Chapter: CHAPTER 78"I think you chose to lie to him about how you feel and are lying to yourself that you'll be okay without him," Laury tells me."Can't you ever just let a girl delude herself, Laury?""A friend would never." But she says it with a smile.I look down at Shawn, because it seems easier to look at him than at the truth staring back at me in Laury and Sarah's faces. The truth that I should have been honest with him. That I should have told him how I felt and asked him if there was anything in his heart for me, or offered him an opportunity to give me his truth and say that he wasn't interested in that with me. I should have given him a chance. A chance. But now, it's too late."I love him," I say softly, if only because I feel like I need to say it to someone. I could only ever say it to Jackson while he slept. I need to tell someone awake. But even as I repeat the words, I still don't look at Sarah and Laury. I can't. "I love him. I love him. And I'll never have him.""Oh, don't cry, or I
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Chapter: CHAPTER 77Something he used to make a meal for me back when he still looked at me with warmth in his eyes. I'm sure I won't find that warmth there if I see him now.I grab a bagel from the counter and don't even bother to toast it, just keep it clenched between my teeth as I head for my shoes. Then I'm looking back at my house. It's been filled with the last of Jackson's presence these past few days. Both consoling me and haunting me. Leaving here today feels like I'm losing all of that the moment I set foot outside. But I need to let it go. Let him go. So I step outside and shut the door behind me.I blast music the entire way to Sarah's house to keep myself from thinking... much. But once I'm in the house, hugging Sarah and Laury, getting to hold Shawn again, my thoughts aren't so troublesome anymore. Or at least, I thought they weren't bothering me as much until Laury asks if I'm okay for the third time."Yeah." I smile at her. "I'm feeling much better."But her eyebrows only furrow, and she
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Chapter: CHAPTER 76He tosses my phone to the bed as if it's offended him, scorched him, and runs his fingers through his hair."So what the fuck was everything we just did?" He looks everywhere but at me as he speaks. "A mistake? Just something you gave into?" He stops, going so still that I don't dare to breathe in the silence that suddenly fills the room. Then he turns, eyes narrowing, but I can see the suspicion in them clearly. "Was this goodbye sex? Was that what that look in your eyes was about? You doing something you felt you had to do one more time?""No!" I exclaim. "I wanted that. I wanted every single thing that happened.""So what the fuck is the problem? Because you're telling me you wanted it, still want what we do, but your text is saying we can't do it anymore.""This just isn't... working for me anymore," I pathetically lie."You mean, I'm not working for you."Why does he look... hurt?"I never said that," I say low."You don't have to. You clearly haven't lost your desire for what we
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Chapter: CHAPTER 75God, what kind of person am I that that image turns me on. Makes me want to push him just to see if he'll actually do it. He will. I know he will. And that's a part of what turns me on most. That he can hurt me and please me at the same time."What are you waiting for?" he asks as he drops back down to the pillows, hands going back to my hips, flexing there, urging me on.Swallowing, I rise up to reach between our bodies. When my hand slides over his pubic area, I can feel my wetness there, all over him, warm, slick. It's on his cock too and coats my hand as I wrap it around him. I position him at my opening and begin to lower.His eyes become half-lidded as I slide down on him. That stretch that I love so much makes me hiss, giving me sparks of pain until I'm seated on him. We've never done this before, me on top, looking down at him. Doesn't this mean I have the power now? Me controlling him for once? As if he can hear my thoughts, his eyes narrow at me, his nostrils flare, and his
