flirted.
At that, he dropped the welcome mat and fully exposed himself inside the car. He leaned over the armrest and grabbed my neck, pulling me in for a long kiss.
“When is our wedding night? I’m not sure I can wait any longer,” he confessed in a husky voice.
I smiled. But behind my smile I was worried. I wanted to marry him. I wanted to set a date, but … Layla. “You know we don’t have to wait to do it until we are married. This is the 21 st century.” I laughed at his nakedness. “Cover up before someone sees you!”
Kai slipped into his pants and gave me a side glance. “Call me old fashioned. I’ve waited hundreds of years for my mate. They say the first time you go to bed with your mate after the mating ceremony, it transcends this reality. The mating ceremony opens the bond forever.”
Whoa. Having a link with Kai I could never close sounded terrifying. I was a stubborn, private woman with daddy issues. He would know everything, all the time. I drove the rest of the way home in silence thinking about his words.
Rogue
‘Pack meeting, now,’ Kai sent to the pack. The merge of the Portland pack with our Mount Hood pack had made our family larger, more powerful. Kai was never after power or large numbers, but it did help.
Kai stood on a picnic table and looked down on all of us. We were clustered in our large backyard surrounded by hundred-year-old trees. The moss was thick on the branches and the fog was settling on the ground. God, I loved this mountain. I held Kai’s tablet pointed at him so that the werewolf council on the other end could see him as he spoke through video chat.
“There has been a vampire attack on Safe Haven. A human was killed. Mutilated is a better description.” Kai’s voice was deep and boomed with the power of the Alpha. The pack members were outraged.
“For many decades, we have lived separately from the vampires and witches. Our concern was with our territory, our own dwindling population. We have been concerned with finding our mates and having children. I fear now that if we don’t deal with the vampires properly, than we will be leaving our children to a world of chaos. They will grow up as warriors and their childhood will be taken from them. Their parents may not live long enough to show them the way of the wolf.”
The pack roared their agreement. I spotted Devon, who placed his hand on Emma’s swollen belly and nodded to Kai.
“Legend says that Spirit created werewolves to protect humans. There are tales of werewolves guarding the heavily populated human streets from thirsty vampires. Of werewolves being so big in number that the vampires feared us ! We have relaxed and become complacent. We let the vampires feed off of the humans and only intervene if they kill a few and it makes it in the news. When is the last time we guarded a human night club or bar from the bloodsuckers?” He let the silence linger.
“This stops today! From now on, we are the guardians of humanity and of werewolf culture. We protect what is ours! Our way of life, our females, our traditions will not be taken! It’s time to live out our legend. It’s time to go to war!” Kai screamed and the last part came out in a half-wolf howl.
The council coursed their agreement. “We will spread the word to all packs. By next week, we will start making our presence known to the vampires. Send a message that killing the humans is off limits,” his father, a council member in India, said over the