Shane made me lay down in his lap so that I didn’t see where we were driving. I didn’t see where we were going. The car ride is quiet except for when Shane talks to the other man in the back with us.
While my head is on Shane’s lap, I take a moment to study the man next to me. He’s got blonde hair and his blue eyes look anywhere but in my direction.
“Hmm.” Gem whispers.
The two in the front talk quietly together but I can’t hear much of their conversation. I do find out from Shane and the man’s discussion that the blonde man’s name is Liam.
The car comes to a stop and I realize we must have arrived. Shane tells me to sit up and when I do, I look around and what I see is an old building. It looks like an abandoned warehouse, I scan the horizon and feel disappointed when nothing looks familiar.
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**TRIGGER WARNING This chapter contains sexual assault and/or violence that may be triggering to survivors.** He removes his finger, and then the head of his thick cock is pressing against me. I can feel his head at my entrance and I try to move away from it, away from him. His strong hand comes crashing down on my free hand and pushes down. All of a sudden, I’m full. I cry out and still. Shane grips my hips and shoves the rest of the way into me. My body is wracked with pain, and despite my best efforts, I can’t get free. I know there’s no hope, I’m handcuffed to the table. “Fuck, that feels tight,” he groans. My legs shake and I close my eyes. He doesn’t give me a second to breathe before he pulls out of me and pushes into me. My body shoves forward on the table and he pulls out of me shoving me into the table again and again. Shane presses a hand to my back a
AdeaA banging on the door wakes me up. I try to blink the sleep from my eyes. I don’t have time to think over the dream I had. I don’t have time to see if Ethan is in bed with me or not. I jump out of bed, the sheets tighten around my legs, and I fall to the ground.When I get up, I unwrap the sheets from my legs as the knocking on the door intensifies. What the hell is going on? Who the hell is at our door? I grab a pair of shorts and throw one of Ethan’s t-shirts on before I head for the door.I reach for the handle and come face to face with a worried Gabe. His chest rises and falls quickly, his eyes look around the room before landing on me again.“Ady,” his eyes water before he grabs my hands. “Ady,” he chokes. My best friend crashes to his knees in front of me. He presses his head against my hands.“What’
**TRIGGER WARNING This chapter contains sexual assault and/or violence that may be triggering to survivors.** Olivia A cold splash of water wakes me with a shock. My eyes open and the first thing I see is Shane standing above me. I start to choke as a downpour covers my face. He’s holding an empty bucket over me with a smirk on his face. “You sick f-” before I can finish the bucket crashes with the side of my head and clatters to the floor. I’m too stunned to say anything and his hand smacks across my cheek slamming me against the steel table. A look of rage replaces the smirk and I feel my hair stand on end. “I don’t think,” a warm hand reaches out and grips my hair, “that you fully grasp the situation you are in.” Pulling my hair up, Shane’s eyes drift down my face to my lips, and I watch as his eyes dip lower. “You belong to me now,” he growls as he leans dow
**TRIGGER WARNING This chapter contains sexual assault and/or violence that may be triggering to survivors.** Pet The table screeches against the floor as his pace quickens and he pulls out of me and slams back into me relentlessly. I don’t know how long he’s been thrusting into me but I wish it would end. I wish it would just stop. Shane pulls out of me and I can hear his deep breathing. He takes a few deep breaths trying to calm himself. His hand comes down on my ass and I jerk forward and a cry leaves my lips. “You’re loving this as much as I am, aren’t you pet?” He murmurs as his cock slaps against my ass. I feel vile. “Grip the table pet, I’m going to take you hard and fast,” he orders. I grip the sides of the table and thank the Goddess that no one I know can see me like this. His hands are gone and he thrusts into me so hard I jerk against
AdeaBeta rushed through the doors and we both jumped up. A flood of relief swept through my body as I realized we weren’t alone in this anymore.“Luna, tell me what’s going on,” he asked. Despite his usual professional attire, I knew he was worried, frantic even.“It’s Olivia, she’s missing,” I tell him.“What do you mean?” Odis asks.“Olivia never came home last night,” Gabe tells him.“I’m guessing that Ethan couldn’t reach her because she wasn’t anywhere near the pack territory. I think she’s too far to link,” I tell him. “We’ve been trying to reach Ethan all morning.”Odis roars, his eyes flickering between him and his wolf. One of his h
**TRIGGER WARNING This chapter contains violence that may be triggering to survivors.** Adea Time stood still. At least, that’s what it seemed like. Days passed and we had no word, no sign of Olivia. Gabe was in so much pain I didn’t know what to do to make it better. There wasn’t much we could do. Beta Odis alerted a sect of human cops who he worked with from time to time on Olivia’s description. The packhouse had been full of excitement had gone quiet since Olivia disappeared. Some of the Delta’s dared to say she went on her own accord. There was no sign of a struggle or a fight and they took it as her choice. As if she was the type of person to walk away from her pack, from her family, from her mate. I shook the thought away. If I dwell too long on it I’d snap at someone. Odis, Gabe, and some of the warriors have been running longer loops around the pack lands in hopes of f
OdisTroy’s powerful paws slow to a stop at the top of a hill that looks over the territory. I search the surrounding area through his eyes in hopes of even a glimpse of her. The rain came down unforgivably as if the Goddess was working against us.I picked up the Deltas in the surrounding regions and felt reassured as I watched them make their way through the territory. Since she’s been gone it’s been hard trying not to curse the Moon Goddess for letting this happen.Something dark has been eating at my thoughts all day every day as I worked tirelessly to find her. I’d been out here since sunrise and I wouldn’t stop until I found her. When I found who took her I swore to the Goddess I would rip them apart. I’d torture them slowly, painfully, and feed them their entrails.Troy growled at the thought of finding them. We howl into the cold night sky as th
