When I opened my eyes the first thing that I felt was the dull pain throbbing in my head, followed by the feeling of cold tiles underneath my cheek. This was the reason I didn’t drink heavily often, it always ended badly for me. Still, falling asleep on the bathroom floor next to a pile of my own vomit wasn’t the worst thing that had happened to me after a night of heavy drinking. It took me a few minutes to pull myself together and drag myself off the floor so that I could determine the extent of the damage I had done to myself. The only problem was that moving around made every single part of my body ache, even my skin felt sore. “I am never fucking drinking again.” I groaned as I stepped through into the bedroom. “That is probably for the best. You were such a mess last night, at one point I was really worried about you.” Franklin replied.“I did drink a lot, but I can take it.” Well sort of. Although the splitting headache and vomit breath begged to differ. “I didn’t mean like
It had been a while since the last time I had woken up in the forest with blood in my mouth but it was something that I was starting to get painfully used to. That didn’t mean that it was getting any easier, every time I woke up in this position I was worried that this was the time that my wolf had done something unforgivable. I would worry until my wolf calmed down enough for our connection to stabilise and my memories of the previous night started to come back to me. Today was no different. I remembered Brianna pleasuring me but after that things got a little fuzzy. I know that my wolf really wanted me to mark Brianna, I just hoped that he hadn’t done anything to hurt her while he had full control over my body. My wolf growled at my silent accusation. He was still a little feral after last night but I was able to read some of the intention behind his growl. He was angry that I was accusing him of doing something to hurt our future mate.That was a good sign at least, when he took
Rowan didn’t let me go back to my room until a couple of hours after dawn, and even then he made sure to post a couple of guards outside my room. He told me that it was for my own protection but I could see the suspicion in his eyes when he spoke to me. Maybe I should have joined Kaiden for some of those poker games he liked so much. Then I might have learned to lie a little better and Rowan wouldn’t have been able to see straight through me.‘Bullshit.’ My wolf interjected.She was still pissed off with me for almost letting Mason mark us. She was acting as though the whole situation was my fault, as though she hadn’t enjoyed what he was doing just as much as I was. She was a damn hypocrite.“This is getting us nowhere.” I mumbled to myself.It was probably the lack of sleep but I was having trouble focusing on one thing at a time. Right now I needed to focus on finding a way out of this pack before Mason had a chance to finish what he tried to start last night. I had paced the floor
The dull ache in my chest had slowly been getting worse, I knew it was because of the rejection but that didn’t make me feel any better. Brianna had looked as though she was doing okay when I left her but as an alpha I wouldn’t expect her to let others see her pain. It would make her look weak.Hopefully she wouldn’t hold the rejection or the pain against me and we can still be together after this. If I could have gotten away without actually saying the words I would have, but alpha Dalton had to send that stupid omega with me to report back to him. I had no choice other than to do what I did, she had to understand that.“Will you stop fidgeting, you are driving me crazy.” Franklin took another sip of his coffee. He was just as nervous as I was but his way of detailing with it was to complain whereas I preferred to keep moving. Although I had to admit that complaining had some benefits too. “I just can’t believe that for the second time in two days, we are waiting for alpha Dalton t
Alpha Kennedy kept me waiting for his arrival, just as I knew he would. He thought of himself as more important than a normal alpha, he wanted everybody to do things on his terms and to his timescales. That was fine by me, it made him predictable and easy to manipulate, something I intended to take advantage of today. I was seated at a table in the middle of the cafe with Rowan and my gamma, Pierre. Many of my top warriors were seated at tables around the room, providing safety in case alpha Kennedy wanted to try anything stupid. I didn’t think that he would in the presence of humans but the evidence I had against him was pretty damning, and people tend to lash out when they feel trapped. Many of my warriors had opted to order lunch while we were waiting but I couldn’t afford the distraction and opted just to have a coffee instead. In hindsight that probably wasn’t one of my better decisions, after quickly draining my second cup I was already starting to get jittery and alpha Kenned
I couldn’t tell how many of them were down there but it sounded as though there were a lot of them. They crashed through the front door and started making their way through the house like a pack of rabid dogs, screaming and shouting as they moved from room to room.“What are we going to do?” I whispered, my eyes darting around the room for a place to hide and coming back with nothing. “We have to hide, there is no way that we can fight our way out of this pack.” Franklin replied, looking just as panicked as I did. He opened a window then took hold of my hand and led me out of the room. He ran to the end of the hallways before jumping up to pull on a string that I hadn't even noticed was there. It was difficult to spot and that was what Franklin was counting on, he was hoping that the werewolves would assume that we had fled through the open window rather than hidden in the attic. It was a long shot but what other choice did we have right now? Franklin gave me a boost into the atti
I was sitting in the kitchen, nursing a cup of camomile tea in the hopes that it would calm some of my nerves. It wasn’t freaking working though. What I really needed was to know if Mason and Dominic were safe but nobody in this stupid pack would tell me what was going on. Most of the strongest pack members had left with Mason and none of them had come back yet. It would probably be so easy for me to escape at the moment, so how come that was the last thing that I wanted to do. The only thing I wanted was to hold Dominic and Mason in my arms so that I could know they were both safe. It made no sense for me to care about either of them in this way. One of them had rejected me and the other one wanted to claim me regardless of my own views on the subject. Yet somehow both of them had crawled into my heart and were refusing to leave. It was as confusing as hell and even my wolf couldn’t deny it after last night. Why did I have to come to this realisation when neither of them were anyw
Brianna went to bed shortly after ten but the rest of us stayed in my office to discuss the problem. I knew that Rowan and Pierre weren’t convinced that we should waste our time trying to save Dominic and Franklin. They didn’t say anything but I could tell that they thought it was pointless, that alpha Kennedy would have killed them long before we got there. They were probably right but I had to try, otherwise the guilt would eat at me. It was me that had sent them into that pack and deep down I knew that the plan was flawed. I had rushed into it because I wanted to get him away from my future mate before they could develop feelings for each other. I shouldn’t have done that and now his potential death was on my shoulders and I wasn’t sure that I could live with that kind of guilt. We had spent the last three hours looking at maps of alpha Kennedy’s territory, looking for any kind of weakness and coming back with the same answer. The problem wasn’t getting into the pack, that was go