Masuk我身后的铁门发出骨头摩擦的低沉湿润的嘎吱声,仿佛野兽在猎杀后紧紧闭上了嘴。
该隐背着我穿过了三道栅栏门。我的双臂环绕着他的脖子,指尖抵着他腺体边缘上方的皮肤。滚烫。异常的热度。一个阿尔法王的体温不应该这么高。除非他正在竭尽全力地压制着什么。
值班的卫兵低着头靠在墙上。他的目光扫过我湿透的裙子,扫过我膝盖上还在渗出的鲜血。他喉咙哽咽了一下,随即垂下眼帘,一句话也没问。
第二道门。铁栅栏发出刺耳的锈蚀金属摩擦声,尖锐的金属气味弥漫在空气中。
第三道门。厚厚的橡木板,用铁条加固。一阵冷风吹来,带着从石墙渗出的寒意,门就此打开。
客厅。
黑色的石墙。一张黑色的皮沙发。壁炉里橙色的火焰噼啪作响。没有地毯。没有窗帘。没有灯罩。一面墙上摆满了猎刀,刀鞘锃亮,刀柄上缠绕着皮绳。角落里的钢架上放着两把弩和一把短柄斧,刀刃在寒光中闪着寒光。
空气冰冷刺骨。石头、铁器和烧焦的雪松木的气味从火堆里飘出来。这里无人居住。这是一间审讯室,碰巧里面放着一张沙发。
他把我扔到了皮革上。
我的背重重地撞在黑色沙发上。湿漉漉的裙子向上滑,在沙发表面留下一道深色的水渍。裙摆高高翘起,露出膝盖上方一大片惨白的大腿内侧。湿漉漉的布料紧贴着我的皮肤,在黑色皮革的映衬下显得格外刺眼。撞击撕裂了我膝盖上的伤口,我倒吸了一口凉气。鲜血顺着我的小腿滚落,汇聚在脚踝周围,形成一片黏稠的血迹。
我还没来得及撑起身子,他的手就一把按住了我的肩膀。五根手指深深地嵌入我的肩胛骨凹陷处,残忍而精准地将我牢牢地钉在了地上。
“别动。”
两个字。语气平静,却带着一种如果你不服从就会有非常糟糕的后果的警告。
他转身消失在另一个房间里。
我用手肘撑起身子。火焰舔舐着石砌壁炉,橙色的光芒在黑色皮革上闪烁。我的裙子卷到了大腿中部,湿透的布料紧贴着我的身体,勾勒出我的腰线、髋骨和双腿的曲线。膝盖上的伤口还在渗血,与洗衣房的污水混在一起,凝结成一层薄薄的、半透明的薄膜。
片刻之后,他再次出现。
他手里拿着一个沉重的野战医疗箱。橄榄绿色的箱子,铁包边的边角因多年的使用而伤痕累累、凹凸不平,把手也磨得光滑。他把箱子放在咖啡桌上,打开了。然后,他蹲在我面前。
一位阿尔法之王,正蹲伏在地。
他掏出碘酒、止血粉和一卷纱布。他的动作干净利落,仿佛已经做过无数次。袖子卷到手肘,露出一道从手腕内侧蜿蜒至肘弯的旧刀疤。伤口缝合过,但缝线粗糙歪斜,像是他自己对着镜子缝的。
“我自己来做。”
我伸手去拿碘酒。
他抬起头,目光与我的目光相遇。
冰蓝色的虹膜。火光映照其中,如同被加热到即将变红的金属般闪烁,毫无温暖可言。他没有怒视,也没有皱眉,只是看着我。两片冰晶,冰层之下,燃烧着什么。
我的手悬在空中,然后我把它缩了回来。
他撩起了我的裙摆。
他宽大的手掌托住我的膝盖后侧,抬起了我的整条腿。我的脚后跟离开了沙发。我的腿勾住他拇指和食指的虎口,小腿垂在他的前臂旁。我的膝盖暴露在火光下。
那道伤口像个参差不齐的小嘴,边缘向后翻卷,露出下面白色的脂肪层。周围的皮肤红肿滚烫,触感灼热。鲜血仍在缓慢而稳定地涌出。
他拧开碘酒瓶,一股刺鼻的消毒水气味扑面而来,直冲我的鼻窦。
他直接把药水倒在了伤口上。
冰冷的液体浸透了生肉。
感觉就像十几根针同时扎进身体里。
一声压抑的呻吟从我喉咙里迸发而出。大腿内侧的肌肉猛地抽搐了一下。我的腿本能地抽搐着想要往后缩。湿漉漉的裙子因为我的挣扎又向上滑了一寸,露出了大腿根部一小片娇嫩的肌肤,冰冷的空气瞬间让我起了鸡皮疙瘩。
他的左手猛地一攥,粗糙的手指深深地嵌入我的肉里。他的手掌紧紧地扣住我的膝盖后侧,把我牢牢地钉在皮革上。那力道无比巨大。我能感觉到肌肉在他的钳制下被挤压,骨头在他手中隐隐作痛。
他的手掌火辣辣的疼。
他手的温度透过我冰冷的皮肤渗入肌肉,沿着血管向上蔓延,一路灼烧到大腿根部。他拇指根部粗糙的老茧刮擦着我膝盖内侧娇嫩的皮肤,留下淡淡的红色灼痕。我的腿在他手中痉挛,肌肉紧绷,膝盖骨颤抖。
他低头看了看他手握着我的地方。我苍白而柔软的大腿肌肤在他黝黑、饱经风霜的手指两侧鼓胀起来,就像被揉捏的面团。
“别扭来扭去。”
他的声音低沉了一些。
他拿起镊子。尖锐的镊尖探入伤口,夹住一块玻璃碎片。他把它拔了出来。碎片落在金属托盘上,发出清脆的撞击声。他又探了探。又一块。又一块。我的腿在他手中再次抽搐了一下,他的手抓得更紧了,拇指深深地按进我膝盖后方柔软的凹陷处,留下一个白色的印记。
很疼。但最吸引我注意的却是他的手。
他用膝盖压住我的膝盖,不让我动弹,但他的拇指却漫不经心地抚摸着我的大腿内侧。他粗糙的指腹划过那娇嫩的肌肤,仿佛在安抚我,又仿佛在衡量我。这个动作太过亲密,对于一个狼王和一个他刚从洗衣房里捞出来的欧米伽来说,实在太过亲密了。
我低头看着他。
他的睫毛很长,低头时在颧骨下投下淡淡的阴影。他的鼻梁像刀锋一样锋利。他的嘴唇紧抿。他紧咬牙关,专注而锐利,如同新磨的刀刃。火光在他脸上跳跃,将他的脸庞分割成两半。一半是坚硬、不屈的平面,另一半则是睫毛投下的柔和阴影。
他蹲在这间审讯室兼起居室的地板上,像一名战地医护人员一样熟练地清理我的伤口。
狼王。
情况非常不妙。
“你在看什么?”他问道。
他没有抬头。
我没有躲避他的目光。我微微侧头,让一缕湿发从肩头滑落,贴在锁骨上。一滴水珠顺着发丝滑落,渗入我的领口。我直视着他冰蓝色的眼睛,嘴角勾起一抹慵懒的浅笑。
“你啊。传说中的狼王跪在地上,像个卑微的仆人一样服侍我。这景象真是奇特。”
夹在我伤口里的镊子猛地一抽。
他抬起头。
那双冰蓝色的眼睛紧紧锁定着我。他的瞳孔里似乎闪过一丝异样的光芒,那是猎物突然露出利爪时的惊恐。随后,一丝更加危险的气息闪现出来——兴趣。
