Within 15 minutes, I am completely healed. I shift, breaking free of my restraints, then quickly shift back. I’m naked, but I’m free and healed.
Carefully and quietly, I move to the door. I stick my nose to the crack and inhale deeply, smelling for guards. There is one, but when I listen, I hear that his heartbeat is slow, telling me that he is asleep. Were I staying on as the Delta, I’d wake him up with a kick to the gut. How dare he sleep on duty! Idioot! (Idiot)
But, this once, the overconfidence and arrogance of the men of the Blue Crescent Pack has helped me. I open the door and see the same pack member who used his elbow on the back of my head. I had no qualms in breaking his neck. I arranged his head so that it still looked like he was sleeping and edged my way toward the exit. I walked as fast as I dared, constantly sniffing and listening for guards.
I passed Mathais’ room, listening as he snores lightly in his sleep. I also smell the scent of one of the female warriors we brought with us. Didn’t take him too long to move on, now did it? Pielkop! Ek haat hom! (Dickhead! I hate him!)
Disgusted, I turn away and find the entrance. Two guards at the front. That’s it. Mathias is being sloppy. But I guess I did take down six warriors during the fight. They won’t have healed enough to be helpful in a fight yet. Minus me, that leaves eight somewhere around. Mathias fucked one and is sleeping next to her. I killed one. These two are on guard. Four left.
I don’t want to get caught in an all out fight now. I’ve got to get out of here as soon as possible without waking Mathias. Heading further back into the building, I look for the other four wolves. I find three of them sleeping in a room further down the hall. I quickly snap each of their necks, making sure to have it appear as if they are still asleep. I find the others that I incapacitated and do the same. I can’t have Mathias able to follow me.
I debate killing Mathias, but I doubt that I’d be able to. He’s a fucking alpha. Even if I did catch him off guard, the likelihood of me being able to kill him without him waking and alerting the others is slim to none. Right now, I’m just eliminating his back up. I don’t want him able to follow me back to my mates. I need him to go home to get backup. That will give me enough time to get to the Artemis Pack and my mates.
One more warrior. I just need to know where they are so that I can leave. Suddenly, I smell tobacco smoke coming from the back of the building. Someone has decided to go on a smoke break. I recognize the scent of the warrior, one of my best. Walking to the back of the building, I see the backdoor cracked open, Isaac on the other side of the door. His nostrils flare and he turns to me.
Bursting through the door, I grab him around his neck, covering his mouth.
“You will not scream. I do not wish to hurt you Isaac, but I will if I have to. Please don’t make me do it.” He nods and I slowly move my hand from his mouth.
“Delta, you have to run,” he whispers, his eyes scanning behind me.
“I am. Come with me. I know that you hate Mathias nearly as much as I do. Come with me to the Artemis Pack!” My voice is urgent, my body itching to run.
He looks like he is about to agree, but then shakes his head. “No, Delta. You’ll need help. Mathias will likely make me Delta next. If not, I’ll be a general. I can help you from the inside.” He digs in his pocket, pulling out his cell phone. “Take this. I’ll get a burner and contact you through it. You’ve gotta knock me out, then run.”
I can only stare at him.
“Arya!” He shakes me, calling me by my name for the first time in our entire relationship. “You have to do this!”
I nod, coming out of my stupor. I grab the phone from him.
“Here, take my shirt. You can rip it and turn it into a pack for the phone.”
I grab the shirt and tear it into long strips. I wrap the phone in the strips and tie it loosely around my forearm. When I shift, it will be snug. Finally, I look back to Isaac. “Why?”
“You are the only person in that pack besides my mother who ever cared about me. I can’t allow Mathias to do anything else to you. And I can’t allow his hate to continue.”
I grab the back of his neck, pulling his forehead to mine. This is a sign of deep affection and respect in my old tribe. And something that I had taught my closest warriors.
“Broer (Brother), we will meet again.” Then I pull back my fist and strike him in the temple. He immediately goes limp and I gently lower him to the ground.
Then I shift and race into the woods.
