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“By the Gods, your ass is perfect, mate. And your cream is teasing my senses. I need you.”

She felt a rush of desire fill her body and soul. Orion pulled her lower to his chest, causing her ass to push back and her legs to spread wider. She knew Palidor’s intentions and she wanted it.

Palidor used both hands to caress up her inner thighs to her mound. When his fingers collided with her wet, useless panties, she was shocked when he tore them from her body. Her breasts thrust forward from the move, and Orion captured a mouthful of her breast.

He sucked so very hard she tilted forward as her ass pressed backward, and then she felt Palidor’s fingers push between her wet folds.

Moaning, she allowed them to continue, and when Palidor started to thrust his fingers a little faster into her cunt, she began to ride his digits.

The feel of his other large hand against her hip bone, holding her in place and guiding her thrusts, aroused every feminine instinct inside of her. She shivered with need and then she felt him lower behind her. A moment later, he pulled his fingers from her pussy and replaced them with his wolfen tongue.

“Oh, Palidor. Holy crap, what are you doing? Oh!” She moaned and Orion continued to suckle her breast and pull on the nipple. Then he moved her hand over his crotch and that was when she felt his erection.

“That’s what you do to me. Touch me, baby. Come on.” He thrust his hips upward. She was hesitant to do as he asked, but he was insistent and so was Palidor as his palm slapped against her ass cheek.

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Her pussy exploded, and in response she wanted revenge. Unzipping Orion’s pants, she quickly shoved her hand down in there and gasped.

He was huge and hard and her wolf growled low.

“That’s it, baby. Your wolf knows her mates are here.” Orion told her. He scooted further toward the passenger door and spread his legs.

Palidor adjusted his position as he continued to feast on her pussy.

Ariella felt her eyes change and she started to breath heavily. She looked down and saw the pre-cum on the tip of his thick, hard cock.

She licked her lips.

She wanted to taste him. She didn’t care about her desire for independence and to avoid mating. She wanted what was hers.

Lowering down, she licked the top.

“Holy Goddesses. Yes.” Orion growled and then gripped her hair.

In defiance of his dominant move, she sucked part of his cock into her mouth. Up and down she moved her mouth over him, and his hold lightened and then suddenly went loose. He thrust upward, meeting her strokes, and she craved more.

“Holy shit, Ariella. Where the hell did you learn to do that? Oh, fuck!” He yelled. She felt the smack to her ass.

“She better not have sucked on any wolf’s cock before.” Palidor growled over her shoulder then nipped her neck. Her pussy leaked and then she sucked harder.
Let them think I did, and that I’m not so
easily controlled.

Orion gripped her shoulders and thrust up. She swallowed his seed, her wolf loving the taste of her mate, identifying his scent as he continued to hold firm.

Palidor smacked her ass again and again and she screamed her release, falling against Orion. Palidor pulled his fingers from her pussy and caressed her ass cheeks, while Orion kissed her forehead and pushed the hair from her damp cheeks.

“Ours, always,” Palidor whispered and squeezed both ass cheeks firmly, causing her to moan.

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“By the Goddesses, when are you going to learn to follow the rules?” Jacob yelled as he stood in front of his daughter, feeling the rage.

“This cannot continue, Ariella,” Luke added.

“Why? Why must you be so wild?” Troy asked.

“Two times in less than four days someone has tried to take you, yet you still sneak out, and during the ball,” Brad added.

Ariella sat on the couch in the study with her legs crossed and her hands clasped on her lap. Which was not easy considering that she wasn’t wearing any panties. She’d flipped out on Orion when he stuffed them into his jacket packet and told her she wouldn’t be needing panties around them ever again. Recalling his words and the feel of Palidor’s hands reaching under her skirt to caress her bare ass cheek made her blush even now.

She was so high strung, so utterly enraged at this situation, she was speechless.

“Don’t you have anything to say for yourself? You could have been taken. We don’t know who these rogue wolves are,” Jacob stated with a growl. The entire room felt the intensity of his tone.

