When I hear his voice in my head this time, it is different. It's a lot deeper and demands that one listens to it. "I am sorry, Yasmine..." "Who?? Why?""Did I hurt you?" "No, you sat right on the border of hurting me. You scared me more!" "Again I am sorry... Normally I can handle the full moon a lot better, but touching you, and loving you made me lose control a lot sooner than I should have... I am Morpheus... I am Zachariah's Lycan!" He then slowly steps back allowing my legs to slip from his hips and my feet back to the floor, he, however, growls low as the skirt of the dress gets caught on his hands and he gets a glimpse of the finger marks I have no doubt are on the skin of my hips. He then puts his hand on my cheek and whispers, "Yasmine, you said I didn't hurt you..." "It's okay..." "No! Yasmine, it isn't... How are you going to fully trust us if we hurt you?"I don't get to answer him as a wave of pain flows through me and I scream. Morpheus pulls me close once more
"Zachariah??""Yes, Yasmine, it is me... Tell me?"I turn and sob into his chest, "I was with Valentino again..."I stop and whisper, "He has one..."Zachariah moves slightly so that he can place his fingers under my chin, applying a little pressure to make me look up at him. He then says,"What? Who has what?""Valentino... He has a breeding camp...""How do you know?""My nightmare... It always starts when I am in labour with our little one. My hands are cuffed and chained to the bed, only allowing me enough room to move to give birth and then not escape what Valentino does to me after... I was talking to Jess..."He looks at me with surprise as he says,"Jess told you? She told you what happened?""Yes, she even said to you that she did. She told me as she turns 18 today and was scared that if she found her mate today, he would force the mark and then force her to have sex with him completing the mating... She wanted to know if you forced me..."He moved his hand to my cheek, "I ma
"As I said, you are going to make one hell of a Luna and I am proud to have you by my side..." I turn my attention back to the 2 in front of me, I then whisper,"Now, I know you are scared Jess, but I want you both to open your eyes when I tell you to..."Jess nods slightly as I then continue what I was saying, only I continue over my link with Raphael."Raph, when she opens them keep her eyes locked with yours along with your hand on her cheek, if you move slowly not breaking any contact you should be able to kiss her... But Raph, when it comes to marking her allow her to mark you first, it will give her the feeling that she is the one in control which is what she needs..."Raphael gives me a mental nod. I smile as I carefully move over and then stand. I then whisper,"Okay! Jess, Raph, open your eyes..."I step back and into Zachariah's arms, which he wraps around me, pulling me tight up against his chest as I watch both Jess and Raphael follow my instructions, opening their eyes.
I look up at him, fighting the tears that threaten to fall, as Henry brings my worst fear into the light. My fear that my panther was something that he could never get past and return to loving me. I don't take my attention off of the threat Henry is to us as I whisper through my link with Zachariah, "Is it true? Or is what we have been sharing over the past few days the truth?" He glances down at me, placing his hand on my cheek and whispering back, "What we share is the truth, Yasmine! You are my everything. I know I have been a real jerk over the past few weeks and I intend to make it up to you." He then looks back at Henry, saying, "Neither you nor Val would know how to cherish a real female." I don't miss Zachariah's smirk as Henry growls low at the insult. He however recovers and returns to taunting Zachariah by addressing me. "How about you show me your wolf? Is she as beautiful and graceful as your white panther?" Zachariah growls again and takes a step toward him. He s
I fight the heaviness in my head. As I hear loud voices not far from me, I fight and open my eyes to see 2 dark figures just outside the doorway."You said I could keep her...""That was before she became one of them...""So, what! Conrad, she is still mine...""No! I have other plans for her now... I have a meeting set up in a couple of days...""A meeting? A meeting for what? You taught me that we needed to kill them and kill them all... Why did you take these ones? Why not kill them? Why let me take her and then not let me keep her?""I said you could keep her, but that was before I found out that she is no longer human... Besides, I have something else planned for them... And it has been much more profitable than just killing them... Not every kill has a bounty or reward attached to it, so I needed another way to make some money to pay for all my expenses. Nothing is free."I move slightly and can't stop the low groan that leaves my lips, one of the figures stops pacing and looks
The next time I wake I am back in the bed, I look around and notice that I am still in the same room, don't know what that male decided to do but I quickly jump out of the bed and run to the bathroom and empty the nothing that is in my stomach. Once my dry reaching stops, I go to get to my feet when suddenly everything disappears. I stir as someone picks me up and carries me somewhere, but I can't hold on and end up back in the darkness. The next time I manage to reach the surface, I can hear two voices, a male and a female,"What happened? What's wrong with her?" "There is nothing wrong with her, she is extremely dehydrated and malnourished... Whoever you bought her from wasn't really looking after her, it's like as long as she was breathing that's all that mattered..." "So she just needs some rest, water and food? How long before she can fight?" "She can't fight..." "Why? You said, give her some food and water and she will be fine..." "Yes, she will, but she still can't fight.
