Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I swallowed and quickly yanked myself back from the link, refusing to let him in so he couldn’t feel me anymore.
“How did you get out last time?” I asked, and he grimaced.
“Not something we should talk about right now.”
“Kind of seems like the perfect time, Kai, since we could use it again. I don’t care what you had to do to get out. I know you did what you had to, but maybe we could get out doing the same–“
“I fucked a vamp,” he interrupted, his voice sour, as I sucked in a breath. The cold stone of that truth sunk inside me, and I held my tongue. I didn’t want to be jealous or to change my mind about caring, but the mating bond went crazy and turned my intentions to mush. There was no way we were using that again. He wasn’t touching one of them unless it was to rip their heads off.
“I–I don’t know what to say,” I admitted through a tight voice.
“I seduced her. She came in every day to give me my food, and I got to her. Made her want me. It took a while, and I had to wear her down every day from the hatred of the hive mind. But once she made the decision to fuck me, I knew it, and I exploited that. I promised her the pleasure a vamp could never give, and then I gave it to her. She fucked me but kept me chained. She did that every day for a week before I finally convinced her to let me out of a single cuff. Then I broke her neck and left. I saw them haul her ass out once she had healed, and they killed her for it. I wasn’t even sorry. I got out, and that’s all I wanted from her,” he admitted, as if he were trying to get me to be angry and repulsed.
But I wasn’t. Just jealous. And intrigued.
“What was it like? Sleeping with a vampire?”
He shrugged.
“It’s sex; it was enjoyable. But it was a means to an end. I fucked her to get out, not because I wanted to.”
“But you didn’t hate it?”
He shook his head.
“No. But not because I liked it. I just didn’t feel anything at that point. I was empty of anything but rage, so all she got from me was the mask, the facade I made her see to get what I wanted,” he explained.
Logically, I understood that, and I was glad he had gotten out. But it was hard to swallow that he had been with one of them. Because they were who they were, and Silas getting anything from my alphas pissed me off.
“I’m glad you got out,” I said, and I felt his eyes on me, but I didn’t meet his gaze. I didn’t want him to see the pity that was there. I knew he wouldn’t want it, and I couldn’t school it from my expression yet.
“You’re not pissed?” he asked, but I heard the disbelief in his voice and shook my head.
“No. At least I don’t think so. I know you did what you had to do; I know it was logically the only way out. But I can’t help being jealous of anyone that got to touch you before. The mating bond is kind of deprived right now and is reminding me of that,” I replied, leaning against the wall, my body aching from being hung up for so damn long.
My legs were throbbing from not being able to rest, and my eyes were heavy. But it was just another day in paradise at that point.
“I don’t remember them, Little Luna. They were just moments in time, but you?
You’re every moment for the rest of our lives. However short that may be,” he sighed and leaned back too, his eyes slowly closing.
“Do you think we’ll get out of here then? Because we’re useless here.”
“Nah, we’re keeping Silas busy.” Kai smirked, and I had to agree with that. He was a little obsessive, and having us both there to play with seemed to be keeping him occupied enough to leave the pack alone. Until he had announced phase three. That made me uneasy.
“I had a dream.”
“Same. You were beneath me, screaming my name as I fucked you. The warmth of the sun was coming through the suite, winter was over, and you looked all flushed and stunning in the glow.” He grinned, his eyes still closed as he remembered.
His dream was much better than mine.
“I like that dream.”
“Oh, you loved it,” he said, and I laughed, wincing as it radiated against my bruised ribs.
“I didn’t love mine.” I sobered, and he did too.
“We escaped. But then I woke up back here.”
“How’d we escape?” he demanded, and I told him about the bed leg and the guard.
He raised a brow and looked over to the cot bed in the corner.
“You’ve had visions before,” he whispered, and I shrugged.
“Yeah, but I knew when it was a vision.”
“Maybe this time it was given to you a different way because it can’t get through the cuffs?”
I shrugged, too tired to think about it yet. I couldn’t handle getting my hopes up before I had prepared my brain for the failure. Because in my dream, I had woken up, and we had not gotten out at all. If it was a vision, that could mean anything, like we got caught, killed, or never made it out of the castle.
