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The Alpha's Warlock A New Direction
Chapter 7 A New DirectionThe night went by without any sign of trouble, either from Dr. Asshole Greenwald, my family, my students, or Colin, and the morning started quietly.It should’ve been a relief, but instead it felt like that moment in a horror movie when someone with an axe was about to jump out of the closet, only extended for hours. I knew I needed to find a way to put my parents’ and Fiona’s minds at ease, at the very least. I might be on the precipice of losing my career and livelihood, and Colin might be in danger of getting reported to the FBI and losing his reputation, but the photos had looked like more of a threat than they actually were, where Fiona was concerned.Maybe I could find a way to convince them it was some kind of prank…no, probably not, but it beat the truth. I’d need to figure it out later.While I was mulling that over, Meredith shot to the top of my Christmas list with one simple text.I taught 102 five years ago for three semesters in a row. I’ll ta
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Who Else?
Chapter 8 Who Else?Now that Colin knew I was working for Greenwald, I didn’t have to hide any of my books or keep my thoughts to myself. He still grumbled, but he’d accepted—for the moment—that trying to come up with something to give the asshole to get him off our backs was the best option.So when we’d gotten home and scarfed our giant sub sandwiches, I spread all the books out on the table and got back to work. I made notes while Colin stepped outside and called his pack council; I hunted down references while he flopped on the couch and read the news.The wind had picked up outside, and my apartment windows were all a little drafty. Every now and then a gust slipped through the cracks, making all the pages of my many open books lift and rustle in counterpoint to the knocking of branches against the kitchen window and the low whoo of the wind whistling around the corner of the apartment building. Late-afternoon sunlight highlighted the gold lettering on the spines of some of the
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock The Worst Possible Person for This
Chapter 9 The Worst Possible Person for ThisThe slamming of my car door sounded incredibly loud in the peaceful quiet of the forest. We’d driven southwest out of town a little ways and parked at a trailhead, somewhere that had across-the-board one-star reviews online for being poorly maintained, isolated, fraught with sliding rocks and crumbling cliffs, and inconvenient.Perfect for us, in other words.Colin leaned his arms on the roof of the Cadillac and looked across at me. “Are you sure about this, Newt?”The late-afternoon sunlight struck little glints of gold and peachy-pink in his sandy hair, which had tufts poking up in all directions; he had a massive case of hat-head, having just removed his cap and tossed it in the car.He definitively did not look like the type of dangerous, sinister predator that would cause my body chemistry to go haywire and start frantically combing through its genome looking for creative means of escape. Honestly, I was trying to hide a grin.This p
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Consequences
Chapter 10 ConsequencesMy hangover had mostly faded by the time we got to the location we’d chosen for our second experiment.I still hated Colin a little bit for being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (figuratively…I hadn’t asked him to shift so I could check) the minute we woke up, but he’d bought me a triple mocha with extra whipped cream on the way, so he’d earned my forgiveness for metabolizing bourbon so much faster than I could.This time, we’d chosen to go somewhere that wasn’t even officially a hiking trail, just a chunk of wilderness that could only be accessed by parking along the side of a mostly-abandoned highway.We took a minute propped against the hood of the car to finish our coffee and make sure we had a solid plan.His plan, anyway. Solid was up for debate, but I had to admit it sounded more likely to work than yesterday’s fiasco.Either way, it was definitely a better day for feeling creeped out than it had been the previous afternoon. The sun had disappeared behind
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock We Need to Push This Experiment to the Next Level
Chapter 11 We Need to Push This Experiment to the Next LevelWe were halfway home before I’d settled down enough to think straight.Thinking about what had happened was the last thing I wanted to do, but I didn’t have much choice; every time I closed my eyes, I saw Colin, naked and half-shifted and erect, poised over me like he meant to…I couldn’t go there.So instead of thinking like Newton, I pulled out the notebook and pen I’d stashed in my backpack and tried to think like Dr. McEwen, geneticist and logical man of science.“Jesus, dude,” Colin said. “Seriously? If I tried to write in the car I’d be puking all over the place.”“Less talking, more driving,” I muttered, and turned to a new page.Colin huffed a laugh and shut up, thank the gods. We’d only exchanged a couple of words since we got in the car, mostly me offering him a granola bar and him refusing, and I wanted to keep that streak going. I needed a little space to order my thoughts.And stop thinking about his cock.I ha
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock I’m In
Chapter 12 I’m InColin’s phone went to voicemail six times before I gave up, and he didn’t even read my texts.I stayed up until one in the morning, lightheaded from exhaustion and too much beer on an empty stomach, and sick with worry and guilt and self-recrimination. I’d pushed him too hard, on something he didn’t want to do at all for about ten different reasons.Losing my best friend over experimental sex would’ve been awful—though I truly hadn’t ever thought it would come to that. Intimacy was intimacy, and we’d laughed off all kinds of weird shit over the past seventeen years.But losing my best friend over not even having experimental sex? That seemed like…the worst of all possible worlds.I finally crashed out, unable to bear sitting there and staring at the dark screen of my silent phone.Something woke me some indeterminate time later, and I flailed up in a panic, tangling myself in my blankets and whacking something solid with my arm.“It’s me,” Colin said, and I subside
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock For Science!
Chapter 13 For Science!The day before, I’d been thinking it’d be difficult to get myself frightened and stressed enough to have a suitably hormone-inducing reaction. After all, day one of the experiment hadn’t done more than annoy me and get a lot of dirt in my hair.Unfortunately, it was the same today.I should’ve been freaked out. The rinsing-out and the self-lubing and the safeword conversation had been more than enough to rub in the reality of what we were about to do.But none of it mattered. The sticky underwear, the knowledge that I’d have Colin fucking me within an hour or two…now that I was here, with my phlebotomy kit in my backpack and the prospect of real results, I couldn’t bring myself to care. If anything, I was hoping I’d be able to focus enough on the visceral parts of the experiment to get a reaction that’d be worth it, instead of my mind wandering to all the lab work I couldn’t wait to start later that evening.Besides, this was Colin, and I hated myself for dou
Last Updated : 2024-10-31The Alpha's Warlock Out of Context
Chapter 14 Out of ContextHe looked both shockingly familiar and totally different and new. Like the two Colins I’d seen on the way out here, the one whose face I knew as well as my own and the stranger who was about to fuck me, had merged, and I was seeing him in a way I’d never seen him before. He was himself, with the same dark brown eyes and messy light-brown hair, strong jaw and long nose and all the other features I could’ve traced from memory.But he was also…pure alpha, with his heavy cock and balls hanging between his thighs as he crouched next to me, and the glow still lingering in his eyes—all powerful muscle and tense strength. He was the alpha whose knot had stretched me open, whose semen was dripping out of me onto my jacket.I wanted to focus on his face, but my eyes kept returning to his cock.Even mostly soft it looked big. I licked my lips and looked back up to find Colin’s eyes fixed on my mouth, and starting to glow more brightly again. Gods, maybe I should be ta
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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
