Once he left, I stumbled into the pack house.Anna pushed me down onto the couch. I held a large hand over my abdomen to hold the bleeding wound closed, my chest rising and falling quickly. As Anna scrambled through the house to find the medical supplies, I took a deep breath, bit my tongue, and slipped my fingers down into the gash. I felt around my insides to try to find the bullet, but it was lodged too deep.When Anna came back over to me, she stared at me in horror. “What are you doing?!” she exclaimed, pushing my hands out of the way and using a utensil to slide into my wound. “You have to be careful! You can’t just poke around inside there.”Within a few moments, Anna clamped down on the bullet with the utensil, winced, and slowly pulled the bullet out of me. She dropped it into a small dish, then cleaned the wound with some alcohol and some potion that we had bought from witches who lived down in Bloodmoon.“What did they lace this bullet with?” Anna asked, picking the piece of
Once Elise left, I eyed Lucas’s pocket, where he had hidden that circular loop thing that all the guys had been exchanging on our walk over here. Thankfully, the tavern wasn’t as busy as it was at night, so we had the whole corner to ourselves, and they could do whatever the hell they were planning.“All right, well … we gotta use the restroom.”“All four of you at once?” I asked when they all stood.They didn’t even answer me as they walked through the tavern to the restroom together, like they were part of some sort of cult or something. Pissed off, I angrily tapped my foot on the ground and stared at the men’s restroom door. I shifted in my seat, rubbing my thighs together and feeling the wetness between them already. My underwear tightened around my hips, and I discreetly tried to loop my finger around it to make it a bit looser.But when I tugged, it tightened even more, almost as if it was locked on to me.Breath catching in my throat, I glanced back up at the restroom and tugge
As soon as the last few words left my mouth, the witch’s face paled. “Vampire blood?”“Yes.”“But you don’t do magic. You’re a human.”“Give her the fucking blood,” Tyler growled.Once the witch placed down the herbs, she disappeared into a back room. I shifted back and forth on my feet, glancing over at the others, who all waited impatiently for her return.“If you guys want to be strong against the potions that my father creates, then you need to be willing to drink vampire blood. Your wolf powers won’t heal you alone.”My gaze landed on Lucas, who looked to be doing better after I gave him the healing potion this morning, but his cheeks were still a bit pale. When we got home, I would have to give him some more medicine.“Are you sure about this?” the witch said, clutching a vial of vampire black blood.“Yes.”She took a deep breath and handed the vile to me. “Please be careful. This stuff is very dangerous. If you need help or directions on how to use it, please come back to my sh
Asher couldn’t protect me these past four years from all the monsters who had bent me over the side of my own bed and fucked me until my eyes filled with tears and I was begging fucking begging them to stop. He couldn’t protect me from experiment after experiment that Dad had done on me to make me a perfect specimen, a perfect fucking suitor for any type of species who could want to use my body.I had done fine, escaping Dad’s estate, all by myself. I had gone through torture worse than that poison that Lucas had taken and those men who wanted to find me. I didn’t need him to protect me.Doubling down, I put all my weight onto the pillow to hold it in place. I looped my legs around his and ground my hips against the front of his to stop his body from spazzing. If I had to use fucking force to show him that I was strong and capable of the truth, then I would.But, hell, it was getting hot in here. He even had the windows cracked open, and it was October.A low growl rumbled through the
Instead of answering me, this ho of a man walked up the stairs to his bedroom. Not wanting to deal with it anymore, I followed him and grabbed his wrist to stop him halfway up the stairs. He froze as our skin touched, then yanked himself away from me.“What is wrong with you?”“Don’t fucking touch me, Anna. I’m not in the mood.”“You sure were in the mood ten minutes ago.”He hardened his glare at me, and then, suddenly, it softened. He stared at me with so much hurt, so much love I didn’t know exactly what it was. All I could seem to do was stare back at him and wonder what his damn problem was.One moment, he hated me. The next, he was looking at me like this …“I’m fine,” I said, answering the question he was giving me with his eyes. “Don’t worry about me. You’re the one who left while I was supposedly inheat.” And then I strolled back down the stairs, ignoring the stares from the other guys, and walked to the kitchen to make myself some breakfast or lunch or whatever the hell meal
My eyes widened slightly, nipples hardening under my shirt. After that night in the woods, when my four masked best friends had run after me and devoured every inch of my body, everything was supposed to go back to normal. We weren’t supposed to do it a second time, or a third, or even a fourth, and none of us were supposed to catch feelings for each other.But I was knee deep in feelings and heat.And, gods, I wanted them to take me tonight. Hard.“Let me go. I didn’t do anything,” I said, yanking myself out of his grip and backing up until I hit Tyler’s taut chest.Tyler snatched the back of my neck, his claws almost piercing my skin. “You didn’t do anything?” he asked, pulling me back and against the wall, pinning me there. “You didn’t do fucking anything, huh?”“No,” I said.Though … part of me wanted to lie and say that I had done something. I wanted them to be angry. I wanted them to be jealous, I wanted them to admit their feelings for me, and I wanted Alpha Asher to feel like
“If I’m your mate, then why haven’t you mated with me yet? Why haven’t you bitten me?”Well, that was Asher’s fucking idea.So, I released her jaw and crossed my arms. “Asher, you wanna take that one?”Asher bared his canines at me. “No.”“You’re an annoying fucking ass,” I said to him, gritting my teeth and glaring at him. Later on, I was going to kick his fucking ass for all this shit he had been forcing us to do. “He doesn’t want any of us to mark you until after your father”“If you wanted to mark her, you could’ve,” Asher growled. “Yes, I said what I fucking said, but I was protecting you. I’m not going to let us go through what we did again. I can’t fucking carry that on my back for four more years.”Anna shook her head, as if she didn’t understand where this was going or what we were even talking about. Hell, I didn’t blame her. Sometimes, with Asher, I didn’t fucking know either. He was even more of a closed fucking book than I was.But in his sick, fucked up mind, he thought
She might’ve been my only female friend in Blood moon, but I didn’t want her to know the monster that my father really was, mainly because I didn’t want to involve her. I wanted her to worry only about herself and not me.“I would’ve never thought to mix vampire blood and herbs, and I’m a bartender.”“Yeah, well …” I scratched the back of my head and added more blood. “You know …”She didn’t know. She had no fucking idea. She didn’t even know what we were making this potion for. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that we were making it because my father wanted to kill my four guys and take me to experiment.“Yeah, I get it,” she said, then looked around the room to make sure the guys were still upstairs, doing gods knew what. They had been in Asher’s room for the past hour and a half, coming up with some sort of game plan. “I heard that James was at the tavern the other night.”I rolled my eyes and grabbed a couple of empty potion containers, pulling off their corks. “Yeah, he was.”