Feral Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

“Holy shit, is that Dina Skyborn?” Cain muttered. “Who?” Ethan asked. “Some fucking loon who went on a killing spree a couple of years back,” Cain said. “She only targeted Lions and took their dicks as trophies.” “Fuck,” Ethan said with a look of disgust. “Did she hurt you, man?” He looked to me and I shifted back into my Fae form, causing a gasp to leave Rosa’s lips as she spotted the devastation of what had happened to my hair.

oh... does she know cindy lou?

“At least she didn’t kill you, right?” Sin said cheerily. “Or cut off your cock. You’ve got such a nice, big cock and our wild girl would have been so sad to lose it.” “It’s worse than that,” I muttered. “So much fucking worse…”

SIN PLEASE

“It’ll never be the same,” I choked out. I’d never had my hair cut in my lifetime. That mane included the hair I’d been born with. It was luscious and magnificent and a point of pride for all Lions. There was no growing that back even if my hair ended up just as long as it had once been. I couldn’t undo this. Not ever.

“It will,” she swore, reaching up and pushing her fingers into what was left of my hair. Which wasn’t a whole lot. “It actually kinda suits you.” “Don’t,” I snarled in warning, pressing her back against the wall, the shower cap bunched up in my fist. “Don’t you downplay this, Rosalie Oscura. My hair is my Lionhood. It’s the mark of a true king. A worthy Lion. It was the last piece of my old life I still had.” “It’s just hair, Roar,” she tried and my fist collided with the wall beside her head, making her jump.

chill my baby

I was just a shaved house cat with no pride in its heart. Father was probably shuddering with the feel of me falling even further from grace right now.

“There’s an exit hatch in the elevators,” Cain said as the howls drew closer. “I can access it.” “Well aren’t you just Helpy Helperson now,” Sin taunted and Cain snarled at him. “I just don’t want to be ripped apart by angry Wolves, Eighty-Eight,” he snapped. “I hardly care if you remain down here. In fact, I’d prefer it.”

“That’s what happens to people who send dicks in boxes. The stars will always find a way to get revenge,” Sin said in mysterious voice like he thought he was speaking for the heavens themselves.

LOL

Cain climbed up next and Sin followed, heaving himself inside before Ethan went after him. I trailed into the elevator, staring down at the hair in my hand and wondering if it was even worth living another moment now. “Come on, hot stuff.” Sin hung upside down through the hatch, plucking the hair from my hand and disappearing up into it again.

I glanced at Cain, opening my mouth to warn him about screwing us over and how I’d peel his damn ribcage apart if he even thought about hurting Rosa, when he shot forward in a burst of speed and collided with me. I hit the ground with an oomph, bringing up my fist to punch him, sure he was about to kill me. His fangs drove into my neck and I cursed, punching harder, thrashing and fighting and clawing, but he had me in his grasp. I was fucking done for. “Ros-!” I roared, but Cain’s hand slammed over my mouth to shut me up as he fed, drinking and groaning and delighting in my fucking death.

“Dammit, you taste like a fucking meadow, Sixty-Nine.” He shoved himself to his feet then shot off into the trees with the speed of his Order, surprising me by letting me live.

i bet he does

The only hope I had now was getting out of this place and making myself a hair regrowth potion. But even then…a true Lion’s mane was meant to be grown over years, looked after and nourished daily. Bottle grown hair wouldn’t have the lustre of my old mane because it wouldn’t be imbued with a lifetime of love and tending to by my mothers. And maybe that was the hardest part about it all, knowing I’d lost the piece of myself which my family had helped gift me.

never was. I made my choice that day and it landed me here. It had nothing to do with you.” A growl ripped from her throat. “It had everything to do with me,” she hissed, rising up on her tiptoes to get her face close to mine. “You came back for me. If you’d just left me behind then-” “I’d never leave you behind!” I bellowed. “And that’s on me. Not you. You’ve fucked up your whole life by coming here, and now what? Do you really think we’re getting out of here, huh? Are you that star damned blind? Look around, Rosalie,”

youre breaking my heart roar

She wasn’t for me. She was mated to another Fae and since I’d told her I loved her, she hadn’t spoken a word about it. Sure, we were in a bit of a fucking predicament and there wasn’t that many opportunities for a chat about our feelings, but she had time to go off fucking Ethan and Sin, didn’t she? So I was pretty sure I had my answer when it came to what she really wanted.

