KACELAI could feel Wyatt’s eyes on my back as I stumbled away, trying to keep control of myself. My wolf was going crazy in my head. I haven’t felt her presence in over a year, and she was suddenly back, freaking out on me. She kept yelling ‘mate’. I was trying to silence her, not knowing if Wyatt’s wolf had alerted him. The effort made my nose bleed.The four-block walk was excruciating. Dali was getting stronger, and she was trying to take over. I had blood gushing from my nose, and I had a splitting headache. I finally made it back to the apartment and about fell into the door. My hands were shaking, and I had to try twice to get the key in before I could turn it. The door opened and I yanked the key out of it, stumbling in and slamming it behind me. I noticed I left a smear of blood on the back of the door. I would have to deal with it later. I locked the door behind me and looked up the stairs, putting one foot in front of the other. I made it up three steps before

KACELAI woke up to the beeps of the monitor keeping track of my heartrate again. This time I wasn’t in so much pain. I looked over to see a man fiddling with one of the machines. It had two large circles on the front that were turning, and it looked like my blood was going into it. I knew that it was cleaning the wolfsbane out of my blood and I began to panic.“Please, turn that machine off,” I begged, pulling at my wrist restraints. For some reason, being tied to the bed made the whole thing almost unbearable. “I’m sorry, miss, but I can’t. You need this. The wolfsbane almost killed you.”I turned my head away and the tears came unbidden to my eyes. I hated that I was feeling so weak. “Do you want to sit up a little?” Wyatt asked me, moving from behind the bed so that I could see him. He looked terrible, like he hadn’t slept for a long time.I just shook my head and turned away. I didn’t want to have to ask for anything. I didn’t want to owe the wolf I was destined to k

WYATTKacela tried twice more to escape. The first time was when she was untied to use the bathroom. She knocked over the nurse and bolted for the door. Fortunately the guards were on the other side and they managed to get her back to her bed. The medical staff made her use a bedpan for the next two days to punish her for that.The second time she had managed to slip off her restraints and she left through a window. I was working in my office when I got the alert from one of my guards that the nurse went in to bring her lunch and she was gone. We should let her go, I told Dex. She doesn’t want us.Dali wants me, Dex replied. Kacela is just stubborn and scared. She has been taught to hate all wolves, including her own. We can change that.I sighed and mind linked my guards to shift and be ready to search for her. Dex was excited to be on the hunt.Her scent had gotten stronger to me the more I was around her. It was definitely a jasmine and vanilla scent mixed with somethin

WYATTIt had been a week since I locked Kacela in the dungeon. I went down to see her every day, trying to talk some sense into her. She refused to see reason and I was becoming more frustrated, especially since every contact I had with her just strengthened the bond between us. I was feeling her pain more and more.“Do you not feel what I’m feeling?” I asked her. I was looking through the bars at her. She was on the ground, doing push-ups. She looked up at me, glaring but not answering.I watched her, trying to decide what I was going to do with her. I had found out from the guards that she spent most of her day exercising in some form or another. I knew it was because of how chilly I kept the dungeon. Exercising and moving kept her warm. I could feel that the nights were very cold for her, but she refused to ask the guards for a blanket. I looked around the cell. She was given a bucket of water every day along with soap and a rough towel. It looked like she attempted t

KACELAI leaped to my feet and ran for the door. These Lycans were crazy if they thought that I was going to submit to being mated with Wyatt. I didn’t make it far before the two guards were on top of me. I went crazy, fighting, kicking, and screaming. They dragged me over to the bed and put me on it.I popped up and started to run for the door again. Lia was in front of me, claws out and teeth bared. I hadn’t even heard her shift and, when I turned towards the windows, I realized the other two guards had shifted. I was in a room with three huge Lycans.They put me on the bed. Lia shifted back and told me to stay put or she would have the guards tie me to the bed. Having experienced being tied to a bed before experiencing the dungeon, I opted to stay.The door opened and Wyatt came in. He was dressed in the same clothing he wore to the dungeon. I grabbed a blanket and pulled it up to cover me, absurdly shy around him. He looked at the two Lycans and Lia. “Go,” he said. T