LOGINChapter 4: A Sexy Threat
Alpha Jaxon:
In the darkness of the room, the moonlight slipped in through the floor-to-wall mirrors and perched right on the bed where Emberlyn lay naked as she slept.
I twirled the ice in the drink as I watched her sleep. Her chest rose and fell and I took one more sip from the drink in my hand.
She was vulnerable, weak, and human and I was an Alpha incapable of leaving her alone.
My phone rang, and she stirred at the noise. I picked it up immediately and placed it by my ear, simply listening.
“Alpha, they are rogues from North-Dome, they had gotten a whiff of a werewolf scent on her because of the other night.” He narrated as if he hadn't told me the same thing earlier today. It felt like he had some hint of ‘I told you so’ behind his narration.
“Did you get it ?” I ignored what he’d said. I hadn’t marked her even if I so desperately wanted to but she’d basked in my scent. It had drawn werewolves to her and rogues and now it had put her in danger.
I did that.
“The Lupine Pendant?” His voice lowered as he asked.
“Yes.”
“I’ll have it delivered to you before the sun rises, Alpha.” I nodded even if he could not see me.
“Lewis, what’s the situation with Mila Vale?”l
“The bills have been completely settled, Alpha and I’ve had her moved to a private ward.” She was safe now.
“That will be all, Lewis,” I muttered, putting the call to an end and staring at the woman who lay in my bed. Small, fragile, and beautiful.”
I'd watched her a few more times before leaving her room.
The next morning was a Saturday and when I woke up, the smell of breakfast filled my nose. The chef must have made something special.
When I reached the kitchen, the chef was tidying up and the dining table was set. Pancakes, sausages, and eggs. Perfect for breakfast.
The stairs thumped and Emberlyn climbed down, in my shirt from last night, with messy hair, looking totally tired and just fucked. I bet under that shirt of mine she was naked.
“Good morning.” Her lips were small and her gaze averted as she walked further.
“Good morning, Emberlyn, how was your night?” I asked and watched her cheeks slowly grow red.
“Breakfast is ready, we should eat.” I led her to the dining room, pulled a chair open for her and she gently sat like she was trying to be careful.
“What are you doing today?” She froze, eggs in her mouth, her big bubbly eyes staring wide at me.
“I have work.”
“At the club?” Emberlyn’s face scrunched in a frown. She swallowed the food in her mouth and washed it down with orange juice.
“No. At DineHart.” She dropped her fork.
“What time is your shift?”
“2pm.” She blinked like she was nervous.
“But I have to be in the hospital..” she paused like she was refraining from talking about her family.
“Your sister, Mila.” I continued.
“How do you know my sister, Mila? And last night, how did you know where to find me? Are you stalking me?”
“I know a lot about you, Miss Vale.” That was a fact, I knew a lot about her. Who she was and where she came from. She was my mate, it wasn’t only duty, it was what I lived for.
“We have sex one night and you show up as my professor the next day, save me from some thugs which I’m grateful for and now you know about my sister. I feel like I’m being stalked.” Her tone hitched and I’d watched the chef take her eyes away from what she was doing to stare at us
“Come with me,” I stood from my chair, went to hers, and dragged her chair open with her still on it.
“No, we can talk here.” Her frown deepened.
“You follow me or I throw you over my shoulders.” My hand was still on the head of her chair waiting for her to stand.
“You wouldn’t do that.”
“Follow me, Emberlyn.” My tongue kissed my teeth as seconds went by with her still sitting.
“I’m still eating.” She snapped but I lifted her and threw her over my shoulder.
“Put me down, I can walk..” she kicked the air furiously while my hand rested on her bare butt as I walked with her upstairs.
“Screaming will only make things worse.” I spanked her butt hard while her fist drummed against my back in an attempt to get down.
I reached her room with her still over my shoulder, walked further into the room, and threw her on the bed. She bounced on the bed wincing a little bit.
“Let’s get you freshened up.”
