“Tyler Alexander, come back here! You do not try to go in that water by yourself!” “Lil, you are so stressed. Try to breathe and I don't know.. crazy idea here- relax?” Chad lifts his hands to her shoulders to massage the rigid muscles. “I can't when your son over there thinks that he is a mermaid and tries to go swimming by himself.” Lily tenses as her son moves to the water's edge, bending down to pick up a rock. She has images of him falling head first into the water and her not reaching him in time. “Alright, that's good to know..” Chad says suddenly, his random spoken words confusing her, momentarily drawing her attention away from their son. “Huh? What's good to know?” “You're a smother.” His quick answer causes a frown to settle on her face and he quickly amends his words. “I don't mean that as a bad thing. You are just a helicopter mom and you hover over him. It might be nice now but later on when he is trying to hang out with the other pups in the pack, he is not goi

“Lil.. please stop.” He catches her arm just as she reaches her door. She pulls her arm from his grasp and turns quickly, but her anger fades slightly when she notices her son in his arms. “It's fine. Hiya, sweetie.” Lily smiles at the child who reaches for her. She pulls him into her arms, while carefully trying to avoid any contact with Chad's body. Lily is turning away to enter her room when his quiet voice stops her. “Please talk to me?” “What do you want to talk about?” Lily asks him. She knows that her anger is irrational and that he is probably confused by it. In his mind, he did nothing wrong. And hell, maybe he didn't. Maybe this is all in her head, who knows. She could be reading something into nothing, but this feels personal. “Not that it matters. It's probably best if we safe this for later.” “Lily, I didn't mean to be so brisk with you.” “It's fine. You don't want to talk. We don't have to talk.” Lily says to him as she steps into her room, ready to call it a night

Chad had been driving her crazy all through the movie, whether he knew it or not. He had used his finger to absent-mindedly draw little designs on her arm, inching his way to her inner arm, near her breasts. All throughout the movie, she had tried to concentrate, but it was a losing battle. All she could think about was his touch and how good it will feel all over her body. Now, it was his turn for a bit of teasing. As they move down the hall towards his bedroom, he keeps trying to catch her by the waist, but she dances just out of reach of his hands. After a couple of times of her evading his touch with that teasing smirk on her face, he can take it no longer. With a growl, he pounces on her. Backing her up against the wall, his hands slide down to her thighs to hoist her up until she wraps those shapely legs of hers around his waist. Reaching down for the hem of her shirt, he slowly slides it up her body before he flings it to the floor without a care. The sight he revealed ta

“Fuck!” It had taken Chad about five minutes to reach southern territory and he was so distracted by what he wanted to say to Lily yet didn't that it took him another two minutes to realize that all was eerily quiet. Too quiet for there to have been an attack, unless everyone was dead. Chad was about to go looking up and down the boundary when a boundary patrol named Connor came bounding up to him. “Hey, Chad. What brings you out here?” “A guy. Knocked on my door and told me there was an attack out here. Rogues. Claimed Alpha Adam and Beta Lumi needed my help.” “Ha! That's a weird joke, but no.. nothing happening out here. Jax and I have been out here for hours and other than the stray squirrel or two, we haven't seen anything.” Connor tells him. “I have no idea why someone would tell you that-” Connor's voice fades into the background as the realization hits Chad. Mind linking Adam, something that he never ever does because mind linking can be very painful, he asks him, “Adam?

“Screw you.” Darin looks her over with a leer. “Oh, that and more, baby. That and more.” Lily has to strongly fight the urge to gag at the thought. No matter what the outcome, if he tries to touch her, she will fight him with everything she has. Even though her hands and legs are tied. Even if he kills her for it. She will fight him. “I would rather be tortured with three-thousand paper cuts and have to swim through lemon juice and tequila than have to even picture that in my mind. I would throw myself in front of a speeding train before I let myself become your little plaything.” “If this is about that little mate of yours, don't worry. He will be dealt with by dawn.” Darin tells her, making her stomach drop down to her toes. Her first instinct is to panic, letting her worry for Chad's safety get the better of her. But then she remembers the words that he has said to her many times before. How she needed to trust him. Trust him to protect her and Ty. She finally takes his wo