The way the two men were talking and looking at me, made me uncomfortable.
They know something we don’t.
They were staring at me as if they knew me.
I didn’t like it. “I think we best get back to Vanquish.”
“Yes.” Hunter cleared his throat. “His hurt leg.”
“He needs help getting back to the hut. I’ll take you to him.” I said quickly. Looking at the two men.
“She’s afraid of us.” Hawk said from behind Magus. “That’s fine. She’ll come around. I need to get back to the shack anyway.
He turned away but Magus caught his arm and gave him a stern look.
“I need to check on her.” Hawk emphasized.
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Her? Who was he talking about? For a brief moment, I hoped it might be my sister. Or someone I had known before.
I grabbed Hunter’s arm and began tugging him back through the
I stamped down my fear and tried to be rational. Tried to speak in a soothing tone hoping it might make him ease some.Be gentler in what he was going to do to me.“Just calm down, Van.”He hissed through his teeth. “Don’t you dare tell me to calm down! Do you know what you just nearly risked?”I was quiet, knowing that if I said yes, it’d only make him angrier and if I said no, he’d be angry that I was playing at less intellect. He’d never buy it anyway.“Now ready yourself, mate. I’m taking you until you learn you can’t trifle with me. And you don’t. Keep. Secrets. From. Your. Mate.”Then he entered me viciously.“Vanquish!” I called. Near to begging for mercy. Feeling him probing deep into my core. His hard length impaling me like a solid branch. Unrelenting and unfeeling.So unlike him.***This
I swayed over him. Swinging forward and back. Feeling his staff, slicking me inside. I glided over him. Taking him deep and rising off him. Making love to him and reassuring him that he was important to me.He deserved to know.I should’ve shared what I was up to.He had done nothing but offer me wise advice and patience and I had thanked him with secrecy.His anger is warranted. I could admit that.Soon he rumbled in his throat, purring in satisfaction for what I was doing to him. He growled and caught my hips. Making the movements more aggressive as he sought deeper hold over me.A way to control me.“I need you to remember you’re mine.” He growled. His head arching back in the peaks of his swirling pleasure. His body tensed. The flat plane of his muscled chest flexing. His rippling abdomen tightening as he reached closer to attaining his pleasure.Refusing to resist
“I don’t know.” My gaze fell. “I wasn’t thinking.”Why did I do it?I knew the problems it’d cause. And admitting that was a form of acknowledgement that it had crossed my mind countless times before.He snorted. “Well, I can certainly understand that.”He pressed a quick kiss to my forehead.“Come on.” Vanquish caught my wrist and pulled me behind him. “Walk close behind so they don’t see your dress.”My torn dress.We entered camp with me on his heels. My head ducked in shame that they might see my torn dress and guess I’d disobeyed my mate.Him walking decisively before me. His expression pure wrath.Other wolves skittered from his path. But no one said anything.Samantha and Jaecar watched with confused expressions. Surprised at how meek I looked just now.Lyra Lani, the Alpha’s mat
She cracked the door and peered out. Blinking at me through one large blue eye. Thickly lashed and brightened with curiosity as to why I would be there in the middle of the night.I could imagine how ridiculous I looked, standing there in my billowing white nightdress tossing in the slight breeze. Like a ghost in the dark.“Jaecar is bleeding. He…Hit his head...”She hissed through her teeth and stared at me suspiciously. “Are there any males out tonight.”“None but the Border Guards, that I’ve seen. Why?” It instantly dawned on me how foolish my question was. I instantly recalled how afraid of the night I was when I was unmated.Now I know the males won’t touch me. They’d be ripped apart by my men if they tried.But Rebekah…“Nevermind.” I said at her startled look.She doesn’t even know how to begin to explain
I slipped next to the crack between the stones. Shocked that someone had meticulously shimmied up the wall and removed one stone at a time. Working their way down to the ground to form a zig zagging opening that was narrow enough to be discreet.Slim enough the Border Guards have missed it. And I knew how cautious they were. But the space between the tree and the wall was barely over a foot, then the crack little more.Only a woman could fit through. Yet, I suspected that a male had to have done it from the other side.She’s not strong enough to have moved those stones.I peeked through the crack and was astonished to see Marta had her arms wrapped around a large, long-haired male who was tightly embracing her. His hands freely roaming her body.Marta?She has a mate! What is she doing?I couldn’t begin to understand what she was doing. We all knew that it was the code of wolves
Now he was in my view. My target.So close…I took a gasping breath of air. Sitting up as I dragged panting breaths deep into my chest.“Are you okay?” Lyra Lani knelt next to me. Clutching my shoulders. “We lost you for a moment there.”“What happened?”“Some manner of trembles overtook you.”“I was somewhere else…”“Well I hope it was better than that.” Lyra Lani tossed her head over her shoulder toward the crack where ragged male grunts were huffing on the other side of the wall. And the wails of the old woman’s pleasure filled the air.Or her pain.It was hard to tell which. But since she’d come here of her own volition, I was guessing she was enjoying submitting to the brutality of her mate.As I sometimes do.***“Come back with me.” Lyra Lani helped me to my
Their anger and raw animal aggression reminded me of all those days before I knew them when I had feared them.I instinctively whimpered and backed up against the door. Feeling cornered.Racer and Vanquish stood. Animalistically closing in, as they saw my retreat.Seeing the change of power, I realized that I needed to stamp down my she-wolf's submission and fearlessly tell them.Now.Before they hold me accountable and remind me of my place.“I heard something. I saw Jaecar was injured.”“Jaecar?” Racer asked in confusion.“You went out to check on a male?” Hunter objected. Slapping the door near my shoulder enough that I jumped. Obviously angry at the prospect I may’ve been sneaking out to see another male.But I wasn’t.I can barely keep you three sated!Closing my eyes, I steadied myself. Why am I afraid of them? I k
I could just tell him. Tell him I’d been breaking Draven’s orders. Endangering us all by my inability to resist searching for my former home and where I was and now by endangering myself in following Marta and catching her with a NightHunter.And he’d tell me to take things slow and let him go out and to be careful. To wait for Draven’s blessing.But I don’t want to wait!“Tell me the rest.” He stepped from behind the pillar. Rolling his back onto it and levelling that keen green gaze on me.“Rest?” I sat up. My white nightdress glowing in the dark and my hair waving over my shoulder as I blinked blearily at him.“If you saw Marta poison, Jaecar, she didn’t hang out while you went and got Rebekah. And you wouldn’t have let her get away with it, as easy as that...So what’d you do?”He already knows I followed her. He’s waiting to se