Chapter 1
POV Soren
Fours hours. We'd been fighting for four hours. Hours of death, and screams, and pain.
Our warriors had kept the first surge down long enough to get the children and older wolves to safety, but more and more were rushed to the infirmary and the rest of us had to step up. Even me.
We had Niabi to thank for the lack of deaths from our side. Traps and weapons and - frankly - training, were helping us keep the line strong. I would have been dead already without her help.
Blood pack are almost here. Stay strong. This is almost over.
The Alpha's pack-wide link straightened my spine, and I took in a breath I hadn't realised that I was holding. They were our closest allies.
The air suddenly thickened around me, my whole world tilting as the scent of liquid chocolate filled my lungs with one blissful inhale. Mate.
Snapping the neck of the rogue under me, I rushed towards her scent. My mate in this battle? She must be in danger. Why would Blood Pack have brought omega's into this fight?
I had only joined because of my training, I still wasn't a warrior like the rest of the beasts out here. Quicker, maybe, but still weaker.
The pull towards her was so intense that it was easy to track her down. What I saw had my heart beating even faster. Surrounded. She was surrounded by four rogues, all snapping and focused on her.
Acting instinctively, I crashed into that circle and pulled one throat out as I jumped before landing right next to her.
The shiny red coat of her wolf pulling a hum of appreciation from me even as we continued to fight the rogues. We fell into an immediate, instinctual, protective stance. Backs to each other, we circled and fought off the predators around us.
Dragging my claws through the belly of a smaller rogue, he whined and collapsed before another took his place.
We have the upper hand. Blood pack have them surrounded. Two more minutes. Cover your backs. Stay alert.
We could do it. A yelp from my mate had me twisting and jumping over her to get to the threat, tackling the rogue who must have got a hit in.
Her sweet blood filled the air, and the moment of worry over my mate was all it took. I was distracted.
An un-shifted rogue plunged a silver knife into my chest the very second the howls of victory started to ring out around us.
I had been cut before, been burned with silver, but this? Pain radiated from my chest to every part of my body. Even my toes hissed with it. Blood filled my mouth and my eyes went to my mate as I fell.
I found hers easily. The seconds feeling like hours as star-filled dark blue orbs held mine.
Then time sped up and she shifted back to human form before tackled the rogue off me, raining punch after punch down on his face.
Straddling the rogue, she bit her wrist and stuck it in my mouth - filling me with her essence while continuing to beat the rogue to death with her other fist.
I watched in awe as she screamed for a medic, and then screamed in the rogues face. Turning him to an unrecognisable mess as her blood still flowed into my mouth. Healing me and bringing relief.
Niabi appeared at my side, and I felt the knife lift and blood pour out of me behind it. I should have been worried, some part of my brain knew I was close to death.
The other part of me...fuck my mate was so beautiful, I couldn't think of anything else.
The rogue who had attacked me was somehow still alive, his face was half-caved in from the power of her blows though.
I saw his arm raise, a needle in his hand aiming for my mate. But he was too slow, too weak, and one quick drag of my claws along his arm finished that move.
A slow, dark chuckle had awareness flooding through me in a way it really shouldn't given I was bleeding out. "Thank you, mate"
She withdrew her wrist for a moment, weaving both her hands into the rogues skull and breaking it in half on a final roar.
Fuck me. She was...magnificent.
Nia was talking to a medic, still keeping pressure on my wound. "You're ok Soren. I've got you."
A snarl had never thrilled me before, but the possessive sound coming from my mate immediately drew more blood where it - again- really shouldn't be.
She shoved Nia off me, leaving her sprawled on the ground with a twist in her brow. "I think you'll find I've got my mate. Whatever you were to each other is over."
Her hand covered the wound, legs straddling my hips. On the edge of death, I knew what paradise tasted like now - and it was her. All her.
My laugh was slightly hysterical as I took in the bloodied corpse beside me “That was wild. You are feral!"
"And you, mate." She rolled her hips into my crotch and my breath caught "Are mine."
Her blood filled my mouth again and I groaned against her wrist as her claw scratched my skin lightly on the way down my chest. "Drink Soren, let me take care of this for you. Let me take care of my man."
I watched wide-eyed as she worked her mouth then dropped her spit directly onto my wound before moving down my chest and sucking on it.
