Anthony’s POVThere was no surprise on Alaric’s hawkish face as we watched each other and his hands caressed Elena’s body.The beast was silently taunting me to act and watch my men get torn apart by his army of minions.“Something’s not right here Anthony…i say we wait until they release her and rescue her backstage.” Michael started before I raised a hand to cut him off, shaking my head and tearing my eyes away from Elena’s full breasts.They were the sexiest fucking breasts i’d ever had the misfortune of seeing, I could still remember the way her coarse pink nipples had felt between my fingers and tongue, the pleasure we had enjoyed.It obviously meant fuck all to her seeing as she was striping proudly for her old pack!I shook my head disbelievingly when she twirled around the thick silver pole with splayed legs, flashing everyone long enough to see her engorged pussy lips peeking through the sides of the tiny pink panties she wore.My hands clenched to fists by my side as I tried
ELENA WOLFEEverything had changed from the moment Anthony’s eyes left mine and he turned his back on me in that clearing.How could they do that to me?! I fought the tears in my eyes as whoops and shouts erupted from the crowd that raged outside still, having the time of their life while I could only wait in horror until my time to be taken by Alpha Alaric reached.“Thank you,” I coughed to the guard who motioned me to the large brown-wood door etched into the bare stone walls of the hallway. The dull ache in my temples only increased when the guard opened the door to my new room, waving me inside with a stony face.The room was small. There was little furniture save for the wooden beds and the small ugly dresser at the edge of the room. The round, blue-tinted windows opened to a depressing view of the dark castle with its slick black walls and fire pits littering the foyer.“Thank you, Hagrid,” Bella’s voice whispered behind me and I held my breath, catching her hard orange-brown ey
Michael’s POVThe weight between my shoulders had grown ever since we got back from the enemy castle. The clicking of the clock seemed overly loud in the wide study as I paced back and forth, cursing under my breath as panic covered my every step.“You need to stay calm Michael, it's probably not as bad as it seems-” My mother whispered and I glanced at her sharply, forcing her into silence.The two of them, Fedora and my mother were huddled together on the black leather sofa of my study, their wide eyes following me back and forth in a way that made my gut clench angrily.Not as bad as it seemed? I had lost my goddamned mate to a monster-wielding psychopath and that was all she had to say? I couldn't believe it!“If she is there of her own choice Michael, then there's really nothing you can do,” Fedora sighed, big black eyes watching me intensely before I slammed my fist into the table and made both women jump.How dare she speak of Elena like she knew what happened? She couldn't pos
ANTHONY’s POVThere was a woman lying on my chest, hair…in my face. The words registered in my head in a split-second as I glanced around the room, taking in the orange lick of flames burning low in the fireplace and the tussle white sheets of the comforter beneath my naked body.Elena?I froze, my eyes snapping open the minute a moan escaped her lips.My heart hammered in my chest and I reached out to cup a hand around the small of her waist reflexively before my heart sank.Not Elena…Carla…the woman who was carrying my child.“Your Highness! I was beginning to think I would never be able to wake you from your sleep.” Carla cooed, her blood-red lips puckering as she pressed an unwanted kiss to my face and giggled like she had done something sensational.It would have been cute if it was Elena who did it. Fucking hell, why on earth couldn't I get her out of my head?!The woman’s hands traced goosebumps on the hard ridges of my chest before I pushed her hands away, moving to my feet be
ELENA’S POV“I can't breathe…someone, help me! I can't breathe!” I gasped awake, groping around the dark bed frantically before my eyes slowly adjusted to the low light in the shadowed room.What the hell was that? My heart was hammering desperately inside me as the memory of the wispy grating voice filled my head and I tried to catch my breath.The shadows in my room were all wrong…long where they should be short and thick around the stone-walled crevices that were usually empty in daylight. It took too long for me to realize the pathetic wheezing sound I’d heard only moments earlier had not come from my head or the nightmare that still clutched to the back of my mind like a stubborn child.“The courtyards! Oh god!” I croaked, stumbling out of bed with the tangle of thin cotton sheets at my feet and bracing myself against a window just in time to look out the blue darkness.The courtyard I glimpsed from my bird’s eye view of the window was a tangle of cloth lines and thorny plants
ELENA’S POVAlpha Alaric must have been pleased with Bella’s plea because he shoved her away, turning to face me with pea-black eyes that had been darkened by his blood lust.“The next time I ask for your hand, Elena Wolfe. The answer will be yes or I will make sure I morph you into one of those senseless beasts that patrol the castle, understood?” Alaric’s gravelly voice roared as his claws tore through my hair, pulling tautly until small stars exploded in my vision.“Please!” I shrieked, clutching at air before the man shoved me roughly to the floor and I banged my chin hard against the stony ground. The guards clamped the heavy chains around my ankles and wrists, binding me against the grooves in the wall before I heard the wolves shuffle out and the heavy metal door bang noisily behind them.Gone…they were all gone!My heart thrummed desperately inside me as I glanced hurriedly around the room, and hope burst inside me when I noticed the large metal grate above my head that let i
MICHAEL’S POV“Move! Move! Move!”-I barked at the rogue as we were swarmed by the blood-thirsty beasts who flashed their fangs at us.I could see the red threads that surrounded Alaric’s beady eyes as he danced back and forth before me, his lithe body shadowed by the fog.“Release the woman to us Alpha, and I'll forgive this terrible intrusion.” Alpha Alaric hissed, before I flashed my teeth right back at him, my arms tightening against Elena’s body which I held firmly to my chest.“I’d rather die.” I growled, carefully retreating enough without turning my back on the hungry wolves.“Then it would be my pleasure.” Alaric hissed, morphing into his hideously large wolf the second that I did. I whipped around to pound through the dark castle as their screams of glee and outrage filled the air.My heart hammered with every step as the burning in my thighs increased. Firey arrows whizzed past our head just as we ducked into the line of the trees, and the leaves caught fire.All around us
ELENA’S POVThere was a muscle beating in my temples when I awoke with a groan, reeling from the sore pain that caressed my body like a lover’s hands.The orange flames that crackled in the stone mantelpiece of the fireplace raged wildly in the quiet room and I felt my teeth chatter as icy wind blew in from the billowing window curtains. “Miss Wolfe! Are you alright?” Emily’s soft voice came from beside me and I whipped around to see the worried expression on her white face. I inhaled a ragged breath when pain stabbed at the sides of my head and I felt the maid’s insistent hands on my shoulder once more, forcing me into the familiar comfort of the bedding.“Rest now, Miss Wolfe, it's a miracle you folks escaped when you did. If I could take out that bastard Cove pack Alpha myself I would! Just for what he did to you, M’lady!” Emily swore, cursing extensively under her breath as she shook her fists in the air.“How long-” I started before coughing through the sandy feeling in my throa