When I wake, I am wrapped tightly within Zachariah’s arms and he has nothing on other than his boxers, allowing my hands to slide effortlessly over the skin and muscles of his chest. I smile as I feel and then hear the low rumble of his growl as he slowly wakes. He tightens his arms, pulling me closer as I look up and into his now-open eyes.
I then lift my head as much as I can and look around. However, I don’t see who I am looking for. I let my head fall back to my pillow, which happens to be his arm, and whisper,
“Where is Darius?”
“I put him to bed not long after you fell asleep on me.”
I smile, “So that is why my hands are touching bare skin instead of the t-shirt you were wearing before.”
“Yeah, well, when I returned you seemed to be in one of your nightmares again and I climbed in wearing my clothes. You tried to hit me, so I stripped. I allowed you to feel my skin and the tingles and spar
I look over at Zachariah and then back at the slightly older lady, a little confused as I ask, “I understand that Summer was meant to be a powerful Witch but still why take her so young?” “Everyone knew who she was and who her mother was and with a little of her witch power already surfacing, I knew she was special, hence the protection circle around our coven. However, what I didn’t realise back then but when I felt her come of age, I knew. She was her father's daughter…” “What do you mean, her father's daughter?” “Her father was one of Werewolf Royal blood, which, of course, didn’t show itself until she came of age. This made her a Witch-Werewolf hybrid…” “But wouldn’t her wolf be more at the front than the witch?” Zachariah asks, “Normally yes, but as you know, even a normal werewolf doesn’t really get their wolf until they are between the age of 13 and 18, making it possible for the witch's magic inside her to grow before the age of 13. Now the other thing that made her even
** Dream cont’ Zachariah gets to his feet and then helps me to mine. With his hand still in mine, we turn and face everyone within the room. We bow as Rania yells, “LONG LIVE KING ZACHARIAH AND QUEEN YASMINE!” “LONG LIVE KING ZACHARIAH!" “LONG LIVE QUEEN YASMINE!” Echoes throughout the room and into the night as everyone raises their voices cheering for their new Royals. Once the cheering dies down, the music starts and Zachariah leads me down and into the middle of the room. He smiles and bows before pulling me into him and then whisking me around the room as we dance. I laugh as we continue to dance, and then suddenly the sky outside goes dark as the lights in the throne room dim. I watch as that dark grey cloud starts turning on the floor and then slowly rises until that handsome male walks out of it once more. He smirks as Zachariah steps in front of me and growls. However, he just lifts his hand, lifting Zachariah into the air at the same time as he says, “Now,
“I love you too. However, I’m not much of a warrior at the moment.” He chuckles, “Yasmine, you are carrying three of my pups in this beautiful body of yours, so it is my duty to protect you and them at this time. You don’t need to be that warrior at the moment…” Tears fill my eyes at his words and then slide down my cheeks. Zachariah reaches up his hands, sliding them on my cheeks, wiping the tears with his thumbs and continues, “I know you hate feeling as vulnerable as you do right now, as you have always been a fighter, and that is one thing I love about you. I will not treat you like a girly girl, but at the moment, I will treat you as a female, a female that is carrying pups, and a female that is mine…” He then once again leans in and places his lips against mine in a soft, loving but dominant kiss, allowing all his feelings for me to flow from him to me through that kiss and the mate bond overwhelming me even more. I wrap my arms around his neck and whisper through our link.
Zachariah lifts his head and I turn mine as the door opens and Summer, along with Kai, walks into the office. Summer smiles, but Kai groans. “Come on Alpha, I had enough of seeing you do that when we found her…” Zachariah growls low before placing one more kiss on my neck and then stepping away. I smile to myself as he turns and faces away from Summer and Kai to walk behind and sit back at his desk, covering the reaction his body was having to mine. I run my hand over my small belly and then have to move. I pace from the window over to stand next to Zachariah for a few moments before returning to the window. I do this a couple of times before I stop at the window and face Summer and say, “So, you were saying he is using my dreams to get closer to me, right?” “Yes, that is what it seems. He wants you to willingly go with him…” “He doesn’t care if I go willingly with him. He will have me chained to his bed, no matter what.” She l
I look up at him with a little fear in my eyes. He looks over at Summer and says, “We will finish this discussion later. Okay?” “Of course, Alpha.” Zachariah then carries me out of the office and up to our room. He lays me on the bed. I am not surprised when a little while later Ava knocks on the open door to the bedroom. I look over at her and smile. She enters and as she sits next to me she says, “So, what seems to be going on here?” “I don’t know. I felt my stomach tighten.” “Is that all? Was there any pain?” “No, no pain, just the tightening.” “Okay, can I take a look?” “Sure.” She does her checks, shaking her head every now and then. Fear starts to build in me as I then ask, “What’s wrong?” “I believe that you have entered the first stages of labour. Now I am gathering with Darius. Your labour was quick?” “Well, I guess it was. Valentino the bastard had sedated me, for
*** Returning to the Real World… ** I feel myself rising to the surface of what feels like water, it really is a strange feeling, to feel like one is underwater but you don’t have the fear of drowning however there is the fear of not breaking through that surface and opening one's eyes once more. I fight and finally break through the surface, and I am hit with the annoying sound of a machine beeping in my ear. I groan and try to move my arm, but can’t, so I then concentrate on my eyes. My eyelids are heavy and they don’t seem to want to open, so I groan again. I then feel a small hand on my cheek and warmth seeps in. I smile as I turn my head slightly into that small hand and whisper roughly, “Darius, my boy, you shouldn’t be using your gifts this much…” “It’s okay mummy, I was sleeping while you were once Ava had gotten the pups out safely.” I slowly open my eyes as, with the help of his warmth, Darius had removed the heaviness from them. I look into his intense grey ones. I st
I then put Julius back in his crib. Taking a step to the side, I look into the incubator at the pups inside. I then raise my eyes to Ava and she says, “Yes, Yasmine. You can take them out and have a hold. They would benefit from your touch and scent.” I smile as I then look back down at the incubator, unlock the side, and pick up one of the little pups inside. I step back a little and Zachariah steps up, slipping his hands inside and picking up the other little pup. Zachariah then turns around and walks over to the chair in the corner. He sits down and then motions for me to join him. I walk over and carefully sit on his lap and lean into him. We then settle back and cuddle out little treasures. I look down at the pup in my hand. I know it is a female, but I also know that everyone else will see a male until we take care of Kastrath. I look at Zachariah and whisper, “Two unisex names, ones suitable for either a male or female…” “Okay, what did you have in mind, my little warrior?
Zachariah growls low again, I give his shoulder a little squeeze as Farris continues, “But I wasn’t sure. I felt something strange the day you fought and won against Henry. I however shook it off and dismissed it. But as soon as I walked in and took a breath I knew she was here for me and Zaire.” “But you have Zaire why do you need my daughter?” Darius laughs, making us all look at him. He then says, “Silly Daddy… Uncle Farris and Uncle Zaire are both dominant males, they can’t have pups… Without a female, they couldn’t continue either of their strong bloodlines, by making a new one.” “DARIUS… Blake is not even a week old I don’t want to be thinking about her having sex with him at any time in the future…” “I would never and neither would Zaire, we would never touch her until after she was 18 and willing to give herself to us…” “Daddy, they are destined to be her mates, and they will protect her while she grows. Just like Dakot
>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