เข้าสู่ระบบHe began to move.Long, deep, steady strokes, each one hitting somewhere she had never been touched before. He kept her legs high on his shoulders and rocked into her with a rhythm she couldn't escape, his hands braced on her thighs, his silver eyes never leaving her face. Every thrust pulled a sound from her. A gasp. A moan. A name."You're so tight," Caspian said. "So hot. I can feel you gripping me.""Don't stop.....""I won't."He leaned over her, folding her nearly in half, and the new angle drove him so deep that she screamed. Her hands scrabbled at the sheets. Her pussy clenched around him in helpless spasms, and she felt his control fray, just slightly, a crack in the polished surface."Faster," she begged. "Please, please, Caspian, harder.....""Careful," he warned, though his voice was ragged. "The cubs.""I'm fine. Fuck me. Please."He hesitated.Through the bond, she felt him wrestle with it, the fierce need to protect her warring with the need to give her what she asked.
"It's a promise." He climbed onto the bed, crawled up over her until his hands were braced on either side of her head, and looked down. "You'll tell me if anything hurts. If anything feels wrong. If the cubs are....""Caspian.""If anything feels wrong.""I will." She reached up and touched his jaw. "I promise."His shoulders eased a fraction. "Then let us begin."He kissed her.It was nothing like Kieran's kiss. Where Kieran devoured, Caspian savored. His mouth moved over hers in slow, searching strokes, his tongue tasting, learning, drawing her in. One hand slid into her hair. The other trailed down her side, light as a feather, mapping every curve. When he finally broke away, she was dizzy."You taste like him," he murmured."Is that a problem?""Not at all. I find it rather encouraging." His lips brushed her jaw. Her throat. The three marks at her pulse, where he lingered, and his teeth grazed the skin until her breath caught. "Tell me what you want, bellissima.""I want you.""Th
The first thing Elara knew was heat.It spread slowly through the fog of sleep, a deep, molten warmth gathering low in her belly, and she turned toward it without waking, a soft sound slipping out of her throat. The sheets slid against her bare skin. Pale morning light pressed against her eyelids. Somewhere far off, a bird was singing.Then something wet and slow dragged along the inside of her thigh, and her eyes flew open."Mmm," said a voice from somewhere beneath the blankets. "There she is.""Kieran?"The sheet moved. A mess of dark hair rose out of the dip between her legs, followed by a pair of amber eyes gleaming with sinful delight. His chin was glistening. He had clearly been at this for some time."Good morning, tesoro.""What are you...." She tried to sit up and found two huge hands clamped around her hips, holding her flat to the mattress. "How long have you been down there?""Long enough." He dragged his tongue slowly, deliberately, up the length of her slit, and her bac
The hall went quiet again.Elara felt Kieran bristle beside her, and a low growl began in his chest. Caspian's hand settled lightly on his arm.She opened her mouth.Alaric spoke first."Elder Hollis." His voice was calm and cold and absolutely certain, and it cut through the hall like steel. "I've known you since I was a pup. You taught me to track a deer through snow. So I'll answer you with the respect you've earned, and I'll answer it once."He stepped forward and faced the old wolf."Four months ago, this woman stood in a Fae courtroom with the full weight of a Court calling for her death. She could have taken their offer. They gave her a name, a title, a seat on their Council. She turned down every one of them to come home to this pack." His dark eyes swept the room. "She stood before thirty-seven Alphas who wanted her to bear heirs for their packs, and she told every one of them no. She chose these cubs, and she chose the men who fathered them, and she chose this pack. Nobody o
Heads bowed as she passed. Some touched their fists to their hearts. A young girl at the edge of the crowd, no older than twelve, stared at her with wide eyes and whispered something to her mother.Elara's heart was hammering. She could feel Kieran's quiet fizz of excitement, Caspian's calm focus, Alaric's steady, grounding presence, all of it flowing through the bond like a river around her. She was not alone. She never would be again.She climbed the dais and stood at the center, facing them all.The hall fell silent.Her gaze swept the room. Marcus by the east door, arms folded. Meredith near the front, her green eyes warm and watchful. Sera hovering by the kitchen entrance, wringing a dishcloth between her hands. In the guest section on the right, Garrett's envoys sat in a tight cluster, led by a lean, sharp-featured man named Tobias Crane, his gaze flat and assessing. Across from them, Victoria's delegation sat very straight, their leader a silver-haired woman called Lena who loo
"Behind him.""There are always people behind a man like Cassian." His voice was grave. "I would not assume he stands alone."Elara pressed her palms against the desk. The bond pulsed warm against her back where all three of them waited down the hall, and it steadied her."I'm giving it three days," she said. "Three days to bring me something I can actually use. After that, I'm done waiting.""Three days," Aldric agreed. "I will do what I can."He rose, tucked the parchment inside his cloak, and paused at the door."Elara.""Yes?""Your mother would have been terrified." He said it gently. "And she would have done exactly what you just did."Then he was gone, a grey shadow slipping down the corridor toward the portal.***Marcus found her an hour later, in the main hall, with Kieran asleep against her shoulder and Caspian reviewing papers across the table. Alaric stood at the fireplace, one hand braced against the mantle.He was holding something wrapped in a square of black cloth."A
The mate bond, which had been humming quietly in the background since he'd caught her scent, suddenly snapped into place with the force of a lightning strike. It roared through him, white-hot and all-consuming, burning away every thought that wasn't her her her MINE.Kieran's vision went white.His
Kieran: Kieran had been running patrol for hours when her scent hit him like a fist to the chest.It stopped him mid-stride, his massive paws skidding in the dirt as his wolf threw its head back and howled inside his mind. The sound was primal, desperate, triumphant...a cry that echoed through eve
Elera:The town didn't exist on any map.Elara had checked three times....once on her phone before the signal died somewhere between the last gas station and the mountains, once on the printed directions her grandmother's lawyer had sent, and once more on the GPS that had given up entirely twenty m
Alaric:Alaric had faced down rival packs, survived assassination attempts, and watched his father die in his arms.But sitting across from this tiny human woman who was glaring at him like she wanted to set him on fire was somehow more unsettling than all of that combined.The cottage was small, t







