Normally Drayton was slow to react, but when his blood is boiling, there was none as deadly as him. He wouldn’t let up until he had killed his challenger.
The Samsas avoided fights. They didn’t go out of their way to be domineering with the packs they oversaw. They respected them but then the kidnapping of the woman they loved, and the mother of their children, this is what sent Drayton into a killing rage.
Wilder on the other hand was deliberate in his dealings with werewolves that did not follow the laws. He had control and wouldn’t allow himself to be drawn into petty arguments. Words meant nothing to him. Someone would have told him where Bane went. But the blonde said too much, and was too disrespectful, and he was the one who took Adrienne, and because of that he had to die.
The blonde didn’t know his days were numbered when he stood toe to toe with Drayton.
Drayton curled his lips and showed the blonde his sharp white pointed canines, with the blonde displaying equally large fangs. With a snarl and a roar, Drayton sprang on the blonde, but he managed to push and dodge Drayton’s large hands complete with equally large deadly claws. But he didn’t go unscathed. Drayton drew blood ripping his ears and shoulder to ribbons. The blond stood fearlessly growling and clenching his teeth and thrashing about when Drayton came near.
Looking for his chance to spring on Drayton, the blonde circled Drayton trailing blood from his arm, looking for an advantage that never came. Drayton smelling blood flipped over the blond gripping his fur in his teeth. He caught him near his jugular biting into it, and then his shoulder. When he saw the blond stumble he leaped on him and snapped his neck with his large hands and teeth.
Standing looking fierce, with blood streaming down his fur, Drayton turned to the group of werewolves bowing on the ground watching the fierce unimaginable spectacle.
Drayton didn’t feel or see the lighting fast fangs of the young blond werewolf.
Hunter and Devin rushed to Drayton, “Father he’s hurt,” Hunter said turning to Wilder. His large blue eyes terrified at what he saw.
“He’s wounded,” Devin says checking the open wound Drayton’s thick fur hid. “It’s Drayton’s shoulders and legs, where the blonde took a chunk out of his hind leg, trying to bring him down.” Wilder checked him. He had wounds on his arms, legs, shoulders, and places he didn’t know about.
“Now do you think you’re ready for wolves like that one?” He pointed to the werewolf lying dead at Drayton’s feet. “Or even a wolf like your uncle? Could you defeat Drayton?” It was the first time Hunter and Devin was loss for words.
“So when I tell you to stay, you do as I say. This area is full with Alphas and Betas who are fierce, and have been schooled in battle, who have lived in these forests all their lives. You have lived in a home. You will get your time, but now is not it. When I find your mother, how can I tell her that one of you died searching for her? That’s my job. To bring her home to you.” Hunter and Devin stared in silence.
Drayton in obvious shock stood still bleeding and not moving. “Take him back to the camp, and don’t let him come after me. I have a job to do. Wilder walked over to the remaining wolves in Bane’s pack to question them. They were still lying flat on the ground.
Chapter 14
“How much longer do we have to travel in this rusty old truck? My back is hurting. And why would you pick this rust bucket? Can’t you trade it in and get something that’s more comfortable since you insist on making my life a living hell. You could at least make me comfortable before I die.” Bane is looking at Adrienne with a smirk. She is entertaining if nothing else, his mind tells him.
“If I buy another truck, it will have a GPS system.”
“And that’s bad?” She closes her eyes. She’s feeling the pain of hunger and riding in a car that rumbles up and down over every bump in the road.
Adrienne leaned forward and placed both hands behind her back. “I can’t take any more of this. Can’t you get me a hotel room or something where I can rest?”
Bane is quiet as if he’s studying the situation. Had he made a mistake when he decided to hatch a plan to kidnap Adrienne? He had asked himself this all along this journey. He could be back at his ranch hunting and enjoying all the werefemales who would give their last breath to sleep with him. He had been known for his prowess in the bed not to mention he had a cock that most men or werewolves would envy, and he knew how to use it with skill and force.
