WYATTIt had been a week since I locked Kacela in the dungeon. I went down to see her every day, trying to talk some sense into her. She refused to see reason and I was becoming more frustrated, especially since every contact I had with her just strengthened the bond between us. I was feeling her pain more and more.“Do you not feel what I’m feeling?” I asked her. I was looking through the bars at her. She was on the ground, doing push-ups. She looked up at me, glaring but not answering.I watched her, trying to decide what I was going to do with her. I had found out from the guards that she spent most of her day exercising in some form or another. I knew it was because of how chilly I kept the dungeon. Exercising and moving kept her warm. I could feel that the nights were very cold for her, but she refused to ask the guards for a blanket. I looked around the cell. She was given a bucket of water every day along with soap and a rough towel. It looked like she attempted t
KACELAI was on my side on the cot, fighting with Dali. She wanted to take control and I was having a hard time pushing her back. Every time Wyatt came down to see me it was like she had renewed strength and she would be harder to push back. I was terrified that one of these days I wouldn’t be able to keep control and she would win, never allowing me to come back.I could hear someone coming down into the dungeon and I prayed it wasn’t Wyatt again. I could barely control Dali as it was and I’m not sure I could keep her down if he came to see us again. I opened my eyes and saw that my cell was being unlocked. A tall, blonde woman stood on the other side. She was angry. I could tell that even from here. Her back was stiff, and she had a glare on her face. As soon as the door was open she burst in and grabbed me off from the cot, jerking me to my feet. I was weak from fighting Dali and didn’t have anything left in me to fight her.“Stop this nonsense,” she demanded. I just lo
KACELAI leaped to my feet and ran for the door. These Lycans were crazy if they thought that I was going to submit to being mated with Wyatt. I didn’t make it far before the two guards were on top of me. I went crazy, fighting, kicking, and screaming. They dragged me over to the bed and put me on it.I popped up and started to run for the door again. Lia was in front of me, claws out and teeth bared. I hadn’t even heard her shift and, when I turned towards the windows, I realized the other two guards had shifted. I was in a room with three huge Lycans.They put me on the bed. Lia shifted back and told me to stay put or she would have the guards tie me to the bed. Having experienced being tied to a bed before experiencing the dungeon, I opted to stay.The door opened and Wyatt came in. He was dressed in the same clothing he wore to the dungeon. I grabbed a blanket and pulled it up to cover me, absurdly shy around him. He looked at the two Lycans and Lia. “Go,” he said. T
WYATTI most definitely didn’t see this coming.When I Jarrett informed me that he and Lia were taking over my love life, I was all for it. Kacela’s emotions were all over the place and, because of our erasthai bond, I felt it all. I couldn’t take much more of it. When Jarrett dragged me to the Luna Suite and informed me that I needed to mate with Kacela, I was dead set against it. I don’t have sex with women who don’t want to have sex with me. I looked down at the woman sleeping in my arms, mated and marked. I most definitely didn’t see this coming.I knew that Lia was outside the room with the guards, waiting to see if Kacela was going to come running out. I knew that they would just pick her up and drag her back inside. I was really glad that this went the way it did. Having to have my guards drag my erasthai back to our mating bed would be very embarrassing. I felt Kacela stir in my arms, and I looked down to see her awake and looking at me. She looked wary and I could
KACELADinner. That one word made me ashamed and scared at the same time. I wordlessly shook my head and got off the bed, walking to the closet to see if I could find some clothing that would fit me.I could feel Wyatt’s confusion. “What is it, Kacela?”I looked back at him, unshed tears threatening to fall. “I was hired to kill all of you. I spent the last two weeks actively trying to kill my wolf and run away. You had to have guards bring me back and you had people bring me to this room to force a mate if I wasn’t willing. And now I’m supposed to have dinner with them? Everyone probably hates me with a passion. I can’t.”He looked flabbergasted with all the information I threw at him. He cleared his throat.“Well, first, I want to say that the mating thing was entirely my Beta and his wife. I had no idea what they were going to do until I was up here on the other side of the door.” He paused. “I am glad that this was consensual. I don’t know if I could have done it if
