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I’d told her to stay. She wouldn’t have left.

Maddox tracked Kienna’s scent to the garage. The smell of exhaust was strong even though the zambonis sat silent. Every movement or sound made my head snap in that direction. Was it Kienna? We had to find her.

“She went outside.” Maddox stood in the open service door and breathed in deep.

I still didn’t believe she left the arena willingly. Fucking Ewan might have scared her from her spot by the locker room, but she wouldn’t have left.

“She might have gone back to her nest. She’d feel safe there,” Tiergan suggested.

“No. I don’t think she would because Ewan might go back to the house.” Alderic looked angrier than Maddox, and that was something I’d thought impossible. Yet Ewan was his cousin, and to be betrayed by not only your chosen pack but by family as well, that was brutal.

“We’re wasting time. I don’t think she left on her own.” Casimir’s voice sounded sharp, on the edge. We all were. And his instincts were the same as mine. He hadn’t claimed her yet, but he was bonded to her as much as Maddox and I.

If Kienna was taken, they could be long gone by now. That stalker had known she was at our house. Likely knew she was here tonight. What else did he know?

“Let’s get to the SUV.” I led them, but I wasn’t certain where we would go yet. Winnipeg was a rougher city than most folks expected, but while the gangs were trouble, it should be more those who were part of the Omega black market. Yet why would a person who was involved in that send her flowers? It was something else.

Big flakes of late spring snow pelted us as we rounded the arena and ran across the street to the parking garage. My protective instincts clawed at my chest as if they wanted to rip out. I needed to find Kienna and make sure she was safe.

Inside the garage, Tiergan clicked open the doors and we all piled in. Our chests heaved from the run, and he turned on the engine. “Where to?”

That was the question. If this was Kienna’s stalker, where would he take her? It could be anywhere. I hit the dashboard and growled. We had to start somewhere. “The flowers. Anyone pay attention to where they were sent from?”

My pack shook their heads. But dammit, would it even matter if we knew? It was nighttime. All the florists would be closed.

“What kind of flowers were they?” Casimir asked. “She had flowers in her hotel room too. Before she was attacked. Lilies.”

“They were lilies.” Maddox seethed, flexing his hand and curling them up like a caged beast.

So the bastard had sent them to her before. All this time someone was stalking my Omega and we never knew. I was going to rip his head from his shoulders.

“That’s… That’s what they found with the Hangman’s victims.” Alderic’s words were barely audible. He looked up from his phone with wide scared eyes. “Every victim has lilies in her home.”

No. I scowled at him.

“It’s the first thing at the top of the page when I looked up lilies.” Alderic turned his phone around so we could see. I didn’t doubt that it was there. Fuck, I didn’t want it to be true.

But if it was…

“Go to the hotel.” That was the closest thing Kienna had to a home in Winnipeg. The Hangman wouldn’t take her to the pack house. There would be too much of a chance for us to walk in. At the hotel, he’d have privacy as long as Birk was gone, and with the chaos at the game tonight, Birk would be at the arena for a while.

Tiergan tore out of the parking garage and zipped as fast as he could go downtown Winnipeg. He pulled off on a side street where it was less congested, but with so many people leaving the arena, it was crazy.

“Faster,” Maddox barked from behind the driver’s seat.

“I can only go so fast.” Tiergan snapped back, and then took a sharp turn over a sidewalk to avoid a red light at an intersection.

The Fort Garry loomed ahead. My heart drummed a beat for battle. Kienna needed me. I felt it to my very bones as if she called me herself. I’d just claimed her. I wasn’t losing her now.

The hotel had to be only a kilometer away, but each second felt like minutes. Kienna was new in my life, but she had so quickly become the center of my world. I refused to imagine a life without her. If I never stepped on the ice again, I would be okay if I had Kienna by my side.

Tiergan pulled up in front of the hotel and we all bolted out of the SUV. He grabbed a ticket from the shocked valet as we ran up the steps and into the lobby.

I turned toward the stairs that went up to the next floor, but Casimir headed right to the front desk. Stopping, I turned to follow him.

“Good evening, Mr. Velky. Welcome back after your big win tonight.” The lady behind the desk smiled at all of us. Her name tag informed us she was Belinda.

“There’s an emergency in the Grand Suite. We need you to let us inside to see if Miss Birk is alright.” Casimir spoke smoothly and seemingly in control, but his knuckles were white where they were gripping the edge of the counter.

“Oh, what’s wrong?” Belinda came around the front desk with a key card in hand. “Is your girlfriend hurt?”

Girlfriend? No, I didn’t like that someone thought Kienna was Casimir’s girlfriend. Maddox bared his teeth but kept himself in check.

“We hope not, but I got a worrisome text. We just want to take a quick peek and make certain.” Casimir didn’t bother leading her to the elevator, but we all hurried up the stairs.

