Lovelies, thank you for the warm response! ♡ ♡ ♡ I always wanted to go back to the Red Mountain to tell you how they met, but you don't have to worry that the story will drag on before we arrive at the last scene we witnessed with them in Book 2. We will just go by the important details, especially those not shown in the first two books. So, just trust the process and enjoy the laughter and the pain of this book. Thank you for the early reviews and the early gems! You are all amazing! ♡
BLADE. The walk down from her cottage to the foot of the mountain where I left my jeep went smoothly as Althea was secured in my back. She asked to be put down after a few hours, but I ignored her until she fell asleep when the night fell. I didn’t stop to sleep, as I didn’t want to have nightmares when she was around me. She didn’t need to realize how messed up I was. Besides, I wanted to reach Stone’s territory soon. The years of training as an Alpha, as well as my everyday life in the wild as a mercenary, had prepared me for this moment. I was used to being awake for many days straight, so staying alert even at night was not a problem. I never got tired easily, but having someone on my back for many hours straight was something I hadn’t experienced before. Although this little fire had a small frame, she was heavy, but despite that, my body felt at ease carrying her instead of worrying that she might fall and break anything on her body. She was so little and so fucking cl
(Free Chapter)ALTHEA. The last two days went by so fast, and I felt like I was just floating, making sense of everything. I was picked up from my comfort zone and thrust into a world I knew but had never experienced yet. The wolves and their pack. All I knew was that I liked Lucy, the half-she-demon and half-she-wolf who needed my help. I promised to help her, but in return, I asked her to kill my grandmother, Patrea. She was trapped in the demon world for many decades. I did ask Lucy to kill her, even if I didn’t want to, because it was the only way she could be freed from that realm. My mother told me that Patrea sold her body to a demon king, thinking she was outsmarting him by not binding her soul to him. But she didn’t know the demon would take it literally and trap her body in that realm. And to make it worse, he did something to her so she wouldn’t age, and no one but him and his bloodline could kill her in the underworld. My grandmother wanted death, as she was tir
BLADE. The drive to Salenda was long and painful. Althea was quiet the whole time, and every time a sound erupted somewhere outside of my vehicle, her body would jolt. She was scared, but she was trying to put on a tough facade. I already wanted to regret taking her here. It was selfish of me to place her in danger when she was living comfortably in the red mountains and was just worried if she would run out of food to eat, but never about demons. I knew there was no room for regret, but I wanted her safe. And not just safe, I wanted her to be able to get back to the life she was accustomed to. But I had no idea where to start from. I had killed many shifters, one after the other, but I had yet to face a demon. I was sure I was nothing in front of them, but I was sure as hell that I would not let them touch Althea if I could. I would never let another mate die on my watch. “Are you a couple?” The witch in front of us asked. I sat beside Althea in the middle of the living room
ALTHEA. “I can sleep on the floor,” Blade said after he closed the door, and we were left alone in that small room. I bit my bottom lip, trying to stifle a giggle from escaping my throat the moment I turned around to look at him. The roof was low, and he had to hunch his back to avoid bumping his head. “What’s funny?” He asked, scowling. Gone was the soft expression that was on his face earlier. Probably because pretending we were a couple no longer applied when we were alone. But I wasn’t even acting when I cried in the living room. I didn’t want him to leave because even if I was annoyed with him all the time, I wanted him around me. “You look uncomfortable with how small this room is for you,” I told him. “I am. I hate small spaces. I hate small things. I could crush them easily.” He answered right away. The smile on my lips was wiped out immediately. It just reminded me that I was one of the small things he never liked. “Will you be fine on the floor? We can share the pi
BLADE. “Enough, Althea.” I tilted my head to the side, avoiding kissing her more as I shut my eyes so I wouldn’t see her, which was a wrong move. Because even with my eyes closed, all I saw was her. All of her, and I felt more of the way she was grinding against my bulge.But I knew I couldn’t take this any further. Althea was young, and I was probably the first male she had around her, so there was no doubt that she felt attached to me. But we both knew this was leading nowhere. I didn’t want her. I was okay with being alone. I just wanted her to be safe. Althea’s body stiffened before she climbed out from top of me and settled on her side of the bed, with her back on me. I wanted to console her, but it would just make leaving her harder. So I stayed still, not letting the feel of her back against my arm affect me, even if the sparks between us were giving me a pleasure I would never get tired of. I kept my eyes closed and tried to put Soledad’s face in my mind. I had a ma
**This page is free, and you should not be paying any coins for this**Lovelies,THESE THREE CHAPTERS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE BOOK BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon.As much as I wanted to put them here, I knew most of you had read the first book, and it would be unfair to let you pay for it again. But I will not put it here for free, as there were violent and steamy scenes there. To relive that moment, please open the book BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon and check out the following chapters:095 - ALTHEA’S HEAT096 - A TERRIBLE SIN097 - LET IT STAY
SEVEN MONTHS LATER. BLADE. The season changed, as did everything in my life. I looked at the vast land before me and thought of my territory. The Silver Crest — the territory that had been witness to all the lows in my life. I left it so I could move on from the death of Soledad, only to return upon another death. My brother’s death. When I abandoned my pack, Fabian, my younger brother, took over as the Alpha of the Silver Crest. He had no aspiration to be one — no training, no preparation — and yet my irresponsible self left without any warning, turning over the Alpha post to him without his approval. Despite that, he stepped up to the challenge. But there was never an instance where he didn’t ask me to take it back from him whenever we would meet. I kept refusing. For five years, Fabian struggled to survive this pack. He did his best, but it kept getting weaker. And then an Alpha asshole saw that as an opportunity and attacked, seizing the territory and killing him an
BLADE. “Name it,” I said before pursing my lips into a thin line while my hands went on his hips as I stared at the little witch in front of me. Her face lit up as she smiled broadly before she spoke. “I want my own room.” “You’ll get your one..” “But I want it on the same floor as yours.” “You will have the room beside mine,” I answered. I had the room prepared already. There was an adjoining door between the two rooms, as I requested to have it installed a few days ago when I came up with the decision to ask her to be my Luna. “Good. And then I want an area where I can practice witchcraft.” “I can give you that. A big clearing with a small cabin. I can have my men build a cabin almost the same as the one you have in the mountains.” She bit her bottom lip as her eyes sparkled. “You don’t have to do that.” “I want to. But it doesn’t mean you will sleep there. You will only sleep in the packhouse or wherever I am.” “Okay. But another thing: I don’t want to hide my real ident