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  “Keep your distance, sweetheart. I don’t want any of his blood to get on you.”

  Kaito held onto Olivia, making sure she didn’t get any closer.

  “Now what?” Seamus said.

  Rafe looked at Torren. “What do we do about his pack?”

  “Set them free and take out any other rotten wolves. The innocent people deserve a chance to have a better life. Maybe they can find their fated mates.”

  Seamus looked thoughtful. “Will you accept any of them into your pack? There are a lot of younger wolves who haven’t taken mates yet, forced or otherwise. They’re inbred, but if you’re going to let them live, they could benefit from having a just and honorable Alpha like you.”

  “I’ll accept them if that’s what they want,” Torren said.

  “The older ones, like the Alpha’s male relatives, will be the ones who need to be wiped out. They insisted on the inter-mating, not caring if the males had to force themselves on the females or not. None of the women in the pack asked for that life. I think Gwen could rest in peace if she knew they had the chance she was never given,” Seamus said.

  “Then we’ll welcome them too,” Torren said. “You have my word.”

  Rafe rubbed the back of his neck. “I’ll work on getting the lodge rebuilt and set up for guests until we can build more homes. They may have to share a communal living space until we get everything sorted.”

  “I think we’ll need to make some repairs first,” Torren said, thinking about the fire. “There’s always the community hall if we can’t get the lodge ready in time, but it’s really damn small.”

  “I don’t think they’ll care,” Seamus said. “None of the matings that I know of are fated. I don’t know of any female in that pack who has been bitten and claimed completely. They’ll welcome the chance to have a new life.”

  “Seamus, I know I’m not your Alpha, but I’d like you to go with three of my males. I’ll send my enforcer and two other trusted wolves. They’ll clean out the bad wolves, and I want you to help them get the rest settled either here or help them find a new place to live. When you’re done, you’re free to go wherever you’d like,” Torren said.

  “Or you could remain with us,” Olivia said, coming to stand beside Torren but not touching him. “I know you only came after me because you were grieving and hurting. You’re not a bad wolf, Seamus. You deserve a second chance just as much as the others.”

  Seamus bowed his head, came forward, and dropped to his knees at Olivia’s feet.

  “I swear my life to you. I accept you as my Alpha female, and will protect you with my last breath,” Seamus said. “And I’m so damn sorry for trying to hurt you.”

  Torren was surprised at the turn of events, but proud of his mate. By showing the other wolf kindness, it seemed she’d gained a protector for life, other than him of course. As far as he was concerned, his mate could never have too many wolves watching over her.

  Seamus looked at Torren. “If you’ll have me in your pack, I’ll swear my allegiance to you.”

  Torren shook his head. “You can remain, but you don’t have to do that. You’ve just given your vow to my mate, and that’s good enough. If she’s accepting of you, then so am I. Get cleaned up and rest. Tomorrow I want a team of you to visit your old pack and handle matters.”

  “We’ll take care of this,” Rafe said with a wave of his hand toward the dead Alpha. “Take Olivia home. Both of you could probably use a shower and some time to yourselves.”

  Torren nodded. “Let me know if there are any problems. I want him burned, no trace left.”

  The other wolves nodded and Torren began leading the way back to the cabin, careful not to touch his mate.

  Chapter Seven

  It had been two weeks since Torren, Rafe, and Seamus had killed Gwen’s father and cleaned out his old pack. The lodge was near to bursting with female wolves who had jumped at the chance of a better life. Most of the males had scattered, but a few of the younger ones had stayed, the youngest being seventeen. Olivia had pushed for the teen to attend school in the nearby town, but Torren had argued it was too dangerous. So instead, a small building was being erected on the edge of the village. If the wolves couldn’t attend school elsewhere, Olivia insisted that a learning lab be set up with computers so they could take online classes. Torren hadn’t seen the point, but she’d argued that everyone should have at least a basic education.

