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Once Upon a Full Moon Chapter 69
Bowden Six weeks and three days. That’s how long I’d been gone. I missed my mate, my home, my Lycans, and my bed. Hell, I even missed my crazy workload and strict routines. Neil gets out of the SUV behind us, stretches and inhales deeply. “Aaaah,” he exhales with his arms spread out wide and his eyes closed. “Home.” “You really do learn to appreciate it a little more when you’ve been gone for a while,” I say with a smile. “Goddess, yes,” he replies and grins at me. For Neil, the biggest part of our trip was mostly a vacation, one he sorely needed. I didn’t rely on him as much as I do here at the castle, and there were days when I didn’t see him at all. He was just out and about, doing his own thing. Last night when we booked into the hotel, hopefully the last hotel for a while, I apologised to him for not finding any answers to our mate problem. The butler was completely relaxed and unfazed about the whole thing. “We didn’t find answers for seven hundred years,” he said. “I did n
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Kaiya I have never behaved like this with Bowden. I never fully gave in to my primal desires, never allowed myself to fully let go with him and show him my heart. I always kept a modicum of control, but that is quickly slipping away from me in a white haze of lust that I don’t quite understand, yet at the same time I find it welcoming and comforting. I just want to give in. I want to let go. Holding on so tightly all the time is too damn exhausting. Somewhere, in the deep recesses of my mind, I try to remember something. It’s important. Something he needs to know. But his lips are on me, and his warm hands are under my clothes, exploring, searching, warming my cold skin. The sparks of our mate bond is so much more intense now that it’s fully formed. I don't care about the thing I have to tell him. It's not that important now. Is it? I’m safe with him. It doesn’t matter what I do, what I say, how I act, he’ll never use it against me. It’s not something he ever needed to tell me o
Once Upon a Full Moon Chapter 71
Bowden All the way to the living room, I can feel Kaiya’s longing. It mixes in with Elowen’s until I can’t distinguish between wolf and human. It's easier for me to fight against my desires to stay by her side throughout the heat, but I have centuries more experience than she does. What bothers me much more is Knox. He is oddly quiet. He has been since we went into the bedroom. I expected him to assert his dominance and attempt to take control, but he retreated way to the back of our consciousness and stayed there until it was over. He’s unsettled and upset right now. “What is wrong?” I ask him as I walk around the bar to get water from the fridge. He doesn’t answer me. He was okay this morning, excited to come home and see his mate. “Knox?” I try again. “No pups,” he says with a soft whine. Ah. I would love to be a father too, but there’s nothing we can do about what happened to us. It never bothered him before, and I don’t know why it’s bugging him now. When I ask him all of t
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Kaiya Around midday, Bowden comes into my office and falls down on the seat in front of my desk. “I appear to be done for the day,” he says. “Who cleared my backlog?” “Jaeger and I took care of it.” I glance up from the diary I’m trying to translate. “So you have the rest of the day free.” “Hm, no.” He grunts and rests his right ankle on his left knee. “I have to start going through the grimoires and paperwork we found at Moon Dance.” “What about the witches?” I ask. “Most are dead. I brought the most powerful ones with me. They're locked up in the dungeon. Do you remember one called Samantha?” “I wasn’t allowed to interact with the witches. They mostly kept to themselves.” I lower my eyes back to the diary and start to type the lengthy Latin phrase into the search engine. “Kaiya,” my mate says and reaches across the desk to put his massive hand across mine. “Stop that for a moment and listen to me. I need to tell you something.” At first I’m annoyed. I’m sure I’ll find somethi
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Bowden I summon Thaddeus to my office as soon as I know that Kaiya is safely locked in our apartment. The young guard looks worried and keeps glancing over his shoulder. An unsettling thought occurred to me while I gave the Lycans their orders. What if the hunters never left? What if they’re still here, hidden in the castle? Watching us, just waiting for the right moment to strike again? We stopped looking for hunters years ago, stopped paying attention to the humans the Lycans and wolves brought here, and we haven’t had an attack in such a long time that I can’t even remember the last time it happened. But what if? “Why are you so cagey?” I ask Thaddeus. “I feel like someone’s watching me,” he says. I know that feeling all too well. “Take me to that room you found. The one with the diaries.” We quietly make our way through the castle. Everything looks perfectly normal. The Omegas are going about their business as per usual, and the humans, all of them wolf mates, are strolling
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Bowden“My father did it,” Kaiya insists.“How?” I ask. “He’s locked up in a silver cell. He can’t even mind link with anyone.”“His witches then?”I shake my head and lift her onto my lap. She’s frantic, her thoughts running amok, making it extremely difficult for her to concentrate on any one emotion. Unthinking, I start to hum softly, not so much that I’ll put her to sleep, but enough for her to calm down a little.I came up to tell Kaiya about Demi and change into my regular clothes, planning to head straight back down to the dungeon, but my mate is so upset that I can’t bring myself to leave her yet.“He tried to poison me,” she says. “Do you remember? When we were in Junction City.”“Not with anything deadly,” I remind her. “He just wanted to draw us out.”“He’s up to something, I’m telling you.”“Kaiya,” I sigh her name. “You are giving him too much power.”She slowly starts to relax and finally goes limp in my arms. She’s not asleep, just very relaxed. “Not all hunters are hum
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Bowden I snatch Kaiya up mid-run and throw her over my shoulder like a sack of potatoes. I sprint with her back to the castle, dodging the Lycans that are filtering out of the castle to see what the commotion is about. She fights me every step of the way, snapping and growling at me like a feral wolf, kicking me as hard as she can and pushing against my shoulders as she tries to get out of my arms so she can go back to her nymph sister instead. I swing her around and cradle her tightly to my chest. She stares up at me, her mouth pulled in an angry snarl. "Let me go," she says in the papery voice I heard in my dreams months ago. My balls shrivel up, and my insides turn to water. This can not be happening. Before I enter through one of the many side doors, I glance over my shoulder to see Griffin scooping Deborah up in the same why I did with Kaiya, trying his best to carry her back to the catacombs. She is over his shoulder, reaching out to Kaiya. A high-pitched scream bubbles fr
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Kaiya I wake up in the dead of night, all alone in my bedroom. I haven’t slept here since before Bowden left to appoint the Alphas, and I don't remember coming to my room. I do remember telling Thaddeus that I don't feel well and falling asleep in Bowden's bed. Maybe he moved me here for some reason. Perhaps he just needed to be alone tonight. An unbearable thirst nags at the back of my throat, and my head is pounding out a drum solo. I groan and swing my legs off the bed as I reach for the light switch of the lamp on my nightstand. I swallow against the drought in my throat and head straight to the bathroom, where I drink water straight from the faucet before I get under the shower to wash the cobwebs from my head. When the water starts to run cold, I get out of the shower and wrap a towel around myself. Bowden’s scent, mixed with the very strong odour of whiskey, hits me the moment I open the bathroom door. I didn’t hear him come in, but he can be very quiet when the mood takes
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