Nashira has been a blood slave for five years when she finally escapes the grasps of Vampires. As soon as she is free, she runs straight into the hands of a handsome Wolf.
Out of the frying pan into the fire, she thinks. The warm and exciting feelin...
Orion had to react quickly to make sure the little Witch didn't get injured when her whole body went slack. He let her drop gently to the ground. Now that she was not threatening him with fire or transformation, he could admire her irresistible beauty.
Her mocha-coloured skin looked a little pale as if she had not seen the sun in ages. Her dark brown eyes had burned with a fire that he admired. shapes he felt in his hands were all proportionately in the right place, places he would not mind discovering. Her black shiny locks tickled his arms and he could already imagine how they might tickle in other places.
His body had reacted instinctively when he had felt her soft delicate breasts press against his naked chest. His Wolf, Levi growled at those thoughts and his physical reaction. The looks might have been interesting, but her smell turned the Wolf completely against her. The idea of undertaking anything other than interrogating an ally of his natural enemy was a thought that horrified Levi.
Orion deliberately shut down his dishonourable thoughts of the Witch and took her back to the pack. His Alpha would make the decision about the Witch. He was a guardian of the borders and, as a Delta, he could be deployed wherever Alpha Adam needed him.
The Grant pack had clear rules and a good hierarchy. The lack of a Luna did cause some unrest among the other Deltas, but was nothing that Adam could not handle.
After the death of the previous Alpha, Orion had been one of the first to swear his loyalty to Adam. In the Vampire attack, the pack had not only lost their Alpha and some of their strongest soldiers, but Orion had also lost his parents. In the shared loss, the two Wolves had been able to channel their anger to drive the Vampires out of their territory and put the Grant pack back on the map with the largest nature reserve in the Northern Hemisphere.
He got some strange looks when he walked through the village with an unconscious woman in his arms, completely naked, but stranger things happened in the pack. Levi immediately wanted to lock her up in the basement prison in the packhouse, but Orion somehow could not bring himself to leave her there alone.
He dropped her off at the doctor's, who promised to mind link him as soon as she woke up. After a last look at the unknown beauty, he walked to the Alpha's office. After a brief stop to put on some clothes, he knocked on the door of Adam's room.
"Status report," Adam asked.
Orion walked in, nodded to Adam, and said in a brisk manner, "Unknown intruder found on our border. Smells of Vampires, magical abilities, restrained, unconscious and now with the doctor."
Adam didn't like too much fuss and needed to know facts; not that he had felt a heat radiate through his entire body when he had first touched the Witch. Adam certainly didn't need to know that he was dying to go back to her to see how she was recovering.
Adam nodded appreciatively. "Any idea if it is a spy or a distraction for the Vampires?"
"I'll be able to deduce that on initial questioning. The doctor will keep me informed and as soon as she is able, I will get all the information out of her."
"She?" One of Adam's eyebrows went up. "A Witch is very rare; perhaps she is worth more as an asset than a prisoner. As long as she doesn't give the impression of being a friend of the Vampires, we'd be better off keeping her as our friend."
Adam's undisguised interest awoke something in Orion that he did not appreciate. His Wolf growled slightly and had Adam not been an Alpha, the reaction would not have been just growling.
"I will..." The doctor sent them a mental message that the Witch was awake and not happy with her situation.
Adam chuckled and said, "Let's meet this Witch."
Before Orion could say anything more, Adam had walked past him heading to the hospital.
The angry screams coming from within were enough to make several people look at the building with concern. Orion's mouth automatically turned into a smile. She had spirit, he had to admit.
Adam and Orion followed the sound and entered a room where the doctor and a nurse were trying to restrain the Witch. She hurled all sorts of curses and threats at everyone and when she realised that no one was taking her seriously, she started screaming even louder.
The Wolves' amusement was short-lived when her screams became so high pitched that even the Wolves could not stand them. Adam growled and called out with his Alpha dominance, "Enough."
The force flowing through his words was enough to silence the Witch. She shivered but did not avert her gaze. Orion saw the fire in her eyes and he admired her for her strength. Many stronger Wolves had collapsed in a trembling heap when Adam used his Alpha power, but this Witch didn't seem to be giving up.
"I swear that if you don't let me go now, then..."
"Sure, go ahead," Adam interrupted her calmly. "Leave now, on foot. In about two days you will reach the first human village."
This time the Witch did avert her eyes. She looked out the window at the setting sun and he saw her weighing her options. The Vampire scent that Levi found so repulsive was fading, and her natural citrussy fresh smell that lay beneath it was far more attractive to them.
"You can be an asset to us. Orion will show you around and we will give you a place to sleep. As soon as you want to leave, you are free to do so. But I think there is a reason why we found a Vampire-reeking Witch on our land and I am curious about that reason."
Adam crossed his arms in front of his broad chest and said with a steely voice: "Our hospitality is not free. Give us the information you have about the Vampires and we will protect you from them."
"Who says I need protection," the Witch muttered defiantly.
Adam raised his hands and said, "If you do not need protection, then we will escort you back to the edge of our territory where you were found and let you go there. Once you are off our territory, you are no longer our responsibility and the Vampires have free rein."
Orion admired the brisk manner, as well as the implicit threat of leaving her in Vampire territory, Adam had used to silence the Witch and hopefully make her co-operate. But something in him rebelled at the thought of letting the Witch go before he had a chance to learn what intrigued him so much about her. He wanted to know more about her and not only in the interest of the pack. She had awoken something primal inside him. Something that he hadn't felt before, but he knew that only she could provide the answers to the peculiar sensations inside his head, inside his body.
Her eyes were fixed on his Alpha, filled with venom as though she wanted to turn him into a frog or something equally repulsive on the spot. Somehow, he wanted that attention to be directed on him. He wanted to be the one that softened those eyes, the one to feel her touch, the one to taste her. He shook his head to try to get rid of his strange thoughts. It must be some sort of spell she had cast upon him earlier. He shouldn't let some Witch get inside his head. He needed to be clearheaded and ready to do anything to defend his pack and serve his Alpha.
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