TALIA Alex and I danced the whole night away on the crowded dance floor. I couldn’t believe how many people showed up to Blake and Jasmine’s wedding. I’d never seen so many people in one room before. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Alex was actually a very good dancer. He spun me around until I was dizzy, dipped me low, swung with me to the beat of the music. “My turn!” Lucy cut in at one point. “You’re hogging my dance partner!” She playfully elbowed Alex out of the way. He chuckled and gave my shoulder a squeeze, “Have fun. I’ll go grab us some more drinks.” “No need, I have our tequila shots right here!” Lucy pushed one into my hand. “You’ve gotta love open bar! Now just follow what I do!” She put her shot glass out in front of her, and I did the same. Then I mimicked her movements as she shouted, “Arriba, abajo, al centro, pa’ dentro!” We both threw back our shots, and she grabbed the empty glass from me to put onto the empty tray of a waiter walking by. She then g
ALEXANDER My father and sister were both pretty fucked-up, but, damn, Blake was sick. Because we had to make do with what was available in the casino, which wasn’t much, Blake had a bunch of his warriors holding the members of the Bois Sombre Pack down while he tortured them. They were both fully naked after being forced into their human forms. Chef’s knives were brought in from the kitchen, and Blake tested each one of them out on the men’s torsos until he figured out which one was the sharpest, their ensuing screams widening his smile, his eyes gleaming. “You know what I should be doing right now instead of torturing you motherfuckers?” Blake asked menacingly. They both struggled against the men holding them down, expressions like deer in headlights. “I should be enjoying my wedding night. But since you assholes interrupted it, you’ll just have to enact it for me.” He laughed evilly. “Normally I wait a few hours until we get to the main event during my tortures. But I promised my n
BLAKE “We’ve got our warriors stalking the perimeter of the Bois Sombre Pack. But their territory is too big to cover every part of it.” Beta Alfred walked into the bridal suite where I was now congregated with Luke, Jack, Kyle, Alex, Talia, and Tyce. “Alpha Antoine is sending his warriors to join ours,” I replied, barely able to move my mouth. I was trying desperately to hold it together, but I knew that if we made one wrong move, Alpha Édouard wouldn’t hesitate to kill Jasmine. And, even if he didn’t kill her, I could only imagine what else he might do to her. The man was completely unhinged. He’d beaten his own mate half to death even when he would have felt the pain as he did it; there was no reason he wouldn’t do the same or worse to someone else’s. The graphic thoughts wouldn’t leave my mind. The only thing that kept me half functioning was that I knew she wasn’t dead yet. I would feel her death, same as I felt anyone in my pack when they died. No, she was still alive, but who
BLAKE At around five in the morning, we finally gave up on torturing the assholes and transported what was left of their bodies to the pack cells. All the alphas in Jasmine’s family had gotten involved, taking turns. After Jasmine’s grandfather began his work, it wasn’t long before Jasmine’s uncle also joined us. True to Tyce’s words, he shoved the knife into their literal assholes. But even with so many people taking turns to find new and creative ways to torture, it ended uneventfully. The pack members we held hostage either truly didn’t know where Jasmine was or they were exceptionally good at keeping their mouths shut. I leaned toward the former. I didn’t think it was possible anyone was that good. We’d tortured them in every way possible, they were begging for death, and they still didn’t talk. It seemed futile to keep going, but we decided to keep them alive for now, with the small hope that if we resumed in a few hours, maybe they’d finally break. But it was doubtful at this p
TALIA As soon as Blake knew Jasmine’s whereabouts, Alex and I immediately jumped into his new car to head north to Quebec. I ran across the border in my wolf form and waited for Alex to pick me up at what was now becoming a landmark. I planned to get all my citizenships in order eventually, but it was still a work in progress. “Maybe you should drive the rest of the way, eh?” Alex laughed when we were about an hour out from our destination. “With my terrible luck, I’m not sure if we’ll make it, even being so close now. Especially with all these Quebecois drivers.” “I don’t know how to drive,” I replied. “What? You can’t be serious.” He glanced at me, his eyebrows raised. “I am serious. I never learned.” “Well, damn, there’s something else I need to put on my list of things to teach you.” He took my hand in his. His hand was fully healed now, although the incident had left scars around each of his fingers, like pinkish-red rings. The doctor believed the scars remained because his
JASMINE When I woke, I found myself on cold, hard concrete. I groaned, my neck in pain from being in an awkward position while I slept. I tried to roll over and move my hands, only to find them very heavy. I could feel metal scraping against skin as I struggled to move my arms a little. I opened my eyes, looking around. At first, I couldn’t process where I was, none of it made sense. I’d never seen surroundings like these before—a small room with a cold, hard concrete floor, and a barred metal door. A barred door like ones used for jail cells. I gasped as I realized that’s exactly where I was—inside a jail cell. I lifted my head to get a better look, moving it to find there was a toilet in the corner behind me—one that clearly hadn’t been cleaned in a long time, possibly years. It didn’t even have a seat, and the whole perimeter of it was stained yellow. I sat up, using my core strength to lift myself, and realized with horror that I had to pee. I would have no choice but to use that
TALIA Alex and I arrived a mile outside the pack border at a quarter past two. As soon as we parked, Blake, Luke, and another man who looked to be in about his mid to late thirties slid into the back of our car. “Adalwolf, you’ve met Alpha Antoine?” Blake introduced the man currently seated in the middle. “We may have met briefly in the past. Alpha Alexander.” Alex turned to face the man and shook his hand. “And this is my future luna, Talia.” He gestured toward me. I put out my hand to shake his. “Pleasure, Talia,” he said in a French Canadian accent. The sound of a text message receipt dinged, and Alpha Antoine pulled out his phone. After a moment, he spoke. “It’s Alpha Édouard. He is asking where my sister Sofia is and says that we didn’t meet our end up the deal. What deal is this?” Blake groaned and replied, “We bluffed and said we would trade Sofia for Jasmine. With no intention to do so of course. We were hoping he would tell us where to meet for the trade. But he was too
TALIA I was so horny, it was practically painful. I was ready to fuck the first dick that came along. Okay, not really, but every part of my body was hot and aroused. My nipples were erect, sensitive against the fabric of my bra as it brushed against them. My thighs were practically like jelly, tingling and desperate for someone to glide against them. And I could feel how swollen I was between my legs. Every thought consisted of Alex’s muscular, naked body, and what I wanted him to be doing with it at that moment. I couldn’t even concentrate on what I was actually supposed to be doing. “I feel like I’m now Blake’s official heat babysitter.” Jack sighed. “What does that mean?” Kyle asked, tilting his head at him. He smirked and said, “Better that I keep my mouth shut.” “Goddess, I remember when Emma used to go into heat. She was like an animal.” Kyle chuckled. “We were both living at home at the time, so we actually snuck into the high school one night and had sex on the gym mats.