by C Davis
“Jaxson, you'll have time to do that when you go home.” His father hissed.
His father seemed to be a powerful man and it showed when Jaxson removed his hand from my thigh. I just want to go back to Jaxson’s house and be done with this night.
“Lana Delecruz, that's your full name right?” His father asked me as I continued to poke at my dinner.
It was my name, but who was I? Maybe Lorenzo lied to me about my name. He lied about everything else, so why not this.
“I-I don't know about my last name, but my first name is Lana.” I stutter feeling nervous as he burned a hole in my head. His wife put a hand on his shoulder, and his stern face softened at her touch. I didn't dare look at Jaxson, because I knew the only emotion he was feeling was lust right now. I could hear his thoughts now, and let's just say he doesn't filter them.
“Okay. Sweetie, why don't you come with me while the men talk?” His mother tells me.
Jaxson grips my thigh once again and nuzzles his face in my neck inhaling my scent. He makes his way to my lips, kissing me dominantly making his claim known to my wolf. As his mother and I make our way to the next room, I can hear Jaxson in my head. He's telling me how he wished he could take me to the bathroom, and fuck me bent over the counter.
My face instantly heats up, and his mother seems to notice but doesn't comment on it. “Please, call me Giselle. You’re family now.” She insists.
“Are the men always this controlling of their mates in this pack?” I ask her as she sits down next to me. I hate knowing how bad Lorenzo damaged my trust for men. He always told me that I was his mate, and wanted to force me to submit to him.
Did he know I was a part witch?
Is that what he wanted from me?
“All men are possessive sweetie, but the Alpha men are much more powerful. Their wolves are very protective over mates. I know mine is. I know you've had a rough past, but you can trust Jaxson. I've never heard him talk about a woman so much. Not since her.” She said sadly smiling at me.
I knew what she meant by her. Gabriel’s mother. Jaxson never talked about her, but I knew he was in pain from losing her. I know I would be.
“I’m not looking to replace her. After all, I'm just taking care of him.” I try to say, but she shakes her head at me smiling. I would never dream of replacing his dead wife. It would just hurt Gabriel later on. I care about that baby more than anything.
“Sweetie, the minute you became mates with my son, you became so much more than that. The minute he staked his claim, you became his Luna. Our Luna. The pack has waited so long for this moment to happen, and now it has we’ll be much stronger. An Alpha makes us strong, but an Alpha and a Luna together makes us stronger.” She says as Jaxson and his father walk in.
Jaxson comes up behind me, and places his hands on my shoulders letting me know it's time to go. I look back at him, and his facial expression is dark with sexual desire. His parents can feel the tension between him and I, but don't say anything. They just let us walk away. Before we walk away, his father speaks up. “I’ll make some calls to my witch, and see if she knows anything. I'll let you know what I find out.”
Jaxson is quiet the whole way home.
Is he mad at me?
Did I do something wrong for him to act this way to me?
He's so confusing. One minute he's hot, and the next he's so cold. If that's how you want to play, then I'll play your game, Alpha. I will not submit to you so easily. Maybe I'm just not good enough for him.
“Stop thinking like that, Lana. It’s not like that.” He says calmly to me. I forgot now he can hear my thoughts. He had me so hot earlier, and now he doesn't want to even touch me.
Maybe I'll just go upstairs, and finish myself off.
Do you hear that thought, Jaxson?
I hope you hear me moan when I finger my pussy.
“I’m warning you, Lana.” He hisses through gritted teeth. His knuckles grip the steering wheel tight. I know I'm provoking him, and right now, I don't care if he's getting angry. I’m sick of men trying to control me.
You hear that, you don't fucking own me.
He slams on the brake as he's pulling up to his house. I get out of the car and try to run to the house, but he pushes me back to the side of the truck. His eyes flicker from his normal ones to his red ones back and forth. He’s fighting his wolf hard, and to say it didn't turn me on would be a lie. His face dips down to my neck inhaling deep, and I feel him scraping his canines on me. He's fighting his wolf on whether or not to claim me officially. I try to push him back, but it only makes his wolf angrier.
