Ayala, her face purple, slapped her hand down hard on the table. "That's it. Out. I want you out. Now." When Freya just stared at her, Ayala growled out, "I. Want. You. Out."Freya held up her index finger. "Just give me a second. Attempting to give a fuck...Attempting harder to give a fuck...Sorry, there was an error. Fuck not given."Both women looked up as Dante and Theo walked in and skidded to a halt.Freya found her mouth curving at their nervous looks. Obviously, they had guessed Ayala would be like this. Freya's wolf settled a little as she picked up her mate's scent. "Aww, Dante, you didn't tell me your grandmother was such a kind, delightful soul. Just like the great of your pack."Dante was surprised by Freya's smile. Clearly, she was holding up just fine against Ayala."You really want this harlot as a mate?""Watch it, Ayala," Dante cautioned in a low voice."I don't have to be polite to her. She's nothing but a whore!""You sure like to repeat yourself, don't you, woman,
Dreams didn't get much better than this. On one level, Freya couldn't help finding it a little depressing that her best sexual encounters tended to happen during her sleep, but the pleasure spiking through her body left no room for such thoughts. If she was going to admit the truth, Freya would say that she was glad that she waited. One ounce of regret could not be found in her actions.A thick, talented finger was stroking in and out of her while sharp teeth nibbled on the back of her shoulder. The thrusts were shallow, leisurely, and teasing. She squirmed and tried impaling herself further, but the finger withdrew – a warning. She moaned her frustration. A low, wicked chuckle was her response and then two fingers plunged inside her and her next moan was of sheer bliss.Ordinarily, Freya hadn't experienced much finger-fucking, but these fingers were extremely clever, hitting all the right nerves with unerring accuracy as if they knew just how to play her body. If they would only pick
Despite everything that was going on right now, he actually wanted to smile at her impishness. The other males were ducking their heads to hide theirs."Fine, we present a united front, but only because the mating wouldn't look real if we didn't." He thought that was a pretty good way to save face, but one or two of the males snorted. "Now, let's go."As one – with Dante and Freya side by side – they all made their way out of the caves and headed toward the gate.Freya marvelled at how all the males could walk at such a leisurely pace yet look extremely menacing at the same time. Each of them suddenly seemed two inches taller than they truly were and had the most sinister look. Even Theo's usual grin had been replaced by a hostile scowl. Dante...well, that was another matter altogether. Scrap hostile and sinister, the guy looked like he needed to get laid. He was a walking promise of death. And her wolf totally approved – yet another indication that she was dumb.Nearing the gate, the
"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