LOGINI walked out to the four-by and started her up. It was only a few miles to the clearing, but I needed to conserve my strength.
I drove in low gear, letting the rig go at its own pace. I enjoyed the slow ride, actually. The air felt clean.
I realized I needed to stay out of that Pack House. Selwyn probably had it magicked. It wouldn’t surprise me if he had.
I thought
“Lucien, please try to understand,” Bina pleaded for the umpteenth time in the last couple of days.I glared at her as I closed the refrigerator and stomped past her on my way out to the balcony. After the scene in the shower, I hadn’t said more than two words to her, or listened to her excuses as to why she didn’t tell me about her vision.Her bags were packed and waiting near the front door since yesterday when I told her to get the fuck out. Yet, she was still here.I wasn’t ready and she didn’t deserve my attention. Like a pup wanting attention, she followed on my heels.I whirled on her. Her eyes held a tinge of fear, and this time I didn’t care. If anything, that’s what I wanted to see. “Don’t you get it? I don’t care what you have to say. You had a life changing vision about me. Me! And you decided to keep it to yourself for weeks. Not a fucking day or two. Weeks, dammit.”
“I think we can repurpose the old library and the high school,” Nakoa said, looking at the enlarged map of Coralridge’s town center. “The high school will be the easiest to renovate into studio rooms with the cafeteria for meals.”I grimaced, but he was right. We needed something that we could fix sooner than yesterday.We were interrupted by the desk phone. I recognized Sid’s number and picked up on the second ring, also putting him on speakerphone in the process.“Hey Sid, you’re on speaker with Nakoa, Seith, and Bear.”“Hey,” he replied. “I think we have a line on our Council spy.”I automatically tensed, mentally crossing my fingers that it wasn’t someone from the Pack. “Who is it?”
I cracked my eyes open and saw the earliest glimpse of daylight around the edge of the curtains. Up until the last couple of weeks, it had been my favorite time of the day…waking the sleepy witch next to me little by little until she was putty in my hands and beyond ready to take me in.Something changed. I reach for her now, and she conveniently has something else to do, or sidesteps me completely.Every time I try to bring it up, she counters with my raging male hormones making sex more than it needs to be.My raging hormones weren’t an issue before. If anything, there were days when I needed all the stamina I could muster to keep up with her wants.Something else was going on, but she denied that as well.I could try and place blame on her coven, but there were always witches hanging out around the villa on a daily basis. I felt no ill will from any of them. They appeared to be genuine with their conversations and smiles toward me.I turn
My phone vibrated in my back pocket just as I tried to put a sleeping Kali in her crib. Last night was another sleepless night for the three of us. Gabriel took turns walking her around the room.I don’t know if she was feeding off our energy, because we were all on edge since the night she was born.All the known LK within the pack felt a ripple go up and down their spine, along with the pull to come and pay homage to our little princess. Gabriel felt it as well, so Bear’s assuming he’s also LK. But he did say it could be because of our soul bond, but none of us are buying it.It makes sense that Luna would bestow her blessing on the alpha line of the Pack that originally worshipped her.Now, three days after her birth, LK women randomly stop by the Pack House with a small gift for her. They feel calmer being near
A whole-body tremor pulled me out of a sound sleep. I couldn’t catch my breath, my fingers and toes ached with the pins-and-needles feeling.Bina’s head popped off the pillow. “What’s wrong?”I couldn’t even catch my breath long enough to answer her. As it was, I could barely shake my head. Shrugging my shoulders was not in the cards at present.“Do I need to call a doctor? Linsus?”As if those symptoms weren’t bad enough, I broke out into a cold sweat.“Lucien, what the fuck?” Bina cried, jumping out of bed. “You’re soaking the bed!”My heartbeat started coming back down to a manageable level, but Auron paced inside. I could feel his growls.“I don&r
I watched Gabriel closely as he absorbed my words. His wolf had to smell the magick. If he didn’t, that would be unusual for an Alpha wolf.He didn’t disappoint.“What do you mean?” he snarled at me. I could tell that he just wanted to hate me regardless; but being magicked and not remembering wasn’t something one could ignore.I take that back; I obviously ignored it when that young woman was in the dungeon. That was guilt I had to live with. One day I might be able to look at myself in the mirror, but that was a very long time in the future, if at all.“One of my Elders has had me magicked since I was at the Academy,” I replied dryly.“What? No way!” he replied in disbelief. “How could you not know?”Gabriel slid the chair from the guard’s desk and sat so we were now eye to eye.“If you’re magicked, how do you know? It just becomes your life and how
Faster, Auron growled, still pacing.I was already short of breath, so I wasn’t expending more energy by talking.But he persisted with his growling and snarling.I’m going as fast as I can. I’m naked, close to freezing cold. I have no shoes and the terrain is sl
It was almost dawn as the limo pulled up the hill toward the Pack House, I focused my attention on the house my family built over two hundred years ago. Gradually as the pack grew, additions were made.Now this massive house was mine. There was a legacy to live up to on these lands. It was
Pulling a couple of bags from my closet, I tossed clothes in randomly. I didn’t care about matching items, jeans, sweats, hoodies, shirts, and other incidentals.After Sam left the Pack House, I pulled up the forecast, and he was right. This driving rain was going to turn into freezing rai
One more contract, then I can call it a day. Although, work is keeping me busy and out of my head.My brain can’t seem to wrap itself around the conversation Seith and I had right before the ceremony dinner. Is Rodgrick trying to expand his territory into the Northern hemisphere?It







