登入Scarlett"Up, Red. Daylight’s burning."A heavy hand shook my shoulder, startling me awake.I gasped, sitting bolt upright on the mattress. The second I moved, every muscle in my body protested with a deep, dull ache from yesterday’s shattered shift.Maddox stood over my bed.He was wearing a tight, charcoal-gray sleeveless compression shirt and worn black sweatpants that hung low on his hips. His scarred jaw was rough with morning stubble, blond hair messy, his thick tattooed arms crossed over a ridiculous chest. He smelled like cedar soap and clean sweat, looking entirely too good for seven in the morning.Stop it, I scolded myself, ripping my eyes away from the cut of his collarbones. He’s a walking menace. Stop thirsting over the guy who literally pinned you to the floor last week."What do you want, Maddox?" I groaned, rubbing my eyes and dragging the duvet up to my chin. "My body feels like it got dragged behind a truck.""We're intensifying your training," he said, totally unim
Killian The last rogue hit the snowy porch with a loud thud. I didn't wait to watch him stop twitching. My jaws unclamped from his throat, the metallic copper taste of rogue blood burning my tongue as I let my wolf recede. Shifting back from pure adrenaline always felt like peeling hot lead off your muscles. My spine popped, shoulders realigning with blunt agony as my hands flattened into bare human palms against the frosted timber. Behind me, Maddox was already on two feet, dragging a hand through his sweat-soaked blond hair, while Titan stood near the shattered doorway, naked and bruised. None of us gave a shit about clothes, cuts, or the dead bodies cooling in the snow. Because inside the cabin, Scarlett was screaming. It wasn't a girl's scream. It was the sound of an animal being torn apart from the inside out. Titan seemed to spur into movement at first, barreling through the splintered frame, but he froze two steps inside when he saw her. Maddox swore vio
Scarlett "You selfish piece of shit." Maddox didn't even drop his gun as he took two furious strides across the pine floor, his knuckles white around the grip. "Maddox, back off," Titan warned, his voice low, but he didn't move an inch to cover his chest. It was almost as thought he was intentionally flaunting the mark. "Back off?" Maddox let out a harsh, ugly laugh. He looked like he was about to rip Titan's throat out right in front of me. "We agreed to handle her together, and you snuck her out in the middle of the night to claim her for yourself!" "I didn't plan it," Titan snapped back, and I smelt his alpha pheromones slightly wafting into the air. "The curse was eating her alive and I had to try trigger her wolf." "By fucking her?" Killian's voice was barely a whisper. And somehow I felt like if betrayed him. My gaze swung to him where he was still standing near the open door. The duffel bag slipped out of his fingers and hit the floor with a dull thud. He looked
Scarlett Pale morning light spilled through the dusty blinds, stinging my eyes as I cracked them open. My entire body felt heavy and completely wrecked in a way that had nothing to do with training. A scratchy wool blanket was pulled up to my chin, but I soon realized that wasn't why I was feeling so hot. The real heat was coming from the massive body curled around mine. One of Titan’s thick arms was slung over my waist, pinning me against his side, as his deep breathing stirred the hair at my temple. I turned my head slightly, looking back over my shoulder at him. His face was actually still for once, the hard, permanent tension wiped from his jaw while he slept. He didn't look like an Alpha barking orders or holding a pack together on brute force. He just looked completely exhausted and almost cute. I carefully shifted, trying to slide out from under his heavy grip without waking him, but as I pulled back, the wool blanket caught on my hip and slid down his bare
Titan Using the vault under the clubhouse to help Scarlett was a bad idea. Half of its steel was warped from Draveth’s pipe bombs, and about thirty displaced pack members were sleeping on cots right outside the blast doors. On top of that, we had a rat breathing our air. Bringing Scarlett down there to scream through a forced shift would have been handing Draveth her head on a plate. So I put her in the passenger seat of my beat-up Silverado, and began driving on an overgrown fire road only my brothers knew existed. I glanced at her, taking in the oversized gray hoodie she’d thrown over her tank top, annd the way her hands were tucked tight between her knees. She hadn't said three words since we cleared the perimeter gate. Just like she's usually quiet these days. Ever since Eloise had gotten hurt I could see the guilt eating her alive. And I think it got worse after she had to kill that rogue with her bare hands.. After a long drive of glancing at her through the perip
RangerWe've been in the church for the past couple minutes and we are having no headway in determining how Draveth accessed the pack.Titan had maps of the northern perimeter pinned across a chalkboard, wih red marker circling every gap where Draveth’s rogues had shown their faces. Maddox stood near the liquor cart, twirling a glass with a dark scowl on his bruised cheek, while Killian sat on the edge of the leather sofa with his laptop humming on his knees."The motion sensors didn't trip," Killian muttered, moving his fingers fast across the keyboard. "I checked the northern logs twice. Draveth stepped up to that treeline through a dead zone our exterior cams don't cover unless the relay gets manually rerouted.""Meaning?" Titan growled, leaning both hands against the wooden desk."Meaning someone shut the third camera off from the control console downstairs," Killian said, looking up with grim eyes. "Twenty minutes before Draveth showed his ugly face."At his words, silence slamm







