《The Wolf and the Succubus》全部章節：第 11 章 - 第 20 章

The rest of the team finally caught up and I’d changed back into my own clothes. Fingers crossed I wouldn't need to shift quickly, I liked these leggings. I also would rather not rip another holster, but that’s just inconvenient. Maybe I should just start stocking spares.Fortunately, I had my radio and earpiece back now. I should really commission something custom so I had access to it even in wolf form… but that’s a problem for another day.Rather than filling Nathaniel’s house with all 28 of us, I sent Beta, Charlie and Delta (excluding Luke) off to carry on searching the woods for any hint as to what was going on. The rest of Alpha was close by, hiding in the trees. Fives, Luke and I sat down in Nathaniel’s living room.“So,” I said, voice firm. “We know there are at least thirty, if not more, and there’s something or someone very old and powerful with them. Would you agree, Fives?”He nodded. “The air is thick with it.”“What else do we know?”“Ma’am, one of the scents we found e

“What the fuck?”Luke looked sheepish.“You marked me? I’m not your mate! What the fuck were you thinking?”“Effie, I… let me explain.”“This had better be good, Luke.”“I panicked, Effie. I don’t want to lose you.”My head was in my hands. How the fuck did this go so wrong.“You wouldn’t have lost me. But now, you’ve bound me to you without even mentioning it first, so now you’re going to lose me.”“Effie, I…”“Get out of my house, Lucas.”“Effie, please…”“Lucas. Leave.” The power behind those two little words gave him no choice.Once the door shut behind him, I sat on the floor in the hallway and cried. I couldn’t believe he’d marked me. My wolf couldn’t believe he’d done it. She was absolutely furious.Really, my kicking Luke out was probably the least-worst outcome.If my wolf had been left to deal with it, his mark wouldn’t have mattered anymore. He might not be my mate, but he is my oldest friend and confidant. I don’t want to hurt him, of course I don’t.But with this new span

Nathaniel answered almost immediately. “I was waiting for your call, Ophelia.” What?“Why?”“I knew you’d need me. Are you at the club?”“Yes.”“I’ll be there in a couple minutes.”He hung up before I even had a chance to respond. Whatever was going on, everyone else seemed to know more than I did.Before I even had a chance to breathe, there was a knock on my door. “Come in!”“Ma’am, Nathaniel is here, claiming he has a meeting with you?”“He does, Lucas. Send him up.”“Ma’am, I… I wanted to…”“I don’t want to hear it right now, Lucas. Please send Nathaniel up.”He nodded, his expression defeated, turning to head out the door.By the time Nathaniel appeared in front of me, my head was in my hands.“Alpha, good to see you again,” he said, voice strong.“I’m not your alpha, Nathaniel.”“Oh but you are, Ophelia.”“I can’t be? Your father is alpha?”“It’s not that simple anymore. When you protected us all from Maximillian, you weakened my father’s connection to the pack. Who did you inte

I was going to need all hands on deck to keep this tidy and limit the amount of civilian casualties. As much as I trusted my own team, I don’t trust Maximillian and Edward, or anyone they might be controlling.Using the radios we’d all started carrying full time, I reached out to the rest of the team. “Beta One, Charlie One, Delta One. Meet us at HQ as soon as possible. Teams need to be on alert, but they don’t need to join us yet. One problem at a time.”The three of them were already there when Nathaniel and I arrived.Luke’s face still was covered in betrayal and anguish. This was really too soon for him to be this close to me, but we didn’t have a choice. We needed to move, and quickly.I sighed. “I don’t know how fast news travels, but things have headed south very suddenly with the pack, to the point that I need to intervene, with the intention to take over the pack to serve as alpha. Nathaniel will become my beta. Before we continue, does anyone here have a problem with this?”

I was pacing. Constantly. I felt like all I did was pace. Of course the moon goddess would pick this moment to start making me very aware of the mate bond between Nathaniel and I, which is simply spiffing. The last thing I needed whilst trying to organise a hostile takeover was my body and my wolf to be distracted.I had hardly come to terms with the fact Nathaniel and I were fated mates, let alone worked out what I was going to do, especially with Luke. My wolf was absolutely adamant that I could have both of them, but I was just not convinced by that.It was less than an hour between my speaking to Lyla and when everyone got here. I felt my body relax, my blood pressure and heart rate settle when I saw Nathaniel come back through the door. The tense look on his face when he met my eyes said he felt the same way. His wolf was close, he was trying to work out what was going on too. The look in his eyes though, the swirling dark that was nearly black told me that his wolf wanted us, r