RomanI padded to the kitchen and poured myself a glass of ice-cold milk from the milk bag in the fridge. I had been home for hours, leaving shortly after Vinny did, dropping Sean back at his house in Blackfern Valley before driving myself back home. Nothing was out of the ordinary, but I was agitated and couldn’t sleep I had spent the last hour tossing and turning and anytime my body would relax into slumber I jolted myself awake. I blamed Rue the first half-dozen times, but she was happily snoring away without a care in the world.I went to turn off the kitchen light and make my way back to bed for another attempt to get some sleep when an icy peppermint wafted up my nose. What the?I followed the scent to find a man sleeping on my porch. A gorgeous blond man. Vinny. How the hell did he get here? Rue grumbled herself awake as I opened the door and made my way towards him. He was out cold. I checked his pulse and gave him a gentle shake.“Vinny.” There was no response.“Stupid fucker
Roman“Kill switch.” I flicked the switch. “Clutch in.” I squeezed the clutch. “Find neutral.” I kicked the small pedal upwards half a click.Vinny was voicing random commands at me. The stand was still down, and the motorcycle was switched off as I practiced switching up and down gears, pressing my brake pedal and gently twisting the throttle. I felt like a tiny idiot balancing on this big bike.“Okay, I think your ready to go around the parking lot.” He nodded. “Just remember, not to hard on the gas and avoid that front brake if you don’t want to go careening off.”“What is the point of having a front brake if you don’t use it?”“I do use it. You, on the other hand have a six-hundred-pound bike under your sweet ass that you don’t know how to handle. So, until you can go around this parking lot safely, no touching the front brake!”“Werewolf healing remember?”“Oh, I don’t care about you. I care about my bike.” I gaped at him, and he grinned. My eyes narrowed. Asshole. “Alright make
VinnyRoman’s hot mouth abused mine. Her hands were in my hair, her short fingernails scraped against my scalp. Her tongue was tangling with mine and when she mewled into my mouth all I could think of was taking her right out here in the open. I pulled away and stared at her in awe. Her lips were puffy from our fevered kissing and her breaths were coming out in pants. I captured her bottom lip with my teeth gently and the purple of her eyes brightened. Her sweet arousal flooded my nose and my dick hardened in response. Her mouth crushed against mine and her hands had moved towards my zipper. I jolted as her hand cupped my cock. I pulled away again and was caught in the mischievous twinkle in her eyes. Game on.There was a buzzing at my fingertips as I started to stroke the skin at the top of her jeans. She fidgeted slightly pressing herself further into me, her mouth was a large smile beneath mine and I realised that she was trying to supress a giggle. Was she ticklish? Vali grinned
Roman“You killed the mood.” Wait. What? The heat frosted over as quickly as it had begun. Then it started to blaze again, but not with lust. With white hot anger. The simmering rage was ready to bubble over. Rue sat on her hunches, slightly annoyed but offering me no guidance or support as I tried to keep my emotions in check. He walked away from me, and I felt the heat scorching my blood cells. Humiliation washed over me, and I fought every urge to run, every urge to cry and scream. My face heated with sheer embarrassment. I stiffly got back onto his bike and grudgingly put my arms around him. I didn’t even want to fucking touch him, but I had no alternative unless I wanted to strip, shift, run back to Blackfern Valley and then drive my car naked all the way home. I didn’t have a change of clothes in my car, so every time I tried to come up with an alternative, it was apparent I was still going to have to drive home naked.I could have called Liv and asked her to come get me, but I
VinnyLuca beamed at me as I walked across the training grounds. Luca was a very large werewolf, extremely good looking with long chocolate brown hair and bright blue eyes. He should have been intimidating; however he was a shameless flirt, notorious ladies’ man and a real class clown which made any attempt to be intimidating a joke. It was all a ruse. Like anyone in the inner circle, Luca was dangerous. Lethal.“Heard you get to visit our friend.”“Word travels fast.”“It’s Blackfern Valley.” He winked. “Nah, Alpha told me that you would be helping with the session today but then to escort you to the cells.”“Escort me?” I bristled.“Don’t think anything of it. No one goes into those cells alone. That dude is a wolf on steroids.” He laughed before changing the subject. “Do you want to go and get the balancing equipment? The next class should be arriving soon.”The warrior training grounds were a large dusty open space situated to the side of the amphitheatre. There were a few grassy
RomanI had made it to Kempthorne at the same time Murdoch did. I was going to tell him that we needed to end it. Each time I did this I thought that ghosting him would be a hell of a lot easier, but I wasn’t that kind of person. I reminded myself he fully understood that it wasn’t going anywhere. Each time one of us ended it, we had a mature discussion and parted as friends. Even so, it didn’t make it any easier. Rue was bursting to tell him so we could get the fuck out of there and go torment Vinny some more. It had turned into her favourite game.The minute I saw him I knew something was wrong. There was a fire in his step as he walked up the stairs to his apartment.“I’m going to fucking kill him!”“Who?”“Your chew toy.” “My… chew… Vinny?” I asked startled.There was no way he knew about Vinny’s indecent proposal. I tried to calm my nerves. This wasn’t about Vinny and me. Not that there was a Vinny and me. There never would be a Vinny and me… I tried to stop my runaway thoughts
Vinny Luca and I left the training grounds and took the path behind the packhouse that led to the stone cellblock. Fifty feet from the werewolf jail we ran into Liv’s sister. Luca snarled at her. “What are you doing here Cassie?”“I was trying to get into the cells,” she said simply.“Well that’s honest at least. Did you want me to open a cell and lock you up again?” Luca’s voice deepened by the power of his wolf.“I haven’t done anything wrong Luca.” Her blue eyes were crystal clear with her conviction.“Really? Then why were you trying to access the cells?” “I was trying to help! I thought that maybe if I could get answers that—”“Alpha Liam would forget his one true love and his daughter and run away into the sunset with you?” Luca suggested menacingly.“No. I just want to protect Lacey.”“What do you think she needs protection from?” I asked.“Oh, come off it,” Cassie snapped. “Do you think I am stupid? Alpha Liam and the warriors have been secretively covert for months. You’re
RomanI turned up the incline on the treadmill and pounded my feet. For the first time in my life, I was using the physio facilities at Kempthorne Memorial Hospital. The hospital allowed staff to use the physio and gym equipment afterhours as part of their wellness incentive, but I had never had to use it. My exercise was shifting and running in the bush, or pack training, or sex.I pounded my feet harder. Damn it. I didn’t want to be thinking of sex right now. If I thought of sex right now, it would only be with one person. It had been a few days, and I hadn’t even received a single text message. I was sure the ghosting was all part of the cat and mouse game, but I was winding up tighter than a spring and I was ready to snap.Rue didn’t help either. If I wasn’t thinking about sex, she would be flashing images of things that I could be doing with Vinny. Things that should be outright illegal, (if they weren’t already). I think I preferred it when Rue was rabid and uncontrollable. Her