Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeTyler, Heath assumed. Heath wasn’t sure what he had expected from a vampire’s blood slave, but the tall, gangly man in a band-t-shirt and jeans, somehow fit. Tyler’s eyes were shadowed, his hair was overgrown, there was a week’s growth of stubble on his jaw, and his clothes were wrinkled as if he’d slept in them but there wasn’t a sense of distress to accompany the dishevel, rather the opposite, as if they’d caught Tyler on a lazy weekend at home in front of the TV.He stepped inside and put the carton of beer that he held against his hip down on the kitchen bench. “I’m Tyler. Talen’s just bringing in the wine.” Around his neck, just showing above the collar of his tshirt, he wore a leather collar lazer-cut with the same design that Aislen’s necklace had woven between the glinting diamonds – a statement of Talen’s ownership, but one that had been done in just such a way that it fit Tyler’s overall aesthetic perfectly and would never make anyone wonder why
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeMorgana stuffed her clothing into the cupboard and toed the suitcase under the bed whilst Talen stripped the sheets and remade it. She was flustered, her movements jerky and brutal. Hiding her fear behind anger, he thought. From the kitchen he could hear a sudden burst of laughter from the Triquetra’s voices as they cleaned the kitchen after the meal. Rhett’s laugh, he thought with a smile. “I think we should play with dark one next, hmm?” He suggested, to take her mind from the attacks on her house.He had already decided to move Tyler into her house to watch over her when Talen or the Triquetra were not there. Between the five of them, Morgana would never be alone, but there was no reason to risk her annoyance by making that too obvious, and so he would distract her with their mates and pleasure.“Daddy,” she paused in her clean up efforts. “Are you… I mean… The Triquetra…” She gestured out with her hands.He caught her chin and lifted her face so that
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeThe vampire’s chuckle was devilish, Rhett decided as he turned back to the bed with a shiver of anticipation. He watched as Cameron and Heath traded the wine bottle between them and Aislen moaned and writhed beneath their mouths, reaching up to pull them to her to exchange kisses. Heath’s hands had freed her hair, and it tumbled again around her shoulders, her efforts to keep it out of the wine forgotten in their passion.Talen’s breath stirred Rhett’s hair as he stepped up behind him, his skin warm against Rhett’s back. He stroked his hands over Rhett’s stomach. Rhett’s eyes fluttered closed and he tightened his grip on the bedframe, his knuckles blanching. The vampire’s big hands were gentle as he explored Rhett’s skin, and Rhett could feel the throb of Talen’s c-ck against his back.“Not quite the toy you chose earlier,” Talen murmured. “I was tempted to use it on you, but then I encountered something better…”“Oh?” Rhett realized his mouth was hanging
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeCameron snorted himself wake when he ended up facedown in a warm spot that still held the scent of Aislen. “Hey,” he complained rolling back onto his side and then grinning as he saw that Talen lay on his back with Aislen straddling him.“Nudge Rhett if you want morning sex,” Heath met Cameron’s eyes over Talen’s chest with a grin. “I’m in on this.”“But Rhett’s a bitch in the morning,” Cameron pouted as he rolled to face Rhett who had his back to them, and had more than half of the bed. He wriggled across the mattress and curled himself around his dark-haired mate, pressing his face into Rhett’s hair and breathing in his sleep-heavy, slightly smoky scent.“Am not,” Rhett muttered without unfurling from his foetal position as Cameron slid his hand over his side, around Rhett’s bed-warm belly to his morning-hard c-ck.“Suck me off then,” Cameron grinned against Rhett’s brightly coloured shoulder blade knowing what his mate’s response would be.“Suck yoursel
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeHeath regarded the array of supermarket bought shampoos and soaps with resignation, before pouring a handful of mint scented scrub into his hand and rubbing it over himself quickly. He’d smell like car freshener all day and it would annoy the shit out of him, but it was either that or smell like strawberries and cream.As he stood under the flow of the water and let it rinse the suds from him, he turned over the developments of the night. He had to talk to Rhett and Cameron, he decided, and caution them. Whilst he hoped that Talen was precisely what he appeared to be… F-king gorgeous, kind and genuinely interested in making them all his mates, he had to remember the vampire’s not-so-subtle threat, and that they knew very little about him and the Concordia.He was scared, he admitted to himself. Scared of investing his heart too quickly. And that pissed him off, because he didn’t like to be scared.He dressed, wishing he’d packed a change of clothes, and us
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeRhett and Cameron’s banter moved swiftly between locker room, mocking, and flirtatious, Talen thought as he finished the edging in the master bedroom. They were, however, fully distracted, painting their way around the house from the outside.Talen took the opportunity of their distraction to grab his phone and move into the smaller of the two bedrooms, where Tyler had spent the night and where Talen had spent his first, very pleasurable nights with Morgana.“I love you. I do not want to lose you.” Heath’s plea to Morgana had touched a nerve. Thaelen remembered saying almost the same words hundreds of years before to Gera as he had fought through his final days of life.It gave him insight to the blonde werewolf’s mental state, and it was a fragile one filled with pain and suffering.“Mhm,” he hummed out his sigh heavily and called Tony.“Talen,” Tony answered on the fifth ring.“Is there an update?” Talen wondered. “On Patrick Carter’s death?”“A visual m