  Nearly three dozen new cabins were going up as well. Enough space for the new wolves, with a little room to grow in case others found their way to Torren’s pack. Olivia was relegated to the sidelines since she was pregnant, but she’d found she was excellent at giving orders. Whenever Torren was busy, Seamus was nearby, watching over her. It was a little strange that the man who had wanted to kill her now made sure no one so much as spoke a harsh word to her. As much as she’d hated the fear she’d felt when his claws had been at her throat, she’d understood his pain and had forgiven him.

  The few vehicles the pack owned had grown as well, and now there were three covered parking areas with a combination of trucks, SUVs, a van, and two cars. The other Alpha’s pack had brought them when they’d joined Torren’s pack, and since Torren had taken out the old Alpha, by pack law all of their riches now belonged to him. Olivia had worked hard to convince him to take it. She’d known with all the things their expanding pack needed, the funds would come in handy. For an asshole, the other Alpha had known what he was doing when it came to finances.

  One of the women from the other pack approached Olivia, her head bent, but Olivia knew it wasn’t so much an act of submission as the woman was trying to hide her face. Her eyes were a little too big for her face, her nose crooked from being broken, and there was a port wine birthmark across one cheek. It hadn’t taken Olivia long to learn the female shifter was self-conscious about her looks.

  “Teema,” Olivia said. “Please look up.”

  The wolf slowly lifted her head.

  “Never be ashamed of who you are,” Olivia said. “You’re sweet, and you’re beautiful. Some lucky wolf will realize that one day.”

  “I’ll never mate,” the young woman said softly. “No one will ever want me, and they shouldn’t. It would be best if some of us didn’t breed.”

  It wasn’t the first time Olivia had heard such a comment from the females who had recently joined them. Because of what they considered tainted blood, they didn’t want to risk having children with bad genes due to all the inbreeding in their previous pack. Olivia could understand the concern of their children having problems, but she didn’t consider any of the female shifters tainted. She’d gotten to know each of them over the last two weeks, and she’d gladly call any of them family.

  “May I help with something?” Teema asked.

  Olivia watched the men working hard on the cabin frame in front of her. “Why don’t you find some fresh lemonade and offer a glass to the males working on the cabins today?”

  Teema nodded and scurried off.

  “Are you matchmaking?” Seamus asked.

  “No. But so far, the females from your old pack seem timid around the males. They need to learn that no one will hurt them or force them into something they don’t want to do.”

  Seamus nodded. “It will take some of them time. A lot of them were abused by the males who were forced to mate with them. To them, males are the enemy.”

  “I understand.”

  He watched her a moment then nodded. “Yes. I think you do.”

  The sun was beating down on Olivia and sapping her energy. Even though it was a cool fall morning, her body was running hotter these days. Torren had promised it was normal for a female expecting a wolf-shifter pup. She’d narrowed her eyes and chased after him with a butter knife for calling their son or daughter a pup, but he’d easily wrestled it from her, then made her forget her name as he stripped her bare and pleasured her for hours.

  Seamus coughed and looked away. “I think you need to find Torren.”
r />   “Why?” she asked, her brows lowering.

  “Because every wolf within a few hundred feet of you will smell your arousal. While none of them will touch you, it will make them uncomfortable.”

  Her cheeks flushed and she hurried off in the direction she’d last seen her mate.

  He was speaking with Luke and Jaxon when she approached, and he stopped mid-sentence to turn and pin her with a heated gaze that made her panties even wetter. He didn’t say anything as he quickly walked toward her, tossed her over his shoulder, and began striding toward their cabin.

  “Torren, I…”

  His hand smacked her ass. “Knowing you’ve been walking around smelling like this where my entire pack can scent your need is enough to make me want to punish you.”

  She moaned as she soaked her panties even more.

  He rubbed her ass. “Sounds like you’d enjoy that.”

  “You know I like it when you get all dominant with me. And my hormones are all over the place right now.”

