Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 43

In the study, Connor looks at Leilani, his movements slow as he moves in and out of her. The warrior shuts the door and Connor's hands run up under his sweater, touching Leilani's body indiscriminately, and Lani's body responds, leaning into him heavily as her "Who would think that Alpha Storm is so ruthless to his own mate?"

body pulses with pleasure.

"She doesn't deserve my civility. Why, are you disgusted?"

"I could never be disgusted with you. I thought it was hilarious"

Connor sucks Leilani's bottom lip into his mouth.

"Did you now?"

"I also think you are so powerful when you get that authoritative voice..."

Leilani shudders.

"And when you growl, that deep, powerful sound...... it is so hot"

Connor's eyes are as black as night as he stares at her, his looming figure blocking out the light of the window, casting a shadow over Lani, who lulls her head back, exposing her neck, submitting herself to the powerful man.

"F*ck babe, I am going to have to tape your mouth so I don't blow my load"

Connor isn't even joking, a single word from her, her every movement is enough to drive him wild. Leilani laughs and pulls Connor's lips to her own and Connor resumes his relentless entry.

Outside the study, Maggie hits the walls on either side of the hallway as she stumbles. Maggie clutches her heart as finally she can't take it, blacking out once more.

The warrior looks at the crazy woman with a shocked expression.

'Umm Alpha that visiting Luna just passed out'

'Just put her in the backseat of the car and drive her out of the pack grounds'

Connor is pretty surprised that Maggie actually passes out. Shouldn't she be learning to tolerate it by now?

Connor doesn't know that the effects of each are vastly different. Connor has true feelings for the woman that he is sleeping with, the tangle of the heart making the pain that Maggie feels so much worse. What Maggie and Gabriel have is s*x with self interest. Leilani and Connor have so much more than a meeting of bodies, there is a meeting of hearts.

Gabriel just sits and stares at the dark screen of his phone and at the burnt out wreck of his car for hours on end, the pain in his heart growing large enough to consider knocking himself out just to get a break.

He is no closer to getting answers. Thinking of that gruff and unhelpful voice on the other end of the line just makes him furious. Gabriel has had a block up and people have been trying to break through, his father the most powerful one that nearly made it, but he keeps himself locked tight. He cannot deal with pack issues now, this cannot keep going, he has a problem to eliminate. He wants this behind him. Gabriel shifts and runs to one of his houses that he uses for s*x parties when he wants to keep Maggie out of it. Opening the garage, he grabs a spare pair of clothes and grabs the keys for a vehicle. Thankful when the engine turns over and starts. Gabriel drives straight out of the pack and gets on the road heading toward the elite training.

The man on the phone just didn't understand who he was dealing with. Once he knows, once he knows Gabriel's power, he will fold like everyone else and then either give Gabriel the answers he seeks or Gabriel will be given free run to go through the records. There must be something, they have to record the deaths.

Maggie wakes up on the edge of the stormy pack border. The pack house is no longer anywhere in sight and she knows that she is outside the border. She has stuffed and ceremoniously into the back seat. No care was taken, her neck and back hurt from the odd angle she has been laying in. No blanket was put over her or anything. She wasn't taken to the hospital wing. There are no guards stationed outside the vehicle to make sure she is safe and well. Connor really just doesn't care a thing about her.

Anything could have attacked her while she was unconscious in the free lands between the packs. Rogues could have attacked her. She was left unprotected and exposed.

Maggie curses Connor and the whole stormy pack and vows to talk Gabriel into wiping out the whole lot of them. The pathetic little pack wouldn't stand a chance against the half moon pack.

Maggie hasn't been able to get through to Gabriel at all and is thinking about the task that Lance set her. She is unsure whether to head back to the half moon pack for another scolding or head to her parents place. At least she will be able to work herself out from there.

She cannot go back to the half moon pack without accomplishing one of her tasks. She either needs to have found Gabriel or have sorted out the Connor problem.

