Mated & Blooded, A Blood Ties Novel, Book 1

by Kalalea George

  I watched as a male wolf brutally forced open the shackles with the female’s flesh and blood. My power of psychometry was very strong and very well developed. Not only could I see the series of events, I often felt the emotions of those who had touched the object as well. The male wolf felt pure hatred towards the shewolf now lying dead on the floor. Even more stimulating I knew he was mated to her, though hadn’t been her true mate.

  I moved through the room touching objects here and there. With each object I touched I continued to learn more bits and pieces of information on what had taken place in this room over the past several days. I was definitely becoming more amused with each item I touched.

  Just as I was leaving the room, I touched the door jam and got a strong visual image of a female vampire. What astonished me most about the vision is that she was embracing a young male wolf and that the embrace was much more than just friendly. I found myself thinking that I just might have to let Nikoli live, his little twisted world was intriguing indeed.

  (Nikoli’s POV)

  I carried Lucas back to my place. I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do with him once I got there but I found myself running with him anyway. I burst through my front door and carried him straight to the guest room that his mother had occupied just earlier today. I laid him on the bed and felt a bolt of electricity shoot through my body. I knew that an elder was nearby and by the sheer power I had to assume it was Kenyan.

  Of all the elders that had answered my request for help he was the one that I had almost hoped wouldn’t answer. Though as the oldest of our race if any had a solution it would be him. I turned towards the door and took in the sight of him. I had never seen him with my own eyes before. He was amazing to look at. He stood well over six foot two inches tall with pure white long hair that fell below his waist. He had it woven together with coral and other jewels mixed in. He wore an old fashioned red velvet robe you would imagine a Greek god would wear. He smelled of leather, lavender and cedar.

  He looked every bit the ancient that he was. If I didn’t know he was just another vampire I would have dropped to the floor and worshiped him as a god. Looking into his face, I had to fight doing just that. I struggled to find my own voice. Finally I managed to croak out the question

  “Can I assume you are Kenyan?”

  He snorted and cracked a very small smile and responded

  “I am. Relax young one, I rarely ever kill one of my own race. I was very intrigued when you called yesterday. I am here to see for myself the truth of your words. Come closer so that I can touch you and know all that you have been through”

  I moved closer and felt Kenyan touch my forehead. I felt a small pain then nothing. I must have blacked out because the next thing I knew I was awake and sitting in a chair in my living room. Kenyan was sitting opposite of me with a look of amusement on his face. The moment he noticed I was awake he immediately started speaking to me.

  “So it is true. You really are half blooded to your beloved and she is a werewolf. I was so sure that when I got here I would find that you were mentally deranged and that you had created something that wasn’t true.”

  He looked at me like he wanted me to say something. I was at a loss for words so I just swallowed hard and dropped my eyes to the floor. Then he started speaking again.

  “Quite a quandary you have here. A beloved with poisonous blood and a wolf that hates everything about you seems to me like you are in a bit of a jam. Let me see if I can lay out the facts for you.

  Fact number one: You will die if you try and complete the blood bond between yourself and your beloved wolf.

  Fact number two: Her wolf will never accept you as a possible lover or likely even as a friend since she sees you as a threat to her wolf mate

  Fact number three: Your beloveds wolf will only die if your beloved dies and or if her bonded wolf mate dies.

  Fact number four: We are vampires and are immortal she and her wolf mate are mortal. While we have forever their years are numbered”

  I felt the air shift and suddenly found Kenyon mere inches in front of my face. I felt his hot breath slap into my cheeks as he said his next words

  “I do believe I have the solution to your problem. It seems apparent to me that you need to make sure she mates and bonds with her wolf upstairs before he dies. Then once he dies her wolf dies. Then we can figure out how you can finish the blooding.”

  Chapter 31

  (Ryan POV)

  I was lying in bed next to my mate feeling so content from our recent love making when I started to think about my conversation with Rob again. I couldn’t believe everything he’d told me. I didn’t want it to be true. I wanted Lucas to be okay and have the happily ever after ending that I was going to have with my mate Lily.

  I turned over and took in her beautiful body again. It felt like I had known her forever. It was hard to believe that it was just earlier today that I’d met her. Yet here were already fully mated and bonded. I hadn’t meant to but I started to touch her the moment I thought about losing her. She awoke the moment my fingers touched the soft flesh on her side.

  “Hey baby you okay?” she said in soft tender voice.

  Then reached out and pulled my head in towards her breast. I felt my cheek rest against her warm chest. I sighed and said

  “Yeah, I’m just thinking about my brother Lucas again. I hate that I don’t know if he is okay . It just hurts me to know that he is probably laying somewhere dying or worse dead already.”

  I felt a tear slip from eye and land on the curve of her breast. My chest hurt thinking of Lucas lying somewhere alone and dying. He’d been a good brother, and a great friend to me. Without him I think I would have lived a very lonely life.

  My mother had never been much of a touchy feely wolf and dad well; he didn’t pay much attention to Rob or me since he had already chosen Lucas as his heir. Even my twin brother rarely ever provided me with the touch that I needed. He occasionally gave me a high five, but rarely ever embraced me the way my wolf desired to be touched.

