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This is why they took us.
My head shakes in denial. Shame immediately strips any sense of pleasure remaining from our bout of passion. They intend to use our bodies for their pleasure. No. I continue to shake my head, covering my face with my hands.
I couldn’t even help myself just now. I wanted him to use me. Will I be like that around all of the other werewolves? Their very presence is a drug. It’s hard to lift myself from the desk, the room spinning at the realization. Even if my body is begging for their touch, I don’t want to be a whore available to them whenever they want. I want more from life. I need more. I push away my sadness as anger replaces it with a fierce need to rally.
Lizzie.
They will not touch her!
I push off the desk and land on my bare feet, my legs still shaking. Half-naked, I sprint to the door. The sound of my bare feet padding against the wooden floors is nothing compared to the screaming in my head. My camisole barely covers my ass, but I don’t care. I need to get out of here. My limbs shake, but I run as fast as I can.
I make it to the door as Devin exits the bathroom and curses under his breath.
He’s fast, but I’m at least able to grip the knob and rip the door open. I scream, “Lizzie!” Adrenaline races through my blood. There’s no way I’m going to make it before he catches me. I’m going to fail her. I already have. As I run down the empty hall, I shout her name again. I don’t make it more than a few feet before I hear the heavy thuds of men running toward me from both sides. I stumble as I realized I’m trapped and I start to fall. My eyes dart to a door on my left, but before I can open it Devin grabs me from behind, lifting my feet off the floor and spinning me around as I scream.
“What the—” a baritone voice starts to say but Devin cuts him off as I push against his hold and squirm.
“Leave us.” His hard voice echoes in the hall and footsteps scurry away in the opposite direction. His arms are wrapped around me too tightly for me to escape. But I refuse to give up, fighting and straining against him. I work one arm free and slam my elbow as hard as I can into his face.
“Fuck!”
I doubt it hurt him but it shocks him enough that he drops me and I land hard on my ass; my palms hit the ground so hard that the resulting pain makes me think I broke my wrist, but at least I didn’t smack my head on the floor. I try to get to my knees at the thought of Lizzie going through what I just did. When I glance up, breathless and weighed down with worry, two silver eyes stare back at me. Lev is wide eyed at the end of the hall with his mouth agape.
Devin’s hand grabs the nape of my neck as he lifts me off the floor with one arm. “I said leave!” he screams at Lev with rage vibrating off the walls. I whimper in his grasp as he wraps one arm around my waist. My hands fly up to my neck and try to pry away his fingers.
“Calm down, sweetheart.” His gently spoken words against my ear are at complete odds with his powerful grip on me. But my body obeys him without my conscious consent. My hands drop to my sides as I start to see white spots dance in my vision. My body may be willing to listen to him, but my mind isn’t okay with any of this. He must know that on some level because he loosens his grip but doesn’t remove his hold on me. As I try to come to terms with being trapped in his arms, he tells me again that everything will be okay and that I just need to trust him.
But I don’t trust him. I don’t trust any of them.
Devin
I leave for one fucking minute and she bolts? Rage courses through me but outwardly I’m doing my best to remain calm. Humans like controlled, collected behavior from shifters and typically I am. I have to stay composed for my mate. My mate who doesn’t even want me.
A coldness settles inside of me, one I haven’t felt in over a year. Not since I noticed her at the offering. I’ll be damned if that thought doesn’t hit me like a bullet to my chest. My wolf doesn’t like it either. My pride is wounded. The only solace I have is that she’s letting me hold her. Grace is finally settling in my arms. At least her body is. I can see in her eyes that she’s resisting me. Struggling to find words to make sense of it all, I do my best to rein in my resentment that she ran right after she gave herself to me. How could she not feel our connection? How could she deny how perfect it was?
“Maybe you shouldn’t have fucked her the second you got her in the house.” Lev’s words ring in my head. I grit my teeth to keep my irritation from showing. After all, Grace can’t hear him. I don’t want her to think my annoyance is with her.
“Watch it, Lev.” I manage to keep a low growl from rumbling in my chest.
“I’m just looking out for my big brother. I really think it would have been better if you’d waited.”
“She’s in heat … What the hell was I supposed to do? Let her suffer?”
I wait a moment for him to answer. His silence pisses me off.
“She was barely coherent.” I sneer the words in my head, all the while staying relaxed on the surface for my Grace. Her body molds perfectly to mine. I’ve witnessed the heat before, in my old pack. I’m surprised it took me so long to realize that’s what was going on with her. Especially with that sweet, intoxicating smell filling up the room. My head wasn’t right with her looking at me like I was dangerous. Like I was going to hurt her. She shouldn’t feel like that around me. With my touch though, she reacted like she should have.
Peering down at her small, huddled form, she presses against me with her eyes closed. She’s so beautiful and serene, and now she’s right where she belongs.
“How about you give her some space? The farther away she is from you, the better she’ll be till the full moon.”
The young wolf has a good point. I’ll be able to claim her then. There wasn’t a part of me that thought I’d fuck this up like I just did. “She’ll still be in pain.” The heat’s a bitch. She’ll writhe in agony once it hits her again.
“It won’t be as bad if you stay away from her.”
Grace shifts in my lap, nuzzling into my chest as her breathing evens out and deepens. Just the thought of staying away from her makes the wolf within me whine in pain.
“Easy for you to say. I’ve waited a year to have her. You haven’t even met your mate yet. And the pull will only get stronger as the moon waxes.”
