ALPHA TOPHGone. The woman I had locked in the cellar was gone!How had a merchant’s daughter managed to break through the reinforced iron of the castle’s keep? It was remarkable. “Raya? Bloody hell woman, Are you in here?” I screamed, whirling on my haunches to peer about the room with my wolf’s vision, but she was truly gone.I threw my head back and let out a loud roaring howl, hearing the guards rush into the cellar and dance about the room, the tension in their coiled spring of bodies sending shivers of delight through my frame until I was unable to hold it in anymore.“Raya Banks, bloody whore, you shouldn't have done this,” I raged, barking out a harsh, demented laugh and turning suddenly to catch the guards exchanging dumb looks, instantly sending a surge of irritation bubbling up my throat.“Don't just STAND there you bloody fools! Find the girl! I don't care how you do it! I want missing posters in every state and city by fucking sunrise, you hear me?” I thundered, watching

OLIVIA BURNSThe Stone City Alpha werewolf was not the man I remembered him to be. “Olivia you bloody fool!” I hissed, snapping my nightgown back into place and slumping back into the soft covers of the bed. It was one of the good things about visiting the Stone Castle. Alpha Nikolai was not stingy with his gifts, only his affection.The love I had managed to win years ago, before I went and ruined it by sleeping with that bloody chancellor who had thrown me out on my ass when he realized I was as much use to him as a talking donkey.“It is the life of a show woman Olivia, you have to accept the fact that men would never grow to love you, only see you as a passing attraction, something sweet they could have a bite of, before they went home for a proper meal.” My mother’s voice came again in my mind as I remembered the way her lips pursed sadly after she was done talking, turning back to the mirror to reapply her blood red lipstick. The same kind I had stowed away in my bag.I had bee

ALPHA TOPH“Your Majesty, please!” Odessa screamed before I let the back of my hand crack loudly against her cheek so that her head whipped violently to the side and she fell back, groaning.The coffee-toned woman with broad shoulders and even broader hips was one of my newest conquests, one of the Main City maidens Hagrid had managed to kidnap from my father’s palace.It was lucky that I had found the woman when I did, I was talking business with my father, something I tried not to make a habit, when Odessa sauntered in, tray in hand.I was instantly smitten when she leaned over, thrusting the round half-moons of her bottom out to me like she was challenging me, so that I struggled to control the tent in my trousers.She’d vanished from sight the next day, coming to live in the maiden houses of my castle so that i used her whenever I wanted. It was how I liked my women, how it had always been until Raya Banks got away.“Please,” She whispered again, the shudder of her frame shaking w

NIKOLAIThere was silence in the royal diner banquet for what felt like the longest time before the sound of a chair scraping across the floor broke the spell.My heart thudded oddly in my chest and I was aware of the way Olivia’s hands were splayed across my chest, the heady feeling of the wine I’d had earlier sloshing around in my head so that the world around me blurred slightly at the edges.I saw Igor rise from the table, looking dapper in his oil-black silk suit and crew-cut blonde hair as he jogged over to the empty chair and pulled it out for the woman, who whispered her thanks.Why hadn't I thought about that? Damned Igor with his annoyingly good charisma. I shifted uneasily, taking Olivia’s hands away from my chest as murmurs of dissent rose on the table.She hadn't stopped making her come -on’s at me, batting her ginger-colored eyelids and bumping my thigh with her toes under the table as I fought to hold back my grimace.”Who do we have the pleasure of meeting Nikolai? Wou

RAYA BANKSThe low humming of the air conditioning wormed past the static that had filled my ears before I became aware of the hands on me.“W-what did you just say?” I managed to choke past the lump that had grown in my throat, struggling to hold down the rush of nausea that had risen like bile in my throat as the world tilted around me again.“Hold on to her!” Igor’s voice sounded from somewhere above me and I managed to crack an eye open to see Anya’s pale face before the prince’s distinct baritone made a rush of warmth roll up my neck.“What the hell is going on here?” Nikolai’s angry bark sent shivers of trepidation through my back and I inhaled a frantic breath as his large hands spanned my waist, before crawling up my back and pushing the weight of my body up to cradle his chest.I tried to imagine how we would look to the maidens who were letting out small gasps as my body swayed from his movements, to see us through their beady eyes.The dark prince with his midnight-black ha