Roleplaying and drugs. You two sure do like to live on the edge.” I kept my mo th shu t. He seemed to believe me for now. My silence must have angered him because he grabbed my chin forcefully. Just when I was expecting him to strangle me to death, my phone rang. The quiet and terrifying atmosphere in the room was instantly broken. The man let go of my chin, and his weight on the bed was gone. He must have gotten up to get my phone. “It’s Beta Starke! He needs something from me. Let me answer!” The man’s hoarse voice suddenly became colder. “What’s wrong? Are you afraid he’ll find you in bed with another man?” “No!” I tried my best to control my panic. “Please. Let me answer. If I don’t, something bad will happen to my friend. I’ll do anything you want!” I begged shamelessly.What did I have to lose? I thought maybe he would untie me; I felt no movement on the bed. Instead, he answered the phone and put it on speaker. Before I could say anything, Roman’s loud, growling voice came yell
Roman nodded, then immediately made a phone call to ask his men to withdraw. Only then did I let out a full sigh of relief. I turned, picked up the drugged gla*s of wine, and handed it to Roman. “Roman, would you like to have a drink with me?” “Drink with you?” Roman raised an eyebrow. Now this…this isn’t what he had expected from the little spitfire human. Perhaps she’d come to her sense after all… He strode back over to her, leaning down to scent her hair above her ear. “Have you changed your mind? Are you willing to let me touch you?” She bristled, and her body stiffened. “Beta Starke, I’ve already told you I don’t want to sleep with you. Our deal was that I would get you the project and you wouldn’t have s ex with me. Are you going back on your word?” Ah, it was back to Beta Starke now. This woman was going to give him whiplash, her demeanor shifted so quickly.“Then why do you want me to drink with you?” “I wanted to thank you. After all, you let me go twice in a row. Not only di
As soon as Roman left, I heaved a sigh of relief. Until I heard the sound coming from the other room. Then I tensed up again. There was still one more person to deal with… I walked over to the bathroom door. As soon as I put my hand on the knob, the door opened. A large hand grabbed my wrist and pulled me in. The bathroom light was off, and only a faint yellow light shined through from beneath the door, allowing a glimpse of the tattoo on the man’s collarbone. I wanted to look closer, but he suddenly turned around and pressed me against the wall. God damm it, I was tired of men throwing me around tonight. He hugged me from behind and again secured my hands with a zip tie. Then, the blindfold was over my eyes again. Gah!!!!! Why did he tie me up again? I opened my mout h to speak, but he grabbed my chin roughly, his fingers pinching as he positioned me. A chill swept over me, and then his lips were on mine. Rough, hard, sensual…needy. The moment he kissed me, I lifted my bound hands up
Without the knife, I was even more helpless than before. I was out of options, out of energy, out of…everything. Sinking into a pile on the floor, I covered my face and burst into hiccupping sobs. “Don’t cry.” His voice was gruff and cold, and I couldn’t tell if he was trying to comfort me or trying to get me to stop because it annoyed him. It didn’t matter. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t stop. I lay there, weeping and trying to breathe through my sobs. The man let out a helpless sigh. He squatted down and touched my hair, running a hand through it. I ducked away from his touch. “I’ve been thinking about you for a long time, and I couldn’t help it. I’m sorry,” he said in a softer tone. Huh? He’d been thinking about me for a long time? He knew who I was… He’d pretended to be Roman and texted me.That meant he knew I was “involved” with Roman. And Roman had declared that I was his woman that evening at Nightshade. I wracked my brain to recall the men present that night. Men whose physi
This “Greyson” wouldn’t even show me his face, so it’s not like I expected him to enter his real name in. I lowered my head and was deep in thought when the man suddenly picked me up. I thought that he was going to do something ho rrific to me again, so I struggled desperately. Instead, he put me back on the bed, pulled up the quilt, and covered me with it. Then, he leaned over and said, “Have a good sleep. Don’t wait for Roman. He won’t come back.” I didn’t understand what he meant. “What do you mean?” He didn’t respond, just left quickly as if he had something urgent to deal with. As I watched him leave, I wished I could pounce on him and tear him apart. But I was so tired and weak that I couldn’t wait to fall asleep. I wished I had the stamina that someone like “Greyson” had. Even after all he put me through, thanks to his wolf nature, he didn’t even appear tired.Meanwhile, my weak human body was nothing but a betrayal on all fronts. Still, I forced myself to go sit on the sofa an
The man raised his chin, and the bodyguards behind Roman kicked at the backs of his knees and shins. Roman was caught off guard and fell to the ground. He was so angry to be so humiliatingly forced to kneel at someone’s feet that he didn’t care about anything else. He raised his head, gritted his teeth, and glared at the man in front of him. “How dare you treat me like this?” Roman started to stand back up, trying to keep the look of pain off his face; his finger wound was pure agony. “I will find out who you are, and I’ll kil Before Roman could finish his threat, the masked man had his knife out. Faster than Roman could blink, the man had sliced through his wrist tendons, leaving Roman’s hands dangling uselessly. The pain and shock was so fierce, Roman didn’t have time to process it before his m outh was slashed, followed by slashes on the tops of his thighs-clear down to the bone.The man didn’t even blink as he did all of this, his eyes shining cold and emotionless with his wolf. O
This morning, as soon as Damian and I left the house, the pack’s security guards stopped us. They said a group of men in black came to our house last night and stood at the door, guarding it. About half an hour later, they left. The security guards thought it was a little strange, but they figured it might be our relatives or something, since it was our mating night. He didn’t see a need to mention it until this morning. “But something felt off about it after I found out what happened, so I called you, but you didn’t answer. Then I remembered the strange people who came to the mating ceremony yesterday, and I was worried that something might have happened to you, so I rushed over here.” No wonder Harper and Damian hadn’t left yet. I probably would have delayed as well, though I felt terrible this was all because of me. “I’m so sorry, Harper. Yesterday, I had some trouble. There was a very important contract with Beta Starke, but I kept delaying giving it to him.So he got angry with m
Not get married?” Harper’s eyes widened. “I didn’t picture you for being an old cat lady.” “I was just joking.” Taya giggled. A giggle. That was good. Harper drew in a sigh of relief. She was probably just overreacting. Taya had always been the well-behaved and sensible one. Ever since they were little, Taya was the cautious one in their duo. She would never act recklessly, so there was nothing for Harper to worry about. After Harper and Taya chatted a bit more about the mating ceremony and the moonlight ritual, Damian came to pick Harper up. He had changed their flight to Malaysia to the evening, and Taya happened to be free, so she dropped them off at the airport. After telling Harper and Damian to have fun, I waved goodbye to them. After getting home, I went to the bathroom to wash up. My mind was a jumbled mess. It was very strange. Being touched by Roman made me feel disgusted. However, I didn’t feel disgusted when Greyson…did what he did.It wasn’t fully pleasurable, and he was