Fuck me. A battlefield was not the place for this. I was as hard as fucking steel right now, and as naked as the day I was born.
The wound healed under her ministrations, and I licked the cut on her wrist closed. Sucking the last of her sweetness up and trying hard not to think about the fact that she was also beautifully naked.
Everything around us faded into the background when our eyes met again, my focus purely on the goddess on top of me. Mate.
She frowned, hand jumping out to catch a knife that was seconds away from embedding in my skull. Head snapping to the left she threw it back with force, a yelp showing she had connected with her target.
Dizzy, I lifted my head as she shifted off me and stalked towards her fallen prey. The rogue was still alive, grasping at the ground in front of him to try and get away.
He let out an un-holy scream as she dug her fingers into his eye sockets, then slowly pulled his skull apart - just as she had done before. The scream stopped and she held his broken head towards the woods in front of us before dropping his body.
"Anyone else want to try me?" She roared into the forest, only the sound of running and scrambling answered her. The last of the rogues fleeing before her might.
"You" she pointed at three wolves nearby "Hunt them down. No one threatens my mate"
Sweet goddess, I was in trouble.
In trouble, and painfully aroused when she sat in my lap again and cradled my head. I felt some blood trickle from my mouth, and she caught it with her tongue before moaning against my skin.
"I need to find clothes, then hospital. You lost a lot of blood."
Clothes, right. Fuck. My hands snapped up to cover her breasts, how had I not thought about that? There where people everywhere. Hunting the final rogues, tending to the wounded.
She was naked save the blood covering her.
"Dammit." I sat and curled my body around her. Crushing her naked chest to mine and dropping my hands to cover her ass.
Taking in who was near us, I called out to Nia. "Ni! Some clothes for my mate. Please."
A chuckle against my chest drew my gaze "What?"
She smiled. "I meant clothes for you." Another roll of her hips and pleasure shuddered through me, "I don't want any other woman seeing this cock. It's mine."
I could feel the red burning my cheeks. Oh fuck, I was still hard under her - of course she'd meant me. "Right. Well, that's embarrassing."
She pressed kisses into my neck and I could feel the curve of her lips against my skin. "It's rea-lly not. I'm not complaining about your hands on my ass either..."
"Here" Nia stepped up and offered a t-shirt and blanket.
My mate sneered at her, grabbing the fabric with her teeth suddenly bared "Back off. Eyes off my mate."
Nia couldn't suppress the smile. She knew how much this display meant to me. To be wanted. She held up her hands and backed away, still smirking. "Oh, we are going to be best friends. He's all for you. Always was, all for you."
I pulled the t-shirt over her body, enjoying the lingering possessiveness on her face as she tracked Nia's movements. "She's just a friend."
"No one that beautiful is ever just a friend."
I reached my hand up to cup her face and bring her eyes back to me.
"I hadn't seen beauty before you." Her eyes softened, then flared with heat as my thumb dragged over her lips. Lips I needed to claim. "Tell me your name."
"Louella"
I groaned and pressed our heads together. "That is the prettiest damn name in the world."
Her lips twitched up, arms looping over my shoulders "Are you going to scream it for me later, my Soren?"
Sudden panic that she would reject me had my heart racing, and she frowned in response to the change. I was just an omega and she...she clearly was something else. Someone special.
Maybe she hadn't realised it yet. We'd been fighting, then lying down. She probably assumed I was a warrior, not a weak omega.
"I..."
"What's wrong? Is there someone else? I'll -"
"No. No. Fuck no. Of course not I...I respect the bond."
Her head tilted and I felt very exposed as her gaze searched my face. She pressed her nose into my neck and inhaled deeply before her wolf took over and growled against my skin.
The husky lilt to her voice made my head swim, and she pulled back with a more animalistic smile, eyes dark "You kept pure for me."
Heat, and all remaining blood flooded my cheeks. Surely she couldn't smell that? Oh goddess.
She pushed into my neck again, the scent of her arousal now surrounding me "I."
Soren - Nia says you need treatment. Get to the infirmary. Now.
"My Alpha just linked me to get checked out. I probably need some blood, so..."
Louella pulled back and smiled, one eye still dark with her wolf "After that, we're going to claim you so hard you see stars. Trust me.."
She dragged the blanket around my waist before shifting off my lap and holding her hand out for me. "It's going to be worth the wait."
