I launch a punch at Nate’s head, which he blocks. He does the same with the roundhouse punch that I send towards his face with the other hand, but I use his hold on my arm to gain leverage over him. I jump, wrapping my legs around him and using my momentum to pull him to the ground. With my legs wrapped around his arms, he can’t catch himself. He lands with a hard grunt and I begin wailing on him. Punch after punch lands on his temples, jaw, nose, and cheeks. Nathan manages to buck me off, but he’s definitely worse for wear. “What the fuck, Tomas?!” he says, spitting blood out of his mouth. “This is supposed to be sparring, not beat the shit out of each other!” Instead of responding, I roll to my feet, crouching in a defensive position. “Mas! Come on! Talk to me. It’s not as bad as you’re making it out to be,” Nathan growls out and I can see that his injuries are already starting to heal. That, combined with his words, piss me off. “Not as bad as I’m making it ou
“Frey, just talk to me!” I call, following my twin out of her suite in our parents house. With seven people living in the same home, two sets of twins and three parents, my folks had decided to set up their home like the old packhouses. The bottom floor was the kitchen and living areas and suites for my younger siblings, Amethyst and Axel. The second floor had a few offices, a gym, and suites for Freya and me. The top floor was all for our parents and wasn’t a place that we ventured too often. So there was plenty of room for Freya to push past me and to try to get away from me.“I’m done talking about this, Finn. I know exactly how you feel about this. Hell, I know how everyone in this entire family feels about what happened between me and Nathan. And I’m going to tell you what I’ve told everyone else. It’s none of your damn business!” Freya calls over her shoulder as she heads down the stairs.Freya, Mom, Dad, and I were all heading to a supernatural council meeting. We ha
“You look stunning, Fati! I’m so excited that you are finally taking your place as Luna,” JoJo gushes at me as she puts some finishing touches on my hair. “And I think taking Caleb as your beta is an excellent idea.”JoJo has been extremely excited about literally EVERYTHING that that has to do with my luna ceremony since Hermes brought her and Alexander back to Arcadia. Jacob has been visiting his parents for the past week. I think that part of JoJo’s exuberance has something to do with her anxiety about Jacob and not hearing from him since Selene took him to her realm.“Thanks, JoJo,” I say, trying desperately to match her excitement. I mean, this is my ascension ceremony. You would think that I would be excited about it. Instead, I feel kind of empty. Like I didn’t accomplish what I was supposed to before I became a luna. “I think that Caleb will be a good beta, as well. He’s compassionate, meticulous, and has a good head on his shoulders.”“He’s been searching for a pur
I’m sitting in my parents’ home, gathered around their large dining room table with Mom, Dad, and Ethan. Ryder is with Gael and Hakeem, trying to figure out who is best to take him north to Erick’s territory. Axel, the youngest of Bella, Jamal, and Gregory’s twins, is with them, since he is Ryder’s best friend. He’s been able to help calm Ryder down and take his mind off of things so that he’s in less danger of shifting. It’s been a big help, actually. Grey is hanging out with Freya, who is her best friend. Yes, my youngest two siblings are best friends with Freya and her younger brother. Cause we need another thing to complicate what is going on between the two of us. Mom and Dad wanted them out of the house so that we could have a conversation abut the alpha position that I should have taken seven years ago. The table has been completely silent since dinner finished and my youngest two siblings left. I look at my parents. They look so tired. Haggard, really. I know tha
This is the first time that Nathan and I have been alone since the morning that our parents found us naked and snuggled together in the cave. It isn’t the first time that we’ve seen each other. We’ve had to justify ourselves to a lot of people over this past week. Everyone is pissed, particularly at Nathan. They think that he took advantage of me, because apparently all of wolfdom knew how I felt about Nathan. Well, everyone except him. He thought I had gotten over those feelings a long time ago. They say that I’m a victim of all of this. But they aren’t just worried about me. They’re worried about Nyx, too. How could he have completely have forgotten about her? How could he have sex with me just after their matebond was severed? Did he even love her in the first place? They thought that he was better than all of this. As one of the two people that were in that cave, nothing could be further from the truth. Nathan was absolutely gutted by the loss of his matebond to
I tug at the collar of my shirt, feeling suffocated by the tie and button-up shirt that I’m wearing. “Fuck!” I whisper under my breath. “I fucking hate this.” “Talking to yourself?” I turn to see my sister leaning against the door to my room. I look at her with so much desperation in my eyes. “Please tell me that I don’t have to do this,” I beg. She just gives me a bitter smile. “ ‘Fraid that you have to, Bubba,” she says using the nickname she gave me as a toddler. “Shit!” I hiss out. I loosen my tie and throw it on my bed. I cover my eyes with the heels of my hands and let out a groan of frustration. “How do I get up in front of all of these wolves and do this?” Grey crosses the room and pulls my hands from my face, looking me dead in the eyes. “You’re going to do this the same way that you do everything. With a fierce determination and selflessness that’s stronger than any other wolf I’ve ever seen. And with the bravery that you take into warrior training every t
I wake up to the feeling of a man’s arm around my waist, my head cushioned on his chest. His hand strokes my hair, helping me to slowly wake up. For a few seconds, I can pretend. Pretend that the male touching me, that ravaged me last night, that will likely take me this morning, that makes my body respond and my heart feel like it’s going to leap out of my chest is him. Nathan. And then, Lucifer speaks. “Good morning, mate,” Lucifer purrs to me, his hand coming down to tilt my chin up. The feeling of his touch sends small sparks racing up my skin wherever he touches me, a pale imitation of what I felt when I touched Nathan. But that bond is gone. And as much as Lucifer has tortured and imprisoned me, I’m bonded to him. He’s my mate by prophecy and magick. It’s been just over a week since the bond between Nathan and I was forcibly broken. That was the oddest combination of sensations. The feeling of complete despair and my soul cleaving in two as the bond was br
“Baby, you gotta let me get dressed for the ceremony,” I giggle as Amelia kisses her way down my throat. Though that giggle quickly turns into a moan when her lips find my matemark and start to suck. I had literally just gotten into the shower after marathon sex all day with Amelia. Who thought it would be a good idea to have wolves take their leadership roles in the middle of their bonding time? Keeping our hands off of each other isn’t the easiest thing to do and I’d prefer not to be constantly aroused in front of all the wolves that I’m getting ready to rule over. “We still have another two hours before the ceremony starts,” Amelia says, her hands wrapping around me to cup my tits in her palms. “Plenty of time for another round of my mouth on the sweet fucking pussy.” “Amelia!” I moan, feeling her tits press into my back. Her dirty talk is enough to get me there, but add her skilled hands to the mix and my arousal skyrockets. Amelia’s hand moves down my stomach to cup my p