“Quickly, everyone. First children, pregnant women and the elderly.” Isabelle's voice instructed all the wolves who were being taken to the basement below the pack school, where they could be protected from the battle that was to come “And leave some space for the wounded, too...” she sighed, regretfully “We might we need.”
“Tell the elephants to stay on the front lines. Cougars are better at stalking, so they should stay at strategic points to surprise those mercenaries!” Near Corinne, Hunter ordered the warriors who were still there, waiting to be able to join their fellows who were already on the borders containing the advance of Seraphina's mercenaries “Use all the armor we can make with the metal the swans sent us, even those that are not yet completely finished. We need to protect everyone as much as possible. And, you.” For a moment, Corinn
“Oh, my dear…” Juliet lamented at her words, with a loving smile on her face, holding her youngest with just one hand so she could get closer and caress Corinne’s face “You were always the opposite of that woman. And always use this gift the Gods gave you for good.” “It’s very recent.” Corinne lamented, “I've spent years denying this and I still haven't even used this magic to do what really matters: freeing us from Seraphina.” “No, you are wrong.” her stepmother denied it, with tears in her eyes “For years I tried to bring Eli back to me, break that spell and make things go back to the way they were before, but I never succeeded. Not until you showed up. And I thought about it again and again over the years, but I could only come to one conclusion. It wasn't just my bond of partnership with your father that brought him back. Maybe it wasn't that at all. Was you." Juliet stroked her hair “That woman thought your magic was still dormant, but she was wrong. You wer
The mountains in swan country were the perfect hiding place for Seraphina, Corinne now realized that. In addition to being remote and steep, most had large, deep, dark inner caves where anyone could easily hide, especially with a sorceress nearby to make them invisible for a while. Hell, if only Corinne had listened to her instincts sooner and tried to convince everyone that the missing swans were having their feathers plucked to produce some kind of potion...By instinct, as she finished climbing a few more meters of that mountain, towards another cave, Corinne looked in the direction where her mate, his cousin and all the wolves that followed William were surrounding the mountain, preventing all the mercenaries there from climb in search of her. At least Hunter still seemed safe and free from any injuries, but her tigress was still writhing in agony, wanting to be there too, protecting him.
“Seraphina!” Corinne growled, with her fangs hurting as they grew, her tigress roared with the need to attack that woman, even though she knew she couldn't do it so carelessly. “Mother!” Diego shouted, too scared by her presence for who was the favorite son “I... I was about to guide her into a trap and deliver her magic to you! I just ended up going too easy on her because I still consider her my little sister, and...” “Knowing your nature, I believe you still haven't been convinced since our last conversation, haven't you, my daughter?” Seraphina took a step closer to Corinne, completely ignoring her other child. "You disgust me. You have always disgusted me, ever since the time you took me to that infernal chamber to torture a tiger in front of me for the first time!” Corinne spat. “And you always disappointed me, worrying about inferior beings like those instead of focusing on what really mattered: your magic.” The sorceress shook her head
“Bunch of sons of bitches!” Hunter growled, counting the neck of yet another mercenary who tried to stick his fangs into him, preventing him from trying to climb that mountain to reach his mate.Once again, he raised his head toward the cave where Corinne had last entered. He hadn't seen anything go in or out of there, but it was taking too long for there to be nothing in that place. And, hell, knowing that that bastard who'd tried to kill Declan was still lurking around, probably more than willing to do the same to Corinne, Hunter was more than willing to break the promise he'd made to her.If that witch caught him, then let her break all his bones or something. As long as he could give Corinne the chance she needed to kill her and get it all over with, so that his wife no longer needed to be in any danger.
A beam of light blinded Corinne before she was thrown hard against one of the cave walls, losing every breath of air in her lungs for a few moments. “Stop this fighting nonsense, Corinne.” Seraphina sighed, standing nearby with her hands crossed, not even a strand of her golden hair out of place. “This will only cause wounds in you that I will have to inflict more magic on you to heal. You have already had your proof that all these efforts are futile.” She continued speaking, while Corinne dropped to one of her knees, trying to catch her breath as quickly as possible. “Your magic may be potent, but you haven't received the proper training. You are at a child's level in dexterity level. That's why you need me. Without a guide, you will never be able to reach your own potential.” “I don’t care about my fucking potential.” Corinne growled, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth. “Not if it means I have to become like you.” “It is not a matter of cho
For a few seconds, Corinne just stood there, not knowing if she was in shock or just shaken by everything that had happened, but she simply didn't have the strength to leave her brother's side or look in the direction of Seraphina's severed head. Her hands were shaking and her mind was blank, but even so, the instant the sound of someone at the grotto's entrance alerted her tigress, Corinne instantly jumped to her feet, ready to defend herself from any of Seraphina's mercenaries who had managed to reach it...“Corinne.” Hunter gasped, running his eyes over her blood-covered body, and the two corpses around her, before sighing “Oh, fuck...”Before he could say anything else, Corinne ran towards him, throwing herself into the arms he instantly opened to welcome her, letting her tears soak his shoulder and her sobs rock them both.
“Are you sure you’re not cold?” Hunter murmured against her ear, only causing Corinne to curl up even closer to him, pressing her cheek against his warm chest. "No." she sighed as she ran her hands over his abdomen “What about you? I never realized that Valiant could be so much colder this time of year than Calibur.” "No. I have something pretty hot to help me.” He teased, making her giggle as he trailed kisses down her face. “So... What did you think?” Corinne asked, dangling her legs in the air from the edge of the hill where they were sitting, with a rather expansive view of the entire tiger territory below “Is this place much different than you imagined?” “Well…” Hunter looked down at the orange-leafed trees below, and the many tigers moving through the center of the pack, resuming their lives in full force now that they were safe “It’s certainly not the den of cruelty and arrogance that horror stories told me about when I was a kid.” He s
“Hunter!” Corinne gasped when Hunter tried to insert his hands down her pants, but that didn't stop him from continuing “We... We've already been away for five days... We can't take any longer. People must be waiting for us...” her words warned, but his mate just parted her legs on the carriage seat, allowing his hand to enter her leggings and find that narrow and wet pussy, ready for him.“It felt good fucking you while you bit the pillow to keep from screaming and letting your family know what we were doing, but I'm done with it.” He growled, licking her claim mark as he pulled the strap of her blouse to caress her tits “I want to go hard into that hot pussy and hear you moan like you always have.”“Hunter...” she moaned again, as he began to plunge his fingers started deep in and out of her, using h