GROW UP

“That won’t happen because we’re going to get out,” she said, her lips pushing out stubbornly as she refused to accept any other reality. “I will not see you die, Rosalie Oscura,” I said in a growl, my eyes falling to her mouth and I couldn’t resist the urge to drag my thumb across her bottom lip, making her take in a small breath of air.

Why couldn’t you just stay home like an obedient pup? Why couldn’t you be a good girl for once? Why do you have to be so fucking stubborn?” “Because I love you, Roary Night,”

EEEEEE

“Look, I know I was your childhood crush,” I said and she winced at those words, her cheeks touching with colour the way only I could make them

ouch

“Don’t call me that,” she snarled. “I’m not a little pup.” She shoved me in the chest and I growled, my Lion instincts prickling as I caught her wrists in a vice like hold. “You are,” I growled. “You’re the girl who stared at me at every Oscura event I ever attended. You were the one who wore a pretty dress at Dante’s twentieth birthday party to get my attention.” “That wasn’t for you,” she hissed, the lie obvious by the way her cheeks flushed even further. “You think I didn’t see all of it?” I mocked coldly, wanting to taunt and hurt and make her see why I was no good for her. “I saw how Dante’s little wild cousin hungered for the wildness she saw in me, but I assumed you’d grow out of it.” “You said you love me,” she spat. “You admitted it.”

And honestly, I had no fucking idea who would win between them. “But my love isn’t pure, Rosa. It’s not the flowers and teddy bears kind, it’s tainted and wicked and wants to eat you alive.”

“This isn’t a game you want to play,” I warned. “I’m not the man you fell for, I’m the monster he became. I don’t play nice with my prey and you’re the best hunt of my life. If I get my claws into you, I won’t let go, and I’ll leave my mark for everyone to see.” “Prove it,” she ordered, leaning toward me rather than trying to run like she should have. “I dare you.”

She was asking for the moon and I was really tempted to pluck it from the sky this time. Because Rosalie Oscura was my darkest, most forbidden desire.

meow

“For such a big, scary beastie, you’re kinda tame, Roary,” she said lightly, then turned her back on me, insulting me with that single move and making my resolve crumble to dust. The Fae in me roared alongside my Lion and every barrier in my head that held me back from her fell down at once. She strode away from me toward the trees and I lunged after her, locking the crook of my arm around her throat and yanking her back against my chest. “This what you want?” I growled in her ear.

yes

“Every single one of these scars conjured a bloodthirsty animal in me who has never been fed. They make me want to find anyone who has hurt you and kill for you so fucking brutally that no jury on earth would pardon me of my crimes. So maybe I was always a condemned man when it came to you, Rosa. I would have ended up behind bars one way or another, it just would have been for murder instead of grand larceny.”

grrrr

This body had ached for mine since she was old enough to know she wanted me. How many times had she made herself come while thinking about me?

thats one of the dirtiest things ever stated in these books

“I’d kill for this throat-” I bit into the flesh of her neck. “-and this mouth-” I bit her lower lip as she turned her head to look at me, toying with her nipple again to make her pant. “And this flesh.” I pulled my hand from her breast, carving it down the centre of her and cupping my fingers between her thighs, the damp, needy heat of her pussy wetting my hand. “I’d kill an entire army for this.” I tugged her ear between my teeth and her ass ground back against my hard cock, making a low groan escape me. “But it’s your soul I’d kill the most for. I’d destroy the world so long as your soul was kept untarnished. I’d die by my own hand for that too.”

