“Hey baby,” Lauren says with a sly, seductive grin.

“What do you want?” I ask her, and she stops, sighing heavily as she places her hand on her waist.

“What? No, I’ve missed you. How was death?” She asks in a snarky tone.

I lick my lips in annoyance, looking over my shoulder at Melody, who is clearly confused.

“If you are a vampire, then you are still dead.” I remind her and she makes a face while nodding her head.

“Well, only partially a vampire.” She corrects me.

“Leave.” I grit out.

“Or what? You will kill me again? Sorry sweetheart, you don’t scare me anymore.” She shrugs. “I am here for Giselle.

“Giselle is not here,” I scoff, and she chuckles, her laughter dark and lacking humor.

“I am here on her behalf,”

I look to the water, making sure my emotions are masked from Colette in order to keep her away and safe.

Is she out there? Your water mate?” Lauren asks, following my eyes.

“That’s none of your damn business,” Melody scowls and Lauren rolls her eyes.

“Shut up, you oversized punching bag!” she clips out. “The royals are discussing things.”

I snort a laugh and shake my head.

“You aren’t a royal.”

I am mated to Johannes,”

and you WERE mated to Johannes. Now you are an

me. Her once brown eyes grow blood red and her fangs come out as her face grows hairy, as if her lycan is trying to surface. She grows

darker muscles before

factor, it is sorely misplaced. I have fought many beasts, more recently a fucking

you allow me to take Colette.” She

my dead, fucking body.” I

larger, my muscles exploding from my skin and my snout growing from my

She has already taken so much from me. First my parents, then my attempt at revenge, and now she demands what

stumbling back before falling

and grins. “Best to run along before I kill this sorry sap.

to get her ass

to move, my claws slipping through her soft abdomen like a heated knife through butter. Lauren hisses as she takes a

growls as she circles me, looking

My back, though exposed, would be expected, and coming at me from

knees and spin, driving my claws up as she leaps at me. I catch her under the chin, my

from my impaling fingers and throws herself back away from me. Blood pours down her neck, dripping onto her black low cut top. Lauren scowls at me before she touches her

new shirt.”

I just choose to glare. If I could speak, I would tell her she is a worse fighter now, then she was when she was my mate.. Lauren never bothered to learn to carry her weight as a pack member or a Luna. So it is no surprise to me

how easily she bounces back from every injury. A move like the two I have already done would have killed a normal lycan or wolf. But she isn’t a normal anything, and it would serve me well to know that. What I have to do,

head. My hands drive through her stomach and out her back as she slides down onto my forearm from the force of her own weight. I throw my head

into my neck. I grunt, trying to force her off as she sinks her nails into my back, anchoring her to where she is. Her body vibrates as she sucks hard on my

drawing them out as my neck grows numb, the sick tingling feeling spreading through my skin like a spider placing their venom in my bloodstream. I know

intentionally fall to my back. Her body bounces up with the jolt and I slip my legs under her waist. I

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