I then hear a whole heap of footsteps leaving and getting further and further away. I then hear one more set of footsteps, but this set is heading for me. I struggle against the cuffs that are still on my wrists as the footsteps stop in front of me. I jump as he grabs whatever is over my eyes and pulls it off as he says, "It is good to see you awake, sweetheart. Alpha will be pleased to hear that you have finally rejoined us. I guess that last lot of sedative I gave you was a little strong. It knocked you out for three days." I blink my eyes fast, trying to bring everything around me into focus as I say,"W... Wh... Why am I here?" "I would have thought that was obvious... The Alpha has taken a shine to you and not just because you are Zachariah's mate or are now carrying his pup... But the fact that you wouldn't break and tell him what he wanted to know no matter what he did to you in that cell... I have a feeling that he might want to change the claim Zachariah has on you to his
When I wake the next morning, I have 2 arms wrapped tightly around me. I relaxed a little, thinking that I am back with Zachariah, but I start to struggle when I don't feel the tingles and sparks I always feel at his touch. I then hear him whisper in my ear,"Relax my little shifter, I will not hurt you unless you make me... Now just lay still and enjoy the comfort I am offering while we wait for the healer to get here..."I struggle against him, but this only makes him growl low and threatening as he tightens his arms. Even more, the blanket that is covering us isn't helping, either. He growls again as I snap,"Let me go... I didn't let him touch me last night. What makes you think that I will let him touch me today?""NO! I need him to have a look at you and to tell me what extra you will need after what they have subjected you to over the last 4 weeks... I will not say it often but I will say it now... Please, allow him to look you over?"I don't want him touching me as images of h
>YASMINE“So this is what it feels like to die… I thought it would have hurt more…” “But we aren’t truly dead, are we?” Zelda asks. “Yes, but No… We are in the in-between. The nothingness between life and death.” Lorelei answers. “So, how long we here for?” I ask, looking around at the endless darkness around us. “We are being held to our body through the power of the ancient dagger. So as long as nothing has happened to Zachariah, then we will return to our body once he removes the dagger and Summer performs the resurrection ritual...” “What happens if something has happened to Zachariah and he can’t remove the dagger and someone else does?” Zelda asks, getting more worried. “I don’t know and I hope that we never find out…” Lorelei says, finally not having the answer. “You have nothing to worry about, my daughter. Everything is as it should be. You can and will return to your loved ones soon.” I turn in the dark and just manage to spot the blue glow as it fades into the dar
The Final Battle Continues... She was off limits; she was the Masters; she was Kastrath's. The general forced the lower Demon back to their world as he landed and then took his place lying over the beautiful female that will be his Queen. Yasmine struggles against the new Demon but stops rather quickly as she feels the difference between the Demon that was just holding her to the one that is now. She looks into his bright red eyes and he seems to smirk at her before leaning down and running his double-forked tongue over her skin. Yasmine shivers in disgust and starts struggling again as the general leans down and pushes his rough, demonic voice into her head, “You, my dear female, are lucky that you are already claimed for if you weren't your life from now on, would be a nightmare for you, however; pure hell for me…” Yasmine tenses as she is then hit by her gift opening and entering into the Demon on
The Final Battle Continues…Zachariah wakes slowly, tightening his arms and only finding air. he reaches his hand out to be met with cold sheets. He sits up and looks around. He smiles to himself when he sees the light on in the bathroom and hears the shower running.Zachariah slips out of bed and walks over to the bathroom with every intention of joining his mate. However, the scene in front of him as he enters has him bewildered.He moves quickly, stepping into the shower and crouching in front of her, first grabbing her hands, stopping her from doing any more damage to her skin. Then he places one hand on her cheek as he scans her body, assessing the damage, stopping at the two bites he can see on the top swell of both breasts.He lets out a low growl, bringing her eyes to his. Zachariah doesn't get to say or do anything as Yasmine's resolve breaks completely and she jumps at him, whimpering."I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I coul
