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My fight wasn’t completely gone, but no matter how hard I struggled, I kept losing traction. Then my fingers went limp as the current finally tore me from the bank.
oh no
He paused, and light washed across his features, highlighting the peculiar expression on his face. “I would never kill you, Sunny.” He sighed, looking exhausted all of a sudden.
oop
“Now,” said Jaxson, “you accompany me back to the pack house and see the fucking healer so you’ll be ready for your shift tomorrow.” “Yeah, not happening,” I replied, tightening my arms around myself.
i’d rather die <3
“For once in your fucking life, stop being a smartass. You ran one month before your shift; it doesn’t make sense. Did something happen to set you off at that particular moment?”
yes?
“Your father almost cost my family everything,” he snarled, staring me down like I was a piece of shit he’d stepped in. “Associating with you, or any Callahan, is a kiss of death.”
ugh y’all were all besties
“One day, you’ll look rattled again,” Jaxson said, staring me down. “One day, I’ll figure out your weakness, and when I do, you’ll fucking belong to me. Like fate always intended.” What did he just say?
HUH
“And stop me if I don’t have this right… serve you?” I laughed, cementing my fate. “You better be referring to waitressing and not fucking because I promise you won’t be happy with a wolf like me in your bed.”
rape hello
Victor moved over the top of me, a leg on either side of my torso. “If I decide to fuck you, mongrel pup,” he growled, “there’s very little you can do to stop me.”
so y’all just gone let him rape her?!
And I’d die before I let him touch me. “Let’s get her downstairs,” Torin said, reaching his best friend’s side. “Before dad comes back again and does something worse.”
and y’all wouldn’t stop him WTF
“You’re a witch,” I teased, sighing at the relief. Usually, Dannie laughed with me when I called her that, but this time, she just smiled. A slow, secretive smile, and not for the first time, I wondered how much we truly knew about Dannie the wanderer.
hybrid 🌚
Dannie wrinkled her nose at him. “Did I ask for your input? Did I even look in the direction of your pathetic face?”
love her
“You had everything in your hands, pup,” she said softly, “and you threw it away through pride and fear. You’ve lost what you could have had, and when our girl comes into her own, she’s going to rip your face off. I, for one, can’t wait to see that.”
ME TOO
When the moon burst with the brightest light of the night, my eyes closed involuntarily against the glow, and my wolf spirit rose to be truly visible to me for the first time. A deep burning red covered her, like an aura, and as she pushed toward the surface, the barrier holding her fell away. Be free. Run.
BE FREE
What was happening? What had jolted my brain back into normal mode so quickly? Run together?
aww
The rest of me appeared to be various shades of red, just like my hair, and I could have laughed at the irony of that. No Torma shifters had red hair, so there were no red wolves. Now I got to be a beacon in the moonlight, too… Callahans and their bright-headed ancestry.
beautiful
At first, I thought it was an attack, but then as they playfully rolled me, I caught on to what was actually happening: pack bonding. Only problem was I knew who this wolf was, and while he might expect I’d never remember this moment he was trying to instigate, I would most definitely.
DIRTY
There was no way to stop my beast as she sprinted for the grey wolf. The alpha’s son. Our true mate.
ofc
Torin took a step toward me, but before we touched, another wolf jumped between us, snarling and howling. I didn’t know this one, but from the thick, mahogany pelt, it wasn’t too hard to guess. The fur color teamed with an aggressive possessiveness of Torin made it clear who faced me: Sisily. And she was pissed.
finish her
Torin’s jaw tensed, his lips twitching, and I couldn’t figure out what was happening. He was my mate. My true mate. The other half of my soul. What was he actually considering right now? “Banish her from the pack,” Torin said, sounding unsure, but he didn’t retract that statement. “I never want to see her face again.”
YOU BTC U MF BTC
“Banishing her won’t break the bond,” Victor warned his son, looking smug and satisfied with what was about to happen. “I’ll expunge her from my soul if it’s the last fucking thing I do,” Torin spat, crouching down so that he was eye to eye with us.
die
This time when my soul screamed, our howl was louder than I’d ever heard, and it wasn’t until Victor tried to kick me out of the way that I noticed it was hurting the other shifters in my vicinity. Pack members were hitting the ground, covering their ears against my lonely lament. “Kill her!” Victor shouted. “Kill the demon bitch!”
better try and try hard
Well, fuck. What in the actual shifter hell had I done?
lmaaoooo wth
It was Torin’s turn to growl, and unfortunately, his was much more impressive. He stalked a few steps closer, the muscles of his arms and chest tense. Since he was naked, it was easy for me to see his dick start to harden, like he was reacting to me, despite the rejection of our bond.
boy f u
“You are dead to me,” I said quietly, not willing to expend any further emotion on him. “Don’t show your face before me again, or the next time I stab an object through your heart, it will be something that kills you.”
yuh
“Mera!” This bellow was from Torin, and I was legitimately getting whiplash from him. Why would someone who’d rejected their mate be so adamant that I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere?
he wants best of both worlds
“She’s my prisoner,” Torin said in a controlled voice. “My father has advised me to think on what I want to do with her.” “What is there to think about?” Sisily shouted even louder. “You said you love me. You want to make me your mate. Just kill her ugly ass and get it over with.”
lmaaoooo he cant
Torin’s growl was loud and echoing, so I turned my fake-bored expression on him. “I have to say, after the years of rumors, I expected a little… more.”
