It felt like I was yanked under water and held there until my lungs were burning to take in a new breath. I didn’t know this place, some strange black void that echoed the sound of my own breath back to me. ‘You shouldn’t be here!’ I could feel my entire body start to shake as my eyes focused on the black wolf and the man beside him. “Fuck You!” I shouted, making his head snap up to look at me. The wolf beside him sighed heavily. I’d been fully awake and still somehow ended up being pulled into a dream with him. “How are you here?” Dmitri genu
I was relieved to see Blake and not Nathan or Dmitri sitting there watching me sleep. He gave me a cheeky grin when I got dizzy from sitting up too fast, and he laughed when I stuck my tongue out at him. “So, how much trouble am I in this time?” I tried to smile, but I knew I wasn’t going to like the answer. “I think you’ll have to define ‘trouble’ before I can answer that,” it had to be a good sign that he was still smiling and sounded a little jovial. “Did mom and dad ground me to this room? This suite? The house? Or are they packing me up and shipping me off to boarding school in hopes that I’ll change my wicked ways and be the good girl they raised me to be?” his good mood was contagious and I couldn’t help but be a little over dramatic. “I don’t think you’re anymore grounded than you were before,” he grinned, “but I don’t know if that is because of interpack politics or because they don’t think they can do more than observe rather
Everything about this just felt wrong. The meadow was the same. The trees surrounding the open space in the forest were the same. Even the full moon shining in the night sky was the same. But it was all so very wrong at the same time. Everything was deathly still and deafeningly silent. Even the sea of stars above refused to blink. A sense of dread was churning in my stomach as I turned in slow circles where I stood. I could feel that there was something or someone out there, but I couldn’t see anything but grass and trees around me. If this was a dream, his dream, where was he? Every dream we’d shared, he’d always been right there, either beside me or within eyesight. Why would he dream about me standing alone? The one other time I’d been pulled alone to this place, I coul
I’d started to think that he wasn’t going to show his face at all. Sophie’s face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning when he stepped through her doors. “Dimi?” her chair fell back on the floor, she stood up so fast. I couldn’t help but smile, watching her run across the room to tackle him. “I thought you said you couldn’t…” He cut her off, “Someone helped me free up just enough time to visit with you for a little while before I have to get back to work.” He gave her a hug, looking at me over the top of her head. She kept an arm around his waist as he walked her back to the table, as if she was afraid to let him go. He picked her chair up for her, pushing it in as she sat down. “Good morning Selene,” he didn&rsq
I knew this place. It was the void that had swallowed me up the last few nights in my nightmares. Had I been dreaming about my death? I didn’t feel the same sense of panic and dread that had me gasping for air when I woke up. This was peaceful, and serene; who would have thought that dying could be so comforting? ‘Has this life been so difficult that we welcome the prospect of death?’ a soft feminine voice mused. “I couldn’t take the pain anymore,” I answered back, my voice sounded meek and small in this endless void. Melodic laughter reverberated around me, &l
The goddess wearing my face looked at each of the twin as if she was trying to determine each of their worth, ‘Even after all they’ve suffered us to endure?’ She shrugged nonchalantly, the movement looking strangely elegant on her. ‘We cannot just create a mate for each of them out of thin air, not unless they’d like to wait a few decades.’ “What about all of the female shifters, they don’t have mates, can’t we just…” I waved my hands around like I was pairing them up with new mates. She laughed softly, ‘Of course they have mates,’ she patted me on the head, like a small child. ‘
I felt like I was being crushed between the two siblings, making it harder still to breathe through their scents. I could only hope that my senses were just overactive from the events of the last hour or so, and this wasn’t going to be a permanent thing I had to get used to. Pulling myself out of their arms, but still leaning against him a little to stay upright, I asked again, “No, really, where are we?” Sophie looked me over and blushed, reminding me that I was stark naked. “It’s a vault our father built to hold our mother while she shifted.” She walked to the panel on the wall, laying her palm flat against the glass making it light up. There was a sliding sound in the wall, and when the panel beeped she pushed against the concrete wall, making it open up to the adjoining room. “Your mother could shift?” I shot Dmitri an accusatory glare, as I followed her through the opened wall. We stepped into their parents’ suite. Sophie snagged
I waited for Sophie to close the doors behind her, before I headed off to find an unoccupied room. “We need to finish our talk, if you don’t mind.” I nearly had a heart attack when I heard his voice beside my ear. I hadn’t even heard him leave his parents’ suite, the sneaky bastard. “No. It’s late and I’m tired,” I complained, turning to face his bright blue eyes. “You’ll either have to hope you can fall asleep and dream with me still or wait until morning, Dmitri.” I stepped aside to put some space between us. “This can’t wait,” he pivoted with me, leaving the gap between us, but also stepping in the way so that I couldn’t just pass him. He opened the doors to his own suite. “After you,” he gestured to the room beyond. I stood there staring into the dark room as I debated with myself about what to do next. It felt like I was about to cross a line one way or the other, and yet no matter what choice I made, I knew that the conversation