I did it. I saved him.
My legs give out like I’m a puppet whose strings have been cut.
Brick turns to me just in time to watch me fall.
Brick
Madi. Oh, fate, my brave sweet little mate. I shift to human form and catch her up in my arms.
Get her inside. Quick. Fuck.
Billy and the others have finished off the red-eyed wolves. They flank me as I fold Madi close to my chest and run into the chalet.
“In here,” an old Austrian shifter says, throwing the door open wide for my bloodied pack.
I hunch and run through the living room, past grand windows showcasing the glorious mountain range. I need to get Madi somewhere private, safe.
I hear Billy getting rid of the chalet owner, asking him to spread word that “hunt the human” is no game. Thank fuck. I don’t need to involve other packs in this shit.
Madi’s eyes are closed, her black lashes fanned out on her pale cheeks.
“Madison. Madi. Wake up. Look at me, sweetheart. I need to know you’re okay.” I readjust my hold, and she whimpers, flinching. “Baby, it’s me.”
Her cracked lips part. “Brick?” she whispers. Her eyelashes flutter, but she looks dazed. I cup her face, careful to avoid smearing blood all over her. Her skin is so cold. “I’m here. You’re with me.” I hold her closer. “Stay with me, Madi.”
Madi’s eyes open and try to focus on me. “Are you okay?” she croaks.
I want to howl, my wolf still frantic. “Oh, baby. I can’t believe I let this happen to you. I never should have left you.”
I need to warm her up. How? Light a fire? Run a bath?
I go to find a bath. “What the ever-loving fuck happened out there?” I bellow as I carry her down a hallway. I kick open a bathroom door and step inside.
“Adalwulf bastards,” Nickel says. I hear him and my other pack brothers moving in quickly, securing the chalet, assessing resources.
“Odin must have lost his ever-loving mind,” Vance calls from another room. I hear the sound of curtains yanking closed. “He’s asking for war, and it’s a war he won’t win. He sacrificed most of his best wolves today. Fuck-I’d heard he’s sick in the head, but this crossed all lines.”
“It’s the witchery.” Billy’s stomping this way. “The old crone is long past her death date. She’s sucked the life and sanity out of Odin. It warped him.”
My fingers tremble as I turn Madi’s face one way and the other to see where the blood is coming from. “How did this happen? They outright kidnapped my mate and dropped her in the middle of the Pack Games
!”
I want to kill every one of those red-eyed fuckers all over again.
“Alpha.” Billy follows me into the bathroom, and I snarl at him. He stops short, but I keep my teeth bared.
I don’t trust anyone right now. Not with Madi.
The Adalwulfs tried to kill my mate.
Madi shudders and lets out a softly pained gasp.
Billy steps back, angling his head. “Alpha, you’re hurting her.”
I look down. He’s right, I’m holding her too close. The scent of her blood is driving my wolf mad. I need to strip her down and see where she’s wounded.
She blinks at me, shivering. Blood trickles from her temple down her cheek where a twig grazed her. If she was a shifter, that shallow cut would be healed by now.
But she’s human. And I have no idea what the fuck to do.
I kick the hot water knob on with my boot, too enraged and protective to put Madi down even for a moment.
Then I whirl to face my pack brothers who now crowd the doorway. “Would somebody please tell me what the fuck happened on the island?” I roar. Sully knew about a security glitch. “Did Sully know something happened and didn’t fucking tell me?” I point a finger at all of them. “Did any of you know that my mate had been kidnapped?”
Vance and Nickel draw back as if I’d struck them. These are the men I normally trust with my life. But right now I don’t know who I can trust. Who fucked me over. None of them wanted me to mate Madi.
“We knew nothing,” Jake answers first.
“I swear it,” Billy says.
“On my life,” Nickel chimes in.
“I’ll try Sully now, but I’m sure he didn’t know either.” Billy pulls his cell phone from his pocket and hits a button.
“I will tear out the throat of anyone who played a part in this.” I pin each of them in turn with a murderous glare.
“We’re not the enemy, Alpha.” Billy pockets his phone, shaking his head, apparently not reaching Sully. “We’re here. We have your back-as always.”
I recognize the truth in his words, but my wolf is still out for blood. “I need to know how they found Madi. And how they breached our security on the island,” I bark. “And I need reports from all pack security. Was anyone else hit? In the Berkshires, in New York?”
“Yes, Alpha.”
They start murmuring about setting a guard. We’re still in unknown territory, reliant on an ally’s goodwill. I don’t like it.
“Call in reinforcements. More Adalwulfs might still be out there-” Billy is saying when Madi shivers. I kick the door shut in their faces, so I can tend to her in privacy.
“Count the bodies,” I shout through the door, quickly but carefully removing Madi’s clothes. “Document it. But keep it under wraps for now.” I can’t announce to my pack that our rivals kidnapped my mate and tried to get her killed when I haven’t even told them I have a mate.
“Yes, Alpha,” Vance answers.
I sit on the side of the tub, cradling Madi against my chest.
I work carefully. Madi is in shock, her lashes fluttering open and closed.
“You’ve got me,” she murmurs.
“I’ve got you. Here.” I strip off her flimsy sundress. There are scratches on her face, and the palms of her hands are torn. Her feet are bare but somehow not bleeding. Her calves and knees are bruised and chapped from the cold. Her right ankle is bright red and a little puffy.
