Tamed Under The Moon (Wolf River, ID. Book 4)

by Rebekah R. Ganiere

  "Is that how you really feel? Do you really not trust me to stay true to our bond? I told Mandrake I wouldn't take another as mate and I meant it. I will never, as long as I live I’ll never take another to mate, to my bed or to my heart. You are my everything."

  Tears welled in Affina's eyes. "I think it might be best for everyone if I take the others and we'll go to the lodge for a while. To try and help them settle in."

  Razor's heart caved into his chest. "Don't do this. Stay here. We can send them to the lodge and I'll make sure they are taken care of."

  "They are our people now. We can't just leave them to fend for themselves after all they've been through."

  "And I can't leave here," he said. "I have a business I have to take care of to ensure we are provided for as well as our children and their children."

  She leaned in and kissed his cheek. "I know."

  She strode through the glass and down the hall. Bypassing the elevator she headed straight for the stairwell and disappeared.

  He stood in the lobby of his office staring after her long after the stairwell door closed. His saber roared to be let out. To go to her and drag her back. To make her understand.

  "I... I think maybe this was a mistake. I'm gonna just go."

  Raze turned. Bethany grabbed her purse and coat without looking at him and headed for the door.

  "I think that's a good idea."

  Raze's phone buzzed and he set the bag, and drink on the receptionist desk. His heart cleaved in two, torn between what he wanted to do and what it was his duty to do.

  He pushed the button on his Bluetooth.

  "This is Razor."

  Chapter Fifteen

  Affina sat on the plane with the others. The groups huddled together and whispered in frantic tones. She wanted to comfort them. To tell them that everything would be fine, just the way Razor had done for her, but she couldn't. The pain inside her soul threatened to overwhelm her.

  Razor hadn't come home the night before. She'd hoped he'd show up and tell her he'd go with her, but he hadn't. She'd told him, she couldn't leave them to fend for themselves. It wasn't right. He had to see that. And yet he had chosen to stay in the city anyway.

  The plane pulled forward on the tarmac and Satia gave out a small cry. Affina looked over her shoulder as the groups joined hands. A rush of emotion struck her at the sight of them together. For the first time she felt outside her clan. Apart. Not belonging. She wondered if that was how Razor had felt all those years in her father's palace trying to earn his place. And now. Now he was king, but had no clan to support him. They were leaving him. She was leaving him.

  No. It wasn't right.

  "Stop," she whispered. "Stop." Affina fumbled with her seatbelt and jumped to her feet. "Stop! Stop the plane!"

  The stewardess rushed forward. "Is something wrong, Miss?"

  "We need to get off the plane. Now."

  She turned to the group. "I'm sorry. I can't go. He's my mate."

  "Go," said Incus. "We will be fine together."

  "No," she said. "Stay with me. With us. Just for a little while. Then I'll take you to the lodge. I can't abandon him. Not again. I have to fix things with my mate."

  The group looked at each other and then nodded in silent accord.

  "Go to him," said Satia. "We will be well. And we will be with you in spirit."

  "But we cannot stay," said Boramus. "We need time to regroup and heal."

  "The city isn’t the place for us to do that," said Incus.

  Her gaze traveled to Isis and the others. They too nodded in agreement that they would be fine.

  Affina shook her head. "Let me find you another mode of transportation. Flying can be... stressful."

  Every set of shoulders squared at the implication that they would be afraid.

  "We are sabers. We can handle it. Go," said Incus. "I will take care of them. When you are ready, join us." He stopped for a moment and then said, "Tell Razor we are grateful and we will be waiting for both of you."

  Affina walked slowly to the exit door and stopped. It was the hardest choice she'd ever made. Her obligation to her clan, or her obligation to her heart.

  * * *

  Raze stood in the middle of his apartment, her scent permeating every surface. His body ached with missing her. He was an idiot for letting her leave, but then being smart when it came to Affina had never been one of his strong suits.

  Every fiber of his body wanted to go after her. To tell her he loved her again and that he'd give it all up for her, but if he did the clan would never respect him.

  Dammit what did it matter if they didn't respect him? Without her, life wasn't worth it anyway. Raze raced for the elevator and pushed the button.

  The door opened. Affina. His throat dried.