  It was always Lucas that kept an eye on me. He would make sure that he hugged or embraced me on a pretty regular basis. It was like he knew that my wolf needed the touch and he would seek me out and make sure that I always had what I needed. Lily adjusted slightly and looked into my face.

  “I’m so sorry about your brother baby.” Then she leaned down and pressed her lips into mine.

  “I can tell that you need closure, how about we head out and try to find him. No one knows these mountains better than me and your sister we can probably figure out where the vampire left him”

  (Rob’s POV)

  I grunted in frustration. I knew I was never going to be able to fall asleep. I was riddled with guilt. I couldn’t believe that I had become such a bad person so fast. Lucas was my brother. Hell, for most of my life I had been closer to him than my own twin.

  I felt hot tears splash down my face. I bellowed in pain and rage at the thought of him being dead. How could I have become so selfish and so self motivated that I had allowed it to come to this. I should have been there for him. I should have had his back not turned away from him simply because he was mated to the freak. It was destiny’s choice not his.

  I was so ashamed of myself for everything I’d done and become in the last few days. I wasn’t worthy of being the alpha. Lucas should be here not me. If either of us deserved to die, it was me not him. I yelled out in anger and frustration and smashed my end table.

  I wasn’t worried about making any noise. The pack knew I’d been very close to my brother our entire lives, they also knew it would only be natural for me to grieve his loss. What they didn’t know was how guilty and ashamed I was. If I could take back everything that I’d done over the past week, I would. If I could give my life so that Lucas could live, I would.

  I wasn’t even sure if he was dead yet, I knew with the damage that had been done to his throat it was just a matter of time. I couldn’t let Lucas rot somewhere in
an unmarked grave, he deserved better than that, I needed more that, I needed closure. I needed to find my brothers body and bring it home. I jumped out my bedroom window and shifted in mid air. The moment my paws touched the ground I started running back towards the east border.

  I howled out my pain and ran like my life depended on it. I heard several of my pack members howl behind me joining in my song of sorrow. None of them however followed me. I think they just assume I was going to the border to cry for the loss of my brother.

  (Lauren’s POV)

  I yipped loudly and waited for Ryan and Lily to catch back up with me. It had been so easy to pick up the vampire and my brother Lucas’s scent even though it had been hours since they moved through this area. I knew every single inch of the woods surrounding Northern Star territory. It was clear to me that the vampire was taking Lucas to an old mansion that sat just outside of the BlueRidge pack territory.

  I watched Ryan and Lily bound over a downed tree and come to a dead stop. Their ears both dropped back and both of them bared their teeth at the same time and started to growl. I slowly turned my head and caught the scent of another wolf moving in our direction. I cautiously moved back towards my alpha and his mate. I dropped low to the ground and couldn’t help but whimper.

  I watched as another wolf broke through the foliage and stopped right in front of my alpha pair. I almost wet myself with fear of what was going to happen next. Then I realized it must be my other brother Rob, Ryan’s twin brother. Their scents were so similar and aside from the patches of black on their ears being the exact opposites they were identical in size, shape and coloring.

  Ryan and Rob shifted back into their human forms and started talking. Since Rob was a different pack he couldn’t mind speak with Lily and I. I wanted to shift but Ryan had growled at Lily and I to stay in our wolf forms. Seems he wasn’t comfortable with Rob seeing Lily naked. Not thinking that when he pushed the order it was aimed at me too. So I stayed in my wolf form unable to do anything against my alpha and waited patiently for Ryan to introduce me to my brother.

  I sat with my tail wagging and my tongue hanging stupidly from my mouth. I yipped excitedly to draw attention towards me. Finally Ryan caught on and told Rob that I was Lauren and that I was his half sister too. I thought that he might have allowed me to shift but instead he said we can hold the family reunion until we found our older brother Lucas. I was pleased with that command and yipped again and picked up the trail.

  I mind spoke with Ryan to let him know I had the trail. He verbally told Rob and they both shifted and started following me again. If I was right about where the vampire was headed we would find my older brother dead or alive within the next hour.

  Chapter 32

  (Kalli’s POV)

  I had been pacing back and forth since Nikoli had left. I was worried. My wolf was freaking out and neither of us could seem to settle down. I reach out multiple times in my mind and tried to speak with Nikoli but I wasn’t getting a response.

  My mom was driving me nuts. She kept trying to calm me down and that was only making me crazier. I finally lost my patience and hollered at her. Her feelings were hurt so she decided to go back to the bedroom to wait.

  The moment she left the room I decided I would try to astral project to see if I could figure out what was going on. I snapped to Nikoli’s side and found him resting on his bed. His hair was slightly tossed and his bed looked rumpled like he’d been as restless as I was. He had this sadness in his eyes but gave me just a small smile at me and patted the bed in an invitation to join him.

