Mated & Blooded, A Blood Ties Novel, Book 1

by Kalalea George

  I just wanted to see some confirmation that Kalli cared even a little for me. I know it was petty to bring Layla who was drop dead gorgeous for her to feed on but her feelings for the wolf were driving me nuts. I know that without the blood bond she would never be complete with me, but it was hard to know that my beloved was so close and that she cared nothing for me. So here I was walking into the room trying to get her to feed from Layla.

  She declined initially saying she didn’t want to leave the room, then I gestured towards Layla and said that she could come to her. I watched Kalli’s face closely for any sign of jealousy as she turned and faced Layla taking in her appearance. Kalli’s face didn’t even flinch. She looked at her from top to toe than said in a no nonsense voice that she wouldn’t do.

  I turned to grab Layla by the arm and take her back to the west wing when suddenly Kalli changed her mind. She beckoned for me to bring Layla closer than sunk her fangs into her arms. I was prepared to be overwhelmed by Kalli’s feelings. When nothing came I was somewhat shocked. I started to wonder if the closer she got to her wolf the farther she got from me.

  Then I saw her eyes turning black, and I felt a burn in the back of my throat. That is when I realized what was going on. Kenyan was manipulating my beloved. I turned and attacked him. I knew that he was much stronger than me, but I had more to fight for. Kalli was my beloved and the blood looked like it was killing her. I saw blood leaking from her ears, nose and eyes. I could feel her heart rate slowing and her breath was becoming shallower. I needed to stop him.

  I threw everything I had at him. It must have worked because I saw Kalli push away from Layla and join me in attacking Kenyan. We though wave after wave of psychic and physical attacks at him. I watched in amazement as my beloved tried psionic inundation against him. It didn’t drop him to the ground but I knew she hit a sore spot.

  I was about to deploy my own brand of inundation when the friggen wolves had to jump in. There had to be more than a dozen that burst through the bedroom door yapping and growling. I watched as a pretty shewolf shifted and stood naked in front of all of us. She seemed oblivious to what her nakedness was doing to all the males’ wolves and vampires alike.

  Turns out she’s a true omega and was able to calm everyone down enough to hear reason. Once they realized it was just us vampires trying to kill each other they headed out of the house again. I could tell my beloved was wiped out from all the recent fighting and wanted to get Kenyan away from her so I asked him to join me downstairs.

  He followed me downstairs like everything was just honky dorey. See that was the problem with vampires and the reason we chose not to socialize much. We were a nasty self centered lot, and more than that almost impossible to kill. So no matter what we did to each other, we argued slammed each other around a bit then moved on.

  Kenyan would not even ask for forgiveness for what he’d done upstairs, and I knew better than to ask for it. So rather than fight some more with him I decided it was best to leave it alone for now. I looked down and noticed Kenyan was carefully trying to put something into a glass vial. I couldn’t help but ask him

  “Kenyan, what you are up to now?”

  He looked at me with both of his eyebrows raised before saying

  “Are you sure her blood is poisonous to us? Even if it is, you know with time you could become immune? I know of others who have wolf blood immunity?”

  Chapter 35

  (Lance’s POV)

  I knew my mate had come with Ryan to the vampire’s house. I smelled her the moment we crossed their path on the way here. We were no more than a mile behind our alpha, and I knew he ran into his brother and two female shewolves about two miles back. One of those shewolves was my mate and she was running straight towards a very dangerous vampire.

  I howled at the pack to pick up the pace. We rounded a bend and I was assailed with the smell of a lot of wolves. I recognized most of the scents as wolves that had previously belonged to Northern Star but had a new pack scent to them tonight. I thought it strange, but honestly I was more worried about my mate that I had yet to meet and my new alpha.

  We arrived as a combined pack of more than one hundred wolves strong. We descended on the house in a solid wall of wolves bursting through windows and doors ready to kill the vampire within. It hadn’t gone the way I would have thought. There were two vampires not one in the house, and they were treating my alpha, his brother and more importantly my mate like puppets.

  I gave the order to attack and all the wolves moved against the vampires. They were pushing us back and continued to mind control my mate and alpha. I was losing my mind trying to get to her. Each time I moved forward the vampire with the pure white hair would grab me by my scruff and through me back out of a window.

  The third time I came back, everything had changed. The fighting had stopped, and my alpha and his brother were back in human form negotiating terms. My mate was nowhere to be seen. Both shewolves that had come with Rob were missing. I finally couldn’t wait any longer and I burst forward and tried to grab Ryan. I hadn’t expected the negative reaction from some of the other wolves in the room, before I could even explain why I grabbed him; I’d been knocked to the ground and knocked out.

  I came to several hours later and Rob was sitting next to me. I asked him why the hell I was attacked and was surprised to hear the Ryan was alpha to his own newly formed pack. Then I asked where the females were. Rob looked at me a little odd then asked why I wanted to know.

  I told him one of the shewolves was my mate. I told him about the honeysuckles and warm caramel and he laughed and told her name was Lauren and that she is his, Ryan’s and Lucas’s half sister. He told me she was with Ryan and his new Luna Lily.