OdisThe door opens with a creak and I freeze and listen to see if there’s any noise in the house. Ethel, the sitter I’ve had working double time since Livdisappeared, has been putting Paul to sleep for me. She has been amazing and I need to give her a pay raise.I grab the towel by the door and dry my body off quietly. Despite the fact that Paul is still young, his ears are sharper than a few wolves I know. I grab a pair of black shorts from the top of my ‘for naked’ bin and swipe at the water dripping down the back of my neck.Looking up the stairway, the light in the hallway is on and I decide to make my way upstairs. The need to see Paul and make sure he’s okay pulls me to his room. His doorway has a bright red and blue Superman emblem and it’s cracked just an inch.I peer inside and see his small form laying in his green
The first month back at Desert Moon had been hard. Not a day went by without us fighting. Ethan rejected Mavy as his mate before we came home. A part of me knew he was hurt about it, missed her like I missed Shane. I felt like he was only with me because I was his Luna, because of obligation and duty. I didn’t know why he wanted to be with me. He didn’t know why I was with him when I loved Shane. We were at our lowest. We were ugly, we were at our rawest. It wasn’t until month two that we finally talked about everything. We talked bout what happened and we talked about the past. The one that I remembered and by this time, the one that he remembered. It was hard, facing the man I loved in this life and the man I hated in the past. He wasn’t him anymore, he hadn’t been him for a long time. We dug into the past and were completely honest with each other. He fell to his knees and apologized for what he’d done even though I told him it wasn’t him, that wasn’t him anymore. He asked me if I
Mavy fell back as if she’d been physically struck. She collapsed on the couch, her eyes watering. She didn’t look back at me, she kept her gaze focused on Ethan. I watched as her world crashed around her again for the second time in five minutes.“Where does that leave me?” Mavy asked. “I’m… your…” she shook her head and turned to look back at Ethan. “That’s not possible. I’m… I can smell it. I can feel it. Can’t you?” Mavy whispered. I heard the desperation in her voice.“I don’t care what you think or how you feel. I am already mated and my mate, my partner, my love, MY QUEEN sits in this room. Don’t disrespect her again.” The emotion in his voice caused me to choke up. Mavy bit into her lower lip and tears streamed down her cheeks. She dropped her head.“Yes, Alpha,” she said submissively.“I killed your Alpha,” Ethan said. “I’ve killed your brother.”“Yes,” she murmured.“Will you fight me on this?” Ethan asked.“As the next in line, I submit to you,” Mavy whispered.Ethan dismiss
The voices were getting louder, my head was hurting. I wanted to roll up into a ball and disappear from the world. Instead, I closed my eyes and tried to drown it all out, trying to ignore everyone. I wasn’t ready to deal with it.“She’s in shock…”“She’s confused…”“Enough!”A door slammed and footsteps paddled quickly towards me. Soft frail arms wrapped around me. Tears soaked my cheeks and my neck as Mavy cried. Did she know? She had to know.“Are you okay?” Mavy sobbed.I wrapped my arms around her and nodded. The tears started up again and streamed down my cheeks. Her t-shirt bunched in my fingers as I held her close. We cried and held each other.She inhaled deeply and froze. Slowly, she lifted her nose into the air and took another deep breath. Turning from me, she tried to follow the scent. She stopped, her gaze locked on someone, I turned and followed her gaze.I should have known, expected it but I’d been so caught up in my feelings that I didn’t think. I don’t know how it w
I didn’t have an answer for him and I don’t think he would have liked what I would have said. Hell, I didn’t know if I liked what I thought or how I felt. Instead of hurting him and cutting myself open for him, I didn’t say anything. I remained quiet. My world was crashing around me and my ears were ringing. I lowered my head and the tears flowed of their own volition.Ethan leaned down and I flinched as his arms wrapped around me. They were strong and broad. His embrace was warm and promised I could lean on him. I attempted to get to my feet only to fall. My face twisted from the pain and I wanted to cry and wallow in my own self-pity. Standing, he pulled me up and held me as my body gave up. I collapsed against him.I wanted to get to Shane, needed to. As if on cue, the weak mate bond snapped, and just like in my dream, it was gone. Only, this time, the pain I was feeling was because of Shane and not because of Ethan. The world was cold, the warmth I’d been able to feel from Shane f
Did what I do to him last night not bother him? I betrayed him. Did he not care that I came here to hurt him? Did he not care that I chose Ethan? I wanted to cry and scream. I wanted to run into his arms. I wanted this to stop. I wanted them to stop fighting. I wanted it all to stop. I screamed, it was painful and gut-wrenching but I screamed. I cursed the Goddess, damn her, she was useless in all of this. She sat up there above the clouds and did nothing to help us. Did she enjoy watching us suffer? When I couldn’t scream anymore, I inhaled deep breaths of air. I looked up and froze as Shane stared back at me. The way he looked at me told me he knew he was going to die. The look in his eye told me he knew he lost but for me, there was a small spark as if he wouldn’t just lay down and take it. I watched Ethan punch him. It was as if he was moving in slow motion. He hit his jaw and Shane’s head snapped back hard against the ground. Shane’s body tensed and he punched Ethan in the gut.
