Their Secret Obsession by Pippa Moon

Knox POV

"That's enough from you!" Astaroth grunted, flicking his wrist in my direction, my body slamming into the wall with such force I felt a trickle of blood seep from my nose.

Maybe I wasn't invisible after all, he was just censoring my actions from them. Crafty, but smart!

"Knox!" Lottie screamed as she rose to her feet, but Astaroth was quicker stepping in front of her to block her path.

"No! He is fine, but we need to have this conversation because time is running out! And I will be damned if I don't get what is owed to me." Astaroth bellowed around the walls of the cathedral, rubble crumbled from the ceiling from the force of his anger. Sucking down my defeat, I watched through pained eyes as he continued his speech, he was definitely comfortable being the centre of attention and enjoyed having all eyes on him.

"Now.. back to the question. Ask yourself why would I be interested in Havoc's offspring? A wolf that has been hidden? That is as chaotic and ravenous as..."

"SHUT UP!" I bellowed through my own raging mind as my outrage simmered beneath the surface, not wanting him to finish his sentence. His lips split into a smile as he turned to look at me. I could feel Havoc's anxiety seeping through our bond like poison, twisting and gnawing at my insides. It made no sense, yesterday he had been ready to rip everyone apart, this demon included. Even earlier, he was willing to fight him to get to Lottie.

"Or was he?" Asataroth teased my mind before he looked back at Lottie, while he played images into my mind of the harrowing vision of my girl stepping through the portal, while Kane tumbled to the ground from Astaroth's attack. I knew at that moment that there was no choice. Kane had people to help him!

Lottie didn't!

She was alone with the filth that had screwed with MY mind! What could he do to her? To our pups?

"We should have saved her," I whispered to Havoc.

sympathy filling those sapphire hues I adored. I knew without asking that Astaroth was showing her the same images he was

grinned slyly. "However he didn't, he chose to help Kane. Choices... more choices."

because at the time I thought it was the brotherly bond with my twin that Havoc was feeding off. But now, when I recall the split seconds before: Havoc was scared! Not of the demon, but of something else. "The truth!" Astaroth chuckled

he remained hidden, refusing to surface even at my desperate inner plea, a silent testament to the

snarled, my voice tinged with frustration as I reached out to my wolf, trying to

laughter echoed in the room as

a jaw clenched tight with fury,

her eyes filled with questions she was

drank in the sight of her, the fierce determination in her eyes, the way her hands trembled with barely suppressed emotion as she tended

out, but even as I tried to lose myself in her presence, Astaroth's taunts lingered like

the tense room. Kane's horse cry filled the room, the sound like nails on a chalkboard to me. I had always hated the idea of him suffering! The way our girl's back tightened told me that she too felt

"So pathetic!" Astaroth snorted.

his words

as she spun to look at

pursed

wrapped in a world of torture at Astaroth's pleasure. She was undoubtedly holding back whatever it was she wanted to say, no doubt out

his anger

her payment! And you lose everything!" He continued to mock, letting out a sigh. I watched my girl step into the demon,

the charade Astaroth, what is it you are trying to tell us? You want us to make a decision, you want us to agree to hand over our

stand in her way." Lies, I hadn't agreed, at least not willingly, and I could see from the look in Lottie's eyes she knew that and didn't hold it