  He also told me that Lauren was an omega and that she had little to no dignity or pride and that as an omega she had even less of a backbone. Rob spoke of her as if she was something to be embarrassed about. Then he launched into telling me about the incident earlier this evening where she had shifted back into her human form and stood naked in front of thirty plus male wolves and both vampires just asking for trouble.

  I felt my cheeks flame with embarrassment and humiliation. I couldn’t believe that my mate would allow the pack to view her naked and not care what any of them thought. I understood the omega had a different take on life, but once I mated with her she would need to understand that she belonged to me and that no one else should ever again see her naked.

  I’d heard more than I wanted to and decided that it was time to find my mate before she did something else that brought shame to both of us. I moved quickly and ran across the driveway shouting for Ryan. Ryan awoke and looked over in my direction and nodded at Alphonse who I was guessing was his new beta to let me come closer. I looked over and saw a pretty she-wolf, but knew she wasn’t my mate. I kept looking around and could tell her scent was nearby but couldn’t see her. Finally I couldn’t take it anymore and asked Ryan

  “Where is Lauren? Rob told me she’s your sister and I think she’s my mate. Where is she? I am going nuts.” Ryan looked a little confused then said

  “She was right here a minute ago. I don’t know why she would have left”

  Not wanting to hear anymore, and really just wanting to meet my mate I let my nose show me the way and followed her scent into the woods. I was only a few feet into the woods when I picked up the white vampires scent and I knew something wasn’t right. I howled to my alpha and begged him to bring some pack members to help me.

  I wanted to rip his throat out. I wanted to leave his dead bloody body lying on the ground to rot for all eternity. I had never been this angry before. I couldn’t believe that disgusting vampire mind fudged my mate and was just about to rape her when we arrived.

  We tore into him, there was no way he was going to survive our attack. We had more than two dozen wolves in the woods with us and more and more of both packs were joining us. We kept coming at him and had no intention of backing down. We were going to tear that friggen
vampires head off and I was going to eat it until there wasn’t anything left to regrow.

  Minutes turned into hours and still he stood strong against us. It was almost as if he was playing us for fools. This was no ordinary vampire and we weren’t having any luck bringing him down. I could tell that some of the wolves wanted to back off. I growled deep in my throat to let them know that backing off wasn’t an option.

  The vampire acted like he understood because he took that moment to call out that he was going to start killing wolves. I heard Rob call off the pack. I mind linked with him and begged him not to. He said he couldn’t lose good wolves for a hussy shewolf and turned to leave.

  His words drove me over the edge. I lunged forward at the vampire just as Rob and the other wolves moved away from us. I knew I was probably going to get myself killed but I didn’t care. I was pissed off and couldn’t believe the vampire tried to rape my mate even if she did sort of ask for it earlier.

  One of us had to die, because I couldn’t live with the fact that my mate had been naked lying on the ground waiting for a friggen vampire to have sex with her. I couldn’t bear the thought of how the rest of the pack would think of my mate.

  I felt the vampire grab me by the scruff, and then I heard my back crack and my world started to go black. My last thought was that I was ashamed of myself. I realized that I wouldn’t have been a good mate since I was more worried about how the other wolves saw my mate than how my poor mate must have felt. I was wrong to care what others felt, she was all that mattered and she was better off without me.

  I knew the moment before I died that my mate had been perfect and that I’d been a fool. As a true omega she was a peace keeper not a warrior. She would have done whatever was necessary to save lives. Shifting and standing naked was brilliant. That didn’t mean she was asking to be raped.

  She was wronged by the vampire and wronged by me for thinking ill of her actions. I prayed to god that someone would protect and love my mate. She deserved someone a hell of a lot better than me.

  Chapter 36

  (Lucas’s POV)

  I woke up to find my beautiful mate curled into my side, she looked so cute I couldn’t help but smile. I loved having her so close to me. I loved everything about my mate. I loved her scent, her smile, her laugh, her lips and even her pointy little ears. I loved everything about her.

  I pulled her in closer to me and took a deep breath of air in through my nose so that I could fully absorb her smell. I started to run my hands through her soft curls. She felt so perfect. I found my hands moving down her hair and began caressing her back.

  I felt her move and knew that my little mate was awake. She rolled over and looked at me with so much tenderness I felt myself become slightly choked up. I knew that Kalli had said she cared about me, but the look she had on her face now said it was so much more than cared.

  She shocked me when she moved and took my lips into hers. I found it exhilarating that she’d become the aggressor and decided I would allow her to continue. I felt her hands roaming over my chest and stomach.

  The more we touched and kissed the more frantic she seemed to be coming. I could feel her desire building almost to the point of desperation. Part of me wanted to slow her down and find out what all the rush was, another part of me, the one that has been anxious for her for weeks wanted to stay silent and allow her to continue to set the pace.

  The part of me that was desperate and needy for her kept me from questioning. I stayed silent and allowed Kalli to pull us closer and closer to mating and finalizing our bond. Her hands started to move lower and lower across my stomach until she moved below my waist band.

