Her human Mate

5.Casey

I walked into the bedroom with a sense of dread in my stomach that proved well founded as Aiden grabbed me and slammed me up against the wall behind us. I cried out in alarm.

He leaned over and bit down hard on my shoulder. A thin trail of blood started to slide down my chest. Aiden reached down and grabbed my t-shirt tearing it savagely from top to bottom, exposing my bare breasts and stomach.

My wolf inside me was growling and snarling in anger as I pushed her down. My lack of response wasn't noticed by my husband. It had been a long time since he last noted if I was experiencing any pleasure. I was here to service his needs only.

Aiden grabbed my arms again and spun me around, flinging me back onto the bed. He pulled my jeans off roughly before he was upon me. His hand was on my throat.

"Who do you belong to?" he hissed.

"You Alpha." I panted, rubbing his erection through his jeans unenthusiastically. He smiled, loving my submission. We both knew the truth but these words stroked his ego.

"My queen," he said softly, almost reverently, "we will build a pack together."

"We will." I wish I could stop the trembles in my body. I knew what he wanted me to say. We had played this game so many times before. I didn't play anymore usually, but now it was different. He couldn't know about Noah. I would play his game because that's what he wanted. He wouldn't question or threaten me further if I just submitted to his will and played his game. Aiden had long since given up caring if I wanted him not. He had possession of me, so of course I would desire him. It wasn't in him to question his absolute power.

"You'll give me children."

"I will, my lord," I said gently as he gripped my neck hard and shoved himself into me savagely snarling. I cried out from Pain but he didn't notice or care. Snarling and growling as he ran his claws down my body, leaving long scratch marks, the scent of blood filled the room. I looked up into Aiden's eyes, they were bright gold, his wolf was totally in control. He pinned me down as he continued to thrust into me, every stroke felt like an invasion. It was wrong. I turned my head to the side. I couldn't look into those eyes anymore. My body ran on Autopilot as I made the noises I knew he liked me to make, I touched his body the way he wanted all to stop him seeing the tears that were sliding down my face. My wolf howled and cried feeling I was cheating on my mate, which wasn't true. I had taken Aiden as my mate. I had married him, but that couldn't stop my brain. My mind wondered to Noah, I thought of how it felt to kiss him, the feel of his skin under my fingers, the tingles and sparks that seemed to crackle between us when our bodies touched, and something inside me hurt. I could hear Aiden growling, feel his pace speed up and he snarled and came inside me. He collapsed down on my body slick with sweat,

"You are amazing Princess," he said clearly unaware of my lack of enthusiasm or the hot tears that were still running down my face. "We have to get to the meet." he said calmly , "get yourself cleaned up and dressed." he pulled out of me splattering my naked body with drops of his seed and strode naked out of the room, not caring if the rest of the guys saw me naked sprawled on the bed. I got up and closed the door before I hurried to the bed and picked up a towel and began rubbing my skin. rubbing his c*m off of me .The towel was rough and hurt my tender flesh, but I didn't care. I continued rubbing at my skin desperate to get the scent of him off me, crying as I savagely scrubbed at my skin until the towel came away tinged pink with my blood. I sank down to my knees suddenly, too tired to be upset . I reached out and grabbed my handbag and gave it a quick search before I sighed as I found my contraceptive pills. Obviously Aiden didn't know I had them. He would kill me if he found out. After all I was supposed to be providing him with sons to create his dynasty, but no no I was not going to do that. I knew I would have to someday, but not yet and despite knowing I didn't need one till tomorrow I popped another pill out of the packet and swallowed it dry. My tiredness swamped me and I lay myself down on the bare wooden floorboards picturing Noah with his long messy dark hair and his bright green eyes, "I'm sorry my love," I whispered as tears ran down my face.

Ten minutes later my cheeks were dry as I strode out of our room with a short black halter neck dress on . My hair pulled into a high ponytail, all the guys were assembled in the room waiting all similarly dressed mainly in black. We silently headed out the door as I appeared, though Stan offered me his arm mockingly . I smiled but still took it. We all piled into the Car Aiden was driving, as trying to get 5 of us in this car was a bit like Tetris anyway so as the smallest I had to go in the back. I perched half in the centre seat half on Stan's knee, as Gareth was exhibiting some extreme man spreading in the other seat as if oblivious to the enclosed location. We drove quickly and soon were deep enough in the woods Aiden cut off the road and drove on the dirt trails that were there if you knew where to find them this let us wind deeper amongst the foliage. Eventually the path stopped and we abandoned the car and silently got out. Stan twirled me around playfully as we climbed out of the car, but Aiden glared and so we just fell into step behind him. As Gareth walked over to the boot of the car and pulled out a short husky guy who had a bag over his head and his hands bound before him, the guys bundled him out and pushed him ahead of them silently. He was clearly gagged but that didn't stop him trying to hurl insults and threats, but the guys ignored him just nudging him ahead of them silently and eventually he gave up. We walked quickly a long way off nowhere that any stray human would find us at this time of night and if they did well that wouldn't be good for them.

