Mated & Blooded, A Blood Ties Novel, Book 1 (21 page)

I howled at the pack to pick up the pace. We
rounded a bend and I was assailed with the smell of a lot of
wolves. I recognized most of the scents as wolves that had
previously belonged to Northern Star but had a new pack scent to
them tonight. I thought it strange, but honestly I was more worried
about my mate that I had yet to meet and my new alpha.

We arrived as a combined pack of more than
one hundred wolves strong. We descended on the house in a solid
wall of wolves bursting through windows and doors ready to kill the
vampire within. It hadn’t gone the way I would have thought. There
were two vampires not one in the house, and they were treating my
alpha, his brother and more importantly my mate like puppets.

I gave the order to attack and all the wolves
moved against the vampires. They were pushing us back and continued
to mind control my mate and alpha. I was losing my mind trying to
get to her. Each time I moved forward the vampire with the pure
white hair would grab me by my scruff and through me back out of a
window.

The third time I came back, everything had
changed. The fighting had stopped, and my alpha and his brother
were back in human form negotiating terms. My mate was nowhere to
be seen. Both shewolves that had come with Rob were missing. I
finally couldn’t wait any longer and I burst forward and tried to
grab Ryan. I hadn’t expected the negative reaction from some of the
other wolves in the room, before I could even explain why I grabbed
him; I’d been knocked to the ground and knocked out.

I came to several hours later and Rob was
sitting next to me. I asked him why the hell I was attacked and was
surprised to hear the Ryan was alpha to his own newly formed pack.
Then I asked where the females were. Rob looked at me a little odd
then asked why I wanted to know.

I told him one of the shewolves was my mate.
I told him about the honeysuckles and warm caramel and he laughed
and told her name was Lauren and that she is his, Ryan’s and
Lucas’s half sister. He told me she was with Ryan and his new Luna
Lily.

He also told me that Lauren was an omega and
that she had little to no dignity or pride and that as an omega she
had even less of a backbone. Rob spoke of her as if she was
something to be embarrassed about. Then he launched into telling me
about the incident earlier this evening where she had shifted back
into her human form and stood naked in front of thirty plus male
wolves and both vampires just asking for trouble.

I felt my cheeks flame with embarrassment and
humiliation. I couldn’t believe that my mate would allow the pack
to view her naked and not care what any of them thought. I
understood the omega had a different take on life, but once I mated
with her she would need to understand that she belonged to me and
that no one else should ever again see her naked.

I’d heard more than I wanted to and decided
that it was time to find my mate before she did something else that
brought shame to both of us. I moved quickly and ran across the
driveway shouting for Ryan. Ryan awoke and looked over in my
direction and nodded at Alphonse who I was guessing was his new
beta to let me come closer. I looked over and saw a pretty
she-wolf, but knew she wasn’t my mate. I kept looking around and
could tell her scent was nearby but couldn’t see her. Finally I
couldn’t take it anymore and asked Ryan

“Where is Lauren? Rob told me she’s your
sister and I think she’s my mate. Where is she? I am going nuts.”
Ryan looked a little confused then said

“She was right here a minute ago. I don’t
know why she would have left”

Not wanting to hear anymore, and really just
wanting to meet my mate I let my nose show me the way and followed
her scent into the woods. I was only a few feet into the woods when
I picked up the white vampires scent and I knew something wasn’t
right. I howled to my alpha and begged him to bring some pack
members to help me.

I wanted to rip his throat out. I wanted to
leave his dead bloody body lying on the ground to rot for all
eternity. I had never been this angry before. I couldn’t believe
that disgusting vampire mind fudged my mate and was just about to
rape her when we arrived.

We tore into him, there was no way he was
going to survive our attack. We had more than two dozen wolves in
the woods with us and more and more of both packs were joining us.
We kept coming at him and had no intention of backing down. We were
going to tear that friggen vampires head off and I was going to eat
it until there wasn’t anything left to regrow.

