ANMELDENKade’s POVThis particular first wave came at us like a storm. Golden eyes were all over the yard, leaping over rusted containers and broken concrete. These weren’t mindless beasts, even though they weren't like the rest of my kind, they moved with control. They were precise, like they actually knew what they were doing. My pack hid for cover behind the warehouse doors, dragging the wounded inside while those who could still fight took up frontline. I pushed Liora behind me regardless of the fact that my injured shoulder was screaming like hell. “Stay back!”“Like hell,” she snapped, already raising the rifle. The silver collar was working its magic as it flared brighter, making a frown, but she still squeezed the trigger anyway. Two enhanced wolves dropped, silver rounds going right through them. Beside me, Jax fully shifted into a silver-gray wolf with blood already staining his fur. “We can’t hold this position, Alpha! There’s too many!”He was right. For every one we took dow
Kade’s POVThe van that we were in jumped tirelessly as we drove down the back roads, and I could hear the way the tires were crushing both gravel and mud. Every bump sent more pain through my imjured shoulder. I gnashed my teeth so hard that I tasted blood again, but I didn’t make a sound. Not with Liora pressed against my side like she was the only thing keeping me alive. “Stay with me, Thorn,” she said to me. Her fingers touched my forehead, feather touch, and wiped away sweat and blood. The silver collar around her neck kept making some noise, a disturbing low vibration. “You look like shit.”“Feel like it too,” I confirmed.Jax was in the front passenger seat, shouting orders into a radio. “All units report in. We lost three in the east wing. Marcus is critical, get him to the safe house now!”I closed my eyes for a second, trying to reach through to the pack bond. Pain and fear was what I felt. There were many of my wolves already hurt and it was clear to me that some might not
Kade’s POVDarkness swallowed everything.For a second, the only sounds were heavy breathing, the low growl of the giant wolf still standing over me, and the distant wail of alarms screaming through the building like dying animals.Then the howling started again, closer this time. Real wolves. My kind. Dozens of them.I felt the shift in the air before I saw anything. The enhanced freaks around us hesitated. Their golden eyes glowed brighter in the pitch black, scanning the room like machines recalibrating. The pressure of the massive paw on my injured shoulder eased just enough for me to suck in a painful breath.“Status?” Ashram barked into his phone, voice no longer calm. “Report!”Whatever answer he got made him curse under his breath. Michelle moved closer to him, her heels crunching over broken glass. “Evacuate the subjects. We’re not losing this investment.”Oh, they were scared now. Good.I pushed up on my good arm, blood dripping from my mouth. My left shoulder was fucked, bo
Kade’s POVThe shifted beast filled half the damn conference room.Its shoulders brushed the ceiling tiles, cracking them just by standing there. Golden eyes locked onto me like I was prey that had finally been cornered. Saliva dripped from jaws that could swallow a man’s head whole. The other three enhanced wolves stayed in human form, circling slowly, waiting for their moment.This wasn’t a fight. This was a goddamn execution in progress.“Move!” I snarled at Liora.She was already moving, but not away, toward the broken table. She snatched up a jagged piece of metal rebar like it was a sword. Brave. Stupid, but perfect.Wonder where she had gotten much courage all of a sudden. Maybe it has been me fucking her. Maybe some of my sperm was working inside of her already. And she was turning into me. I didn't know if I should be glad about that or not. The horse-sized wolf lunged.I threw myself forward to meet it, claws fully extended. We collided like two trains. The impact rattled m
CALLIX "You think I want to go into something that would endanger the comfort of my children?" She asked, and one of them came to give her mother a hug. I looked into the child's eyes and smiled. "I never said that this was going to put your children in a state of discomfort, Eleanor," I said to her. "No? But you just said something about high stakes? And from what I know, those are quite risky."I sighed and gave her a very smile. "As a parent, I do understand where you're coming from. But when a company is involved, well it's a high stakes event. And I can't lie to you about that. It is what it is."She shook her head, as if considering what I was telling her was a very bad idea. Well, it wasn't. If she actually considered it carefully. I didn't want to force her. In fact, my initial plan was to lie to her and tell her that James and Damian wouldn't know anything about her or her children. Especially the fact that she was still alive and well, and had kept the pregnancy she was
CALLIX Yep, I had what I would use to blackmail one of the members of the Los Angeles billionaires club. He used to be an Attorney General. Now he was in the fucking Senate. Well, I still hoped that he could find a way to fucking defend himself because what I was going to put on his plate might be too much for him to swallow. And I was pretty sure that blackmailing someone like him was the only way to get what I wanted from the billionaires club. Well, the plan was that I get their attention. Ashram wasn't supposed to be the one trying to take charge here. If we wanted to bring one of us down, then we should do so ourselves. Not allowing someone from the Far East do it for us. And under our damn noses. We had the money. So what the hell was it doing sitting around? Nothing? Nah, I was going to put a stop to that.I could offer a lot more to those men. I sat across the table from the woman named Eleanor as she completed her story. The thing that made her trust me with it was the f
CAINE I walked into my old office and realized that nothing had been changed. Everything was still in its place but the room was spick and span. I liked that. I sat in my executive chair and rotated it clockwise. Then I looked out the window. Things were less smaller from this point. I didn'
KADE I answered the call when I saw whose name was displayed as the caller ID. I had been wanting to speak with him. "Morning, Caine. Seems like you decided to sleep in.""Morning, Kade. I went to a nice whorehouse yesterday and got some girls to spend ample time with me before the flight.
CAINE Landing was a bit bumpy but we survived it. It was already Tuesday by the time I touched down in Philadelphia. Then I took another short flight to Los Angeles. I didn't even bother heading to my condo first, but went straight to the office. The building was a magnificent one. Tall an
NOW, SUCK MELIORA Talking in my ear? Nah, I would have none of that. I got that it was an important call. But I wanted to punish him for doing that to me. He could have just postponed the call, but no, it was a call he had been expecting. It got to a point where I decided I would have it







