ALPHA GIOVANNI POV
I woke up laying next to the witch my wolf and I had fun with last night and as I turn over and look at her; I was right after his fun last night. My wolf killed her. I will have to set it up for this caravan to catch alight so that I can get rid of the body. Luckily, my wolf knows how to kill without it being able to be tracked back to us, otherwise the King would have had my head years ago.
I get up, get dressed and then make it look like the built-in stove got a gas leak. I set a time-delay fuse and then leave the caravan. It was still early, so there was no one around. I head to the hotel we are booked in. As soon as I enter the room, I go into the bathroom and wash the scent of that witch off of me.
Once done, I meet up with Santiago and we make our rounds of the town, until we end up back at the small house we followed Isabella's scent to yesterday. Her scent is still strong, so she must have still been here when we were here. The little
RYKER POVI take Isabella into the town to find a witch that would be willing to help her unlock her magick, we are everyone but everyone was getting ready to move on until we got to the last stall where a nice young female witch said she would love to help us. Over the next two weeks I watch as Isabella works with the young witch Imogen but she only seems to be making small progress and whenever she seems to make a bigger step, Imogen gives her a potion and she goes back to what she was. Isabella is slowly letting me get closer to her but again we take a step closer to completing the mating and she then has the potion from Imogen and I have to do all the work again to get close. I stand on the porch watching Isabella sitting on the ground with Imogen working on just some meditation. Christopher is hounding me in my head, itching to have a run, so I take this time to have a internal meeting with him and Jack. I move off of the
CHRISTOPHER POV"Ryker you should see this wolf out here, he is absolutely beautiful!""I am glad you think I am beautiful, my Isabella..." I try to give her a wolf's smile as I look up at her.She laughs again and gives me a little push and then runs away from me. Now you never run from a wolf because, like any predatory animal, we love the chase. Which is exactly what I do. I get to my paws and chase after her. I send my laughter through our link and she returns with a laugh out loud. She runs this way and that, dodging me one way and then the next. She was good, but I was better. I managed to corner her just inside the edge of the woods and as I shift back; I take her to the ground in my human form. I lock my eyes with hers."Isabella, I love you!!"
ISABELLA POVI feel his hands as he runs them up and down my sides, eventually; he moves them so that they are running up and down my bare skin, which makes me moan and Zoey growl again. He continues this using his kiss and his hands to make pleasure spread through me. As the pleasure continues to build, I start to struggle, as I don't know what to do or how to handle it.It doesn't take Christopher long to move his kiss from my lips and trail them down my neck adding more and more pleasure to what he was already giving me, when he reaches my mark the pleasure intensifies tenfold and I can't stop the moan that leaves my lips. He smiles and then whispers between kisses."Let go for me, Isabella!!"And bites down hard on my mark, sending an overwhelming amount of pleasure running through me, and I can't help it as I shatter underneath him. He then moves his kisses back up my neck to my lips, kissing me with barely controlled dominance as he says."Good girl... Good girl!"He stops and p
SILAS POVI actually never got a reprimand from Marcus for that day, so I guess Clementine must have left the office and avoided him for at least a couple of days. I return to the present just as I hear Marcus let out a low growl, telling me he has just reached his release once again. He allows her to fall to the bed and climbs off. As he approaches me, he whispers."She has had enough for now. It's no fun if she doesn't fight back or respond to what we do. Let's go and have a drink and something to eat while she rests. We can then continue with her in a few hours."I nod, turn as he does and leave the room, heading with him to his office, where we go over the fun we just had with her.SCARLETT POVThey haven't stopped for three days. I fought both of them or should I say the three of them, as much as I could, it's not hard to tell when it's Silas or Wrath as Wrath enjoys the rougher stuff more but as soon as Wrath was exhausted, Marcus would start
CLEMENTINE / PHOEBE'S POVKnowing both males are in the office, I take this chance to go and see Scarlett; I thought I might take her out into the town and find out more about my family. I knock softly on the door but get no response so I opened it, walked in, stop, look around and find that she didn't seem to be in here until I hear the shower running and then stop.I take a deep calming breath, not realising that I was actually nervous about talking to her, but as I take that deep breath I'm not sure I like what I smell, so I take another and my anger starts to grow. I was right. Marcus and Silas have been sharing her and by how strong the scents are, my vampire Phoebe is going nuts in my head at such a betrayal.one night or day and we would understand as that is what he normally does, and we had agreed to but with how strong his scent is in here, he has been in here for at least the last three days which is why I haven't seen him.I wait as my anger g
PHOEBE / CLEMENTINE POVAgain I struggle as he brings his lips down hard onto mine, kissing me with extremely uncontrolled dominance. I place my hands on his chest and push as hard as I can, but it has no effect. He doesn't move, as all the strength that I had from the rage and bloodlust was now gone."I will touch you whenever and however I like! My Queen!""Marcus, you are not being fair...""I know you don't think I love you, but my Queen, you are wrong. I may not feel all of the mate bond, but I do love you...." "Noo! You can't do this to me now... I hate you!!! I want to hate you!!! You can't..." I fist my hands and bang them on his chest as much as I can. As he continues to kiss me as I cry. In all the years we have been together, he has never told me he loves me. The anger and fight then drain out of me and I give control back to Clementine.
