Karizma: Reborn

Lukas rested his forehead against the porcelain wall of his shower as droplets of lava penetrated his skin. His hands were planted firmly on the wall beside his face, his shoulders and back exposed to the torture of pain that the water unleashed upon his body. His body ached and his joints groaned in protest with each attempt at movement. Fighting his wolf from emerging and dominating Ryleigh right on top of the bear riddled his body with blinding pain. His wolf had clawed at his skin, and it started to tear at his wolf’s persistence; his bones had begun breaking to his wolf’s body, yet Lukas had succeeded in forcing the reversion back to his human form. Dominating Ryleigh and branding her with his cum repeatedly was the only thought that possessed both him and his wolf the second that her wolf emerged, but he refused to act on those thoughts. She is nowhere near ready for that. He had no idea when or how to tell her that she was his mate.

Lukas rolled his shoulders as his wolf attempted to argue with his denial of his mate. Lycans grew up being told of mates and destiny; she was not. Ryleigh came from a world with an expiration date, but she was fortunate enough to find someone who could love her and accept her for who she was. Not just someone that the universe decided to pair with her. The universe is a cruel bitch. Ryleigh was going to be pulled from Kristopher, sooner or later. Either Lukas would succumb to his wolf and claim his mate, or Ryleigh’s wolf would begin to feel the pull and would be unable to deny her instincts. He sighed and closed his eyes. The knowledge that weighed on him the most was her death; had Ryleigh not died, she would not have been turned into a Lycan, and she would have never been his mate. I would have gone my entire life without my mate. I wonder if that would have been better.

The painful pulse of Lukas’ erection attempted to brainwash him into running after his mate and relieving himself deep inside of her. He ground his teeth and curled his hands into fists against the porcelain wall. How easy it would be to rub it out, to pour the pain down the drain of his shower, but he knew it would not truly accomplish anything. The physical pain would be gone, but the emotional pain that him and his wolf felt would remain. And the physical pain is better than that shit, he thought bitterly. He would fight against his wolf for as long as possible, for eternity if he had to. Ryleigh deserves better than me and the duties of the Alpha’s Luna. She needs to experience her rebirth and her joy with Kristopher for as long as possible before it all comes crashing down.

Lukas turned and rested his back against the wall. The lava shower droplets began to penetrate the swollen erection between his legs. He ground his teeth at the pain that he was forcing on his cock, but he knew that the pain would make it subside. I cannot talk to Ryleigh ready to burst at the mere sight of her. He needed to put aside his feelings and his wolf’s desires and become Alpha again. He needed to know more about this war, about this witch that the Master Vampire apparently had in his back pocket that had been hidden for centuries. Kristopher’s details had been rather brief on the war, but, with Ryleigh’s death and resurrection, Lukas understood.

With his erection no longer posing a threat to himself or to his mind, Lukas quickly shut off the shower and exited the shower. He quickly pulled on a pair of black basketball shorts and ran a hand through his hair. He gazed at himself in the mirror and exhaled. His gold eyes finally relinquished control and allowed his blue eyes domination, their brightness illuminated against his tan skin. If I can’t be with Ryleigh right now, I can be with the next best thing. He exited the bathroom and walked out of his house.

Lukas entered Jackson’s house and walked into Jackson’s bedroom. Bailey was still deeply unconscious in Jackson’s bed, her hair splayed out beneath her. Lukas sighed and knelt beside her. He gently pulled her hand into his and stroked his thumb against her skin. He felt her heartbeat pulse through her hand, her body paralyzed. Lukas constantly felt his mate’s fear and worry for Bailey and resisted the urge of biting the witch before him; whatever was ailing her, the lycanthropy would heal. Bailey would be awake in the world again, and his mate would be happy. But it would be without either of their consent, and I cannot do that. Lukas sighed and gently replaced Bailey’s hand on the bed beside her body. He raked his hand through his hair roughly and stood up.

Lukas shook his head and departed from Jackson’s house. He was beginning to loathe his mate, only for the fact that he had not been able to think clearly since she woke up. Every thought in his mind somehow came back to her; it had to stop. There was a war coming, and he needed to begin preparing his pack for it. Ryleigh was not going anywhere, and he needed to remember that. This war, however, was very much coming, and he and his pack were nowhere near ready for it. He knew that Ryleigh would need to be trained further as well. Her transition to her wolf was seamless, so her wolf was being gentle on her currently; but, under threat, her wolf’s gentle nature will dissipate. Her wolf will force herself to the surface to protect Ryleigh, and the pain of that is something that she will not be prepared for. Lukas sighed. I’ll need to make it happen the first time with me. Fuck.

Lukas located Jackson in a fellow pack member’s house. Lukas groaned as he reached the front door. Dinah was a power hungry female Lycan, who also happened to be one of Lukas’ best fighters. She was the last person that he wanted to see right now. Lukas and Jackson often alternated fulfilling their needs with Dinah, which fulfilled hers. Dinah so very rarely settled for the standard male Lycan that she became the eternal toy for Lukas and Jackson. The pack had become aware of their agreement; the most eager female in the pack, and the only males that pursued her were not to be questioned. She was living the life of royalty, and she fucking knew it. The only difference was, neither of them would impregnate her and allowed other males their full of her during mating season. As willing and as strong as she was, both Lukas and Jackson agreed that she was not who the pack needed for the future.

