Bags sat by the door of the apartments. Ready for the morning. The remaining few were on alert and they would definitely come for Kelvin now he’d escaped. Dustin (although on high alert) slept. He'd got the job of driving away from the Creek. The last thing they needed was him to be overcome with tiredness and plow the van into a tree, or maybe dump it over the edge of a ravine.

Kelvin chatted with Kat, and Maria cleared all non-essentials from the office. Alvin assured her the Towers would be in good hands. She could be away as long as she needed to be, or at least as long as Declan wanted her to be away. He was still the alpha, after all.

Kelvin teased Kat, and she’d yet to realize she was going to be alone again within the next twelve hours. Love them and leave them. Kelvin grinned. Nice attitude, though he hadn't had a chance to love Kat. He hadn't had her in a position where she'd kiss his neck and whisper I love you into his ear. And he (for sure) hadn't pushed her body to a sexual crescendo.

Gabriel sat on the couch. His mind was fully preoccupied with all that had gone on. Now, it was quiet, and he started to break down. From the inside. Megan playing the part of caring partner walked from the bedroom in a black see-through negligee. Gabriel looked up. He shook his head. He bowed it and cried.

"I can't do it."

"Gab, it's okay to mourn, not that you should be mourning Tanya, it was her choice," Megan replied. She caressed the side of his cheek and ran her long fingernails down the side of his neck. "I'm here now, everything’s going to be fine."

"I should never have let you go, you know that, don't you?" He sniffled as he replied.

Megan lifted Gabriel’s hand and placed it on her thigh, she lifted it under the silky sheer material until it pushed against the juncture of her thighs. Megan smiled most-provocatively.

"I know Gab, but everything's gonna be fine," she cooed.

The buttons popped open one by one on Gabriel's shirt as Megan twisted and coaxed them through the small holes. She lifted her gaze. Her bottom lip pinched between her teeth as his shirt opened. Her hands pushed against Gabriel's firm chest. It heaved as she pushed her hands to the sides and slid his shirt off his shoulders.

Gabriel leaned back on the couch as Megan traced a line down his chest to his ribbed stomach with her tongue. He ran his fingers through her hair as she tussled with the buckle of his belt. The zipper made a quiet ratcheting sound as it slid from top to bottom. Megan pulled the waist of Gabriel's jeans. He raised his hips and shook his legs. The bundle of jeans pooled around his ankles. Megan pulled his feet free and turned her attention back to his sizeable throbbing manhood that rested against Gabriel’s belly.

"Mmm. I've so missed this," she quipped, before her tongue licked the length of his impending erection.

Gabriel tilted his head and looked at the ceiling. It felt good. The heat of her tongue matched the warmth that filled his cock. He twitched as Megan wrapped her fingers around the base of his shaft. Her hand started to caress him. Her head lowered. He felt her hot, plum lips clench under the head of his arousal.

"Oh wow!" he murmured.

"You feeling better now, no thoughts of Tanya?"

"Tanya who?" he replied with a seductive grin on his face. Gabriel was well known as always being a womanizer, but since he’d become human, he’d lost a lot of his wolf appeal, at times. He was still the hunk that any good-looking chick would want to bed, but his animalistic drive now deserted him. Until now.

Megan's head lowered as she took his full length. Her lips reached her fingers at the base of his hardened cock. He filled her mouth as she swirled her tongue and sucked. It was perfection.

Megan pulled her head from his loins. She inched her body closer between his taut, muscled thighs. She pushed his shaft between her ample breasts and started to lift and lower her body.

"Oh my god, Megan!" he exclaimed as he watched her enjoying herself like a porn star would do.

"You always said wolves have an insatiable appetite," she replied, smiling and bobbing her lithe body.

"You’re not a wolf though," he commented.

"I learned from the hungriest of them all, don't forget that, cowboy."

Megan stopped and stood. She put her hands on his shoulders and straddled his naked body. She reached down and pushed the tip of his hard cock against her wetness. She sighed with pleasure as she lowered her hips and sheathed him entirely. Megan sucked in short, shallow pants of breath as Gabriel’s large shaft stretched her in satisfying ways. She exhaled as her body raised and lowered.

Gabriel took hold of her hips. Megan clenched her fingers into her long blonde hair and arched her back with wildness. Her hips thrust forward, taking the full length of Gabriel's steely erection. Her breasts pushed forward. Her head tilted back, and he thrust up to meet her falling body. Megan pulled one hand from her hair and cupped her breast. Gabriel panted with excitement as he watched her tease her nipple to hardness. Her hips ground against his as her body moved toward her final moment. A kaleidoscope of sensations rushed through her horny body. Her belly quivered as her hips shuddered. She squirmed in ecstasy as her womanhood clenched against each powerful, upward thrust.

"Gab, take me.” Megan pushed her hands on his chest and stepped away from his hips. “From behind."

Megan knelt on the floor. She rested her weight on her knees and forearms. Her head bowed, and long strands of blonde hair fell on the floor. She cocked her head to the side. She watched Gabriel as he knelt and pushed his hips closer to the velvety skin of her ass. She reached under her belly and pushed the tip of his hard cock between the wet doors of her most-sacred place. She pushed her hips back to envelop the full length of his cock.

Gabriel ground his hips against Megan as he thrust himself deep inside her. Megan panted like a dog as her back arched and her hot mound pulled Gabriel deeper in. She closed her eyes. She felt the golden glow rise up in her glare. The animal inside of her wanted to break free. Keep your cool. Her body rocked back and forth. She heard Gabriel's heart race as he breathed shallow and fast. She sensed he was close.

