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The Alpha's Warlock You’ll Never Be Hurt
Chapter 6 You’ll Never Be HurtAfter a couple of years of wiping down in a tiny sink and occasionally being allowed to stand under a cold spray for a few minutes, watched by colder-eyed guards, the vacation house’s criminally-acquired shower felt like…well, heaven, and not reality at all.Even with those awful little seashells on the shower curtain. Hell, after ten minutes of hot water flowing in luxurious, unthinkable quantities through my hair and down my back and around my legs, I could’ve kissed the fucking seashells. And whoever had hung the shower curtain. And whoever had built the shower.I’d set the phone down, stood up, and gone straight to the bathroom, ignoring Calder’s glare and mentally telling the rest of the world to fuck off.I needed some space.I needed some time.I needed to feel clean for the first time in years, washing off whatever residue was left of my prison and also the knowledge that Calder had already washed me.More than anything, I needed to have a litt
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Chapter 7 That Isn’t How Mating WorksI thought I’d found a safe haven, with the door shut behind me and that stupid curtain drawn, but no sooner had I relaxed a little, the hot water running down over my ass and thighs and mingling enough with his come that I couldn’t feel it anymore, than the bathroom door opened and closed.A moment later, Calder drew the curtain aside and crowded into the shower with me. I wasn’t a small man, and the addition of his massive bulk to the little space made it as claustrophobic as a clown car.Gods, he was tall. Towering over me, just like I towered over half of humanity. He’d have had to bend his knees and duck to get under the showerhead.Not that I was giving him the chance. My shower. My hot water. He could stand there and freeze.Although with his alpha shifter metabolism, he might be warmer than the water on his own. My front felt as warm as my back, anyway, once he stood in front of me, mere inches separating us.I looked up at him, wary and
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock I Buried Him Myself
Chapter 8 I Buried Him MyselfCalder woke me at the crack of dawn, a hand over my mouth and his massive body looming over me in the near-darkness. “They’re here,” he said quietly. “Not close enough to hear us talking at a normal volume, but close enough to maybe hear if you made some noise.”My heart jumped into an instant gallop, my chest tightening, a wave of nausea rising up.Ian. They were here. My cousin, my family…I was going to see them again. Now that it was imminent, I could hardly believe it. What if they hated me, which I richly deserved? What if they satisfied themselves that this wasn’t some kind of trick, and then…just left again?Fuck. But Calder was tilting his head at me, raising his eyebrows.I nodded behind his hand, and he pulled it away, apparently satisfied I’d keep quiet.“We don’t need to be careful of them,” I said, propping myself up on my elbows and trying to get my brain jump-started. I’d never been a morning person. Even a jolt of overwhelming adrenaline
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock A Second Chance
Chapter 9 A Second ChanceI didn’t leave anything out. Maybe I should have. Maybe it would’ve let me keep a little of my pride to skip over the fact that I couldn’t shift anymore, or that I’d given up hope, or that I hadn’t resisted what Hawthorne and his people had done to me in stoic silence, or with dry, cutting, sophisticated commentary à la James Bond.And maybe it was more than a little petty of me, that I took a horrid, vengeful pleasure in watching Ian’s eyes widen and his fists clench, claws extending even though he was clearly trying to keep them under control. To see Matt grow grimmer and grimmer, his shoulders so rigid they were like boulders. To see Nate turn away, swiping under his eyes to try to brush off the tears.I didn’t want their pity; it made me sick. But their guilt, their remorse? I really wanted that, so much that it made me even sicker.Maybe I wasn’t Jared—their Jared. I felt like I was, and I wanted to scream at them that I was, that they were wrong. Inst
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock A Place Here
Chapter 10 A Place HereCalder nudged me awake as we passed the Laceyville: Population 19,229 sign, and I blinked as it whipped by. Well, went by at a normal pace, really, since Matt had taken the wheel when we left and hadn’t relinquished it since. Ian and Arik, strangely, had been allied in their vociferous complaints about that, with phrases like ‘drives like my grandma’ thrown around.Even more strangely, I’d been the deciding vote.“I doubt this van even goes over a hundred, Ian,” I’d cut in, when Nate started to get involved in the argument too—standing right next to Matt and backing him up, of all things. “So why would you even want to drive it? Besides, I’d rather not start puking again.”Ian had shot me a death glare that warmed me all the way down to my toes, since it was exactly the way he’d used to look at me when we all squabbled and I didn’t take his side immediately.Anyway, he’d given in, mumbling a couple more insults about Matt’s Prius, Arik had made a bid for the
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Didn’t Prove a Goddamn Thing
Chapter 11 Didn’t Prove a Goddamn ThingHe’d said he’d fuck me.So naturally, that’s what I expected him to do. I lay still, thinking any second I’d feel the harsh burn of his huge cock stretching me open.Instead he moved down, shouldering my thighs open so that I had my ass tipped up in the air and my knees spread wide like I was presenting myself to be mounted. He pressed his face between my cheeks, stubble brushing over the sensitive inner curves.I let out a yelp, and he chuckled.Right against my hole, his hot breath tickling over that delicate skin.Fuck, and now I was thinking of myself as delicate. Or at least that part of myself.I wasn’t, and he needed to get the fuck out of my head.For a few long moments, he just breathed on me, hot and soft and making me squirm. And then his tongue flicked out, drawing little circles. Clockwise. Counterclockwise. Tracing my hole, getting it wet. Heating my skin. Big hands massaged my thighs, working my muscles into jelly. Christ, that
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock I Wasn’t Dead
Chapter 12 I Wasn’t DeadWerewolves’ casual disregard for nudity notwithstanding, I did not need anyone seeing me naked and dripping with Calder’s come right at that moment, so I jumped out of bed like I’d been electrocuted and started yanking on some of the clothes Ian had left for me. “Just a minute!”“Sure,” came through the door. Arik. That didn’t surprise me. The footsteps hadn’t been heavy enough for Ian, and Nate or Matt would’ve announced themselves, since Matt was thoughtful and Nate couldn’t shut up ever. I hadn’t been able to figure it out by scent. They’d all been in and out of the room too many times for me to pick out who stood at the door.And anyway, the room reeked of sex and pheromones. That muddied everything. Arik was going to get a treat when I opened the door; he could probably already scent it from the hallway.I opened the window before I crossed the room to let him in, for all the good it’d do.Arik’s nose wrinkled as I pulled the door open. “Huh,” was all h
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Who Needs a Spleen, Anyway?
Chapter 13 Who Needs a Spleen, Anyway?“Yep, definitely a missing spleen,” Arik said with—in my opinion, anyway—unnecessary satisfaction, taking his hands off of my bare torso and sitting back on his heels. “I think he took half your liver, too. That grew back,” he added in response to my look of horror.“Is the spleen growing back too?” Nate asked, from his perch on a mossy log a few feet away from where I lay on the damp earth getting chillier by the second.We’d come out to the woods to do Arik’s ‘examination,’ because he claimed the trees would help. That sounded nuts to me, but Nate hadn’t argued—and Nate argued with everything.Arik turned and shot Nate a condescending, disgusted look down his nose. “Do you even know what a spleen is?”“It’s an organ that—does—it’s important to—of course I know what it does!”“No, you don’t. You don’t know what it is, where it is, or anything about it. I don’t know how a warlock can be so ignorant of basic anat—”“You’re the healer, not me!” N
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