Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
“What game is this?”
“We’re going to play with your shadows.” Brax smirked, and I raised a brow.
“The good ones?”
“Only ever the good ones, Spitfire.”
“How are we going to play with them?” I asked as Derik and Kai came over.
“We’re going to see exactly what you can do and how strong they are when you actively try to use them,” Derik explained.
It was a good idea, but it had my stomach twisting a little. I hadn’t even known I had them until the blood moon, and I had never tried to use them before, so I had no idea what I was meant to do.
“Okay, how?”
“Sit down,” Brax said, and I sank into one of the chairs, waiting for my next instructions. Brax sat in the chair opposite me.
“We’re going to play hide-and-seek.” Kai grinned. “But you’re going to find us using your shadows.”
“I thought I wasn’t allowed around the estate?” I asked, exposing the flaw in their plan. I was starting to prefer my game idea much more than theirs.
“First of all, that was only until the wolves knew about you, now they do. And secondly, you won’t be leaving this room. You’re going to let your shadows find us and tell you where we are.”
Derik smirked, and I blew out a tight breath. That was a lot to ask considering I’d never used them before, but I wanted the same answers they did.
And if I could manage something like that? I’d be able to find them whenever I wanted. That sounded fun.
I smiled at the idea, and Kai laughed a booming laugh.
“Told you she’d like the idea.” He winked at me, and I blushed a little at how well he had guessed my thoughts.
“So, how do we do this?”
Brax grabbed my hands and turned me to face him.
“Go hide, boys, I need our little winter born to concentrate on something other than our dicks for a bit,” he teased, and I poked my tongue out at him.
Childish, I know, but it made him grin before kissing me, tugging at that tongue of mine with a suck that made me melt into him. I wrapped my arms around him, kissing him back, leaving my seat to climb on his lap.
“Yeah, that’s how to make her concentrate,” Derik said in a sarcastic tone, and I knew he was rolling his eyes.
Brax chuckled and pulled back, lifting me off him and putting me back on my chair.
Kai put his hands on my shoulders and tugged at my ear with his teeth.
“Stay, human. Be patient,” he said, then kissed me and strode from the room.
Derik did the same, and I turned to Brax. “You really think I can use my shadows to find them even though I’ve never seen the estate in full and I’ve never used my shadows intentionally before?”
“But you have channeled before.”
“I thought you said no more channeling?”
“During sex,” he corrected, and I had known that, I was just procrastinating because I was scared to start using a power within me that I didn’t understand.
I had no idea what was going to happen when I started to, and the story about Elias, the other winter born, had been kind of off-putting to the whole magic side of things.
But I had to trust the alphas. They said as long as I kept my shadows pure and didn’t let the others in, I would be fine. But my brother had said not to trust the wolves.
I had no idea what to think or do.
“Stop overthinking. You’ll stress out if you do that, and it’ll make it harder to channel,” Brax said, and I shook out my limbs, trying to loosen up.
“I don’t know if I want to use the shadows yet.”
“Look, the shadows within you are nothing to be afraid of. They actually help you, probably more than you realize. You have loyals, which are like guardian angels in human terms.
“When you get a sense of an emotion someone else is feeling or an instinct that something isn’t right, they’ll ‘whisper’ to you”–he raised his hands in quotation marks–“but it just means they are the ones telling you those things, letting your human mind and body feel what it needs to.
“For example, you’ll feel when someone is lying to you, you’ll feel when their intentions are bad, and if you’re powerful enough, you should be able to use them to channel at a distance, which is what we’re going to try today,” he said.
I nodded, hoping I could do what he was saying.
I kind of liked the idea of just leaving them alone inside me and keeping things the way they were, but I only had until the next full moon to come up with some way to tell the bad shadows to fuck off so they didn’t take it out on my brother.
“How do I do it then?”
“I’ve never taught anyone to do this before, definitely not a human. I’m not sure how anything works in you.
“Since I have magic to help mine but you don’t have anything but shadows in you, this is going to be me learning as I go too,” he explained, and it gave me no confidence whatsoever.
But then again, I sucked at learning anything. My lessons in the village had not gone well. I had an easier time just doing the thing I needed to learn rather than getting told about it, so I gave a hefty sigh and looked at Brax.
“So I just channel? Then I should find them?” I asked impatiently, and he smirked with a little nod.
“That’s where I was going to start, since you already managed that.”
“Cool,” I said, then closed my eyes and thought of the other times I had channeled.
I hadn’t exactly tried, but I remembered thinking of the connection, so I did the same thing.
I felt Brax straight away. His shadows were there, reaching out, inviting me in. I clutched his hands tighter and sucked in a breath, my stomach tightening as his shadows met mine.
I felt when his touched mine, like a whisper dancing across my skin. It was so intimate and warm, the way my eyes were closed, we were barely touching and yet I could feel him so damn strongly.
His scent of rain filled my nostrils, the taste of him on my tongue. I remembered his touch, his kiss on my lips, his body filling mine. It was all right there, taking over my mind the further I explored him with my shadows.
“Wow,” he breathed, and I smiled.
“I feel it too,” I whispered back.
“I didn’t know it could be so…intense,” he admitted, and I fidgeted in my seat as the heat pooled in my abdomen, making my breaths harsh and my throat tight.
“I can feel you touching me. I can smell you, taste you,” I explained, and his shadows spread over more of me, filling my body with a hot weight that had me desperate.
“Let go of my hands, hold the connection,” he breathed, like he was just as tense with desire.
It was suffocating. The longer the connection went, the more intense it became. I pulled my hands back from his, but it didn’t change a thing. I still wanted to find him and fuck him just as much as before.
My shadows twined with his, caressing everything inside me as they danced like they were their own entity. It was the strangest thing; I couldn’t see them together, and yet I felt them joined in every part of me.
And then it got stronger.
The power from his body trickled from his shadows, where mine found it and I took it. I couldn’t help it; it was like a shining light within me that I had to have.
My body soaked up the leaking magic from him until he ripped the connection away. My eyes flung open and I stared at him, my heart racing, my body buzzing.
He was leaning over his chair, breathing hard. “End of game,” he snarled, gripping his head as he clenched his eyes shut.
I frowned, the hostility biting into my armor, hurting more than I wanted it to.
“What was that?”
“You went from channeling to siphoning. Don’t,” he huffed, then sat straighter in his chair, his face pale as he swallowed, then blew out a breath.
“I didn’t know. Sorry,” I said, not exactly sure what he meant but sorry for whatever it was.
He narrowed his eyes on me. “You sure you didn’t mean to?” he challenged, and I frowned at the accusation in his voice.
“I’m sure. You have shadows, check if I’m lying,” I snapped back, annoyed that he thought I had done it on purpose. Especially after the intensity of the connection.
I had thought it had been something, but obviously not if he was questioning me.
He tilted his head to the side and his eyes went pale before he nodded once. I felt him dig for the lie, but he wouldn’t find one.
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