LOGINEDAL
I came with his name on my lips. My back arched off the dirt floor. My thighs shook. My breath came in ragged gasps. I saw white behind my eyes, and for a moment, I forgot he'd thrown me away. Then it was over. I lay there, sweaty and disgusting, my hand still between my legs, my chest heaving. I hated myself. I hated him. I did it again. This time, I forced myself to think of no one. Just my hand. Just my body. Just the dark. I pictured nothing. No face. No voice. No grey eyes. Just the feeling … the pressure, the friction, the heat building in my belly. I focused on my fingers moving in and out, my thumb pressing down, the wet sounds filling the cabin. I focused on my breathing, on the tension coiling in my muscles, on the ache that was growing and I was so fucking close to my climax… Three slow raps on the door caused to me to still… my heart racing in my chest while my breath caught. I froze. My hand went to my knife. “I know you're in there.” A strange man's voice called out in a low menacing tone. “Open the bloody door.” The door splintered open before I could reach my knife. “I told you to open up.” The man stepped inside, tall and broad, a bandana pulled over the lower half of his face. Dark eyes that looked at me Hungrily. The kind of eyes that had seen too much and stopped caring a long time ago. “Who the fuck are you?” I had my knife now, backing toward the wall. “Someone who's been watching you.” He kicked the door shut. “You are weak… you haven’t noticed me. Ever since you crawled out of that river.” “Get the fuck out before I cut your throat.” He laughed … low and dark, the kind of laugh that crawled under your skin and made a home there. “You're going to cut my throat? You can barely stand. Your hands are shaking. You haven't eaten in two days. You just spent the last hour touching yourself to a man who called you garbage.” My blood ran cold. He was right I was hungry and tired wanting to ration my supplies and he looked like he could easily beat me to a pulp or kill me. “You watched me.” “Every second.” He stepped closer. I stepped back. My spine hit the wall. “The way your fingers moved. The way you moaned his name. The way you came … twice. You put on a good show, sweetheart.” “I'll kill you.” “No, you won't.” He moved faster than I could track. His hand grabbed my wrist. Twisted. The knife clattered to the floor. His body slammed into mine, pinning me against the wall … his hips pressing into my hips, his chest crushing my breasts, his thighs forcing mine apart. I couldn't move. Couldn't breathe. Couldn't think. He was strong… So much stronger than me. “Let me go.” My voice came out shaky. “Make me.” I tried to knee him. He blocked with his thigh. I tried to bite his hand. He just laughed again, his dark eyes glittering. “You're feisty. I like that.” His free hand gripped my jaw, forcing my face up toward his. “Most breeders freeze. Not you. You fight.” “Fuck you.” “Maybe later.” He teased with a smirk and I felt my pussy throb. He shifted his hips and I felt it. His cock was Hard and Thick. Pressing against my thigh through his pants. He dragged it slowly against me, grinding into my hip, letting me feel every inch. I stopped breathing. “You feel that?” His voice was low, rough, his mouth brushing my ear through the bandana. “That's what you do to me. Watching you touch yourself … fuck. I've been hard for hours.” He did it again. Dragged his cock against me, slow and deliberately, pressing into my hip, my belly, the space between my thighs. I could feel the heat of him through the fabric, the shape of him, the size. I should have been terrified. I wasn't …My body responded. My thighs pressed together. My cunt clenched around nothing. I was wet … soaking … and he hadn't even touched me there. “You like that.” It wasn't a question. He could feel me trembling. He could probably smell me. “No,” I lied. “Liar.” He ground against me harder, his cock sliding against my hip, the rough fabric of his pants rubbing against my bare thigh where my pants had torn. “Your body doesn't lie. You're wet for me. You want this.” I bit my lip. I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of hearing me moan. But I didn't push him away either. He noticed. He smiled behind the bandana. “That's what I thought.” He pulled his hips back … just enough to tease … then thrust forward again, grinding his cock against my cunt through both our pants.EDALThree weeks.Twenty-one days of staring at the concrete ceiling, waiting for the bleeding to stop. Waiting for the ghost of the pain to leave my stomach.The blood was gone. The fever was gone. And whatever softness I had left inside me was completely buried under the mountain floor.The lower training bay was freezing cold. The air smelled like rust, sweat, and old concrete. I stood in front of the heavy leather punching bag, my hands wrapped tight in black canvas strips. No gloves. I wanted to feel the impact. I needed to feel something that wasn't the empty, hollow ache in my gut.*THUD.*I threw a heavy left hook. The leather groaned under the hit.A right cross. My shoulder burned. My breath came out in short, sharp puffs of white vapor in the cold air. I didn't stop. I kept moving my feet, striking the bag over and over until the canvas started to scrape the skin off my knuckles."Your left guard is dropping," a flat voice said from the iron stairs.I didn't turn around. I
