I shoved his pants down.
He kicked off his botts and stepped from them.
The sunlight playing over his bronzed body. And emphasizing every muscle. A glaze of sweat lingered on his skin. Making him glisten like sunlight on water.
I turned my hand and dragged my nails up his abdomen and along his chest.
He was still staring down at me in confusion. His arms stiffly at his sides.
Because I’d made it clear I didn’t want his touch.
Now I was yearning for it.
But I’d have rather died than admit it.
I caught him intimately in my hands. Feeling how his soft, velvety skin immediately began to harden beneath my touch. Rising to obey my commands.
I pushed him backward.
He took a long step.
I shoved him again.
He stumbled back another step.
I caught the top of his shoulders and yanked him down.
He obediently looked up at me as he lowered to rest on his elbows. Stretching his
They’d barely declared my sweet old king dead. And all my fears were running rampant. I worried that perhaps this was what the NightHunter wolf had been waiting for. What if he’s going to return now? But it was the same fear I’d had every night since the beast had left. My long skirts swished around my legs as I paced my chambers. I was locked inside it, and still found myself watching the door fearfully. But the footstep I heard at the bottom of the stairs was one I knew. Not him either. Don’t come up here. Don’t come up here. I had one hand cradling my tossing stomach. I was chewing on the thumbnail of the other hand. All my willing was inundated by the hammering of an armored fist on the large wooden door. Alaric. He’s come for me. Thinking he can claim me, unchallenged, now that my King is dead. “Go away!” “Unlikely.” He scoffed. Bangin
***Note from the author:Explicit sex. Forced and rough sex. Shape shifting. Vengeance and captivity. Dark erotica.Can be triggering for some.***“Run, Girl! Run!” Marta’s voice was echoing in my ears. Her urgency. She had shown me the break in the border wall.Where I can get through. And I needed out.I never wanted to be part of this pack. But Edrick, the Asara Pack Alpha, had made me at the get. Despite that I was residing amongst humans. Nearly invisible as what I was. He’d known me as a wolf.He had his two vicious sons drag me into Asara territory and I was forced to join their pack and become fated to be prey of one of the unbred males because I was considered one of the few ‘breedables.’Females of mating age.And in this ferocious pack, breedable she-wolves were easy prey for the males that became fiercely lustful under the Mating Moon. Willing to throwdown the nearest she-wolf and rut her into submission to sate their insane drive.Like the malevolent wolves they are. I
“Which is the only thing I want.” He finished.It was his vow that he’d have me that set me with determination.He will not. My face hardened. Making me seem far sterner than I usually was.I’m leaving this damn place before he has the chance.I knew enough about Alaric to feel intimidated and to know he didn’t bluff. He meant what he said.Then tonight, just as dark was beginning to fall, the camp exploded in chaos.Draven and Alaric returned from a hunt with Edrick on a makeshift gurney. Bleeding everywhere.Fury, Edrick’s Beta, jogged from his hut and swore at the sight of the Alpha. “I told him I needed to go with you boys. Damn him!”Fury followed them into Rebekah’s hut.It was one of the only times I ever knew of, that The Healer let males beyond her threshold.Despite all of Rebekah, efforts, Edrick was soon dead.Our Alpha was dead.Killed by the Alpha of the NightHunters and his son.Edrick had managed to slaughter the Alpha but only to scar the adult son.The camp was awhir
So, when chaos ensued as they came through the huge swinging door, bearing the body of our dead alpha, I’d taken advantage of the shouts and clattering and panicked shouts…I got out.Through the trees and through that crack behind the tree, and out to freedom. Evening light cast pink and orange hues along the horizon. Signaling that dark would soon be here.And this close to the Mating Moon, my smell would be more potent.Easier to follow.But I was counting on the fact that everyone would be too busy mourning the alpha and honoring Draven’s ascension, to pursue me.And the wolf I was the most worried about hunting me down would be in the thick of the mourning.Alaric.This is the only chance I’ll have. I reminded myself. As I wove to the back of the hunts.So, I took it.***“Run, girl. Run!” Marta urged from behind me. Her words echoing in my ear as I did my mad flight through the trees. Swinging around the trunks and lunging sideways to mark trees in directions I wasn’t going.Try
I looked over my pale shoulder and through the strands of my straight blonde hair, watching the silvery wolf emerge from the trees so close behind me. Loping through the grass. I forced my legs to go faster. Carrying me at a nearly inhuman pace that should’ve lent a clue as to what I really was.If anyone knew anything. I was counting on the fact that they were simple humans who did not.Most wolves abhorred the company of humans. Knowing they were more powerful, faster and more animalistic, they tended to keep their distance.Which also keeps them from hunting us as zealously as the mages do.The wolf behind me was cutting the distance.Heading for me.He leapt and his teeth barely missed strands of my knee length hair as he tried to catch it without taking out my legs entirely.Trying not to hurt me at least. I could appreciate that.He could’ve torn my leg out from under me and injured me.But he wants me for a mate. And doesn’t want me broken.At least not until he’s done with me.
LARAI’d cowered behind the king. Wondering if that door would hold. Willing to let that pack of nights stand between me and the vicious brother of the Alpha hunting me.I’d let anything stand between him and I. As long as it kept him from getting me.“You poor thing…” The king rubbed my hair down around my tearstained cheeks. Brushing away the dampness with old fingertips.He had a kindly face. Gentle eyes but a hard jaw beyond that white beard, that told me that his hand could be as brutal as nice.I was going to work for nice. I looked at him and wondered how far I could take this. How far will I go to avoid the wolves?Any distance. I decided. Steadying myself to what might come.I clung helplessly to the old king’s arms like a lost child. Forcing my face as vulnerable as I could make it. “Please, please help me. I’ll do anything…”“Of course, Dear. Of course we will. My, my you are a pretty one, aren’t you…Beneath all those tears. You’re luck you made it. He nearly got you.”You’
It was a normal morning. I rose and my maid tended me in my morning rituals. Brushing my hair until it was a soft yellow halo framing my face. She then plaited it. Weaving in some shining white pearls. Next, she dusted my lips with a bit of rouge to freshen my face.She pulled a sky blue dress of fine silk over my head and helped gather my hair from beneath it. Tightening the laces until I felt I couldn’t breathe. Then helping me into the matching slippers.The fire was still needed to warm my room because though the sun was up, it was a moggy, damp morning. And the castle seemed to encourage the dampness to cling. Building the chill.I grabbed a gold silk wrap with tassels on the edges and pulled it around my shoulders. Emerging from my room with a purposeful walk.I’m starved. I had every intention of heading straight to the Dining Hall to retrieve some breakfast when I was stopped in my tracks.A knight was passing me in the corridor. He wore full armor, but his helmet was tucked u
To my secret relief, he was unable to perform and soon gave up.I sensed his frustration as he lay next to me. “It changes nothing, My King.”It’s better this way actually.“Such a great frustration for a man such as I, to have such a beautiful wife, alluring from her toenails to her forehead, and be unable to enter her.”“I’ve told no one, My King.”“Do not. Not so much as a whisper to a maid.” He said sternly. “Though you’re forgiving, our people would not be. They’d say our marriage was unconsummated.”It was.“They’ll cast you from this castle when I’m gone.”“What do I do when you are?” I asked softly. Feeling a bit fearful. Though I was strong, there was still much I relied on him for.He’s my guarantee of safety.Though I looked forward to being Queen to run the realm, something I’d been learning for a year now, I feared what might happen.“Consider Bartholemew, My Dear. He has an eye for you. And he’s young enough to give you heirs.”“I’ll consider it. But not a day before the