Havermouth, Two Weeks Before“People aren’t disposable, Heath,” Aislen set aside her wrap. “Werewolves seem to have this belief that humans are to be used and discarded. I’m sorry that this bit you in the arse, but I’m sort of glad at the same time. You deserved to have your disregard for the feelings and well-being of the girls that you abused rebound on you.”She still didn’t understand, he thought immediately, and clenched his jaw on the words. Even after their explanation, she still couldn’t see it from their point of view, she still couldn’t put herself into their shoes. There had never been a choice for the Triquetra. They had needed the human girls to hide what they meant to each other, and they had been incapable of being emotionally connected them because of what the Triquetra was to one another.“Alright then. If I don’t understand you, why don’t you explain it to me?” She said, and he flicked her a look from the corner of his eye wondering if she had read his thoughts.“Are
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeHe had known, he told himself, that the topic of those three days would come up eventually. Talen had let him know that he knew what they had done, at least to some extent, if not the details. He suspected that the vampire was waiting for the subject to arise between the Triquetra and Aislen, but she had been avoiding it just as much as Heath had been, just as much as Rhett and Cameron had been.It was her tone of voice more than the words that threatened to undo him, the raw, pained anguish of it. She did not want to speak of it, any more than he did, but the words had come from a place of need, a place of pain. A place that he had created.“I’m sorry,” he barely breathed the words, but they were delivered with sincerity and meaning. He reached over the center console to take her hand, wanting it back on his thigh, wanting the contact between them, hoping that through his touch, through her ability, she could feel his pain and that he meant his apology. S
Havermouth, Present Time Heath woke into darkness. His werewolf sight could not even determine a pinprick of light. The darkness was heavy, smothering. “Talen?” He asked. His voice sounded muted, as if he were in a closed, tight space. He reached out and felt nothing however… And that was terrifying. There was no floor, no walls. He did not understand how it was that he was not falling… or perhaps he was. His breathing was rasped through lungs constricted by panic. “Shh,” a woman murmured. “Hush now, do not fear. Nothing will harm you here. Indeed,” there was amusement to her voice. “There is nothing here to harm you.” “Who are you?” He demanded, fear turning into anger. “Some Van Helsing trick?” “Hmhmhm,” she chuckled softly. “No, white wolf.” “Where is Talen?” He sat up slowly, relying on his stomach muscles as there wasn’t a floor to brace his hands against. “Where are we? Why… isn’t there a floor?” “So many questions. We are in the beginning, the aether, the place where we
Havermouth, Present TimeCameron and Rhett stood by the front window of Mr Claymont’s house with the lace curtains pushed back, looking out at the street as the crowd began to clear. A riot had broken out in response to the explosion of the school and had blocked the Van Helsings’ efforts to reach their destroyed base. The Havermouth rioters had destroyed several of the Van Helsings’ vehicles until guns had been drawn and bullets had been fired.Just as things had been on the verge of turning into a massacre, the fire had begun to spread out from the school, and Havermouth’s residents had rushed to help the homeowners save their property whilst others had dragged those injured by the Van Helsings retaliation into nearby houses.Into the chaos and mania of it all, the fleeing werewolves had just been another strangeness of the day, with people shrieking and screaming as their fur brushed against them, but otherwise taking no action against them, too occupied with the fire and gunmen, a
Havermouth, Present TimeThe f-ker!Aislen woke angry and sore. Her whole body ached, but her head and throat most of all. She was f-king going to kill that arsehole of a torturer, she thought.She was lying on her back on a bed, but not somewhere private. Around her she could hear the murmur of voices, groans and moans, the rattle of metal against metal, and crying. It stank. Layers of sweat, urine, faeces and… rotten meat.She opened her eyes and looked through a mesh of metal bars at the pressed tin tile design within the coffered ceiling high above her and the elaborate chandelier that dangled from it. Not what she’d expected having smelled the room, she thought, sitting up.It was a large long room, with a heavy velvet curtained stage set on one end and a wall of double doors at the other. In between the two ends, rows of cages had been set, each one only long enough to fit a trundle bed and twice as wide. Many of the cages were empty, like the one directly next to Aislen’s bed,