For a moment in time, they stood glaring at each other. The sun was blaring down on us. My gaze darted back and forth between the two. Shane’s eyes wandered away from Ethan and landed on me. “Look at me, mutt. You don’t get to look at her after what you’ve done,” Ethan spat. “I’m not so weak that you can look away from me in the middle of a fight.” “What have I done?” Shane taunted. “You’ve touched what’s mine,” Ethan growled. “I haven’t done anything other than touch what is mine. I haven’t done anything but make love to what is mine. I’ve claimed her. She may not wear my mark, thief but she is mine. Don’t claim her as yours. She was mine, she was always mine. She doesn’t belong to you, she never did.” A look came over Ethan’s face as if he knew as if this was confirmation as if he was reminded of something he’d forgotten. “You’re the one who touched someone who wasn’t yours. You are the one who took what was mine. Don’t try to play the victim. Don’t pretend to be something you’re
No.Not Odis.“Devin,” I gasped.Devin heard me but didn’t stop. He didn’t look up at me, didn’t even hesitate as he continued to stomp Odis into the ground. Blood spurt from Odis’ mouth and I think I heard his ribs crack. I took a step closer to stop it, to stop him. In a flash, someone was on top of Devin. Strong arms held Devin’s prisoner in a headlock and his legs wrapped around Devin’s abdomen.I wanted to scream but it quickly died in my throat as Odis and I realized the man in front of me was Gabe. Gabe. It was Gabe and he was on top of Devin. Well, he was wrapped around him like a python ready to suffocate his prey. Gabe grunted as he continued to squeeze Devin’s head, blocking his airflow.I wanted to cry out happily but I couldn’t. Gabe was here. Why was he here? He wasn’t supposed to be here. Things were going differently since he was alive. He was standing, breathing, his head was still attached to his body. Maybe things were turning out differently.Maybe Gabe was safe, ma
“Do you understand what I’m saying?” Odis asked. I couldn’t find the words to speak, so I nodded. “Good,” Odis said as his grip on me loosened. “Why don’t you let her go?” A voice called out to us. Looking up, I searched for the source of the voice. My eyes widened as I found Devin watching up. His gaze locked around Odis’ arms that were still wrapped around me to his hands that gripped my arms. “I promise I’m more fun,” Devin teased. I know what it looked like. It looked like I was being held back from moving. It looked like Odis was stopping me from helping Shane. It looked like I was stuck between two packs, two men. The situation I found myself in was precarious. I was now stuck between two Betas who were supposed to protect me, despite their conflicting thoughts regarding me. I hadn’t had much time with Devin since I’d been back. He hadn’t been the nicest, shit, I don’t think he even liked me. That didn’t change the fact that Devin was Beta of Half Moon pack. Shane was his
I didn’t have an answer and I prayed I didn’t have to make the choice. Not only had everyone stopped moving but it had gone deathly silent. For a moment, everyone and everything froze. There wasn’t a whisper of wind in the air, the trees stood still, and it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. It was the calm before the storm. It felt like someone had pushed the pause button and all at once the play button was pressed and all hell broke loose. As if planned, the two of them ran toward each other. I looked past Ethan and my gaze landed on Shane’s chest. The sword had been taken out, a gaping hole was left in its place right next to his heart. Now that it was gone, I could see I had barely missed his heart. If I’d been one inch to the right, he would have died. How had I missed that? I didn’t kill him. Was I not paying attention? Why hadn’t I looked at his heart? I had aimed, hadn’t I? Had I meant to miss it? No, I had meant it, or else I wouldn’t have stabbed him at all. I tried to