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The Alpha's Warlock A United Front
Chapter 8 A United Front“Explain yourself,” my father said heavily. “I understood that you were too unwell to deign to go to the office yesterday. And now we find you capering around the house with…someone like this.”Ah. So it wasn’t only Dimitri coming in and out of the gate that’d triggered this parental “concern.” My day off had rung some alarm bells, apparently.I opened my mouth, even though my mind was spinning like a hamster in a creaky wheel and I had no fucking clue what to say, but Dimitri got there before me. “It’s traditional to spend some time alone with your new mate, and I decided to humor Brook when he wanted the day off.” Humor me? The fuck? “Maybe you should explain why you came in without waiting for us to open the door. You’re lucky a little capering is all you walked in on.”My head went light and floaty, spots swimming in my vision. We should’ve been at my parents’ place by appointment, dressed perfectly, a cool and collected power couple making our announcem
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock The Best Defense
Chapter 9 The Best DefenseThe glass and concrete front of Castelli Industries’ main campus shone blindingly bright in the morning sun, which had risen about the same time I did. By the time I pulled into my assigned parking spot right in front, it’d gotten high enough to light the building up like a beacon.Only a couple of other cars scattered the lot: my father’s, of course, in its very special parking spot even closer to the entrance than the handicapped spaces—possibly illegal, but no one said anything—and also a couple of others farther back, belonging to security guards and janitors.Dimitri had seen me off, much to my surprise. His absurdly rumpled bedhead, ferocious scowl, and slitted eyes had confirmed my impression of him as not much of a morning person. But he’d started the coffee machine while I took a shower, grunted something that sounded encouraging as he handed me a cup, and hadn’t killed me.Overall, not the worst way to be sent off at the crack of dawn to a meetin
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock If Not, No Worries
Chapter 10 If Not, No WorriesThe door shut behind us, and Dimitri and I practically ran for it, speed-walking down the brick pathway leading from my parents’ porch to the sidewalk. We’d managed to get out before Jerry and his wife, thus dodging any kind of tense conversation alone with my parents; Jerry had opportunely told my father they needed a word alone about some board politics. I could have kissed him.“Oh, my God,” I gasped, as we rounded the corner of the hedge and escaped. My heart pounded away, giddy relief throwing it, and me, into a tizzy. “We got out alive. I can’t fucking believe it.”Dimitri grinned down at me, finally looking like himself as he did. He’d put on such a good show. Un-fucking-believably good. He’d slicked his hair back and worn one of the suits I’d picked out for him, a dark blue that brought out the little flecks of green in his gray eyes. Jerry, unbeknownst to me, had studied Russian literature as an undergrad, something he mentioned after I’d intro
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Come Here
Chapter 11 Come HereAfter a decent night’s sleep—more than decent, really, I slept better than I had in months or maybe years—I was able to shake off whatever maudlin, self-pitying bullshit I’d allowed myself to wallow in the night before, the result of too much anxiety and adrenaline. Dimitri had knocked Jerry’s socks off. My father wouldn’t be able to force us to break the bond now that we had that old martinet’s approval. Mates were for life, after all.I’d have to deal with that later, when Dimitri and I did eventually break the bond after I got my position as CEO. But Jerry had to be pushing seventy. He’d have to retire at some point, dammit. We’d make it work.As I poured my coffee, I found myself actually whistling. It promised to be a beautiful sunny day, and that lifted my spirits even though I’d be spending most of it locked up in a conference room with my sales team.Fuck it, maybe I’d shift and go for a run after work. Maybe Dimitri would want to join me, and we could c
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Twice Is a Coincidence
Chapter 12 Twice Is a CoincidenceAfter that first day in the office, Dimitri and I settled into a routine. We left for work together three or four days a week, with him staying home and doing his own thing the other days. On weekends I stuck to my usual system: wake up early, go for a run, and work from home.He told me my life sucked, but he didn’t try to stop me. And occasionally he’d even join me for the runs, both of us shifting into our wolf forms and racing through the woods until we were panting and exhausted. I liked those mornings. Company without any expectation of conversation soothed me after full weeks of nothing but talking, negotiating, telling people what to do.Dimitri had kicked ass in that first meeting, doing exactly what I’d asked of him and pulling it off flawlessly. No passive-aggressive emails with my stolen ideas. No arguing.Although the fact that it’d worked, that my colleagues listened to him when they wouldn’t to me simply because his dick had a knot…we
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock No Rules
Chapter 13 No RulesDimitri thumped up the stairs a minute after I’d settled myself on the bed to let the last of the dampness from the shower evaporate and scroll through the emails that’d come in since I left the office.Again, not cheating. If guys could recite baseball statistics while they fucked in order to hold off an orgasm, surely I could use the sales team’s complaints about their commission structure to get myself not in the mood.The half-open door creaked as he pushed it wide. I glanced up in time to catch him tilting his head, scenting the air.“You jerked off in the shower,” he said. “That’s cheating.”Dammit.But I wasn’t going to let him throw me off my game. “There’s no cheating if there weren’t any rules,” I said loftily.That earned me a slowly-growing smile that became a terrifyingly predatory grin as he advanced on the bed. He moved slowly, too, enough that it made me want to scream. Dimitri’s shirt came off, whipped over his head and tossed carelessly aside, a