Maggie sighs, glaring once more at the empty road into the stormy pack before climbing into the drivers seat and heading toward her birth pack, well still her pack, because as long as Gabriel hasn't marked her she is not actually part of the half-moon pack. Maggie pulls up the car in front of the Amber packs alpha house. Astrid walks cautiously out, it is still early morning. She was only up because Simon requires her to have a full cooked breakfast on the table before he wakes up. Maggie runs straight into her mothers open arms.

"Mummy, Connor is so mean, he doesn't respect the mate bond at all and does things knowing that they hurt me. He just doesn't care"

Astrid coaxes softly as she strokes Maggie's hair.

"Shh, shh baby, tell me all about it"

Gabriel drives all night and lays his seat back to sleep at the gates of elite training. From what he could see through the dim lighting of his headlights when he pulled up, the place looks like a fortress. There is no way the Leilani survived in such an environment. When the sun finally rises in the sky and there is a gentle stir of activity within camp, Gabriel finally steps out of his vehicle and stretches.

In the stormy pack, Leilani wakes Connor with a shake in the process of pulling a pair of basketball shorts over his naked form.

Connor has never been woken so many times. Being to the point of having to be woken would imply that he has slept. So he doesn't even mind as he stares at the woman who is above him who looks so happy and full of life, finally getting the elastic up and over his hips not forgetting to lick his abs in celebration. He was hoping in the early morning that Lani would be undressing him, not dressing him, but since he slept n*ked with her tightly wrapped in his arms, that might be impossible.

"Come on"

Connor can only follow Leilani as she grips his hand and pulls him out the door. He is in a half awake, half asleep state. Lani tows him down the stairs and out the front door. They head straight to the training area that Connor had set up for the elite squad. The brothers watch Lani's approach.

As soon as she is standing on the mats Lani motions for them to gather in closer. The group plus Connor gather in a circle and Leilani holds her phone in the middle of the group, placing it on speaker. "Repeat what you said"

The boys all look at the phone in anticipation after seeing the large smile on Leilani's face. Connor, standing beside her, threads his arm around her waist, pulling her close. It was worth getting dragged out of bed at the break of dawn knowing that Leilani is including her into her brothers, meaning she is slowly starting to accept him.

On the other end of the line, Andrea is hiding behind the wall of the building that is the closest to the gate. She squeaks slightly, holding the phone tightly to her face, her eyes go wide as large arms wrap around her waist. She relaxes back into the embrace. She was so focused on the gate that Titan managed to sneak up on her.

"What are you doing?"

Andrea holds her fingers to her lips to shush him, pointing at the gate and then at her phone. Titan looks at the gate and sees Gabriel just standing beside his car staring at the gate, like it is magically going to open for him. Like he is a king and they should all rush out to wait on him hand and foot.

Titan then looks at his mate, who is so excited that she is nearly shaking. This is a step up from the phone call and Andrea really feels like she is part of the action.

Andrea: "I don't know, he is just standing there"

Lani: "I wonder what he wants?"

Andrea studies the man.

Andrea: "I can't believe he is fated to you. He doesn't seem like your type at all. I thought you liked the dark-haired ones"

Connor's arm tightens and he looks at her. Leilani elbows him slightly in the ribs but the smile on her face betrays her. Andrea is correct, she doesn't know if it is the result of Gabriel's mistreatment, but she definitely likes dark hair better maybe it was the instinctive reaction to get as far away from men like Gabriel as possible without losing a large build.

Lani: "You are right, two blondes together is just too much"

Andrea: "Nothing about substance, all about aesthetics?"

Lani: "There is not much substance in that hollow core. At best some spoiled milk"

Andrea: "Ohh he is finally doing something"

Leilani switches the call to video so they can see.

Gabriel walks up to the gate and just starts hitting it with his fists like he has gone crazy. Are they really going to just ignore him like this? That p*ssy on the phone is probably hiding, scared by his mere presence, but he needs to get in so that he can accomplish his task. They can all get back to their pathetic lives once he is in.