Alpha Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #2)

by Caroline Peckham

I raced forward with a yell as I spotted my opportunity to take him out and I could feel Ethan running behind me too. Fuck fighting Fae on Fae. This stronzo was too much of a coward to come at me with my magic intact so I'd come at him with my men at my back and show him exactly who he was fucking with.

MY MEN!

Sin suddenly materialised behind him, locking a thick arm around Nixon's neck and immobilising him a moment before I drove the screwdriver into his chest. I screamed as I stabbed him over and over, blood flying and my complete fury at this monster filling me for a few moments of utter bloodlust which seemed to consume me entirely.

YES!

Sin laughed loudly, shifting his grip on Nixon and ripping the screwdriver from his chest before using his fire magic to melt the metal and reform it into a blade. Nixon screamed a moment before Sin swiped the blade across his throat and blood sprayed everywhere as Sin dropped him to the ground between us.

Damn

"Just a quick hand job then?" Sin whispered and I laughed, slapping his chest to tell him off. "I think this is the part where we run," I reminded him and he groaned like a kid who had just been told he couldn't have candy for breakfast. "Alright then. Let's get the fuck out of here."

he doesnt know how to be serious either

"Oh bless my balls," Plunger breathed, sounding fearful and my pulse quickened. "What is it?" I demanded. A noise like an explosion ripped through the tunnel behind me and I swung my head around as dirt was thrown over me. Beyond Gustard, a huge, slithering, snake-like body was slicing through our tunnel, tearing its own path through the middle of us with its gaping, toothy mouth wide. A shout of fear got lodged in my throat as I took in the monstrous creature and suddenly realised the wetness coating my skin wasn't dirt. It was blood.

WTF is that!!!

pushed myself up to my knees with a grunt, the pain in my arm from the curse mark ebbing away, but still needling at me. It felt different this time though, like it was urging me to move.

to go to your girl! dont be a dick!

Subject for Project OTIF 12: Rosalie Oscura I frowned, knowing I had no time to dwell on this, but I didn't like seeing Rosalie's name on that note. At the bottom were scribbled words that made my gut clench. Transference is in the final stage of testing. Strong host needed.

Wtf???!

"I'm good with that so long as you're watching, wild girl," Sin purred and I bit my lip on a laugh, not minding that idea one bit. "Keep dreaming," Ethan growled. "You'll be the one sucking my cock in that situation. I'm top dog in this little three way we have 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-"

is now the time?

"You were always planning this, weren't you?" Cain demanded, his gaze fixed on me and filled with betrayal. "Every time we were down on the maintenance level. Every time you were whispering things in my ear and trying to get me to tell you about the way this place was run-" "Of course she was playing you, you fucking idiot," Ethan growled. "What else did you think it was? You can’t have seriously thought she liked you?"

AHHHH! Ethan shut the fuck up!!!

"Those things ate Ronaldo," Gustard cursed. "You and your mutt whore have led me to my death." He lunged at me, throwing a punch into my gut and I growled, shoving him back a step just as a loud tremor sounded close by.

YOU WERENT EVEN INVITED BITCH

The worm suddenly released a grumbling noise and lunged for Gustard. The bastard grabbed his own man, swinging him around in front of him and the worm devoured him with a sucking, slurping sound, the guy still screaming from inside it as I fled with Claud on my heels.

OMG! why cant Gustard die???

had to return to Rosa. I'd bared my heart to her. And I would not leave this world until I’d claimed her as mine.

DAMN right!

The tunnel curved sharply to the left and Claud suddenly turned around and pushed me back, making me slip on the damp mud beneath my feet, my ass hitting the ground. A worm lunged at him from behind, its monstrous mouth closing around his legs. He screamed wildly and I shouted out in horror, diving forward and catching hold of his hand, dropping the shank in my desperation to save him.

NO! OMG!!

“No!” I roared. He’d been the only person I truly trusted in this place since I’d arrived. He had a family waiting for him beyond Darkmore, a life. Fuck. No no no.

I want to kill something

"We need Sin," I said firmly. "Jerome will kill us and everyone we love if we leave here without him." Not that that was the only reason I was determined to get the Incubus out of here with us anymore, but it was the simplest way to make it clear to Ethan that this wasn't up for any kind of discussion.

I fell still as I spotted the Belorian by the door with Sin racing away from it, casting a halo of fire in place above his head to lure it his way. "What the hell is he doing?" I demanded. "I'd guess he's drawing it away from you, love. You have a way of making crazy motherfuckers like you."

god doesnt she

"Just let us go," I begged, not because I thought he could stop me but because I really didn't want to have to hurt him. "Why the fuck would I do that? You played me, used me, fucked me like a whore and were going to run off into the night without ever even thinking of me again,” he snarled furiously. "That's not true," I growled. "I told you where you could find me. I wanted you to come to Mount Lupa."

you were supposed to be better than this mason! i was rooting for you!

