“Get in her head and find out what the hell she wants to do about this before we make a mess she’ll be pissed about later. I’ll make the dick turn into a man,” I say to him. “Arion, ensure that Idun doesn’t step foot back in this room,” I tell the vampire, as I lift my silver sword, watching as Emit starts ripping the shirt from Violet’s body with his teeth.
“And if she decides she doesn’t want to be ravaged by him and mated for fucking who knows how long?” Arion drawls.
Emit snaps his jaws, slobber flying as his wild eyes collide with mine. Claws slash across my chest, and pain sears through me, as I stumble back, finding his full wolf’s speed much faster than I remember.
I dab the blood with my fingertips, as he snarls low in his throat, baring his teeth at me like he’s daring me to step closer. But it’s clear he’s not leaving her for even a second.
“Then I’ll need some help with getting Violet out from under him,” I say in response.
“Fucking hell. She already thinks we’re too much work,” Damien groans, as the whites of his eyes return to take over his sight. “I’m starting to see her point.”
CHAPTER 16
VIOLET
“Violet,” the smooth voice says so close to my ear as my eyes flutter open.
Lush, beautiful violets are making a plush bed for me, and the sun is perfectly hidden through a thick canopy of clouds that only allows tendrils of the light to shine through.
Where the freaking hell am I? Clearly someone is screwing with my head.
“Damien?” I guess when I sit up, seeing small squirrels having sex across the way.
Ew.
“Sorry to barge in on your dreams this way, but I’m afraid your wolf needs your help,” his voice says, echoing all around me, even though I don’t see him. “You’re still healing from the Simpleton bashing you took earlier. It’s fine if you say no to the unprovoked mating. Arion and Vance can presumably handle him.”
I blink, wondering if this is just some really crazy dream.
A waterfall starts suddenly beside me, but it’s on mute or something, because it’s pretty without all the excess spray and obnoxious racket.
“Your omegas knew you’d be Emit’s mate eventually. They told you as much and treated you as if you already were. Surely you saw this coming,” Damien drones on.
“Damien, catch me up, please. I can’t seem to keep up with all the random shit you guys are doing since I broke up with you.”
I hear his amused chuckle permeate my thoughts, and suddenly he’s over me, crowding me, pressing me to the ground.
His eyes lock on mine, and my breath comes out shaky, when I feel him touching every single inch of me, igniting all those nerves. He brushes my hair away from my face with a touch I can also feel, though it seems to carry electricity with it.
That only causes me to shudder harder, as my thighs press together against his hips.
He smirks, because he enjoys the power he’s always had over me.
“Long story short, Idun has broken free of her punishment—”
“You can get out of my head right now if you’re really interrupting my healing faint to talk about Idun,” I interrupt, crossing my arms over my chest as I glare at him.
The dick brushes his lips over mine in a gentle caress, fingering a lock of my hair, as his lips curve in a grin against mine. “Emit’s wolf has chosen you for his mate, and his most hated enemy was too close for too long, while he still waited to put his mark on you. He broke out of the Van Helsing cage, Violet. He’s seconds away from claiming you and leaving his mark. Unless Arion and Vance put him down for twenty-eight years. You tell me what to tell them.”
My mouth opens and closes, as several rapid blinks accompany my fish-face reaction.
“Can’t a girl just have a normal faint and deal with this crazy shit when she wakes up?” I ask…admittedly using a slightly hysterical tone.
Damien grins. Of course he does.
“I’m happy to stay in here with you, but a decision has to be made. Dead wolf or new wolf mate,” he says with a shrug.
“Are those really my only two options?” I ask him, too tired to even try to figure out which overwhelming emotion to tackle first.
I’ll have my breakdown later. It’s going to be massive by the time this one hits.
“Afraid so. For the record, his wolf demanded the same of Idun. She worked hard to have that mark removed, and it’s left his wolf restless and lonely these past many centuries,” he adds, playing me at this point.
I pause, noticing how he’s purposely making Emit sound pathetic, while also pretending to be nonchalant.
“She really did bring the four of you closer again,” I say quietly, my body sinking farther into the violets, as my head drops back.
Damien’s head is immediately blocking my view of the waterfall, and he’s giving me a stern glare.
“You only think you know what’s going on, because you’re too young to understand the four very complicated individuals who’ve grown obsessed with you. We’re not closer because of Idun. If anything, she’s threatening to tear it all down. Please trust me right now. I hate to rush your decision-making process, but time is of the essence. Vance and Arion are struggling to get close without taking a claw to the gut, and the second Emit shifts, he’ll be taking what he believes is his.”