YUH
I snorted. “Tight… uh, sure. I mean, Don and Shortie double-teamed her”—I winced—“in the same hole. But, you know, I’m sure those rumors about her peeing a little when she laughs are greatly exaggerated.” I shot her a fake expression of sympathy. “Kegel exercises are gold, babe. You really should look into that.”
EAT HER ASS UP NO REMORSE
I was desperate to do the same; close my eyes and block my ears, but I refused to look away. All I had left at this point was my pride, and for sure, hell would freeze over before I gave him the satisfaction of seeing me rattled.
yup
“If I have to choose between seeing your face again and death, well… I mean, that’s not even a choice.”
“What the fuck are you doing? You know better than to call him here.” She backed away, muttering something about a crazy-ass shifter and then she sprinted from the room.
ugh oh
He stopped moving. “Your scent. I could find you anywhere, Sunny.” Jesus. Fuck. Those were not words used lightly by shifters. Scent meant a lot to us and committing someone’s to memory was more than just normal pack behavior. It was mate behavior.
he loves u
“You left me,” he said, interrupting, “and my wolf lost his fucking mind. We’ve barely shifted since you disappeared, and it was only when you returned that he’s relaxed enough to let me in. Apparently, you’re pack.” He took another pause. “To both of us.”
boooooo u stink
He glared at me. “Not the fucking time, Sunny. Not. The. Time.” I smiled sweetly, hoping that it wasn’t so dark that he would miss the murder in my eyes. “If you call me ‘Sunny’ one more time, there will only be one functioning member of this pack remainin—”
feisty
He was touched by light. The only light that currently existed in the world. Raven hair tousled in curls atop his head—a hairstyle that could have made him appear angelic, but there was nothing further from the truth. He was breathtakingly scary and perfectly sinful.
daddy
The man’s lips tilted up, full, plump lips that again should have made this angel-faced god look sweet. They did not. His smile was dark and sinister, his eyes filled with flames.
mmmmm 😩😩😩
“Shadow Beast,” I whispered. For this, I was rewarded with a smile. “At your service, pup.”
sweet baby jesus
Except… As he leaned down, his height reduced until he was once again a head taller than me. Eight feet to six-and-a-half feet in an instant. Did he just morph his height at will?
mmm fuck me side ways PLS
“Choices, choices,” I shot back, falling into my usual response to big bullies. “However will I decide?” He stopped moving, lifting me fully as if I weighed ten pounds, holding me so he could see my face clearly. “A shifter with a death wish. Never thought I’d see the day.”
smart ass mouf
“You think to challenge me?” Shadow Beast asked, finally looking at the alpha. “You mortals worship me, have offered me every conceivable tribute, and yet you would deny me this one shifter?”
lmaaoooo right
tilted my head to see Victor. “Seriously?” I huffed. “Do you think it should only be Torma pack that gets to torture me?” Shadow Beast and I were both glaring down the fucktard of an alpha now.
LMAAOOOO GIRL HUSH
Victor was about to meet his maker—literally—and I couldn’t feel anything except a sense of satisfaction after the many years of living under his horrid rule.
oh the irony I LOVE IT
“He rejected me,” I added, “so there’s no tie you need to worry about. My mate did not accept the bond.” Making his claim null and void.
YUH
I snorted, twisting my face toward the scariest fucker in the world. “I’m ready to go with you now,” I said. “Anything to avoid staying here with this pack of weak-ass bitches.”
LMAAOOOO YES
“Sunny,” Jaxson called, his voice hoarse. “Fight him.” I chuckled, the smoke caressing my arms in cool strokes. “I couldn’t even fight you bastards when we were kids. You think I can fight the creature of darkness?” Shadow Beast snarled. “Darkness is not my calling card, mutt. You would do well to remember that.”
yessir
“Only a weak alpha sends his pack out to do his job,” Shadow Beast murmured. “Torma is too strong for one such as you to control it any longer.”
PERIOD
“What do you want from me?” I pushed. “Just shut the fuck up,” he growled. “You’re already a problem I don’t want to deal with, but a creature like you can’t be left to its own devices.” Rude. “Most women don’t like to be referred to as a creature,” I told him huffily.
GIRL HUSH 😭😭😭
“Did you not say you could walk?” he asked, annoyed as always. “Don’t make me carry you again.” I saluted. “Yes, sir. I didn’t realize I was supposed to follow. My bad.” The sudden way he was staring me down made me very nervous.
lmaaoooo hush
“You don’t fear me?” he said, and his voice was soft. Normally, that would be a good sign, but this was the sort of soft a serial killer got right before he cut off your toes for a trophy. I gulped. “On the contrary, I’m all but pissing my pants right now.”
LMAAOOOO ATLEAST SHES HONEST
Cryptic and an asshole. I was starting to see where the alphas got their arrogance from… inherited from their maker.
