Rose’s POVI knew Alpha Lewis wouldn’t come in person, but I didn’t expect to see Willow with Connor. For one thing, she was under age. The signs everywhere stated you had to be over twenty-one. Maybe they had faked her ID.“Is this wise?” I hissed, as he stood beside me at the bar.Lycan Adam had gone ahead to “personally prepare the scene”.My sister was looking all around in awe.“He ditched his ex for me,” she confided.Connor frowned. “I’ll explain later, and no, but I’m not the one in charge.”The bartender overheard.“Tonight you are,” she laughed. “Unless the little missy is a dominatrice, which I very much doubt.”I followed them to a corner sofa.“I don’t have long,” I said.“Rose, what are you wearing?”The strappy leather outfit left nothing to the imagination. I reddened.“Don’t even go there, Lolo.”“It’s good to see you, sis,” she said, sucking up vodka noisily through a straw.“And you shouldn’t be here. At all,” I said, wiping the happy grin from her face.“You said i

Willow’s POVThat club was something else. I felt excited despite the cosplay outfit and it meant I got to see Rose again.It was a surprise to see her showing so much bare flesh. I was the one who flaunted myself when we visited that natural pool in the woods, just below the waterfall.I knew I shouldn’t have said anything because I didn’t want to embarrass her. The gown suited her so much more.I was already slightly tipsy, yet glad to play a part in rescuing my sister for a change. The Alpha had told me she needed “saving from herself”, whatever that meant.He couldn’t keep up with the lies. Did he think I was stupid? Most people did, especially boys. Well, who had the last laugh usually? Rose to the rescue. It was never really needed, but I let everyone think it. Feeling hurt about that eased my grief a little because, oddly, it reminded me of our mother. Mom would have probably smiled and said, “Never stop being you, my girl.”I like to think so anyway.When I saw the stunning w

Rose’s POVI didn’t see Nina for a whole week because the other kind of curse struck for us both. In my case it was a relief. Lycan Adam considered a menstruating female unclean and I was tempted to celebrate but restrained myself in case he was watching. Concealed cameras had once caught Nina out, she told me. How was I to know for sure my master hadn’t installed some in here, the so-called harem room?It was empty of anyone but me for the moment. I felt isolated, lonely and bored. If I asked nicely, maybe he would allow me to have a TV. He refused, of course, though granted me the temporary use of a cell phone, warning that I would be monitored.Rashly, I had told him I wanted to text my sister. I even gave him her real name. My hope was that she would show the coded messages to Alpha Lewis. We’d played around as kids and I was hoping she hadn’t forgotten how we’d given new meanings to nursery rhymes.“How much do you miss her?” he asked from just outside the open door, Adam’s idea

Rose’s POV I would have waited forever if necessary. I still didn’t trust this guy; Alphas were notorious users. Now that I was back in the fold, so to speak, he was capable of anything. Reneging on a verbal promise for a start. Thinking about it, he’d only implied he’d get someone to look out for her and later threatened to turn her into a whore. Well, I wasn’t in a position to ask for anything in writing, was I? “Over to you, Con.” I stifled a gasp as the Beta produced what I knew to be Willow’s cell phone from his pants pocket. No-one else would have a cover with a unicorn nuzzling up to a bear, would they? I knew it must be here somewhere but to have it about his person … He used it to place a call. “Luna, have the Omega come to the phone, as we discussed.” “You didn’t say please,” a familiar voice replied. “Oh, very well.” My heart leapt. “Tell my brother he has terrible timing.” I pretended to be astonished. “She’s still with Simone?” “That’s Luna Simone to you. And ye

Willow’s POVThis wasn’t good. I’d been heading for the woods I grew up in, sometimes on foot, sometimes hitching a lift. I got lucky with my rides and not so fortunate when I was close to home.Dad was gone now, as well as Mom, and no sign of Millicent. Dean helped me dig a grave. It didn’t seem right not to wait for Rose but the body was starting to rot.We placed him beside the marker which bore our mother’s name, Hannah, and the dates I didn’t want to read.I’d all but lost my virginity in return for vehicles eating up the miles and was only too willing to stay with Dean and Nathan, who now had a place of their own. I assumed hiding me from the Alpha would come at a price and I wasn’t wrong, though neither of them had full sex with me and I began to wonder why.They had no right to sell me to that foreign rogue leader, the one who’d done for Daddy. At least, that was what he boasted often enough. Technically, my body still belonged to Alpha Lewis.I kept quiet about Alpha Horace.