  He stomped up the front steps of their home, flung open the door, then slammed it shut behind them. Torren eased Olivia off his shoulder then pointed toward their bedroom. “Get in there and strip, then bend over the bed.”

  Her heart raced as she hurried to do as he’d commanded. When she entered the bedroom, she removed her clothes, then lowered the top of her body across the bed. Anticipation buzzed under her skin as she parted her legs, hoping he’d take her the moment he entered the room.

  Instead, he walked around the other side of the bed, then looped some rope around her wrists and tied it off somewhere under the bed. When he came around behind her, he spread her legs even further, then tied her ankles too. Olivia remembered the night he’d fucked her until she’d ended up pregnant, and she moaned, hoping today would be just as hot.

  Torren’s hand cracked across her ass, making her yelp in surprise and a hint of pain. He landed several more blows against her ass cheeks, and she could feel them burning. Torren smoothed his hand across them.

  “So pretty when they turn red.”

  “Torren, please,” she begged.

  He smacked her pussy, making her yelp again, but by the third swat, she was squirming for a different reason. He pinched her clit and it was almost enough to make her come. He smacked her ass and pussy a few more times, then she felt his cock press against her. Torren entered her with one, hard thrust.

  “Is this what you wanted?” he asked, driving into her. “Did my mate need my cock?”

  “Yes!”

  He took her hard, every thrust unrelenting, as if he were trying to brand himself on her. Torren gripped her hips hard enough to leave marks as their bodies slapped together. She was so damn close, but then he was grunting out his release. She felt his hot cum filling her, then he pulled out and she heard him stroking his shaft as his cum splashed against her pussy and ass.

  She felt his hand between her legs, then he was rubbing her clit.

  “Does my pretty mate want to come?” he asked, his voice nearly a purr near her ear as he bent over her.

  “Yes! Yes, Torren. Please!”

  “What will you give me if I let you come?”

  “Anything!”

  He chuckled and she wondered if she’d made a bargain with the devil. He’d never asked her to do anything she hadn’t liked, but there was always a first time.

  He worked her clit faster and then she was screaming out her release. His cock thrust inside of her again, then he used his hands to spread her ass cheeks. Her breath caught as he worked a finger against her tight hole. The cum he’d splashed across her eased his way, and soon she was taking two fingers then three. Torren grunted, then pulled out of her pussy and she felt the head of his cock press between her ass cheeks.

  “Breathe out, sweetheart. Let me in.”

  She tried not to tense up as the head of his cock pressed inside of her. He kept going, not stopping until she felt his balls swing against her pussy. Torren pulled out, spreading her cheeks wide again.

  “Fuck but that’s beautiful. You’re stretched so wide around my cock, baby. One day, I’m going to record this so I can watch it whenever I want.”

  “Oh, God. Torren.” She closed her eyes and moaned as he took with her slow, deep strokes. Her pussy was tingling and her clit ached to be touched. With her hands bound, she couldn’t rub herself and Torren was too busy spreading her open to play with her clit.

  He started fucking her harder, faster until he was grunting with every stroke of his cock into her ass. Knowing he was watching as he fucked her made Olivia hotter than ever. The way he pounded into her had her hands gripping the bedding while she begged for more.

  “Don’t stop!” she cried out.

  Her orgasm was building and she knew if he kept up his current pace, she’d come when he did. She could feel his cock swelling and then she felt him coming. As he rammed his cock into her, Olivia shattered, coming so hard it left her breathless. Torren ground himself against her, his cock as deep as it would go.

  “Mine,” he said, the growl of his wolf coming through in his voice.

  “Yours,” she agreed.

  Despite having come twice, his cock was still hard. He swatted her ass a few more times then started thrusting into her again. Olivia didn’t know what had him so turned on this time, but she hoped he wouldn’t literally fuck her to death. He came in her ass twice more before he cleaned up, then untied her.

  “Crawl up the bed and lie on your back,” he said.