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Family
Chapter 14 FamilyDimitri went to work with me the next day, imposing in his sharp suit and towering over me as he followed me into my first meeting, a presentation to the board about my strategy for my department.Having him at my back felt…not comforting, because I was a professional, and I didn’t need to be comforted at work. Emotions weren’t my primary mode there. But it did give me the confidence you could only really get from having someone, well, at your back. Supporting you in anything you did, and making sure you knew that no matter what, there was at least one person in the room who wouldn’t dismiss you.When had I started counting on Dimitri to be there to support me rather than being annoyed that I needed him in the first place?Maybe around the same time I’d started looking forward to coming home from work on those days he didn’t go with me, knowing that my house wouldn’t be cold and empty and lonely, with nothing to eat and no one to talk to and no reason to do anythin
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Ready and Waiting
Chapter 15 Ready and WaitingI woke up when the sun had already gone most of the way down—late, in other words, because tomorrow would be the summer solstice, and the sun didn’t set until nine-thirty or so. Dimitri had half-carried me into the house and tucked me into bed, stripping me down to my boxers gently but efficiently.If I’d had any doubts about his level of attraction to me, that would’ve settled them. He didn’t linger and he didn’t ogle. There were no unnecessary touches.Luckily, I was too out of it to get hard from him undressing me—and I had to admit I probably would have under other circumstances, no matter how perfunctory he was about it.Sitting up in bed didn’t take much effort, my muscles responding without any unpleasant surprises and my vision staying as clear as it ever did. When I fumbled my glasses off the nightstand and put them on, I could see just fine.Apparently the potential seizure had been headed off at the pass.I almost wished it hadn’t, because the
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The Alpha's Warlock Epilogue :You Don’t Want a Choice
EpilogueYou Don’t Want a Choice“Mr. Castelli,” Laura said, and smiled warmly. “Go right in. He’s never too busy for you.”“You know it’s Blake.” She shook her head, laughed, and went back to typing.I hadn’t yet given up on trying to convince Declan’s assistant that I didn’t deserve any particular formality; after nearly four months of trying, though, I’d started to fear it was hopeless.I set the double latte I’d grabbed on my way at the edge of her desk—if she insisted on calling me Mr. Castelli, I’d at least make sure she said it with affection—and stepped into Declan’s office.He glanced up from his laptop and then immediately back down again, which I knew meant “I’ll forget what I was typing if I don’t do it right now.” At first that’d hurt my feelings. Shades of being treated like an unwelcome and disliked inconvenience at Castelli Industries, of so many times I’d been called on the carpet in my father’s office only to be ignored until he deigned to notice me. But I knew it w
The Alpha's Warlock A Lucky Man
Chapter 21A Lucky ManIf I’d really tried, I might’ve been able to look at a calendar and count how many times Declan had laid me out on his bed, naked and waiting for him to take what he wanted.But I didn’t need to count to know that it’d never been like this.He settled me on my back, head carefully placed on a pillow, kneeling between my legs and leaning down to stroke a hand through my hair and down my cheek, coming to rest across my throat. Instead of a threat, it felt like safety.All right, a little bit of a threat.But that only had my cock perking up, getting harder every second that he pinned me down, glowing eyes fixed on my face with an intensity that would’ve had any sane man running away screaming.Or spreading his legs.I went with option two, letting my knees fall open to give him full access, my arms relaxed at my sides. Touching him—I wanted to, and I would. But right now I knew what he needed from me, and that was complete surrender, allowing him to re-stake his
The Alpha's Warlock Ten Years Ago
Chapter 20Ten Years AgoNo matter how many times I’d daydreamed about Declan kissing me, the reality far outstripped the fantasy—and how often could you say that about anything? His mouth took control of mine the same way his body had taken control of me so many times, opening me and tasting me and laying me bare for him to use however he wanted.Which happened to be what I wanted too, so badly that I ached for it. His tongue teased between my lips and twined with mine as his arms tightened, gathering me so close that not a millimeter of space was left in between us.Declan kissed me until I couldn’t breathe, my lungs hot and laboring. All the pain and fear of the last few hours melted away, a much better and more natural kind of magic than the ones I’d experienced so far tonight.I pressed against him, kissing him back with everything I had, trying to spread my legs and wrap myself around him and take him into me so that he’d never leave.Declan tore his mouth away and lifted his h
The Alpha's Warlock My Life Mattered
