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Brax’s lips went to my ear. “Spitfire. I’m going to pull you back, okay? You’re close to siphoning Kai, but he’s too far gone to stop it,” he whispered, and my eyes flung open.
I tried to yank back our connection, but he snarled and thrust harder. I sucked in a breath, a small moan escaping. I didn’t want to stop, it felt so damn good.
“Can’t I stay?” I breathed back.
Brax chuckled breathily. “No, there’s no blood moon to keep you alive through the climax of being connected. Or my shadows to fight back.”
“We already did it, I’m okay, Brax,” I pleaded, but his grip tightened on me.
“You’ll hurt him, Spitfire. Your body will take what it needs to stay alive, and it will siphon him,” he explained, and I shuddered, fighting the want in me.
It didn’t help that Kai had the stamina of the devil and used it well.
“Okay,” I breathed, and he kissed my cheek.
“I’m going to pull you off, and I’m going to have to throw you a little. You have to be far enough away that I can fight him back before he gets back to you. Run to Derik, okay? Use your shadows to find him,” Brax breathed, and I tensed, the wrong thing to do because it had my body pulsing with pleasure.
My eyes fluttered closed and I tried to get ready, but I so badly wanted to stay. “Are you sure I have to go?”
“Get ready, Lori,” he said, and I steeled myself.
And then he was launching me through the air, to the far end of the ballroom.
Something, his magic maybe, helped me land, and then there was a howl that pierced my eardrums. I covered them and spun back to see Kai lower himself into a hunting crouch.
“Lori! I told you to run!” Brax growled, his fangs extended, his eyes pooling with red.
I turned and ran to the door, turning back to see Kai running for me as Brax slammed into him, holding him back. Kai tried to gnash his teeth at him, his eyes only on me.
He fought against Brax, finally nipping the flesh. Brax growled, the bleeding wound healing as Kai howled again, his body growing.
I stared, my heart racing as I watched my alpha turn into the beast beneath his skin. His chest grew wide before his body changed into a wolf. A huge wolf in black with red eyes that narrowed on me.
Brax cursed under his breath. “Lori, for fuck’s sakes, run!” he roared, and this time, I listened.
23. The Control
I ran through the halls, my dress slightly torn, stained with the blood from the claw marks on my body, the top falling off my shoulder.
I tried to use my shadows to find Derik, but every time I tuned into them, I found Kai again.
He was still fighting Brax. Not that I needed the shadows to tell me that. I could hear them with my human hearing. It would be hard for anyone not to. The roars and growls shook the estate.
I shook my head, my heart racing as I tried to keep my shadows away from Kai, pleading with them to find Derik. Or my suite. I had to find one or the other before Kai found me.
Although I wondered what would happen if he did. Would I be able to take him? He would take me for sure, but maybe I could handle more than what Brax thought? I had no idea, and I wasn’t going to test it today.
Not when Derik had already lost control too.
I ran, trying to keep my shadows on task, when I slammed into an invisible force, falling back on my ass. I looked up, breathing hard, but there was nothing there.
“You’ll always be running if you don’t say yes. They’ll catch you, tear you apart.
Your brother knew that. Knew the wolves and what they were capable of. Knew the humans had no chance.”
It was a whisper near my ear, an echo that I couldn’t find the source to, but it was only ever one thing. Those nasty shadows that were trying to corrupt me.
They had a point though; I was running, and I hated that it put doubt in my heart.
Would I always be running? I didn’t want to be.
Five years down the road, would I still be running away from them because they lost control? Or would I have tamed them enough?
“Just leave me alone,” I hissed at the shadows, and they gave me that eerie chuckle.
“You will say yes, winter born. They all do.”
I shook off the voice, remembering Brax’s warning not to react to them, not to interact with them.
I gritted my teeth and concentrated, finding my own shadows deep in me and using them to find Derik. He was wearing a deep frown and heading toward me.
I ran.
I found him three corridors away and ran into him. He stumbled back, catching me and tucking me into his grasp.
“Fucking Kai,” he breathed, then pulled me back and looked over my face.
“Brax is with him.”
“I heard. Are you okay? Did he hurt you?”
I shook my head, but he frowned and pushed me further away from him, holding me at arm’s length to roam his gaze over my body. The V in his brow deepened as he stepped forward.
His thumb touched my bruised, bleeding hips, and I sucked in a breath. It hadn’t hurt. It still didn’t, but he cursed under his breath and yanked me with him.
He pushed me through a door that looked just like all the others–heavy and wooden–into a bathroom in the next corridor.
It was huge, with a clawfoot tub in the center and a wooden vanity along the wall.
There were double sinks, and he lifted me between them. Then he tore my dress and undergarments to shreds, exposing my body to him.
I shivered at the cold that hit, but he pushed my arms away when I tried to wrap them around myself. He checked my hips and the sting had me blinking hard, clenching my jaw against the accompanying ache.
It looked worse than it felt though.
Claw marks had torn the skin, blood dried and smeared over the bruises that discolored my skin. More claw marks on my thighs, bruises over my ribs where they had held me, leveraged me to thrust inside me.
It was worth it.
“I’m okay, Derik,” I said quietly, but he shook his head.
“We need to be more careful with you. It’s hard to remember you are still human when we are with you like that. Our magic feeds off the connection between us, and it can be a powerful feeling,” he admitted, like he was ashamed.
I hated hearing that in his voice, so I reached up and put my hand against his cheek. “I can take it. I may be human, but I am not fragile. I enjoy you, all three of you.”
“You are fragile to us, beautiful,” he said, then grabbed some things out of the drawer to clean me up.
He had just finished clearing my claw marks of blood when Kai burst in, his fangs bared, his eyes red, his claws dripping blood. I gasped as Derik growled in warning, standing in front of me.
“Where’s Brax?” I whispered, but Kai snarled.
He was terrifying; I was human enough to know that. He was in predator mode, beast mode. His wolf was huge, black, and on its hind legs.
Derik shivered, stepping forward with another warning growl. “Don’t talk, beautiful.”
I pursed my lips and met Kai’s eyes. And then I did what I shouldn’t. I channeled him.
I sucked in a breath as my shadows found him. He was desperate, panicky, needing my touch. It was a powerful, almost toxic kind of feeling that made me instantly drunk on the desire.
I slipped from the vanity and walked toward him.
Derik went to pull me back, but I smacked his hand away.
“I can get through to him,” I promised, and pushed my own emotions back through the connection.
Calm, affection, desire, and comfort pulsed through me to him, but I wasn’t sure if I was doing it right until I saw the sliver of green in his eyes trying to push through.
I smiled and went into his arms. The hair of his beast was softer than it looked, and I nuzzled against his chest.
Derik’s tension was there, warning me that I was in trouble, but I didn’t care because in the next second, Kai shifted back, his hot, bare chest beneath me, panting hard.
His arms tightened around me as he held me. I sighed and clutched him back. Then he lifted my chin to look at him and kissed me hard. I melted into the kiss, pulling back my connection so the feelings didn’t overwhelm us again.
Brax burst into the bathroom then, pushing Kai into me. I stumbled back, and Derik caught me.
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