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ALTHEA. The walk from the packhouse to the clearing where Blade wanted my cabin was what I needed to clear my mind. I’d been in a push-pull state of mind the whole morning. I badly wanted to leave him, but then we had been apart for so long and had never really tried being together to face the challenges of being mates. So maybe Lucy was right. I couldn’t just give up. Besides, despite wanting to go, I didn’t want to be far away from him. But I also didn’t want him to treat me this way. I didn’t even know what I did wrong. I wished he would talk to me. But I tried not to think about him during the walk. Thalia was delightful to be with. She was four years older than me, but despite the age gap, she never made me feel like I was too young to be respected as her Luna. She asked how I was feeling, and I told her I didn’t want to dwell on it for the moment. So, instead, I asked her to tell me things about her. She shared that she and Dalton were never a couple and barely spok
ALTHEA. “I, Althea Vitali,” I began. I asked a member of Lucy’s pack how wolves go with rejection out of curiosity, but I could use it now to save what was left of my shattered heart. I thought Blade had so many opportunities to tell me about her, but he never shared anything. All I got were bits and pieces from Lucy when Alpha Stone would tell her something about him. And all the positivity of her being gone and me being here was no longer helping. I knew breaking away from Blade would shatter me completely, but this was already happening, so it shouldn't be harder. I wanted to be loved as me. Not as a replacement. Not because a certain bond made him do it. “No!” Blade roared as his hands clamped on my shoulders, painfully grabbing me. “Stop!” “Light witch of…” Tears trickled down my face as I stopped to gasp for air. My eyes were too blurry, so I could only see his silhouette. “I, Alpha Balderus Acosta, accept you…” Blade roared, deafening me, but my body was already rel
BLADE.“Tell me about your nightmares. I want to hear them. All of them," she said in a voice devoid of any emotion as she lowered her body to the ground, sitting a few feet in front of me.But where do I start?Should I begin from the moment I met a human who turned out to be my fated mate? Someone who was aware of werewolves but not comfortable around them?Should I tell her I used my best effort to convince Soledad that I was worth being a mate and worth leaving the human life she was accustomed to? But how do I admit to her that my first mate was not willing to take me as I was? Soledad wanted nothing to do with my pack and had convinced me to give up my post as an Alpha and live a simple life with her. I didn’t want to. I couldn’t. I never saw myself as anything but the leader of a pack.It had been an on-and-off argument between the two of us. I loved her, but I loved my pack as well. I was hoping I could make her understand that I didn’t want to choose between her and being a
BLADE. “You’re not a God, Blade. As much as you want to, you can’t save everyone.” How do I tell her if I just gave Soledad what she wanted? Maybe it didn’t come to that. But I shut my mouth and just nodded my head. My hand reached for the stray hair on her face and tucked it behind her ears. “If it was about me, then what was your nightmare last night?” She asked. “Last night, it was not Soledad who died…” I dropped my gaze from her after I said it, but I let my fingers play with the tip of her hair. “I didn’t die… I’m here.” “But what if…” I stopped. “What if I can’t protect you?” “You’ve been doing great at it since day one,” she said in a warm tone. That gave me a little hope, but I didn’t know what to say anymore. I was not good with words, and I had no idea how to convey the fear I felt. My hands clamped against her arms as I gently rubbed them. “I’m not as helpless as you think I am.” She added. “I never think of you as helpless, Althea.” “That’s good, then.” She
ALTHEA. I was not sure staying and waiting for Blade to tell me about his nightmare was even a good idea because every time Soledad’s name would come out of his mouth, it was like a knife piercing my heart. I needed to get past this part. Only then could I decide if this was worth fighting for or if I had already lost this battle from the very beginning. But everything he told me, even the bad and the ugly, warmed my heart. There was no guarantee Blade was one hundred percent mine, but it was enough that he wanted me. I could start with that. “My bad. So tell me now, Althea, what do you want?” His raspy voice made butterflies and ladybugs flutter in my stomach. I giggled, not being able to stop my excitement. Blade was giving me a dual personality — one that was upset one moment and the other, excited like a kid on Christmas day. “Are you sure you’re ready to hear it?” I asked playfully. He nodded. “Last time you asked me about my conditions, I had a long list, so it might
ALTHEA. My small hands were all over Blade, grasping and touching every part of his naked upper part. Until my fingers reached his neck and I remembered something. I pulled away from kissing him, and he grunted, pulling my body closer to him as his mouth devoured my throat. “Can I mark you? For real?” I asked, panting while my eyes were fluttering. “Hmmm…” He mumbled in response, and I was not sure if he even understood what I was asking him. “Blade…” I moaned because his lips were sliding down my neck, and I had no idea how he was able to flap open the front of my dress and get access to my breasts. But I didn’t mind. I liked that he was just as hungry for me as I was for him. “I will mark you…” “Do whatever you want with me, baby…” He said in a raspy voice, and the tingles all over my body intensified. He was not questioning my move. I arched my body, giving him full access to play with my breasts before I pressed my three middle fingers in the crook of his neck and began c
ALTHEA. Blade and I spent more time talking and then giggling and laughing in between. I was fully aware he was naked, and I could feel his cock prodding my core. And although we had shared many kisses, Blade didn’t push further despite seeing his eyes swirling with lust and dilating from time to time. I was grateful for that, as I wanted to discuss many things with him. Maybe it was the part of me that planned everything ahead of time that wanted a clear direction, so I would not be left clueless if something happened again, and I was glad Blade was entertaining all my questions and answering them patiently. By the time we were ready to go home, it was already dark, and my stomach was growling from hunger as I hadn’t eaten much the whole day. Also, by then, we had decided to visit the university within the territory tomorrow so I could enroll and start right away. Although I would be happy spending time with Blade and learning how to be a Luna, I also wanted not to be stripped o
BLADE. It has been five days since Althea and I had a heart-to-heart talk in the middle of the forest, and everything after that has been smooth sailing, except for my fucking cock. I was not able to use it again. We would kiss and grope each other, and she had let me touch her twice, but my little witch would withdraw if things got heated up. And I had no fucking willpower to ask for it, as I knew she might still be recuperating from the trauma I caused her after our first time. Or she was simply punishing me. She also refused to sleep in my room and never invited me into hers. So after we were done with the kissing and the groping, she would leave me alone for the rest of the night. Other than that, our days were spent learning about each other and her learning about the pack. Speaking of learning, Althea was not able to enroll at the university within my territory as they didn’t offer the course she was taking, and she had no plans of shifting to another one. I tried t