Chapter 19My Life MatteredWhen I woke up, the SUV was moving—but I couldn’t shift so much as a muscle. My head had gotten crammed against the door and my neck ached like a bitch. My arms lay limp, one dangling to the floor of the car and the other on my leg. I tried to twitch a finger.No go.I couldn’t open my eyes, either, or speak. My autonomous functions weren’t affected, though: I could still hyperventilate. Lucky me.Kidnapped. I’d been fucking kidnapped, and the first thing Declan would do would be call me. No doubt they’d gotten rid of my phone. Then he’d look for me. He wouldn’t find me. And then he’d probably request—and be allowed, professional courtesy and all that—to review the security footage of me leaving the party and the path I’d followed from there.For a brief, shining instant, I almost felt relieved. Declan would look for me, he’d see the video and know—despair squeezed my chest into a tight ball.He’d see me looking nervous and running out of the building as i
The Alpha's Warlock This Won’t Go On
Chapter 18This Won’t Go OnDeclan hustled me out the door the second I emerged from the bathroom, ushering me downstairs and into a waiting limo. A nice one: black, not too stretched, no neon lights or anything tacky, nothing I’d have to be embarrassed about riding in.I tried to focus on how good it felt to be wearing decent clothes, going somewhere in a respectable vehicle, and for fuck’s sake, actually leaving the Morrigan and going somewhere, rather than on being in an enclosed space with Declan and our combined scents of sex and alpha desire.If I focused on that, I’d end up begging him to knot me in the car after all.The limo pulled out of the Morrigan’s driveway and into traffic on the Strip. It was Friday night stop and go. Maybe we had time for a fuck after all?“Where are we going? Am I allowed to ask?”“Not far,” he said, putting paid to my hopes. “A few blocks. If I’d been going with Wa—colleagues I probably would’ve walked. I thought you might appreciate going in style
The Alpha's Warlock I Missed Your Voice
Chapter 17I Missed Your VoiceSince I’d never slept in Declan’s bed before, I woke up confused, disoriented, and with a mouth that tasted like someone had murdered a particularly sandy desert and buried its corpse under my tongue.Well, that last part didn’t have anything to do with Declan’s bed, to be fair.I rolled over and groaned, throwing an arm across my eyes to keep the sunlight out, because someone had left the blinds wide fucking open when he got up and went to work.I knew I’d be fine once I had a couple of glasses of water and a bite to eat; hangovers weren’t really that much of a thing for werewolves without serious effort involving multiple illicit substances, and I hadn’t been to a party that good in like, six months. But seriously. Close the damn blinds. Fuck.It crossed my mind to find my phone, make some coffee, and send him a text complaining about the window.And then I sat bolt upright, head in my hands, and let out another groan.I’d slept in his bed. We hadn’t
The Alpha's Warlock Kind of Endearing
Chapter 16Kind of EndearingI woke up the next day just after eight o’clock, early by my previous standards but late by the standards of the company I kept these days. The cold coffee pot, holding only a few teaspoons of dregs, told me that Declan had been up and gone for hours. The usual hundred dollar bill sat beside it.That felt a little bit like I’d been slapped. I’d sat there and worked on that stupid spreadsheet for three full hours the day before without even getting up for a glass of water. I’d only stopped when Declan stood, put on his jacket, and told me it was quitting time.But apparently he assumed I’d be right back to blackjack and vodka today.Well, fuck him.I made a fresh pot of coffee, ordered some room service—an omelet, because I knew if I had any carbs at all I’d fall asleep with my face in the keyboard—and dressed in the closest thing I had to what the other people I’d seen in the offices had been wearing, black slacks and a blue button-down. I couldn’t wear a
The Alpha's Warlock Try Me
Chapter 15Try MeLetting it all go seemed easy at first.I’d spent so many years showing—and allowing myself to feel—only the most surface of emotions: anger, entitlement, arrogance. Under the circumstances, I chose to temporarily trade those in for indifference, apathy, and resignation, but it was just as fake and just as likely to keep people from looking any deeper.My family hadn’t looked any deeper. Neither had Declan. Clearly, no one wanted to.And it worked. When I didn’t try to fight back, didn’t bother arguing or demanding answers, Declan didn’t go out of his way to humiliate or torment me aside from the rough, careless way he used me. He texted me at some point during the day to let me know when he wanted me available to be fucked, I awaited him obediently, and he fucked me. Sometimes he put me on my knees instead, or in addition to. I opened my mouth or spread my legs, and I moaned and cried out when he made me come, but I didn’t talk more than I absolutely had to.I took
The Alpha's Warlock What’s Worse?
Chapter 14What’s Worse?Declan’s knot hadn’t gone down at all by the time I blinked my eyes open and slowly came back to reality, lying on my side with Declan wrapped around me from behind. The bite he’d left on my neck throbbed in time with my heartbeat. I could feel his, too, syncing with mine and vibrating through my back.And I felt safe again, which made me want to throw up and then run away screaming.Well, he’d already made me scream. Running away was out. And it’d suck to throw up all over the bed and be stuck here.Unfortunately, that left me with nothing to do but lie there enclosed in his arms listening to his steady breaths in my ear, savoring the heat of his body and the softness of the bed.Ugh. Savoring. I really was, and it made me swallow hard against a wave of real nausea.But it suddenly occurred to me that maybe Declan felt something similar. Pheromones. Hormones. Borderline mating-magic. I couldn’t be the only one completely at their mercy, could I? He might not
