The Alpha's Toy (7 page)

“
Do your business,” he
said, going toward the shower.

She stared down the length of his
body. His cock was thick and stood out in front of him. He didn’t
pay it any attention as he turned on the water.

Doing her business, she flushed the
toilet and washed her hands.

Zeke took her hand, pressing her
inside the shower. Standing under the warm water, she faced the
cascade letting the water wash away the sleep from her
face.

He spun her around and pushed her down
onto a seat.

“
What are you doing?” she
asked. She’d never sat down in the shower.

He crouched down in front of her without
answering. His hands went to her thighs, and he opened her legs
wide.

She saw his gaze was on her pussy.
Turning her head to the side, Mary wanted to be embarrassed by what
he was doing.

“
I shouldn’t have left you
last night,” he said.

Glancing down, she saw he was looking
up at her.

“
What do you mean?” she asked,
hating the pain that sliced through her once again. They hadn’t
promised each other anything. Fuck, she was here because she saved
Jessica from being killed.

“
Last night was your first
time. I should have been more considerate to your situation. I was
a dick to you.”

He looked sincere as he looked at
her.

“
It’s okay.” She watched
his fingers stroking through her fine pubic hairs.

“
No, it’s not. Any guy
treated one of my sisters like I did you, I’d put them in the
ground without a thought. I’m sorry.”

Mary stayed silent as he washed her. His
touch was soothing, and desire started again inside her.

“
Where is Jessica?” Mary
asked.

“
I imagine she’s having
breakfast.” His hands were kind and considerate as they washed her.
Mary cut off any hope. She wouldn’t be falling for the man who was
taking care of her. Zeke was being considerate
, but she knew it wasn’t really
him. The man before her had a mean streak. He had taken out her
whole pack last night.

There was no room for mushy
feelings.

“
Why were you with Roger
and Dani?” he asked, changing the subject. He stood, taking her
with him. The stool was pushed to the corner. He spun her to face
the spray as he washed her hair.

“
They were at the hospital after
I was bitten.” She lifted her arm in the air. “The wolf bit my arm.
Took a big chunk out of me.” If he looked close enough he’d see the
fine silver lines of the scars. Her new wolf blood meant she healed
a lot faster than a human. “They told me the hospital couldn’t help
me. I was burning up, and the nurses and doctors couldn’t do a
thing about it. I left against medical advice, following them out
into the world.”

He washed the soap from her hair. When
he was finished, he turned the shower off, opening the door. Zeke
got a towel first, wrapping it around his waist. His cock was still
rock hard.

“
And the wolf was black?”
he asked.

“
Yes, the wolf was black and came
out of an alley way. It smelled me, and then it took a chunk out of
me. I wasn’t doing anything other than looking through my bag.” She
remembered the fear that took over. The dog had been huge. She
later found out it was a wolf.

“
What happened after the others
took you in?” he asked, taking her into the bedroom. He sat on the
bed, pulling her between his legs. There was no room for her to
fight. Thinking back over her time, Mary remembered her first
turning. The way they’d chained her up, injecting her with some
tranquilizers to help with the pain. A lot of her memories were
fuzzy. She couldn’t remember everything that happened to
her.

“
I took some time off work. I
don’t have a lot of time off as I don’t need it. For the next two
weeks they helped me to gain control. For several months after I
had to visit them in order to take my shots and turn into a wolf.”
The shots had burned her flesh
, or at least it felt like they’d burned her
flesh.
Had
they burned her flesh? Once again her memories were jumbled
up. A few months ago they’d stopped injecting her.

“
Tell me about your time after
the turning.” His fingers were caressing her thighs underneath
the
towel.

“
What exactly do you want
to know?” she asked, not understanding why he wanted her to repeat
her experience.

“
Jane, the woman you met last
night, she didn’t have any problem with the change. Max bit
her
, and
after the initial fever she was fine.”

“
Lucky her.” Mary wouldn’t repeat
the experience ever again. The pain alone made her terrified of
turning anyone, not that she’d ever turn anyone against their
will.

“
What were the injections?”
he asked.

“
I don’t know. You’d be
best asking Jessica. I don’t know.”

Zeke stood, his fingers sliding into her
hair. He turned her head to the side, exposing her neck. She heard
him inhale deeply.

“
You don’t smell like her,”
he said.

Frowning, she looked down at him. She
couldn’t pull away. Zeke was too strong for her to overpower. When
he leaned back his eyes were glowing amber.

Her wolf slammed against her flesh.
Mary screamed as she felt the impact from inside. Stumbling into
his arms, she fell to her knees. The pain intensified as her wolf
threatened to claw out.

“
Enough!” Zeke shouted the word,
and yet her wolf wasn’t listening. Collapsing to the floor, Mary
grabbed her head as the pain exploded sending fire into every part
of her body.

The door crashed open to the
bedroom.

Her wolf growled, wanting out of her body.
Mary had always felt one with her wolf, but in that instant she
felt like they were two different beings. It was like her wolf had
been trapped somehow, and now it was finally breaking free from
whatever held onto it.

“
Help me,” she asked,
screaming.

Mary’s words were cut off as she felt
her arm breaking, getting ready for the change.

No, she wouldn’t survive this. It wasn’t
the full moon, and she’d been told many times that if she ever
changed without the moon she would die.

Taking deep breaths, she shrieked as
her thigh twisted of its own accord at an odd angle. The pain was
unlike anything she’d ever felt. What was going on with her
wolf?

You’re going to kill
me.

