding his baby son, Nicholas, with the other, even though he was already much bigger than any other 1-year-old boy in the entire pack “Now, sit down, take a deep breath and try to calm down. I’m not going to let you go in there in that nervous state, just to make Corinne scared like you.”“How can I not be nervous? She was in a lot of pain! What if there is something wrong with the baby? And if the birth ends up being more than her body can handle!” he panted at that mere thought “Enough! Get out of that door before I get you out, Isabelle! I need to check on my wife!’“For the love of all the Gods, Hunter, I’m sure….”The sound of thin, high-pitched crying interrupted t
“Hunter, can you stop pacing like a goose?” William grunted next to him at the altar, but Hunter solemnly ignored him, continuing to do it again and again all the way in front of the Moon God's stained glass window.That little exercise was the only thing that was managing to keep him and his wolf under control while Corinne didn't show up to marry him. Not that he didn't know he was acting crazy, since she had already accepted his marriage proposal and probably wouldn't run away from him, but... Hell, all he wanted most was for that day to be everything their first marriage had not been.It was almost crazy to think that just a year ago, he was in that exact suit, standing in that same spot, but with a completely different feeling in his chest as he waited for his bride. When he thought about what Corinne's life was like at the time she first set foot in Calibur, only to find her mate and be rejected by him right away...Fuck, there was that feeling again that he could spend the rest
“Jennifer?” Corinne asked, surprised to find Hunter's sister standing there, with what appeared to be a suitcase in her hands in a backpack on her back.“Ah, you...” Jennifer stammered, immediately turning pale “Listen, I didn't come here to try to ruin your wedding or anything like that, okay? So don't blow my head off with your magical powers or anything like that! I'm already leaving anyway! It's not like I can bother you anymore. I just... I just wanted to see this house one last time, before I leave.”“I would never do something like that, Jennifer…” Corinne sighed, until she realized what she had said “Wait, are you leaving? Where?"“And does it matter?” the young wolf growled, cowering “Nobody wants me in this place anymore. I don'
“Bring some more staples over here! We can’t risk this hairstyle falling apart!” Penelope screamed, and Corinne had to fight the instinct to flinch, as she knew that any movement could destroy that intricate hairstyle and consequently make Penelope want to end her life “Quick! One moment longer and we’ll be late!”“Why are you so worried and ordering everyone around?” Nicole grunted, but still passed the hairpins to the swan princess, allowing her to continue making waves and pinning up various parts of Corinne's hair, even though theoretically everything was already done “My sister needs time to enjoy her marriage, you know?”“Take a step back, brat. You’re not even old enough to have a mate and know what it means to have a perfect marriage.” Penelope snorted “At least I'm here
“Hunter!” Corinne gasped when Hunter tried to insert his hands down her pants, but that didn't stop him from continuing “We... We've already been away for five days... We can't take any longer. People must be waiting for us...” her words warned, but his mate just parted her legs on the carriage seat, allowing his hand to enter her leggings and find that narrow and wet pussy, ready for him.“It felt good fucking you while you bit the pillow to keep from screaming and letting your family know what we were doing, but I'm done with it.” He growled, licking her claim mark as he pulled the strap of her blouse to caress her tits “I want to go hard into that hot pussy and hear you moan like you always have.”“Hunter...” she moaned again, as he began to plunge his fingers started deep in and out of her, using h
“Are you sure you’re not cold?” Hunter murmured against her ear, only causing Corinne to curl up even closer to him, pressing her cheek against his warm chest. "No." she sighed as she ran her hands over his abdomen “What about you? I never realized that Valiant could be so much colder this time of year than Calibur.” "No. I have something pretty hot to help me.” He teased, making her giggle as he trailed kisses down her face. “So... What did you think?” Corinne asked, dangling her legs in the air from the edge of the hill where they were sitting, with a rather expansive view of the entire tiger territory below “Is this place much different than you imagined?” “Well…” Hunter looked down at the orange-leafed trees below, and the many tigers moving through the center of the pack, resuming their lives in full force now that they were safe “It’s certainly not the den of cruelty and arrogance that horror stories told me about when I was a kid.” He s