"Hey big boy," she called in a soothing voice. His head whipped around to face her, and he snarled while at the same time standing over the carcass and flattening his ears outwardly, warning her away from his prize. There was no logic or rationality in those eyes."Now, that's not very rude of you," she said in the same gentling tone. She knew he wouldn't understand her, that the words would be indistinguishable, but she hoped that he might recognize her voice and find it calming, then relax with her scent.His head extended toward her and his nostrils flared, scenting the air. He let loose a low whine, and she had the feeling that he acknowledged who she was but wasn't sure how to calm himself.Feeling reassured by his recognizing her, she moved another step toward him, but then halted; she wanted him to come to her so that he was away from the dead wolf. Looks very easy, but he wouldn't even listen to her. "Come on, spoiled boy, you don't want to play that dirty game. You already wo
Turning to see that Cameron was the one standing closest to the window, she asked, "Cam, would you open that for me?""Why?""So I can gaze lovingly at the sun. Will you just open it?"Grunting, he did as she asked, while Dante finally drank down some water and wiped his face."Jodie, where is the first aid box?"As Jodie placed it beside Freya, she gave her a thorough look. "Are you sure you can do this?""I don't think so," she said to Jodie before turning to Dante. "Now be still." She was pretty sure he only did it out of curiosity. Freya got out things to sterilize the wounds and then proceeded to neatly stitch his injured body. She knew that doing this would help him heal rapidly because stitching triggers the healing process. She heard a few gasps, a 'Whoa' and a 'Holy shit' coming from behind her, but ignored them.Leaning down, she placed her mouth close to Dante's ears and deeply whispered, "this was what I had to learn due to being an outcast." Packing up the first aid box,
He had always prided himself on not having that weakness of needing anyone or anything. Having a mate, having a connection that came with mating, was fucking with that. Not that he believed for even one minute that the mating connection could override the way he functioned and had always functioned, but he didn't have any interest in encouraging the cravings for dependency. Maybe if he distanced himself from her, spent little time with her, and didn't touch her, it would ease the matter and ease his wolf's attachment to her. He needed to ignore these urges he had to be with her, to touch her, to mark her entire body, to ensure his scent was all over her. Those urges had nothing to do with Freya as a person and everything to do with the fact that she was who he had mated. If she had been someone else, things would still have been the same. Would they really, though? a voice in his head questioned, a part of him who thought he was talking out of his ass. Of course, it would. That wasn
As Freya furiously punched on the keyboards, "with this, you can connect with anyone wherever in the world they are," she explained."A little like Facebook and Twitter.""Exactly. It even shows you the location of someone you're searching for if you want to go that far. But I would like to be discreet. Don't want people knowing that I'm looking for them." After typing in the HTTP address, Freya took them to the homepage of the Webs. Entering her name and password, she was then immediately transferred to a visual of what was termed the Black Box.It was a little like looking at an image of the solar system, only instead of the sun being in the center, it was a photo of her. And instead of planets being dotted around the eight surrounding circles of the sun, individual photos of each person she was searching for were randomly dotted around the circles. Some photos were set aside as if free-floating in space. Oh yeah, those were probably people she hadn't searched for."You need to be c
The way he so abruptly left the room had Freya frowning. It was as though the guy was desperate to get away from her or something. It wasn't until later that evening when she found herself lying in bed very alone that she began to think on it a little more. Dante had been different from her since the confrontation with Jake that morning. Or, more accurately, he had been indifferent. There had been no more heated looks, no more whispered promises, no more licking the marks on her neck, no more taking the odd moment to inhale her scent. But it wasn't just that. He was barely speaking to her. He was resorting to his old self. He was revoking the old memories she was trying to keep locked. And now here she was alone because he had 'things to do in his office.Well, it seemed like the very sexual male from the past two days had retreated, or had retreated from her at least. It occurred to her then that maybe it had only been his wolf's insecurity in the mating that had been behind his feve
“Enough! You two. We are a pack. Meaning, we stand together. Not fight among ourselves,” Dante spelled out immediately after he reached the kitchen.“I’m part of your part,” said Ayala, “not her though,” she finished.“And I’m his Luna, meaning that you’re under me, Grand-Alpha. Or, is it Grand-mummy?” mocked Freya.Dante slammed his fist on the table, breaking it into two. “If this nonsense doesn’t stop now, I’ll have you punished.” He was referring to Freya, causing her eyes to widen. She couldn’t believe that Dante has once more proven that she was unnecessary but can't be discarded yet.“Are you serious right now? You are just going to pin this on me without finding out how the fight started?”Dante was growling. His eyes were changing their color. Something was heightening his emotions. Tilting his face to stare at Freya, “I dare you to talk back at me one more thing,” he snarled, moving in her direction. “And that goes to all of you. If you can’t be more united in a moment when
The atmosphere was moody and so was Freya. Nothing excited as far she could get a glimpse of that insufferable asshole. To clear her head, she went on a walk along the rocky side of the pack-house, overlooked by water.Dragging in some air, she had an outburst of pain, screaming uncontrollably until she felt her voice cease. Indeed, describing her emotions as filled with pain didn’t come close to covering how she felt.The area was serene and no one was around. She could enjoy the moment just by sitting on top of one of the shiny rocks. She picked some smaller ones and began to throw them into the water.Hours passed by without her realizing it, and she decided to hurry back to the others as it was getting dark. Being ready for the meeting that Dante mentioned would be a wise choice since she had no energy for chaos left in her.Upon returning, the entire place had been set. White roses covered the large space outside with four columns of table arranged, each facing the other. Surroun
Dante was grunting in pain as the entire place was filled with wolfs-bane, weakening him. Ariel reached for the unconscious Freya and carelessly dragged her body through the rough ground. Dante stretched his hands in a bid to hold back Freya but was stabbed by Nefline with an arrow laced with sliver, making him screech in pain.“You should have had that sex with me. Maybe I wouldn’t have turned bitter,” she whispered into his ear, licking him.Dante fell unconscious as he watched the entire place littered with bodies. His sight blurred out as he saw Nefline slit one of his enforcer’s throats. It took four hours for Dante to regain conscientiousness. When he did, he transformed into his wolf, howling as loud as he could. Thereafter, he fell to the floor, weakened by both the poison in his system and the rush of anger consuming every nerve in his system.* * *It has been six hours since Freya has been made to walk. Neither food nor water has been given to her. Her feet were bruised be