MARKED BY MY STEPBROTHER

Chapter Eight

Sophie's POV

The cave shook, causing Dust and small rocks to rain down from the ceiling as another explosion hit the mountain above us. I held Damon tighter, my body still shaking from the forced mating and the strange golden power working wonders in my veins.

“They’re attacking the estate,” I whispered. I could hear from afar now. And the distant screaming and the howling was was very much obvious. “Victor’s men are fighting back.. but the Shadow Pack brought a lot of people.”

Damon pulled me off the altar, his strong arms wrapping around my waist. His naked body was pressed against mine, still sticky with sweat and c*m. Even in the middle of chaos, I felt his c**k move up against my thigh, already getting hard again.

“We need to move,” he said, his voice rough. “The silver in my system is fading, but I’m not at full strength.”

He quickly found a loose rock and used it to break the remaining chains on our wrists. My clothes were ruined, so he tore off his own torn shirt and helped me tie it around my body like a makeshift dress. It barely covered my ass, but it was better than nothing.

Another explosion, this one closer. The heavy metal door at the tunnel entrance tried to stay attached to its hinges.

“Stay behind me,” Damon ordered, not shifting partially, claws extending, fangs lengthening, silver eyes glowing bright. He looked like a god of war. Deadly and beautiful and the same time. And he was mine.

The door exploded inward. Shadow Pack wolves poured into the cave in both human and wolf form. Their red eyes locked onto me with hungry greed.

“There she is!” one shouted. “The Luna w***e!”

Damon roared and launched himself forward, shifting fully into his massive black wolf as he moved. He tore into the first two attackers with enough savagery to inspire a horror movie, spraying blood across the moonlit floor.

I didn’t stand still. The golden power inside me was burning hot. I felt my claws extend again, longer this time, and faint golden fur push down my arms. I slashed at a wolf that tried to attack Damon, tearing its side open.

We fought together, him with raw brute strength, me with this new, unstable power. I didn't even know what I was going. Had never done this before but it seemed necessary so I gave it all I had. Either way we were outnumbered. A large gray wolf slammed into Damon, sending him crashing against the stone wall. Two others grabbed me from behind, pinning my arms.

“Damon!” I screamed.

One of the wolves holding me laughed darkly and groped my breast through the thin shirt. “Pretty little stepsister. I’m going to enjoy breaking you in before we take you to our Alpha.”

He had touched my breasts? That made me very very angry.

The power inside me went off like a detonator.

A golden wave burst from my body, throwing both wolves backward like they’d been hit by a truck. They slammed into the far wall and didn’t get up. My vision sharpened even more. I could see the individual threads of moonlight, hear every heartbeat in the cave.

Damon staggered to his feet, staring at me in awe. “Sophie.. your eyes are glowing gold.”

Before I could respond, more wolves poured in. Too many of them.

Damon shifted back to human form, grabbed my hand, and pulled me toward the moon pool at the center of the cave. “The water! It’s a sacred conduit. It’ll hide our scent.”

We jumped in together. The icy water shocked my system, but Damon’s arms never left me. He pulled me under the surface and swam toward a hidden underwater passage I hadn’t noticed before.

We emerged gasping in a smaller, hidden cavern on the other side. Moonlight filtered through cracks above, illuminating smooth stone walls covered in ancient carvings of wolves and moons.

Damon pushed me against the wall, his big body caging me in. Water streamed down his naked muscles. His c**k was rock hard again, pressing insistently against my stomach.

“The drugs Victor gave me.. they’re still in my system,” he said, as if trying to explain the reason for his hardness, as his eyes were wild. “Combined with your heat starting up, I can’t hold back much longer.”

My own body was betraying me too. The golden power mixed with something hotter, deeper. My p***y throbbed with need. I could feel fresh slick mixing with his earlier c*m between my thighs.

“Then don’t,” I whispered, pulling his head down to kiss me.

He kissed me like a man under the influence of something, tongue f*****g my mouth while his hands ripped away the makeshift shirt. He lifted me, and I wrapped my legs around his waist. In one powerful thrust, he buried his entire c**k inside me, knot already swelling.

“f**k, Sophie,” he groaned, pounding into me against the cave wall. The wet sounds echoed obscenely. “So tight. So full of my c*m already. Gonna breed you again. Gonna fill this perfect p***y until it overflows.”

I moaned loudly, my fingernails running down his back. He f****d me harder, deeper, the knot stretching me deliciously. The danger outside only made it more intense. Every brutal thrust pushed me closer to the edge.

“Damon, I’m close..”

“Come,” he commanded, biting down on my neck, reopening the claiming mark. “Come on your stepbrother’s c**k like a good girl.”

I shattered. My orgasm hit like a tidal wave, my p***y clenching and milking him violently. Damon roared and thrust deep, his knot locking fully inside me as he pumped rope after thick rope of hot c*m into my womb.

We stayed locked together, panting, his forehead pressed to mine.

“I love you,” he whispered suddenly, voice breaking. “Even if this is all f****d up, I love you, Sophie.”

My eyes filled with tears. “I love you too.”

But the moment was spoiled by a new sound, which was Victor’s voice echoing through the caves via some hidden speaker system.

“Damon. Sophie. Come out now. The Shadow Pack has surrounded the mountain. If you don’t surrender, I’ll kill every loyal wolf you have left, starting with your Beta, Marcus.”

Damon’s knot was still locked deep inside me.

“He’s lying,” I whispered. “I can hear it in his voice. He’s planning to sacrifice you during the ceremony no matter what.”

I saw deadly resolve in Damon’s silver eyes “Then we end this tonight.”

He carefully pulled out once his knot deflated, both of us dripping with our respective fluids. We dressed quickly in whatever scraps we could find.

As we prepared to move, I felt another powerful surge in my belly, stronger this time.

But then I sensed something else.

Someone else.

It wasn't Victor, neither was it the Shadow Pack.

This was something old. Something watching us from deep in the mountain.

And it was hungry for my power.