But since he made this fateful decisions to make Adrienne his mate, he hasn’t made a good decision lately. He never figured that he would have to contend with a pregnant woman and such a stubborn one. Bane wanted to take her and do what any hot-blooded werewolf would do with a female pregnant or not.
He was known to bring a woman to orgasm by just placing the tip of his large penis on to the fringe of her opening. He glanced over at Adrienne with a raised eyebrow and with a shake of his head. I gave up all that for this female. His mind told him. One that is pregnant and can’t do anything for him now without forcing her.
Adrienne glanced at him watching at her. “What?” Bane said noting. He kept driving.
It wasn’t his style to force a female to have sex with him. He enjoyed her being receptive and willing. He turned facing her to get a better look, and shook his head once more. She’s a beautiful female with her long flowing sun kissed hair, a fading tan that made her look young, tempting and healthy. But he feared he had indeed made a wrong decision. He turned his head back to look forward down the long empty highway.
What madness had taken over him where he would risk everything for this one female? He would jeopardize being cast out of the community of werewolves. After this, if he didn’t destroy or kill the Samsas he would have to roam the farthest areas of the continent alone. He shook his head in despair.
“What? Why are you shaking your head at me?” She knew why he looked at her in that way. He was adding up the toll it was taking, and would take on his pack, and the numbers didn’t add up. What did he have to gain from a pregnant woman where three werewolves and her children would track him down to the ends of his days?
And that is why he was taking her to the ends of the earth or close where they would never find her. He was taking her to the north of Alaska, where he would convince her that she had no other choice but to give in to him, and have his pups. He had little plans for Drayton’s pups. He had little plans for what was to come next.
The truck began jerking and sputtering. He had a truck that looked tough but it was too old to take them to Alaska anytime soon.
“I’m hungry and I’m not feeling well,” Adrienne said raising her head and turning her body to face Bane.
“Do you ever do anything but complain? When you are truly mine, I will forbid you to say a word to me. Just lay down when I want you and be prepared to be fucked.”
“Do you always talk so dirty to women?”
“Yes, to werefemales and since you will have no other choice, you will have to endure what I say, and what I do to you.” Adrienne looked at Bane and let out a huff and a sigh. She was making plans of her own, and it didn’t include putting up with his coarse language.
Adrienne whispered something under her breath. His ears peaked and she knew his acute hearing had caught what she said.
He responded glaring at her. “I know my father. Will the pups you’re carrying know theirs? She looked at him with narrow eyes, but she wouldn’t reveal the truth at least not now. And she knew now the lesson of holding her tongue.
She had stopped saying things to his face that would deliberately antagonize him. It was better not to push him, but she was sore, and after what she had been through in the cave, she couldn’t take another bump. And she stayed hungry. She felt empty and hungry since she had been with Bane. It was an emptiness that food couldn’t fill. It was an emptiness that only the Samsas could satisfy.
“There’s a motel off the highway,” she said looking at Bane’s droopy eyes. “You could use some rest, too.” Adrie
nne did whatever it took to give Wilder time to track her, but how was he going to do that. One minute she and Bane are traveling by foot through snow covered woods, and the next, they’re on a highway.
Bane pulled up to a cheap motel and stopped the old Chevy. It gave a blast of white smoke from it exhaust pipe like an old man gasping for his last breath.
“Stay in the truck,” Adrienne glared at him, or do you want me to tie you to the seat?”
“Where would I go? There’s nothing out there but snow and wild animals.” When she said wild animals her eyes locked with Bane’s. His eyes narrowed and his mouth hit a hard line. He knew what she meant, and that her words were aimed at him when she mentioned wild animals. Adrienne couldn’t take it back, and she wished she had never said that. She knew she was living because Bane didn’t want to kill her before first trying to kill her werewolves.