THIRD POVThe air in the medical bay smelled like rubbing alcohol and old blood. Tarek stood by the metal sink. He scrubbed his hands under the running water, over and over, trying to get the red stains out from under his fingernails.The heavy iron door groaned open. Korr walked in first. His right hand was completely wrapped up in thick white tape and wooden splints, his broken fingers held stiff against his palm. Rylan followed right behind him. His eyes were totally bloodshot, his face pale and unwashed, his jaw clenched so tight the muscles were jumping. Ezra came in last. He didn't look at anyone. He just slid against the concrete wall and dropped to the floor, pulling his knees up to his chest."How is she?" Korr asked. His voice was rough, completely stripped of his usual military authority. "She still won't eat. She just stares at the wall, Tarek. She won't let me get near the bed."Tarek stopped scrubbing. He didn't turn around right away. He just looked down at the gray soa
EDALThe room stayed cold. The bloody sheets were gone, replaced by clean, coarse wool blankets that smelled faintly of lye and the damp lower laundry tiers, but the scent of the slaughter never truly left the walls.I didn't move. I lay on my side, my knees tucked up toward my chest, staring at a single crack in the mortar of the stone wall. The yellow light under the door shifted from bright to dark, signaling the passing of days I wasn’t counting."Edal."Korr’s voice was a low, heavy rasp from the doorway. He walked into the room slow, his heavy combat boots making a dull, scraping sound on the concrete floor. He was wearing a fresh gray uniform shirt, but his right hand was completely bound in thick white medical tape, the splints holding his broken fingers rigid against his palm.He stopped by the edge of the cot. On the small wooden table, the metal tray sat exactly where it had been since yesterday morning—the ration bowl of gray nutrient broth covered in a thin, cold skin."Y
EDALThe heavy, metallic scent of fresh blood completely swamped the small perimeter of the residential cabin, drowning out the familiar smells of old gun oil and damp stone. I was flat on my back on the mattress, my legs tangled in sheets that were turning a dark, terrible crimson.My fingers locked into the front of Rylan’s thick tactical jacket. I pulled him down until his face was inches from mine."Make it stop," I choked out, a raw, wet sob tearing through my chest. "Rylan, please... it's tearing me apart... make it stop!""I've got you, sweetheart. I've got you," Rylan muttered. His voice wasn't smooth or mocking anymore. It was completely broken, scraping like gravel in his throat. His massive Alpha arms wrapped tightly around my torso, pulling my upper body off the bloody mattress and crushing me against his bare chest. He was shaking so violently his teeth were clicking together. "Don't look down, Edal. Just look at me. Look at my eyes. Focus on my voice, okay?""It hurts!"
EDALThe atmosphere upstairs in the main residential sectors had completely shifted over the last two months. For the first time since Marcus’s mountain vault had become our cage, the heavy, stale air of the fortress felt lighter. The Nullifiers down in the lower bays were holding the western ridge with absolute iron discipline, Vance’s men keeping Vex’s forward scouts totally pushed back into the ash plains. And inside our own private wing, the dark, bloody tension between the Alphas had quieted down into a strange, watchful truce.Everyone could see the change now. My belly was rounding out, pushing tight against the fabric of my gray tactical shirts.To the soldiers and the circle, that growing shape was the first real piece of hope they had touched since the old world burned down to the ground. A new life. A child born inside the stone walls where the nuclear winter couldn’t reach.But under my heavy blankets in the dark, the happiness didn't reach my gut.I sat on the edge of the
EZRA The red lights were spinning fast against the white lab walls, painting the green jars of fluid in a dark, bloody color. The alarms were completely screaming, a loud, heavy horn that made my hybrid ears ring with pure agony.Thorne was still standing by the silver desk, his clean face twisting with sudden, sharp anger as the distant sound of explosions shook the concrete floor under our feet."What is that?" Thorne barked, turning his head toward the heavy white doors. "The outer gate perimeter is totally locked. Who is breaching the facility?"The iron door at the end of the long glass corridor suddenly bent inward with a massive, deafening *CRASH*.The metal panel tore completely off its bolts, flying through the air and smashing into one of the green tanks. Green fluid and broken glass exploded across the floor, the malformed clone body sliding out into the mess. Through the smoke, Tyson stepped straight into the lab. The massive Nullifier was holding his heavy breaching shie
RYLANI stumbled into the dark, Edal's room. It had been empty for weeks but the scent of her skin still clung desperately to the damp concrete walls and it was driving me completely insane.Groaning, I leaned my head back against the cold wall right beside her bare mattress. My hand traveled down
EDAL Korr’s head snapped toward me, his dark eyes narrowing into lethal slits. Beside him, Damon’s hand froze on the hilt of his combat knife. The entire courtyard went dead silent. The surrounding militia guards shifted their weight, their eyes darting between me and the two battered scouts knee
EDAL."Take your hands off her, Damon," Korr snapped with an angry bite to his tone that I felt in my chest, in my aching cunt."Relax, Commander. Just helping her dry off." His thumb dragged over the peak of my nipple through the thin fabric before he pulled away. A jolt of electricity shot straig
EDALThe moment we crossed the settlement gates, the air turned toxic. Korr stood by the main fire, his gaze sweeping over us before fixing entirely on Ezra, who was practically glued to my side. Korr's expression went murderous, his eyes dark with an instant, primal jealousy.“What the hell is thi