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Chapter: CHAPTER 74"Yeah, a tease and a whore. Look at you.""Fuck you," I shout in his face.He stops sliding into me but crashes his mouth down on mine. His kiss takes my breath away, makes my hands move from his shoulders, inching toward the back of his head, wanting to hold him to me so his tongue can't stop meeting mine, so I don't losethe feeling of his lips. But they still because no, this is the last time. I need to make it everything we could ever be, everything I will never be able to find with someone else. So, I stop kissing him back, and bite down on his tongue. He hisses as he tears his mouth away. The red of his blood is on the crease of his lips as he looks down at me in surprise. And lust is there, always lust, because it's clear he liked that as much as I did, that he likes the taste of blood in his mouth as much as I do."Such a pretty mouth should not do such dirty things," he snaps. "But if you want your mouth to be dirty, I'll make it fucking filthy."He pulls out of my pussy, leav
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Chapter: CHAPTER 73A shiver races down my spine, and Jackson’s smirk tells me he doesn't miss it. Heat rushes through me, all seeming to settle at my bare pussy, making me all too aware of just how ready I am for him to take me. I lick my lips at just the thought of any part of him between my thighs, and his eyes track my tongue's movement. Then, in an instant, his face changes, from smiling to stern, and I know playful Jackson is gone. In his place is the man who makes me give him control over every inch of me, whether I want to or not.He shoots forward and before my gasp has even fully left my lips, his mouth is there, stealing the sound from me while his hands push against my shoulders. My back painfully collides with the dresser, it's handles digging into my skin, but I can't focus on that when his tongue is demanding entry into my mouth, intruding past my lips so I have no choice but to submit to our kiss and open for him. But, as good as it feels, my guilt is present, telling me that I shouldn't
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Chapter: EpilogueMine.He’d filled her full, and every movement caused some of that sticky wetness to spill out of her and coat both of them.He kept rocking with her until he was sure the pleasure was spent, but even then, it was still a long while before either of them moved.It was Prairie Rose who opened her eyes first. She took his face between her palms and kissed him, a satisfied, fulfilled, leisurely kiss that made him want to chase another round of passion with her there in that little cave.“As much as I’d like to stay here all day with you, people will look for us. We’re late, but that doesn’t matter. Couples break off all the time.” She untangled herself and stood up. She held out her hand to him anyway.Prairie RoseThe big cabin was full of noise and commotion. It was full-on chaos with all her brothers and sisters, her parents, Kieran and Zora’s twins, Briar May and Castor’s daughter, and Blake and Levi running through the place.It might have taken them until spring to finally get toge
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Chapter: Were they all in front? “I like the Roman era,” the older boy said. “I’m Blake. This is Levi. Dad said we needed to introduce ourselves to you and help you until he was back.”Levi’s nose wrinkled. “You’re still all bloody. It’s fine to be dirty and bloody, but I think that you wouldn’t like it. We can run you a bath. We have bubbles if you want.”“She needs a shower, she’s not going to want to bathe in blood.” Blake was clearly used to being the older, logical, in charge brother.“We can show you where it is and make you something to eat if you’re hungry.” At the expression on her face, Levi grinned. “Maybe not yet, but you probably will be once you get clean. Getting clean changes people. And you’ll need something anyway. Dad is foul after feast and celebration nights because his head hurts the next morning, but in the afternoon, he eats. We all need good food if we want to be strong.”“That’s right.” She tried not to sound patronizing or let her amazement work its way out. She wasn’t used to being looked
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Chapter: ALEXANDERFinally, her better judgment won out. She raced across the cave and stepped on the bottom half of her dress. It was old and the cotton tore clean away. She wadded up the cloth and stuffed it against the gaping wound, pressing hard. “Help me!” she screamed.Someone moved. A young woman. She placed her hands over the quickly reddening fabric. By the look on her face, that wolf was her mate.“You’ll need something else to stop the bleeding.” Prairie Rose jerked herself upright, head swimming violently with the effort of too much movement.She wouldn’t let her body go down again. Another wolf flew off of Agnar, steeling her determination. There was just enough of him showing that she could see the multiple wounds where he bled from. Bite marks and claw marks both. He looked half ripped apart. Blood pooled around him as the other wolves battled.A second wolf was flipped and pinned in the struggle. It came back, its shaggy brown fur matted in blood. Agnar whirled on it again, throwing off
