Chapter 120

Cassie

"We were best friends." Ian's words seemed to haunt me , they haunted me as much as the memories of watching my friends head be ripped from her shoulders. And then there was Scarlett. She had offered herself as a sacrificial lamb as well, she might be dead. The idea of the beautiful dancing she wolf laying dead on the great halls floor nagged at me, just as much as anything else. And what was worse was the fact that Julian still hadn't woken up.  There was no fever now, that had broken finally and his wounds had all but healed. Leaving nothing but silver pink and shiny scars. There was no reason for him to be still asleep.

But he just wouldn't wake up.

From my place at the desk, curled up on the giant leather chair behind it. Somewhere I had taken to sleeping. I stared at him. The room was almost in darkness because we had been conserving energy and candles. We didn't know how long we would have to stay here now the full moon had come and gone and Julian was not awake.

The window of escape was over , Ian said something else would present itself but I had seen the worry in his eyes. The way he began rationing what food and water we had left, the candles , the -

On the bed Julian groaned an turned over in his sleep and I was on my feet and rushing towards him in a second. Perching on the edge of the bed, I smoothed my hand over his forehead and through his hair which was longer than I had ever seen it.

"Julian?" I whispered his name. In the last twenty four hours the boys had become grizzly and irritable and it had just taken me several hours to get them down. I didn't want to wake them by speaking too loudly. My husband and mate didn't stir. "Julian, if you can hear me then I'm going to need you to wake up."

He didn't move, he didn't even snore but there was a change in him that I could feel but couldn't see. Like something was creeping towards the surface.

His wolf.

His wolf was awake and prowling towards me.

I shifted my weight, leaning over him with my hands on either side of his shoulder I brought my lips to his  ears to whisper. "That it, come towards my voice." I said and held my breath. It had worked before, I had called to his animal and it had come. I didn't like to think about it because it was meant to be impossible. I could almost get my head around the fact I had some kind of magical healing gift, I was a doctor so that kind of made sense but calling another shifters animal to the front? No one should have that kind of power. Our animals were sacred to us.

"It's Cassie. I'm your-" I froze and looked down into the open eyes of my husband. His wolf looked back at me but I wanted to scream with happiness.

He was awake. His eyes were open.

"H-" I opened my mouth to say hello but never got the chance. Moving with a speed that was mind blowing he gripped the back of my head with both of his huge hands and smashed our mouths together.

His lips forced mine open, his tongue darted into my mouth to explore every inch of me. I didn't hesitate for a second. I kissed him back, and I put all the relief I was feeling into it.

Julian was awake and that's all that mattered. It meant that we could finally try and escape this opulent prison. I would be able to take my children outside for the first time in their short lives and feel the wind on my face.

Julian's angry animalistic growl caused my eyes to snap

Open. He didn't seem to notice, he continued his assault on my mouth. His hands like vices on the back of my head. But his kiss changed. It had never been gentle to begin with and this was almost painful. My lips were crushed painfully into my teeth.

I tried to move away, just an inch so I could tell him to stop. But his grip on me was too tight.

Instead of letting me go, he kept me locked to him with one hand and the other arm wrapped around me and yanked me on top of him.

"Julian stop-" I managed to say before he crashed my mouth back down on his. His hands slid up the inside of the shirt, trying to get to my breasts as I struggled. He couldn't from this angle.

"Mine." He growled and flipped us. He had almost died and should be weak but his strength was astonishing. In a blink of an eye I was pressed into the mattress and his weight was over mine. Crushing me , locking me in place.

He nipped at my lips, his teeth piercing the skin and stared down at me. Only it wasn't Julian, it was his wolf. I had called his wolf and now it was here and he was going to.

My shirt was yanked up over my stomach so he could free my breasts. And his eyes shone as he stared down at them.  "So full." His voice was almost a lisp, his mouth suddenly full of teeth that were far too big for his human mouth. "So full of milk. I will feast on them. I will feast on all of you and then fill you back up." He brought his lips to the swell of my heavy breasts. Kissing and biting his way to my swollen nipples.

His hands began to tug at my leggings, trying to push the down. Only the weight of his body on mine made it impossible.

Growling in frustration he began to tear at them and that's what made me move. He couldn't do this, I couldn't do this. It was too soon. Julian's mouth closed around my nipple and sucked.

"No." I beat at his shoulders. But I may as well have been beating a rock for all the notice he paid me. "Stop Julian it's too soon. I'm not heale-"

Julian's weight was ripped off me. Ian sent him sprawling to the floor but Julian was quick. Rolling to his feet he came at his oldest friend with a roar. "She is mine. You come between me and my mate?"

"And she said no." Ian punched him straight in the face and knocked his king straight out.

Again.