Chapter 347


    AXEL


    I almost imed her.


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    That thought keeps rocketing around my head, and I’m


    indescribably pissed off at myself.


    It’s only asionally interrupted by the knowledge that she was a virgin until I roughly took her virginity


    like some careless, crass


    moron.


    I took her virginity in a bathroom of her enemy’s keep.


    Maybe I would’ve been able to figure it out myself if I’d actually


    used my brain and thought about things properly.


    Of course she was a virgin.


    She was barely more than a child when the old Roberts Alpha took


    her, and he held her in istion for ten years.


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    At least I can be thankful that twisted bastard and his equally twisted son–ording to the stories I


    heard about how Liam


    tried to kill his own sister–never forced themselves on her.


    Just the idea of it sends a spurt of wild fury through me, and I


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    need to take some deep breaths, reminding my damned idiotic


    wolf that both those assholes are dead, so there’s no one I can go


    maim or murder in answer for Emily’s treatment.


    I blindly rush through the chaotic medical annex, no destination in mind, just knowing I need to put as


    much distance between me and Emily as I can before my wolf gets the better of me, and I end up going


    back to im the mate I can barely resist.


    I knew being with her like that would be dangerous, but she offered herself so sweetly to me, and


    where she’s concerned, I


    have no resistance. I can’t deny her.


    Coming fresh out of battle…the adrenaline, her kindness, her soft,


    warm body so close to me.


    It was a recipe for disaster.


    I would have gone begging on my knees to give her what she


    wanted.


    At least I was able to wrest back control at the veryst second and not sink my teeth into her neck,


    iming her with the bite as my instincts–my wolf–was moring for me to do.


    Besides the fact it would have put her into immeasurable amounts of danger–made her a target for


    anyone who wanted to hurt me -Aaron stated inly what would happen should I change my


    mind.


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    I’d hate to have to kill him over his sister. I’d be depriving our species of a good leader, and I’d be losing


    the first real friend I’d


    had in centuries.


    The Roberts mansion is still burning, but at least the fire crews


    seem to have it under control now.


    hurry out past the main buildings, getting away from everything


    so I can clear my head.


    I’m not going to take long.


    I’m acting Alpha and the packs need me right now.


    I don’t n on letting Aaron down.


    I slow once I’m alone and away from themotion following the battle with the vampires who raided


    Roberts pack.


    However, I’ve barely had a chance to start catching my breath when my cell phone starts ringing.


    I sigh, thinking about ignoring it, but knowing I can’t.


    However, when I pull out my phone, it’s a number I’m not expecting to see.


    Battle hardened dread streams through me for a moment, before I


    settle the old familiar mantle of yer over myself.


    “Hello,” I answer in a clipped voice.


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    “Hello, Axiel,” a familiar, heavily ented voice replies. “How are things going in America?”


    “You know how they’re going, Henri,” I reply in a bored tone. “I


    sent you a reportst week.”


    “Mm–hm,” Henri replies cryptically.


    The League doesn’t usually contact me unless serious shit is


    about to go down.


    Reportedly, The League was once a coalition of supernatural creatures, with a single representative


    from each faction. Wolves, vampires, witches, demons, angels, fae and reportedly even a dragon


    shifter, if their archives are to be believed.


    However, most supernatural creatures have gone extinct, or, in the case of the fae, closed the portals


    between this mortal realm


    and the Otherworld to live in peace.


    These days, I was one of thest with direct contact to The


    League.


    Supposedly, the most powerful Old Country Wolf and the oldest vampire in the Enve of Elders were


    also in contact with the League, but I wasn’t sure how true that was, and I didn’t bother


    asking.


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    As far as I knew, The League was now made up of Henri, who was


    the oldest and only living witch left in existence, Delphine who was supposedly a wolf, but somehow


    immortal, and Lucien, a vampire who might have been one of the First, but no one knew


    for sure.


    The League were the ones who had put in ce the peace treaty between vampires and wolves, and


    also the ones who had tasked


    me with upholding it.


    “What do you want, Henri?” I ask, trying not to sound impatient.


    “We’ve received credible information you need to be aware of,” Henri replies, and I don’t like the grim


    note in his tone.


    “What information?”


    “The Vl?descu n have risen again,” Henri says, and my blood


    turns to ice in my veins.


    “No,” I say in adamant denial. “I wiped them out. Everyst one of


    them.”


    “Not quite,” Henri replies in dark amusement. “They went underground and have returned more


    powerful than ever. And Axiel, you should know…”


    “What?” I demand, wondering what could be worse than finding out my mortal enemies–the same ones


    who held me captive for a century–have returned from the dead.


    “They’reing for you.”