Alpha Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #2)

by Caroline Peckham

As strange as it would probably seem to Cain or anyone else in the place for that matter, I had actually counted the former Heirs as friends of mine. But still.

And it wasn't just some magic trying to force us to be together. I really believed he was my destiny. The moon wouldn't have just mated us because we happened to fuck under it. It knew as well as we both did that we were a perfect match and that this was always inevitable no matter how hard it might be.

"I'll come with you, love,” he said in a rough voice. “I'll dive right into the depths of the Oscura Clan and trust you to make sure I don't fall flat on my face when we get there. It doesn't even matter if I do though. I've tried to go without you, I've tried to deny my own heart, but I can't anymore. I don't want to. The only thing I want is you, love. So if you want me too then why don't we just run off into the fucking sunset and try to forget this place ever existed?"

"The plan is perfect, love. You're perfect. What could possibly go wrong?"

Plunger was gone already, though as I passed my unconscious tattoo artist Alvin with a turd on his face, I had the feeling he was responsible. Only Plunger was that gross.

One had a tattoo over his lips that looked like stitches and another had his eyebrows tattooed together like they were one, for who knew what reason.

A deep and endless ache rose up inside me, only to be filled by him and everything I'd always wished and dreamed he'd be to me. There were so many words passing between us in that kiss, so many moments that we should have shared and were promising to share now. All the things we were always meant to be to one another.

kid, or- "I love you, Rosa. I love you in all the ways I thought I shouldn't and I'm sick of being afraid of that. I'm sick of wanting you and not having you. Of needing you and not owning you. I meant it when I said I wanted to run away to a desert island with you. But I'd stay in Darkmore for the rest of my life if this was the only place where you were too."

"I've been in love with you since I was fourteen years old, Roar," I said, laughing at how fucking stupid that made me sound.

"When I was just a dumb kid who annoyed you and you were this irresistible life-force that drew me in with every single thing you did. I used to look at you and tell myself you'd see me one day, that I'd stop being some silly little girl and maybe you'd look my way and see..." "Everything," he finished for me, leaning in and kissing me again. "I see everything, Rosa. I'm just not sure I deserve that much."

I held a bunch of lemons in my arms. I'd planned on giving some to Rosalie and the rest of The Daring Anacondas, but I hadn't spotted them once the fight had broken out and I knew I needed to act fast. They’d

whacking him again to make sure his lights were firmly out before lifting him by the arms and hurrying to drag him down the corridor, humming The Daring Anacondas theme tune I’d been working on as I went. The sound of more footfalls headed this way and I fell quiet, my humming dying mid-tune.

I continued the theme tune in my head to help me focus. Flash bang! It’s an anaconda in your face. Flash bang! They’re gonna break out from this place. Flash bang! There’s a snake up in the grass. Flash bang! It’s gonna bite ya in the ass.

and swapping my clothes for his. When he lay at my feet with my jumpsuit scrunched up on his chest and a cock drawn on his face from the pen I’d found in his pocket, I shifted into Officer Cain and grinned darkly.

I cupped my ass in my palms, squeezing his muscular buttocks like I’d thought about every time he walked past me with one of his serious scowls. Mmm yeah, Cain worked out and I was here for it.

Rosalie wasn't the only one who lusted after Cain in this place. And I'd had a dirty dream or two about him myself, so taking his form was as easy as taking nuts from a Squirrel Shifter – you just had to slap ‘em a few times and they gave them up. I punched in the number for

Rosalie and I had our own secret language. And she'd clearly wanted more chaos tonight to keep the guards busy. I was more than happy to supply that, especially when she'd asked me to do it so plainly. A no from her was a secret yes to me. And she’d really impressed how much she needed me to do this. Yup, we wouldn’t get out of Darkmore without my help. No siree.

I held my breath as the guards' footsteps stalked away, both thanking and cursing Sin for the chaos he was causing upstairs by setting the fucking Belorian free again. Because I knew that had been him. From the moment I'd heard Cain sounding peppy over the guard’s radio, I'd known exactly who was up there setting the Belorian loose. Mason Cain had never been and never would be peppy a day in his fucking life. I was going to beat the shit out of that motherfucker when I saw him and then kiss the fuck out of him for happening to distract the guard who had almost found me while I hid in the shadows for so freaking long I’d lost count of the time. And that was time we didn’t have to spare. I gave it to the count of thirty then slipped out of

"Argh!” I roared, throwing a furious punch at the fleshy place above its open jaws and I swear it made a noise like ow. The monster shifted above me and I was suddenly lying beneath the widened legs of a very naked, very smug looking Sin.

"Me and Rosalie had a secret plan," he said with a smirk. "No," I snapped. "There was no plan. She told you not to release it."

"Any chance there's time for a victory fuck?" Sin suggested with a hopeful glint in his eye that said it wasn't a complete joke.

going." "Oh, I like the sound of that," Sin said. "I can suck your dick while you eat our girl's pussy and she sucks my dick. It'll be some kind of circle situation...or a triangle I guess...maybe if she's sitting on your face and I'm-"

and Sin took off with what I swear was a monster’s version of a flirtatious giggle as he made it chase him.