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Chapter: COME AGNAR“Come,” Agnar commanded briskly. “We walk to our ceremonial site.”He wasn’t a man to wait around and take her hand. He didn’t ask her if she needed anything or care that her equilibrium was way the hell off. To him, she’d given her word, he’d prepared her accordingly with harsh words along the way, and that was all that was needed.She left her bag sitting out in the back of the truck and hurried to keep up with the men who stalked ahead, hulking black shadows in the night. As they got further past the buildings, there seemed to be a garden and several greenhouses. That made her heart quicken with joy. There was nothing she loved more than gardening. Vegetables, flowers, and herbs, she loved all of it in equal measure. She took little joy in cooking, was hopeless at flower arrangements, and was less than useless when it came to practicing medicine, but from planting to harvest she excelled.Prairie Rose was taken aback at the way the chain link fence continued on, those rolls of glea
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Chapter: Prairie Rose, Aline's mother, 30 years ago on Earth's surfaceAgnarIt could be a cruel land, but after the driving snows and icy temperatures that stole the breath clean out of his body, Agnar craved the red dirt and earthy smell of his desert home. There was death there and darkness, but it was also a land strewn with sunlight and flowers, their pungent scent perfuming the air. It might be a perilous place to live, but its beauty was resplendent.The delicate beauty of his mate was nothing like Arizona.Shadowed in the dark of night, Prairie Rose faced the window as she had for most of the drive. No matter how many hours passed, she stayed fixed in one place like a statue. She was beautiful in the traditional sense. High cheekbones, star lights twinkling in the depths of velvet brown eyes, a delicate nose, and full lips. Her hair, somewhere between blonde and white could probably have been called champagne. Expensive champagne. Prairie Rose was as regal as any princess, especially dressed in a velvet dress, the fabric so thin that it looked de
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Chapter: HYBRID LOVEAlina, upon returning home, found the hybrid being in her bed, she felt a great energy flooding her and that her sexual fiction came true, she suddenly remembered the boss and became elusive — Let's stop this madness, get out of my house! She has no right to kiss me and take advantage of the fact that I am alone and sad to have a good time of fun... — It's not crazy, I'm alone too. There is nothing wrong with loving, understand that... We are not fooling anyone. —Alina I have no other...—We are a reality. There is mutual attraction, I felt it when I kissed her. — She is wrong with me, she does not know what she feels or what I want, I am a serious woman and I know when to decide to do something. Now I want you to go away and forget the incident, she told him, as she opened the door for him and pointed out her...She was thinking of Italy with the funny boss, she was also annoyed that he disappeared and returned later without warning.He couldn't forget her kiss, nor her smell, nor th
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BLIND DATE WITH THE HUMAN HUNTER
Marilyn Hart arrives in the misty seaside village of Howling Point, chasing a fresh start and a chance at love. A tech-savvy dreamer, she’s thrilled to land a gig designing a cutting-edge dating app—until she uncovers its secret purpose: pairing human women with werewolf mates. Her latest assignment? Taming the untamable—Jasper, a brooding lone wolf with a jagged past and a deep-seated grudge against humanity. Scarred by a childhood tragedy that left him orphaned, Jasper trusts no one, least of all the fiery newcomer who dares to challenge him. Sparks fly, but not the romantic kind—at least, not at first. As Marilyn digs deeper, she uncovers whispers of Jasper’s dark secrets, hinting at a life shadowed by crime. Yet the more she resists, the stronger the primal pull between them grows, defying logic and threatening to unravel everything she believes about love. Caught between fear and fascination, Marilyn must decide: can she trust her heart when it howls for a monster?