“Stop it Jaxson, the whole pack is watching!” I growl at him while the pack watches the scene unfold before their very eyes.
“I don’t care! You're mine now, baby.” He hisses with his red eyes glowing brightly in the dark. His teeth are still scraping my neck, and he yanks me by the hair making my head fall to the side. His teeth tear into my skin, making me scream out in pain. He presses his hand to my mouth trying to muffle my screams. His wolf is in complete control, and not letting me go anytime soon.
My pain suddenly goes away, and then all I feel is pleasure throughout my body. I find my hands finding the back of his neck and moaning his name. It only makes his skin feel hotter against mine. He retracts his teeth from my neck and finally comes back to me. No canines or red eyes. He must have realized what he'd done because he steps away with a fearful look. “Lana...what happened?”
Anger courses throughout my veins when I hear him say that. I can feel my eyes changing and my wolf taking over now. He looks at me in fear for once. He should be scared. He marked me only because he was angry. My claws swipe at his side, knocking him down with so much force.
“You asshole! You marked me! You fucking marked me!” I growl, lunging at him.
“Lana, your eyes aren’t yellow anymore.” He tries to say, but I'm not listening to what he's saying. Now it's my turn to let my wolf take over. He flips us over, reversing our position. I can feel his erection poking into me, and making me instantly turned on all of a sudden. My canines have elongated and my eyes are whatever color he said they were. My teeth find his neck, and I sink them in just as he did to me.
You mark me and I'll mark you, jerk.
It's only fair.
His moans in my ear are just making me want him even more right now. I rip open his shirt and run my hands down his muscled chest at the same time I release my teeth from his neck. Our lips find each other and it's so intense we don't even realize we still have a small audience. Cole and Natalia stand there not knowing what to do. It doesn't matter who's watching right now. We have no control over ourselves and feel nothing but one thing our bodies crave. Lust.
He wraps my legs around his waist as I fumble with his pants as I beg him. “Take me! Right here…right now.”
I moan in his mouth as our tongues meet in mine. He pushes up my dress to my waist and rips my panties off, thrusting himself deep inside me. I'm pretty sure our audience has left. I'm pretty sure Natalia doesn't want to watch her brother, and best friend have sex. I know I wouldn't want to see that.
“Yes, right there Jaxson!” I scream out digging my nails into his back. He thrusts even harder. His grunts and my moans are the only things that can be heard throughout the entire pack right now; I just hope nobody is out here taking a run, and discovers what we're doing. “Please! Harder, Alpha Jaxson!”
This seems to do something to him; because his thrust becomes much more forceful, and faster making it much more intense. I feel my walls tighten up around him making him growl out in pleasure.
“Lana! I’m-I’m…yeah, baby, you’re on fire.” He says, as I feel him twitch making my walls tighten up even more when he thrust one final time.
His body collapses against mine as our foreheads touch, and he pecks me on the lips. Both of us are out of breath with our chests heaving up and down. "God Lana, that was amazing." He says out of breath. We both straighten our clothes and I see
him pick up my panties and put them in his pocket. I cock my head to the side as to why he would need them in his pocket.
“What? It has my mates scent on them. You think I’d leave them out here? Too many unmated men in this pack.”
I find myself getting tired, but before I go to my room I'll check on Gabriel. I walk in his room and spot Jaxson laying with his son. The sight warms my heart. He looks just like Jaxson. One thing I know for sure, he's going to be a little heartbreaker. I walk up to kiss Gabriel goodnight when a hand grabs my wrist.
“Please, stay with me. I only sleep well when you are in my bed.” I put Gabriel in his bed and climbed into bed with Jaxson. An arm wraps around my waist as my eyes start to close. That night, no nightmares came.