他凝视着我。然后他低下头,继续清理伤口。但这一次,他的拇指不再抚摸我的大腿内侧,而是用力按压我膝盖后侧柔软的皮肤,力道之大,我甚至能感觉到自己的脉搏在他的指尖下跳动。很痛。但最痛的,是那种要害部位被按压后令人窒息的沉重感。
他抽出最后一块玻璃碎片,扔进托盘里。“叮”的一声。他抓起一块纱布,轻轻擦拭伤口周围的脓液和血迹。白色的纱布一接触到我的皮肤就泛起了淡淡的红色。他扔掉纱布,又拿了一块新的。撒上止血粉,盖上棉垫,用医用胶带固定。一圈。两圈。
无缝的。
他站起身,啪地一声合上了医疗箱。
"Long-term. High-concentration. The surface is riddled with hardened knots. A healthy Omega gland is soft. Elastic. Yours has already shriveled. It's a piece of dead meat, pickled by drugs."I bit my lip.Bit until it blanched white, the taste of rust filling my mouth."Keep taking those drugs, and your heat will disappear completely. You'll be a barren, sexless husk."Everything he said was true.Suppressants bought on the black market. Three times the concentration of hospital prescriptions. I split one vial into three doses, adjusted the dosage myself, and injected them into my gland in the alley behind the laundry room. Sometimes I miscalculated the dose. I'd seize up afterward, hug a trash can and vomit, then get
"Why were you in the laundry room?" I asked. "You're the Wolf King.""My clothes get washed there." He set the kit on the coffee table. "And I left something behind.""A pendant.""Two."My hand went to the hidden pocket on the left side of my skirt. The red pendant was still there, pressed against the wet fabric, warm from my body heat. I pulled it out and held it up.The blood-red stone hung in the air. The firelight pierced through it, casting a small patch of red light onto his face, landing right on the faint scar beneath his left eye."Your royal crest. There's only one in all of Alpha City. You put it around the neck of an Omega you knew absolutely nothing about
我身后的铁门发出骨头摩擦的低沉湿润的嘎吱声,仿佛野兽在猎杀后紧紧闭上了嘴。该隐背着我穿过了三道栅栏门。我的双臂环绕着他的脖子,指尖抵着他腺体边缘上方的皮肤。滚烫。异常的热度。一个阿尔法王的体温不应该这么高。除非他正在竭尽全力地压制着什么。值班的卫兵低着头靠在墙上。他的目光扫过我湿透的裙子,扫过我膝盖上还在渗出的鲜血。他喉咙哽咽了一下,随即垂下眼帘,一句话也没问。第二道门。铁栅栏发出刺耳的锈蚀金属摩擦声,尖锐的金属气味弥漫在空气中。第三
Cain looked down at her.He lowered himself into a crouch, stopping halfway, leaving a gap between his knee and the ground. His face hovered close to Vivian's. The muscles of his back pulled taut under his uniform, carving out several harsh lines from his shoulder blades down to his lumbar spine, the curve sharp as the spine of a blade. His palm had withdrawn from my neck, but the residual heat of it was still there, and my gland was still throbbing in place, like a heart carved out and left pulsing outside my body."The engagement." His voice was very quiet now. "Was a lie your father