Belinda was a little out of breath keeping up with us, but she hustled. The concern was clear in her expression. “Should I call nine-one-one?”

“Be ready to do so.” I nodded to her. But I hoped to fucking God we were all wrong. No matter what my instincts were screaming, I wanted to find Kienna curled up in her bed with a pile of snacks beside her.

The key card slid through the reader, and the second it turned green, all of us rushed inside. Lights automatically turned on as we entered the living room. There was no one, but it suddenly hit me: her musky sweet scent.

We barreled down the hall like an avalanche and yanked open her bedroom door.

There was Kienna. Her body swung as she hung from a rope tied to the chandelier. The chair near her laid on its side.

Shock slammed into me. “No!”

That’s when I noticed her hands were gripping the rope around her neck and her tied legs were kicking.

“Kienna!” I roared her name and suddenly my arms were around her, holding her up so she wasn’t choking anymore. She shook like a terrified kitten.

Casimir was suddenly on the other side of her, murmuring something in Russian and removing the noose and tearing the tape off her mouth. Kienna gasped and sobbed, clutching at both of us. Her perfume was so thick that I didn’t even startle when Maddox roared and tackled someone in the walk-in closet. A man cried out as both Maddox and Tiergan descended upon him.

Lilies were on every surface and all around the perimeter of the room. A hockey bag sat open and empty on the mussed bed and the rope continued to swing from the ceiling. Whatever happened in here, the bastard deserved the pummeling my packmates were giving him.

Alderic yelled down the hall to Belinda to call 911. Then he returned to turn on the bathroom light. “Bring her in here so we can see her wounds.”

I kissed the top of Kienna’s head, breathing in her scent deeply. She was safe in my arms. I was never letting go.

She took a hold of my face and brought me down far enough to kiss me. No grateful sweet one. It was hard and wanton. She whimpered against my mouth and ran her fingers through my hair. “Kane, please. I need you now.”

In the reflection of the mirror, I noted the blood on her wrists and how it smeared on me. She was injured. We needed to get her right—

Her hand dipped down and cupped my swiftly growing dick through my pants. Shit, her heat.

“Alderic, Casimir. Go help Maddox and Tiergan. Make sure they don’t kill the fucker.” My gaze stayed on Kienna the whole time as she writhed in my arms. This wasn’t the time or place for sex, but I wouldn’t let her suffer anymore than she already had.

Alderic grunted something, but left the bathroom.

Casimir didn’t move, but instead carefully removed the rope around her ankles. Kienna ran a foot up his arm, hooking him, and tried to pull him closer. His eyes grew dark with want of her. “I’m not leaving. Let me take care of her.”

Mine .

A growl rumbled in my chest. I didn’t want to share. She was my mate. My body was primed for a fight.

“Casimir,” Kienna moaned and leaned forward to kiss him. “Please.”

I admired his control. He kissed her, but he didn’t attempt to take her from my arms. Nor did he respond to my territorial growl with one of his own. Yet the tightness in his face and shoulders said he would fight for her too.

The police would be here within minutes. I shut the door with my foot.

I kissed the spot on her neck where I’d bitten her. My sweet Omega. “Kienna, we’re here for you. But this will have to be fast.” I glanced at Casimir as I said that. “No knotting. We need to just give her some release.”

“Now,” she cooed, sliding her hands into each of our pants. “Give me your big cocks.” She was bleeding and red-eyed from crying, but dammit, she was the sexiest thing on the planet.

I carefully set her down on her feet and knelt down to undo her jeans. Blood splattered the denim but they were also soaked with slick. I wanted to bury myself in her wetness. Her delicious scent was making me feral with lust.

Casimir kissed her and kneaded one of her breasts as I removed her pants. Her fingers ran over my head, and once I had her panties off, I clasped my hand with hers. I nuzzled her flushed pussy and kissed around it as our fingers twined. She squeezed my hand as I drew my tongue up her slit.

“Oh fuck,” Kienna moaned and let her head fall back as Casimir nipped at her ear. “This feels so good. Don’t stop.”

There was no way I was going to stop. I lifted her right leg and rested it over my shoulder and pressed my face hard against her drenched pussy. Licking and sucking, I tasted every fold and crevice thrice over. I was addicted to her. I could never get enough.

I thrust two fingers into her, and she cried out, her cunt sucking my digits in further. She rolled her hips as I finger fucked her and engulfed her swollen clit with my mouth.

Slick covered my face, but I aimed to make her gush even more. I had almost lost this precious Omega, and I would spend the rest of my life making her feel safe and loved.

Casimir had lifted her shirt and freed her perk breasts from the cups of her bra. Her nipples were hard and rosy to match the aroused flush of her skin.

