Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I had no idea how he was still able to fuck–let alone cum–but I was past trying to get answers about werewolves. They were an enigma, but they were mine, and that’s all I cared about.
“You are my mate. I don’t care whether we wear a brand or not, our brand is in here.” He pushed on my chest, and I grinned, kissing him again as he entered me, fucking me until I needed another shower.
When I finally made it out of the bathroom, Tabitha was sitting with a healed Cain and Derik, sipping tea with a knowing smile. Brax was waiting by the door, arms across his body as he leaned against the wall, just waiting to go.
“The fates have blessed your link. Congratulations,” Tabitha said, but her look told me she had assumed that from the beginning.
“The fates have nothing to do with this,” Brax said bitterly.
Tabitha ignored him and sipped her tea before putting her cup down. “Just in time too.”
She sighed, and I sat down on Derik’s lap, the other seat claimed by Kai.
Derik frowned and put his cup down. “Just in time?” he asked.
Tabitha nodded. “The Summit Council is ready for you. Best make your way up there as soon as you have eaten,” she said, and stood slowly, going to the oven and pulling out a roast that I hadn’t even smelled cooking.
“The vampires?” Derik asked.
She shrugged. “They have been made aware. They have begun the trek also.”
“The trek?” I asked, and she nodded, dishing everyone full plates of food, which I was grateful for.
My stomach rumbled, starving for something other than cock filling it. Kai chuckled at that and I blushed, forgetting they could hear my thoughts.
Even Derik cracked a smirk.
“It’s a summit, deary. You must climb. Like I said, nothing is free,” Tabitha explained, and I gulped.
Pretty sure they all heard it.
“I’ve never been mountain climbing before. I’m from the Grasslands, it’s all flat.” I half laughed; it was that or cry.
“It’ll be freezing, but your wolves will have their magic until the top level. There are three, and the elements will test your ability–and your worthiness–to be on the Summit,” she said, and I rolled my eyes.
“What is it with all the tests?” I whined, and Tabitha grinned, putting our plates in front of us before sitting down herself.
She left Brax’s plate empty, but I knew why. Brax wouldn’t eat it; he wouldn’t trust Tabitha to serve him.
I looked over at him and he nodded, letting me know I had guessed correctly, but really, I hadn’t guessed; the link had given me the instinct.
I got off Derik and went to the food, serving a plate for Brax and taking it over. He smirked and gave me a kiss before heading outside to eat.
I smiled after him, then went back to Derik’s lap. He kissed my cheek and started feeding me.
It was weird, and I wasn’t used to it, but I was content with it. Like his happiness was mine and the happiness he got from feeding me filled me, making it impossible to turn my head away.
This link was going to take some getting used to.
“The councils of the vampires and werewolves will meet, overseen by the witches who maintain the balance. Such a meeting has not happened in a long time. A test is required or the witches will not show and the meeting will not be allowed to happen.”
“How can they stop it?” I asked, not sure if I was scared of the witches or not.
I wanted to be, but Derik was reassuring me without actually talking to me, like he knew them and they could be trusted.
“They will make it impossible for you to make it to the Summit. If your intentions are pure, you will reach your destination. If they are not, the elements will overwhelm your journey.”
She shrugged like it was fair, and maybe it was, but it was still scary.
“Don’t worry. We are linked now, you can draw on us to survive,” Derik whispered in my ear.
I nodded but wasn’t sure. “And the whole freezing to death?” I asked.
He grinned. “We’ll keep you warm,” he said, and my mind went to where his was, pictures of us fucking in his head.
I licked my lips, holding the bottom one between my teeth to hide my smirk but failing miserably.
“The rest of the council members are staying to keep an eye on the city and the villages. They are not going in case the other winter born uses the opportunity to attack,” Cain informed us.
The wolves nodded as if they were already aware of the precautions, but I didn’t know what they were talking about.
“I thought the link let us share everything?” I asked, not sure how I had missed plans for in case my brother goes homicidal again.
Derik smiled as Kai laughed through wolfing his food down.
“Not with the pack. That’s a separate link. Since you’re not a werewolf, we can’t share that with you.”
“Huh,” I said, imagining a Y intersection in my mind that I assumed was being put there by one of the wolves.
It was interesting though. I had just thought it was going to be an open connection, and I was a little annoyed that I had no private space in my mind from them but they could hide things from me.
“We won’t hide things from you,” Derik said in my mind, and I kept eating.
“Maybe not on purpose.”
“Not at all,” Kai vowed.
“You have your shadows. Things you experience with them, we can’t feel,” Brax said, and I raised a brow.
Derik nodded. That made me more comfortable, and I leaned back against Derik, so tired. My eyes fluttered closed, and I didn’t mean to fall asleep, but I did within seconds.
I briefly woke up when I was being carried outside and the wolves were saying goodbye. I tried to say thank you and goodbye, but I couldn’t find the energy.
“She says thank you and goodbye,” Derik chuckled from under me.
I smiled lazily, then fell back asleep until we were back in the carriage. Derik laid me down, my head in his lap, and I didn’t wake up until Kai was kissing me that afternoon, the sun setting.
“Time to go, Little Human. You need to dress,” he said, kissing me again.
I rolled over in bed, sighing as my eyelids tried to close again.
“Five more minutes?” I asked, still so tired. I just wanted a little bit longer so it didn’t hurt to open my eyes.
“Bathe and dress. We have to go to the Summit,” Derik said.
I sat up, trying to prepare myself for the most important meeting of my life, one even more so than the blood moon had been, because the vampires wanted me and my wolves had just underhanded them by officially claiming me.
That was probably going to piss them off.
39. The Trek
The Summit. A mountain with three clear sections, even through the snow that bit into my skin.
I huddled close to Kai and Brax as Derik stepped ahead, his feet crunching in the white beneath us. It was windy and horrible, the squeal in the air reminding me of humans screaming.
I shivered and tucked my hands around me, underneath my coats that had made me sweat my ass off the entire carriage ride to the entrance of the Summit.
The entrance had been hidden to me for most of it.
We had ridden in the carriage to the flatlands between Water area and my villages, but to me it had looked the same as usual: a vast, flat grass area stretching up to the dense forest lining our borders and wrapped around to Forest area.
And then there had been a shimmering transparent wave in front of us, and the alphas had said we were there.
Stepping through the portal had been a shock to the system, the intense cold hitting my body so fiercely it had taken my breath away, but then they had started walking and I’d had to keep up.
Now we were still squinting through the blizzard, Derik testing the snow before leading us through it.
“How do you know where to go?” I asked, trying to keep my teeth from chattering.
“We sense it. Drawn to the magic,” Brax said loudly, the howling getting worse.
My fingers were numb, my face pink and stinging as I nodded. I could feel the magic, a warm glow within me that was the only part not frozen. But it was weak, and I was pretty sure I was just getting residue from the link.
“And how long will this take?”
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