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.

hues I adored. I knew without asking that Astaroth was showing her

grinned slyly. "However he didn't, he chose to help

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

hidden, refusing to surface even at my desperate inner plea, a silent testament to the fear that Astaroth had him gripped in. Which only aggravated me

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

you won't tell him, Havoc, I will!" Astaroth invited, his laughter echoed in the room as

jaw clenched

Lottie, as she turned from me, her eyes filled with questions she was

sight of her, the fierce determination in her eyes, the way her hands trembled with barely suppressed

but even as I tried to lose myself in her presence, Astaroth's taunts lingered like a shadow, his eyes boring into me with a malevolent intensity that sent a chill

love you all share will be enough to beat me? That somehow you will find a way? You won't!" Astaroth taunted into 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.

words got

she spun to look at

lips pursed tightly, her

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

anger

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

to tell us? You want us to

see from the look in Lottie's eyes she knew that and didn't hold it against me, or at least that was what I was hoping I saw reflected in