Twenty hours before the wedding…
Ryder’s breathing was uneven, his body fevered, his mind lost in the haze of the drug Piper had slipped into his drink. Regina, weak and still healing, had no strength to push him away.
Her voice trembled, her protests soft and fragile like petals against a storm.
“Alpha…please….” she whispered as he dropped her on the bed. her arms gave out as he pulled her beneath him.
In his dazed state, Ryder didn’t hear her. He could only feel the burning sensation that he needed to put out. The images in his mind were blurred with the face or Ruby- his mate, the one he desired to be with.
The scent wasn’t hers neither was the touch but the drug dulled all sense of right and wrong. Only lust and hunger remained.
And Regina trapped under the weight of his body an