"Gab, harder." I don't want to have to fake it.

Gabriel drove his hard cock deep inside of her, the slap of skin-on-skin filled the apartment. His abs tensed as he tilted his head back and moaned with pleasure.

"Go on Gab, do it, come with me," Megan squealed out with delight.

Her body squirmed as a heat welled up inside her. She felt her glorious moment was almost there. Short little spurts of breath escaped from her lungs. Her heart beat as if she was on a hunt. Her hips rocked wildly as Gabriel probed her hot wet depths with the full length of his rock-hardness.

Megan finally let go and yelled out with exotic pleasure. "I'm coming!"

Gabriel felt her body clench. His hips locked as a fire of tingling sensations flooded from his loins. He jerked his hips forward as he felt himself spill over into Megan's pleasured depths. He thrust and spurted a second and a third time. His rigid shaft was now spent as he slumped his body and pulled himself from Megan's body.

"I don't know," he murmured as he rested his head on the couch. He sucked in breaths as Megan rolled over on the carpet and leaned her head on her hand.

"Don't know what?" she asked.

"You're like a totally different woman." He couldn’t believe how sexy she was. Animalistic, even.

"Gab, maybe I am."

* * *

The Towers had fallen into silence on the last night for the few who remained, and the few who needed to escape. Within six hours, the final wolves would leave and would be closely followed by a black van with Dustin at the wheel. Next stop, New Orleans, and to find Gabriel's shaman. With his inner wolf back, they could go on the offensive and kick some severe vlad ass. They’d beaten the hunters, and they now knew that a head shot (and broad daylight) wasn’t something the vlads took to, at least, not very lightly.

They had an edge, although they had a way to go before they owned that advantage. And without any knowledge of where Noelle and Blake were holed up. The tall, blue-eyed ancient that Kelvin had seen would want payback for Kelvin giving him the slip. Wanting his blood could be an understatement, he'd more than likely drain every last drop from his beating heart.

All was planned, and all was silent until the fire alarm sounded. Alvin took his job deadly seriously, and he made the safety of Maria even more so.

She’d saved him years before when he was surrounded by a gang who’d dragged him from his car. A BMW on the wrong side of town and he’d brought it on himself. With the “Gimme all your money and the keys to your car,” he started to resist until the blow to the side of the head had knocked him to the pavement. Maria had gone on a hunt and heard the scuffle. Not one for watching any animal or human suffer, she pounced from the shadows in her wolf form. Even before Dustin trained her in wolf, unarmed combat, she could kick serious ass. The gang bolted, carrying a few extra bruises, hits to their faces, and sore, broken bones. She turned and looked down as Alvin leaned against the side of his car. She had a prey who was wounded, her kill could be easy.

Alvin offered himself to her. "Take me if you must. I have nothing left to fend you off with."

Something touched Maria deep inside. She changed back to her human form. "I'm not going to turn you or kill you," she replied. She offered Alvin her hand and helped him stand.

"Why not?” The blood streamed down the side of his face and soaked the collar of his shirt. “I'm weak and vulnerable."

"No, you’re not. I feel you have something to offer. Maybe not now, but sometime in the future you can repay me."

"You have my word, whenever you need me, give me a call," he said, handing his business card to Maria.

That was how it had gone, and he had stuck to his word. All that flooded back through his mind the moment he saw the puddle of blood run under the second apartment door. Alvin stood in the lobby and knew it’d fill very quickly, especially once everyone dressed and had run down the stairs.

The lobby was full when Gabriel and Megan arrived. Maria followed with Dustin, then Kelvin, and Kat walked down the stairs last.

"What's going on?" Maria asked.

"The second apartment, I think something has gone on inside," Alvin said as he led Maria there.

She saw the blood on the floor and gasped. "Vlads, they must be in the building."

She glanced back over her shoulder. Her eyes were wide as Dustin approached. She told him her suspicions, and he agreed. Gabriel walked along the hallway as he caught sight of the blood. He knew exactly what they thought, there was now a big threat in the camp.

"The vlads have someone inside, they know Kelvin’s back here, and they want him," Gabriel said as he twisted the handle on the apartment door.

He stepped inside. The blood ran along the tiled floor from the bathroom. Gabriel flicked the switch, and his eyes fell on the body that laid in the bathtub. The arm draped over the side, and the final drops of blood dripped.

"Who could’ve done this? Shit, that's what we need to find out pretty damned quick," he muttered over his shoulder. Maria pulled him from the bathroom door and back into the hallway. She whispered into his ear.

Kelvin left Kat in the lobby and approached Gabriel. "What we gonna do?" he asked.

"We have around four hours to go before the sun starts to rise. We have to assume this isn't the last attempt to get you. Why they did this, we can only assume… it’s to cause a distraction."

Dustin could be heard in the lobby telling everyone it was all a false alarm and that there was nothing to worry about. All the human residents slowly walked back to their apartments, now muttering among themselves.

"Get back to bed. I'll take care of this," he said.

They all looked over their shoulders as they entered their apartments. Eyes were cast over everyone who they didn't know for sure, or who might be a vlad. Dustin looked at Kelvin and wondered if he’d been turned. What a stupid thought. He realized that was the most idiotic thought he’d ever had.

The apartment doors closed, some went back to sleep.

And others didn't…

“I couldn’t kill myself to save my life.”