SILAS POVIt doesn't take him long before he is back by my side, but this time, he is only wearing some basketball shorts. He takes a deep breath and asks, "Do you think you could keep up with me?" "Of course!" I watch as he shifts and then takes off running. I follow as he runs this way and that until I notice what she has done. I stop and let out a loud whistle. Marcus stops and shifts as he walks back towards me."The sneaky bitch has us running in circles. You need to find her hidden scent, the one under the obvious." I watch as he takes another deep breath and then another. It isn't until he takes the third breath that he lets out a low growl and then a chuckle... "Your right, she is very cunning, that Princess of yours, but I can find her. Let's go!"Marcus shifts again, giving a loud howl, he then takes off running again with me following. He stops at one spot and growls, he then takes off again fast. He covered a distance that took Scarlett and me ten days to travel, but
(RYKER)CHRISTOPHER POVI walk into the woods, strip my clothes, put them in a pile, and hid them under some bushes. I shift and pass control over to Christopher.I finish stretching out from the shift, and then I take a deep breath. I search through all the scents and find Isabella's. Once I find it, I take off running. I follow it until I reach a lake. I stop at the edge of the clearing and scan the meadow between me and the water. I find Zoey swimming in the water. I smile to myself and slowly stalk my way to the water's edge so that when she swims close to me, I jump in on top of her and dive under the water. When I come back to the surface, I come face to face with Zoey. She nips at my nose and then swims away, heading to the shore.I watch as she gets out of the water, shakes the excess off her fur, and then lies down on the grass nearby. I then followed her out of the water and onto t
SCARLETT POVOnce we got back to the castle, we did a lot of research using old magick books and talking to other witches and warlocks but it wasn't until we spoke to a high elder that we found out what we needed to do to remove the bracelet from around my ankle. With the combined power of Isabella's natural born magick, and Griffin's mystery power, he never would tell me what he was, the vial of Silas's royal blood mixed with Ryker's, Nathaniel's and my powerful royal blood they are able to remove the enchanted silver bracelet without losing Ruth or Cara or making a sacrifice of themselves, as they know I wouldn't have let them proceed with it if that is what had to happen. I sit on the hill above the training ground, watching as Phoenix goes through his sparring routine. I have always loved watching him move, always so graceful. I place my hand on my swollen belly and smile, remembering the miracle and surprise of them. After Phoenix saved me from Giovanni, we have been slowly repai
ISABELLA POVI wake to Santiago, kissing me. I have never woken up to him in my bed before, and this scares me. I try to move my hands and find that he has them pinned to the bed above me; I struggle against him, not wanting him to be touching me. He continues what he started last night. He may be being gentle, but he is still just taking. He gets that far-off look, telling me he is talking to someone. He then rolls off of me, gets out of bed and gets dressed, he then turns to me saying, "Go shower while I find the really nice dress that should be in that pile.." I get up and a shiver goes through me as he growls low. I move to the bathroom, wondering if I covered myself again like yesterday. Would he punish me? I have a shower washing as much of him off of me as I can. I wash my hair and then get out, drying myself before heading back into the bedroom.Santiago points to th
RYKER /CHRISTOPHERPOVAfter Carter had told me that he had seen Isabella and that she was alright, it didn't really matter what this Alpha did to me. He continued to hit me again and again and again. After his last hard hit, he moves up close and whispers next to my ear "You will be my bargaining chip to get that mate of yours to become my Luna and give me a pup..." Christopher takes part control at Santiago's claim of making our Isabella his Luna. I growl and try to move; I pull on the chains wanting to attack him but they are too tight and I barely get an inch off of the wall as the silver starts to take effect, weakening my connection, forcing me to take a step back, giving Ryker back full control.Santiago just laughs and hits me again and again until he knocks me out. I wake up to a slap in the face and laughter. I look up as much
