MasukRage flickered across his face like lightning before he began working the buttons of his shirt loose, one by one.I stood frozen, watching him with wide eyes. What was he doing? Why was he undressing? The shirt slipped from his shoulders, revealing the hard planes of his chest, and I snapped my gaze to the side, fixing it on a gnarled oak tree as if the bark held answers to questions I hadn't asked. Heat pooled in my stomach, unwelcome and insistent. My wolf stirred restlessly, practically purring with anticipation, while my mind scrambled to catch up.Not now. Absolutely not now.Raymond's fingers moved to his waistband, and I heard the zip of his pants before they hit the ground. No underwear followed. Nothing remained. I swallowed hard, throat clicking, and kept my eyes stubbornly fixed on that tree, on the way moonlight caught its branches, on anything that wasn't the naked man standing inches away from me."What are you doing?" My voice came out thin, confused. He didn't answer a
Raymond didn't probably hear me when I spoke that I wanted to finish Lex because he went on with walking phone pressed to his ear, voice low and clipped as he barked orders to someone on the other end. I kept pace beside him, but my mind stayed locked on Lex and the filthy words he had thrown at me earlier where he had wished to assault me if Raymond wasn't my mate. I felt disgusted to my core. He was with Henry but Raymond let him free and didn't kill him. He survived that time but now I had my eyes on him.The moon hung heavy in the night sky, casting its light all over the city. Utter, complete silence surrounded us. There was no one around us, not any cars passing by or strangers. The warehouse was miles away from the main city which I supposed would be the reason to why Lex had bought me here.So, I couldn't scream or run...“You said something a minute ago. What was it?”, Raymond ended the call and turned to me.I held his gaze longer than I should have with out replying.I want
AURORA’S POVThe night air bit at my skin as I walked beside Raymond, putting more distance between us and the warehouse that still reeked of blood and rotten dead bodies. Every step sent dull aches through my wrists and shoulders. My body felt locked up, stiff from hours of being bound, and I rolled my neck trying to ease the tension that clung to me like a second skin."It wasn't supposed to be like this. I was doing perfectly fine until Alpha Lex set his eyes on me. I'm really sorry for the trouble." I said, walking alongside with him."It's completely fine." Raymond replied. The silence and the quietness gloomed in his voice. We barely uttered any words to each other ever since he untied me from the warehouse.I glanced over at him once more, remembering the face before my eyes diverted back to the ground.I didn't know what to feel. I was certainly shocked and consumed by the idea of Raymond, my mate, being present beside me after a long year of nothing. We made no contact, not a
AURORA'S USUAL WETDREAMS"Oh!" I sucked in a startled breath as he hauled me up onto the bed. His big hands shoved my thighs apart without ceremony, and before I could even process it he was already between them, mouth hot and hungry.Skin against skin.The first drag of his tongue over my clit sent a violent jolt straight through me. I cried out, hips jerking, fingers flying to his hair. He groaned against me like he’d been starving for this, the sound vibrating right into my core and making me squirm harder.Swirling violet and cerulean orbs flicked up at me from between my spread legs. Deep. Darkening. Locking on while he licked a long, filthy stripe up my slit and then sealed his mouth over me completely.Under that intense stare and the wet, relentless suction of his mouth, I felt incredibly alive.I was entranced, caught in the raw intensity of his gaze even as his tongue worked me open. The invisible force that drew us together tugged at my defenses, threatening to break down m
AURORA’S POV Raymond My mate.It wasn't hard to forget your mate, especially when there were cruel memories attached with them. I had seen it all with him, the good times, and the terrible times. There was nothing else I needed to see.He was a man, of my past.I let my head fall back on the ground as the men began leaving the shady warehouse. Lex simply grinned at me before departing. My pleads became useless, inaudible as soon as he recalled that he can't kill me because Raymond will come for him.Shuffling with the restraints, I groaned and kicked my feet out of frustration. I still had enough time to run away before anyone could get here and find me but the only problem I had was setting myself free.Memories of Raymond snapped into me like a whip, forcing me to face my past once more and open my eyes wide to see the reality. His face flashed through my head, I closed my eyes and breathed. It had been a long time since I had seen him, since I had spoken to him and since I had be
I remembered screaming for a full minute before the world went black and consciousness slipped away. When I woke, the first thing that hit me was the thick, cloying scent of death and blood, rotten, and so heavy it coated the back of my throat. I didn’t want to imagine where I was or who had taken me, yet an idea already formed in the back of my mind.Barely an hour before everything went dark, Alpha Nigel had warned me they were coming. I had ignored every red flag and continued with my life as if nothing could touch me.The Alpha of the Northern Stone Pack.Lex.He had me.I placed my hand underneath and pressed my palm against the cold, rough ground. My eyes opened wide, but I couldn't see anything. It was pitch-black and silent as a graveyard, the kind of silence that presses against your eardrums until you hear your own heartbeat like a drum.And my hands were tied.The ropes were coarse and unforgiving, digging into my wrists as I tried to break free. My hands were bound behind







