Feral Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #3)

by Caroline Peckham

was out of the band. A shitty bass player tossed into the gutter. But Rosalie would sing on with her guitarist Roary, drummer Ethan and keyboardist Cain, and maybe she’d find a new bassist soon. A better bassist. Someone with an even cooler name than me, like Fox Harlequin or Saint Memphis. Damn, those were cool names. Did Sin Wilder even stand a chance against them? I doubted it. Especially not when the new guy always played in tune and knew how to match the rhythm.

As he started to add the huge dome on top of the prison, I fell still, my gaze riveted to that part of the drawing. My mind was a steam train in that moment and something about this image was making a little man shovel coal into the fire to get the train going. It began moving out of the station as my lips parted, wider and wider as I stared and the train picked up speed, steam billowing from its chimney and I gasped. “Choo choo!” I cried and Plunger snapped around with a yelp. “Oh my gonads, what in the world are you doing a-creeping up on me, sir?” Plunger demanded as he backed up, a poo-tato still in hand.

Because you’re angry at me and I think that’s the worst thing because it gives me all this pain right here.” I pointed at my heart. “It kind of feels like a steak knife in my chest, sawing off little pieces of my ribcage. Um, anyway, to sum up…shit, I’ve lost it. What was I saying? Hang on, let me start again,” I said, my neck too hot and my brain all scrambled. She was so pretty. And not just face pretty, soul pretty. I wished you could snap a photo of someone’s soul because hers would be the most beautiful fucking thing I’d ever looked at, and if I had a picture I could keep it in my pocket forever.

omg i love him

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry like people in movies are sorry when they’re standing out in the rain and have flowers and there’s music and stuff.” Roary came into view beside Rosalie, flicking his fingers so a storm cloud appeared above my head and rain started washing over me in a torrent. “Thanks, buddy,” I whispered and he scowled. Rosalie’s fingers twitched too and a bouquet of wildflowers grew in my hand. I grinned at her as she folded her arms, waiting for me to continue and Plunger started singing Kiss the Girl from The Little Mermaid behind me.

this is the cutest fucking thing ever

“I think it could work,” Ethan added and we shared a best friends grin. His didn’t involve any movement of his facial features, but my smile was big enough to blind the room.

The other Alphas looked unhappy about being bossed around, but I wasn’t gonna fight that fight. Our girl was glowing with big dick energy right now and I was happy for her to whip me into shape however she liked.

“Wait,” I said, excitement and confusion filling me at once. “You’re here here? Like that’s you guys up in the sky above me right now?” “The very same,” Leon said, a whoop of laughter following his words just as a flash of lightning filled the clouds and I caught a glimpse of an enormous silhouette flying in the heavens above.

“How did you know I needed you?” I asked. “We got a tip off from the best Seer in Solaria,” Leon replied. “Really? He saw us escaping?” I asked excitedly. “He knows this will work?” “Err, well no not exactly,” Leon hedged. “His exact words were that there was “a minuscule opportunity for success but that it relied upon us being here at the opportune moment and even then, it absolutely wasn’t guaranteed and was supremely unlikely to work.’ Which all in all sounds pretty fucking positive to me, don’t you think?”

GABE!

My tits bounced with every sharp slam into me and I just hoped that my cousin wasn’t peering down from those rain clouds because I wasn’t able to do anything other than take Sin’s cock and beg for more beneath him.

yeah......

“Okay,” I agreed on a breath, seeing the honesty in his eyes and feeling how much he needed that to be true. “I’ll be yours if you’ll be mine, Sin Wilder.” “It’s too late for that,” he promised. “I’ve been yours since the moment you gave me that pot of pudding.”

“Hell yes. This plan is infallible,” Sin agreed. “So let’s go break out of the impenetrable prison!”

“I’m not coming with you,” I gritted out, because the idea of that was just too much. I couldn’t give up my entire life for a girl who had lied to me and manipulated me for months, no matter how captivated I was by her. But maybe helping her was the key to my own survival, the thing I needed to do to break this curse and save my sorry life. And so long as she ended up safe and away from here, I’d deal with what came after.