WYATTI slipped on my athletic shorts before opening the door to leave the Luna Suite. I saw Kacela standing, framed by the window, the beautiful sunset showing through. She was lovely. I could feel the fear and sadness radiating off her and I was at a loss. I closed the door and then walked across the hall to my room, opening the door. I closed it behind me and then punched the wall with my Lycan strength. My fist went right through the drywall, breaking the stud that was behind it and the entire wall shook, dislodging plaster. I backed up and looked at my fist, my knuckles broken and blood streaming from the wounds. As I watched, Dex started healing me.I heard a gentle tap on the door, and I strode over, jerking it open. Jarrett was on the other side. “Didn’t go well?” he asked, mildly. I gestured for him to come in. “Yes. Then no.” I walked to my closet and pulled out a suit. We always dressed for dinner in the castle. I would have said something to Kacela, but she
KACELAWyatt offered me his arm and I took it, following behind Lia and Jarrett. We walked down three flights of stairs to the main floor and took a left, entering through a double set of doors. I gasped.We walked into a huge room with high ceilings. Everything inside was white. The floors were ornate marble and the columns in the room were also marble. The walls and ceilings were plastered with a bright white. Round tables were set up inside this area with six or eight chairs around each table. About half of the tables were occupied. People were running back and forth to a huge buffet that had been set up along one wall. Everyone was dressed up in some sort of fancy dress and I was suddenly glad that Lia had come in and put me straight about the clothing. I would have been out of place in jeans and a hoodie.“What is this?” I whispered to Wyatt. People were starting to notice that he came in and were nodding and bowing to him.“Dinner,” he said. “We set it up every night
KACELAThe clothing melted off. Thank goodness no one else used the floor because we didn’t even make it into the room before our clothing hit the ground. Someone had cleaned up all of the glass in the bathroom, I noticed, and also cleaned the mess I had made when I tried to leave was gone. Then I quit noticing things and focused on Wyatt.He spun me around and found the zipper holding the dress on to me. He slid it down in one smooth swoop and the satin slid off my shoulders, pooling at my feet. I stepped out of it and reached up, trying to find the pins that were holding my hair in the knot. That would be uncomfortable to lay on.I turned around to see Wyatt struggling with the buttons on his shirt. I reached forward and swatted his hands away, attacking the buttons myself. He looked at me and his eyes dilated. He reached around and unclasped my bra, letting my breasts spring forward. He dipped his head and attached himself to one of my nipples.I gave up on the buttons, r
KACELA Later that night I was undressing in front of the full-length mirror. I frowned at my body. The scars were fading but I still had a few bad ones. The one that wrapped from my hip over the top of my abdomen was still ropey, even more so than the C-section scar. The scar on my face was also fading and I could now see light from that eye after years of seeing nothing but blackness. The doctors tell me that the mate bond is slowing healing me. I didn’t say anything to Wyatt. I was pretty sure he would use it as an excuse to mate even more, and I wasn’t sure I could keep up. That man was insatiable. As if he heard my thoughts, Wyatt came up behind me and nuzzled my neck, running his hands down the length of my side. I shivered. He was always able to make my body respond. “What’s on your mind?” Wyatt asked, nibbling my ear. I leaned my head back towards him. “I was just thinking about how fast the kids are growing up,” I said, a little sadly. Wyatt smiled. “Aella is o
WYATTFIVE YEARS LATERAfter having Aella, Kacela came home after two days. Dali had worked so hard to keep Aella alive that she was unable to warn us. When Dali didn’t show up after the first day, I insisted that the doctors give Kacela some of my blood to help the healing process along. They kept her for another day to be sure, but Dali came back and Kacela began healing quickly.The complications that Aella had didn’t keep Kacela from becoming pregnant again and we soon added twins to our little family. We spent most of our time trying to keep up with Axel and Luca. Even with the help of two full time nannies, we were exhausted most evenings when we went to bed.Our kingdom thrived. Kacela had a knack with the people and her office door was always open, literally. Sometimes she would come down in the morning to someone already waiting for her, needing her council or wisdom. I
KACELA I curled up next to Wyatt, happy. I dozed off but woke up a few times, uncomfortable. I finally decided to take a shower. I got up quietly so that I didn’t wake Wyatt. I slipped into the bathroom and turned the shower on, scalding hot. I stepped in and let the water rain down over my swollen body. This felt better. I was just sore everywhere, carrying all my extra weight. The doctors said that Aella was going to be a big baby. I wondered what sort of shifter she would be. When the species mix, like Wyatt and myself, you don’t know what the baby will be until they come of age. You can suspect; perhaps she will have wolf tendencies or Lycan strength at an early age, but you won’t know for sure until they shift. I hoped she was Lycan. I felt a breeze behind me and turned to see Wyatt framed in the doorway, looking concerned. “Are you okay?” he asked, quietly. I nodded.
