KEENA The scent of peppermint soothes me as I wake up, but I stretch my arms to the side and Ward isn't there. I am hugging his pillow and I know that he put it between my arms so I wouldn't know that he is missing. I let out a little huff of frustration as I get to my feet. I was hoping to spend some much needed alone time with him this morning. Looking down at myself I see that I am still in the light blue robes from the coven. I was so tired that I must have fallen asleep in them. Stripping the robes from my body and tossing them in the trash where they belong, I quickly put on my favorite pair of sweats and go looking for my mate. As I leave my bedroom, the smell of peppermint leads me straight to my father's office. I raise my hand to knock on the door but the sound of loud voices coming from within stops me. With my senses now heightened because of the appearance of my lycan, I don't even need to lean my head against the door to hear the conversation that is coming fr
KEENAI look up at Ward through my long dark eyelashes and I can tell that he is stunned. "Keena." My name is nothing more than a whisper on his lips. I fiddle with the buckle on his belt. Excitement is filling my chest and it is making it so I can barely breathe. My hands are shaking by the time I finally undo Ward's belt and I can tell that Ward is holding his breath. "I missed you," I say as I reach into his boxers and gently stroke his erection. "Keena," Ward whispers my name again. "I don't think that now is the time for this." In one swoop I pull Ward's pants and boxers down to his ankles. "I need you. I need you more now that I have ever needed you." Stroking his cock in my hand, I stick out my tongue and flick the tip. Ward groans loudly and falls backwards against the door behind him. With a small smirk on my lips I continue to run my tongue along his cock. Starting at the base, I run my tongue along his length several times while I look up at him. Ward
KEENA Using my new found speed and strength I flip Ward over on his back and pin him down beneath me. Straddling his waist I can feel his cock hardening under the moist lips of my pussy. Bracing my hands on Ward's chest I hold him steady as I run my wet folds up against the length of his erection. Grabbing my hips, Ward rocks my hips back and forth, pressing me down harder on him. "Fuck, Keena," he groans. "I'm not even in and you feel amazing." I can feel my swollen clit rubbing against his hardened length with each pass and I get more turned on by the minute. I can feel the familiar tightening in my core and I know that I am getting close to finding my release. I dig my fingernails into the skin of Ward's chest as I push myself closer and closer to the edge. Suddenly Ward sits up with me. He lifts me up and I feel his cock twitching at my entrance. Ward releases his hold on me and I sit myself down on his cock. Wrapping his arm around my waist, Ward helps to lif
KEENA Sweat is rolling down my back and my clothes are ripped to shreds. Every inch of my body is sore and it feels like I could collapse at any moment. Ward and my mother are both standing on the other side of the gym in the basement of the royal mansion. Both of them have their arms crossed over their chests with the same smirk spread across their faces. "Again," my mother yells from across the gym and I groan. "I can't." I pant out as loud as I can. "I am getting too tired." "You have two years of shifting to catch up on." Ward tries a gentler approach. "We just want you to be able to shift smoothly when the time comes." Closing my eyes, I let my lycan come forward again for the twentieth time today. My shift is becoming smoother, despite how tired my body is. The pain is less this time as white hair sprouts all over my body and my bones elongate and change. After a few short minutes I am standing in front of my mother and my mate as my lycan. "She truly is
WARD I watch Keena run up the stairs of the basement and pause at the door that leads to the dungeon cells. Her face drops as looks at the dungeon door. I know that she is worried about that little witch that we brought back with us. She needs something to take her mind off the things that she can't control. "She needs you right now." The Queen takes a few steps forward and places her hand on my shoulder. "I don't know what to do for her," I admit. Queen Ella lets out a sigh. "Keena has been sheltered her whole life. Her father and I have always made sure that she was safe and comfortable. Now her safe life has been turned on its end. There is a young girl in the dungeons because she put her there. She is having a hard time coping." Reaching out through the bond I try to feel what Keena is feeling but I am met with a wall. "She is blocking me out." I tell the Queen. "She is a lot like her father in that regard," Queen Ella says with a smile playing at the cor
KEENA I rush up the stairs and away from the dungeon. I feel my lycan itching beneath the surface of my skin, begging to be let out for a proper run. Unlike werewolves our lycans aren't a separate creature from ourselves. A werewolf's wolf has its own name and personality, but my lycan is me. A monstrous part of me. She rarely speaks to me in my mind. I usually only feel her emotions and wants and right now she wants to run. No, she needs to run. My clothes are already torn and tattered from training as I run out of the back door of the royal mansion. It has started to snow. Big fluffy snowflakes are falling from the sky all around me. Making a beeline for the trees, I allow my lycan to come forward as I run for the trees. I have been training so often and so hard that I can shift mid stride with little to no effort. Within a few strides I am once again in my lycan form. I think that is the quickest I have ever shifted. I wish Ward had been here to see it. The sno
KEENA Sylvia cracks her knuckles and an evil smirk spreads across her lips as she takes two steps towards me. Suddenly her limbs start to break and shift. She has shifted into a magnificent brown wolf. She growls at me as she takes several steps towards me and I react as quickly as I can. Conjuring the wind, I make the snow swirl in a vortex around her. Her wolf becomes confused and whines loudly. Taking a step through the wind, I can see her wolf looking every direction trying to find a way out of the spinning vortex. From outside of the wind I can hear the other witches begin to chant and I know that I only have moments before they join their magic together to defeat me. I may be strong enough to beat one witch alone but I am not sure about a whole group of them. Sylvia wolf cowers down on her hind legs and tucks her tail between her legs. Suddenly, I see Alpha Francis's lifeless body lying on the ground in front of me and my confidence wavers. The snow that is swirli
WARD I spare one last look at Sheila that is now laying lifeless on the floor of her cell and I run up the stairs. I burst through the door to the basement and run right up to the bedroom that I share with Keena. "Keena," I yell out loudly. There is no response. "Keena," I call out again in desperation. "Where are you?" The sirens around the royal mansion are blaring loudly and my mate isn't where she promised she would be. 'Princess. Where are you?' I call out through the mind link. 'Ward, I took my lycan for a run. I caught a scent. I think that Jarek is-" She is panting heavily through the mind link before it cuts out. 'Keena,' I scream through the link. Panic rises in my chest as I pace the bedroom. 'Princess, please answer me.' Running my fingers through my hair before I raise down the hallway. The King's office door is open but he is also nowhere to be seen. The fighting outside of the mansion is getting louder and I know that I need to get out there an