I looked at Asher who was sitted accross me while Max and Lucas were not done with their food yet.I look around the restaurant admiring the beauty of the restaurant when my eyes landed on some cute couple and their pups,my mind immediately think back to my daughter. “it must have been tough for her seeing happy family like this” Then Max spoke about the food ,my attention returned to our table and as I look up, I found Asher staring at me,I could also look away but his face were tempted to stare at, I began to study his beautiful face, he looks so handsome and I was tempted to want him at that moment. He furrows his brow and shakes his head. “Because you’ve got spunk. And wit. And something gleams in your eye. I’m not sure what it is, hope, optimism, life, but it’s missing from everyone else.”“You never knew you had magic right?” Asher asks wryly.I smile. “yeah, my first time was in lucas’s house, you won’t believe I almost ...... killed Lucas” I said in a sad tone.Asher places hi

He guides me to the bed where I lay down. He sits up against the headboard and I use his lap as a pillow. My attention homes in on the light touch of his fingertips against my back.Time passes, but not enough. He starts to get up, but I latch my arm around his waist. With a furrowed brow, he looks down at me.“Stay,” I request.For a second I'm terrified he'll still go, but he nods, then loosens his collar. Without removing the hand from my back, he unbuttons his shirt and strips it from his body. He slips down onto the mattress with me and wraps his arm around me. I snuggle close and wait for sleep.And wait, and wait, and wait...JAKEDawn breaks gently,shafting pristine morning light through the blinds of the motel room. Anna lies still beside me, her breathing slow and deep. The breath of untroubled slumber.Finally.It took nearly all night for her to accept sleep’s grace. Little twitches against my arm informed me that she kept startling awake every time she began drifting off.

“We came out for some peace and quiet,” Lucas tells him, throwing the ball for Trouble again a little harder than he had been, his gaze bordering on a glare.“Peace and quiet, what a novel idea, but one that should be appreciated more.” He seems oddly content, gazing out at the world as if it’s something wondrous.“Aren’t you cold?” Lucas asks, his voice a little chilly.Asher looks down at himself and shrugs. “My wolf and I always prefer the cold to the heat.”He and I are alike in that regard.“So, when will Anna start feeding on me?”My jaw drops, but I have to recover quickly, because Lucas looks like he’s ready for a fight. “That’s only one of the reasons we allow you to come with us is your magical powers. From what we’ve seen so far, I don’t think it’ll be necessary for Anna to feed on you.”And we’ll kill you before we let that happen.“I am her third mate anyways I don’t have to argue with you guys”“It’s not any of your business since she’ll never feed off ofyou,” Lucas snap

“Will we be killing the perpetrators, or is this a stealth extraction of my pack members?”“We’re not executioners,” says Jake.It’s another three hours’drive until we finally approach our destination. The terrain breaks, mountains rise from the desert waste, their slopes robed in green pines. The road slithers up the grade. The sleepy miles of empty, tan expanse give way to vigilance. Yet everyone watches the trees, expecting something to leap out from behind them.“What’s the plan exactly here?” I ask, breaking the silence.All eyes focus on Jake.He stays staring straight ahead when he answers. “We go in as Enforcers under the cover of just checking things out. We find your pack members. We make it clear that they’re coming with us and that if there’s a problem, all hell will break loose with the Enforcers. They won’t want that, and we’ll remove your pack members. Then, with the victims as proof, the Enforcers will come in and handle the Ethan Pack.”“Or?” Lucas asks, lifting a bro

Elise pulled me toward a large house in the outskirts of the town, I stared at the text message sent to me from an anonymous number, my chest tight in anticipation. Since I had left home three days ago, I hadn’t told anyone that I was coming back to my hometown. Only Elise knew. “Girl!” Anna shouted, grabbing my phone from me. “We’re about to head into your first party since you finally got the balls to leave your father’s estate and come back to town. Put your phone away!” I took my phone from her and shoved it into my purse, tucking some brown hair behind my ear. “I thought you hated partying?” “My best friend is back in town. You bet your cute little tush that I’m going to party, no matter how much I hate the smoke and drunk monsters trying to crawl up into every girl’s bed. Gods, I see enough of that at the pub.” After looping her arm around mine, she pulled me into the dimly lit house. Smoke and haze lay heavily around grinding bodies. People of all species danced and drank t