Stepping out of the car, he marched through the open doors into the lobby of the hotel. She glanced at him watching at her. He stood tall and handsome. No one would imagine what kind of man or animal stood in front of them asking for a room. His behavior betrayed what was behind that gorgeous face and body.
Inside that body lurked a killer. A killer of men and beasts. He reigned second to Wilder, and because he had Adrienne, he felt he was Wilder’s equal now.
When he stepped out of the lobby with a key in hand to tell her he had gotten her a room to rest in, his heart raced. Turning around looking for her, he raised his muzzle to the wind to get a whiff of her, and where she had gone. Where is she? His mind asked. He walked a few steps and raised his nose up to capture her scent, and there she was coming in his direction. The light of the hotel striking her hair. Her face looking pale but beautiful.
“Where have you been?” He said anxious, but his tone was harsh. He thought she had run away or Wilder may have found them. He knew it couldn’t be the latter because he had taken precautions ahead of time. For miles he had placed traps where he would travel in the forest. He anticipated that Wilder would shift to travel quickly and without impediments.
“Did you miss me?” Yes he had missed her. He had missed her more than he could comprehend. More than he wanted to admit. “I had to stretch my legs,” she said trying to catch the last bit of sun and the cold refreshing air blowing in.
“Get in the truck. We’re in one of the cabins in the back,” he said. His tone rough but with a tender edge. She climbed into the truck and he drove them around to the far end of a row of small one room log cabins near a creek. Bane cut the motor and stepped out into the deep snow. Adrienne tried stepping out and her legs sunk and disappeared into the newly packed snow.
Bane rushed around and placed her in his arms. His face showed no emotions or at least none that Adrienne could recognize. When he reached the cabin he placed her on the steps. She entered after he opened the door and then closing it behind them.
When she walked inside the cabin, Adrienne looked around for another bed. He must be comfortable sleeping on a floor or cave, she thought.
The place was small but unusually clean. It looked like no one ever slept there before. Maybe they didn’t like being that close to a stream, with bears and snakes to contend with. It was spring but everything was still frozen. This area wasn’t used to false springs. It was still snowing when they entered the cabin and when Adrienne sat with her hands clutching her body. Bane immediately rushed to place fire wood in the fireplace.
“This is your kind of living. It’s not exactly where I expected to be visiting after going to Hawaii. Have you ever been to Hawaii? No I guess you haven’t. All you think about is hunting and mating.”
“Maybe I’ll take you there when you become my mate,” he said smiling, and sitting on his hind legs, when placing logs on his newly lit fire.
“No thanks. I’ve been there and you can forget me ever becoming your woman or mate. Remember there’s Wilder, Lycell, and Drayton.” She glanced up at Bane and he was staring out. His sharp unsettled eyes wandered as he stood looking out the window at the forest with snow settling on the top of Pine trees and their high branches.
Bane turns to face Adrienne who is staring at the room. “The only one I’m worried about is Wilder, and if he doesn’t find us soon, then I will never have to worry about him again when we get to Alaska. In Alaska he doesn’t have a chance of discovering us. With the spring thaw and my place located in a remote part of Alaska, all I have to do is sit back, and let a few winters pass and he will forget you. He will think that you’ve mated with me, and they will never want you again after I have put my seed into you.”
“The Samsas are not just werewolves, they are men, and they don’t think about something as petty and disgusting as what you’re saying.”
“They are werewolves first, and you will discover what I’ve said is the truth. You will beg me to take you.” Adrienne dismissed what Bane is saying as nonsense. She knew the brothers better than him. She felt their hearts and bodies. She knew how much they loved her. She knew if they didn’t want her, then her sons would.
She felt her son’s love, and she felt the love they have for her, especially Hunter. Lycell’s sons are too young, and if she doesn’t get back to them soon, they will forget her.
