Compensation With Benefits

While on a patrol at the farm during a heavy downpour, I rescued Trevor Beaumont. It was love at first sight for him, and we were married soon after.One day, our little farm was attacked by a pack of wolves. Trevor pulled me behind him, ready to fight until his last breath. To our surprise, the wolf pack shifted into human forms. They fell to their knees at Trevor’s presence, tears streaming down their faces. I learned that the husband I had brought home was the Alpha of a wolf pack. Three years ago, Trevor went missing in the war between werewolves and vampires. Somewhere in between, he became my husband. We lived by the sun, embracing the simple life on the farm for three years. Trevor took the elixir that would restore his memories. He took the time to open his eyes, the warmth in them long gone. All that was left was brutality and indifference. Trevor apologized to me. “I’m sorry, Rhea Green. My pack needs me. My priority is to assume my Alpha duties.” I batted m

With his jaw dropping wide open, the man lunged for my throat. Thinking on my feet, I stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth and knocked him down to the floor with a kick. The big guy wasn’t so tough, after all. He folded like a house of cards. Trevor said that the necklace held a Cerberus. Who was this weakling? The man hadn’t realized how frail his body had become, likely from not feeding for far too long. “Don’t get ahead of yourself, woman. I’ll show you a real fight once I’ve had some sustenance.” “Yeah, yeah,” I replied dismissively while gathering some tomatoes from my little patch garden. It made sense to keep the man alive, seeing that he was a gift from my ex-husband. The man glanced at the tomatoes in my hand before his gaze fell back on me. His eyes practically screamed, “Are you kidding me?” “Take it or leave it.” I was infuriated. He had the nerve to snub my home-grown, organic, and pesticide-free produce!Lost in his emotions, the man took a while

Trevor nodded. “I went to great lengths to catch the pet. He’s rumored to be a hellhound, but he has quite the temper. It took a while to tame him.” I fell into contemplation. “But he seems decent enough to me. Yes, he has a big appetite, but I can afford the grocery bill.” Trevor looked at me in surprise. “There’s no way you could have housebroken him in just a few days. I suffered quite a few bites just to teach him to go potty.” So the great Vampire Lord bit and couldn’t use the bathroom? How did he relieve himself before? Yuck. As I pulled a face of disgust, Trevor kept trash-talking Ryker. “Though he shares ancestry with the wolves, his kind hasn’t evolved. His intelligence is far below that of a wolf. To put it bluntly, he’s an idiot.” I had no idea that the werewolves and vampires were related. Besides, it was pretty of Trevor to talk smack about someone else. “Here is a restraining collar. You can keep him out at night to watch the door. …I was about to

The men in black nearly lost their minds when they saw their lordship washing a human woman’s feet on his knees. Their knees hit the ground as they howled, “My Lord, what you have been through? We’ll kill this human and free you now!” They pulled out their swords to behead me. Ryker glared at them. “Insolence! Get out!” The armed group dropped their swords with loud clatters and lowered their heads before me. “Humiliate us if you must, but please spare our lordship.” I stared at the mass in black in front of me, baffled, and asked Ryker, “Babe, are they here for you? Are they staying for dinner?” One even broke into tears. “My Lord, it’s bad enough that this woman enslaves you, but she even disgraces your name. It’s clear that you have it rough here. Don’t worry. We’ll get you out even if it kills us.” The veins along Ryker’s temples pulsed in annoyance. After shooting the offender a menacing look, he said grimacingly, “I won’t be polite if you don’t leave now.” The i

With his powers, Ryker restored the ruined farm to its former glory. It was as if nothing had ever happened. The village was now without a shepherdess. The woman was once Trevor’s human mate. The monsters escaped this time because of Trevor’s negligence. He was called before the Alpha King, though not for that reason. The Alpha King asked, “At what point in time did your former mate establish contact with the Vampire Lord? “Did you divulge any pack secrets to her? If she betrays our pack by spilling secrets to the Vampire Lord, what then?” The situation was critical, with the wolf pack’s safety at stake. The Alpha King gave Trevor the ultimatum. It was between killing me or facing the pack’s revered torture. Trevor chose the latter. He passed out under the weight of the penalty. By the time he came to, he was handed a letter. “The letter was left by a Rhea Green. It’s only for your eyes.” One wolf sneered, “She’s playing games by joining those bloodsuckers in ge