CHAPTER 9
Jaxson
I watched her as she slept in my arms. I brushed her hair away from her neck to admire my mark. It just made her look even sexier with it on her skin. I slept a total of three hours, and here I am watching my mate sleep.
Does that make me a creep?
Probably, but I can’t help it.
She’s just so damn beautiful.
I never thought after Tara died that I would fall for another woman, but I did. I remember the first time Natalia brought her over for dinner like it was yesterday. I felt something inside of me burning, and I had no idea what it was. Now I know what that was, it was the mate bond just starting to form. I never told Natalia I remembered who she was because I knew she would make a big deal about it. I was angry that night, but not at her. My anger was directed towards the unmated males looking at her body, and the thoughts they were thinking.
My phone ringing pulls me out of my thoughts. My father was calling me. I picked it up, and held it to my ear. “Well?”
My father answered. “Her last name isn’t Delecruz. Her name is Lana Bishop Jaxson. I don’t know how to tell you this but she’s Tara’s blood. I don’t understand it. I’m coming over right now.”
Tara never spoke about a sister.
Did this mean Tara was a part witch too?
Is that why she died having our son?
“Lana, I’ve got to talk to my dad. He’s coming over with some news. I’ll come back and let you know what he tells me.”
Her beautiful eyes open and she smiles. “Alright. I’ll see you later.”
***
My father is sitting at my desk holding a file. “Son, I don’t think Tara’s death was because of the pregnancy. I think someone had her killed.”
This was too much to handle right now. My wolf was angrier than he’d ever been right now, and clawing his way to the surface. I’m glad I found my mate, but hated the fact Tara had died. Maybe she didn’t even know she had a sister.
“Jaxson, I don’t think she even knew about Lana. Her file said that she was adopted when she was just a baby.”
If she was adopted, her real parents knew that she was born a hybrid.
“Where are the real parents now?”
My father gives me a sad expression. My heart dropped when he gave me that look. It was the same look he gave me when Tara passed. Lana would never get to have the privilege of meeting her biological mother and father. “They died a little over a year ago.”
My head snapped up at him. That was about the time Tara died. “There’s a connection! Gabriel’s mother, and Lana’s biological parents died around the same time. How is that a coincidence?”
“I know, and that’s why I’m going to see what my witch knows. She should be showing up at my house in an hour. I’ll talk to you later, and son…I would tell your mate soon. Nobody wants an angry Luna around here. I should know.” He says with a sheepish grin.
I have to tell Lana everything, and I’m dreading it. This is going to hurt her and I hate that there’s nothing I can do or say to help her.
“Lana. Come with me. I have something to tell you.” Her eyes meet mine as she waits for my news. “My father handed me this file about you, and according to this your name isn’t Lana Delecruz, it’s Lana Bishop.” I blurt out.
“I don’t understand. I was adopted? Wait, where're my real parents now?”
I shake my head at her, and her eyes begin to well up with tears. I can feel her pain and suffering at the news of her parents. It was the same pain I felt when Tara died. I pull her to me, and hold her as she breaks down in my arms. I need to tell her about the significance of her parents and Tara’s death.
“That’s not all baby. Gabriel’s mother, her name was Tara Bishop. She was your sister by blood.”
I wait for her reaction, and she yanks her body away from mine and looks horrified. The look on her face just broke me even more. Now she probably doesn’t even want to be mated to me.
“She. I. Oh shit!” She says swaying back and forth. Her body starts to fall and I catch her before she falls to the floor. I carry her to the bed and Cole comes in just as I laid her down.
“Jaxson. What happened?” He asks as I stroke her face.
My poor Lana, I’m so sorry you’re going through something like this.
“She is going through some issues and needs to rest. I’ll get Natalia to check on her. I need to fill you in on what I found out from my father, but not here. My office.” I say hesitantly walking away from her.
I pace back and forth in my office trying to find the right words to tell him what I now know. “She was adopted, and her real name is Lana Bishop.”