  The doors began to close but he pushed them opened and rushed in and cupped her face. She'd come back for him.

  He pressed his lips to her softly, tasting her. She wrapped her arms around his waist and kissed him back.

  "I am nothing without you," he said.

  "I thought I lost you once, I won't go through that again."

  He pressed his lips to hers again. She pulled him into her, their bodies melted into each other and they were one again.

  He deepened their kiss, parting her lips with his tongue. She moaned in his mouth and ran her hands under his coat, pulling his shirt from his pants.

  "I think we better get out of the elevator."

  Affina looked around in surprise. "Agreed."

  He pushed the button and opened the elevator door. Pulling her across the front room, she stopped at the couch and ripped his shirt apart.

  "We need to talk," he said.

  "I know," she replied.

  "I have to work here in Seattle."

  Raze looked down as she swirled her tongue from his chest to his hip. She continued over his abs as she undid his belt buckle and slowly unzipped his pants.

  "No you don't." Her voice came out husky with desire.

  Need pulsed inside him as she slid his pants down releasing his full hardness.

  "Affina." He tried to think straight. "My business is here."

  "Hire someone else to run it. We have enough money. You can work from the lodge."

  It was true. He had more money than he could spend in a lifetime. He owned dozens and dozens of properties making an income that had been fit for her father. For a king.

  She kissed down the inside of his thigh and he fisted his fingers in her hair barely able to keep standing.

  "We'll divide our time." He fought to get the words out. "Half the time here. Half at the lodge."

  "That would be wise." She smiled up at him. "See, you already sound like a king."

  When she slid her wet tongue down his length he almost fell to the ground. Playfully she teased him with her velvety tongue. His muscles wound tight in his thighs and his body burned with wanting release. He yanked her to her feet and brought her mouth to his, claiming it. He needed to be inside her.

  Ripping at her pants he fought to get them off her. He laid her on the couch and kicked off his pants and shoes. She grabbed onto his shoulders as he parted her legs with his thighs and drove inside her.

  He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth trying to hold out. Gently her hand pressed into his cheeks.

  "Look at me," she said.

  He opened his eyes and stared into her beautiful face. Her eyes lit with a love that he'd never seen directed at him before.

  She brought his mouth to hers and her tongue flicked out as she bit his bottom lip.

  "I love you Razor's Edge."

  "And I you, Affina Edge."

  He kissed her soft and she grabbed his rear, forcing him in deeper. Raze rocked into her, her body wrapping around him like a silken blanket. Tension built inside him as he thrust inside her, bringing his hips down hard on hers.

  She bit his shoulder, piercing the skin. "Harder."

  She was his mate and his queen; what she wanted h
e was bound to obey.

  Raze thrust in deeper and faster. His fangs grew chin length as a vortex of need wound tight inside him. She moaned against his shoulder and gasped, her body clenching tighter and Raze stabbed her with his fangs and his body erupted like a volcano. She held on to him as she peaked and he couldn't keep a coherent thought as their bodies joined in perfect unison. She was his. Truly his. And he was weak with needing her.

  Within a minute it was over and he fell on top of her spent. He brushed the hair from her eyes and kissed her soft and slow.

  "I'm yours forever," he vowed. "I'll never let you go again."

  "I am yours my king. And I'm not going anywhere."

  Unleashed with the Moon

  Wolf River Book Five

  Satia sat in the middle of the fragrant clearing gazing at the pregnant moon. Her heart ached at the differences between her new home and the one she'd known her whole life. The colors. The smells. The tastes. All of them different. Only in the quiet moments alone running as a saber could she enjoy what Saber Mountain Lodge had to offer.

  Memories of pain and torture flooded her, but she pushed them down, refusing to let them ruin her moment of serenity. Six months in Idaho, six months, and the nightmares began to cease. The pain had dulled and the scars mostly healed. But the ever-present panic had become like a silent shadow continually clouding her decisions. Saber Mountain Lodge had been a serene retreat from her new world, and yet she couldn't shake the fear that at some point the Obsidian Mountain clan would return to finish them all off- or worse, claim her as tribute. No matter who Razor was.

  The men had been more than kind to her. They'd regarded her like a little sister. And yet all of their concern, their kindness had begun to slowly smother her in the last months. Isis and her sister Ayla had been her only comfort as they too sought solace away from the prying eyes of their brother Tarrian and his best friends Crux and Jett.

