I smile as Zaire gets out and walks around to open the door. We all get out and enter her shop. I walk straight up to her as soon as we enter and she walks out from the back. We all fall into simple and fun conversation and I catch up with some of the compliments I received from the pack members in town with my frequent visits and help in the town.All thoughts that they are keeping something from me are forgotten as I spend some time with my friends getting to know them once more. Once Madam Glass has done her magic for all three of us, she closes up her shop and accompanies us to Shane’s Shadow Nails.Being in Shane’s shop was full of even more fun and laughter, even Shane’s partner joined in after he apologised for his behaviour the day of Malik’s annual celebration. He informed me that after I had walked out, Shane and he had an argument over his attitude towards me.I looked at him as he spoke to me and had flashes of what he was talking about run through my mind. Remembering tha
As we get back to the packhouse, my eyes go wide as I look out the front window and see that the entire entry has been decorated. There are fairy lights and flowers everywhere. When the SUV stops, I am expecting Zaire or Farris to open the door; I am surprised when it is Raphael that opens it.He holds out his hand and Jess slowly places her hand in his, a blush slowly creeping up her cheeks at the hungry look in his eyes. As soon as they have moved away from the door, Charles steps up and holds his hand out. Jade places her hand in his without hesitation. He helps her out and slides his hand over her big belly before they move together and join Jess and Raphael standing to the side.I wait and watch, expecting Zachariah to show his face and hold out his hand, but the hands that enter the door belong to two different males. Feeling a little disappointed, I place a hand on each and allow Farris and Zaire to help me from the SUV. As I stand, Zaire leans in and whispers,“I will have som
He uses his claws to rip them off, moving slightly so that the material falls to the floor and as he moves back, he slides inside me with a low, pleasured growl. As he starts thrusting his hips, he moves his kiss from my lips down my neck to his mark. As soon as his lips touch, I let out a moan, and he increases his thrusts.Zachariah builds the pleasure between us quickly, Morpheus lets out some of his Royal Alpha aura, which then surrounds me making the pleasure double if not triple only this time is different as I hear Zachariah take in a sharp breath against my skin and whispered through our link,“What was that?” I smile and moan as he moves the angle of his hips, sending a little more pleasure through me and then back through him; I answer him, breathing heavily even in our heads.“That would be the sharing of our Royal bloodline power…” “How do you know that?”
For the next week, both Zachariah and I are run off our feet. We still manage to steal a little time here and there for a quick sharing of pleasure, but nothing more than half an hour at most. After going almost 2 days without seeing Zachariah and feeling a little deprived, I head in from my last training session, which has grown as more and more females and young ones what to train and train with me.I link Zachariah as I enter the packhouse. “Where are you?” “Office, I have a meeting with Alpha Aaron and Alpha Maxwell in about 15 minutes.” I smile to myself, as that should be plenty of time to pay him back for getting me all flustered before training yesterday. I walk into the packhouse, up the stairs and into his office. He smiles and stands up from his chair behind his desk. I walk up to him and wrap my arms around him, allowing him to pull me in tight up against him and just as I thought he is already hard from me just touching him and him taking in my scent in.I push him back
When I turn to look at Zachariah once more, I raise my eyebrows at him as he seems to smile, bow, and then he left the room. I then look back at Ava with questions. She smiles.“I told him that you would be more open if he wasn’t in the room.”“Thank you.”We move over and sit on the bed. She then says, “So, what’s going on?”“I think I might have picked up the stomach flu or something.”She just laughs, “Yasmine, our kind doesn’t get sick, or at least it is extremely rare. For a male, it is normally some sort of poison, but for us females, there is only one other thing other than poison that makes us sick…”“No, no, no, no, I can’t be…" "Have you had your heat since you had... Oh, no one told me, did you manage to deliver your other one?" I have a quick flash of memory. **Waves of heat starting from my core, increasing in frequency and intensity until pain joins the heat and nothing stops it other than his touch...** I shake it off as I answer, "Yes, I had a male. His name is Dar
Again he places the tray on my lap before removing the cover and saying, “I spoke to Ava, and she said you should be alright for a light lunch and the same goes for dinner until your hormones settle. Ava also said that she will stay for as long as you want her here.” I smile at this. I remember how much of a good friend Ava came to be before we left Malik’s castle. Zachariah then allows me to eat. Once I have finished everything on the tray, I move it to the side and climb out of bed. I go into the bathroom and use the toilet and then have a shower. As much as I want to get into my training clothes, I refrain and slip back into a night dress and cover it with a dressing gown. Then, instead of getting back in bed, I go and find Zachariah. I smile as he sits at his desk with the phone up to his ear and his laptop open, in front of him. He says something into the phone and then types something on his laptop. I just stand there and watch him. I don’t know if I made a noise, or if he ju
I look past him and expect Darius to come running, but all I hear are the giggles of Jess and Jade coming from the bedroom. I look back at him and frown, “Zachariah… Wait, you didn’t… Did you?” The sly smile drops from his face as he looks down at me with a frown. “Do what?” “You said that they had been training to be my personal guards, so I gather that before we left King Malik’s, you had them train even more. So they would have been nearly, if not fully, trained to take up that position when they joined us on the trip home. Now their positions would have started as soon as we got into the SUV and started the trip home. Therefore, they would have been following us that day we went to the clearing after the full moon and also on the way back. You would have seen it as a failure when Charles managed to get his hands on me… You didn’t hold them responsible, did you?” He puts his hand on my cheek and wipes the tear that I didn’t realise was falling as I thought about that day. His f
Jade does up the zip, allowing me to let the dress go. I move around a little, looking at the back, the front and the sides before facing Jade and saying, “Do you think he would like it?” “My brother is going to love it, but then you could be in one of the ugliest dresses and he would still love and think you are beautiful.” I blush, knowing that she is right. I then turn so my back is to her once more and say, “Can you undo it now?” “You don’t want to wear it?” “No, I don’t want to get it dirty before we go tonight.” Jade undoes the zip and I slip the dress off, put it back on its hanger and then slip my other dress back on. I then walk to the front counter with Jade walking beside me. When we get to the counter, Cassie, the young assistant, says, “Good day Luna, everything is already taken care of.” I smile at her and say, “Thank you, Cassie. How is your brother Brandon doing? Is he feeling better?” “Yes, he is. Thank you for sending Doc Ava. She was wonderful and helped mo
>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