His eyes widened in shock.
“She’s related to Tara? Wait, does that mean Tara was a part witch?”
I don’t know.
“I can’t tell you that Cole because I don’t even know the answer to that. The only people that held any answers are dead now. Her parents were killed around the same time Tara passed, and something tells me that wasn’t an accident. ”
My head hangs low and I feel his hand rest on my shoulder. “I’m sorry. Is she going to be okay?”
I hope so.
“Yes.” I lie to him the best I can. “We’ll get to the bottom of this. Did you tell my sister about being mates?”
He shakes his head in embarrassment. If he doesn’t tell her soon, there’s going to be hell to pay. Pointed directly to Cole, and possibly me, since I did know about it.
“You need to tell her.”
A voice behind us makes my body run cold.
“Tell me what? Care to elaborate, Cole?” My sister says with her hands on her hips with her golden eyes glowing brightly. She’s pissed and has a right to be.
I warned you Cole, but you just didn’t listen.
Now she’s going to own that ass.
“Nat, baby. I’m not going to lie so here it is, we’re mates.” He reveals, but she just laughs in his face. She thinks he’s messing with her like he always does. She doesn’t believe him and it’s killing him on the inside. No, it’s destroying him. Tearing him, and his wolf in half.
“That’s a good one Cole. You got me that time.” She laughs, holding her stomach from laughing so hard. “But really, what are you supposed to tell me?”
He looks at her with sad eyes, with his eyes glistening then looks back to me. “I’m sorry for what I’m about to do, Jaxson. I hope she doesn’t beat me too bad.”
Sorry for what?
Before I can even register what he just said, he stalks towards her in a predatory state of mind. He grabs her by the hips and pushes her face by the back of her head crashing his lips on hers.
She pushes him away, punching him in the face and bitterly laughs.
“You jerk! All this time you claimed to need kinks worked out of your neck, but the truth is you only wanted to get in my pants. You lied to me.” She whispered out, before running out with tears streaming down her face.
Cole doesn’t say anything as he watched his mate run away from him. Running away from your mate is just as painful as being rejected by a mate. My sister can be just as stubborn as Lana can sometimes.
“Just give her some time. She’ll cool down eventual
ly.” I try to reason with him, and he nods trying to believe it will work itself out okay.
He holds his jaw in pain.
I need to take care of my other problem, and that problem is my brother Duke. What the hell was he doing here, and more importantly what was his interest in Lana? When he had his hands all over her, I couldn’t see anything but red, and my body full of jealousy.
My brother and I never have been close, and never got along with each other. He was constantly trying to take things from me, and wanted to take Tara from me. I only assumed he wanted to do the same thing with Lana. It didn’t work with Tara, and it isn’t going to work with Lana now.
“I’m not going to ask you again. What the hell are you doing back? Why now?” Silence. “I asked you a question, and I expect you to answer me, brother.”
“What, I can’t pay a visit to my baby brother?” He laughs at me, and sniffs the air. He’s trying to get a whiff of Lana to provoke me. “Now where’s that tasty snack at? I’m hungry, and she’s just what I need right now.”
Don’t let him know he’s getting to you.
He wants you to lose it, and attack him.
He’s up to something, and I have a feeling whatever his plan is, Lana is involved in it.
“Leave now, and if you touch Lana again, I’ll fucking kill you!”
His smirk never leaves his face letting me know he’s just toying with me for now. He turns and walks away without saying another word. His silence is bad. If he’s quiet, he’s forming a new plan in his evil head, and it’s getting me worried for my mate.
This is bad.
Very, very bad.
“Cole, follow Duke and see what he’s up to,” I tell my beta as I walk up to my room to see if Lana has woken up. Her body lays limp with sweat pouring down her face, slightly jerking in her sleep. Something is happening to her, and I have no idea what to do. She begins to convulse, and blood drips from her nose.
