Raiden's povMy chest tightens as fury and grief collides and creates a storm within me. The flames crackle around us, the smoke dusting across us but all I can hear is Amelia's sobbing and Damon's broken murmurs to his dead uncle.I pull my mate closer to me, hoping to shield her away from the sight of Giovanni burnt body. I wish I could shield her away from the grief and pain too.Amelia's tears soaked on my skin, her nails biting into my flesh as her broken sobs cause her body to tremble. I don't think she noticed the dagger plunged in Giovanni's chest and I don't want her to.At least not yet.Damon however, he noticed. His eyes they burned with fury as they glared at the dagger pierced into Giovanni's heart. His eyes ablaze. His wolf moved restless."They..." he reaches for the dagger but dad stops him before he could get a hold of it. Dad's hold on his wrist is firm. Unmoving."You can't touch it Damon," dad said softly. "We need the pack doctor-Dad stops when he realized his m
Raiden's povI let out a howl as we burst through the final line of the forest. The house was consumed by flames, black smoke rising to the sky and painting the night air with the stench of smoke and burnt flesh.There are a lot of the pack members surrounding the burning structure, mom and dad, Lester.....Damon. Everyone tries to help the firefighters who were part of the pack as well.But the flames seemed angry, relentless to eat the structure alive."We need to try to get him out!" Dad yelled. "Even though he's dead, we need to at least get him out. Gio can't go like this," his voice grows hoarse with grief as mom barks orders at some of the wolves.Amelia cries above me as I skid to a stop. She hops off quickly and I shift into my human form rapidly when I see her rush toward the house."Dad!" She screams, her voice piercing through the chaos. I catch her around her waist and hold her back before she could run into the flames.Her finger nails latch onto the skin of my arm as she
Raiden's povMy throat closes, my beast roars in my head, thrashes. Amelia still straddles me, her breathing as harsh as mine. Hers is from still trembling with the aftershocks of our love making, mine....with the pain I felt of losing a pack member.Giovanni.'We're going to him now! All of us!' Dad said, his tone getting more emotional the more he spoke.'I'll be there soon.' I replied back, my gut twisting painfully.Amelia must've felt the strain in my being because she pulls away slightly and looks down at me. She cradled my face in her palm, her worried eyes dancing across my face."Raiden," her voice is soft, unsure. "What's wrong?"I looked at her and my throat tightens. How will I tell her that Giovanni....."Raiden?" Her voice is softer, scared. I looked away and lift her off me, my throat tightening. "Something has happened. We need to go back now."I can't look at her while I say those words, I cannot break her tonight. Giovanni wasn't her biological father but I know Amel
Amelia's povSome would call me crazy for feeling this way. Some would say I've finally lost it. Foster...Pickett. They'd think I have lost my mind.Being with the enemy?I peered deep in Raiden's soul, searching his eyes. Fondness. Desire. A craving I also felt. Swirled in his gaze. Deep into the parts of him I had misunderstood for the longest.He was no enemy.He was no enemy of mine. He was mine.He was mine."Raiden," I whimpered as I rolled my hips, rocked it back and forth as I took him inside me. I could feel him pulse inside me, feel the head of his cock so deep.It was like my walls were memorizing every single one of his veins as I took him. Up and down. The sounds of our bodies collided clashes with the sound of the waterfall.Raiden eyes burns with something more, something desperate. Something I felt to. Love. I had fallen for Raiden.Even when I tried to deny it. Even when I fought against it with everything in me. I couldn't help it.I didn't just want him because I wa
Amelia's povHis beast has awaken and I want him.I need him.Raiden's teeth graze the skin of my sensitive flesh, the sharpness causing me to bite into my lower lip and moan."Amelia," he groans on the pulse of my neck and I moan, tilting my neck to the side so his lips can have more room to explore.His grip on my thighs turn more harsh, turn more possessive. My body is practically begging him to take me. Just the feel of his breath against my skin causes me to quiver in a pleasurable way."I need you," I whisper once more, my voice now so breathless I wasn't sure he had heard me. However it doesn't take him a minute to show me he did by peeling off my clothes when we got to land.Stark naked we were in seconds, and even with the chill in the air, Raiden's mere presence so close to me like a second skin, keeps me warm.My nipples bead, hard. My chest rising and falling as I watch him devour me with his eyes. He didn't have to touch me to make me pool between my thighs. Just that sta
Amelia's povThe moment those words leave his lips and brushed my ears, everything seems to just go still. The air, the roaring of the waterfall even the pounding of my very own heart seem to just go faint.Everything blurs until there's only him, his breath, his heart pounding against my chest, his scent, the sounds of his rough breathing. It was only him.I've already fallen.Words I didn't know would make me feel so....warm."Raiden," I whisper, my eyes still closed as my voice comes out nothing but a shaky whisper. Breathless. Like he had nearly made me speechless.I opened my eyes then, slowly, as if trying to bask in this feeling, his words for the longest I can.To my surprise Raiden is already staring at me. His eyes boring into my soul deeply with the look one would give to someone they cherish.My heart pounds.It's like he was stripping me bare, stripping away all the veils I had wrapped around me. Stripped away the tough exterior.He was stripping me down to the core with