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I called out for Alaric. I begged for him to take me instead.
The vibrating contraption only shook harder and faster against my clit. I cried out, suffering on the edge of orgasm for what feltlike forever, but still I couldn’t come. The physical barrier was ruthless.
Every single second burned, an endless well of agony that seared me from the inside out. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. I could only feel the torment of the cruel vibrating thing between my legs, a constant reminder of the anguish that I was being forced to endure. I wailed, the pleasure building deep in my core quickly becoming too much to handle. I wondered if it was going to split me in two. It felt like it would.
The cage rattled violently, the force of it sending a dull clang echoing through the cave. My breath hitched as I turned my head toward it, my pulse hammering in my ears. Alaric had grownbigger. Much bigger.
He looked nothing like the human man who had taunted and challenged me. No, the thing in that cage was something else entirely. A beast. A predator barely restrained.
Afucking giantwolf.
The Ghengrills had said I was going into heat, and now I believed them.
I was so hot. So. Fucking. Hot. It hurt. It hurt so much.
I screamed so loudly that it hurt my ears. Alaric roared and my core clenched, craving his cock deep inside me. I needed to feel him inside me. All of him. In every hole.
I begged for him.
I cried. I pleaded. I screamed for him, and he heard my call.
The cage rattled hard as Alaric threw his body against it. The walls shook and the sound of the thick material fracturingechoed loudly throughout the room. The terrible vibrations against my clit never stopped, but the Ghengrills took a step back nervously. Needle whipped his head from me to Alaric. The others did too.
Cracks radiated from where Alaric had thrown his body against the glass wall. He hit it one last time and the wall shattered, falling to the floor in pieces.
He was free! Unbound and very pissed off.
The three Ghengrills cowered.
Alaric’s chest rose and fell with the power of his fury. He looked like he was about to explode with it, and even though that should have terrified me, it didn’t. The aliens that had taken me captive were a different story though. They looked like they were about to piss themselves from fear. It was becoming obvious that they didn’t have the skill or the training of the soldiers that had kidnapped and taken me in the first place. They didn’t have a chance against what Alaric had become. Not the slightest.
He came to me first and tore the vibrating contraption off of my naked pussy with his teeth before turning toward the three Ghengrills. The touch of his fingers did something to my insides and the terrible pain receded, at least for a moment.
With each step that Alaric took toward the aliens, they took one back until they ran into the wall behind them. It didn’t take much longer for Alaric to reach them.
What came next was a level of violence that was as terrifying as it was arousing.
Alaric didn’t hesitate. One moment, he was still, coiled with lethal intent, and the next, heexplodedinto motion. His massiveblack form launched across the cave, claws scraping against stone, fangs bared in a snarl that sent a chill racing down my spine.
He went for Needle first. The Ghengrill tried to run, but even I knew it was useless. Alaric was too fast. Needle swung wildly, trying to fend him off, but he may as well have been fighting a hurricane. Alaric dodged effortlessly, his movements smooth, fluid, like this was what he wasbornto do. Then he struck. His powerful jaws clamped down around Needle’s throat, cutting off the alien’s gurgled scream. A sickening crunch echoed through the cave, followed by the wet sound of tearing flesh. Black blood sprayed across the stone, pooling beneath the twitching remains before they even hit the ground.
Alaric didn’t stop.
Bastard barely had time to react before Alaric was on him. The wolf’s massive frame slammed into the alien, knocking him to the ground with a single, brutal impact. Bastard flailed, but Alaric was already sinking his fangs into his skull. He bit down. Bone cracked, a wet, splintering sound, and Bastard’s body went limp. Alaric wasn’t satisfied. He lifted his head and ripped what remained apart, making damn sure the alien would never move again.
Then, slowly, deliberately, he turned to Attitude.
The last Ghengrill was frozen in place, black blood splattered across his sickly pale skin, his three bulbous eyes wide with horror. He tried to step back, but Alaric let out a low, rumbling growl that rooted him where he stood. A slow death, then. Alaric wanted him toknowhe was about to die.
Blood. So much blood.
And yet, I couldn’t look away. Ishouldhave been afraid. Ishouldhave been horrified. But instead, my body was thrumming with something else entirely. Something dark. Somethinghungry.
“We made a critical mistake by taking the two of you, instead of just the female. I see that now,” Attitude said, his voice shaking with fear.
Alaric stood amidst the carnage, his black fur slick with blood, his chest heaving with each heavy breath. Then, as if some invisible force pulled him from the depths of his beast, his form began to change. The shift was smoother this time, less violent than before, though no less unnatural. His massive frame shrank, fur receding like ink seeping into his skin, claws retracting, bones grinding and reshaping with wet, nauseating pops. His snout shortened, his fangs dulling back into human teeth, though the raw, predatory edge in his expression remained. In mere moments, the beast was gone, and in its place stood Alaric—the man.
His muscles were still coiled with tension, his broad chest slick with sweat and streaks of black alien blood. His icy blue eyes locked onto mine, unblinking, hungry. He was breathing hard, his body trembling slightly from the aftershocks of the shift, but there was nothing weak about him. If anything, he lookedmoredangerous now, standing naked amidst the wreckage, his gaze burning through me like a brand. For a second, time stopped, and then he turned back to Attitude.