Havermouth, One Week BeforeTony had the police officer tied by his wrists and dangling over an open oubliette in the barn when Talen arrived, and looked up from a toolbox which was set on the pushed back stone lid. “Alex, this is Talen. Talen, meet Alexander Grennith.”“F-k you,” the werewolf was in the policeman’s eyes, but with his weight on his shoulders, and his wrists tied, he could not shift without risking tearing his arms from the joint, an injury that would be both intensely painful and potentially life-alteringly disabling.“No thank you,” Talen replied as he rolled up his sleeves. “Did you have any trouble?” He asked Tony.“No,” Tony was amused. “I took Sigrid with me, and she distracted him at the front door whilst I took him from behind. He did not know what happened. We bundled him into his own car, and I wore his jacket and hat. Anyone who saw me would have thought he was going on a date. I dropped Sigrid at the Ute and she drove it home for me.”“I didn’t know that Si
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeCameron creeping out of the bed and around the room getting dressed woke Heath. He was pressed tightly to Talen’s back, half drowning in the vampire’s blonde hair, with his arm over Talen’s waist and he was disinclined to move from the position. Used to Cameron’s early mornings, once he’d registered what the movement was about, he closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep only for Aislen to mutter a complaint as Rhett wriggled out from under her.“I have a client coming at nine,” Rhett explained his movement. “I have to go set up.”“Too early,” Aislen grumbled.“I know, but they work afternoons, and it will take a good three hours,” Rhett yawned widely as he slid out of the bed.Talen shifted in order to pull Aislen back against him, snuggling her into the spoon of his body. “Sleep some more, Morgana,” he murmured. “You need to rest in order to heal.”Rhett cursed as he stumbled and Cameron smothered his laughter. “Careful. F-k man, you’re not a good m
Havermouth, Two Weeks Before“I could do with a cigarette too,” Aislen announced. “And a glass of wine.”“It’s not even midday,” Heath protested immediately.Aislen’s eyeroll said it all. “I wasn’t asking for permission. I’ve had a pretty shitty couple of days, and I want to f-king have a cigarette and a glass of wine on the porch of my house and so that’s precisely what I am going to do,” she began to get dressed. “If you’re all going to be bitches you can leave.”Heath spotted her underwear tangled at the foot of the bed and retrieved them, untangling them as he handed them to her. “I’ll go open a bottle.” He stepped out into the hallway and closed the door before leaning against the wall and heaving out a sigh.Rhett and Cameron now knew about the miscarriage, but he felt as if the Triquetra had narrowly avoided disaster with the discussion that had followed, and the adrenaline spike had left him shaky with his heart racing against his ribs. The conversation had also shaken free a
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeRhett laughed. F-k this was going to be fun, he thought lifting up onto his elbows in order to improve his view.“Oh.” Aislen had realized that the double-sided dildo was for her.Talen’s shoulder shook with his silent laughter as he helped her into the harness and eased her end of the dildo into her.“F-k that’s hot,” Rhett groaned as Talen tightened the harness around her waist. There was something so naughty about Aislen with a c-k, and the leather straps compressing her soft skin, the contrast of white to black and soft to hard… “F-k,” he groaned, and Heath compliantly gripped his c-ck, stroking from base to tip so that he sighed out his pleasure.“Very nice,” Talen approved leaning back to inspect his workmanship. “Who would you like to f-k, little demon?”“Choices, choices,” Aislen’s response was pure devilry.“Me,” Rhett gasped out rolling up to sitting. “I want to try that.”“Why not?” Aislen was amused by his eagerness and by her new accessory, re
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeRhett used the trolley to herd Tabitha and her cameraman away from Cameron and Aislen so that they could make their escape, his vindicative ramming of the reporter’s heels fuelled by the nasty volley of questions she had just thrown at Aislen.“This is assault, Rhett Salem!” Tabitha snarled at him.“Oh, f-k off Tabitha,” he replied. “For a f-king desperate ambulance chasing vulture you are pretty righteous. F-king chasing down a woman who was just shot, and shouting out her personal business… You are slime. The worst type of slime. Just own it and shut the f-k up.”He abandoned the trolley inside the doors of the hospital and trotted across the carpark to where Heath was picking up shards of broken vase and ignoring Tabitha’s attempts to engage him into an interview. Heath surprised Tabitha by passing her the broken pieces. “Throw these away for me, please, like a good girl,” he told her.“Ah, shit, Heath, don’t call her a good girl,” Rhett laughed as he h
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeCameron almost stopped dead. From the corner of his eye, he saw Rhett fumble a vase of flowers that he was loading into his car, the vase shattering with a loud crash as it hit the ground and distracting the reporter and her cameraman.Miscarriage? What miscarriage? And… if Aislen couldn’t have a child… what did that mean for their Triquetra?“I don’t hit women,” Heath growled down at Tabitha. “But you are testing my resolve. Get the f-k away from us, and stay away.”Cameron pulled himself together and crossed the last distance to the Ute, easing Aislen into the passenger seat, and closing the door before turning back to help his Triquetra drive off the reporter and her cameraman. Rhett drove the now empty trolley directly at Tabitha and the cameraman, forcing them backwards, and used it to herd them towards the hospital and away from the Ute.“What the f-k?” Cameron asked Heath in shock. “What the f-k was that?”“Take her to her house, Cam, I’ll meet you