Lukas knocked on Dinah’s front door softly. Almost instantly, the door swung open, and Dinah’s nude body greeted him. Lukas inhaled sharply as his eyes grazed over her tan skin. Beads of sweat littered her body, her hair matted to her shoulders. Her full, supple breasts rose and fell as she attempted to catch her breath. Her brown eyes brightened as a sultry grin stretched across her lips. Her hand immediately connected with Lukas’ chest as she trailed her fingers down his muscles. “To what do I owe the pleasure, Alpha?” She whispered. Lukas ground his teeth as he fought against the conflict from his wolf. After witnessing Ryleigh hunt, he had wanted nothing more than to fuck his frustrations out, but he wanted to fuck out his frustrations with his mate. Not with the pack’s power-hungry whore.

Dinah’s grin stretched suddenly and her hand cupped Lukas’ erection greedily through his shorts. “Jackson is in the shower, if you need some release, Alpha.” Lukas snarled instantly as Dinah’s arousal flooded the air. The endurance that this female had was astounding; she was somehow able to have the energy to satisfy the Alpha and the Beta within minutes, when most females would fall from exhaustion after just one of them. Ryleigh would keep up with me. His cock twitched in Dinah’s hand at the thought, and Dinah squeezed again. “I need Jackson,” Lukas spoke through gritted teeth.

“Well, he’s indisposed for the next few minutes. You are free to wait for him,” Dinah added as she batted her eyelashes at him. “Surely, whatever it is could wait until the morning. I know that you have had a hard day with the witch.” His pack knew that there were two witches on the property, but he had not permitted any of them to meet Ryleigh as of yet. He wanted her to rest and spend the first few days with her wolf before introducing her to her pack. The knowledge that she was a Karizma would come later, especially with the pack needing to prepare for the war of the kind that killed the Karizma.

Lukas’ wolf snarled suddenly as a bolt of arousal shot through his body. He was damn certain that it was not Dinah; the only reason his erection had even returned was because of his thoughts of Ryleigh. He inhaled sharply and stretched his hearing. Lukas heard Ryleigh’s moans, followed by Kristopher’s grunts and groans. The bolt of arousal was Ryleigh’s own arousal through the mating bond, the connection that Lukas shared with her. She was relieving herself from her hunting session, and he was beginning to feel it all. Blind rage boiled Lukas’ blood. He understood her need to relieve herself, but it enraged him that it wasn’t him relieving her.

Lukas’ hand wrapped into Dinah’s hair, and he ripped her head backwards. He snarled as her arousal intensified. He dragged Dinah by her hair to her bed and threw her on to it. Before she could react, he flipped her on to her stomach, slid out of his shorts, and thrust his cock deep inside of her eager pussy. She moaned out as Lukas groaned. His wolf was tearing beneath his skin, livid with the confliction within them; the only Lycan that he should be with is his mate, and that is the one Lycan that he cannot be with. Lukas pounded into Dinah ruthlessly. She attempted to lift her head off the mattress, and Lukas’ hand gripped the back of her neck and forced her face back into the bedding. He did not want to see her or hear her pathetic excuse of dirty talk. He needed release, and the only sounds he wanted to hear were Ryleigh’s. He growled darkly as the arousal in his veins pulsated harder. Ryleigh was getting close to her own climax.

Lukas fought against his body to prevent from cumming just yet. He was already so close after blue-balling himself for the last few hours. Dinah’s soppy, power-hungry pussy was so ready for him that he damn near released within her after his first thrust, but this was more than sex. This was revenge and rage and pain. He felt his mate making love to another, felt her every shudder as her body neared climax. He knew that she would seek her own release after how the hunt intensified her arousal, and still he felt betrayed. She is mine. He growled darkly and felt Dinah’s body begin to buck under him; either from lack of oxygen or her climax possessing her, he did not care. She was immortal, so he was free to do to her what he needed, and she was always so willing to take whatever he did to her. And what I need is for her to vanish.

Lukas’ body began to shudder. Fuck, Ryleigh is about to orgasm. Dinah continued to buck herself beneath him as Lukas drove into her harder and faster than before. He heard her muffled cries, but he had enhanced his hearing again; all that he heard was his mate’s pleasure. He pounded harder and harder, his grip on Dinah’s neck tighter. He heard footsteps behind him and knew it was Jackson. Lukas assumed that Dinah was in true pain by now, but he was not done yet. Lukas’ body convulsed as he heard his mate cry out with her orgasm. Lukas roared and his own orgasm followed his mate’s.

Lukas was breathing heavily as he pumped deep inside of Dinah. He pulled his hearing back to the moment and removed his hand from Dinah’s neck. She turned and looked at him while he remained anchored inside of her. He was never more thankful that females could only become pregnant during their heat cycles than in this moment. If Ryleigh was going to keep running to Kristopher each time that her wolf got aroused, Lukas was going to need a release that did not involve ripping the vampire apart and fucking his mate into submission of him. The mating cycle is going to be torture. He would remain celibate for that; now that he knew who his true mate was, he was not going to try to impregnate another. He would save that for her, and only her.

“You did need release,” Dinah breathed.

“I’m not even close to done,” Lukas retorted as he felt Ryleigh’s arousal spark back to life. As long as she continued to relieve herself, Lukas would as well. Lukas began pounding into Dinah again. “Take her mouth,” Lukas ordered Jackson as Dinah began to moan. Lukas did not want to hear from Dinah for the rest of the night; all it did was interfere with Ryleigh. He saw Jackson place himself in front of Dinah and force his own cock down her throat. It was not the first time that they had shared Dinah together, and Lukas was thankful that his Beta did not fight his order. Lukas’ hearing enhanced again, and he listened to his mate’s angelic cries of pleasure. Lukas’ pounding became harsher as he envisioned his mate beneath him instead of Dinah. Soon enough, my love, those cries will be for me.