My cock ached to be inside of her. To pound into this tight little pussy and lock my knot in her. To feel her shudder around me with her pleasure and to hear her musical voice scream out my name. To bite her again, to make sure she knew she was mine.

Kienna bucked against me but I kept her held solidly in place. Sucking her clit and pumping my hand, she trembled and cried out. Her orgasm had her sagging, falling onto me, but Casimir held her up so I could continue to push her through her climax.

“Ride his face, my sexy slayer,” Casimir whispered gruffly into her ear with his hungry gaze on her beautiful face. “Come all over his tongue.”

I scraped my teeth over her sensitive nub and got another great shudder from her. When I removed my mouth from her, she whimpered and jerked her hips toward me again. “More. I need more.”

“Insatiable Omega,” I teased and licked her again before standing. I lifted my hand and sucked her juices off my fingers before kissing her swollen lips.

Kienna thrust her rear up against Casimir and he growled as he gave her ass cheek a little slap. He reached under to finger her as she grappled with my jeans to free my erection. I groaned as she wrapped her hand around me. My cock throbbed with the need to knot, but I knew we couldn’t. It would be hard enough to explain to the cops why we were with the serial killer’s victim in the bathroom getting it on. At least she bore my mark. Even if no one else knew yet, she was my mate. Maddox had claimed her too. No one could take her away from us.

I kissed her deeply and fondled her breast. The cops would have to question her and get her statement, and we had to bring her into the hospital. I didn’t want to be separated from her.

She gasped as Casimir drove into her from behind. His hips slapped against her ass. For a second, his gaze met mine. The lust was obvious, but so was how much he cared for her. “I know, no knotting, but she needs this.”

At least he had enough will power to remember that. And fuck, yes, he was getting pleasure from it, but I had no doubt he would do whatever it took to take care of Kienna. He was as dedicated to her as the rest of the pack. Hell, he was pack.

That meant he needed to claim her too. The more of us bonded to her, the safer she would be.

“Fuck her hard and fast and then mark her.” I turned my gaze away from his brief shock to her as I kissed her again. Caressing her cheek, I pressed my forehead to hers. “As long as it’s okay with you, Kienna.”

She bobbed her head, mewling as she was fucked. “Yes. Oh God, yes!” She glanced over her shoulder at Casimir with a mischievous smile. “My vampire does know how to bite.”

Casimir’s chuckle turned into a guttural groan.

I took a hold of her chin and turned her head back to look at me. “Never forget you’re mine.”

“And don’t forget you’re mine.” Kienna’s eyes fluttered with her pleasure as her breasts bounced with each of Casimir’s thrusts. I kissed her fervently and grunted as she jerked my cock. The ache to be inside of her right now was insane, but I didn’t think I had the sort of control not to knot her. Knot her, fill her with my seed, lock her to me forever.

Everything in our worlds would change when we left this bathroom, but right now, my Omega was here and reveling in the pleasure my packmate and I gave her. She looked at me with half-hooded dark eyes that shone with more than just lust. It was as if she saw me, the me deep inside, and she embraced me.

Her gorgeous face flushed further and she cried out, wailing with her orgasm. I held her head against my chest as her strokes grew faster and my balls rose.

Casimir gave a strangled cry and pulled out of her, shooting his load onto her taut ass. As he did so, he bent forward to the shoulder opposite the one Maddox marked and bit into her skin. Kienna’s pained shout became a sated mewl.

That little sound undid me, and I exploded in her grasp. Thick threads of cum flowed over her hand like hot magma.

Swallowing my bellow so as not to scare anyone who might be in the other room and breathing heavily, I lifted her chin to kiss her. “My beautiful Omega.”

Kienna straightened with a smile and wobbled, unsteady on her feet. Casimir and I steadied her even as he reached for a towel to clean her. He kissed his bite mark. “I claim you, my slayer. You are mine.”

For a few seconds, his gaze met mine. A growl threatened to thunder in my chest, but I reined in my Alpha possessiveness. She was mine. She was ours. Pack.

Once she was cleaned and redressed, Casimir and I swiftly washed off. More and more voices came from the other room. It was time to face whatever awaited us out there.

Before I lifted Kienna back into my arms, I held out a hand to Casimir. “We’ll protect her with our lives, pack brother.”

He smiled and clasped forearms. “Everything for her. For the pack.”

“You two are so cute.” Kienna mumbled in a sleepy tone and held onto our shirts as she cuddled to us. “I don’t want to go out there. Let’s stay here forever.”

I scooped her up and kissed her tenderly. “Don’t worry. We’ll be by your side the whole time.”

Casimir opened the door and we stepped out into our new world. One where our pack would go to hell and back for our Omega, and every step of the way would feel like heaven because we were with her.