  For as much as her nightmares and fear terrified her it had also begun to set a flame of anger deep inside. She hated being this way. Afraid all the time. Running like a rabbit here and there, jumping at new sights and sounds. So she stared up at the sky and breathed deep. The time had come. She needed to conquer her fear before it destroyed her. She could no longer sit in the shadows and pray for the terrors to subside. She needed to do something about it. She needed to get out and face her new life head-on. She needed to leave Saber Mountain Lodge.

  * * *

  Stix stared at his hands.

  "You see," said his mother. "You see what I deal with? He won't date. He won't look at a female. He won't mate. Eight years I've waited for him to do something and he hasn't. So I come to you now and beg for help."

  Stix shook his head. He couldn't believe he was sitting in the Wolf River Alpha's house listening to his mother tattle on him like he was a teen again skipping school.

  His mother nudged him and he gazed up into her soft round face. She pointed across the way, and Stix swung his gaze to Mary Reed. Jeremiah's wife and the mother of the Wolf River pack. A woman whose very presence commanded respect, but also a compassion that was felt by all.

  Stix and his family weren't werewolves, they were Blood Born ursas. But his mother and Mary had been best friends since grade school. He'd grown up with the pack as if he was family. They were the only ursa's to ever have lived in Wolf River- or on the border of it anyway.

  Mary stared at him for a long moment running the top of her finger around the rim of her teacup.

  "Joyce why don't you give me a moment alone with the boy. I'll see if I can talk some sense into him."

  Stix's mother nodded. Without a word she walked to the apartment door and exited.

  "So," said Mary, her eyes never leaving his face. "You intend on leaving your mother in such a state?"

  Stix opened his mouth, but then closed it. He didn't know what to say. In truth, he'd never found an ursa female that he got on with. The ones he'd met had been more about open relationships and bearing young than they had about actually finding a mate. What he wanted was a woman... not so worldly. Someone to take care of.

  Mary chuckled and shook her head. "I'm teasing Stix."

  He chuckled nervously as Mary sighed and shook her head. "Do you even want a mate?" asked Mary

  Stix snorted. "Sure. I mean, I guess. I don't know."

  Gerri nodded. "Well, at least you're honest."

  "Aunt Mary, there isn't a bear on the west coast I am interested in."

  "Who says it needs to be a bear?" asked Mary. "There are many other Blood Born. You know we would be more than happy for you to mate a wolves. But there's also the Kootenai mountain lion clan. The Black forest panther clan. Not that we've had very god relations with them but Twin Falls Coyote pack might be amenable, though you know the coyotes tend to be a bit unstable."

  "No thank you. I've had unstable before, not my thing."

  Mary nodded. "Well, the Saber Mountain clan had been adopted in by Jeremiah about six months ago. I know they have a couple female sabers that are of age-"

  "Sabers?"

  "They have a lodge about an hour north. They've been through a lot and I'm not sure if they're amenable but I could find out for you."

  The realization that he was sitting in front of the matriarch of the Wolf River clan talking about finding a mate, rolled over him and made his gut clench.

  "I... I don't know," he said. "I am not sure I'm ready..."

  Mary continued to stare at him. "How many relationships have you had?"

  "Define relationship," Stix snorted. "I've been on dates. I've..." He cleared his throat. "Had relations. But I've never had a prolonged relationship with anyone. The closest I've ever come was with a female a few years back from the Red Sky clan, but it lasted less than a year. She was a bit too crazy for my taste."

  Mary looked down at her tea and sipped it. "It was sad what happened with the Red Sky clan. Daniel's decision to kidnap my niece... I don't know if our relations with them will ever heal. It makes me happy to know that you broke off your relations with them as well."

  Mary stood, and Stix jumped to his feet.

  "Well, I've heard all I think I need to. I'll mull it over and see if there's a female I think might appeal to you. Between you and me, I think what you need is for your mom to get off your back. Twenty-five isn't too old considering how long we live. Look at my boys. Logan is twenty seven and Caleb is twenty five."

  "I've told her that a dozen times. Maybe if you tell her, she might listen."

  Mary laughed. "I doubt it."

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