The door slammed shut and I face-planted into a pillow when he threw me down on the bed in the center of the room. I didn't know whose room we were in but the smell of sex and sweat made me think it had been used not too long ago. The urge to gag was strong but my fear of the man in front of me was
He let me go, unwillingly his hand released me and I steadied myself against the bed.The stake slowly pulled back and exited his throat and Edison fell to his knees. Our eyes locked while the life slowly vanished in his eyes and he landed forward facing on the floor. He was watching me as though pa
I longingly gazed down the hallway and begged for that sweet escape. Darian was talking to his brother and kept me standing in the same spot for a good five minutes.The only thing I was missing was a leash and collar around my neck that he could pull on whenever his power-hungry menace felt like it
The room was spinning around me and I couldn't get out of my head.His eyes started glowing, a beautiful golden-brown hue with a deceiving calm luring behind them.Trixy stepped back, she was scared and the pressure from the Lycan was driving her into submission without a single word uttered to make
I kicked and screamed, my voice was louder than it had ever been and filled the halls of the palace with an echo that would wake the dead but not one sound left my lips.My palms burned from my nails digging into my skin and I jabbed the air aiming for his sculpted face. He watched me. I watched him
Something sharp was puncturing the first layer of skin on my inner thigh and I gasped when the pain flooded my senses.“Darian,” I quivered.I lifted my head to look at him and saw his sharp fangs extended. “Darian please,” I trembled.He lifted his head, and we locked eyes long enough for me to se
One beat. Two beats. Three beats. I heard my heart beating in my ears, quieting all other sounds- not that there were many. Like a horse race I saw on TV once, the humans loved those, I remember them in the stalls before the doors opened, the signal broke out and the horses took off running like th
Maybe it didn't last long or maybe it rarely happened but she was surely taking advantage of it. Abby cast a soft gaze onto the bed and I felt the blood rushing to my face, heating my skin where the tears had left a cold dry trace. She scanned me for a second before she turned back to Darian.“Be
“Why?” He sucked on his teeth and looked around the fight starting again.“I can’t say, but you can figure it out.” He grabbed my shoulders and gave me a light shake. “Figure it out, Hazel, and everyone will walk away from this,” he searched my eyes desperately, but his riddles were lost on me.“Yo
“Well it’s a shame that your future Queen chooses her own life over her people, of course enticed by her King to do so I’m certain,” the Elder’s voice scraped my ears like thorns when I walked out. He lifted his hand about to give another grand speech when his eyes rounded and landed on me. “Well,
It was impossible not to listen to the grunts and the last screams of a person before they fell dead. The bloodshed was already massive and the healers were running around to tend to all those who had been hurt.We had volunteers outside bringing in the wounded and the bodies of the dead ones were l
One hour passed and I was having an inner dialogue about how fucked up this situation was. I couldn’t be a mother to one child let alone three. Three. Triplets. Not just any triplets but triplet Lycan’s. And the doctor's snide remark about sexual intercourse…pfft. I knew how to get pregnant I just n
HAZEL’S POVNora was sitting on the chair beside the bed reading a magazine and Lauren stood in position by the door. Though I don’t think it’s to keep any threats from entering, it’s to keep me from leaving. I was lying in the hospital bed, staring at the ceiling and wondering what the hell was wro
I was in my office, the lights were off, and the door was closed as I poured myself a drink of crystal-clear vodka. The glass trembled in my hand when I raised it to my lips and downed every last drop. My mind railed around all things Hazel: how she was feeling, why she fell and screamed in pain, an
Nora burst through the bedroom door as I was changing and Lauren moved over the floor before either of us could fathom that she was even up from the couch. She stood in front of Nora and sighed.“It’s just you,” she said and stepped back.“Thanks?” Nora shook her head and hurried over to me.“I hear
Darian carried me to the shower and washed me off before he put me in bed and covered me. He placed a kiss on my head and mumbled something but I was too exhausted to hear him and my eyes closed before I could fathom what was happening.I opened my eyes and looked around but where was I? I didn’t re
“Choose a safe word.” He ordered.“Ruby.” I just said the first thing that came to mind. “On your knees.” He said and with one swift pull, the towel was gone and landed on the floor behind the couch.I looked up at him, the carpet was soft under my knees.“Show me your tongue,” he slid his thumb a