Shut up

A tiny shout of, “Geronimo!” sounded as he flew towards her and Sparkle suddenly doubled over, heaving and coughing before straightening and looking around at her herd in disgust. “I think I just swallowed a bug,” she said half a second before her entire body exploded and a mixture of bloody, rainbow-coloured glitter splattered the walls and every single member of her gang.

“I thought you said that guy in Psych was called Nigel,” I hissed at Sin while I ran. “Everyone’s a Nigel if I can’t remember their name, kitten, duh.” “That’s not a thing,” I shot back, making it beyond the agents and racing downstairs even faster than before. “Of course it is. There are no real Nigels, sex pot. That’s just a myth the government want us all to believe. It’s a damn conspiracy and I refuse to buy into it.”

“Ethan,” I hissed. “What?” he grunted. “How cool would it be to fuck Rosalie while she’s invisible?” “Not the time, you idiot,”

“When I get out of here, I’m going to plant a lemon tree and call her Big Bel after my friend who died.” “What friend?” he asked in confusion. “Don’t be ridiculous, shadow man, you know exactly who I mean. We all said goodbye to him.” Stupid shadow man.

“Well maybe I want a victory pudding, did you ever think about that?” I snarled, lunging for it again, but he slapped my hand away, giving me a flat look. “Then you should have brought your own,” he said simply. He had a point. But I could have a point too if I just found a sharp stick and poked him with it.

I tried to catch sight of Rosalie, even though she was invisible, but if anyone could see her it was definitely me. I squinted, trying to use my radioactive squinting powers to find her. Found her. She’s right there by that crack on the wall. Yup. Hey, wild girl. I see you. Oh you like that do you? Wanna take your clothes off for me, sex pot? By the fucking stars, your tits are nice. But this isn’t the time. Oh what are you doing now? Touching yourself for me? Rosalie, you dirty girl, you need to focus. We’re in trouble, baby. Oh fuck it, okay.

“It’s not your fault,” I said. “And even if it was, that’s okay too because sometimes we do bad things even when we don’t mean to. But it wasn’t your fault, wild girl. If anything, it was mine because I got Ethan up and I could have got one of them up instead, but I chose him because he’s Ethan, and…I think I love him a little bit. Not like I love you, but like in a ‘I wanna suck his dick sometimes way’, you know?” “You love me?” she whispered, turning to me with glistening eyes while Ethan looked over at me from beyond her with wide eyes. “I think so,” I said with a frown. “It’s the biggest feeling I’ve ever had, so it must be that. It’s so big I’m surprised it stays in my chest actually.”

sin baby

“And what if I say you do?” We didn’t really have time for this, but I also had to say it now or I wasn’t going to get the chance at all. “What if I want you with me?” “Then you’d be the first person who ever really had.” I pushed up onto my tiptoes and kissed him, my fingers sliding into his hair and my pulse hammering at the thought of this being goodbye. “Come with me,” I whispered against his lips. “I can’t,” he replied roughly though the look in his eyes said he wanted to give me a different answer. I nodded, my chest twisting with the sharp feeling of pain but I held myself there with him for a moment longer. “Remember what I told you about Mount Lupa then. So when you change your mind you can come find me.”

fuck

What an epic day to be alive, man.

LEON BABY

“Didn’t you see them stowing away with your Sight?” I laughed, but Gabe didn’t look pleased. Gabe looked murderous. “I was focusing on the whole breaking out from the most dangerous prison in Solaria thing, Leon,” he gritted out then his eyes fell on the kids. “You two are grounded for the rest of the century.” “Oh don’t be like that, Gabe,” RJ said and I scruffed her hair as I laughed. “Don’t you start that again,” Gabriel warned. “Gabe, Gabe, Gabe!” Luca took up the chant and I joined in. “Don’t you call me Gabe. I’m your-” Gabe’s eyes glazed as he was struck with a vision and RJ looked up at me with mischief in her eyes. “Your mom is gonna kill you,” I said as I grinned at her and Luca tugged on my long blonde mane.

omg babies