We silently assembled in our circle, taking the places Aiden had assigned us. It wasn't right we all knew that in the pack we innately knew our place, we knew where to stand. Here Aiden decided he knew best. He assigned us our places, bestowing favours based on earned favour. My wolf bristled at this very idea. The full moon slid out from behind the clouds. It was a warm night and the white glow bathed us all in a milky light that made me breathe deeply, it made my wolf come alive. This was the time I felt the closest to her the time when we fully embraced each other. Aiden spoke the words of the rituals, none of us truly listening as I could see the boy shifting restlessly from foot to foot as they waited impatiently. They needed to shift their wolves needed to run they needed to hunt.

"Our guest tonight," Aiden said dramatically, stepping forward and removing the hood. "is Mr Guy Flagerly. He has unfortunately gained our attention for the a*******n and s****l assault of two thirteen-year-old girls. Mr Flagerly has several previous convictions. However, this week walked out of court a free man due to lack of evidence" Aiden knelt down placing a knife on the man's throat "apparently the poor girls suddenly became so confused, too scared to talk to police, suddenly insisting they made it all up. the Human court may have found you innocent Mr Flagerly, may have found you not guilty but we are a higher court you break our laws and we will exact punishment regardless of what your human courts say. The man's eyes were wide locked on Aiden's . Mr Flagerly you live in our lands and have committed grievous crimes. As such the punishment is death. Our territory ends at the boundary of the woods. leave the tree line you win your life and will be allowed to leave." He removed the knife and cut his bonds around his hands and pulled him to his feet. The guys began slowly pulling their shirts off, eyes locked on the victim whose eyes were wide in fear. Aiden gently removed the gag locking eyes with him "good luck," he said smiling "run." The man stumbled slightly in his haste to get out of the clearing. A couple of the boys chuckled as they stripped completely and got onto all fours. I slid my dress off pulled my hair tie loose and did the same curling my fingers in the dirt, feeling the moonlight bathe my pale skin I felt my wolf inside. I hissed as my arms snapped, followed by my legs . Damn, this never stopped hurting. I snarled as my back crackled over and over bending me temporarily in an unnatural position as it curled into a spine of a wolf. The fur started to sprout from my body as my long dark hair fell in soft clumps to the floor. My nails lengthened and thickened as bolts of pain shot through my skull. I could feel every bone inside me breaking, shifting and realigning to something that was totally different and yet still 100% me. I bit down on my lip to stop from screaming and tasted blood in my mouth. I tried to take deep breaths and could already taste the scents in the air. I could smell our prey. My senses were better than any human, but in wolf form they were ten times better than in my human form. It felt like every muscle in my body was tearing. My vision blurred out as I collapsed on the floor, all my limbs spasming in pure agony, And then it was gone. Almost instantly the pain vanished. I wobbled slightly as I got to my feet, stretching my long limbs out savouring in the feeling. I was fast as a wolf, much faster than the boys and strong too. I loved this form the part of me I spent so much of my life hiding from everyone, yet she was so strong, powerful and sleek a hunter . My wolf was a deep dark grey, a shadow in these dark woods. I turned and pushed my nose into the air. Our prey was running but not fast enough. My boys were in various stages in the shift but were starting to shake and stretch out their wolf forms . Their bodies clearly tensed as she restlessly shifted from foot to foot ready to sprint into the darkness after our quarry. Aiden's pitch-black wolf stood still as a statue as the last of our brothers gained his feet. Aiden's wolf was immense, easily the biggest of us all he truly did radiate the power of an Alpha. Aiden's sharp golden eyes swept around us all before he raised his eyes to the sky and howled loudly calling to his pack. we all howled in response and plunged into the trees silently running swiftly through the foliage, our multiple bodies all but silent in the darkness. I breathed in deeply revelling in the scent of my brothers all around me, the scent and sounds of the forest as we ran hunting down our prey. There would be no chance of his getting away. We are hunters and this is our world. We ran through the darkness. This was the place in the world I felt most at home , this is the place I was who I truly was. this was the one place I could embrace my wolf side, the side of me I always kept hidden, as if she was shameful. Here I could embrace her and run, run with my pack where I belonged. How much I wanted my pack around me, my wolf could truly howl in the agony from the separation, but in this brief period while running out in these woods hunting our quarry, it felt as if I was within my pack again it was the only time my wolf side felt at ease with her world. The smell grew stronger as we knew it would, he couldn't escape, this was where we belonged. My wolf drew out in front faster, sleeker then my brothers, we didn't communicate, there was no need to, we all had the same focus our quarry, our prey was running erratically. I could hear his ragged breathing. I trusted my boys they wouldn't lie about this guy, they wanted to do something good, they wanted to be something more than they were. I continued running fluidly, my body stretching adapting perfectly to this forest as this is my home, this is where I belonged and this man was going to die. I saw him running raggedly through the trees, staggering from tree to tree clearly exhausted and disoriented. I leapt forwards, my teeth locking onto his shin. I felt hot blood explode into my mouth as he screamed and tumbled over ripping the limb from my grasp. I stood for a second savouring the taste as I watched my brothers leap from the gloom, jumping onto him biting at the terrified man as the very air around me took on the red tinge of a world filled with a mist of blood. I saw Aiden's jet black wolf leap through the trees landing on him. He efficiently bit hard on the man's throat. There was a vague gurgling noise from the man's throat as he gripped weakly for Aiden. My Alpha just tightened his jaws and sharply pulled his head back cleanly tearing the man's throat clean out. The body collapsed to the floor and I felt nothing accept peace , at ease with the body on the floor, the company of wolves and the taste of blood in my mouth . This ...this was me.