I woke up sweating, heavy arms encircling my waist under five thousand blankets. I used my arms and legs to frantically push at the arms and blankets at the same time. The arms tightened when the blankets fell away, then flipped me to face the man attached to them. The faintest sparks danced over me where my top rode up, and I pushed them away, just as I pushed away from Eli’s chest until he opened his eyes, peering down at me.I froze for a moment, his heavy-lidded eyes roaming my face, arms tightening slightly around my waist. “Pervert!” I yelped, and punched him in the nose. Instantly he released me and I scrambled to a crouched fighting stance. Stunned, he dabbed once at the blood that ran from his nose, sitting up quickly. Before he could retaliate, I lashed out again, catching his jaw with my fist before leaping to the floor. But he was faster than me, snatching me out of the air and slamming me back to the bed, pinning my wrists above my head, resting his weight on my legs to
Seeing Eva and Mariana was becoming the highlight of my days now. Eva and I had reached a tentative peace, and I enjoyed having the company. Today though, she brought news that I didn't realize I had been dreading until she gave it to me. "I have found a wet nurse for Mariana, she arrived this morning. I think it will be good her her to have someone in the nursery at all times to tend to her, but I will still bring her to you if you would like." Leaning forward to grab her tea cup, she patted my knee with her free hand. "I know how attached the two of you are to each other, but Elbrus tells me he needs you to free up time to help with the council matters and the ongoing treaty negotiations." "I understand," I murmer, accepting the tea she has poured for me, "If I'm able to, I'd like to see her at least once a day, even once my milk is dry, but I'm sure you can determine what is best for her schedule." Mariana hiccups and wraps her chubby baby fist around my index finger, my heart ac
Athena stretched out in the morning sunshine, she had brought us to a creek bed in a large clearing to drink and sun before we returned. "You must show him he cannot cow us into this role he wishes to fill. Submission is not what we were designed for, if he wants submission, I will make HIM submit." She ranted, "Demand partnership and trust, we have proven our strength and shown we are committed to this, that we can be trusted. Claim your respect, we are mates, and I will not tollerate this treatment for much longer, it is unnatural." She huffed, dropping to her belly and nipping at the grass between our paws. "I will, hopefully he will hear me out. But, if he throws us in a cell, perhaps we can study the behavior of the captives that we are supposed to question." Athena snorted and rose to her feet, taking off in a graceful lope back towards the direction of the castle. Towards certain doom. With every step, my spirits sank and her temper rose. I would need to deescalate things as
Eli made short work of my panties with one hand, as his other hand worked at my center, stimulating me until my hips were rocking back and forth, up and down along his length, my slick juices drenching him until he couldn't take it anymore. Rolling us both to the edge of the bed, he threw his legs over, moving into a sitting position, he jerked me to the side, so I was kneeling next to him, leaning over his lap. Jerking my hips to his face, I yelped as he swung me upside down, crushing his face to my core, sucking my bundle of nerves into his mouth. Some kind of gutteral animal noise escaped me as Athena purred with pleasure, and I grasped his thighs to steady myself, already shaking as my body wound tighter, ready to explode for him. His arms tightened around my waist and I let go of his thighs, grabbing his hard length with both hands. Even two hands wouldn't cover it, it throbbed and pulsed in my hands as I sucked the tip into my mouth, tasting the precum at the tip, snarling
Eli was nowhere to be found when I woke up, I could see a note on the desk he'd had prepared for me, but my anger, while not as raw, was still fresh. I didn't want to know where he was, I didn't want to be in his room, in his suffocating scent, bending to his suffocating will. I had slept for almost an entire twenty four hours it seemed, and the sun was maybe an hour away from setting. I could hear rythmic drumming and howling, and it reminded me of the summit mist pack runs, where the whole pack would gather to run and hunt together. Athena pushed to the surface, and I let her take over as I opened the bay window and allowed her to shift just as she had the last time we left this room. Throwing a little extra magic at the mental steel walls I used to block out Eli and his mind link, I sent a tentative question out towards the direction of the pack. I felt surprise, and a little anger, but mostly curiosity from the wolves who now reigned over their humans. In our purest form, our wo
I had been sending out summons all day, organizing all of the documents I wanted to review with Willow. I had told her we would review them this morning to get her up to speed, but I left before she woke up, choosing cowardice over ...I'm not sure what other choice there was. I was afraid to face her. For her to attempt to break the bond. It would never work without a powerful spell, or my acceptance of the rejection, but the pain it would cause would be very real, and it could weaken me, and the entire pack at a perilous time. I could feel stronger already, and I hated that I took the choice from her, having given too much control to my wolf and my anger, but what's done is done, we were made for each other, so maybe she is the piece that I have been missing to unite the packs against our common enemy. I've been mulling over how to talk to her about this in the back of my mind all day. It hurt to feel her anger and her tears last night, and I didn't want to take anymore from her,
Pheobe had summoned all the tomes containing any scrap of information about breaking a mate bond once a mark was in place, but first the wanted to do a cleansing, and help repair some of my wards. I was so tired, down to my soul, I was depleted. As I sat with my feet in the stream, the massive pine above me groaned, its branches bowing and descending slowly. Vines snaked out of the brush and intertwined with the pine branches, and branches from nearby tree that reached out. Just like out last night in the holding sanctuary, the forest responded to my magic, offering me shelter. It started about two feet into the stream, allowing the water to still flow, keeping my connection with pheobe intact, and formed a sort of tall dome abound me. When it was finished I finally felt relaxed enough to lay back and close my eyes, listening to pheobe chant in my mind, feeling the sweet, soft caress of her healing magic. It reminded me of my mothers cool hands, and my fathers warm hugs. Pheobe sens
Eli didn't knock, but he did hesitate once inside, before shutting the door and moving towards my spot by the fire. He crouched down beside me, taking in my appearance. My hair was tangled and contained a few pine needles and leaves that I'd need to work out with conditioner, dried mud streaked my feet and calves, and I'm sure the bags under my eyes were big enough to fit all of the luggage we would need when we left to visit Summit Mist. If Eli agreed to it, that is, and if Ransom agreed to a truce for the time being. Eli reached out to me, hesitating when his hand was inches away from my jaw, but I refused to flinch away, refused to give him power over me. When he finally traced his thumb over my cheek, down the line of may jaw, hushed sparks trailed along with him. I closed my eyes and focused on using my magic to cage the mate bond, the feelings it made me feel, and lock it away within myself. After a few minutes of trying, Eli had already taken a seat a few feet away from me, o