Page 89 of Forbidden Wolf

“Can you visit her?”

He shook his head. “She would be gone long before I trekked to where she lives. She told me how to contact her only in times of an emergency.”

“Levi?”

He looked up at me. Pain lurked at the back of his eyes. I finally understood his reaction in the forest that night when we first met that master hellspawn.

“Do you think your grandfather is one of those wolves with the hellspawn?”

“I honestly don’t know. Part of me hopes that he is, that he’s still alive, but I saw the way they were broken by those demons. No wolf wants to live their life in captivity.”

I held my arms open, and he padded across the room until my head was pressed to his stomach and his strong arms were wrapped around me. Everything made sense when we were together.

Eventually I leaned back. “Contact your grams, and then you can try and decipher the words and phrases you remember.”

Levi smiled down at me, shaking his head. “What did I ever do to deserve you?”

I wrinkled my nose as I pretended to contemplate his question. “You definitely need to work harder to prove yourself. Stopping a war and bringing peace to two species isn’t nearly enough.”

His smile turned into a salacious grin as he pushed me back onto the bed and crawled over me. My heart beat double time, and I struggled to control my breathing. That grin made smart women make stupid decisions. It always had from the moment we met.

My lips turned up in reply even as his mouth met mine. Contacting his grams could wait until later. Right now, Levi was all mine, and I intended to relax the tension in those bunched shoulder muscles currently situated under my fingers.

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A few months ago, vampires and lycans were still enemies and at war. Now we were allies developing strategies and tentative friendships along the way. The man who’d accomplished all that was currently stripped to the waist and wearing only his low riding jeans and combat boots as he chopped wood with an axe. His shoulder muscles flexed with every movement and distracted me from my dark thoughts.

No one knew I could walk in the daylight, so these were precious moments for only us. Levi had bought this land a few years ago. After the attack, he pushed through the plans to build our home here. Quartz crystals infused with the golden light that constantly throbbed inside me were buried deep into the ground around the perimeter of the foundations for the house. He’d dragged a few hellspawn here to test his theory, and they were repelled by the energy. A massive mobile home sat on the corner of the plot for us to live in during the building work.

None of the other vampire women had used golden light before, and Mum revealed the song was sung to her by her mother when the voices started in her childhood. Levi had discretely moved all the ‘lost children’ to separate safe houses that only a chosen few knew the location to. Right now, there were more questions than we had answers to.

Nature created a cure for every disease, and I was beginning to see a pattern in the women of my family as I embarked on a genealogy search. The answer to all our questions started in the past and ended with me in the present time. I knew that clues were scattered in the history of our two species, and my role in this new war was to discover them. We would never win until we did.

Levi had sent a message, including photographs of the cave, to his grandmother, and now we were waiting to see if she was willing to help us. There was a reason that language had been hidden in the lycan’s past, and the more I researched vampire records, the more I was convinced it was all connected to the start of the war that had raged between our species for centuries.

Somewhere the hellspawn were mixed up in our history. We may have only discovered their existence less than a year ago, but they certainly knew all about both our species. The fact that the master hellspawn had been seeking out vampires with special gifts for years was evidence of their knowledge.

As if sensing me watching him, Levi turned to me, quirking an eyebrow in question. His messy black hair fell over his eyes and my pulse leapt at the image he created. He prowled over to where I stood against a tree with all the grace of a lethal predator, his hands landing on my hips to tug me against him.

“What’s going on in that head of yours?” he muttered against my throat, his short beard rough on my sensitive skin.

He’d taken our worlds and melded them together, only to find more obstacles in our way.

“I’m still trying to understand this daylight inside me and why the other women like me don’t have it. Surely if the song exists, it was meant for all of us?”

Levi arched back to stare down at me. “Did we not agree that when we come here that wolf and vamp politics don’t exist? Do I need to spank you to remind you?”

My teeth bit into my bottom lip, and I pressed my thighs together. There were days he was all alpha wolf, hellbent on ruling everyone around him. He was the big bad wolf, and every piece of him was mine. I would never regret the night I wandered into the forest like little red riding hood.

“One of these days, I’m going to bite your alpha ass,” I said, earning me one of his sexy smirks.

Without thinking, I scanned the area to make sure there were no souls out there except the local squirrel population that drove Levi’s wolf insane. He was an apex predator and still couldn’t help chasing a small fluffy squirrel into the trees. His golden spirit wolf was another mystery that I needed to figure out. Everything traced back to that original forbidden bite in a forest long ago. Whatever we did that night had forged a different future for both of us and our species.

I kissed his chest, scratching it with my fangs until his eyes closed and he growled that low and sexy sound that made my thighs tingle, and my panties ignite with desire. My tongue traced a trail down the centre of his chest toward the waistband of his jeans.

He grabbed me and tossed me over his shoulder, making me squeal at the sudden gesture. His hand connected with my ass, and I squirmed under its weight. He strode toward our temporary home and my stomach tightened in anticipation.

My lips twitched in a grin even as I slid my legs around his waist so I could wrap my arms around his neck and stare at him. Levi never broke his stride.

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