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The Alpha's Warlock Take Me Home
Chapter 19 Take Me HomeMy mistake, it turned out, was forgetting to put silence wards on Matthew’s phone — or to just, you know, silence it.I woke to buzzing, and then Matthew cursing, and then a heartfelt, “Fuck.” The buzzing stopped. “Yeah, Kimball. What?”Colin, then. I’d been stretched out on my stomach, and I rolled over and peered up at Matthew. My limbs felt leaden. However long we’d slept, it hadn’t been nearly enough. He looked more or less refreshed, though. Fucking alphas.I closed my eyes again. Fucking Matthew, fucking Colin. Fucking annoying alphas the both of them. They could deal with each other without my help, since they were apparently able to function without sleep.Until Matthew said, “Yeah, I can ask him and have him call you back. He’s still here, yeah.”Oh, gods. Ugh. That meant me.My eyes popped open again. What did he mean by he’s still here, anyway? Was that a problem or something?And now there was no way I was going back to sleep. I rolled out of bed
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Cute Little Tufty Ears
Chapter 20 Cute Little Tufty EarsHome was an idea that took a while to really register with me.Yeah, Matthew and I fucked every night. And yeah, I got some of Ian’s fancy shampoo and put it in Matthew’s bathroom — our bathroom. My bathroom, almost, considering how much time I spent showering, something Matthew smiled at but never teased me about.He always got to knot me on nights when I spent an hour in the shower without him saying a single fucking word about it.The Armitage pack was wary at first, but I knew they’d started to accept me when the pups were allowed to run through the house without their parents watching warily, brushing past me as carelessly as they did everyone else. The pack didn’t have that many kids in it, but there was a small gang of pre-teens who liked to shift and wrestle around out back, and a few toddlers who sprouted tiny claws and fuzzy tails when they were startled. I wasn’t a pack animal, but these kids were well cared for and obviously well loved,
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Epilogue : I Know
Epilogue I KnowTwo months laterThe lights of Lancaster were fading in my rearview mirror, and I pressed down on the gas until the pedal hit the floor. Ian’s car surged, growling like an alpha, eating up the miles between me and the Armitage territory.No, between me and home. I’d been gone for a whole week, even though it was only supposed to be three days. A fledgling pack with only six members was getting established right over the Oregon border, and they’d called Matthew and formally requested the services of his pack shaman for their wards and a few charms to repel a particularly aggressive little band of gnomes who lived nearby. They were tired of having all their cutlery stolen in the middle of the night.I’d accepted the job, because even though they were only starting out they had cash money, something our pack always needed. I’d kissed Matthew goodbye — and then he’d kissed me goodbye at much greater length, bending me backwards over Ian’s car with a hand fisted in my hai
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Ian
Mismatched Mates #2.5A Very Armitage Christmas Chapter 1 Ian“A little help?” Nate said irritably, turning to glare at me over his shoulder. “All those alpha muscles ought to be good for something!”He startled me out of my fugue, and I blinked at my red-faced mate, who was sweating even though the temperature had dropped to near-freezing and the air smelled like snow. Nate had needed to bend over really, really far to load the trunk of Matt’s Prius. And then wriggle around. A lot. With his ass in the air, waving back and forth hypnotically. I hadn’t even noticed he’d been struggling to shut the trunk and cursing under his breath until he brought me back to the present and I rewound the last couple minutes in my head. I’d been too focused on how someone so thin could have such a round ass.Magic? Nate used magic. Would he use magic on his own ass? Would he let me watch?“Your fault for not wanting to bring a real car,” I said, trying to distract him from the bulge in the front of m
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Arik
Chapter 2 ArikThe cold didn’t bother me, even with my breath pluming the frigid air, but waiting on Nate to move his lazy ass definitely, definitely did.Especially when I wasn’t sure what might be coming out of the forest at any moment. And Matthew had a pack council meeting, but that wouldn’t last forever…for once, I hoped they droned on and on for another hour or two. If Nate and I could sort this out before Matthew stepped outside and noticed something was up, that’d make my life so, so much easier.I glanced up at the moon. Yep, still just a sliver hanging high in the sky, with wisps of cloud starting to obscure what little light it gave. Still the perfect phase for necromancy, which flourished in the death of the old moon and the rebirth of the new, a magical tipping point for the delicate work of crossing the line between life, death, and undeath.A line I hadn’t meant to cross tonight. I mean, it was December twenty-third. I wasn’t much for the family holiday bullshit, but
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Matthew
Chapter 3 MatthewSearching the woods for zombies shouldn’t have been a good time, but it beat the hell out of sitting in yet another fucking meeting. Just one more reminder of how Ian always got to have all the fun, the bastard. He was so lucky I’d been born first and groomed for this bullshit instead of him.I shouldn’t have been thinking of it as fun, of course. Pack leaders didn’t get to have fun, and they didn’t think zombies were a nice change of pace from listening to ancient, cranky Stephen — who’d already been old as dirt when he sat on my dad’s council — drone on and on about how we needed to put more effort into making a profit off the junkyard we owned. And pack leaders definitely didn’t whoop with satisfaction as they swung a machete at exactly the right angle and speed to send a zombie’s head flying like the world’s grossest golf ball.I might’ve grinned, though, since no one could see. If Ian had been there, maybe I’d have whooped a little, since he wouldn’t have give
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Ian
Chapter 4 IanWaking up to Nate nearly always made me happy.Waking up to Nate shouting, “Oh, fucking shit, there’s more of them,” after a night full of killing zombies in the woods?Not so much.I popped out of bed like I’d been electrocuted. Usually I woke up first, but apparently Nate had gotten up to piss or something; the sky outside the windows was still pitch-black. Nate had plastered himself to the bigger window near the front door, and he turned to me with his hair all ruffled from sleep, pillow creases on his cheek, and a look of abject horror on his face.I peered out the window. The deep shadows of trees across the clearing, faint moonlight reflecting from snow…and four shambling bodies, in a state of advanced decay, leaving churned-up, messy snow trails in their wake.One of them had left a skeletal hand too, it looked like.Fucking gross.“Where the fuck are they coming from?” Nate hissed. “We killed them all, right?”I shot him a glance. “We?”Nate huffed and puffed f
Last Updated : 2024-10-30The Alpha's Warlock Nate
Chapter 5 Nate“Okay, so this is why I hate necromancy.” I dropped my rake and desperately tried to scratch my nose with the side of my arm. Fuck. I couldn’t touch my face, not after touching…everything I’d just touched. Even with gardening gloves, I felt tainted. “I mean, I could make a long, long list of everything I hate about necromancy. The stench, and the body parts, and the body parts that smell incredibly fucking bad, and did I mention —”“Yes, you mentioned,” Arik snapped, pausing in raking up bits of bone to glare at me. “More than once. Every fucking second we’ve been out here working, in fact.”He hadn’t even tried to get out of clean-up duty, maybe — for once — realizing he’d acted like a little shit and needed to make up for it. The bigger, stronger members of the pack had loaded the bodies up, taking a few trips with several old pick-up trucks to ferry them back to the cemetery they’d crawled out of. They were still working on that, leaving me and Arik to scoop up the
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The Alpha's Warlock This Won’t Go On
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