“Stronzo,” she spat out and I smirked at her, taking a fistful of her hair into my grasp and tugging her head backwards to expose her throat. “Looks like I caught myself a little sub,” I taunted, biting her neck to show her I was the beast who could rip it out, the one who owned her completely now. She yanked at her hands, making her tits push together and I squeezed one in my large palm, watching her as she tried to get free. “I’m no sub,” she growled. “I think you like being at my mercy,” I said with a Lion’s grin and she cursed me in Faetalian, but her eyes were glittering with wicked thoughts.

oop

A tingle ran down my spine and I rolled my neck as the Lion in me begged for more. More of her beneath me, more of her submitting and becoming mine. My Lioness. She needed to bow to me and it wasn’t just a desire anymore it was a fucking need. A burning, raging instinct. I could feel the power of some higher force latching onto my soul, urging me on and begging me to claim her this way. In the way my Order needed to claim a mate.

yep called it

“I claim you, Rosalie Oscura,” I growled in her ear, letting her adjust to every inch of me buried inside her. “You’re mine and fuck what the world thinks because of it. I’m done holding back.”

WOOF GROWL

“Such a tame girl,” I taunted and she growled. “I’m not tame, I’m wild,” she hissed, her muscles tightening as she tried to snap her binds. “I’ll tame you, Rosa,” I said darkly, sliding my fingers between her thighs, coating them in her arousal before seeking out her clit and stroking my thumb over it. “Ah, fuck,” she gasped.

My world remained unsteady as I looked back down at her and found her body glowing with the light of the moon. I pulled out of her, untying the binds on her hands and rolling her over beneath me as her back arched and she reached for me as the halo of light around her seemed to glow.

AHHHHH

“Does this usually happen when you come?” I asked against her lips as she writhed beneath me and I looked down to find that same hazy white light engulfing me too. “No,” she half laughed, half moaned as she pulled me closer once more.

LOLOL

The cool light started to die away but it continued to shine around my left wrist as well as hers. I lifted my arm to find a mark of the full moon branded on my flesh and as Rosalie turned her arm over, I saw the very same mark upon her own wrist.

YES!@

“The moon mated us,” she gasped, her eyes wide and silvery as the power of the celestial being still hummed within her body. “You’re mine?” I asked, hardly able to believe I was that lucky. I’d been doing my best to make it so by mating her the Lion way, but I’d known in my soul that she was already claimed by another and I hadn’t truly believed it would work. “Yes,” she laughed. “And you’re mine.” “But Ethan…” I shook my head in complete shock as a new, confusing sensation ran through my body.

bonded!!

There was something about watching a Wolf sex party that got me very on edge. They were so loud and virile, so free with their attentions moving from one pack member to the next. It gave me the wet willies. What was wrong with dim lighting and a single, sweet girl becoming the entire focus of your world?

poor sweet innocent baby

What would my mother think if she heard I was beaten to death during a sex party? No. No, no, no.

"Don't be afraid of the dark. It's nice and warm in there," Plunger cooed and I shuddered at the thought of being found by that particular inmate. He'd tricked me into giving him far too many cavity searches during my time here and I just knew he'd be so much worse to deal with without restraints keeping him in check.

ew!

I frowned, wanting to look away from the sight of his parted ass cheeks while somehow frozen in place as curiosity fought a battle with my disgust. He got lower and lower, closing in on the tiled floor and I suddenly noticed something sitting there, right beneath his ass. Is that...a potato?

LMAO

I looked back to the floor beneath him and my frown deepened. Where’s the potato? Plunger started humming as he did a weird half waddle towards the exit and my eyes almost bugged out of my face as I watched him go. Where. Is. The. Potato???

you know where

My heart thrashed with a mixture of fear for my life and sympathy for a root vegetable as I tried not to let my thoughts linger on its location for too long. What horrors it had seen. What a destiny for an innocent carb.

Back with the rest of the guards. Back in my room. Far, far away from this horror show filled with psychos. And then I was going to give some serious thought to my life choices because I really wasn't sure this was the right job for me.

good idea

“I’ll fetch your clothes,” he said, taking off without a word and I smiled to myself as I waited for him to return. Roary Night. The guy I’d been in love with forever. My moon bound mate. Squee.

squeee!

