Semua Bab The Mate Hunt: Bab 111 - Bab 120

RonanShe tried to pull away. Too late. The bond opened between us so completely that for one breath, there was no Maeve and me. There was only us.Her fear hit first. Not fear of me. Fear of everything changing too quickly. Fear that accepting this pack meant stealing something from Elara. Fear that becoming Luna meant losing another piece of herself after already losing the Cross name, her family, and nearly every truth she'd believed about her life.Then came irritation. At me. Naturally. A considerable fucking amount of it.I nearly smiled.And beneath that, something warmer.I went still. No. Not warmer. It burned.Maeve had buried it beneath sarcasm, anger, stubbornness and every fucking wall she could build quickly enough to keep me from seeing it. But the bond didn't care about walls anymore. I felt her. All of her.And Maeve loved me.My wolf surged so violently I nearly lost control. Not possession. Not Hunger. Something infinitely worse. Joy. Pure, overwhelming fucking joy.

RonanMy mouth was on her before she finished the sentence.Her taste flooded my tongue, salt and heat and something unbearably sweet. The word please dissolved into a broken wail, her hips bucking so hard I had to clamp one hand around her thigh to keep her still.Through the bond, the sensation doubled back on me, her desperate relief, the sudden detonation of pressure behind her eyes, the way the dark behind her eyelids went white.Her fingers twisted in my hair. Yanked."Ronan—oh gods—"I didn't let up. My tongue traced tight circles around her clit, now impossibly swollen, while two fingers curled inside her and pressed against that ridged spot that made her whole body seize.Her walls fluttered, then clamped down, a rhythmic pulsing I could feel against my knuckles. The sound she made wasn't a scream this time. It was lower. A guttural, shattered moan that vibrated through her stomach and into my chest.She came in hard, silent pulses that stole her breath. Her spine lifted off

Maeve"I think…"Ronan waited. The presence struck against my command again. Familiar. Annoyingly familiar. My eyes narrowed."Lyra."Ronan frowned. "Who?"I stared at him. He stared back. "Lyra."Nothing."Seriously?""Maeve, I know a lot of wolves."I blinked. Of course he did. "She's the woman who was all over you before the Hunt." His brow furrowed harder. "The one who kept touching your arm."Still nothing."The blonde?" That apparently narrowed down absolutely nothing. I threw my free hand up. "She got mated to Theron!"Recognition finally crossed his face. "Oh."I stared at him. "Oh?""Her."Something warm and deeply satisfying curled through my stomach. Which was ridiculous. Stupid. Petty. And apparently impossible to hide now that our bond had decided privacy was optional.Ronan's mouth slowly curved. "Jealous?""I am standing naked underneath a bedsheet after accidentally freezing your entire territory.""So?""So now seems like a terrible time to discuss whether I wanted to

MaeveApparently word traveled quickly when your Alpha publicly challenged his own border commander. By the time we reached the training yard, wolves were already gathering. Not the entire pack. Thank the gods. But enough that a loose circle had formed around the packed dirt, warriors filling the front while others crowded the edges.Axel stood near the training racks with his arms crossed. Ruan had apparently abandoned whatever he was doing at the northern border long enough to witness this stupidity. Even Gemma was there.I looked at Soren. "Does nobody have a job?""This is more interesting."Ronan walked into the center of the yard. Torin followed. Neither spoke. The anger between them had changed. Inside the pack house, it had been sharp. Personal. Out here, different. Older. Something built into the way wolves settled disputes when words stopped working.Torin reached behind his neck and dragged his shirt over his head. I blinked. Well, that was... Soren made a noise beside me.

MaeveApparently becoming Luna meant there was no acceptable amount of emotional devastation that exempted me from paperwork.Nessa and Eli had barely been settled into a room near the Alpha floor when Soren appeared beside me. "Come on."I stared at her. "Where?""Guest Alpha house.""No."She blinked. "No?""I just spent the last hour digging around inside another woman's wolf while someone who may or may not be invisible to me is wandering around the territory trying to steal children.""Ronan and Cassian are investigating.""Yes.""Theron isn't arriving for five hours.""Correct." I crossed my arms. "So why am I going anywhere?""Because Theron is arriving in five hours."I hated her. Apparently my face said that because she smiled."You accepted the title.""I was bleeding to death. My judgment was questionable."Silver warmed beneath the tattoo on my hand. Soren looked down. I immediately shoved it behind my back. "Don't.""I said nothing.""You're all becoming incredibly irrita