Hey friends! Well, you met that challenge quickly. I love how invested everyone is in Sev's recovery! I know all three of them have been through so much, but there is just something special about Sev, right? So, what do you think of the new threat? Who is this "Red One?" See you guys soon and have a happy and safe weekend!
I wake up with the urgent need to pee. I sigh loudly before rolling from side to side to try to get momentum. I finally roll to my side and push myself up. The change in gravity does not help the peeing situation AT ALL. This little girl is doing a tap dance on my bladder. “Alright, kid. I get it. Calm your ass down. I’m getting up as fast as I can,” I grumble. I lean forward and put my weight on the bedside table and half fall forward, half stand. I love this kid, I truly, truly do. But I can’t wait to have my body to myself again. I finally stand and waddle my considerably bigger ass to the bathroom. After finally relieving myself, I waddle back out of the bathroom, looking for my shirt that I threw off when Lily and I came in here for a nap. From my understanding, with two pups, these will be at a premium soon and Lily and I decided that we would take advantage of the little time that we have left. Our due date is eight weeks from now, just behind Sandra and Bhakti.
When Case floated Sev up to him, I almost expected to feel a pang of jealousy surge through my chest that he hadn’t done the same for me. But, I didn’t. Instead, I just feel that “awww” moment that you get when you watch sappy movies and the main characters finally get together. Happy for them, somewhat wishing that you had it yourself, but not really wanting to be a part of their moment. I don’t really dwell on the feeling long. Sev wasn’t completely wrong when he accused me of not being in love with my mates any longer. I am…but more as long time friends love each other. I guess you could call us friends with benefits? I hadn’t really felt love for them in…years? Even the fated sparks have died down for me. I don’t really feel them when I touch my mates anymore. I had hoped that once my revenge was exacted that I would start to fall back in love with them. It hasn’t happened though. I still feel too angry. At least, now, I have a new enemy to vent my anger on. I turn
It all seems to happen in slow motion, but there’s nothing I can do about it. Rin spins towards Brandon, her fist already pulled back before she releases a punch that would have definitely dislocated and possibly broken a human’s jaw. But Brandon catches her hand in mid-throw. Suddenly, she’s on the ground beneath him, her hands grasped in his, his knee in her stomach, and his face menacingly close to hers. “I wouldn’t do that, Corinda. You have to know how my gift works. I’m not sure why I didn’t see Sev’s tree coming, other than it isn’t really living, but I’ll see anything you try to do. Don’t do that again.” His voice is a growl, threatening her. I feel Case tense beside me, but I can feel his conflicting feelings through the link. She kind of asked for this, but that’s our mate that’s being threatened. The most unexpected thing happens when her arousal scents the air. It temporarily leaves both Case and I immobile in utter shock. Brandon moves off of her almost fas
Zak and I had just made our way into the Alpha Council when we feel Brandon’s distress and pain. It’s like something is squeezing our throats, making it hard to breathe. Almost like an asthma attack, nothing at all like Brandon is feeling, but still scary as all hell. Wheezing, Zak and I fall to the ground, clutching our necks. Arya and Dev run to our sides, our other friends close on their heels. “What’s wrong? What’s happening?” Dev cries, holding us up so that we can get deeper breaths of air. Through short, panting breaths, I say, “It’s Brandon. He’s dying.” “No!” Dev screams. He holds me while Arya holds Zak and their demi-god powers lessen the pain. It makes it so we can think. And tap into Brandon’s side of the link to see what’s going on. What we find is scary as fuck! Casen is holding Brandon down with his wind power while sucking the air from his lungs. The process is slow and excruciating. If feels like he is dry drowning, searching for air when there is no
I know that I took my anger out on the wrong person. It’s just so much easier to take it out on Brandon than it would be to face Rin in that moment. But I have to face her now. We’ve got to get out of here and to the safehouse. And we have to deal with the shit that just went down. FUCK! I can’t believe that she got off on Brandon holding her down. She hasn’t gotten horny like that since…I can’t remember the last time we’ve made her horny with just a word or a touch. We have sex so rarely and when we do, it takes her so long to get wet. We have to use lube and do foreplay for what seems like hours for her to get wet enough to take us. She rarely, if ever, seems interested. But a wolf can only go so long without being with their mate after they are marked and mated. It’s helpful that Sev and I can be together and that pushes the need off some, but we need each other. At least Sev and I need her. I catch her scent quickly and follow her through the woods. Though she is a
I didn’t leave. I wanted to. Really, really badly. I wanted to run home, to be with my mates and my pups. But a couple of things kept me there. One – I have no idea where the fuck I am. I mean, as a wolf, I’d be able to get my bearings rather quickly, but will it be fast enough to get me away from Casen and Corinda? I have the feeling that Corinda would burn the forest down to make sure that she found me to use me against my mates. Two – Though that was some fucked up shit that just went down, I want to make sure that Sev is ok. I couldn’t give a shit about what Corinda thinks. And Casen? I’m not sure how I feel about him. I mean, dude had tried to kill me. I understand why, though. If anything like that happened with Charlie, I would have done the exact same thing. He ain’t all that bad. I gotta make sure they’re ok. Three – Selene had said that I needed to be here for a week. Why? I don’t know. But if the Goddess said I had to be here, here is where I had to be.
“Somebody give me something,” I say walking into the Alpha Council meeting room. Charlie and I had been a mess while Brandon was chained. That hour of not having contact with him was one of the worst of our lives. He trusted Severn and Casen, but Charlie and I were having a lot of trouble leaving him in the hands of someone who had tried to kill him earlier today, as well as the crazy she-wolf who had planned his kidnapping and the killing of multiple packs. Yeah, they had their reasons, but their brand of psycho near our mate was killing us. As was the knowledge that he wouldn’t be coming home with us tomorrow. The only thing keeping us from freaking out was that Brandon was currently safe and in nearly constant contact with us and that we have a project that we can focus on: finding out who The Red One is. To do that, we call in Citra, the witch that helped to escort Nathan here from Julian’s pack. “Whoa, there cowboy,” Dev says. “How’s Brandon?” I plop down in my seat at t
It’s a six hour drive to the safehouse. We decided to go with the one that was closer to Texas, to where we would meet the trios tomorrow at the Meteoric Rise packhouse. If we travel half way there today, we’ll only have about six hours to drive tomorrow. We’re about 30 minutes into the trip and no one has said anything. Brandon is lightly snoring in the back. I hear Sev playing on his phone, the soft music of Candy Crush coming from its tinny speakers. Corinda has been staring out the window the whole time, though I occasionally see her look at me in my periphery. I know that we need to talk, but I’ll be damned if I’m the first one to break the silence between us. Childish, I know, but she screwed this up. She needs to take the first step to fix it. Sev feels the same way, but he’s keeping his distance. It seems like he’s been burned one too many times by our fiery-haired beauty. He won’t extend a hand anymore. She’s got to do it herself. Both of us are really upset abou