ELENA’S POV He raised the knife and cut, heaving his hips in time. As his dick rammed into her body, the blade left a straight line across her sternum. Blood quickly pooled in the shallow cut. The next thrust got another line, this one a little deeper. The third completed a triangle, and blood began to trickle down between her breasts. Nari moaned but when he started on a second triangle, she began to whimper. The cuts got even deeper. Her skin parted, gaping a little too much as Zayn crouched lower to keep his dick inside her. Ethan tried to help but gave up after the second try. Zayn didn't care though. He cut as he fucked, doing both as hard as he could. Once he finished the second triangle, he moved to her shoulder. "Make me stop," he taunted Nari. She simply whimpered, so he continued deeply carving a curving line below her shoulder in the shape of a snake. Blood colored her shoulders immediately and she screamed. The pain he inflicted on her drove him to ram into her harder.
ELENA’S POVThe silence was deafening. I think I shocked her into being dumb. Anika just sat there looking at me, her mouth opening and closing but no sounds coming out. Maybe I should have been more tactful, I thought but once my mind was made up I had to do it before I lost my nerves. I felt very jittery since I woke up from that dream...or should I say memory."Anika?" I prod, checking if she's still there..you know, mentally.She jolts seeming to be shaken out of her reverie and sits up straighter."Madam, i-i c-can't help you." she stumbles out, wringing her hands nervously. She looks up at me with wide scared eyes.I walk away from her, pacing around the room. I didn't know another way to contact Valerian. It wasn't like he gave me his phone number to call him. I whirled around suddenly facing her, struck by an idea."He has an office here right? I ask her."Yes madam," she says."Call me Elena," I say to her but she just looks away. I've tried to get her to call me Elena on sev
ZAYN'S POVThe sounds of fucking pierced his ears as he woke. His harem of women surrounded the bed in various states of undress. Several of his high-ranking officials were making use of some of the women. Good, they needed to relieve stress so they could give him the results he wanted. Glancing outside he could see it was night already, I guess I was worn out. I was up most of the day poring over strategies and ways to break through the Red Sun Hill city, he had to give it to them their defense was strong. But that was part of the fun in breaking such a strong city down. In every strong city, there was always a weak spot, all he had to do was find it and exploit it. They had some spies amongst the servants who gave them information from time to time, that was how they'd managed to stay undetected till now. Till that fool fucked it up. But no worries, he had a plan, and soon enough, Elena would be here again in her rightful place: between her mates.He entered his inner chamber, shut
VALERIAN’S POV"Are they ready to leave?" Esperanza's words snapped him out of the reverie returning him to the present. I curled a brow at her but Esperanza had yet to lift her head from the file she was reading, one hand smoothing over the pages."They're just about to depart. Soon they'll be approaching the borders of Zayn's city." I said calmly refusing to fidget or show any impatience to her. She knew all this already. There was a reason she asked for me."Good. I expect a report every afternoon until this…. situation is handled. I want everything you can find on the bastards and how they managed to breach our security." She ordered, at last lifting her steely grey eyes to mine.I refused to show anything but calm indifference, my temper not having cooled over the years just easier to control. He could still remember that bitter summer morning he lost his temper almost fifteen years ago. It constantly haunted him over the years, the pain unbearable at first -raw- but he carried i
VALERIAN’S POV"Alpha?" This way please" Sophia gestured down the hall as she led the way, all three of them ignoring the sulky fool left at the entrance."Any problems?" I asked, shifting my duffel bag over my shoulder knowing she would understand what I meant. This place wasn't under our direct jurisdiction, it was headed by an alpha who had called out for help when the attacks became frequent, and with the recent one….well, I guessed he figured out he needed help dealing with it but still yet some alphas could be touchy about several things especially when there is a more powerful alpha on their turf, it gets them agitated. The last thing I needed was another Jared pacing behind him, long strides slowed as he kept an eye on the hall behind them. Colin could be cunning and sneaky, we didn't trust him not to do anything suspicious."None, sir. All team members are accounted for and no signs of trouble yet we have surveillance in place. Aso Alpha Hercules has supplied us with two add
VALERIAN'S POVHercules stared at him intently after his little speech in which during that period, everywhere was so quiet and tensed up you could cut the tension with a knife."Greetings Valerian of Red Sun Hill city." Hercules finally spoke up after a while, nodding to him in return, the action a vague movement and he waved to the table where the reminder of Valerian's team sat on one side and presumably the higher-ranking wolves of the Crescent pack on the other side. His voice was a deep rumble of sound and accented -I guess due to the British inflection from living in England- unlike most of the shifters I've met."Have a seat. Your people have been most helpful and I appreciate Red Sun Hill city's assistance on this matter."Hercules relaxed as well, and it was as if the lessening tension between the two alphas permitted everyone to breathe again. I could pick up murmurs of conversation as people began to talk softly. Jared took their bags and began piling them off to the side
VALERIAN’S POVWatching Hercules intently, I could sense his awe at my Second's extraordinary ability, but the Alpha quickly got himself under control.Mentally I felt a slight nudge from Hercules seeking permission to speak to me privately through the connection that Jared brokered.Relaxing my mental barriers from external access and I allowed him in."You should count yourself lucky for having such an extraordinary man on your team. If not that I could sense his unwavering loyalty to you, and I would challenge you for him. He is an asset, one I would love to have in my pack." I heard the private thought Hercules sent to me, and the truth under the slightly wry tone."If not for his deep love for you, I would not hesitate to take him from you."I internally scoffed at the audacity that Hercules had to say this to my face but I restrained myself from reacting outwardly. That he would take Jared from me because he regarded it as a tool to be used, a weapon...not a human being with fe
VALERIAN’S POVSophia leaped, halfway across the room before the door even hit the wall. I was in a blink of time behind her, leaping for the opposite corner. There was a large bed in the room, two thin and bloody bodies on it, and two shifters were on the other side, huddled in corners, guns in hand.I saw the male's fire, time slowed and the bright flash of a shotgun was aimed in my direction.I felt the silver shot graze my ribs but I ignored it, the pain negligible and I forgot about the minor injury as his clawed hands sank knuckle-deep into the man's torso and arms.My weight crushed the male under him, squishing him in the corner, the gun dropped to the floor as the man's arms broke.Valerian lifted the man and rotated on my heels, throwing the semi-naked man towards the door, the space there clear of any furniture. The man hit the wall hard, and lay limply, alive but badly injured. I sniffed at him scornfully and turned my head in time to see Sophia pinning her target to the