“I would rather your dream be the vision.” I grinned, and he laughed breathily.
“Me too, Little Luna. Now sleep; it’s going to get colder, and we won’t be able to sleep,” he warned, and I frowned. I wasn’t cold at all. I was warm, almost hot. I eyed him with my furrowed brow, and he met my confused look.
“You’re cold?” I asked, and he nodded.
“It’s freezing in here,” he said, and that’s when I noticed the blue lips and skin that was much paler than normal. I didn’t feel it, which had my heart racing harder.
His chest aching, his heart rate, the cold he felt but I didn’t, all things that did not go well in a human, which he essentially was thanks to the cuffs that kept his wolf from heating him up or healing him.
“Fuck,” I whispered, and he shook his head.
“Don’t let it get in your head. I’ve been through worse, Little Luna. Just get some rest,” he said, then started bringing his knees up, keeping himself moving to warm up.
I grimaced and wanted to fight him, fear trickling into my soul, but my brain heard sleep and was already trying to switch off. It took all of a few seconds before I lost the fight with it and fell asleep.
16. The Release
LORELAI
I woke up sweating. I was so damn hot. And sticky.
Howls resounded in my ears, and I snapped awake, a low growl coming from next to me. Sweat dripped down my body, and my skin felt too tight. I shifted on my aching legs, picking myself back up from my nap, but it didn’t help.
“Spitfire,” Brax bit out in my head, and I gasped, trying to close the link, but it wouldn’t shut. I was so disoriented as I took in everything: the link open, Brax and Derik in my head again, Kai growling and howling. But it wasn’t just his howl; I could hear the pack.
I shivered as a tingle ran through my blood, a sensation accompanying it.
That sensation settled between my legs, and I moaned as my core caught fire.
“The heat,” I gasped, my blood turning to fire in my veins.
“Beautiful. We’ve got to get you out of there,” Derik said strainingly down the link, and I whimpered as his voice pierced my body, caressing it. The heat flared inside me, searing my body like meat on the pit.
“I can’t,” I breathed, trying to handle it, but it was so intense.
I could feel my mates, their need, their desperation. Then there was the pack that I couldn’t quite get to, a filmy gauze keeping them blocked in my mind. But it was enough to have me whining again, needing to help them sate the hunger in them too.
“Little Luna. I am not going to be in control for much longer,” Kai shook from next to me, his fists clenched as his voice deepened. He was covered in sweat, his blue lips gone, his eyes wild with the heat.
“I’m going to get you out,” Brax panted out, and I wished I was there to steady him, his voice shaking.
“How?” I cried as the pressure built inside me to the point of pain. I wanted my mates; I needed them. “Fuck,” I cursed, trying not to lash out, to lose my mind.
I wanted to say yes; my body was urging me to. It was begging me to do whatever it needed to get out of the cuffs and find our mates’ bodies to succumb to.
“My shadows. I’ve been working with Zale and Enzi, their shadows. We’re going to send them to you, okay? They’ll get you out of the cuffs, then all you have to do is get back here,” Brax explained, and I nodded.
“Anything, I’ll do anything, please,” I said, the heat in my stomach boiling, spitting its venom through me, tainting me with this desire that suffocated everything else.
“I thought mates weren’t meant to feel it as potently!” I cried out as the pain almost split me in two.
“You’re a werewolf now. That’s how we feel it, and you are with the alphas. All of us. I’m sorry, Little Luna, I didn’t know how bad it was going to be on the first heat after turning,” he said, his voice pained as he fought back the urge to do whatever it took, like I wanted to.
So fucking bad. But I had to be stronger than that; if I gave in now, then Silas won.
No matter what else happened, I had to cement that in my mind.
“It fucking burns,” I bit out, needing to say it out loud so my very soul wasn’t absorbing it all on its own.
“We’re coming, Spitfire, just hold on,” Brax said, his voice so strained, and I knew it was taking everything he had not to lose control, to become a violent monster worthy of the savage stories we were told as humans.
But he held on, and I felt his shadows. They moved, but they were moving away from the link. They were moving from Brax, entwining with the twins, and coming for me. For us. I turned to Kai, his own eyes filled with the pain and heat that was breaking us both.
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