  She did as he said, then he tied her arms to the headboard, and spread her legs, tying her ankles again as well.

  “Torren?”

  “Need you,” he said, something dark in his voice. “Don’t want to hurt you.”

  He moved up the bed and straddled her shoulders, his hand wrapped around his cock.

  “Open,” he demanded.

  Olivia licked her lips then parted them. With a growl, he thrust into her mouth. He gripped the headboard with both hands and drove his cock into her, fucking her as if he were demon-possessed. He spilled into her mouth, then pulled out and wiped more cum on her lips. Torren panted as he backed away, his cock just as hard as before.

  “Torren, what’s going on?” she asked.

  “Don’t know,” he said with his teeth clenched. “Hot. So damn hot. Need to fuck you.”

  There was almost a craziness in his eyes and it frightened her a little, but Torren had never hurt her. Not even when he’d lost control during sex. He might give her more orgasms than she could handle, and leave her sore for a few days, but she didn’t think he’d ever harm her.

  “Take what you need,” she said. “I trust you, Torren. I love you.”

  He stopped, every muscle tight. “Love?”

  “Yes, I love you.”

  Some of the craziness faded from his eyes, and it was like watching a mask fall away. Suddenly, her Torren was back in control.

  “Olivia?” he asked, sounding almost uncertain.

  “It’s okay, Torren.”

  His gaze traced over her tied arms and legs, then he sniffed the air before moving closer and running his fingers through the cum leaking out of her.

  “Did I hurt you? I don’t… I don’t know what happened.”

  He rubbed her clit and Olivia squirmed. “You didn’t hurt me, but I’d really like to come right now.”

  Torren leaned down and took one of her nipples into his mouth, nipping and sucking at the tip, while his fingers teased her clit. When she was begging him, pleading for him to fuck her, he settled over her body and thrust deep into her pussy.

  His hands gripped her ass and pulled her tight against him as he ground into her. “Mine.”

  “Yes, yours. Always yours,” she murmured, floating on waves of pleasure.

  Torren began thrusting, his pelvis brushing her clit with every stroke, until she was screaming out his name and pulling at her bonds. Her wolf didn’t stop until he’d filled her twice with his cum, and even then he didn’t p
ull out of her.

  “I don’t know what came over me, Olivia. I think my wolf went a little crazy with so many scents clinging to you. Everyone who touched you or got too close today, their scents were on you.”

  “It’s all right, Torren. You didn’t hurt me. I’m fine.”

  He kissed her slowly, deeply.

  “I love you,” he said, staring down into her eyes. “So fucking much.”

  “I love you too.” She squirmed under him. “Um, unless you’re going to fuck me again, we should probably get cleaned up.”

  A gleam of something entered his eyes and he growled.

  “Or not,” she said.

  He seemed to calm again. “I need my scent on you. I honestly feel like I could cum all over you, smear it into every inch of your skin, come inside you over and over. My wolf still feels a little crazy. I was fine when the females arrived, but ever since the new males got here, I’ve felt my wolf getting closer to the surface.”

  “They’re an unknown to you. Probably the Alpha in you, wanting to make sure I’m thoroughly claimed, even though I assure you none of them have looked at me with any interest.”

  “Maybe.” He frowned. “Would you… would you stay inside for a few days? Or at least near the cabin?”

  “All right.” She smiled. “But you’ll have to think of ways to entertain me throughout the day. Maybe come home for a quickie every few hours?”

  He snorted. “There’s nothing quick about getting my hands on you. Once you’re stripped naked, it’s all I can do not to thrust into your body and never come back out. I like being inside of you.”

  She wiggled her hips, making him growl. “I noticed.”

  “I need to make a call. I don’t like how out of control my wolf feels. If I ever hurt you, I’d never forgive myself.”

  “Then make your call. But, um… untie me first?”

  He smiled and kissed her again. “Deal. I’ll even bring you some food when I return. Don’t move from the bed.”