The Final Battle Begins!THIRD PERSON… Kastrath paces in his castle's realm. He had watched Young Yasmine live and grow. He had been watching the panther shifter bloodline and had known who and what she was from the moment she was born and had been watching over her ever since.Kastrath watched as she grew into a headstrong, fiery female that would make him proud and would be worthy of standing next to him as his Queen.He had known the moment Queen Margaret and King Jason had summoned him, that deep into the future they would provide something he had been looking for…Something that he had been searching for a millennium.Now he knew that he had to wait until after her mate had changed her first, forthe real her to be released. However, Kastrath hadn't taken into account just how powerful the Moon Goddesses' mate bond would be between them o
I struggle against his hold, trying to push him away from me until he tightens his arms around me and whispers in a low tone,“Now, now, my Queen. I am only here to congratulate you and to remind you that you can avoid all the bloodshed to come if you will just say yes and come with me now…”Even with the anger and conviction in my voice, as I say,“Never…”He just laughs, then moves one of his hands to my cheek as he takes a deep breath and says,“Mmm… So much fire… Just a few more weeks, my Queen and you will be mine.”He then holds me tighter against him as he presses his lips to mine before disappearing into his tentacles of grey smoke, leaving me to collapse to my knees as the smoke disappears. Zachariah runs over to where I am and helps me back to my feet as he whispers,“What happened? One minute you were there dancing in my arms, the next you were gone
I then place a soft kiss on his forehead as he steps back and into Summer's arms. She gets to her feet and bows before her and the others disappear and enter the throne room from another door. I stand up straight and take a deep breath before giving a slight nod to the two warriors that are once again standing guard at the doors.I hear the music as the doors open stop and the Royal announcement chimes ring out I take a step and enter the room and freeze just inside the door, I still hate being the centre of attention as everyone steps aside and bows, revealing a very handsome Zachariah standing in the middle of the room wearing a traditional Royal black tux. He smiles at me and opens our private link,“Yasmine, look at me and only at me. Remember…” With his voice in my head, I smile as a quick flash of the last time we did something like this and he had asked me in front of the whole pack to be his. I walk slowly toward him
I feel the bed dip and then feel his fingers lightly touch under my chin. He applies a little pressure, making me lift my head and look at him. Tears sting my eyes and one seems to escape. He then moves his hand to my cheek and wipes away the tear as he whispers,“It’s okay… Yasmine, it is a natural response. We didn’t get to spend the time we should have with them once they were born. So your protective instincts to do with them will be heightened for a little while.”I then snap my eyes to the door once more as there is a knock. Zachariah gives me a kiss on the cheek and then gets off the bed. As he leaves the room, he says,“Relax, I’ve got this. You lay down with our pups.”He closes the doors behind him and I do as he says and I lie down, wrapping my arms around my pups. I take a deep breath of their scents and then drift off into an exhausted sleep.**Dream** I look like a
As Zachariah talks to Jasper and the other Alpha, I walk up to Mary and give her a hug. When she pulls back, she steps to the side. With her arm around my waist, she says, “Yasmine, I would like to introduce you to Alpha Isaac's mates, Leah and Nyla.” “It’s nice to meet you both.” They both bow and then I think it's Nyla who steps a little closer and places her hand on mine as she whispers, “I am glad that Alpha Zachariah found you. He deserves to be happy, because if it wasn’t for him, then I wouldn’t have met my mate or found my sister…” I feel as all her walls drop and she opens herself up, and just as Darius said I can’t control it as my power flows from me into her and I see everything that was her life, I can’t stop the tears that fill my eyes and then slide down my cheeks at all the suffering she went through at the hands of Valentino. As with Alpha Clive, Zachariah seems to be standing behind me when my power returns to me and I sway on my feet. Zachariah wraps his arms a
I look around the room at the pack that is in the room casting its vote. Most of them have stopped and are looking at me and Zachariah. Zachariah follows my gaze as it passes over the room. He smiles, turns so that he is now facing the room and says,“If you will excuse us, but family is calling. Please continue to cast your votes.”When he turns back to me, I look at him with wide eyes and whisper, shocked,“But don’t we have to be here for this?”“Technically, yes, but we haven’t seen much of Darius since we have been here, and I can feel that being with him is what you need, so that is what we will do. We can count and look at the votes tomorrow.”Then, without another word, he steps up to me, grabs me around the waist, throws me over his shoulder and then walks out of the throne room. I lift my head just as he steps out of the doors to see Alpha Clive with a smirk on his face before he turns his attention back to his pack and the voting going on around him. True to his word, Zach