***“This is your mate?” Mary’s eyes ran over Ryan. “Clearly a man but also clearly pregnant. What is freakier than that?” She drawled. “A pack full of freaks.” Mary began to laugh.“If I stay here for long, I might become a donkey or something.“Mary?” Sally gasped just as everyone began to chuckle. A donkey stood where Mary stood a second earlier.“What?” The donkey rolled its eyes at Sally. “Even they think it’s funny. “That sounds like a title of a book actually.” The donkey laughed as Ryan turned to look at the high priestess and Deloris with questioning eyes. “Like that book…A Quiver Full of Arrows. This one will be, A Pack Full of Freaks… get it?” The donkey grinned at a horrified-looking Sally.The amused chuckles soon turned into laughter as both the high priestess and Deloris shook their heads at Ryan, indicating that neither of them had turned Mary into the talking donkey.“Oh, my god…” Ryan gasped when it dawned on him who the culprit was. He gave a laughing Jeremy an icy

***“You.” Mary whirled around to look at Paige with blind fury.“Yes, me.” Paige sneered. “The double-crossing prick. Ripped his throat right out.”Mary let out a bloodcurdling scream and opened both hands to fire a couple of fireballs at Paige, dropping the hair which was her link to Gloria in the process. Even as the fireballs flew out of her palms and bounced off Paige, the wind blew the hair into the flame, burning it instantly and severing the link. Unfortunately for an oblivious Mary, abruptly severing the link that fed the flame had its consequences. The energy of the blue flame had to go back to its conjurer in the same abrupt manner. And that was exactly what happened. To the shock of everyone, the blue flames…which seemed to have suddenly come alive, shifted to where Mary stood screaming frenziedly at Paige and engulfed her.“Oh god…” Gloria gasped as she covered Troy’s head so that he wouldn’t see Mary being burnt alive by the flames.But though he couldn’t see the woman w

***“Oh, wow!” Stan gasped as he watched Philip stand and move to his mate’s side. “He’s gonna do it…” All three men watched with amused excitement as Philip lifted his mate’s chin and kissed him with so much passion.“Do you have any idea how I felt when you shifted and charged at Mary?” Philip whispered against Troy’s mouth when the kiss ended. “You were ready to kill her for me, baby. That was just…” The alpha looked lost for words.“I’ll kill for you without a thought,” Troy murmured. “You’re mine.“Aw, how sweet.” Stan drawled as he stretched out beside Jeremy on the bed. “But you might want to leave the rescuing and fighting to your mate next time. He’s supposed to protect you, not the other way round.”“That’s bullshit.” Ryan snorted. “I vote you whoop this asshole’s arse one of these days, Troy.”“That would be great actually.” Stan grinned. “How about picking me for your combat during the ceremony?”“He’s not picking your bullying arse, Stanislav,” Philip growled. As part of

***“So he changed the rules.” Troy suddenly felt all warm inside but didn’t know why. He managed to tear his gaze away from his mate’s to look at his friend. His breath hitched in his throat at what he saw. Paul was on all fours, clearly struggling to shift. As a newly turned wolf, that was only to be expected. It would take some time for Paul to be able to shift easily. “Come on…” Troy breathed as he watched his friend. “You can do it…” He encouraged under his breath. “Concentrate…” Troy didn’t see how his own mate was smiling tenderly at him. To Philip, his mate sounded like a mother urging on her child. “That’s it…” Troy couldn’t help the proud grin that widened his lips when Paul shifted into a tawny brown wolf. The wolf's fur had patches of black, white, and gold but the dominant colour was brown. “He’s beautiful.” Troy breathed.It was only after Paul had shifted and started to walk towards where Agyemang stood on the wide stage that the proud-looking alpha allowed his own wolf

***Philip entered the chalet assigned to him and his mate shut the door and brought Troy down. His hungry lips were hard and hot on Troy’s even before his mate could find his footing, kissing him deeply and with raw passion. With a hand cradling the back of Troy’s head, Philip shoved him against the wall and plundered his sweet mouth, overwhelming Troy‘s senses in a ruthless assault. Philip knew he had to rein in some control and stop what he was doing…hoped that he would be able to stop.But it was so hard...Troy totally melted against Philip, kissing him back as hard as he was receiving. He was lost in sensations so sharp and raw it felt as if the world was swirling around them. He felt his mate’s hardness against him and wondered exactly when Philip had freed himself. That hard, enormous, jutting evidence of Philip’s desire for him never ceased to floor and excite him. Troy tore his mouth away from Philip’s and sunk to his knees before his handsome and totally captivating mate.“