He then turns to Valentino, "Alpha, even without the exam looking at her, we might not be able to move her to the breeding camp before she delivers..." "Can you sedate her? Will that slow the progress?" I knew he was going to ask something like that, with how my last nightmare started, so I guess this is it when he does. "Yes, I can, again depending on how close the pup is to coming." I whisper to Zachariah, as my connection to him has been open since I spoke with him that afternoon and the labour had started, "Zachariah?" "I'm here.""They are about to sedate me and move me to the breeding camp. You should be able to activate or follow the tracker as soon as they take me out of the barrier you should be able to follow." "I will come for you, no matter how long it takes. I will come for you..." "Oh, and Zach, Delta Lucas, he said he is at your disposal. If you need to use him, do!" I turn my attention back to the two beasts in front of me as one climbs on the bed by my head a
I tense and go-to move, but he tightens his arms as he continues. "Get it cleaned up by one of the nurses and have it brought back to the bedroom. I will meet her there with my little shifter here." "Yes, Alpha."The healer says as he nods and then leaves the room, taking my pup with him. Valentino then kisses my neck and moves out from behind me and over to the wall, where the healer had pulled down on that thin chain. He grabs something off of the wall and then walks back over to me, he then climbs onto the bed and straddles my hips, I start to struggle, ignoring the slight stinging pain between my legs and try to move out from underneath him as he reaches out his hand and says, "Stop moving... You have to trust me little shifter..." "Actually, I don't. However, I have no choice but to at the moment." I stop moving as he reaches and grabs one of my wrists with one hand. He tightens his fingers and then turns my wrist before unlocking the cuff with the other. He then lets that o
He then opens the door and walks out, closing and locking it behind him. I finally relax, I lay my pup on the bed and slowly climb off and walk over to where Valentino said the clothes and clothes were. I grab a cloth and go through the clothes. A lot of them weren't too bad, but nothing like the things Rania bought for it. I pick the nicest thing there and then walk back over to the bed. I have no idea what I am doing. I unwrap the pup from the blanket and marvel at how small it was. I remove the rags that they had on it and smile as I find out we have a son. I fold the cloth and wrap it around him, I then carefully put the clothes I picked on him. We never had a chance to even think about it, let alone talk about it, and decide on either a male or a female name. I don't want to name him without talking to Zachariah. It is something we should do together. I know Zachariah wasn't over happy when he found out about our pup, but I was hoping that as the pregnancy progressed, we could w
He sighs and loses that relaxed healer facade and seems to straighten, standing to his full height, which I am surprised is nearly a foot taller than Valentino and Henry. He moves over to where I am standing and as I watch him. I realise why I had the warning go through me; he is a bigger threat than he makes out to be. I don't want to but as he stalks slowly closer to me I take some small steps back until my back hits the wall behind me, I then seem to have nowhere to go as he places his hands on the wall on either side of my head. He leans in close and runs his nose up my neck, taking a deep breath, and making a shiver of disgust run through me. I still hate it when they do that. When he reaches my ear, he wraps his lips around my earlobe and sucks on it for a second before whispering into my ear, "It has been a very long time since Valentino has brought a female here that actually has the potential to fight back and give a good fight at that... Oh, don't get me wrong these female
As I make it to the outer door, I again crack it slightly and peek out. The further I can get away without raising the alarm, the better for me and my son. When I see that the way is clear, I slowly slip out and shiver as a gust of wind hits me. I look up at the sky and realise that wherever he has this camp; it is almost winter, and this place seems to be the place it hits first.I make my way, ducking behind bits and pieces whenever I see or hear a guard coming my way. As I crouch down behind a pile of old wooden box crates, a pair of guards walk past me. I am surprised that not one of them can smell me. My son wriggles a little in my arms and as I move the jacket I am wearing to look at him, I realise then that maybe my scent is covered as my panther and my Lycan are still under the influence of the drug the healer gave me.Maybe I am only human at the moment and the scent of the clothes and especially the jacket as I took it from the guard's rec room, are covering my true scent wi
(As Yasmine is passed out for the moment, this next part of the story is from Zachariah's POV, showing his side of some events so they may repeat the occasional conversation in some of the coming chapters. It will also cover what he does to find Yasmine after she is taken...) ***************** ZACHARIAH As I watch Yasmine and Lorelei run around Jasper's private training courses swapping and shifting between being panther and being human, she is so graceful. I can't believe she is mine. I think about what has happened in the past few weeks. I had always planned to change Yasmine, whether she agreed to it or not, as that is our law, but the more she agreed to it, the easier it would be for her. I was already in enough trouble with Malik for not changing her as soon as I had found and marked her and then even more for going against his order to leave her in those cells until he could come up with an appropriate punishment but I knew that if I did, then I would lose my fiery little w
I followed until I reached the door and Malik joined me there. As I watch her continue to back away from me, I notice the guards and hold up my hand, telling them to stop and back off, to leave her be. Malik had looked at me then, mind linking me, saying, "You are going to let a female get away with hitting you? Go after her and show her that it is not acceptable and what her true place is as a female of our kind..." With Malik's words in my head, I took a step out into the hall planning on going after her, but as I look at her and see the hurt I just caused in her eyes, I stop; she shakes her head and then runs off again. I had turned on Malik then as everything hit me, all the anger, all the frustration and jealousy, I attacked him. Punching and kicking, he blocked and returned each punch and kick until both Rania and Raphael raced over and got in between us. I am, of course, the only one that would get away with such a show of aggression toward the King, but for me, in that mome
I was surprised when I had Morpheus growling at me in my head. "What's your problem?" "It is our pup..." "No, it isn't, it can't be... If she gets rid of it, then maybe I could look past her being a filthy shifter..." "She is not filthy. She is our mate. She is the most beautiful creature we have or will ever meet... You can't let her terminate our pup..." "She is still a shifter, and it was a shifter that got our parents killed. They all lie and trick to get what they want, and Yasmine is the same... She should have spoken to us about that thing, that abomination and her plan to terminate it... Even though I wouldn't have disagreed with her." "You are being a fool and an arse..." I cut the link with him as he smirks at me. No matter what he says, I could never trust a shifter... I then lean back in the seat and relax, knowing that by the time I get back that abomination will be taken care of, and then we just have to work on us. It feels like I have only just dozed off in