Gemini is special, a blessed wolf or so her Alpha keeps telling her. With the ability to take others pain and heal them since she was twelve she’s been stuck in this “blessed life” of pain and suffering. But it’s not until her brother is exiled that she realizes she’s not an asset to her pack— She’s a prisoner. And she wants out. Roscoe is cursed, the Lycan King forced to live outside his pack in order for it to thrive. For years he has suffered in silence searching for the key to release him from his own personal hell and for years he’s searched in vein. But when an offering goes awry he finds himself face to face with the twists of fate and he isn’t sure what to do with it—well, her. He thinks she is an offering, and she thinks she can escape him. But can one ever really escape fate?
View More*Rocky*Everyone sits around the small fire, the smoke filtering through the rundown corner of the small barn where the roof has a large hole. The rain has at least stopped, but a cold has settled in with the dark. Gemini sleeps easily in my arms, her shivering gone and her breathing feels normal now.No longer a fast panting like she is running a hundred miles for her dear life. Jude keeps eyeing me and Blossom is curled into her sister’s side, Ames poking the fire and sliding glances at Violet. It’s a strange group of people, and I’m not sure I trust them entirely, but I trust Jude, so that is enough for me to let my guard down, even just a little bit. My gaze flickers down to Gemini’s sleeping face.She looks near angelic, like a porcelain doll, and I want so badly to stroke her cheek, but I don’t. She would never notice, and it would be for me to stow away in my secret stash of sweet memories of her, but there are eyes on me. Jude stands, sauntering over to me with a frown on hi
*Gemini* If I could crawl into a dark hole and hide, I would gladly do so. Hours in the hands of the man I just kissed and was rejected by is its own form of torture. One that cuts deeper than the stab wound on my side or all the injuries over my body combined. I bury my head into his neck, having no other way to hide from him but then to go deeper into his arms. It’s sickening how much comfort he brings me, even after knowing he doesn’t feel the same way. “Pet,” He whispers, his voice rumbling through his chest and making it harder to pretend it’s not him holding me. “Mmm?” I hum, refusing to look at him as I force myself to sound sleepy. “I am going to set you down now,” He says, his voice so gentle and sweet I think I would rather jump up and slap him for his mixed signals. I lift my head, making sure to not hesitate as I twist my head to look at where he places me. There is a small little area made of clothes and bags where he lays me and I turn onto my good side, thanking th
Gemini burrows into my neck, but not before I see the way my words seem to crush her. She has no idea how much I have craved her lips in the mere seconds they have been apart from mine. She has no clue that the only pain I have ever felt was too much to bear will be the pain of keeping her at arm’s length. I want her; I need her. No, I crave her. Damn it. I fucking love her and I can’t let her go. Which means I have to push her away, all the while keeping her close, if that’s even possible. “Gem?” I whisper softly, my eyes scanning the area around me as I walk to catch up with Jude. “Please…” Her voice breaks. “I don’t want to talk.” The plea in her voice clenches my chest, taking hold of me. Why does she have to feel the same about me? I can hear it in her voice, feel it in the way she is so comfortable in my arms. I wish I could forget the way she took the lead and kissed me first. Hell, I wish I could walk away from her and know it was for the best, but I can’t say that. Ge
*Rocky* My heart wreaks havoc in my chest, beating angrily with every measured breath. They broke her. They fucking yore her to shreds and even as I witness the carnage with my very own eyes, my brain can’t seem to comprehend. Anger burns through my veins, my lycan wanting to rise to the surface as I look at the three people watching Jude and Gemini reunite. “Are they dead?” I ask, my voice a growly demand. “I don’t know.” The older girl murmurs, her eyes not leaving Jude. “Where?” I grunt, and the male with them nods over his shoulder. “Back that way.” He says as I march forward, stepping around the kid and sniffing the air. “Rocky…” Her hoarse voice speaks my name and my skin tingles, and I can’t bring myself to look at her. Right now, I need vengeance. To go and make sure each asshole is dead that did this. And to find that fucking asshole Alder and dislodge his head from his body. “Alpha.” Jude says, sounding younger than I have treated him. I look at him, seeing the panic