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Chapter: CHAPTER 20“So many lilies,” I say to Val. The scent from the gathered pink and white Stargazer lilies is strong in the conference room of Kevin Black’s office building, and I wonder how the werewolves in attendance are dealing with it. “Did you rob a cemetery?”“I had nothing to do with it.” Val holds up her left palm to shield her right index finger as she points to the scowling giant leaning on the wall with his arms crossed, looking like someone’s bodyguard. She mouths the words, “But I think he did.”I glance around the sunlit room. Round indents in the carpet mark where a table must have sat at one point, and a podium adorned with some of the flowers stands at one end of the room.“It looks fantastic in here, Val. Thank you.”“It’s not my best work. But the light is perfect. If we hurry, the sun will be setting right about the time you say ‘I do.’”I lo
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Chapter: CHAPTER 19“What do you think?” Ryan asks. The smirk on his face tells me he knows how sexy he looks in his perfectly tailored suit.I chuckle. “That’ll do.” But my smile is strained, and I can’t keep my gurgling stomach quiet, especially from werewolf ears. “Lunch didn’t agree with me.”“You didn’t eat much lunch. Or any breakfast.”“Yeah. I don’t eat breakfast. And lunch…” I walk over to him, replaying in my mind that scene from our picnic in the rain. His silk tie is smooth in my fingers when I adjust it. “I was a bit distracted.”But even the memory of our amazing physical chemistry can’t keep my hands from shaking.Ryan wraps his fingers around mine. “It’s going to be okay. You really are going to enjoy my bite.”“That’s no longer the part I’m worried about.”“I’m so sorry y
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Chapter: CHAPTER 18The teakettle hisses on the stove, but I can’t seem to climb out of my place on the couch to do anything about it.Ryan gets up, and not only does he remove the boiling water from the burner, but he splashes it into a mug he’s prepared to make tea for me. The pillow in my hands is soft as I squeeze it tightly to my chest.My phone dings with a text, and I glance at the coffee table to see a notification from Val. She’s dying of curiosity about how things are going with Ryan, but because I can’t tell her about him being a werewolf, I’m afraid to answer.The couch sinks as Ryan sits next to me and places my tea on the coffee table. “Talk to me, Charlie.” When I don’t respond, he places a hand on my arm so lightly that I can hardly feel it. “Scream, break something, hit me. Please. Whatever you need to do to get the frustration out, please do it.”I turn to him. “Would it make a difference?”“It might make you feel better. This quiet version of you is scaring me.”I snort. “You want to k
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Chapter: CHAPTER 17“You’re not listening,” Ryan tells me, gripping my wrists to keep me from peeling off his towel.We both took hot showers, separately, when we returned from the park, and I’m in a thin silk robe that I know hugs my curves and leaves little to the imagination.“I’m struggling to keep control, Charlie,” he says. “We dodged a bullet earlier, and now I need you to be strong for us.”“It’s not like my apartment is bugged or anything.”Ryan mumbles something under his breath that sounds a lot like, “But my mind is.”The idea that his alpha could be tapping into his thoughts for no reason seems ridiculous.I undo my robe’s tie, letting the smooth fabric slip through my hand, and shrug out of the garment. It slithers down to my feet, and Ryan’s chest expands with a sharp inhale.I smile. “Then perhaps I’ll just give you a little visual foreplay.”Ryan groans. “You’re going to be the death of me.” He drops his towel too.I sashay to the bed with him close at my heels. The mattress sinks beneat
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Chapter: CHAPTER 16We’re nearly done eating when a cold ocean breeze slices through the warm air, and we both glance out over the water to see dark clouds approaching.I turn to Ryan. “A storm is coming in fast.”Ryan polishes off the last bit of a sandwich and licks mustard off his fingers. “Rain?” He scans me with his gaze. “You in a wet dress…”I go there too. “You in a shirt stuck to your body.”His eyes twinkle with mischief. “We’re not going anywhere.”I chuckle. “I suppose not.” As soon as I get the words out, fat drops of water start to fall, splattering on the leaves of the tree above us.The storm turns out to be powerful, so we decide to pack up the picnic items. When strong gusts of wind begin to blast at us, I know it’s time for us to abandon our plan.“Come on!” I have to yell to be heard over the steady beat of heavy rain falling. When I jump to my feet to jog out from under the tree, my body gets completely soaked. Ryan joins me, and I grab his hand to tug him to the uneven rocky path wh
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Chapter: CHAPTER 15Ryan groans from the couch, and I glance over to see he’s got a green tint to his skin.“You’ve got a whopper of a hangover,” I tell him as I portion out coffee grounds. Ryan slept on my couch last night, where I managed to get him to lie down after he performed a stumbling version of a dance he’d seen in a movie about male strippers. “It’s obvious werewolves don’t drink for a reason.”“Your voice hurts my head.” He tugs the blanket over his head and moans. “This is your fault.”The fridge light spills out as I tug the door open. “I tried to warn you, but you said I was being a control freak.” I pour Ryan a glass of water from a chilled pitcher and open a cabinet in search of headache medicine. “And when I tried to keep you from drinking too many, you wouldn’t listen.”He whimpers. “I have a vague recollection of that. You can send me home now if you’d like.”“The thought has crossed my mind. But I bet that’s against the rules this early in the process. For now, we’re stuck with each
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