spread himself. I never agreed to it. Not once."He extended his right index finger and touched the back of it to Vivian's chin, tilting her face up. That finger was still caked with dried blood."You stepped on her hand today. You ruined my coat. You tried to frame her with that cheap piece of rock. And you told her to crawl between your legs."He withdrew his finger. Vivian's chin dropped like a sever
The iron door flew off its hinges.Not an exaggeration. The sheet metal door was ripped clean from the frame and hurled across the laundry room, bouncing twice before skidding to a stop. The impact shattered two washbasins by the water trough, dirty water sloshing up three walls. The remaining hinges on the doorframe kept swinging, screeching out a metallic wail.The cold wind knifed in, and with it came a wave of Alpha pheromones so potent it could trigger every Omega on the premises into a forced heat. Cedarwood. Gunpowder smoke. The sharp, sweet tang of fresh human blood. This wasn't diluted pheromone residue. This was the raw, dominant presence of a male fresh off the battlefield, adrenaline still surging, his scent gland still pumping at full capacity. The instant that pheromone flood hit the laundry room, the back of my neck ignited, my gland bulging outward so violently I nearly let a muffled moan slip from my throat.Cain stood in the doorway.His black combat uniform was dren
Winter in the Wolf Territory could kill.The laundry room was a box of corrugated steel. When the wind shoved through the seams, it whistled—a low, guttural sound, like the noise a male wolf makes deep in his throat just before he mounts. I had been crouched beside the washbasin for so long that my kneecaps had gone numb, my fingers buried in water that was barely above freezing. My knuckles were swollen, purple as dead beans, and packed under the nails was a crust of dried blood.Not my blood.It belonged to Cain's war coat.The Wolf King had ripped a traitor apart with his bare hands the night before. They said he tore the man's scent gland clean out of his throat, trachea and all, and the blood had sprayed across the floor in a three-foot arc. This coat was the proof. Clotted shreds of tissue were still snarled deep in the fur. I had washed it five times, and the water I wrung out was still pink.The smell drove straight into my sinuses. It wasn't just the ordinary reek of blood. I







