Austen's POV
I know that Chloe and Lucas have spent this last year together in every physical form that is possible, my room is right next door and she isn't exactly a quiet one. I wished they would use his room instead, ya know, put some more distance between us. It's midnight and I have no idea what is happening with them and it's driving me insane, my wolf is thrashing around screaming for me to go in there and grab her so she can see that she's supposed to be with us but it's Lucas. I can't go against my brother, he truly loves her, anyone can see it and he's been so patient with her, listens to her, teaches her, she will be an amazing Luna, everyone here has taken right to her and just loves her, she reminds me a lot of our mother. Once they decide to be together and mark one another Lucas can officially take over as Alpha of our pack, and he will be a great Alpha. I am so torn, I have never felt this before and I feel as if I am being torn apart from the inside out.Lucas's POV Standing here, with her, she is helping me heal and the feel of her is everything to me. I know she is made for me, the single best feeling in the world to me is her. Looking down into her gorgeous eyes, I can get lost in them, she looks up at me and gets on her tippy toes and presses her lips against mine. She says she accepts me, she can feel our mate bond and it's pulling her right into me, everything is heightened even more than before. Her touch is like lightning shocking into my entire body, her kiss makes my entire body go weak, I am so in love with this enchantress, I want to take her, feel myself inside of her, that animalistic, raw, almost feral sex, her favorite kind actually. She is like a demon in bed, so savage and wants to make love one minute then devour each other the next, right now it's so intense, feeling every part of her naked wet body as she pushes into me and I get harder with every second that passes by. I grab her ass and rip her up in
Chloe's POV Sitting up in bed, dumbfounded at how Lucas just jumped up and threw himself out of the room, he said nothing, just had this look on his face and within a blink was gone. I was a bit shocked and went to go call out to him 'DONT SAY ANYTHING' 'Ummm, what's going on Callie? I'm starting to freak out a bit' 'Can you smell that? It's sweet yet earthly dirty, something isn't right but I recognize that scent' I sat there for a moment, hearing nothing but sniffing the air 'Callie.... that smell, we know that smell... it's eerily familiar' 'Chloe... Get up, and we need to shift, that scent is wrong, very very wrong' I stood up and walked towards the door and heard Lucas, he was breathing so heavily and I could feel, what is that? Fear? Anxiety? No! 'CALLIE ITS WHAT KILLED MOM AND DAD!' I shifted quickly and stalked forward and heard Lucas's heart racing and felt him he wanted me to run, I turned and threw myself out the window landing hard on the ground, Callie whimpe
Alaric's POVThis female had the scent of 100 roses and a sweetness so faint I needed to make it stronger. She took right to me, I knew, even without her wolf that she would be able to smell me all around her, after all, we are meant to be. She was falling right into me, it felt heated and her arousal was making me want to take her hard and powerfully, no escape even if she tried. I had her in my grasp, she was clouded over but her mind was strong, stronger than I gave her credit. Pinned down on the couch, waiting for her to beg me to take her and she started trashing, trying to get away from me, thinking of this Lucas she believes is her mated. I can hear her thoughts, feel her emotions and it angered me that even while in my presence she had the audacity to think of that weak soon to be Alpha. I let my anger take control and I picked her up and slammed her into the wall, in the darkness, her eyes grew wide as she tried to see, but without her other half she can't, I cam see her perfe
Chloe's POV I woke up to the door closing, the scent of Alaric was over taking all my senses and when I opened my eyes and looked up he was towering over me, looking down, my heart jumped when I realized he was so close, I let out a gasp and pursed my lips together tightly to try not to make another sound. He bent down closer to me and pulled my shorts away from me, he was trying to catch my scent, I assume to see if he could smell Lucas on me, I saw his eyes go full black as he slowly looked me in the eye and let go of the shorts. I could feel my arousal again with the way he looked at me, so intense and intimidating, I know he caught a whiff because his eyes shifted and he glanced down then back to my eyes before smirking. "I won't have you smelling of another man, or boy I should say." With that he lifted me with his hands, with ease, damn is he strong, and scary. He took me over to the bed and dropped me on it, I bounced a bit but stayed in one place, I knew he could hear my heart
Lucas's POV It's been a week and there is no sign of her, I feel so lost. I can't sense her, we never finished marking one another, I wonder if she can feel me, feel how worried I am about her. "Lucas" I snapped back to reality, lifted my head and saw Austen, my mother, father, Cole, Finn, and even Anabel standing around me, I didn't even hear them come into the room, every eye on me looking at me with sympathy, I felt pathetic and useless. We have searched everyone within a 200 mile radius and nothing, even her scent was gone. I had rushed down and out the back after hearing our bedroom window smash, Chloe's heart racing and felt pain. I got there and she was already gone! How could she disappear that fast? It wasn't possible, she had to have been hurt from that fall. Her scent was there at the fall point, scattered glass shards everywhere along with blood, but then her scent just disappeared, no trail of her scent, absolutely nothing. How can she just vanish without
Chloe's POV I have no idea how long I have actually been here, I'm brought meals multiple times a day, I can't see if it's even light outside, I haven't left this room since they brought me in. Alaric comes and goes and so does Sydney with food and forcing me to bathe myself. I'm sick of being here, alone, I've never felt so alone. No Callie, or Lucas, Austen, David, Cole, Finn, Laurie, Claire... My head feels empty, like a dark hole that never ends, Callie has been with me since I was 15 years old and now she's just gone, granted I didn't realize she wasn't just my own subconscious for the first 2 years but she was still there. 'Callie, I really miss you' it's like it just echos in there, then no response as usual. I wonder if she can hear me and I just can't connect to her, is she screaming to me trying to get my attention or is she lost in the dark, sleeping away without realizing she's gone? "UGH! I hate it here!" Suddenly the door opened and there he was, his scent swirling aroun
Alaric's POV What the fuck just came over me!? I can't believe I let that happen, I showed her a side of me no one sees, I couldn't contain myself, stay angry, looking intonher eyes something happened, I let my feelings come to the front, the me before the Beast, that can't happen until I get her where I want her. It's hard to look at her, see her emotions, she was compliant today, coming to me when I called no fighting with me, she was still a smart ass but no reluctance in her step, she cleaned me without fear, stripped naked without complaint. She treated me, differently, almost without hate, her eyes were locked onto mine, the anger wasn't there, it was different this time but I don't know why. Did she like it? Like being treated that way? Me not forcing her, just gently taking her? I need to know.Walking to my office I called for Aria to come see me. "Yes your highness" she lowered her head in a bow then looked over to me "I want you to put a silver cuff on Chloe
Chloe's POV Sydney brought me some dinner tonight, she was very aggressive, she threw my tray down knocking off most of the food on the floor, she had some clothes tucked under her arm that she just dropped onto the floor, glared at me them left abruptly without speaking to me at all. It was strange, but then again so was she, it's not like she was ever exactly cheerful or nice towards me but this was different, like I pissed her off. Oh well, I ate what was left on the tray, it wasn't much but something was better than nothing right, beggars can't be chosers. I was sitting on the chair in the corner when the door opened again, I flinched because it was way to early for someone to be coming in, I looked up to see someone new. She was quite beautiful, long black wavy hair, almost to her but, these breathtaking amber eyes with swirls of green in them, petite and pale, must be another vampire. She walked over to me, knelt down in front of me, looked up to me "I need