Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I checked in on the mating link. It was strengthening by the second. It’d probably take a single bite from one of them to fix that.
But then I felt what Brax meant. The last link. The one connected to my shadows.
“Zale and Enzi,” I whispered.
Brax nodded with a smirk and I realized what that meant. “They’re safe. The witches don’t have them, they were lying.” I grinned.
Brax nodded. I jumped into him, wrapping my arms around him. He spun me, holding me on his waist as he kissed me. It was a full, desperate kiss that had me sighing into him.
They were safe. I couldn’t sense them, but that was the point of them being where they were. And it didn’t matter because I could feel them. Even Alaric, who wasn’t shadow connected. It was like Zale and Enzi were making sure I knew all three of them were okay.
I kissed Brax deeper then crushed him in my arms again. “Let’s go,” he whispered against my ear.
I nodded and got down from him. I turned and Derik had shifted. He lowered himself and I climbed on his back with Brax’s help.
I could shift, but it would mean not being with my magic. I wanted it where I could reach it easily. And I enjoyed being on Derik. Touching him after everything that had happened was soothing. I laid down on his back and closed my eyes.
Brax grabbed everyone’s clothes and tucked them in a ball. I held them between my legs before he handed me his. I couldn’t resist a peek. He grinned then shifted.
Kai came padding over, nuzzling against my leg. ‘I can hear your thoughts so clear in my head, Little Luna, I missed that,’ he said in the link.
‘Stay out of my head,’ I smiled, not really meaning it because I had missed them all in there too. It made my stomach turn when our mating link was numb.
‘I’ll always be there, Little Luna. It’s the perks of being the object of my obsession,’ he said then took off to the front of the pack. And before I could respond, we were running.
In a perfect triangle, Derik, Kai, and Brax on the corners. We raced through the forest towards the human village. It was going to be a long day’s ride but it would be worth it.
Because then we would be together again and when the witches came, we would be ready.
We rode for a long time, at least it was for me. By the time we stopped to take a rest, my legs ached like all hell.
Kai sent off wolves to hunt for food while others shifted, grabbed their clothes from me, and started putting together some shelter.
I looked around the forest, my eyes checking through every tree. But my magic and shadows were both content.
“They’re not following us. Or chasing us,” I said as Derik came to stand next to me. He wrapped his arm around me, and I leaned against him.
I was so tired. It had been a long few days, some of the hardest I had survived. But we had made it and I was hoping that was a good sign.
“I know,” he murmured. “What do you think that means?”
“Honestly?” He asked.
I nodded, “Always.”
He squeezed me tightly, “I think they may be waiting to see where we go.”
I leaned back and looked up at him, “You think they are waiting for us to lead them to the children?” I asked.
Derik nodded. I let that sink in, but damn was it a heavy stone to let go.
I blinked away the tears as my mind tried to think of what to do. I couldn’t lead the witches there. But not being with them was killing me.
“What do we do?” I whispered.
“We go to our children, Beautiful. The realm has helped us ever since we made the plan to go to them, to save them.
When we sent them away, we lost. I think that is what it is trying to tell us. It wants us together,” he said.
And that was why I needed him. He was the rational to my irrational. When my brain was not working, couldn’t see past the emotion, he knew what to do.
He was my rock. I knew I could lean on him no matter what. I curled into him, holding him tight.
I had almost lost him. The memory of how close it had gotten would forever hurt, but now he was okay and I couldn’t thank the witches who had helped enough.
I looked back up at the mountain. I hoped they were okay. And kept their promise.
I had a feeling that the witches weren’t going to take it easy on us now that I had killed one of their own.
“How are you, killer?” Kai came over, smirking as he handed me some cooked meat from the fire that the pack were cooking their catches on.
I didn’t ask what it was; the answer might make it hard to eat, and I was starving. “I prefer Little Luna,” I murmured as I ripped the meat off the bone.
Kai looked on proudly. I smiled at him, and he grinned.
Derik turned us from facing the forest and took me to sit in front of the fire. Kai dragged over a log for us to sit on.
We sat together with the pack, eating silently as we healed our heads and went over everything we had been through.
Being starved for days, kept in cages, thinking we were on our last days. It was something that I knew was going to haunt us for a while.
Beenie sat down next to Kai and laid her head on his shoulder. It wasn’t like her to optionally choose affection. That meant her mate sickness was getting worse.
Kai wrapped his arm around her and held her to him. She tucked her head into his chest, and I wasn’t sure if she was crying or not, so I gave her privacy.
Derik pulled off his shirt and laid it on Beenie. It wasn’t much, but she shook as she pulled it up around her, nodding in thanks.
Then Derik sat on the log and pulled me over so I was on his lap. He ran his fingers over my shoulders and down my body, over my legs. I shivered and leaned back into him.
Brax rested his head on my arm, not eating much. “Brax?” I asked.
“I’m good, Spitfire. Just missing our family,” he said.
I nodded. I got that. I did too.
Derik ran his mouth over my shoulder, tugging down the shirt so he could press a light kiss to my skin there.
“Beautiful,” he whispered. “Can I?” He asked, his canines dropping.
I licked my lips and tilted my head. Now that the link was back, I felt how weak he was after the poison.
The mating link needed it as much as he did.
“Yes,” I breathed a second before he sunk his bite into me.
I let out a moan and gripped his arm as he held me back against him.
The rush was instant.
The mating link shined and my eyes fluttered closed.
The energy pulsed between us, the connection building fast. Derik’s bite turned into a kiss as his toxin sent me on a high.
My thighs pressed together on his lap as his hand splayed over my stomach. He pulled back enough to put his teeth back then kissed up my neck.
“Little Luna,” Kai growled.
I looked around the pack, a little on display with my Alphas but they didn’t care. They were all doing the same, replenishing their energy in the best way wolves knew how.
Sex.
Well, kissing, and making out but I was sure that’s where it was heading.
But then I saw Beenie in Kai’s arm and looked back at Derik.
I flicked my eyes to her.
He winced and nodded, placing my sleeve back on my shoulder.
It was enough for now.
Brax stole me then, pulling me to him, kissing me softly.
But I warned him in the link not to push it too far.
New Book: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel
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