Hunter was always closer to her than to his twin brother Devin. Devin admired his father. He listen to Wilder, but Hunter was too much like Wilder, and his love for his mother saw no bounds. As the first born son and her strongest, his heart was energetic when it came to her. He worried about her. He wanted her happiness above all others. She wouldn’t worry about Lycell’s pups because they had the temperament like their father, indifferent. They would prevail even if she wasn’t there to be with them.
“Why does this room have only one bed?” Adrienne questioned after she swore to herself that she wouldn’t say anything to rile Bane.
“Because,” he said stopping short and catching himself answering her questions again. He glanced at her with a growl. “I can’t trust you to remain in this room while I sleep. So one bed would ensure that I know where you are at all times.”
“I thought you big bad werewolves didn’t need sleep?”
“We are like any human, or animal,” he said raising his left eyebrow. “We need sleep to keep up our strength. I might not need as much as you or a man, but I need some. I suspect that Wilder and his brothers aren’t getting as much now, which will be to my advantage.”
Adrienne walked around searching the room trying to leave her scent. “I need some clothes. You can’t expect me to wear these leathers for however long you expect to hold me. And I’m hungry.”
Bane pulled out some chips from a sack, and threw it at her. “You expect me to eat this?”
“This is the only food tonight. And I’ll get you some clothes tomorrow.”
“Do you expect me to warm up to you with you feeding me like this?” She opened the bag and put a handful into her mouth. “If a man wants a woman they try their best to please them. I’d say you are far from hitting that mark.”
“That’s for humans. I take what I want from a female if I want her.”
“You’d better stay away from me,” she says walking close to the door to the restroom.
“I don’t want you for anything but to use you as bait. You don’t have to worry about me trying to please you because it will never happen.”
But Bane did want her, and he did want to please Adrienne, but he had fallen short by not preparing for her. It was an impulsive move on his part. He had planned on killing her, but when she said that she was pregnant, the laws of the hunter kicked in.
Never kill the female and never kill her if she’s pregnant.
Furthermore, he hadn’t planned on being captivated by Adrienne. Much to the point that he saw her as a potential mate and giving birth to his pups. He had never had pups born into his pack because of the sterile werefemales. Before he had been opposed to bringing in human females to give birth. He thought that they were inferior to the union of werewolves,
especially since Wilder had stated that it was against the werewolves’ laws to treat the humans in an in- humane manner.
The werewolves tried to mate with the females but the male werewolves were so abusive to the humans and the werefemales that for some reason they could never have pups born alive if at all. The humans were sent back to their families barely able to function and the werefemales were treated even worse in Bane’s pack.
But Bane had allowed the werewolves autonomy to keep them loyal, and he promised never to interfere with how they treated the females, especially since Wilder had passed stringent laws in the treatment of women.
Since Wilder had mated with the human, she had changed him to the point where he made laws, and he, and his brothers saw that the laws were observed and obeyed. If they weren’t, then he would send the Alpha’s to Alaska or Russia to languish in cold bitter lands. Lands where werewolves ran in murderous packs killing anything that moved.
Bane striped himself of his coat, shirt and pants, and climbed into the bed naked. Adrienne sitting in a chair, half asleep and half awake, her eyes wilting, glanced over to see Bane’s marvelous body.
“I’m not getting in there with you, you’re naked.”
“Didn’t Wilder and your wolves sleep with you naked?”
“That’s different.”
“What is so different about that?” Bane turns facing her with a smirk.
“They are my husbands.”
“And soon I will be also. You had better sleep on a bed because after this day, you will be sleeping in a tent.” Adrienne was stubborn. Nothing would entice her to climb into that bed with that werewolf. All she could imagine was him taking her and trying to put that enormous cock into her. Not even Drayton had something the size of Bane.
Bane turned his back on Adrienne and fell asleep, or so she thought. He never slept that sound when he knew he was being hunted by the greatest predator in the Americas. There was a reason why Wilder controlled the packs of werewolves from the US to Canada to Russia.
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