  I knew that I we needed to talk about Lucas, but for just a moment I didn’t want to. I moved quickly and sat on the bed next to him. He took in a deep breath and opened his mouth to say something. I felt my heart slam into my rib cage and knew that I needed to stop the words from coming out.

  Before he could make a sound I moved forward and pressed my chest into his at the same time as I sought his lips out with mine. Deep down inside of me I knew I needed this. I needed to be intimate with Nikoli before. Before there wasn’t any more chances before our time together was up.

  Nikoli must have felt the urgency in my touch and kisses because he too seemed to become more urgent with his need. Our hands roamed over each others bodies. I pulled at his button until he removed it all allowed me to explore his chest.

  He was so smooth and powerful. I could feel his hard supple muscles just under his skin. I wanted more. I started to slide my hands down his flat tight stomach. With each stoke of my hands on his flesh my need grew. I was burning with desire. I wanted more, I wanted all of him.

  I felt him tugging at the tee-shirt I was wearing. A small part of me hesitated since I knew all that I had on under the tee was my panties. He broke our kiss and looked into my eyes. I knew he was asking without words if this is what I really wanted.

  I did. I really did, so I grabbed the bottom of the tee and pulled it over my head. I watched his eyes haze slightly and I could literally feel his desire for me come off him in waves. His lips moved to my breast while his hands sought out my tender flesh beneath my panties.

  My body was on fire, every move his hand and mouth made sent wave after wave of pleasure shooting through my body. I was becoming frantic with need. I wanted and needed more. I wasn’t even sure exactly what that more was but I wanted it.

  I started moaning loudly and grinding myself against his hand and mouth. I was so close and just needed him to get a little closer to me. I felt him adjust us and watched as he started to remove his pants.

  I found myself holding my breath as his pants slid over his slender hips and dropped to the floor. I found my eyes admiring his thick thighs and round supple buns. Then I felt his desire for me hard and real resting against my leg. I reached out to draw him closer to me again.

  He pulled farther away from me instead of getting closer. I reached out and tugged at him be I couldn’t get him to move. I looked into his eyes and saw a soul shattering pain reflected back at me. That’s when I realized something very important was missing. Something that we needed in order to be complete, something was preventing us from getting any closer. I reached out to him with all that I was, my heart, body and soul but instead of feeling him touch me back I watched as his face turned to a look of pure soul shattering pain.

  I awoke from the dream with a scream lodged deep in my throat. My heart hurt and my soul felt shattered. Somehow, I knew that Nikoli could never give me what I needed. His soul wouldn’t answer mine and I couldn’t be complete until it did. I looked around the room and realized that I must have fallen asleep on the couch waiting for Lucas and Nikoli to come back.

  I felt so alone and needed desperately for someone to hold me and tell me that everything would be okay. I called up to my mother and hoped that she would come down and cuddle me on the couch. I wanted to cry and I wasn’t even sure exactly why. It was like something deep inside of me was missing and I somehow knew I was never going to get it.

  I felt tears start to slide down my face. I hollered again for my mom. She came down the steps and immediately wrapped me in her arms.

  “Oh baby what’s wrong?” She asked while holding me as tight as she could in her arms.

  I didn’t have the words to tell her so I lied

  “I’m just worried about Lucas and Nikoli”

  I felt ashamed for lying but truthfully I didn’t know how to explain it to her. She pulled back just a bit and said, if you are so afraid, why not astral plain and see for yourself what is going on. I actually thought that was a good idea. If nothing else it would distract me and maybe this feeling would go away. I concentrated and lifted easily out of my body. I looked down at myself and smiled at my mom still holding onto my empty body.

  I willed myself to be at Nikoli side. It took just a few moments before I snapped to Nikoli’s side. I looked left and right and realized that I was in a bedroom I think in Nikoli’s house. There was another vampire in the room with him and someone was lying in the
bed.

  The white haired vampire made a t’sking sound then leaned over the person in the bed. I watched as he ripped his own wrist open and started dripping blood onto the person in the bed. I moved closer to the bed and looked down.

  It took a moment for my mind to understand what my eyes were seeing. It was Lucas lying in the bed. For a brief moment I actually thought he was dead. His throat looked like it had been torn open the rest of his body didn’t look like it was in much better shape.

  I gasped in horror then I saw his chest barely move. I rushed to his side and tried desperately to touch him. Every time I tried my hand passed through him like I was a ghost. I cried out my frustration and Nikoli rushed to my side. I pushed him away from me and said

  “Why Lucas? Why is he lying here almost dead?” Then I again tried to touch Lucas. Tears were running down my face.

  I realized that I needed to bring my body here with me if I wanted to touch him. I turned towards Nikoli and demanded to know if we were at his house. The moment he nodded that we were, I will myself back into my body.

  The moment I snapped back into my body I told my mother that Lucas was severely injured and ran from the pack house towards Nikoli’s. I knew my mother had shifted and was somewhere behind me. My wolf was howling within me and trying her best to burst out of my skin. I forced her to stay back. I told her that we were faster running as humans than running as a wolf. She accepted that since her main concern was reaching her mate as soon as possible.