And so incredibly loud, I thought, delirious from the orgasm wrecking my being.
My hips continued assaulting her, my dick hell-bent on coating every inch of her insides with my cum.
All the while, that blaring sound itched at my senses.
It… it didn’t feel right. It feltunnerving.
Ismerelda hummed, her mortal sensibilities lulling her into a drunk-like state, while my beast roared in triumph.
No. Not triumph.Alarm.
My eyes flashed open, the darkness immediately dissipating as reality crashed down around me.
Alarm, I repeated to myself.There’s a fucking alarm sounding.
It was one I recognized from the logs.
One of the compound protocols had been triggered.
And it wasn’t one of Lilith’s protocols because she hadn’t been the mastermind behind this operation.
My brother had always been in charge.
Which meant this protocol could have been triggered by anything.
Including me and Ismerelda.
Or something else entirely.
I grabbed my queen’s throat, noted her sleepy expression, and immediately kissed her. My blood poured into her mouth, my mind compelling her to swallow.
Because I needed her awake. Aware.And ready to fight.
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
EDON
Fucking Kylan,Silas groused via our mental bond.I should have taken Luna up on her offer to switch places.
If I hadn’t been in wolf form, my lips would have twitched.Is he staking his claim again?I asked, amused.
Kylan had made quite a show of ensuring Silas knew just who Rae belonged to over the last few days. He seemed to enjoy making his mate screamhisname, likely because it’d been Silas’s name she’d moaned while at the university a year ago.
Not that Silas and Rae had ever fancied each other in that way. They’d just been paired in class and knew how to fake their affections—something that seemed to agitate the royal vampire.
Again and again,Silas muttered.I’m about to go find a new room to sleep in.
We’ll make it up to you when we get back,Luna replied, her sweet voice causing my wolf to nearly purr with delight. We were about half a mile away from one another, hunting for the other lycans in our animal forms. But hearing her in my mind almost distracted my beast from his task.
Almostbeing the operative term.
Alas, while fucking would be a far more enjoyable endeavor, we needed to figure out what was going on with the other lycans.
They’d all but disappeared hours ago, leaving the three of us as the only shifters near the tower.
The assholes kept hosting meetings out here in private, and my mates and I were done being left out of these secret conversations.
My wolf lowered his snout to the earth again, seeking familiar scents and finding a mixture of them traveling in competing directions.