“Jacob, please calm down. She is safe,” Antoinette began to say.

All four Alphas growled at her.

“We had it under control, Alphas. She was safe with us nearby,”

Orion said as he held her gaze. She locked gazes with him and she could see his smile in his eyes. The sneak. He was enjoying this. Both him and Palidor really expected her to just immediately fall into Alphas’ mate. A royal mate no less? Ha.

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“I was fine without either of you there,” she retorted, and Orion raised his eyebrow.

“Really, sweetheart? Is that why your two little Fae friends are still out cold in the infirmary?” Palidor asked.

“This is ludicrous.”

The door opened and Charity, Maximus, Luther, and Dante entered.

“We heard. Is Ariella okay?” Maximus asked.

“For now she is. It seems that these groups of rogue wolves are trying to nab her. This is the second incident in the last few days,”

Troy told him.

Maximus’s eyes widened. He looked toward his son. Ariella cringed a moment. Maximus, Dante, and Luther were huge men.

Their sons were definitely just as big and that really intimidated her.

But then she thought about the wolves. The rogue ones with the darkened hearts. They didn’t want to be rogue. They didn’t want to kill or cause harm. Something was controlling them.

“Orion, Palidor, are you aware of the situation? Is there more you can tell us?” Maximus asked.

“Unofficially, we have been tracking similar packs throughout the world. We don’t know what their agenda is or what they’re after, but the higher-ups are concerned enough to send out recon wolves,”

Palidor stated.

“They caught one of the rogue wolves tonight, but before he could be restrained and transported, he died,” Troy told them.

“What? How the hell did that happen?” Luther asked.

“We have no idea. We believe it has something to do with whoever has control over these rogues,” Orion stated.

“I don’t like this. Ariella, you are forbidden to leave this house,”

Jacob ordered.

Ariella gasped. She was outraged, but they all discussed plans to secure her and the other women and children in the area.

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Ariella looked at Orion and Palidor who were adding their comments and concern over what happened at the club and in the woods.

“It’s obvious that whomever the leader is, he or she is interested in Ariella,” Orion said.

“But why? What could they possibly want? I’m not getting any information from the Goddesses?” Charity said.

Antoinette looked at Ariella. “I’m not getting anything either.”

In that moment Ariella felt the sensation. She heard the voice, remembered the voice that guided her earlier at the club. What she had seen through the eyes of the wolf had been clear. But considering the way her family was reacting to the recent incident, it didn’t seem like the right time or the place to tell them that more danger was coming and that her help was needed.

But then it seemed as though they were all treating her like some child, a person incapable of handling what the Goddesses set out for her to overcome. With attitude, she stood up.

“Enough,” Ariella stated firmly.

The room fell silent. Her fathers stared at her with angry expressions, and she momentarily freaked, but then swallowed hard.

The power and certainty of the fact that she was right in this gave her courage to continue.

“I will not be treated as a child. I am a grown woman, of Fae and wolf. These rogue wolves need me.”

“They want to kill you or possess your powers,” Luke said.

She shook her head. “The rogues themselves do not want to be rogues. Something, someone is controlling them. If they deny the orders or fail in their mission, then they die.”

“How do you know this?” Jacob asked her.

“The Goddesses may not have spoken to you, Mother, or to Charity, but they have spoken to me. Someone helped me in the woods and at the club. There is more going on here, and it is my
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destiny to handle this head-on. Not behind closed doors and locks,”

she added, giving her fathers a firm, annoyed expression.

“You will not risk your life for something so unclear. This could be a trap. If things are really getting bad out there and someone is using packs of rogue wolves, then your safety is priority,” Brad said.

“I will not be locked behind doors. I will come and go as I please and no one can stop me.” She started to walk from the room until she heard Palidor’s voice.

“Not so fast, mate. Things have officially changed.”

“Mate?” Jacob raised his voice in surprise. Antoinette and Charity smiled.

“You knew about this?” Troy asked Antoinette.

