I then made a choice. Malik could keep the throne, as I only needed her. So I was taking her home, which is exactly what I told Raphael as I walked out of the room with Yasmine in my arms. I don't miss the relieved smile on his lips as I walk past him. When we got back to the room, I didn't really care about if I was royalty or not, but Yasmine seemed to think that I did. So even though it wouldn't change my mind, I allow her to put it around my neck, truthfully I was a little surprised when it did in fact glow bright blue and gold. As soon as she had put the King's pendant around my neck, I noticed the shift in the Alpha power within me. After she removed it and I put it in my bag, all I could think of was giving her the pleasure she should be enjoying and showing her that the effect she had on me drives me crazy. After a wonderful night showing Yasmine how she affected me and then her sharing her nightmare with me, I knew she had been having one, but she would never talk to me abou
I can't believe that she got me back. It was definitely something I wasn't expecting from her and then she let me guide her for a little while before I had to take control and have her screaming for me. I still didn't want to bring Yasmine to this pack, but I had no choice and Raphael was right. Alpha Arlo will want compensation for me not showing up when it was arranged for me to do so, and I know what his request will be as soon as he sees Yasmine. When we get there, I warn her not to eat anything, as whatever he gives her will be drugged in some way, making her easier to take advantage of. When she mentions the pup she is carrying, I smile at her, pulling her in tight to my side; I place my lips against her temple in the disguise of a kiss so that she doesn’t see the anger in my eyes. I still don’t believe it is mine. Even as I say, “I’m sorry that I accused you of having sex with another… I am glad I made it there in time to stop you…” I still don’t really believe she didn't and
As soon as we get to and enter Alpha Jasper's LightMoon territory, I relax, knowing we are safe here, and I can finally spend some uninterrupted time getting to know my fiery warrior. I send 95% of my best-trained guards here as it is a rescue pack, one that takes in anyone that needs help after being removed from one of the illegal camps, villages or packs I find and raid and no one else can take them, as they need just that little bit more. When we pull up in front of the packhouse, we are met by Jasper and his mate, Mary. Yasmine is so tired that she doesn't even stir when I get out of the SUV with her in my arms. They both smile at me. I stop briefly in front of Jasper, as he smiles, “Welcome, Alpha Zachariah…” “Thank you, Jasper…” I look down at the sleeping female in my arms and then look back up at him, saying, “It has been a long trip. Do you mind if we start our meeting in the morning?” He chuckles, “Zachariah my friend, we can leave all the politics and everything for as
I can tell he wants to ask why, but doesn’t. Instead, he says,"She will be like most that have just gone through the change? Or coming of age. She will be scared." Before I can answer him, I hear her sweet, soft voice in my head,“Zachariah? Where are you?” I smile as I answer her, “Good afternoon Yasmine, I am in the Alpha's office. Was there something you needed?”“Why didn’t you wake me? I would have helped…”“Yasmine, your sleep was so restless overnight that when you had finally seemed to be getting some peaceful sleep, I didn’t want to disturb you! I am nearly finished here. This pack is safe, so why don’t you go and do some exploring? You will like the training area here…” “Okay, I will see you in a bit, then?” “Yes, I will come and find you when I am done.” I then cut the link to Yasmine and focus back on Jasper’s question, "Yes. I am expecting her to be terrified, but she will face it like she does everything else, with her amazing fire…"He looks at me in confusion, b
She surprises me once again, making a loud moan and growl leave my lips as she takes me into her mouth. My body responds within seconds as she slides her mouth up and down over me. I lay back and allow the pleasure to flood me, knowing that she is enjoying this just as much as I am. As I get close to my release, I grab the back of her neck and pull her up. As I give her a kiss, I growl,“My turn!” I smile as she lets out a slight scream of surprise as I turn us over. I know what she is expecting with how I turned us, but instead, I trail kisses down her body, allowing mine to settle just a little. I frown as I reach her abdomen and find a really dark bruise there from her fight yesterday. I look up at her and into her eyes. I can see that it hurts, but she doesn’t want me to stop, so I go back to kissing, making sure that my lips are light over that portion of her skin.I hold my breath as I move slowly down further on her abdomen and I let my hearing expand. I don’t know why, but I
I raise my voice just a little so that I am heard over all their laughing, “Tate?” He is one of the slightly older pups playing with the younger ones “Yeah, what is it?” He says without turning, “Can I speak with you, please?…” “Sure.” He then stops running passing the ball to someone else, he then makes his way over to where I am standing, stopping in front of me laughing until he looks up and realizes who called him over, his eyes then went wide, and his mouth dropped open and he then seems to be lost for words. It takes him a moment to pull himself together before he then bows slightly and says, “Alpha… What can I do for you?” “This little one said that no one will play with her…” “Sasha?” She shies away from him a little, we both crouch down and I move her just a little so that she is facing both of us, “Sasha, did you want to play?” She shyly nods her head and Tate smiles, “Come on little one, let's go play…” Tate stands and holds out his hand. She, however, pulls on
I straighten and say, “Very good, Jack. Now there is the occasional time where you will get someone smaller than you trying to choke you from behind, not the only problem with this is for the one doing the choking as they then have to be on your back so, therefore their feet are not on the ground giving them stability. In this case, Jack, did you want to come behind me and do what I did to you?”He nods and moves quickly, moving behind me and then up onto my back with his arm around my throat. I smile inwardly, knowing that he would be liking this, as it isn’t often that one such as he would get to learn from an Alpha like me. I continue my lesson.“Right, now as you can see he may have a good hold on my throat but he isn’t touching the ground so for one like me, I just need to place one hand on the arm around my throat and then reach the other over my head grabbing him either by the back of the head or shoulder and then I just throw him forward and over my head. If that doesn’t work,
For werewolves and Lycans, our first shift is normally done on their 18th birthday or for ones like me, Raphael, and Zaire. We went through ours on our 15th birthdays. This shift is the most painful, especially for one that has been changed and was not born, if one does not have their mate by their side to see them through it. I watched Raphael and Zaire got through theirs on their own with only my father and their parents there to help them through it. Mine… Well, mine was even worse, as I am an Alpha.With being Lycans, our shifts are slightly different from normal werewolves, as we have 2 forms. When we come of age, we shift into our Lycan-wolves, on our birthdays, and then on the first full moon, we shift into our Lycan-wolf's form and then into our Lycan form, and then we shift back into our Lycan-wolf's form.I keep my distance and hear the last of their conversation,“You are still terrified, aren’t you?” I watch as Yasmine nods. She hates admitting when she is scared. That muc
>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