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Chapter 24 Being Mated Isn’t All Bad“A love spell? Are you fucking with me right now? What do you mean it’s fucking permanent?” Ian was shouting again. He’d been shouting pretty much since we got to the pack house, first at the council, then at Matthew, and now at Dor, who’d called half an hour before and said he had a few pieces of information for us.Like the fact that Matthew had been under a powerful, insidious love spell for the last few months.Cast by the shaman we currently had in custody in the pack house’s basement, where he was wrapped in a pile of magic-dampening chains courtesy of Dor’s secret stash. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to see Dor’s collection of objets, or was fucking terrified.Maybe a little bit aroused.My inappropriate reactions aside, Ian and Dor — thankfully minus Charlie, who was off dealing with his injured vamps, because Charlie was exactly what Ian’s blood pressure didn’t need — were facing off down the hall from Matthew’s bedroom. Matthew was also loc
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Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Let Me Out
Chapter 2 Let Me OutCold. Black. The rattle of chains when I shift my position, never relieving the ache in my muscles and bones. I can’t stretch my arms out all the way, and my elbows are starting to seize up. Alone, and I can’t scream. My throat’s too dry.How long? Can’t remember. Can hardly remember the feel of air, or sunlight, what the stars look like. Trying to count imaginary stars only lasts so long. So cold, so cold. My throat’s so dry I can’t swallow.My eyes popped open. The contrast between the pitch-blackness of my nightmare and the gloomy blur of the basement made me wince, and I squeezed my eyes shut and sat gasping against the couch, drenched in sweat. Inside myself, I flailed, trying to reach my magic, but it was gone, still gone, out of reach, and I felt so empty and hollow…Something creaked — the door at the top of the stairs. I’d been straining my ears for — how long? I didn’t know. Searching for any sound at all, and sometimes catching distant voices or the m
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Chapter 3 Crazy for Loving YouThe rest of the pack house was exactly what I would have expected from seeing the basement: infested with dust bunnies and poorly maintained. We passed through a large living room on our way up from the basement, where three younger werewolves were lounging on the couch, playing some kind of outdated video game. They all glanced up as Ian and Nate led me through, and they sneered, but they didn’t say anything. I could hear other voices in the house, though, maybe coming from what I thought had to be the kitchen around the corner. I could smell food from that direction. The smell turned my stomach and made me ache with hunger all at once.The whole scene made me shudder. So many werewolves in one place…ugh. I wasn’t a pack animal, and the mingled scents and close quarters were just disgusting.We went up the stairs, along a gross mint-green hallway that looked like it belonged in a cut-rate mental institution, and right up to a closed door with peeling
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Near But Not So Dear
Chapter 4 Near But Not So DearMatthew shoved the remains of the door out of his way and stood framed in the gap, his shoulders filling it from side to side. Yeah, maybe he wasn’t quite as big as his brother, or the hulking beast who was guarding the bedroom door. But he was tall, and broad, and an alpha; he had sixty pounds and five inches on me at the least.And he was looking at me like I was his next meal. His eyes glowed, and his canines had lengthened.Ready to pierce my flesh and make me his, whether I wanted it or not.“Matthew,” I said, trying for calm, even though my body quivered with the force of my rapid heartbeat. “Matthew, don’t. You don’t want to mate with me. I’d be a terrible mate. You hate me. Remember? I don’t cook and I don’t submit and I don’t —”I broke off, all my other undesirable traits fleeing my mind and the words withering on my dry tongue as he stepped forward, slowly and deliberately. It was so much worse than if he’d rushed me. Another step, and now h
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock You Don’t Know Me at All
Chapter 5 You Don’t Know Me at AllMy nose twitched, picking up the smell of ham, and Nate fled my mind. Ham. Actual meat. I rolled away from Matthew, nothing in my head but the need to go and eat everything in sight, and I yelped as a muscular arm wrapped around my middle and yanked me back onto the bed.“Touching, remember?” Matthew said gruffly, his voice coming from way too close to my ear. He pressed up behind me, his chest against my back, a wall of heat and strength.“I can get the tray,” I gasped. “I’ll bring it back. Just let me at the sandwiches before I eat you.”He laughed, and I felt it more than heard it. “I wouldn’t say no. I’d rather do it the other way around, though.”Oh, and that — that put images in my head. Lots of them. Vivid ones, starting with Matthew pinning my hips and sucking my cock down his throat, and rapidly moving on to me on my hands and knees with my ass in the air, and Matthew busy with his lips and tongue between my cheeks.“Sandwiches,” I said as
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Two Mates too Many
Chapter 6 Two Mates too ManyBeing in the same room with Matthew, Ian, Nate, and two members of the pack council wasn’t my idea of a good time. The fact that I was sitting on Matthew’s lap made it so much worse.My hands were clammy, and I had a twitch in the muscle next to my nose. Matthew was warm and solid. I wanted to hate it.None of that compared to knowing that Parker had found me, was coming for me, and would be here to take me within the next fifty minutes or so. If I had my manacles off, I’d kill him.As it was, I had to depend on the Armitage pack to protect me, and that was a losing proposition in more ways than I could count.We were arranged around the pack house’s large battered dining-room table, in mismatched chairs that looked like thrift store rejects. Matthew’s chair, at the head of the table, was the largest — which meant it only creaked a little under our combined weight. Ian sat at our right, with Nate beside him, and the two members of the council took the ot
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Enemies New and Old
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