WYATTUnlike Lia and Jarrett, we wanted to find out the sex of our baby. I was thrilled to find out that we were having a little girl.“What about Abigail?” she asked me, out of the blue one night. I had almost been asleep.“For what?” I asked, confused. We were in the process of hiring her assistant and I couldn’t remember an Abigail that had applied for the job.“For our baby’s name.” She paused a minute. “She needs a strong name.”“Like Kacela,” I murmured, snuggling into her and putting my nose in her neck and nuzzling. She groaned and I got hard, moving over the top of her. She opened her legs and I thrust in, hard and fast, satisfying both of us. I waited until her writhing stopped under me and then I let my seed coat her insides. I dropped beside her, both of us panting from the quick intensity of that coupling.
KACELAI could hear the commotion in the yard. I was waiting where Mrs. Woltkamp told me to wait, in the castle near the back patio doors. She said she would come for me when I needed to go out.There was a lot of pomp and circumstance with the whole celebration. The guests were fed, buffet style, and the kids were now playing in the yard while the servers cleared away dishes. After the coronation there would be dessert, drinks and dancing. I was looking forward to the dancing part.Little Emily tugged on my dress. I looked down and smiled at her, a cute little pixie in pink ruffles. She put her arms up to me, wordlessly. Her older sister was assimilating into the pack well and had picked up enough English to get her needs met. Emily rarely spoke, clinging to a few select people. I was honored to be one.I picked her up and held her, cuddling her to my chest while she sucked on her fingers
WYATT The morning of the coronation began rainy. Mrs. Woltkamp was running around, wringing her hands. She had checked the forecast numerous times and it wasn’t supposed to rain. I had reassured her that it was just a cloudburst, over in an hour. I was right. Kacela was incredibly nervous for the day. We had invited people from other pack. She was concerned that they would recognize her as the feared werewolf hunter. “Can’t we just do the coronation privately?” she had asked. I shook my head. “No. First, I’ve been waiting a century for this. I’m going to enjoy every moment of it. Second, it’s custom. I don’t think you want to insult other packs as your first political act.” She had quieted down, until she saw her gown. It was a sleeveless, low cut piece that showcased her muscular body incredibly well, but also showed her scars. “I’m embarrassed,” she said, qui
KACELA I helped Lia back to the blanket. I had no idea what to do and so I tried to mind link again, putting everything I had into it. I finally broke through. Hello, gorgeous, Wyatt purred in my mind. Wyatt. Lia’s having her baby. We’re down by the lake. You need to send help right now! I broke it off, needing to focus. Lia lay back. “I’m going to take a peek, okay, Lia?” I asked, praying I wouldn’t see what I was expecting to see. When I looked, I saw the baby crowning. Yep. She was right. The baby was coming. And I definitely didn’t want to see that. “I thought you said this little one wasn’t in position,” I joked, helping her lean back and lifting her dress. I looked around and found the bottle of wine that Lia had brought for me to enjoy with lunch. I had only drank about a quarter of it so I poured the rest on my hands and arms,
KACELA I’ve been married for three weeks, now. When we got back to the pack there were a few things we needed to take care of. Lia had named the girls Emily and Rachel and she had spent some time trying to find any relatives that they may have alive. When the extensive search pulled up nothing, she and Jarrett adopted them. There was a quiet ceremony for the girls to be adopted. We knew that they were shifters. My wolf could sense it and Dex was a little unsettled about the whole thing. We would find out when they aged what sort of creature they were. Lia was not worried. Neither was Dali. I worried enough for the both of us. My coronation ceremony was set for two weeks. The castle was in a bustle, planning for it, and I had relinquished most of the duties to the house mother. I didn’t particularly care about the color of my napkins, much to Lia’s mirth, so I left the finer details to Mrs. Wolt
WYATT After the surprise wedding, we went back to the hotel to celebrate. I had planned on celebrating in bed, but our guests had other ideas. We ended up at a restaurant in a private room, dancing, drinking and laughing well into the early morning hours. When we finally dragged ourselves back to the hotel, the front desk clerk nicely reminded us that checkout was at 10:00am. “Did you like the surprise?” I asked Kacela, somewhat worriedly. We hadn’t had a chance to be alone since the wedding and I began to have doubts. She responded by flinging herself into my arms. I picked her up and she wrapped her legs around me, grinding herself into my rod that was becoming awake. I put my lips on her, kissing her hard. “What is it that you want, Mrs. King?” I asked. “I want you to fuck me hard, Mr. King,” she whispered back, nibbling on my earlobe. That was all the encouragement I needed. I reached u