AVAThe first thing I heard was the sound of my room door loudly crashing open. My eyes opened immediately, but before I could even register what was happening, two massive men were in my room. Their bodies were dark—almost black—and their eyes… were a strange silver color. They looked cold, like they didn’t have any feelings.One charged at me, and slammed his paw down on my shoulder, pinning me to the bed, and halting all my thrashing immediately. I barely had time to try to breathe properly before the other one grabbed me by the arm and pulled me off the mattress like I weighed absolutely nothing.“Let go of me!” I screamed. I dug my nails into fur, trying to scratch the wolf and injure it enough for it to let me go. I kicked, twisted, and wriggled, just wanting to get free.They didn’t care. Both of them held my body firmly with their hands and started dragging me toward the window.My wolf was so angry and terrified all at the same time as she paced around in my head. ‘Shift and
ZADEI had been trailing Ava since I saw her stepping out of her room. She thought she would just be taking a short walk, but I knew better. She had been so restless lately, and that usually meant going into the woods to her favorite spot. So I stayed far enough behind her that she wouldn’t notice, and close enough to come to her aid if something went wrong.The night was quiet at first. Suddenly, I could feel the wind changing. Then my nostrils caught an unfamiliar scent, and every muscle in my body tensed up.Suddenly, I heard someone screaming. I Immediately knew it was Ava.I didn’t stop to think. I just moved—faster than I ever had—running through the trees and sailing past roots and rocks. My wolf rushed to the front of my mind, wanting to be let out, but I held him back just enough to regain control. The scream had been loud and panicked, and I could still hear it in my ears.When I got to her side, whatever had made her scram was already gone. The air still carried their sce
AVAMy breath caught in my throat. I didn’t dare move.The triplets were so close to me, that I could feel the heat of their skin on mine. Roman’s eyes moved down to my lips like he was already imagining how they would taste. Zade’s hand slowly slid higher up my thigh, while Axel’s fingers were tangled in my hair, and holding me up like I might just vanish if he did so much as let go.My heart pounded so hard that I could hear it in my ears.“This is wrong,” I whispered, though even to my own ears, my words didn’t sound very convincing. “I still have to choose one person between the three of you.”It was the logical thing to say. The reasonable thing. The only problem was… my wolf didn’t agree at all. She was practically pacing inside me, desperate and needy for all three of them.Roman’s gaze turned darker, Zade’s grip on me tightened but not in a way that would hurt me, and Axel leaned in even closer like he wanted to close the distance between us and pull me into his lap.The air
AVAZade’s words had barely registered in my brain before the sound of another strange wolf howling filled the night. My heart started pounding almost immediately.The triplets moved in sync. Before I knew what was happening, their clothes were being dropped on the floor, their bones were snapping, and in the space of just a few seconds, they were in their wolf forms.They looked huge, vicious, and deadly. My wolf got so excited seeing all her mates in their wolf forms that she rushed to the front of my mind, begging me to shift, and it took almost all of my strength to push her back. I didn’t want to shift now. I didn’t know if I would survive it with how weak I was feeling right now.I followed them out, ignoring the voice in my head that screamed for me to stay put right there in the room. The cold night air hit my face immediately I stepped outside, but it smelled strange. The air wasn’t pure. It carried the scent of silver with it. And when we walked a lot further, I saw them.
AVAAlpha Thomas’s words were still ringing in my ears when the triplets started moving me toward the pack hospital. I felt like my body had been dragged through hot rocks, and every muscle in it was throbbing painfully. The silver burns on my wrists still looked red and horrible, so I didn’t argue when Axel picked me up like I weighed nothing.The next thing I knew, I was waking up to sunlight spilling through a pair of thin curtains the next day. My throat was parched, my lips were cracked, and the sheets smelled faintly of antiseptic and pine needles. That’s when I realized that I was still in the hospital.My wrists were still throbbing, and when I moved just a little, pain rushed down my arms, spreading all over my entire body almost immediately. The memory of those silver cuffs clamped around my wrists made my body tremble with fear.“You’re awake.”I turned my head to find Roman sitting beside the bed with his elbows on his knees. Zade was leaning against the wall near the do
AXELThe door was hanging crookedly on its hinges when we stepped inside. My wolf was growling as it raged inside me, pulling at my control, demanding I rip apart anything standing between us and her.I didn’t get a chance to think.Zade moved first. He threw himself at Blake with a growl that shook the walls. Their bodies slammed into the far side of the room, knocking over a small table and sending a lamp crashing to the floor. The sound of breaking glass barely registered in our minds though.Roman went next. He used his claws to slash through the two guards who had just rushed in through the door. His fists were bloody by the time he had one of them pinned to the wall and the other unconscious on the floor.I didn’t have time to think anymore. I just headed straight to Ava.She was on the bed, and her wrists were bound by thick cuffs that were glowing faintly under the room’s dim light. The raw marks around her skin told me everything I needed to know: that she’d been chained wit