“I had my suspicions,” Antoinette replied and Charity smiled.

“This is wonderful news. Both of you are Ariella’s mates?”

Maximus asked.

“Yes,” Orion and Palidor stated together.

Everyone was excited and began to congratulate them, but Ariella stood her ground.

“Don’t go celebrating yet. I haven’t accepted them as my mates, and this doesn’t change a thing.”

They all stopped to look at her.

“There is no way of fighting it, Ariella. The Goddesses have spoken and this is wonderful news,” Brad told her.

“When I’m ready to accept them as my mates, I’ll let them know.”

She eyed them over. And what a stupid thing to do when she was trying to act so unaffected. She was already wondering how she was going to go to sleep tonight without them being near
. How freaking
crazy?

“You seemed accepting on the way over here,” Palidor, that pompous sexy wolf, had the nerve to say as he patted his pocket. Her cheeks warmed. She knew her wet, ripped panties were in there. Well, she was certain as all the wolves sniffed the air that they knew she had fooled around with the wolves.

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“Oh, that? Hmmm, it was fun, but I’m a twenty-first-century wolf, not one from the dark ages. It’s going to take a hell of a lot more than fingers, tongue, and kissing to bind me to you for eternity. Good night!” She turned to walk out of the room. She heard the gasps, her name mumbled by her fathers under growls, and then her mom and Charity’s chuckles.

I can do this. I can walk away from them. I know I can. I won’t
become like other mates. Depending upon them for every breath I
take, every part of me shared with them. I cannot do that. Not now. I
just can’t give up my identity, my self, my opinions, and the person I
am. Please let me walk away. We are not bonded. I don’t need them
by me every waking hour.

She chanted to herself as she walked. She became angry at the fact that her heart ached, and her mind spurred thoughts of poetry, lyrics to lover’s songs, and things all related to falling in love.

She stomped up the stairs and headed to her bedroom, so deep in thought that as she took the final step and turned toward her doorway, she was shocked as strong arms lifted her in the air.

His scent was the first thing that hit her.
Palidor. Holy shit.

He growled low as he walked with her in his arms, not saying a word, just appearing dominant and set on his intentions. She tried with very little effort to pry herself from his arms. Massive, muscular, hard-as-stone arms and a chest to die for. Her belly quivered, and her pussy wept with desire.

He shoved her door open with his foot, as if he knew the room was hers. He probably smelled her scent, followed it to this direction.

Why hadn’t she sprung a spell?

Because you want this. Both him and Orion are the types of men
you’re attracted to that both your Fae side and wolf side thirst to have
as mates. The Goddesses know that I need discipline, authority, and
careful, tender care when necessary, but also a firm hand.

The door slammed closed and she turned toward it.

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Orion. Oh, God, I can’t. I won’t be able to survive without them. I
have to. I can’t just bend over, bow down, and accept their Alpha
dominance. I’m a woman, a Fae, a wolf, a magi.

“Put me down, you beast. How dare you carry me around like some possession, some toy.” She slapped her hand against Palidor’s chest. Instantly she felt the ache to her feminine hand. He was built of pure stone. She stared at him and his eyes of gold. He was breathing through his nostrils.

She flattened her palm over his chest. Her nipples hardened. Her pussy felt swollen and in need. The cool air collided against her folds, reminding her of her nakedness.

“In our arms, in our possession, is where you belong,” Palidor stated firmly.

“You will accept your fate. That little display of independence and attitude is going to cost you a punishment you soon will not forget,”

Orion stated. He sat on her bed after tossing his jacket onto her chair and loosening the tie he wore. He pulled it from his collar, undid the first two buttons, and spread his thighs. He held on to his knees.

“Bring her to me. I’ll start.”

She gasped, wondering what he meant by that, and she clung to Palidor.

“What are you going to do?” She stared into Orion’s bold, blue eyes that changed to yellow as their gazes locked.

Palidor walked closer and twisted her around, placing her over Orion’s knees.