เข้าสู่ระบบI woke up with a start in the forest, sitting up so abruptly that my head spun dizzily and bile rose in my throat, making me lean over and vomit wretchedly.'Where am I?'I whispered when the heaving finally stopped.'What happened to me?'I tried to organise my jumbled thoughts, to remember something, anything, but everything was blurred and random. Gripping a nearby tree trunk, I hauled myself to my feet, almost collapsing again as my knees buckled beneath me, only staying upright by locking them. I panted, pulling oxygen into my lungs in an effort to quell the wave of queasiness that engulfed me. 'Where the hell am I?'Was my strongest thought as I looked around, not seeing anything familiar. After a few minutes, my wolf senses kicked back in, and the sound and smell of the ocean hit me. Not sure if my legs would support me,e I took a couple of wobbly steps forward and staggered toward the sound. I let out a gasp of shock when I walked out past the treeline straight onto a beach.
I have to break this hold he has over me.'Don't worry, I'll help you.'Sapphire says urgently as Magenta goes on full alert.'He's coming.'I return to the bed and pretend to still be asleep; with their help, my breathing becomes deep and even as he quietly enters the room and walks silently over to look down at me. It is so creepy that I have difficulty stopping the shivers that want to race up and down my spine. Then I feel him probing into my mind, and Sapphire instantly puts up the barriers she has constructed to prevent him from taking control of me. We wait, holding our breath, but he cannot sense her, and he cannot stop her. To throw him off my growing dependence, she manages to convince him he has succeeded in putting me under his compel again.'Wake up, little wolf, we have a ceremony to attend.'He whispers in my ear, stroking his hands up and down my back suggestively.'Although maybe I should make some time to make us feel good before we attend.'I can feel his hard lengt
'Why can't I find her?'I pace my office angrily, glaring at my friends; Joel, Jacob, Reuben and Rodrigo stare back at me helplessly. We have tried everything to locate my missing Luna, but every single Patrol has returned empty-handed. We know she entered the human city, but that's where the trail went cold; she appeared to have disappeared into the ether.'Double the searches. She has to be somewhere.'I say, running my fingers through my hair, which is so long it has grown over my shoulders and is curling like a child's ringlets. Absentmindedly, I think about getting it cut, but I remember that Angelique always liked it longer.'Alpha, we are already at full capacity; we don't have any more Patrollers.'Reuben looks at the rest of them, and they all nod in agreement.'Then we need to enlist the help of the human police service.'Silence.All four stare at me in shock; it's rare for our two worlds to collide, and for me, the Lycan King, to want the humans to work for us is a first.
I woke up with a start and realised my head was finally clear of the fog that had kept me so debilitated. For a few minutes, I lay still, listening to the sounds of the villa. It was dark, and when I checked the clock on the nightstand, I discovered it was three am.'Get up.'An angry voice in my head demanded, and I was shocked to find Sapphire was back.'Sapphire, it is good to hear your voice.'I told her sincerely, and she grimaced at me.'Looks like I got back just in time. How could you have been so stupid, Angelique?'Taken aback by her anger, I was unable to reply at first, before I stuttered out.'W, what do you mean? What have I done?''You let that fucking vampyre bite you, jeez, could you be any more naive?' I stared straight ahead, letting her words wash over me as I dragged up my rather blurry memories.'Why can't I remember?'I said, putting my head in my hands and slapping myself.'Come on, wake up and work.'I demanded of my brain, slapping myself a few more times as
'Damn it! How the fuck was I going to explain this to her without seeming like a monster?'My brain was working overtime, trying to come up with a solution as I looked into those beautiful, bewitching green eyes. 'Lorenzo, answer me!'She demanded when all I wanted to do was push her back onto the bed and fuck her until she saw stars. My Grandmother and Mother had their backs turned to us, talking to the doctor, so I did the only thing I could think of to stop her. I put her back under my compel; when she went limp, I caught her in my arms and kissed the top of her head.'Good girl, I will reward you when I get you to my room.'I whispered into her ear, laying her back against the pillows.'Is there any medical reason for keeping her here at the Centre?'I asked the Doctor, and he hesitated, then shook his head.'No, medically she is fine; all she needs is plenty of rest. At least two or three days in bed to completely recover and regenerate her blood. You must not, under any circums
I opened my eyes and looked around.'What the fuck happened to me?'I was struggling to think clearly; my thoughts were jumbled and confused.'Had I been drugged?'It felt like it, but it also felt different; I had been drugged before, and this was not the same. Then the memories began to return. Lorenzo picking me up at his front door, the low growl in his voice, his gentle hands as he treated my feet, the desire in his eyes when he kissed me.'Oh no.'I had let him kiss me. My brain fog cleared, and I knew the huge mistake I had made. I pushed off the covers of the bed and looked at my feet, still bandaged, and then I tried to stand. Every bone in my body hurt, and I felt the familiar stickiness between my legs. My heart sank, and my stomach roiled.'What the fuck had I done?'Ignoring the pain in my feet, I staggered to the bathroom and emptied my stomach into the toilet bowl, heaving and heaving until I collapsed onto the floor, tears streaming down my face.'No, no, no.'The words







