“Akela, help me. See if Raksha wants to talk to you.”Aidan felt Akela stir inside him uneasily, trying to communicate with Raksha, but there was nothing.“I don't understand what's wrong with her... She's like... in shock!” the Alpha muttered taking her chin and looking into her lost eyes.“And what did you expect?” growled Akela. “She spent almost six hundred and fifty years held captive in this place, and you just brought her back!”“And what could I do? This is the safest place we had closest!” Aidan argued.“Rhia... for the Goddess’ sake, answer me!”From Rhiannon's lipsonly a choked moan came out and Aidan grunted helplessly. Well... if being in the Watchtower had put her in that state, perhaps what she needed was a biggest incentive to come out of it.He lifted her in his arms and strode steadily toward the west tower. He climbed the twenty floors up as he felt Rhiannon's heart suddenly jump and race. And her eyes finally seemed to wake up the very second he pushed her into the
“Raksha...you can't let this happen to me,” Rhiannon told her, closing her eyes so she wouldn't see Aidan half-naked. It was too tempting a sight and just as she had told him...it helped for a moment, but only for a moment.“You want me to resist a mating season? Are you kidding me?” growled Raksha.“I just don't want to have one!” growled her lycan.“Why not?” protested the she-wolf. “It's not like we haven't done it with them before!”“But I didn't know before! I didn't know who he was...” the girl said and sighed bitterly. “I still can't forgive him for lying to me,” she confessed.“No one told you to forgive him, we're just going to use him.”“And who's to say he's not using us?” retorted Rhiannon.“Well, I'm sorry but unless we poison ourselves with silver, I highly doubt we can delay this. The other option you already know: we lock ourselves back in the Glass Cell until it wears off!” said Raksha reluctantly.Rhiannon grunted a protest and walked past Aidan, stepping out of the
Rhiannon could feel the small internal explosion with which her lycan was taking control of her instincts. Her curves accentuated, her wetness overflowed, and her skin became like porcelain. Her body released that delicious scent full of pheromones that awakened Aidan's instincts in a second and then it was as if she was dragging him, as if she was waking up a small sleeping beast inside him. She felt his muscles harden and distend, growing along with the rest of his body. Each of the fangs that now reached his lips gave him a sense of superior strength and virility, and she knew that he had changed too.“What are you doing?” he asked as heat surged through his body as if instead of helping Rhia, he was experiencing his own heat.“I'm sorry... I'm not even able to control myself... I don't know what's going on.”Aidan knelt on the bed and pulled her hand to lift her up until Rhiannon was kneeling in front of him. He slipped his arms behind her waist and felt that whiplash of desire r
Rhiannon stood petrified in the doorway of that small room as Aidan walked towards her and gently pressed against her back.“You're right, I lied to you, I kept all the important things from you, I hurt you,” the Alpha murmured in her ear. “I'm a catalog of mistakes, Rhia, but even though I've done things the wrong way, my feelings are still the right ones... and those I don't have to tell you, those I can show you now.”Her hands gently roamed over his shoulders, causing that blanket to slide down to the floor, and her whole body shuddered from the contact and the nakedness.“I don't want to know,” Rhia decided. She wanted no more promises, no more fears, no more betrayals in her life. She'd had plenty of those already. “I don't want to know.”“Too late!” was the only thing she heard him say before Aidan slammed shut the door of that room.She felt the powerful male forearm anchor under her breasts and his breath seemed to solidify against the back of her neck as he leaned his forehe
Maddox knew that the Keqzhara had stopped just in time, partly because of his own control and partly because of the pain that the weight of the spear had caused to his whole arm had made him lose strength at the last moment, but either way, it had been sheer luck, because a couple of seconds more and it would have been driven into Alanna's chest by the simple misfortune of being in the wrong place as he fought while possessed by that rage.Maybe in another time, in another momento, he would have forgiven himself, but not in that one. He was already quite an adult wolf, and he could not blame his actions on the Goddess forever. He looked at the blood that stained his hands and clothes while Hiro counted the number of dead and prisoners they had had in that hunt.“This is not normal!” Alanna growled. “They must have someone on the inside. They knew our route perfectly well and they didn't even bother to cover alternate routes. They knew exactly where we would pass through.”“It looks
“Corso, your turn!” they heard Raksha howl the very second she managed to pull that wolf off her lycan.Corso didn't make her repeat it and took advantage of the wolf's disorientation to ram headlong into her side, without even giving her time to get up; but unlike others, she didn't resist. She wasn't angry or mad, she was just absent.All the brightness was gone from her eyes and they could not perceive a single emotion coming from her, as if her soul was numb.Aidan touched her head for a second and looked at Rhiannon sadly. Together they had decided that they could no longer release just the children’s wolves, because unfortunately, if it came to a war, and that was the most likely thing to happen, they would need the support of the lycans as well as their wolves to defend themselves.Luckily, the younger and stronger wolves, almost all born after Casthiel's rebellion, had either managed to get their lycans back or were in a truce, trying to win them back fair and square. Finally,
“A party?” asked Rhiannon with a frown as she watched the small caravan of vans turn onto the road towards the community.“That's right” answered the lycan woman in front of her. “We want to thank everything Your Highness—”“Rhiannon,” she interrupted her. “My name is Rhiannon; I don't want you to use those protocols with me anymore.”“Well... madam, we would like to thank you for your help, everything you are doing for us is...” The girl seemed uncapable of finding the right words.“Don’t worry. My duty as queen is to take care of you, but it's also a pleasure, really. This community will flourish. You’ll see.”The girl walked away, cutting short the bow she was about to make, and Rhainnon headed towards the vans that were bringing the Alphas.Cedrik got out from one of the SUVs along with Konan, and Brennan got out with Noah and Dereck from the other. Dmitri, of course, was making his trip alone in his beloved solitude and privacy. In the other four vans came their Betas and the Alp
Briccia turned up her nose and couldn't help but enjoy that smell even though its owner wasn't exactly someone she was most looking forward to seeing... or was he?She took a deep breath, asking the Goddess to give her all the poise she needed not to throw one of her potion pots at him on sight and opened the door to greet Maddox with a forced smile.He stood with his fist raised, ready to knock on the door.“Come in,” said the girl without a single inflection in her voice, and the Lycan entered the hut with some discomfort.“Hello,” he greeted without knowing what else to do.“You took your time getting back,” Briccia pointed out, remembering that it had been more than two days since she had thrown Maddox naked out of her house. Well... at least she had given him a blanket.“I didn't want to bother you,” Maddox replied.“You're not bothering me. Sit down.” The girl pointed to one of the high stools at her kitchen island and came to the Lycan's side, carrying a small box in her hands.