I whimper at the worry in his tone and feel the creep behind me smile against my ear. Wanting a little more information, I whisper, “Why do you need them? Aren’t I enough?” “Oh, yes, my dear… But see once you bear my mark you will then also become part of me and therefore any sons you give me, will make powerful generals for my army and whenever one of your bloodlines has a female, I will add her to my harem to also add more slightly lesser generals to my armies… I may even occasionally allow one of our sons to choose one of the future females from your bloodline and see what happens…” I freeze in his arms at this information. I then feel the pup I carry kick me and I growl at him. “I will not let you put your filthy cock inside me and I will never carry one of your demons…” He chuckles again as he runs his tongue over my ear once more as he says, “Oh, you will, my dear, as you will not have a choice. I will have you chained to my bed for my pleasure… And my pleasure only, I will

I smile and make my way past Leo and Arthur to the young males behind them, the four of them all step up at once and wrap their arms around me, again I am surprised when I don’t hear that possessive growl come from Zachariah, I pull back a little and again look over my shoulder at him with a frown. Again, he just smiles as he gets to his feet and walks over to stand in between Leo and Arthur. I turn in Gus's arms as he is the one with his arms around me the most and look at Zachariah full-on when he says,“I am not jealous of these young males, Yasmine… To start with, two of them are your brothers and along with the four standing around you, they proved their loyalty to you when they wouldn't give up trying to track you when you went into the water and then into Shifter territory. They spent their time alternating between looking for you and doing extra training... Yasmine, I would like you to meet your personal guards. Where you go, so do they, especially

As I wake slowly and stretch, I am surprised that I am on my bed and that my body feels like it was hit by a truck. I sit up slowly and look around, my eyes landing on the bed next to me and I notice that it is empty. I move just as slowly as I sat up and get to my feet; I move carefully from the bed and through the room and out into the hall. I slowly and carefully make my way over to the stairs and then make my way down. Once at the bottom I walk over to the kitchen and smile as I hear the normal chatting coming from inside. I stop at the door and look around to find everyone but Summer sitting around the counter. Darius is the first one to see me as he says shocked, “Mummy?… Mummy, you shouldn’t be out of bed yet…” “I’m fine, munchkin…” I say with a smile in return as he jumps off of the stool he is sitting on and runs over to where I am standing. Before he gets to me, a wave of dizziness hits me and my knees buckle underneath me. However, instead of hitting the floor, two stron

**Past and future ** "Come on mate, we are nearly done, just one more sweep and we can head back to the barracks."I turn as I hear a sound and let my senses out, but don't sense anything. I return my attention back to Jake, and then I hear it again, only this time, so does he, and we both growl in warning.I extend my claws and allow my Lycan to come closer to the surface as Jake shifts into his wolf. We move together as one. However, what comes at us is nothing like we have ever seen before. It is a Lycan, but not. I can feel the power coming off of him and it isn't natural.He takes one swipe as Jake attacks him. Jake lets out a small whimper as blood goes everywhere before dark grey clouds surrounded his body and then he seems to disappear, the dark grey clouds then returning into the Lycan standing in front of me. I look past what looks like a Lycan and take a horrid breath in at seeing all the destruction and dead warrior patrols behind him.A wave of fear flows through me, but

(THIRD PERSON - THE BATTLE CONTINUES) Yasmine scanned the clearing that they had ended up in and couldn’t stop her heart from hurting at seeing all the blood and death laying on the ground throughout the clearing. Yasmine eventually sees Zachariah, and he is surrounded by nearly a dozen rogues. Yasmine shakes her head and then takes off running. With a roar, Yasmine shifts once more into her combination of Lorelei and Zelda, extending her claws as she jumps over the circle of rogues landing just behind Zachariah. They then work together and take out the rogues surrounding them, only to then come face to face with Henry. Henry smiles and swings his hand out. Zachariah moves quickly, pushing Yasmine to the side and taking the hit. The impact sends Zachariah flying over 30ft away from where Yasmine is now facing Henry. Yasmine ducks and dodges Henry’s next moves. She laughs, making him angrier as she says, “Gees, Henry. I would have thought you would have learned how to fight better