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“And you were worried about telling me that? I don’t understand, Derik.” I gripped the edges of the desk.
Derik sighed and stepped back. He pushed his hair back with both his hands, then turned to me. “Lorelai, I turned Ryleigh into a wolf to save her after childbirth. Now she’s my beta. A linked beta with access to everything in my head. She will die to make sure every single want and need I have is fulfilled,” he finally let the shoe drop.
22. The History
LORELAI
A stone sunk in my stomach, and my eyes widened at everything he revealed. I opened my mouth to respond, but I had no idea what to say. The silence grew louder, and I fought through the hectic questions parading in my head.
“You have a link with a woman who is promising to fulfill every want and need?” I clarified.
Derik shook his head quickly.
“No, it’s not like that, I swear. There’s nothing sexual about it. It’s more of a life debt that she will pay for the rest of hers. I saved her life with the bite, with magic. It requires a balance. She will protect me with her life; she will defend me with her life. She will be loyal to a fault. And if there is something I need, she will make every attempt to get it,” Derik said, his voice quick as if he were trying to explain everything before I ran away.
I couldn’t, even if I wanted to. My feet were stuck to the floor as if they were made of lead. I didn’t want to go; I wanted to know more about this connection. Ryleigh and Vaughn were together; anyone with eyes could see they loved each other.
So I wasn’t jealous.
I thought I would be, especially knowing he was linked to another woman, but the feeling never hit me. I was grateful, though.
“D, you should have just told me. Why would I be mad about there being another person, a person I trust, and a wolf now, protecting you? I want you protected. I want all of you protected and safe. If there is someone else willing to put their life on the line for you like I would, then how can I be mad about that?” I asked.
Derik’s eyes widened before he took a step back. He frowned at me, then looked at me as if I were crazy.
I raised a brow back at him.
“What?” I asked, folding my arms back across my chest since he wouldn’t stop staring.
“It’s just…not how you’re meant to react.” He kept staring at me with an odd expression as if I were the one being weird.
It was definitely him.
“And how am I meant to react? Like a crazy jealous girlfriend?” I asked, knowing from his smirk that it was exactly what he expected.
“Not even a little jealous?”
I shook my head. “No. I’m not your girlfriend. I’m your mate. Apparently, it makes a difference. Plus, now that you’ve told me what’s going on and actually let me in, I can feel the connection you have. It’s like the one I used to feel with my brother.
Before the shadows.” I turned into Derik as he pulled me closer.
He kissed my cheek, then nuzzled in against my neck, his teeth grazing the skin.
“The legends, the lores, everything I thought I knew about our world, beautiful, and you are turning it on its head,” Derik breathed on me, then kissed my flesh. A second later, his teeth dug into my neck. I cried out, the pleasure instantly filling me.
“You were so sure I would freak out?” I moaned.
He pulled his teeth back. “History convinced me that would be the case.”
“History? Since when has that given us anything more than a headache?” I scoffed, my fingers curling around the edge of the desk. His venom settled in my core, and I moaned as pleasure made everything disappear from my head.
Derik was good at distracting me from everything but the intensity that swarmed us when we were together.
Derik’s bite was strong now. Like mating all three of us and becoming more a part of himself, his bite had become more potent. His venom spread with more force, more precision.
Kai always had wild venom that filled with a frenzied passion; Brax had a much more fluid approach. His venom always ran with my blood as if it wanted to take every part of me but in the most natural, easy way so the transition from normal to need was as smooth as possible.
Derik was somewhere in between. His venom was instantly intense, but the ride was smooth. It was euphoric for longer.
Derik licked over the bite he had given me, his tongue stroking my flesh so it healed. Then he was kissing me again.
“You don’t mind that I’m linked to another wolf?” He asked between kisses. I met each one.
“Ryleigh and Vaughn are soulmates. So are we. I’m not worried,” I said. I had barely finished my sentences before Derik picked me up and put me on his desk.
He kissed me harshly, lighting my body up so it was more than ready to take his.
His hands yanked at my clothes, tearing my shirt down.
I wrapped my arms around his neck as Derik undid the strings of his pants. I tugged at them, about to pull them down his legs when a knock came at the door.
Derik broke apart from me as we turned to the sound.
“Anetta?” Derik growled.
She didn’t look ashamed. She looked…worn out.
Red stained her cheeks, her hair was ruffled, and her clothes were askew.
“Alpha Derik. Luna,” she huffed.
“What is it?”
“Any chance the witches are on their way to do this magical transformation with the beast? Because we’re not going to be able to hold him for much longer,” she huffed, pushing a stray, frizzing curl back from her face.
I looked up at Derik, who hung his head. Responsibilities, what a cockblock.
I smiled and stood up in front of him, kissing his pout away.
“We’ll sort out the details now, and then I’ll come visit the beast,” I promised.
She nodded once, then left.
“Kai. Brax. Meet us at the council room,” Derik said in the link. They both said nothing, but I felt their agreement in the link. Normally, Kai wouldn’t shut up in the link, and Brax would wind him up. I missed that.
Derik grabbed my hand and led me two doors over to the council room. It was a stone room decorated in war memorabilia and maps. There was a huge table at the forefront with thick wooden chairs surrounding it.
Derik closed the door behind us, going over to the open window. He closed them, then turned to me with a smirk.
I grinned back at him as he sauntered forward. I knew what he was doing before he got there and met him halfway, kissing him with urgent moves of our mouths.
He lifted me onto the council table, kissing me with a feverish passion that didn’t stop when the door clicked open.
I reached for his still undone pants, and he delved his tongue deep inside my mouth.
Strong hands lifted me from the table, but they weren’t Derik’s. They were Brax’s.
He lifted me from behind and put me on his lap as he became the table I sat on while still kissing Derik.
Brax kissed over my neck, reaching around to tug down my shirt. My eyes were closed, but I peered one open to look over at Kai.
He was leaning against the wall, his eyes heated and watching as the other two claimed me.
It made it even hotter.
I sighed as Brax found the nerve behind my ear and exploited it, turning the embers in my body into a blaze. But Anetta was right; we couldn’t hold off much longer.
“Neither can I,” Brax murmured against my skin. I smirked, still moving my mouth against Derik.
Brax’s cock was against my backside, hard and waiting. Derik’s was in front of me, pressing against my stomach as he held my face to his.
As much as I wanted to keep going so I could pretend the outside world didn’t exist, I couldn’t.
I had to do what needed to be done so that what happened to me and Kai with the vampires didn’t happen to anyone else.
Resisting my mates was the hardest thing to do, especially when they were all going through something in their heads. Things they wanted an escape from. I wanted to be that escape for them.
But I also had to be the one to have a clear head. They sure as hell weren’t going to be the ones to stop.
“We have to figure out how to do this transformation thing,” I breathed as Brax left grazes over my neck and Derik interrupted every word with his mouth.
Kai strode over. “You absorb the magic from Adrenna and then remove the curse from the beast, easy.” He shrugged.
It was not that easy.
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