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He ground against me, and I moaned, the feel of his cock teasing me, flaring my core to life. It had been dormant, quick flutters of life satisfying it enough for the last week, but this was different.Kai’s hands were everywhere, awakening my skin nerve by nerve, caressing and seducing my body into the heart of the void we had between us. He tugged at my shirt and then my pants, but neither moved easily—my shirt was tucked into my leather pants.He groaned and carried me to our room the next door over.“I thought the change to these she-wolf clothes was hot as fuck, now I’m questioning everything,” he said, grinning as he dropped me on the bed and yanked my pants down my leg, getting them caught on my boots. I laughed, and he smirked at me, removing each boot slowly.I leaned on my hands and watched him, licking my lips as the lava in my core simmered away, ready to explode into what I knew was going to be the best damn feelings I’d had in a while.“The sound of your laugh has been m

I walked over to Adrenna, who was still lashing out, the beast waiting for his chance, waiting for the okay from me.“What were you going to do with him?” I demanded. Adrenna scowled at me.“Keep him. I deserve him. I have nothing left thanks to those fucking witches, and I’m not an idiot, I know Silas will kill me the second I hand him over. He proved that when he had me kill your brother,” she shook her head.“He doesn’t care who he uses to own the world, he only wants power,” she murmured.“Then you chose the wrong side. You could’ve been with us, survived, had us at your back, but you chose to do the one thing that would guarantee your death.”“I chose my side! I was stuck there in the shadow realm, Silas got me out. I’m just trying to survive, to find happiness. But what would you know? You have everything. Your alphas. Your heirs. Your family. You don’t know what it’s like.”I scoffed at that. “You are not the only one who has had to fight for everything they have. I lost my fat

“Stay here,” I said to my alphas, who obeyed—reluctantly. Kai cursed in my head, promising vengeance on the beast if he breathed wrong in our direction. I smiled at him, kissing his muzzle before heading over to the beast. It huffed at me.“I’m not going to hurt you. I told you that, remember?” I said, and it huffed again, considering me. I stepped forward again.“I want Adrenna, just like you. Can you sense her?” I asked it, my shadows still searching.The beast looked over its shoulder before shifting in the snow, shaking off the falling flakes, and circling the trees again. It went around three of them before coming back to me with a grunt.“I can’t sense her there. Look, can you see what I’m holding?” I asked, leaning in a bit so it could glance at Enzi. Kai inched forward, but the beast didn’t attack; it whined. I met its eyes, swallowing at the pain I heard in his voice.“This is Enzi; she has a brother. A twin. Adrenna stole him, and I just need him back. You can have Adrenna,

“I told them you would be,” Tabby said, hobbling over, Kai’s coat still around her shoulders.“How did you know?” I asked as Kai put me down, and I stepped around him. He refused to let me go, tucking me under his arm and keeping his hand on my lower back.“I told you. She is not what she seems.” Tabby smiled, looking over at Enzi. Derik looked down at her.“She pulled you back?”I nodded. “Yeah.”Then my heart sank; I only had two alphas here.“Brax,” I whispered, looking over the pack members who were slowly giving us privacy and dispersing. But I could feel them listening in, feeling the pack link for any signs of trouble.I appreciated them looking out for me, and the tangible feeling of relief of me being back was nice, but I really needed Brax to be okay too. I was going to find it really hard not to have a breakdown about everything that just happened if he wasn’t.“He’s fine. Breathing. Just sore. He’s pissed though, beautiful. We’re giving him some space.”“Why?”“Because Kai

I reached down deep inside myself, past the wall of flame, past the pain and the emotions, to my shadows that were crying, screaming, burning.I hauled them up, whispered back to them, told them we had to fight back, told them we were doing this, and gave them every ounce of my will. If magic worked on will, then surely they did too? It was a theory, but it was all I had.My brother’s will turned his dark; my will had turned mine the opposite way. We had defeated the dark shadows before; we had consumed them. We could do that again. They perked up at that and started filling my body again.I smirked at the black form floating in the water in front of me, holding me against the fiery lake doomstick. The asshole was going to get munched if that’s how they were going to play it. I reached out and grabbed it.I wasn’t sure what to do with it once I had it, though. Luckily, my shadows did. As soon as my hand touched the shadow, my shadows covered it, suffocating it, forcing it into me.I c