Something in Lucille’s words rings true. The same feeling that sent me to speak with Brandon two days ago is pushing me towards Gael and Hakeem. It’s telling me that, even though it is years too early, that I have found my mates. That I have to claim them and be claimed. I can feel their power radiating off of them and I know that our mating will only increase that. Biting my lip, I think about how badly I want to get our mating underway. I had completely forgotten Hakeem’s warning. Hakeem’s growl rumbles in his chest and he lunges at me. But Gael beats him, wrapping his hands in my hair and pulling my lips to his. He kisses me hungrily and Hakeem buries his face in my neck. “Um, guys?” Brandon clears his throat a few times to get our attention. When we finally look
I let Meredith move her small hands over my shaft until I can’t take it anymore. “Merry, lay on the bed,” I plead. She smirks at me, a bit of confidence in her sexual control over us. It’s sexy as hell. I pull Gael to me, kissing him before moving on to our mate. He moves behind me, sitting in the armchair that is stationed in the corner of the room. Meredith looks at him confused. “Aren’t you coming to bed?” I smile at her. “Our alpha is a bit of a voyeur. He likes to watch.” Her mouth forms a little “o” and it’s all I can do not to push my dick down her throat. The thought of her mouth wrapped around my dick makes it bob. Later.&nb
Devin “Well. That was unexpected,” Zak says dryly after we watched Meredith lead her new mates out of the room. Many in the room chuckled, but Xander and I just felt even more pain and despair. Someone else had their mate and we had lost ours. Yes, we know she is coming back, as early as five hours from now. Yes, we know that she will be ours from now on. But she isn’t here now. She is hurt. In pain. And we couldn’t change her mind and keep her here. “Well, I guess that’s it,” Zak says. “Lucille, would you like to stay in the packhouse tonight? You haven’t been alone for a while. It might be difficult to go back to being by yourself.” “Honestly, Zak? As lovely and wonderful as Meredith is and as much as
Su puta madre! (Mother fucker!) Meredith is going to be the death of me. When she took me into her mouth, it was obvious that she’d never done it before. But it was just as obvious that she was a fast learner. Even in the midst of her own first time having sex, she attended to my reactions to her movements. Meredith slowly laved mi rabo with her tongue, her pouty lips kissing up and down my shaft. I fisted my hands in her hair, but held myself back from shoving her all the way onto me. Mi princesa took my tip into her mouth, continuing to move her tongue around me.
Devin holds Lucille’s hand as we walk to her house, ensuring that she doesn’t fall. I carry food and clothing for Arya in a bag over my shoulder. Arya. She is all that Dev and I have thought about since she left. Her pain. The fear that was in her eyes. The pain from her rejection, though that is secondary to our worry for her. We’ve barely eaten, barely spoken, barely slept since she left. I check my phone for the time, seeing that it is 8:30. Three and a half hours. That is the earliest time that she could arrive. Dev and I have decided that we will wait at the southern border for her return. We walk through the forest with Lucille, none of us speaking, each lost in our own thoughts.
As I come back down to Earth after my orgasm, I feel Gael pick me up and place my head on the pillows. “Princesa, te necesito,” he says, eyes boring into mine. “I need you, too, Gael. I want to feel you inside of me.” I wrap my legs around his waist and reach between us to fist my hand around his fully erect cock. “Fill me up,” I whisper. “Mi cielo,” he hisses out. He leans down to kiss me and I feel him lining himself up with my entrance. Just as his lips touch mine, I feel him push into me, agonizingly slowly. I moan into his mouth, tightening my legs around him to
Lucille wakes us at 11:30. It is a miracle that we slept at all. We haven’t slept since Arya left. But something about Lucille’s home, her presence, her words...they comfort us. With renewed hope, determination, and not a little fear, we prepare to make our way to the southern border. Just outside of Lucille’s cabin, we undress and shift. Lucille puts our clothes in a leather satchel, along with the clothes and food for Arya, and drapes it around my neck. “May the Goddess guide you, as she has guided your mate back to you. You have her blessing.” We bow our heads to her before turning to the southern border. Running at full speed, we make it to the border at exactly midnight. We had mindlinked the patrol to let them know that we were coming and to be on the look out for a lone female wolf. Now we wer
I cradle Arya in my lap as Devin drives back to the packhouse. He holds her hand, rubbing his fingers in a soothing pattern. I rub her back, my face in her hair. I alternate light kisses with words that I hope are comforting. Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m saying, I’m just trying to keep her calm.She doesn’t speak the entire 40 minute drive back to the packhouse.Once we get there, I carry her to Brandon’s room, which is where we have been staying. We’ve moved some things into the room and, even though we have both been fairly out of it lately, we asked Charlie to stock some things for Arya as well. I immediately take her into the bathroom, settling her so that she is seated on the counter. Devin follows behind, grabbing a towel and loofa from the linen closet and bringing them