Mary whimpered as her leg was flung at
another angle. She heard the other pack around her yelling orders.
Someone pulled her close. They were too hot. The towel she’d worn
was torn off her body. Glancing down, she saw her stomach rippling
as if her wolf was about to tear out of her stomach.

We’re trapped no
more.

Panicking, Mary cried out, screaming
for help.

“
Enough!” Zeke yelled the
word once again. Jerking at the sound, Mary looked into his eyes
seeing the glowing Alpha depths.

Mate. Alpha.

The wolf inside her purred and slowly,
silenced. Her body tore at an odd angle going back in their
sockets. She screamed once more before darkness claimed
her.

****

Zeke felt her slump and was
thankful for
that. Jane handed him the towel, which he laid over her
body, giving her some dignity. Running a hand over his face, he
stared down into her open face.

“
What the fuck was that?”
Jane asked, sitting back.

Max and several of his men were looking at
the woman, who was pale. Her skin was covered in a layer of sweat
and not from the hot shower they’d shared. Holy fuck, he’d never
been so terrified in his life. The way she’d fallen to her knees
screaming as her wolf hit out. Her wolf hadn’t responded straight
away. It was like she’d never run free. Zeke had sensed the
desperation within the wolf inside Mary. The wolf was trapped in a
cage begging to be let out.

“
I don’t know. I need to talk to
Jessica. Actually, I need to go and have a look at the
pack
’s hiding
place. I’m starting to feel something went fucked up over there,
and Mary is one of those wolves.”

She was the woman he’d bitten.
Zeke was sure of it even though she didn’t smell like his woman.
Everything she described of that night was true to what he
remembered. The following day when he’d gone back to find her Mary
hadn’t been anywhere in sight. He didn’t know her name or any way
in which to find her. Fuck, something was going
on
, and he
needed to find out.

“
Fuck, Zeke. I’ve never
seen anything like it,” Max said.

Jane was kneeling on the floor
stroking her hair. Mary was shaking and muttering in her
sleep.

“
She mentioned something about
injections. When I asked you last night to find out whatever you
could about her, I don’t want that anymore. We’re going back to the
pack’s house. I’m going to get to the bottom of this. Whatever
Roger and Dani were planning, it wasn’t going to be pretty.”
Holding Mary in his arms, Zeke felt his heart pounding. Glancing at
all of his men, he stared at the sympathy in all of their
eyes.

“
For a half breed, she’s
strong,” Jane said. “I’ve never known anyone to hold off the
change.”

Zeke agreed. “I don’t think she’ll
survive the next change unless we find out what happened to her in
the other pack’s care.”

“
You don’t think they were
experimenting, do you?” Jane asked.

Frozen, Zeke looked at the other
woman. “What?”

“
I’ve heard rumors that some
packs are using half breeds as experiments to try to strengthen
their packs. If Mary was receiving injections, how do you know
Roger and Dani weren’t trying something?” Jane asked.

Zeke looked at Max, who nodded.

“
One of the packs close to us
offered to pay money for Jane,” Max said. “I killed the man who
tried to pay for my woman. There are packs out there experimenting,
Zeke.”

Stroking her hair, Zeke wondered what
the fuck had happened to her after he bit her. “I need to go and
fucking find something out.” Looking at Jane, he saw the concern in
the other woman’s eyes. “Can I leave her with you?”

“
Yes.” Zeke picked Mary up
in his arms helping her into the bed. “Zeke?”

He turned to Jane at her speaking his
name.

“
Her wolf responded to
yours.”

“
I know.” He tensed,
looking at his men, waiting for them to speak up. None of them did
as the sympathy for Mary overshadowed everything else.

“
Is she the woman you’ve
been searching for?” Jane asked.

Zeke didn’t answer her, walking out of
his bedroom. One of the men handed him a pair of jeans. He was
still too warm to wear anything more than a pair of
jeans.

“
Where’s Jessica?” he
asked.

“
Locked in her room,” Max
said.

Going down to the bottom floor, he
didn’t try the lock. Pressing his foot to the door, he slammed the
wood open. Jessica jerked to her feet dropping the book she’d been
reading to the floor.

Her blue eyes were wide and rounded as she
looked at him. She was a full breed, Roger and Dani’s supposed
oldest daughter. She didn’t even smell like the bastards of that
pack.

“
What
were your parents involved in?” he
asked, advancing into the room.

“
I don’t know what you’re
talking about.” She stood up, holding her hands out trying to ward
him off.

Zeke was tired of being placated. Going to
her side, he grabbed her arm and hauled her out of the room. “Then
let’s go and see what Mommy and Daddy had planned.” He didn’t
release her. Grabbing a silver chain from the door, he wrapped it
around her upper arm.

She screamed, crying out for
help.

He didn’t give a shit. After what he’d
just seen the little bitch was lucky not to be getting worse from
him.

Max didn’t say a word as they
headed out into the morning. The sun was shining
down
, and the
warmth of the summer was already high. Zeke kept walking, ignoring
the sizzle as the silver bit into his skin. He wouldn’t give
Jessica the satisfaction of seeing him hurt. The bitch was still
part of an enemy pack.

“
Please, I haven’t done
anything,” she said, crying out.

“
No? Well, we’re going to find
out what the rest of the pack
knew.” They covered the distance to where he’d
killed her pack. The bodies were still lying on the floor only this
time they were black from burning. His men had returned to make
sure they were all dead. Jessica sobbed as they passed.

Her tears meant nothing to him.
Walking around the bodies, he headed straight for the large house.
Zeke had visited the house several times. He’d never been
interested in fighting between packs.