I tease a twig from her hair. The rock in her engagement ring flashes on her bloodied, battered hand.
“Fuck, Madi.” I press my forehead against the back of her hand. “Fuck.”
“It’s ok.”
Why is she comforting me?
“No. It’s not.” I don’t know if I’ll ever be okay again. Knowing my fragile, human mate could be taken from me at any time will forever haunt me.
I lift her into the tub, arranging her body in front of mine. The water turns red from the blood and mud on my body. “You’re going to be okay, just stay with me baby. We can’t warm you up too quickly.”
She whimpers, shrinking from the water even though I kept the temperature tepid. “Your heat makes my skin burn.”
My heart thunders against Madi’s back. After a few moments, her breath grows stronger. Her skin warms. I sense the life force returning to her body.
“I’m okay.” She sits up, rallying like we’re still at battle.
“It’s okay. It’s over. You’re safe now.”
She moves to stand up, though, so I lift her with my hands at her waist. She climbs out of the tub, still favoring her right leg.
“Your ankle,” I gesture at it. “You need to see a doctor.”
“It can wait.” She dries off like she has somewhere to go.
I climb out and drain the tub. “Madi…look at me.”
When she turns, she’s completely composed. She’s the same efficient, self-possessed assistant who walked into my office, turned my world on its head, and ripped my heart from my chest. There’s no sign of trauma. Only massive determination.
She hands me a towel.
I still want to tear the world apart for trying to take her from me, but she truly appears to be okay. Scraped and bruised but not dying. “I need you, Madi.”
It’s not what I meant to say-not at all. In fact, it’s not something an alpha should ever say-at least not the way my father led. But it’s the honest truth. I need Madi with a desperation that’s still driving me mad. I nearly lost her out there, and my wolf won’t quiet until I’ve claimed her again, thoroughly.
It’s definitely not the right thing to say when Madi must still be fuming over me coming to the Pack Games and leaving her on that island.
But for some reason, she doesn’t show any anger or resistance. “I’m here. I’m yours.” She drops her towel and steps forward.
My body collides with hers before my brain even gives it the order to move. I snatch her up in my arms to keep her weight off her hurt ankle. I pin her against the wall, kissing the fuck out of her mouth, sucking down her neck, cupping and squeezing one breast.
“I need you.” Again, I didn’t mean to speak, but the words rasp from my throat. I just let go and go with it. “I need you so fucking much.”
Her legs wrap around my waist, and then I’m carrying her out of the bathroom, oblivious to whether we’ll be seen. My brain cells have all taken a dive south of my waist, and my dick is clearly in control right now.
I find a bedroom and kick the door shut. I’m ravenous. I toss Madi into the center of the bed and climb over her, spreading her legs and feasting like a starved man. I squeeze and knead her ass, lifting it so her core is easy to lick, suck, and penetrate with my tongue.
Madi’s voice bleeds through her panting. Her whimpers and cries of pleasure drive me even faster to madness.
“
Now, Brick,” she orders.
I don’t know what she means, but there’s nothing I won’t do to satisfy her. I drop her hips back onto the bed and climb over her.
She spreads her knees wide, tipping her entrance up for me. Clearly this is what she needs from me.
“You want me inside you, beautiful?”
“Yes,” she moans. “Now.” She cups her own breasts, squeezing them, looking every inch like a sex goddess.
One swift snap of my hips, and I bury my cock inside my beautiful mate.
She cries out, and I freeze, afraid I hurt her, but then she begins moving her hips to meet mine. Moving them with determination, like she needs more.
“Is this what you need, Madi?” I ease back and slam in home again.
She cries out again, her eyes rolling back in her head. “Yes,” she cries.
“You need a good, hard fucking?” I pick up my speed, delivering deep, hard, steady thrusts.
“Yes, Brick.”
Something about hearing my name on her lips drives me fucking mad. I let out a wolf-like snarl and drop to one hand beside her head, pumping faster now, like fucking her is my job. My living. My purpose in life.
“Madi…Madi…beautiful Madi,” I chant, desperate to see her come.
The room is hot. It’s spinning. I somehow sense the moon shining on us, blessing our union.
Right. Because Madison is my mate.
“Madi.”
“Brick.” Her nails dig into my shoulders. “I love you.”
My breath catches. My balls draw up tight, and then I come so hard I forget where my body stops and where hers begins. I come so hard, I must scald her with the hot ribbons of my release.
Madi comes, too, her mouth open on a silent cry, her internal muscles working my cock, squeezing every last drop of cum from it.
I let out a broken-sounding groan as I lower my body onto hers, kissing along her ear, her hairline, across the bridge of her nose, and finally mating my mouth with hers.
It’s true, she’s broken me. I’m nothing of the man I was before I met her. Before I mated her.
I knew she was my weakness, but I suddenly understand that it’s not because she’s human. It’s not because mating her may mean losing the pack. It’s because she cracked me open. Showed me what life looks like with love in it. With a female I can trust and depend on. One who has my back as much as I have hers.
She made me vulnerable in so many ways. I’m wracked by the fear of losing her, of her being harmed by my enemies. But most of all, I’m just vulnerable to receiving her love.
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