"It wasn't a lie," I said in rough voice, making him pause just long enough for me to lean forward and press my lips to his, letting him taste the truth of those words and all of the confusing, fucked up things I shouldn't have been feeling for him in the movement of my mouth against his. His hands tightened around my waist as he pushed me back into the wall, growling as he kissed me and a single tear spilled from my eye, racing down my cheek and falling against his jaw. Cain pulled back as he felt it, frowning at me in confusion before he tried to lift his hand to touch me and realised he couldn't. The vines I'd coiled around his hands were tight and impenetrable. They immobilised each of his fingers and locked his magic down, rendering it useless.

ok well thats not helping rosa

"Bitch!" Cain roared in my face, his features written in heartbreak and betrayal. "I just want to be free," I replied, another tear slipping down my cheek. "I didn't mean for us to happen. But I'm not sad that it did."

ugh!

"No," I commanded, stepping into his path. "If you hurt him, Sin Wilder, I'll kill you." Sin's lips parted in shock then turned into a pout just as fast. "I know you wanna bang him, wild girl, but that bastard will hunt us to the ends of the earth if we leave him alive." I raised my chin, glaring at him as I warned him to back down. "Maybe I like the hunt."

dont fuck with her men

"You'll never get out of here!" he shouted just as I dropped down to crawl into the hole behind the bookshelf. "Just watch us, asshole," Ethan called back dismissively. "I mean it," Cain snarled. "We switched on the new bioweapon today. There’s a magical forcefield beneath the ground surrounding the entire prison. If you pass through it, you're dead." "What?" I gasped, whipping back around with my heart in my throat and I stared at him. "What kind of bioweapon?"

ROARY!

"The man I love is in that tunnel," I snarled with a fear coursing through me unlike anything I'd ever known before. "So you're going to tell me what the fuck you're talking about or I'll tear the truth right out of you with my bare hands." Cain glared at me with his lip pulling back, looking like that declaration had hurt him more than my punch had. "Love? Aren’t there enough men here between the three of us for you? What other poor fucker have you tricked into falling for your lies? If this is what it feels like to be loved by you then I feel sorry for him, because you’re nothing but a selfish, manipulative liar. I don’t believe you’re even capable of feeling anything close to love for anyone other than yourself."

ouch! ok fuck off mason!

"Where's Roary?" I demanded, fear unlike anything I’d ever felt before taking me captive as I advanced on them and the three of them shook their heads hopelessly. "Everyone's dead," Sonny choked out. "Those things ate them." "They ate them!" Esme shrieked again, clutching her tits as she backed up further like she was afraid for their safety. “No,” I hissed, because it wasn’t true. It wasn’t. Roary wasn’t dead. There wasn’t any way that fate would be that fucking cruel as to steal him from me after everything I’d already suffered through in my life. After everything he’d suffered through. I wouldn’t believe it. I couldn’t. If I even entertained the idea, I was going to fracture into a thousand pieces and wither away into nothing at all.

fkj sa;jf

"Where's Roary?" I demanded and Gustard laughed bitterly. "Dead. Along with everyone else. Thanks to you and your bullshit plan." He lunged at me in fury, but Ethan swung at him before he even got close, his fist colliding with Gustard’s cheek and knocking him back on his ass. “No,” I refused again in a furious growl because it wasn’t true. I wouldn’t let it be true. If Roary was dead then I would be as well. My heart had belonged to him for so long that there was simply no chance that it could still be beating if it wasn’t doing so for him.

kill him! kill him now!

"No," I gasped, lunging to my feet as Ethan grabbed my arm and pulled me back with a hard jerk. Tears streamed down my cheeks as the reality of what I'd just done crashed into me and I realised that Roary was gone. "It's too late, love," Ethan growled as I fought against him, kicking and screaming as I refused to accept that my Lion wasn't coming back to me.

i will burn all these books to the ground

Ethan released me as he sucked in a surprised gasp and I launched myself at Roary with a howl of relief as I leapt on him, wrapping my arms and legs around him and squeezing him so tight that I was in danger of breaking bones. "I thought I lost you," I gasped, gripping his face between my hands and kissing him hard and demandingly as he tugged me close. My entire body was trembling with grief and relief and fear, but he held me tight enough that it couldn’t consume me. "It's a lot harder than that to kill me, little pup," he teased as he knocked his forehead against mine and I couldn't even find it in me to chew him out for calling me a pup because he was right here where he belonged and my heart was pounding in relief at having him close again and I was painting the lines of his face with my fingers as I made certain that he was okay.

MY BABY!

Cain’s gaze roamed over my face and the hatred eased from his eyes, giving me a glimpse of the hurt living in him. I’d ripped his heart out and there was a time I wouldn’t have cared about that. But now it hurt as fiercely as if I’d ripped my own heart out too.

ok well mason what did you expect?! what did you expect Rosa??!

Heeeeey guys, how was that? You okay? The end got a bit intense there didn’t it? Don’t worry though, we would never kill Roary…in book 2. That’s more of an end of series death, don’t you think? Not that we are saying we would do that of course, but never say never, am I right? Are you crying over Claud? Maybe wondering if you remember him from book 1 or not? It did kinda suck for him though, gotta be a pretty awful death to be gobbled up by tooth worms I reckon.

I love you both but I don't have to like you right now.