Anna frowned as she looked at Collin. How could he even say that? Okay, so there was the possibility that she could die and that wasn’t the best idea ever, but his mother survived, didn’t she? Collin looked at her for a moment and then stormed out of the room. Anna was so stumped that she didn’t know if she should go after him.“Anna,” His mother’s voice interrupted her thoughts as she was standing looking out of the window. Anna turned to look at Leah, and her eyes filled with tears. She had no idea what to say. This was meant to be a happy day, wasn’t it? Leah pulled the young woman into her arms. She had grown incredibly fond of Anna since the first day she arrived and she would hate to see her go through all of this.“What do I do? I didn’t try to get pregnant, it just happened?” Anna cried and Leah sighed. She knew precisely how Anna was feeling. She also didn’t try, but it was a terrible time and not as happy a time as she had hoped it to be. Being pregnant with a possible hybri
Collin checked with the doctor again after a couple of hours to make sure that Anna was okay. She was still deathly cold to the touch and the doctor couldn’t really give them any answers as to why, but according to their tests, she was fine. She just had to recover after giving birth.At first, Collin didn’t want to see much of their daughter, but when the nurse took her around for the third time, he took her. She looked like a little carbon copy of her mother with her dark hair and bright blue eyes. She was going to be a beauty and Collin could just see how he was going to have his hands full with all the males! That made him realize that he had another problem. His firstborn was a girl. She would one day have to face the same thing Anna did when they became mates and Collin wasn’t so sure if their new pack would like that idea.He knew that he was probably running things far too far ahead, but he couldn’t imagine any of his pack members, Anna’s included, wanting to merge with anothe
ANNA DIDN’T WANT TO LIKE NICOLAS, but he seemed nice enough. Collin’s father seemed to trust him, but she couldn’t help herself. She didn’t trust vampires even if she sort of was one now.“My brother, Nathaniel,” Nicolas sighed as they kept walking. “What he did to Sebastian was wrong. If I had known before he did it, I would have stopped him.” Anna could see from his body language that it was difficult for him to talk about it, but she didn’t interrupt. She wanted to know why he was there and what he wanted with her. “It has created a bit of a leadership problem for both the vampire and the wolf worlds, Anna. I need to know that if I give you an order, you will obey.” Nicolas stopped walking and looked straight at her. She frowned, tilting her head to one side.“And what if your order goes against what I believe or what my alpha has told me to do? No, I can’t make promises like that, Nicolas. I’m sorry.” Anna wondered what the hell he was thinking about asking her something like that
THE LIFE OF A LUNA wasn’t what Anna expected. In fact, it was a lot better. She completely understood now why her mother was such a pain sometimes. Her mom once told her that having a child is like cutting out your heart and allowing it to wander around the world without any kind of protection.Anna wasn’t entirely sure if she felt so overly protective because it was her child or if it was because of her new heightened senses, but it didn’t really matter. She had to keep reminding herself that the only way for children to learn is if they fall and find their own way up again. It was the way she learned. It was how she realized that she belonged with Collin. She had to see the damage she did to herself before she realized what she needed to do.So every time her mother's heart jumped to save her little one, she would hold her breath and clench her hands together and pray for the best. Their little one was a really busy body so the clenching happened a lot as she grew up and started to
VICTOR PACED THE ROOM where the girl was busy screaming and he was glad he found an area that was mostly deserted. The girl could scream until she had no voice left and nobody would hear her. Once he had her, he could move out of the area.His dried-out dinner was lying off to one side and Victor turned his attention away from what was happening inside. Outside of that window was the woman he wanted to make his. She had a life, but he didn’t care about her life. He wanted to be her life. He wanted to be her obsession just like she had been to him. The girl stirred and the moaning stopped drawing his attention from his thoughts as he turned to look at the set of red eyes that were looking at him.The sun had just gone down and it was the perfect time to find her someone to eat and then get out of the city. His arm slipped around her perfect little waist and if he closed his eyes, he could imagine the girl being the one he wanted. As long as he didn’t breathe in her scent. Her hair was
COLLIN PACED HIS office while waiting for the reports from Nicolas’s people to come in. They found the hotel where Victor was staying with a woman and they needed to make sure the woman was still alive. If she had been turned by Victor, she could attack the moment they walked through the door.His eyes kept finding Anna where she stood near the window looking out. Her arms were clamped tightly around her body and she looked just as strained as he was feeling. He knew in his heart of hearts that she didn’t want the vampire, but he couldn’t stop that small voice way in the back of his mind from telling him she might. Unable to stand it a second longer, he walked over to Anna, grabbed her hand, and dragged her off to the bedroom.“Collin! What’s wrong?” She looked a little taken aback as he started to kiss her down the side of her neck while unbuttoning her shirt.“I’m going to nail you to bed to make sure you know how much I love you.” The way he said it as if he was being serious made
ANNA’S PLAN DIDN’T WORK out as planned! Victor grabbed hold of her before she could leave the damn barn and she should have known that he would have some damn plan up his sleeve. If he could get into their pack house undetected like that, he would be clever enough to hold her captive!“Let go of me!” She tried to pull from his grip and he just held on tighter.“NEVER!” His eyes flashed red as he pulled her tightly up against his chest. Something inside of Anna stirred, but she squashed it before it could take hold. Victor tied her up again, and this time made sure she wouldn’t be able to get free when his little friend started complaining. She wanted to know why he wanted Anna and why they had to bring someone along that didn’t want to be there.The girl slipped her arms around Victor’s waist while keeping her eyes on Anna as though she wanted to make Anna jealous or something, but Victor pushed her away. Her attention now fully on Victor, she went off at him.“I thought you said it w
Anna woke up just as Victor walked back into the hotel room with food. He unlocked the chain and started unpacking the food as if it was just another normal thing to do. Anna noticed that the food was just enough for one, which was a stark reminder that he didn’t eat normal food.“I gathered that your wolf would be starving by now.” Victor smiled and Anna sighed. He disappeared into the bathroom and she was just about to make a run for it when he returned with incredible speed and locked her chain to the bed closest to the table. “Sorry, but I need to take a shower and you’ve proven that you want to run.” He shrugged and disappeared into the bathroom and as Anna heard the water start to run, she wished she could move as fast as vampires could.If she could run just as fast, she could make it back home in record time. She could escape from Victor. Her eyes caught sight of the chain and she wondered if she would be able to break it. Carefully listening, she confirmed that Victor was in