The CavesLORELAII spent the next few hours hauling stone, rock, and debris from the piles caging in the beast. I didn’t mention the witch who he was spelled to hunt; I didn’t even mention Zale. Instead, I just focused on what I was doing.My body was warm now, damp with sweat, as the exercise ached in my muscles.My arms hurt, my stomach, my legs. My throat was bone dry and burning; my head was pounding from lack of food, and I had no idea how much actual time had passed, but we were getting closer.The beast only got angry every few minutes and didn’t constantly growl at us, so that was our upside.The shadows helped by flicking rocks out of the way, but we had to be careful which ones we moved, or the whole cave was going to collapse on us.“When we get you out of here, follow the cave out toward the water; there’s a portal on the bank there. It will take you to her,” I whispered to the beast as I finally got the boulder from his back that was pressing down on his neck, making it

3. The ProvocationDERIKI had to stay focused, lead the pack, be the alpha.All I wanted to do was link to Lorelai like Kai was and make sure we were going to make it in time.Not being able to link at the same time as him was driving me insane, making me feel out of control, and that was the last thing I wanted to be.But I had my role. We all did. And we had to work together.Kai had the strongest mental connection with her, which she needed so she could hold it for longer. Brax could use his shadows to strengthen her and help keep our child alive.My role was the pack. I had to be the one with the level head, the one who knew where to send the others, the one who could keep everyone in line.They listened to me and I was glad they did, but I couldn’t help wondering if I was getting the short end of the deal.They got to feel her, be with her in some way, and it was hard not to take that luxury for myself.But I would handle it because I had to. It wasn’t safe for her, and by doing

The guard chuckled and nodded. “You want a drink? I’ll give you something to drink. Here,” he said, then undid his pants, pulled out his tiny, limp dick, and pissed all over my food, the spray aiming for me.I sucked a breath in between my teeth and shuffled back, only just getting out of the way in time.My heart sank as I looked at the soaked bread that had been the only salvageable thing on the plate, and I almost cried.I looked away as he laughed a booming laugh.“A meal fit for a traitor,” he spat over the tray as I glared at him, pursing my lips, refusing to cry in front of him.“Fuck you,” I whispered, and he laughed harder, kicking the plate at me, overturning it on the dirty ground.“Oh, maybe later. Teach you how to take a man for a change.” He winked, and my stomach heaved.I turned my head away just as the door opened again. I peered over at him, thinking he was leaving, but it wasn’t him.Another guard came in, this one much cleaner, taller, leaner. He was fit, with a tr

I listened for his heartbeat: it was steady.“He’ll be okay. I have to go,” I said, my voice thick with emotion. I wanted to stay and make sure he was okay, but I wanted Lorelai more.Tabitha nodded her dismissal, whispering over Cain, pulling his head into her lap.I ran. I left the house without a look back, my heart thundering in my chest as I leapt over the banister, bursting into my wolf form and taking off toward the city.“She’s with the humans. Underground. A locked wooden door with a grate on it. There are lots of tunnels there.” “We know exactly where there are humans hanging out where they shouldn’t be,” I growled in my mind, knowing Derik and Brax would do what they needed on their end and with the pack. I wasn’t stopping. My paws hit the ground heavily, the swamp and forest a blur as I ran with all the strength and muscle I had toward the men’s village in my area.Those fuckers had been lying for too long, getting away with their bullshit because more humans meant mo

Biting the hand that feeds them was not a good idea because I was going to bite back, and my bite was so much bigger. Deadlier.Stupid, naive humans had no idea how the delicate magic that held everything together always demanded something. Virgin sacrifices, an eye for an eye…nothing was free.The wolves had been paying that price for a long time. For the humans. Where was the balance there? Or maybe this was a lesson for them. If it was, I was happy to let them learn it.As long as Lorelai wasn’t a part of it.“I don’t want you to find the other humans. I don’t care about them. Where is Lorelai, Tabitha? Find the baby, the link, I don’t care, just give me something.” I tried again, my mind just as blocked as hers seemed to be.She shook her head again and placed a hand on my shoulder, kissing my forehead.“Patience, sweetness. This realm would not have granted you such a blessing as a winter born alpha child just to rip it away from you,” she tried, but I was done with the patronizi

1. The HuntKAI“Where is she?!” I roared at my useless pack, who had searched the entire werewolf territory without finding a damn thing.Glaring down at the brand on my wrist that was stopping me from going after her myself, I contemplated removing it from my skin just to see if fate could be thwarted so easily.She had been with her mother; there should be a scent, but there was nothing.I smashed my fist into the concrete wall next to me, the mansion in serious danger of being pummeled to death if one more wolf came back without her.The link was numb, but I wasn’t about to look too much into that, or I’d never come back from the edge.“Kai. We’ll find her,” Brax tried to reassure me, but nothing would until I could feel her again.I was empty, my chest heavy, everything inside me a storm growing stronger and stronger, ready to explode.I turned and kicked my seat back from the meeting table. The council was trying to organize how to get her back, not because she was the essence I

