Quinn POVI woke up blissfully sore. I felt a sense of fulfillment and completeness after I marked my mate. After three more rounds of intense sex, Derek and I crashed from exhaustion and the heat finally subsided. In the middle of the night, I had gone down to the kitchen where Kat had brewed a tea with healing elements for Derek’s injuries. Derek had been less than impressed when I woke him up to drink the concoction which he described tasted like “bark mixed with soil, and Gollum's asshole.”I pressed the button to move the protective shutters up around the packhouse. Just as I was climbing back into bed to snuggle up against my sleeping mate, my mother mind-linked me. ‘Quinn sweetie, I need you and Derek to come out of the pack house. There’s something you need to see.’Derek woke up, startled by the mind link that went to both of us. ‘Ok, we will be right down.’ Derek looked at me with a quizzical look. I just shrugged. “Good morning, beautiful.” A lazy smile spread on Derek’

I raise an eyebrow at him. He pushes my office chair away from my desk before kneeling on the ground in front of the spot where my feet would go under the desk. He jerks the chair to him and slowly moves his hand up my legs and under my skirt.I swear my pussy had its own heartbeat due to how much I wanted him. “Derek I’m serious I need to get these done” looking at the stack of papers.“Mhmmmm” he responds, moving my panties down my legs as he kisses my knee. “Do what you have to do. I’m not stopping you.” He pulls my waist to the end of the chair so he has better access in between my legs. I try to focus myself on the papers when he brushes my clit with his thumbs. I moan at the feeling and I hear him chuckle.I feel his hot tongue lick over my lips, and land on my clit moving in circles. My hands clutch the desk while I try to focus on the task at hand.A finger slowly making its way into me. Allowing my wetness to cover it as he moved it in and out while still licking my clit.My

Quinn POV I walked into my grandfather’s hospital room as I had many times before. Only this time, was different. It was the first time since I had learned the truth about myself and after I had received my necklace. I absentmindedly rubbed the sapphire as I walked closer. My grandfather had his own room. He lay propped up with wires and tubes coming off of him. He looked more fragile than the last time I had visited. His once black hair was now peppered with silver. On the wall hung pictures that Ryan and I had drawn with crayon over the years. The room smelled of antiseptic and spice. I sat on the cushioned chair next to the hospital bed and carefully placed my hand with my grandfather’s. He let out a soft sigh, as if he was reacting to my touch. Before I could grasp what was happening, I was sent into a vision. I was screaming in the middle of a field as dead bodies lie all around me. The scream of my mother pierced the air before a sickening sound of flesh and bone breaking

Quinn POVIn seconds the field was a bloodbath as our first line of defense tore into Rowan’s soldiers. Sounds of flesh being torn apart echoed in the air making my stomach turn. I held my position as I watched my parents attack the first line of Rowan’s warriors. I charged at a vampire that was headed towards Derek. In mid air I transformed into my wolf and clamped my jaw around the assailant’s next. The crunch of their bones brought deep satisfaction to my wolf before she pounced on another three warriors. I felt my power surge through me as the fight continued. The tearing sound of fabric caught my attention. Derek had shifted into his beast of a wolf. He moved with such skill and grace, that I fully understood why he was the one who trained our warriors.I felt the sharp teeth of the enemy clamp onto my hind leg as I broke another wolf’s neck. I tried to stifle the whimper that threatened to escape. My father tackled the wolf that had its teeth sheathed inside my leg, killing i

Quinn POV Howls echoed in unison throughout the territory as we all felt the tether to my mother break. I focused my energy on the enemy in front of me. I could break after this bitch was destroyed. Something must have spooked Amelia because she extinguished her smoke spheres and looked at me with her blood shot eyes. “This is over Quinn. I will take all that you took from me!” Before I could move towards her, she vanished in a cloud of smoke along with Rowan’s body. I let out a growl. “I’ll be waiting!”As soon as Amelia was gone, I ran back over to my mother and father. I fell to my knees in front of my mother and wrapped my arms around my father’s torso. “Daddy, she’s gone.” His entire body trembled as the other half to his soul was taken from him. Members of the surrounding packs circled us. Some wounded, some missing limbs, but all giving their respect for one of their leaders. I heard the sound of feet hitting the ground quickly before I heard the sound of Kat gasp. She fel