Minutes turned into hours and still he stood
strong against us. It was almost as if he was playing us for fools.
This was no ordinary vampire and we weren’t having any luck
bringing him down. I could tell that some of the wolves wanted to
back off. I growled deep in my throat to let them know that backing
off wasn’t an option.

The vampire acted like he understood because
he took that moment to call out that he was going to start killing
wolves. I heard Rob call off the pack. I mind linked with him and
begged him not to. He said he couldn’t lose good wolves for a hussy
shewolf and turned to leave.

His words drove me over the edge. I lunged
forward at the vampire just as Rob and the other wolves moved away
from us. I knew I was probably going to get myself killed but I
didn’t care. I was pissed off and couldn’t believe the vampire
tried to rape my mate even if she did sort of ask for it
earlier.

One of us had to die, because I couldn’t live
with the fact that my mate had been naked lying on the ground
waiting for a friggen vampire to have sex with her. I couldn’t bear
the thought of how the rest of the pack would think of my mate.

I felt the vampire grab me by the scruff, and
then I heard my back crack and my world started to go black. My
last thought was that I was ashamed of myself. I realized that I
wouldn’t have been a good mate since I was more worried about how
the other wolves saw my mate than how my poor mate must have felt.
I was wrong to care what others felt, she was all that mattered and
she was better off without me.

I knew the moment before I died that my mate
had been perfect and that I’d been a fool. As a true omega she was
a peace keeper not a warrior. She would have done whatever was
necessary to save lives. Shifting and standing naked was brilliant.
That didn’t mean she was asking to be raped.

She was wronged by the vampire and wronged by
me for thinking ill of her actions. I prayed to god that someone
would protect and love my mate. She deserved someone a hell of a
lot better than me.

I woke up to find my beautiful mate curled
into my side, she looked so cute I couldn’t help but smile. I loved
having her so close to me. I loved everything about my mate. I
loved her scent, her smile, her laugh, her lips and even her pointy
little ears. I loved everything about her.

I pulled her in closer to me and took a deep
breath of air in through my nose so that I could fully absorb her
smell. I started to run my hands through her soft curls. She felt
so perfect. I found my hands moving down her hair and began
caressing her back.

I felt her move and knew that my little mate
was awake. She rolled over and looked at me with so much tenderness
I felt myself become slightly choked up. I knew that Kalli had said
she cared about me, but the look she had on her face now said it
was so much more than cared.

She shocked me when she moved and took my
lips into hers. I found it exhilarating that she’d become the
aggressor and decided I would allow her to continue. I felt her
hands roaming over my chest and stomach.

The more we touched and kissed the more
frantic she seemed to be coming. I could feel her desire building
almost to the point of desperation. Part of me wanted to slow her
down and find out what all the rush was, another part of me, the
one that has been anxious for her for weeks wanted to stay silent
and allow her to continue to set the pace.

The part of me that was desperate and needy
for her kept me from questioning. I stayed silent and allowed Kalli
to pull us closer and closer to mating and finalizing our bond. Her
hands started to move lower and lower across my stomach until she
moved below my waist band.

I took in a very deep shaky breath when I
felt her touch me. He hands were so soft against my flesh. I felt
my blood temperature rise and my wolf pushed forward. I couldn’t
have stopped if she’d asked me to. My wolf and my body knew what
was supposed to happen, what was natural and right for me and
Kalli. We are wolves and we are mates. We should be fully mated and
bonded. I rolled us over until I was on top of Kalli and sunk my
teeth into her shoulder.

I felt Kalli shudder in pleasure from my
bite. I too shuddered as I felt our wolves link together as one. I
felt everything that made us wolves and individuals unite together
and knew that we were now bonded as one and that nothing could
separate us. I leaned in took Kalli’s mouth into mine and let my
body and hers finish what had been started.

