Addison Brown thought being forced to attend a team-building retreat in the woods with her coworkers would be the worst thing to happen to her this week, aside from her period. That was until she got attacked by a wolf during a moonlit walk around the resort’s lake.
She fears for her safety when she wakes up and hears two men’s voices. As she attempts to flee, she is captured and taken to some sort of off-the-grid compound in the middle of the woods and thrown in a cell in a creepy shed. The hits keep coming for Addie when she finds out that the wolf who bit her was a werewolf, as she now is, and that female werewolves don’t get periods but rather go into heat each month.
Riley Alexander and Bryce Jenkins, the alpha’s betas, are tasked with ensuring Addie doesn’t leave the compound before the full moon in a week. Riley and Bryce are mates who have been together for nearly half their lives. But as this female intrudes into their space, and gets friendly with Riley, Bryce can’t take it.
With Addie’s approaching heat, will she be able to quell the suffering? Can Riley walk the tightrope of keeping his mate happy and being kind to Addie? Will Bryce be able to take it when his mate suggests that they be the ones to help Addie in her time of need?
Tropes: fated mates, temporary prisoner, jealous mate, knotting, forced proximity, mated grumpy/sunshine werewolves x workaholic new werewolf, hate fucking, she’s in heat
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Content Warnings
Dubcon/Being in Heat: The FMC becomes a werewolf and, rather than get periods, she goes into heat. Her arousal goes off the rails and until she has cum in her womb it continues to get worse. At one point, the FMC has fallen asleep on one of the MMCs while they were waiting for his knot to deflate. She starts moving her hips in her sleep and he allows her to fuck him while sleeping. The FMC accidentally takes the knot of one of the MMCs, something previously withheld, and panics.
Childhood Trauma: One of the MMCs had a very traumatic childhood, during which his pack was raided by another pack. The raiding pack destroyed everything, slaughtered the males who wouldn’t take the raiding alpha as their new leader, and took the children and women with them. At that pack, he was forced to train and fight. If he didn’t win, he didn’t eat. He has issues with gore and death as a result. His parents were murdered in the raid, beaten to death. The FMC had parents who only provided her with things she could not provide herself. They were cold and neglectful.
Violence/Gore: Descriptions of the above identified childhood trauma. The FMC is bitten by a werewolf. The werewolf who bit her attempts to take her using a knife to threaten her. She is stabbed, receiving a wound needing medical attention. The MMCs in their wolf forms maul the abductor to death. Afterward, they are covered in blood and viscera.
Parental Death: Both of the MMC’s parents have died. Riley’s parents died of old age. Bryce’s parents were beaten to death when their pack’s home was raided by another pack. They refused to swear allegiance to the alpha of that pack and were beaten to death. The alpha of the MMC’s current pack’s mother died of cancer, and he killed his father to assume the mantle of alpha.
Voyeurism: She is awoken at night by the sounds of the MMCs having sex. She watches one night, unable to look away when caught.
Detainment/Imprisonment: When the MMCs find the FMC naked and sleeping in the woods, they capture her and drag her to the pack’s compound to be questioned. She is told that she cannot leave for the week and is unable to be left alone. At bedtime, she is cuffed to the leg of the MMCs’ bed.
Attempted Abduction: The werewolf who turned the FMC attempts to abduct her.
Possessive Behavior/Jealousy: One of the MMCs is very jealous of the FMC with regards to the attention the other MMC is showing her. He makes mean comments and keeps demanding reassurances from his mate.
Threat of/Sexual Assault: The werewolf attempting to abduct the FMC tells her of his plans to keep her for breeding and formation of his own pack reasons. The MMC remembers the screams of the females given to the raiding pack’s males as they were likely sexually assaulted (off-page).
Deception: When a mating bond happens between the FMC and one of the MMCs she demands he keep the secret from his mate until she leaves the pack in a few days.
Loose D/s Dynamics: One of the MMCs establishes a semi D/s type dynamic with the FMC using commands and degradation primarily.
Explicit Sex
Shonna Preston 