The world spun for a second, and I took a steadying breath.“Lorelai?” he asked, his voice softer than I had ever heard it.It broke through the spinning, and I forced myself to stand strong.“I’m good,” I bit, glancing over at the corner. I was losing my damn mind. Stupid werewolves.“Kai. We’ve got to start,” Derik said, standing by his first girl.Nikolai hesitated before letting me go and grabbing a random girl from his group, pulling her to the door as Braxton picked his.He looked to me and nodded at the alcohol table. “Drink the punch. It’ll help,” he bit, before looking back at the others. “Wait here.”Then the wolves disappeared.Most of the girls huddled together, keeping to their respective villages, but I was winter born. Nobody cared where I went.So, I found the alcohol. It was made up in a punch that swirled in my plastic cup, had a little fizz, and was a pinkish-orange color.I had no idea what that meant, but I didn’t care enough to question it. Instead, I gulped it b

I shivered as it reached inside me. A huge wall surrounded the city, and the giant black gates opened for us. I stared out at the lake that was surrounded by trees and rocks.A cold pit dropped in my stomach as I stared through the darkness, the red of the moon stretching across the black lake. I frowned at the feeling as it sank further, cold and hard.I narrowed my eyes through the darkness and swore my eyes found a shadow.One that stared back.4. The Shadow“Wait…can we stop?” I asked breathily as the feeling tightened inside me. I had no idea why I felt it so strongly, but the shadows felt wrong. They didn’t match the trees.“Why?” Nikolai asked.I didn’t have an answer. I held my hand against my chest as the cold spread, and I shivered hard.The shadow moved quickly from one tree to another, and just as I was sure I was making up shit in my head, two red eyes flicked open, staring at me from miles away, but it was like they were right there.I gasped, shoving back from the windo

I glanced over at Nikolai and swallowed as he announced that Portia Caldwell would be joining me in carriage one.Perfect. Tonight officially made it the worst night ever.Miss Perfect Portia… Just her name had me tensing. She was the leggy blonde who said all the right things, kissed ass like a pro, and never rubbed people the wrong way—except for me.She was as bitchy as they came, and I had been on the rear end of the scorn from the villagers most of my life because of her. She proved my point with her next words.“Oh, thank you. I am so grateful, Your Majesty, my alpha, but I must decline. It would be improper to willingly choose to be in the same carriage as a winter born. I wouldn’t wish bad luck on the night,” she said, as sweetly as molasses.I rolled my eyes, and all three alphas turned to me. I had to work to keep my spine straight under their gaze.Most humans avoided procreating in the months that led to a winter born, so there hadn’t been many. Not any in my lifetime. I c

“They protect us, Lorelai. If it weren’t for the wolves, our village would have been destroyed during the great war, the vampires would own humans, and we would simply be walking blood bags,” she reminded.“As opposed to walking sex slaves?” I taunted, and her scowl deepened.“Enough, Lorelai. It’s the way things are. We are human, surrounded by creatures far more terrifying than us. We must accept the blessings we are given, and that is the protection from the alphas,” she said, then left the room, expecting me to follow.I did—just as the horn blared from the bonfire.Mother’s eyes widened. “Lorelai, run!”2. The Offering“What, why?” I demanded.“They are here! You cannot be late or our family will be cast to the Vampire Territory!” she cried.I sucked in a breath. I had never seen that happen before.She pulled a shawl over her shoulders, then grabbed my hand, abandoning our hut and hauling me through the matching homes.It was bloody freezing, the warmth of the fire and wooden fl

1. The VillageEvery year they came. Every year they tormented. Every year they stared from dark eyes and huge bodies at the offerings of the village.This year was my year.Turning eighteen was meant to be some amazing experience that the village deemed as an honor because of them. Like being a chew toy for a bunch of asshole alphas for the night was something to celebrate. Like saving my vagina to be ripped to shreds by them meant I should be forever grateful to their big hairy balls. Yeah, right.The village was usually quiet, but not tonight. Tonight was the blood moon. The night of the offerings. It was alive with music and the roar of a bonfire as the village prepared.I looked over at the white dress my mother had laid out and sneered.I had contemplated forgoing the whole thing by ruining my “purity” with the baker’s son in the men’s village, but last time they had been offered a nonvirgin, the alphas had lost their shit and burned almost every hut to the ground, ravaging th