ALPHA SANTIAGO POVFor the first time of many to come I wake with Isabella in my arms and smile after the wonderful night I had with her, she struggled but with her hands pinned above her head, she couldn't burn me so even though I normally like it when she adds pain to our fun, last night I didn't want that, I wanted something close to love. I wanted to show her that I can be gentle and that if she agrees to be my Luna, then I will give her a little bit more freedom than she has now. Unfortunately, I know that she is going to need more than just one night of gentle love to agree to be mine, so I contact my Beta "String up the prisoner in the pack centre!""Yes Alpha! May I ask why?""I have chosen your Luna, but she needs a little convincing...""Okay Alpha, it will be done." I smile to myself. She
ISABELLA POVTalking to Scarlett was as good. She didn't know this Carter, but her faith in King Noah was enough for me to send Ariel to her through him; I didn't want to say goodbye to my little girl, but if he really is a friend of Ryker's, then there is no way I can keep her here without putting everyone at risk. I get to my feet and pass Carter his phone and move over to the window. I see a male standing on the other side. I can feel the power come off of him and bow my head slightly and whisper, "King Noah?" He nods "Please look after her and take her to Scarlett, I don't really care what happens to me but Santiago must not get his hands on her..." "You have my word that she will be protected..." I give Ariel a kiss and then do the hardest thing I could ever think of doing. I pass my precious daughter to a male I don't know, trusting that he is a male of his word. I can't st
CARTER POVI nod as he then leaves, locking the door behind him. I wait and listen; I look at Isabella and she seems to be doing the same. Once Santiago is out of hearing range, she seems to collapse on a sigh. I move quickly and catch her before she hits the floor. I sit her on the floor carefully. However, once she realises that I have my hands on her, she starts to struggle. I smile but let her go and move away from her, saying, "I won't hurt you Isabella and I don't plan on touching you either... At least not until I have to!" She looks at me confused and says softly, "Who are you? How did you convince him to allow you in here with me?" "My name is Carter and I am a friend of Ryker's..."It is then that I hear a small whimpered cry, and it comes from the corner, not in front of me, so I know it isn't from Isabella. I walk o
RYKER POVDuring my meeting with Noah, we think we have come up with a way for me to get into Santiago's territory without him knowing so that I can search for any signs of Isabella. Only Carter, Noah and I knew the plan, as with most infiltrations. The more that know the plan, the more that can go wrong and the more likely that Santiago will find out about it. I make my way out of the pack house and into the woods nearby. I shift and run, making my way out of the border of BlackWater, heading for Blue Water Lake territory. Because Noah is doing his rounds of the packs, he has been given the patrol schedules of every pack in the kingdom for the next few months, as it is always hard to know how long the inspections will last; he needs to spend more time in some packs than others. I crouch low and wait for the patrol to pass and then make my way into the territory; I know they will come across my scent the next time they pass here, but that is also par
ISABELLA POVMy training with my magick fire wolf is progressing but progressing slowly, my pregnancy however is progressing normally as far as I can tell. I have managed to keep it hidden from Alpha Santiago; it is still the same routine; he comes into the cabin and forces himself on me, which is hurting more and more as the pregnancy advances, he then gets me to make him a meal, and then he leaves.Zoey keeps refusing to tell me if it is a son or daughter but says we will have the pup soon, so I have slowly been making a small crib kind of thing which I hide in the corner of the cabin with my concealment spell which is now working without me even having to say anything.I have also been working on making it soundproof and smell proof so that Alpha Santiago won't be able to smell him or her whenever he turns up for his daily fun because I know as soon as my pup comes Alpha Santiago will try to take it away from me. I have also been using
RYKER POVI wake up to my phone ringing... I answer it "Ryker, are you awake and sitting down?" "I am now, Father. What is it? Has something happened?" I don't miss the happiness in his voice as he says, "Yes, we did it! We found your mother!" I quickly sit up. "Is she okay? Did they hurt her?" "She is okay, cuts, bruises and maybe a broken rib, but she is fine. She is asking for you." "Okay, we will set out at first light and head to you and father. We may have a lead on, Isabella, but I may need the King's and your help to get her back.""Of course son, as soon as you get here and have spent a little time with your mother, we will organise a way to find and rescue Isabella." "See you in about two to two and a half days." "See you then!"