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CyraThe plan was simple. Everyone would be out of sight and we’d wait for Stellan to arrive. We have Lila’s warning but can’t know for sure that she was telling the truth. However, if she was, we’ll need this proof for the Council. It will be better to catch Stellan actually trying to force himself on me.Understandably, Yorick isn’t keen on the idea, but as Alpha Nevaeh and Alpha Michael said, he is now connected to my mind. He will know when it’s time to rush in.Tracker and Raptor quickly set up recording devices in my room so that they can see and watch everything that happens. There will be no way for Stellan to get out of this.‘I’m right here,’ Yorick says for the hundredth time in my head.‘I want you right here,’ I say, sending him an image of us earlier along with the feeling of my mouth attached to his neck and his body inside of mine when we were interrupted.He groans in the mind link and some of the tension in him shifts like I was hoping it would.‘I can’t even say tha
YorickI blink as I stare at my mate. There’s mischief and excitement in her eyes, but also a small bit of fear.“You want me to mark you?” I ask, confirming what she just asked me.“Well, I intend to mark you too, if you’re ...”I don’t let her finish before my mouth is on hers, devouring her as her back slams against the wall and I shred her clothes.I feel her claws shredding my clothes as she responds with just as much passion as I am.Once our clothes are in tatters on the floor, I pick her up by her thighs and carry her to my bed. Since her legs are wrapped tightly around me, I pull the blankets back and crawl onto the bed before lowering myself and settling between her thighs.“Are you sure, Cyra? There’s no turning back once my mark is on you. You’ll be mine forever,” I say, pulling back to look at her. I search her face for any indication that she’s wavering, but I find none.“Nothing has ever sounded better to me, Yorick, than knowing that I’ll be yours forever. Well, except
ArdenI am just getting up from my desk to go to bed when my phone rings. When I look at the caller ID, I growl. What does that little prick want now?I put the phone to my ear. “Alpha Stellan, I’ve already cancelled the payment for the Academy. Cyra should be home soon,” I tell him.“Soon isn’t soon enough, Arden. The note for the loan we took out to save your fucking ass was bought and the Alpha who bought it will be here tomorrow to take our pack as payment. You need to rally your troops and get them over here. I don’t have to tell you what happens if we go down.”He’s such an arrogant little shit.“What Alpha bought the loan?” I ask.“Alpha Quirin. He’s supposedly very wealthy and powerful.”I pull up the name on the pack log, then run a search on him frowning when the search doesn’t go through.“Arden, did you hear me?” Stellan asks.“Yeah, I heard you,” I murmur, typing in an override to do the search. Nothing.“Where are you?” I ask distractedly, putting in a different override.
Lila“Baby, you know I want to be with you as much as you want to be with me,” Stellan says. He pulled me into an empty room in the packhouse when I confronted him once again about getting out of the agreement with Alpha Cyra.Ever since that woman, Piper, called me, I can’t get the thought out of my head that what she said might be true. But every time I say something to Stellan, he has a good reason why he can’t get out of the agreement.“What if she finds her fated mate at the Academy, Stell? Maybe she will and that will be that,” I say, remembering that Piper told me Cyra did find her mate and he’s the one who punched Stellan.“She didn’t, baby. I told you, when I was there, she refused to release me from the alliance bond. If she had met her mate, she’d have told me. She'd have been as eager to get out of this alliance bond as I am,” he says, running his fingers over my cheek and tucking my hair behind my ear.Now I don’t know what to believe.“You know I only want you, right?” he
Quirin“Did want to listen in?” I ask Warren when we hang up from the video call.“I think it’s always good to be reminded of how truly vicious you can be, Quirin,” he says, just as the people in my life who have taken that viciousness out of me knock on the door.I stand and walk to the door. Before I reach it, it’s pushed open, and my gaggle of girls comes flooding into the office.“DADDY!” they all say rushing toward me. I’ve learned from one of the best fathers out there how to manage a large group of children, so without breaking stride, I scoop down and pick up all four of my quads, as I continue walking toward the woman who has given me everything I’ve ever wanted in life and so much more.I lean over the girls in my arms and my son in her arms and kiss my mate, drawing her into the kiss since I don’t have any arms to pull her to me.When I pull back, I growl softly, letting her know that I’ll be finishing that later tonight. She gives me her sweet, naughty grin that sends desir
Cyra“I know you’re still struggling to understand that you’re not alone anymore, Cyra, but you aren’t,” my mate, my sweet, amazing mate says to me.He’s right, I don’t know what it means to not be alone, but I’m getting a crash course on what it’s like to have family, a real family, surround you with their love. Looking at my mate, seeing the pure and absolute love in his eyes makes me realize several things all at once.First, no matter what, I want his mark on my neck and mine on his. Second, I want to be the kind of Alpha that a man like Yorick will be proud of, someone he would want to follow, but would also be willing to stand beside and lead our pack together. And finally, no matter what it takes, no matter how difficult it might be for me, for us, I want him to follow his dream and become an elite warrior for as long as wants that life.Since I’m already in his lap, I turn, straddling him as I take his mouth in a passionate kiss. His response, as always, is instant. Now that my