  I took in a very deep shaky breath when I felt her touch me. He hands were so soft against my flesh. I felt my blood temperature rise and my wolf pushed forward. I couldn’t have stopped if she’d asked me to. My wolf and my body knew what was supposed to happen, what was natural and right for me and Kalli. We are wolves and we are mates. We should be fully mated and bonded. I rolled us over until I was on top of Kalli and sunk my teeth into her shoulder.

  I felt Kalli shudder in pleasure from my bite. I too shuddered as I felt our wolves link together as one. I felt everything that made us wolves and individuals unite together and knew that we were now bonded as one and that nothing could separate us. I leaned in took Kalli’s mouth into mine and let my body and hers finish what had been started.

  Our first mating had been beyond words, it lasted for hours and Kalli seemed to be insatiable. She wanted everything I had to offer than forced me to give her more. It’s been three days since I awoke from my injuries and Kalli is still keeping trying her best to me under house arrest. Even worse I think she would prefer I didn’t leave the bed.

  I rolled over and tried to catch my breath. Kalli jumped on top of me and started to place little kisses all over my face. This is exactly how she got the last two rounds started. She would attack me with playful kisses, touches and hugs then grow passionate and needy until we mated again. Don’t get me wrong I loved Kalli and I absolutely loved mating with her. I didn’t think I could ever tire of making love to my mate, but I really believed she was using our love making as a delay tactic for something. I felt like every time I started mingling with the pack and asking questions about the few days Kalli got super frisky and found a way to divert my attention.

  I found myself thinking about all the changes we’ve gone though in just a few short days. Both of my brothers were now full alphas with their own packs. Ryan the youngest was leading Rockledge, Rob was leading Northern Star and I am the alpha of BlueRidge.

  When I started the pack, it was just my mate and her mom. Over the past few days several additional wolves have joined our pack including my sister Lauren and twenty or so mated couples that had been original members of BlueRidge back when Alpha Howard had led the pack. We’ve also had couples and small families coming down from the mountain and joining either Rocklege or my pack depending on which pack they were originally from. Turns out when my father took over a lot of families took their chances in the wild on their own rather than join my father’s pack.

  Kalli started tickling my side and nipping at my neck every now and then and I started laughing. I could have anticipated this was the direction she was going to go in. Every time I asked her anything about Nikoli or the missing days in my head she would attack me with playful kisses, touches and hugs then grow passionate and needy until we mated again. By the time we were finished I would either forget about what I was asking, or be to content to want to know.

  The truth was, I already knew from Marie that it had been really bad and that it had traumatized Kalli. I also knew that Kalli didn’t want to discuss it at all, but it was very clear that since Nikoli had gone missing, Kalli felt like she was missing part of herself too. I wasn’t sure if Kalli wouldn’t admit it, or even acknowledge it in order to not hurt my feelings or because it hurt her too much. Either way, I didn’t like it but I had to accept the fact that no matter how many times we made love that Kalli was still incomplete. I didn’t know how to fix it, so instead I give her everything I am and everything I have every time she comes to me. Then, when we are finished I hope and pray that it is enough.

  Chapter 37

  (Nikoli ’s POV)

  I would do anything for a chance to be with my beloved. Kenyan and I were in the cave below the mansion. We’d gone there for some privacy to test his theory. According to Kenyan the process for becoming immune was well defined the amount of time it would take to accomplish was not.

  He’d also heard that it was going to be very painful so rather than be in a place where someone might overhear my screams of pain I thought the cave was a much better place. I’d had the cave sound proofed a very long time ago when it had used to hold prisoners.

  We sat down at the make shift table that I had previously assembled to feed the wolves when I’d held them here. Kenyan had a small glass vial of Kalli’s blood. He pulled it from his robe, and turned to look
at me.

  “Here’s what I know. You need to drink this” he said while holding the vial in the air

  “then, it’s going to enter your system and start to burn like acid through your heart.”

  He stopped raised his eyebrows and took in my reaction. I would have to think I looked somewhat appalled. I have seen a vampire die from wolf blood poisoning and that is exactly what happens.

  “Once it hits the heart, I will begin to drain you of all your blood. It’s going to take me eight to ten hours to drain you since it will be like lava running though me. Once you are drained we can begin to replace your blood with some human blood plus a little bit of mine that we put aside before we start this to speed the regeneration process. That should be enough to pull you through.”

  I looked at him like he was crazy. Willingly drinking wolf’s blood and going through the healing processes didn’t make you immune. We vampires use this exact same technique every time someone gets poisoned. Hell, half the time the vampire dies anyway. He must take me for a fool since I know that does not make you immune. My face must have reflected what my mind was thinking since he continued with

  “Of course that won’t make you immune. It will require that we repeat this process over and over again until you no longer reject the blood. It could take five times or five thousand times. I know it sounds crazy but it is the only way you can become immune. Trust me, I’ve seen it before and I’ve seen it work.”