Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 43296 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 216(@200wpm)___ 173(@250wpm)___ 144(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 43296 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 216(@200wpm)___ 173(@250wpm)___ 144(@300wpm)
But she realized she much preferred to live this way. Kat’aki had been primitive in many of the same ways, but it wasn’t as gloriously freeing as being with Aktullas. There was freedom with them.
The violence and filth didn’t surround her, didn’t consume every part of her life. Not anymore, at least.
She turned back around toward the party and watched through the open balcony doors as warriors that looked like they could snap someone’s neck clean off, took hold of their mates and brought them close to their bodies in a protective embrace.
They loved those females like nothing else on the planet mattered, and they looked at them in the same way the three brothers looked at her. Did it always happen this quickly when they found their mates?
Was it consuming and mind-blowing and just...wonderful? When she had first seen Erak, Genet, and Rami at Tao, she had never thought this was where her life would lead her. Slavery, degradation, and pain were the only things she thought about, the only thing she assumed her life would amount to, despite her need to escape and live.
But these brothers had showed her that with control, there could also be tenderness and possibly even love.
She looked at Erak, stared at his harsh features that weren’t what she would consider classically handsome, and knew that she wanted so much more out of her life, and she wanted that with all three of them.
Sensing her gaze on him, Erak looked down at her, and the smile he gave her was so warm, so heartbreaking, that she knew without a doubt she could very easily fall in love with him, Genet, and Raimi.
It didn’t matter that the time spent with them had been miniscule in the grand scheme of it all because, after living a vile life, she would take nothing or anyone for granted. Luna also realized that if she felt something, she would take hold of it with both hands and never let it go.
Raimi and Genet came outside and stood beside Erak. The three of them looked at her, their gazes raking along her body with pent-up arousal and expressions that held no patience.
They wanted her, and they wanted her now.
“You are looking at us like you are the one that wants to devour us.” Erak’s voice was a low, deep caress along her body, and she let her eyes close.
It felt good to be wanted as more than just a possession. This was just the beginning of their life together, but it was something that she didn’t fear and actually looked forward to. The future held many unknown things, but as long as she was free, she could accept anything that was thrown her way.
Besides, she also had these three to look after her, and that went a long way in making her fear subside and contentment and peace settle inside of her.
“That’s exactly what I want to do.” Their triple, identical growls had her instantly wet, but for the first time since meeting her warriors, she was the one who went to them with the intention of easing the ache that seemed to control all of them.
It was a glorious way to end the night and start her new life.
Epilogue
LUNA
Luna covered Landyn up with a blanket and ran her fingers through the thick, ash colored hair that layered his little eighteen-month-old head.
She couldn’t help but smile at how much he looked like his father, Genet. Quietly slipping out of the room, she passed by Declain’s room, her rowdy three-year-old.
Without going inside, she leaned against the entryway and watched as Erak read to their son. Even three years later, she was still amazed that her overbearing, alpha husband had a soft side, but he showed it tenfold with her and their children.
The baby growing inside of her, another little boy, this one Raimi’s, kicked wildly. Even though her past was just that, her past, she still sometimes had nightmares that Maximo would come for her.
It didn’t matter that Maximo was dead and couldn’t hurt her. She still struggled to work through what had happened to her. But being with Erak, Genet, and Raimi had helped Luna find peace and calm and most of all… love.
She was even talking to someone, a warrior who specialized in the healing arts of healing the mind. And it was helping. She was finding even more of her inner peace and strength.
Luna sensed someone stop behind her and looked over her shoulder to see Raimi.
“Baby, you need your rest.” He rubbed her very large, swollen belly, and their son gave a mighty kick. “Little Kale takes a lot out of you, and I know your back hurts.”
He slid his hands right over her lower spine and started kneading her flesh. A low moan slipped from her, and Erak lifted his gaze to her and smiled. He dropped his gaze down to Declain, saw their little boy asleep, and kissed him on the head before leaving the room.