It’s magical, the way the rain patters down on my heated flesh, cooling me and providing me with even the tiniest amount of comfort. Blossom looks like she is sobbing, crying out something I can’t quite comprehend. My body jostles as I blink, unable to feel anything, my body numb as I focus on her. She tries to move toward me, but someone pulls her back, dragging her away. A glint of something metallic catches light from somewhere and my wolf perks up. My ears ring as my body jostles again and I’m forced onto my back, staring up at the grey dark sky that unleashes its wrath. I realize the light is lightning violently cracking like a whip across the clouds. The ground rumbles beneath me and I look for Blossom once more. Elliot stalks toward her, knife in hand. The sound of rushing water and grumbling thunder come rushing back into my ears and I gasp out as pain explodes through my body. No longer numb to what they have been doing to my back.I force my wolf to stop healing, to focus
*Gemini* Blossom sings quietly to herself through tears and sniffles, occasionally hitting against the metal cage wall like she just can’t handle the confined space anymore. I wish there was something I could say or do to let her know it will all be okay, but truth be told, I’m not sure I’d buy that line if someone fed it to me. So instead I choose to distract her. “How long have you been in here, Blossom?” I whisper. Her singing stops, and I hear her as she shuffles closer. “A few days, I think.” She sighs. “Do you think Vi is okay?” “I know she is.” I smile to myself, remembering the girl who tried to drag me to safety before she had to retreat.I get it now, her reasoning for abandoning me. She has someone who needs her more. Yet she still tried to save me.“Do you have a family?” Blossom asks and I think of my baby brother who I’m sure no longer looks or acts like a baby. He has a tender heart and uncommon process of logical thinking. He is strange, but he is blood and damn, d
*Rocky*“I thought you knew the way out of here?” I grunt, watching as Jude stands at yet another underground crossroads with his torch. He has one hand on his hip, his head swinging side to side, as if he can’t decide which route to take.“It’s this way,” He says confidently, pointing with his light as he turns to the right.“You’re sure?” I ask and he snorts. “Yes. I will admit, at times, I get a little turned around down here, but I do always make it out. Plus, all of these lead out, but each one takes us somewhere different.”“They were near the lake hours ago….” I tell him, and he shakes his head.“No, you were out for a long time, dude. I swear to you they are long beyond the lake now.”It’s not that what he is saying doesn’t make sense. It’s logical and wise, but it makes me on edge. Maybe it’s knowing that anything could have happened to Gemini in those hours I was out. But maybe it’s because I’m not used to having someone who wants to also take the lead.It’s not a power com
Panic takes over every sense as my body presses against a muddy wall. I slide down the steep side of the cliff, my fingers scratching hopelessly as I try grip anything to stop my fast descent. My foot catches on something hard, my body crumbling over it as start to roll back away from the safety of the side of the cliff. Everything moves in slow motion, my arms flying out the cry the breaks from my lips as I tumble backwards rolling head over heels pain lacing through my body as I try to catch my breath. I land with a heavy thud, what little oxygen I have in my body evaterpates as I wheeze. Cold rain hammers me in the face, mud splashing around me as small rocks land and settle in. I know I have to get up and move, to try and run away but getting my fingers twitch is the best I can do. The rain stops Over my face and I focus my eyes on the face directly above mine. A young woman blinks at me then tilts her head, a frown on her lips as she squats and reaches through the mud beneath
*Gemini*“Do you have any more food?” Alder asks from behind me as we slush through the onslaught of rain.I clench my jaw, trying not to snap at him. I am tired, my body aching and my shivering in the fucking icy rain and all this kid can think about is food? Food that is my rations, because he has once again eaten all the food set aside for him under the guise of ‘I’m still growing and your said you are used to eating very little.’“Nope,” I grind out, not bothering to look behind me.“Nothing?” he scoffs. “Are you sure?”What the hell is wrong with this guy? Seriously. Did his mother drop him on the head too many times on his thick skull or is he really this entitled? This has to be a facade, a way to test me and try to break me, for what I have no clue, but this can not be real life right now. “I am sure, Alder.” I sigh heavily.I can hear him grumbling behind me, but I block it out, wiping the rain from my face as we come up to a small cliff overlooking the forest. At least we m
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