The Last Werewolf Bride Complete Trilogy by Sage Domini

Cassiah is here and she
told me-“
    His head snapped up, his eyes glittering.
“Cassiah!” He unleashed a torrent of obscenities and threw the
bracelet down. He stopped suddenly. His voice was calm when he
spoke next. “I understand now. I don’t know what that evil female
has been telling you, but believe me dear girl, you do not need to
worry about devils from the outside.” Dorian leaned close to me and
whispered. “Because you already have one right here.” He kissed me
full on the mouth. I closed my eyes with distaste at the brief
reptilian taste of his lips. When I opened them he was
gone.
    I wandered the woods for hours. Once I heard a
rustling and glanced up, startled, but it was only Kiko prowling
around, surely at Marcus’s instruction, to find me and keep watch.
I was reluctant to return to the farm. Cassiah would plunder my
thoughts before I could make sense of them.
    And what if Cassiah’s intentions were not as
noble as she had claimed? There was no underworld search engine I
could access or hotline I could call to verify her story. I paced
through the green woods endlessly as the day wore on. If she had
lied she had been convincing. But then, you tell parents their
child is endangered and they will agree to most
anything.
    I froze. Anything. I had resigned myself to
sharing my mate with the lovely witch if it meant my child may be
saved.
    Nearby Kiko whined lightly. He came to my side
and tried to nudge me homeward. It was indeed growing
dark..
    “All right,” I sighed. “I’m going.” If the
child was as important as Cassiah claimed, why had she alone been
sent by The Seer to battle the demons? I needed to speak to Marcus.
We would question the witch together. Trailing Kiko, I made my way
through the darkening woods and back to the farm.
    I heard the ominous buzz of chanting before I
saw the fire. It burned crudely in the large clearing at the center
of the modest cabins and was fed by a large pile of hastily hewn
branches. Cassiah danced around the flames, her yellow hair
streaming behind her. She raised her arms and intoned a string of
perplexing words. The fire surged in response. She was
nude.
    Kiko issued a low growl. The men of the Dark
Claws stood in a grim circle around the perimeter of the fire. I
assumed the women and children had been away to their cabins.
Whatever was to happen here would not be amusing.
    My stomach lurched when I caught sight of
Marcus. He stood to the side as Cassiah continued her wicked dance.
He was also nude. He started when he saw me. “Go to the cabin,” he
ordered.
    But before I could answer Cassiah turned. Her
eyes glowed terribly. “No,” she said. “The queen needs to
watch.”
    “Watch what, Cassiah?”
    She smiled. “You know what needs to happen. I
must join with your alpha. Our mutual ecstasy will give me the
power I need. Now is not the time to doubt. Your child’s life is at
stake.”
    I walked towards her. “Cassiah, I met a demon
in the woods. He said you were a damn liar.” I held out the small
silver bracelet which I had retrieved from the forest floor after
the demon had fled. “The demons are pleased about the child. They
offered a gift.”
    Cassiah plucked the bracelet from my fingers
and threw it into the fire. She smirked. “And demons always tell
the truth.” She moved closer and touched my cheek. “I do this for
you, Jessa. For your child.” She kissed me suddenly. I bit her cold
lips. She took a step back and wiped a thin streak of blood from
her mouth.
    “Jessa.” Marcus’s voice was weary and
unbearably sad. “I must. For us.” I had never heard him so
defeated. He nodded to several of his brethren. They moved to my
sides reluctantly. I yelped, thrashing, when they gripped my arms.
Marcus had tears in his eyes. “Please, Jessa.”
    I stopped struggling. “Marcus. Don’t. I don’t
know what she wants, but it isn’t to save our child.”
    But he only shook his head sadly. Cassiah
sidled up to him. She ran her hands