"I'm the man for the job!" Sin's voice called to us excitedly and I turned to find him striding out of the bushes as he shifted into Edward freaking Scissorhands. "I've got a fantasy for all occasions locked away in this body of mine - and this one even has a scissorcock."

“I didn’t choose it, Sin, the moon did,” I explained. “But yeah, me and Roary are mated now. Is there anything else you wanted to know about that?” “Nope. Nothing. Nada,” he replied, looking away like he was pissed and I exchanged a look with Roary who only shrugged, clearly not caring. “So you’re okay with it?” I pushed, feeling very much like he wasn’t. “Who, me?” Sin asked dramatically. “Oh yeah, I’m peachy, dandy, happy as a goose flying upwind from a T-rex fart.”

oh sin...

I moved to sit between him and Ethan, nuzzling against my Wolf in greeting as he reached out to take my arm and turned it over to reveal my new mate mark for Roary like he’d already known it was there. He hadn’t put his shirt back on and I chewed on my lip as my hungry gaze roamed over his bare chest and the ink that dripped over his arms. "I can feel it too," Ethan said in a low voice, his gaze moving from my mark to Roary who was looking right back at him. "This connection between us. You're the centre of it, love, but it's more than just us and you. There's something between me and Roary now too."

The last time I'd been in Psych, I'd been gifted more than enough reasons to want to stay as far away from that fucking place as physically possible for the rest of time. Hell, I'd only managed to escape from there at all because the moon had decided to offer out one of its gifts to me and allowed me to become invisible somehow. I closed my eyes as I remembered how it had felt to wield that strange power, the gifts of my rare Order flowing through my veins like the sweetest taste of bliss. Like moonlight given life beneath my skin. I'd felt it there and I'd called out to it, begging it to save me, hide me. "Holy shit on a rice cake," Sin gasped. "Where'd she go?"

woah

"Per la luce della luna," I murmured, making Sin leap up as he looked all around us. "I heard her. Maybe she fell down a hole?" he suggested frantically, starting to hunt for holes I might have fit down. I laughed as I asked the moon to release me from my gifts before materialising between Roary and Ethan again. "How the hell did you do that?" Ethan asked, reaching out to clasp my face in his big hand like he was worried I might disappear on him again. "It's a gift from the moon,"

"Maledetto dalla luna," I purred, stepping right up to him and reaching out to brush my fingers over his arm as I pushed power into that magic which bound us to one another. The rose vine which crept up his arm began to glow silver against his skin, brightening as I skimmed my fingers over it and drawing a low growl from Cain's lips as his other hand reached out to brush against my waist for the briefest of moments like he was desperate to feel more of my touch.

i think it turns into a mating bond

"Make a star bond with me," Cain growled, reaching out to take my hand in his. "Promise you'll try to figure out how to break this curse if I help you." I tilted my head, regarding him for a long moment. He wanted me to try and figure it out and I could promise that. It wasn't like he was binding me into an agreement to actually fix it, because I had zero clues on how to do that even if I wanted to. "Okay," I agreed. "I promise to try and figure it out if you help me."

"You heard her. So just wait here like good psychos and try not to die while we're gone." Cain shot towards me, yanking me off of my feet and making me squeal in surprise as we raced away at Vampire speed towards the hidden exit.

fjdklsa mason please

"This is it," Cain murmured, glancing up at the ladder before looking to me again. "I'm going to try and remain undetected up there too so that I don't have to answer too many questions about what's going on in the prison or justify myself for heading back down there again." "You're coming back down?" I asked him, surprise filling me as he gave me an unreadable look. I’d figured his version of helping me to satisfy our deal would be ending after this, but it seemed like he hadn’t intended for us to go our separate ways yet. "Yeah...well I have to make sure you don't die before you break this curse. Now do your invisible thing so we can get on with this." I nodded obediently. "Yes, boss man."

"Oh shit, did you just bring me into your room, Mason?" I asked, taking in the bed at the far side of the space and the perfectly organised shelves surrounding it. "We just need to stay in here until the guards out there are gone," he said, staying by the door while I moved deeper into his bedroom.