Our first mating had been beyond words, it
lasted for hours and Kalli seemed to be insatiable. She wanted
everything I had to offer than forced me to give her more. It’s
been three days since I awoke from my injuries and Kalli is still
keeping trying her best to me under house arrest. Even worse I
think she would prefer I didn’t leave the bed.

I rolled over and tried to catch my breath.
Kalli jumped on top of me and started to place little kisses all
over my face. This is exactly how she got the last two rounds
started. She would attack me with playful kisses, touches and hugs
then grow passionate and needy until we mated again. Don’t get me
wrong I loved Kalli and I absolutely loved mating with her. I
didn’t think I could ever tire of making love to my mate, but I
really believed she was using our love making as a delay tactic for
something. I felt like every time I started mingling with the pack
and asking questions about the few days Kalli got super frisky and
found a way to divert my attention.

I found myself thinking about all the changes
we’ve gone though in just a few short days. Both of my brothers
were now full alphas with their own packs. Ryan the youngest was
leading Rockledge, Rob was leading Northern Star and I am the alpha
of BlueRidge.

When I started the pack, it was just my mate
and her mom. Over the past few days several additional wolves have
joined our pack including my sister Lauren and twenty or so mated
couples that had been original members of BlueRidge back when Alpha
Howard had led the pack. We’ve also had couples and small families
coming down from the mountain and joining either Rocklege or my
pack depending on which pack they were originally from. Turns out
when my father took over a lot of families took their chances in
the wild on their own rather than join my father’s pack.

Kalli started tickling my side and nipping at
my neck every now and then and I started laughing. I could have
anticipated this was the direction she was going to go in. Every
time I asked her anything about Nikoli or the missing days in my
head she would attack me with playful kisses, touches and hugs then
grow passionate and needy until we mated again. By the time we were
finished I would either forget about what I was asking, or be to
content to want to know.

The truth was, I already knew from Marie that
it had been really bad and that it had traumatized Kalli. I also
knew that Kalli didn’t want to discuss it at all, but it was very
clear that since Nikoli had gone missing, Kalli felt like she was
missing part of herself too. I wasn’t sure if Kalli wouldn’t admit
it, or even acknowledge it in order to not hurt my feelings or
because it hurt her too much. Either way, I didn’t like it but I
had to accept the fact that no matter how many times we made love
that Kalli was still incomplete. I didn’t know how to fix it, so
instead I give her everything I am and everything I have every time
she comes to me. Then, when we are finished I hope and pray that it
is enough.

I would do anything for a chance to be with
my beloved. Kenyan and I were in the cave below the mansion. We’d
gone there for some privacy to test his theory. According to Kenyan
the process for becoming immune was well defined the amount of time
it would take to accomplish was not.

He’d also heard that it was going to be very
painful so rather than be in a place where someone might overhear
my screams of pain I thought the cave was a much better place. I’d
had the cave sound proofed a very long time ago when it had used to
hold prisoners.

We sat down at the make shift table that I
had previously assembled to feed the wolves when I’d held them
here. Kenyan had a small glass vial of Kalli’s blood. He pulled it
from his robe, and turned to look at me.

“Here’s what I know. You need to drink this”
he said while holding the vial in the air

“then, it’s going to enter your system and
start to burn like acid through your heart.”

He stopped raised his eyebrows and took in my
reaction. I would have to think I looked somewhat appalled. I have
seen a vampire die from wolf blood poisoning and that is exactly
what happens.

“Once it hits the heart, I will begin to
drain you of all your blood. It’s going to take me eight to ten
hours to drain you since it will be like lava running though me.
Once you are drained we can begin to replace your blood with some
human blood plus a little bit of mine that we put aside before we
start this to speed the regeneration process. That should be enough
to pull you through.”

I looked at him like he was crazy. Willingly
drinking wolf’s blood and going through the healing processes
didn’t make you immune. We vampires use this exact same technique
every time someone gets poisoned. Hell, half the time the vampire
dies anyway. He must take me for a fool since I know that does not
make you immune. My face must have reflected what my mind was
thinking since he continued with