Jaxon:Tell me everything.” I recounted the call in clipped, precise sentences. The kidnapping, the amusement park, everything. Carver listened without interrupting, typing steadily as I spoke. When I finished, the room fell silent except for the clicking of keys. “We’re working with almost nothing,” Lewis muttered. “We’re working with enough,” Carver replied calmly. He enlarged the city map. “The phone connected for less than ninety seconds.” “That’s still ninety seconds more than whoever took her wanted.” He highlighted several communication towers. “The signal bounced between three repeaters before reaching yours.” Lewis leaned closer. “They masked it.” “They tried.” Carver’s fingers moved faster. “But masking a signal isn’t the same as erasing one.” A series of circles appeared across the map then another. Gradually overlapping until they formed a rough section of the industrial district. “There.” I stepped closer. “How many?” “Too many.” Red dots began appearing. Lewis
Jaxon:I shoved through the glass doors of the Regala building without slowing. The receptionist barely had time to look up before he crossed the lobby and headed straight for the private elevator. Lewis kept pace beside him, already barking instructions into his phone, dispatching trusted men to every corner of the city.“Check every abandoned property within ten miles of the amusement park. I don’t care if it’s been empty for twenty years. Search it.”I ended the call just as the elevator doors slid open. Neither of us spoke during the ride. I stood with my jaw clenched, one hand curled into a fist at his side. Kael had gone from frantic to dangerously quiet. That silence was worse. It meant his wolf was focused, listening, waiting.Our mate was alive. I could still feel the faint thread of the bond. Hold on Ember, I’m coming. The elevator doors opened onto the executive floor. Carver was already waiting.He stood beside the conference table with a laptop open, three additional moni
Jaxon:The moment Edison’s convoy disappeared through the warehouse gates, I was moving. I didn’t wait for protocol. I barely waited for the office door to finish closing behind me before I was already taking the stairs two at a time.Kael was still frantic beneath my skin. Every instinct he possessed screamed the same thing. Lewis met me outside before I reached my SUV. His phone was pressed against his ear, his expression grim enough that my stomach dropped before he even spoke. He ended the call and looked at me.“I can’t find her.” The words landed like a punch to the chest.“What do you mean?”“I checked her apartment first.”“Nothing.”“I called Noah.”“Then Elias.”“They’ve been looking for her for over an hour.”My jaw clenched.“What happened?”Lewis exhaled sharply.“They were at the amusement park.”“Kim, Noah, Elias… and Ember.”“They went into one of the haunted attractions.”“Elias was supposed to follow her inside.”“He lost sight of her.”“When he found the exit…” Lewi
Emberlyn:The first thing I became aware of was the pounding. It started somewhere behind my eyes, a slow, relentless throb that felt as though someone was driving nails into my skull one careful strike at a time. Every beat of my heart made it worse, sending another wave of pain through my head until I couldn’t tell where the ache ended and the dizziness began.A bitter, chemical taste coated the back of my throat. I swallowed instinctively and it burned. My tongue felt heavy, my mouth painfully dry, and my limbs refused to obey me no matter how hard I tried to move them.For a long moment, I stayed exactly where I was. Darkness pressed against my eyelids, comforting in a strange way. Opening my eyes meant facing whatever had happened. The light overhead was dim, filtering through grimy windows set high into cracked concrete walls. Dust floated lazily through the narrow beams of sunlight, turning slowly in the stale air.I didn’t recognize the room. The floor beneath me was freezing
Jaxon:Something wasn’t right. The feeling settled in my chest without warning, subtle at first, then sharp enough that I nearly stopped walking. For the past few weeks, I’d become used to Kael reacting whenever Ember was close. He noticed things about her before I did. Her scent changing when she was nervous. The subtle shifts in her heartbeat whenever she lied about being fine. Even before her wolf surfaced, he’d always seemed to recognize something inside her that neither of us could explain.I paused outside the warehouse doors and glanced around the loading yard. Men in reflective vests moved between delivery trucks with practiced efficiency, checking manifests against shipments while forklifts carried sealed pallets across the concrete. Men moved between delivery trucks, checking manifests and unloading sealed crates. Forklifts rumbled across the concrete floor, their engines echoing through the vast building.Everything looked exactly as it should, except me. Kael stirred. He
Emberlyn:“Now we do something fun.”“I’m voting for going home,” I said.“Your vote has been rejected.”“I didn’t know we were voting.”“We aren’t.” She slipped her arm through mine before I could protest.“We’re kidnapping you.”“I don’t think that’s how kidnapping works.”“It does today.” Noah laughed as we crossed the parking lot.“I’m just here for the entertainment.”“You always are,” Kim replied.A short drive later, the amusement park came into view. The towering Ferris wheel slowly rotated against the bright blue sky while screams from the roller coasters echoed through the air.The smell of popcorn, sugar, and grilled food drifted on the breeze. Children ran between the attractions with balloons tied around their wrists while families queued beneath colorful signs advertising every ride imaginable.I stopped walking. “You brought me here?”Kim looked pleased with herself.“You need a day where your biggest problem is whether you’re brave enough to ride a roller coaster.”“I
Emberlyn:The voice came again.Low and close, like someone standing just at the edge of the room, saying my name with a familiarity that made my skin prickle. I surfaced from sleep reaching for it the way you reached for something you already knew wasn't there and my eyes opened to the dark ceilin
Emberlyn:The apartment was quiet in the way new spaces were before they fully became yours.Everything was in its place. My things didn't take up much space which had always been the case and the move had gone faster than expected because of it. Two boxes of books, a bag of clothes, my desk things
Jaxon: I was not Jaxon Sullivan tonight. I had left him somewhere between the penthouse and the car ride over, packed away with everything else that belonged to my real life. Tonight I was Rico Delmont. Founder and owner of a discreet pharmaceutical supply company with clean paperwork, a legitimat
Emberlyn: I made it home by seven. My bag hit the floor the moment I walked through the door and I stood in the middle of my room for a full minute doing nothing at all. Every part of my body was tired in a way that went beyond the physical and I was seriously considering skipping dinner and going







