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“Sshh,” he says with a smile. “If you’re too loud, those wolves downstairs will hear you.”

He lifts my shirt and places a kiss on my stomach. I sink my teeth into my bottom lip to stifle the moan.

“Did I ever tell you I figured out your gift?” he says playfully as he pushes my shirt further up, exposing my black bra.

I should be alarmed, but the way his tongue feels trailing over my skin has me distracted.

“Oh?” I hum.

“At first,” he slips the cup of my bra up, exposing my pebbled nipple. “I thought you were an empath like your sister. The way you always hid your emotions behind that neutral mask was my first clue.”

He tugs my right peak into his mouth. My toes curl at the feeling.

“No,” I whine. “Wrong.”

“I know,” he goes to the other breast, giving it the same attention. “Next, I thought it was compulsion. I needed a reason as to why I’m so addicted to you.”

He slips a hand into the waist of my tights and down to my center.

“Zo,” I moan as he plays with my clit. Fuck, this man plays my body like a fiddle.

“But I’m just in love with you, so that theory doesn’t work.” At this point, I don’t even know what he’s talking about anymore. He slips one of his long digits into my soaking wet center and I nearly come on the spot.

“Now,” he says as he rolls his tongue over my peak. “I know that you’re a sifter like your ex.”

Everything comes to a screeching halt. I look down into his mischievous eyes. Before I can explain myself, the unmistakable scent of vampire wafts from the open window. The scent hits me seconds before Enzo smells it. He lifts his head and turns to the window. How did my sense of smell work faster than his? Must be a mate thing.

He looks at me before helping me fix my clothes. We both climb off the bed and head downstairs.

As soon as we step off the bottom steps, Hans and Titus stand up. They smell it too. The others appear in the living room.

“Show time,” Enzo says. “Torak and Zyion, take your spot by the front door. Hans and Titus, you two, stay in the living room. Alarick, you’re with me and Michaela in the kitchen. They usually come in through there.”

“Remember, we need at least one alive,” I remind them.

They nod. We break off into our groups. Enzo and Alarick sit down at the round kitchen table. I stand at the sink and turn on the water. The chains are already placed in a chair in the corner of the kitchen.

“Everyone, stay focused,”Enzo says through a link in our heads. Somehow, I got added to the pack group chat.

“Five of them,”Alarick says through the link.“I can smell them.”

Staring out the window, I watch the human-turned creep closer to the house. If I were a human, my eyesight wouldn’t be able to pick them up this far and in the dark.

“They’re splitting up. Two are coming around the front. The other three are going to come through the back,”I explain through the link.

Seconds later, the lock on the sliding door disengages. In the room with me, the energy changes. I know it’s because their wolves are at the surface, ready to spring out.

The door slides open, and seconds later, a raging vampire runs into the room. He goes straight for Enzo’s back, but I’m fully fed and entirely too fast for him. I spring into action. Cutting the vampire off, I snatch him by the neck and sling his body into the wall. By this time, the other two run in. Enzo and Alarick transform right before my eyes.

They are both beautiful in wolf form. Enzo pitch black and Alarick snow white. However, there is no comparison to my man’s wolf. That black fur does something to me every time.

Enzo snatches one of the vampires out of the air by the neck, tossing his body back and forth.

“Woman, pay attention. Now is not the time to be dreaming about fucking on my wolf.”

I tap down on my laughter and focus on the fight. Enzo and Alarick battle the two vampires that came in through the patio.

The first one in climbs to his feet. He shakes his head and snarls at me. I drop my arms out at my side and release my blades.