KaiyaI want to die of embarrassment. The first time I dare to touch my mate in any sexual kind of way, and I fuck it up. “You must hate this,” I say as I position myself on the ledge.Bowden is completely unperturbed. “No, not really. I kind of like it." He scrunches up his nose and leans over to give me a quick peck. "I look forward to corrupting you.”He sits back, takes my hand and brings it to his thick erection. My fingers don’t even go all the way around, and I’m suddenly too shy to ask him if my inability to take him in hand properly give him any kind of pleasure.He wraps his much bigger hand around mine. “Firm, even movements. Stroking. Not too hard or rough, unless I ask for it. Don't shake and jerk my cock. It's not a ketchup bottle.”I almost start laughing, but I'm way too nervous and foscused on the task at hand. For a good five minutes, he shows me how to do it, then he just lets me go and leans back, bracing himself on the ground with both hands. He has his head throw

BowdenThe week passes in a quiet, comfortable hush. I hadn’t taken an extended break from my duties for so long that I had almost forgotten what it’s like to just relax and do nothing. The fact that I had my mate by my side the entire time just made it so much better.Kaiya wasn’t that comfortable with doing absolutely nothing though. She kept trying to find work for herself. On the day we moved her into my apartment, she tried to do the Omegas’ work, and I finally had to take her outside so she’d stop pestering them.Instead of fully sharing a room with me, Kaiya decided to take up the spare room down the hall and next to my private office. I was blown away by her reasoning when I asked her about it, realising for the first time that she understood me much better than I thought she did. “You need your space,” she said when I half-heartedly objected. “There are times when you need to be alone.”I didn’t argue with her any further. I was grateful for it. She was right. I’ve had many f

KaiyaWe leave the café and drive out of town, making sure the humans see us leave. Just outside of the town's borders, Thaddeus drives the SUV off the road and parks it behind a clutch of trees. Thaddeus and Oswald simply lower their backrests and go straight to sleep, but I have no such luck.I can’t get the images of those dead children out of my mind. Every time I close my eyes, I see them.After my time with Moon Dance, everything my father showed me, every execution and brutal attack on a smaller pack, I thought I’d seen it all, thought I understood true violence and evil, but even the dread Alpha Deimos wasn’t monster enough to do that to innocent pups.“Kai?” Bowden whispers in my head. “Are you all right now? Can you talk?”“No. I keep seeing them. I don’t know what I was thinking…I can’t do this. I can't help any of these she-wolves.”“Yes, you can. It’s always dangerous when they try to leave. Leigh knew the risks.”“I talked her into it. I promised her I’d keep her safe.”

Kaiya Within two weeks of being back at the castle and taking over most of Bowden’s duties, I understood why he let some things go. He simply had no other choice. The job was overwhelming, it took up most of my time, and even with help, I couldn't seem to get the work done that needed doing, and anything I left until the next day, waited for me there in the morning, with new work added on top of it. I gained a whole new level of respect for my mate and his advisors. It was an impossible job, and more than once, I wished I could give it to someone else to do. I also very quickly realised that werewolves would complain about every little thing - from she-wolves that refused to be mated, to isolated rogue attacks and human neighbours wandering onto their territories to camp or fish. These eere all things the Alphas could handle themselves, but for whatever reason they felt the need to bother the king with their bullshit. It was no wonder Bowden started to lose control of some of the p

Bowden Six weeks and three days. That’s how long I’d been gone. I missed my mate, my home, my Lycans, and my bed. Hell, I even missed my crazy workload and strict routines. Neil gets out of the SUV behind us, stretches and inhales deeply. “Aaaah,” he exhales with his arms spread out wide and his eyes closed. “Home.” “You really do learn to appreciate it a little more when you’ve been gone for a while,” I say with a smile. “Goddess, yes,” he replies and grins at me. For Neil, the biggest part of our trip was mostly a vacation, one he sorely needed. I didn’t rely on him as much as I do here at the castle, and there were days when I didn’t see him at all. He was just out and about, doing his own thing. Last night when we booked into the hotel, hopefully the last hotel for a while, I apologised to him for not finding any answers to our mate problem. The butler was completely relaxed and unfazed about the whole thing. “We didn’t find answers for seven hundred years,” he said. “I did n