All Chapters of The Alpha's Warlock: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Chapter 10 ConsequencesMy hangover had mostly faded by the time we got to the location we’d chosen for our second experiment.I still hated Colin a little bit for being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (figuratively…I hadn’t asked him to shift so I could check) the minute we woke up, but he’d bought me a triple mocha with extra whipped cream on the way, so he’d earned my forgiveness for metabolizing bourbon so much faster than I could.This time, we’d chosen to go somewhere that wasn’t even officially a hiking trail, just a chunk of wilderness that could only be accessed by parking along the side of a mostly-abandoned highway.We took a minute propped against the hood of the car to finish our coffee and make sure we had a solid plan.His plan, anyway. Solid was up for debate, but I had to admit it sounded more likely to work than yesterday’s fiasco.Either way, it was definitely a better day for feeling creeped out than it had been the previous afternoon. The sun had disappeared behind

Chapter 12 I’m InColin’s phone went to voicemail six times before I gave up, and he didn’t even read my texts.I stayed up until one in the morning, lightheaded from exhaustion and too much beer on an empty stomach, and sick with worry and guilt and self-recrimination. I’d pushed him too hard, on something he didn’t want to do at all for about ten different reasons.Losing my best friend over experimental sex would’ve been awful—though I truly hadn’t ever thought it would come to that. Intimacy was intimacy, and we’d laughed off all kinds of weird shit over the past seventeen years.But losing my best friend over not even having experimental sex? That seemed like…the worst of all possible worlds.I finally crashed out, unable to bear sitting there and staring at the dark screen of my silent phone.Something woke me some indeterminate time later, and I flailed up in a panic, tangling myself in my blankets and whacking something solid with my arm.“It’s me,” Colin said, and I subside

Chapter 14 Out of ContextHe looked both shockingly familiar and totally different and new. Like the two Colins I’d seen on the way out here, the one whose face I knew as well as my own and the stranger who was about to fuck me, had merged, and I was seeing him in a way I’d never seen him before. He was himself, with the same dark brown eyes and messy light-brown hair, strong jaw and long nose and all the other features I could’ve traced from memory.But he was also…pure alpha, with his heavy cock and balls hanging between his thighs as he crouched next to me, and the glow still lingering in his eyes—all powerful muscle and tense strength. He was the alpha whose knot had stretched me open, whose semen was dripping out of me onto my jacket.I wanted to focus on his face, but my eyes kept returning to his cock.Even mostly soft it looked big. I licked my lips and looked back up to find Colin’s eyes fixed on my mouth, and starting to glow more brightly again. Gods, maybe I should be ta

Chapter 16 Closing the DistanceI’d been lying there wretchedly wide awake for long enough for the birds to start chirping outside when I heard the couch creak, its springs and frame protesting Colin’s densely-muscled weight.And then the floor creaked too. My bedroom door opened with a quiet squeak of hinges.I tensed, hoping Colin hadn’t come in to restart the fight about Meredith…or to tell me he was leaving.But he didn’t say anything at all. A gust of cold air hit my back as he lifted up the blankets, and then the bed dipped as he climbed in behind me.Now we had a literal gap between us, as well as figurative—and that couple of inches of space felt like miles. I couldn’t feel anything but the air between us, fraught with…I didn’t even know what, but it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up and froze my lungs, making me hold my breath.We’d never cuddled before, even in that one-man tent. We’d lain down back to back, taking turns describing the way the tent walls looked

Chapter 18 Tied Up in KnotsI didn’t broach the subject of the magical straps and cuffs for nearly twenty-four hours. In the meantime, they lurked in my closet, the bright green plastic shopping bag seeming to gaze at me malevolently when I had to open the door to get a dress shirt for work in the morning.And Colin had me on edge, too, paradoxically because he’d been so goddamn normal.It was like our fourth experiment had never happened. He’d never climbed into bed with me, fucked me, knotted me, and lain there with me while I fell asleep with his cock still inside me.He acted like he always had: smiling, laughing, poking fun at me, hanging out on the couch and snacking, complaining about his pack council, and playing dumb games on his phone. No following me around—he barely stirred when I left the house for my morning class, just grunting and waving his fingers at me.And he certainly hadn’t spent the night in my bed again. He’d been already lying on the couch when I came home f