Finally Mina unlocks the door with a resounding clunk as a black iron key works its magic. I fly into the room, dropping to my knees at the sight of my best friend. Her poor body, her beautiful face. It broke my heart and I could barely see the leg restraints through my tears. “Roxie, roxie I tried to get here sooner, I’m so sorry,” but her head hung low against her chest. As if the fight had left her. How could that be when we were so close to getting her away from Austin?Mina silently unlocked the neck and leg restraints, aiding me as my emotions got the better of me. “Please Rox, I have been in this room, I know what he does.”Her head lifted slightly, and I cried out in horror. Red welts covered her cheek, One leg was completely raw and her long black hair had been singed and hacked away leaving her ragged and broken like a discarded doll.“Then you will know I deserve this,” she whispered. “Felix…is Felix alive?”“I don’t know, he is with Dex fighting now-”“No!” she whimpered,

I raced to the gap in the tower only to watch her body hit the rocks. She was a broken heap of gold silk, blood and black on the moonlit floor. A nightmare comes to life. Despite revealing my location I could not help but scream. I tasted blood, dropping to my knees as I stared at the lifeless form of my best friend.How could she do this? What was she thinking to have left me like this! A bang on the door saw me almost follow her straight out of the window. I didn’t need to hear his voice to know the snarling, panting beast behind the door was Austin. The oak door held strong as his body crashed into it over and over. I pushed the wooden desk against the door, praying there would be enough weight to keep it shut. He kept going, almost frenzied as the crashing sound of his body into the wood left me shaking. I stood in my dress and black leggings, surveying the room. Roxie, for some reason, had jumped with the poker so I was defenceless.I peered out of the tower, through the gap and

What the hell has happened here. We’ve saved the fucking day and I’m getting shit for it.As she vanished around the corner the blonde girl with blue eyes approached. “I’m Mina, I did not want to get Kate’s hopes up but I think…Roxie needs a healer. She might not be completely gone yet.”I groaned, rubbing my face. We’re just a collection of fighters, “Azus, do you?” knowing the answer would be a no before he walked off to check on his injured men. Then, as quiet as a tiger through the trees Olaf came into view. He was completely naked, his grey hair shorn, eyes shimmering gold and yellow.He walked down the grassy path, all of us staring at his intimidating presence. Was he some kind of fucking sun god? Blessed with serious muscles and abs behind all that weird grey hair it felt as though we were all meeting him for the first time.Ignoring everyone’s stares he fixed his eyes on the tall, blonde Mina. We all saw her breath catch, her eyes widen as she fell under some kind of spell. F

Hours of chanting, each of us holding Roxie’s charred hand or foot as Olaf mixed herbs and guided our voiced was exhausting. My head dropped, fighting waves of tiredness after days of running from Foxton. Olaf and Felix had battled too, their red wounds matching Roxie’s battered form. It was peculiar to feel the ebb and flow of her body. I would feel warmth and a pulse only for it to simmer away. Her breathing was barely there, her chest flickering instead of rising. Her wolf was pushing itself to the limits and there was no way of knowing what would happen.On the sofas, rapidly staining with blood as her wounds seeped, we surrounded her with our love. As dawn broke over a new day Mina looked around and clanged the cymbals.Olaf began to shake his head in failure, the herbs, hair and peculiar rocks he had procured moved to one side. He was accepting defeat. I couldn't. I gave my last bit of energy, chanting louder, closer to her ear praying with everything I had that she would choos

Fuck me I owe Olaf a drink. Maybe ten. He can have every jewel in this shithole.The sight of Kate standing there in the gardens, not that she was really eyeing up the silent giant was enough to make Alba go wild. The green silk slip she wore was fluttering softly in the breeze, her eyes so brown and soulful combined with that honey hair. I was rock hard before I even stood behind her.Now I’m watching as my mate keeps her eyes on me, unzipping my pants on her knees. I know it’s maybe immature, enjoying the risk of being outside but it’s something Alba and I have in common. Fuck, it’s clearly something Kate likes too, she’s been bent over a balcony howling before now so this is junior league in comparison.When she started teasing me, suggesting things I could do to her she had no idea how wild it drives me. Or maybe she does know exactly what she’s doing, in which case she deserves my cock in her mouth even more.Her plump perfectly pink lips kissing and wrapping around the head of m