Page 95 of The Lycans: Vol Four

But when he groaned and I watched his lips part, saw the way his fangs started to elongate, I felt like it was a cold splash of water on me as I took a step back and shook my head.

“Look,” I said with a voice that didn’t even sound like my own. He didn’t take his focus off me, but then gave a frustrated sound and glanced out the cave entrance.

Both of us were trying to get ourselves under control. I followed his line of vision. We both just stood there staring out into the abyss of whatever wilderness we’d been thrust into.

“The sun has set.”

And that meant getting the hell out of this cave.

6

Sebastian

Iwasn’t sure what I expected when Ada told me we’d been thrust into a parallel dimension.

Because although I’d lived in the city for most of my existence, my actual home was situated out in the middle of nowhere with a thick forest surrounding it. And what I’d seen here so far didn’t look any different than what I was already used to.

Mountains were to our left, great towers of dark rock that seemed to reach higher than I could even gauge. And to our right was a thick forest, the trees heavy at the top, the darkness making them appear almost black in color.

I had yet to see any other creatures, Otherworld, human, or native to this plane. But the scents were different. More pungent, hitting the back of my nose before dripping down my throat.

We’d had to make a swift decision on what the plan would be leaving the cave, because we didn’t know how much darkness we’d have. So we decided to head back toward the direction we assumed the portal we’d come out of was.

It was a shot in the dark—fucking ironic—but not knowing the terrain of this world, or how much cover we’d have from the sun, left us few realistic and safe options.

I focused on Ada once more, glowering because she insisted on leading the way even though I wanted to go first in case there were any dangers that I could take out and keep her safe.

She was stubborn, my female, tiny but fierce, and it turned me on like nothing I’d ever experienced before.

Not even the thrill of taking a life, the high of satiation when I drained a body and took my fill of their blood, compared to how she made me feel.

Just looking at her brought me immense pleasure.

She was doing her fucking best to avoid me, to act like I wasn’t here. It infuriated me. It tore my chest open and ripped out my heart.

I wasn’t used to feeling this way, hell, to feeling any type of way.

All I’d ever felt was loyalty. To my brother Kane. To the American Vampire Council, and to my cousin and leader of said council, Adryan.

But then here I was, feeling sensations and emotions, fucking hardcore needs and wants that were driving me insane.

I knew what she was doing, knew she was keeping me at a distance to protect herself. I could see that wariness in her eyes, and that notion was solidified when she woke up screaming from a nightmare. I didn’t know how long she’d been with the Assembly, but I knew they’d hurt my female.

I knew they’d probably done unspeakable things to her, tortured my tiny Fae mate until she was having flashbacks. They made her cry out because she remembered the pain and fear they’d inflicted on her.

If I could have killed them all over again, I would have gladly ripped out every single one of their hearts and made a pile in front of her as an offering.

My rage was heavy inside of me, a living entity that I was having a hard time reining in.

In fact, I was so consumed with my thoughts of anger that my mate had been hurt, that I wasn’t even paying attention to our surroundings.

Aside from the obvious, that this dimension was lush with greenery and mountainous, I’d been focused on Ada.

Which was exactly where my gaze landed as she trudged ahead of me. The pants she wore were dark but formfitting, and my vision was crystal clear so that I could make out the perfectly rounded mounds of her ass.

We were walking uphill, boulders surrounding us, and the thick line of forest to our right. To our left were the mountains that blocked out everything else.

She stumbled and I reached out instantly, curling my hand around her tiny waist and righting her.

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