Avery’s POV
“Sister.” She acknowledged with a sad smile. For a moment I was at loss for words. Her big blue eyes were staring at me with warmth and guilt. She looked tired and I could see dark circles around her eyes too. She’d obviously been crying but she hadn’t tried to hide the evidence like I had. A confusing mix of emotions swirled around in my brain. Yes, I was definitely mad at her for endangering my marriage, but at the same time I felt a little sad for our pure relationship that had now been ruined. After all, Lizzy never chose to be fated to James. No, I had the moon goddess to thank for that. Lizzy had simply done what most women would do when meeting their fated mates. And looking at her now, I could see that she obviously felt bad for her actions. So how could I blame her for something that was out of her control? I still wanted to punch her though. “I am so sorry sister.” Lizzy began. “I never ever meant to — I didn’t want to—- I’m so so sorry Avery.” She said, stumbling over her words, and repeating what James had already told me. A girl I hadn’t even noticed standing beside her suddenly hissed. “Why are you the one apologizing Lizzy? You didn’t do anything wrong! She should be the one apologizing to you!” Lizzy gasped. “That’s enough Tania! She’s my elder sister and our Luna. Show some respect!” Lizzy scolded her friend who was glaring daggers at me. I blinked at the girl, finally acknowledging that she even existed. Usually I would force myself to be the perfect Luna. I was always polite to avoid any problems with the noblemen, but today I wasn't in the mood to be anybody's doormat. “Excuse me? And what should I be apologizing for, if I may ask?” I retorted. “You’re excused!” The girl named Alison snarled disrespectfully. “You should be apologizing for sending your little goons to harass your own sister! How could you send people to do this to her!” Alison grabbed Lizzy’s face and turned it to the side. From that angle, I could see an angry bruise on her cheek. It looked really painful, and I felt my old sisterly instincts kick in. “What?! Liz who did this to you?” I asked but it was her friend that replied. “Don’t pretend you don’t know. You sent your goons to throw stones at her and call her a home wrecker! I know you’re just a commoner but this is low, even for you!” “That’s enough little girl!” I finally snapped. “I will not take another word of disrespect or insult from a lousy looking, over grown child like you. And if you value your tongue, I suggest you crawl back into whatever stinking hole they dug you up from before I lose my temper!” Good goddess! It felt so great to finally snap back at them. Tania’s face turned bright red with shame and she stormed off looking like she was about to burst into tears at any second now. She clearly hadn’t expected me to retaliate. I took a deep breath before turning my attention back to Lizzy to ask her what happened. “Don’t worry about it Sister, It’s the least I deserve after what I did to you. I never ever wanted to hurt you, but the Alpha’s lust was too persistent. I told him to stop but he wouldn’t listen.” She cried. Her words contradicted his. He said he was the one who told her to stop. But could I really believe him after he already broke so many of his vows to me? He probably just said that so I would be less angry at him. Lizzy was still sobbing. “I didn’t even want to come here today. I didn’t know how to face you after what happened. But mother forced me. You know how she is. She won’t miss any opportunity to grab as much power as she can. That’s all she cares about.” I could easily believe that. Unlike my commoner mother who died when I was young, Lizzy’s mother was a powerful noble woman who married my commoner father. And any one who knows my step mother, knows that Mrs Susan would never hesitate to grab the smallest ounce of power she could lay her hands on, no matter the cost. I bet she even threw a party when she found out her daughter was fated to the Alpha. “I want you to know that I would have easily accepted his rejection if I could. But you know my about my weak heart. I have no choice in this.” Lizzy began to sob. “Do you hate me sister? I can totally understand if you do.” Her sobs grew louder, catching me off guard. I noticed that people were beginning to stare at us and whisper to each other. "Please don't hate me Avery," She continued. "I already hate myself for this." Her cries grew even louder than before and attracted more people. "Fine! I'll die if you want! I'll accept his rejection and die if that's what you want. Just please don't hate me Sister." This was bad. If I didn’t do something now, nasty rumors would begin to spread about how I was treating my sister. I hastily consoled Lizzy and ushered her back to her friends. I honestly felt at loss for what to do next. “I never liked that bitch.” A voice suddenly said beside me. I turned around, surprised to find a tall dark haired beauty smoking beside me. I knew who she was. This was the one and only Lady Brianne. Daughter of the most elite noble man and wife to Ron-- my husband’s best friend and Gamma. Brianne was a stunning beauty, but also the biggest snob I had ever seen. She was famous for her family name and the fact that she knew she was better than everyone. She spoke to no one lower than her, and even when I tried to be friendly, she coldly brushed me off. So you can imagine my surprise that she was suddenly talking to me. “Sorry, I didn’t quite get that.” I admitted. She looked at me then. “Your sister, I never ever liked her. I always thought she had this predatory look in her eye. Like she was hungry for something that she shouldn’t have, and it turns out I was right.” She said, before throwing her cigarette. “I don’t think I understand what you’re saying Miss.” I replied. Brianne smiled at me like she pitied me. “I think you do Luna. I think you just don’t want to admit it to yourself. She’s never going to let him go, not now, not even in death. Trust me I would know.” I was curious now. “How do you know?” “Ron had a fated mate,” she revealed. “He rejected her and chose me of course. But then she killed herself and Ron never forgave himself, or me for that. In fact, he blames me in particular for her death, and when he gets drunk, which is quite often, he likes to take it out on me.” My eyes widened in horror at what she was implying. “Take it out on you, how?” I asked. Surprisingly, she started rolling up the sleeve of her shirt, and I gasped at the sight underneath. There were multiple burn marks covering her arms, each one looking more nasty than the last. “Since we heal quickly, he prefers to burn me slowly, the injury lasts longer that way. He doesn’t want me to ever forget for even a second that I made him choose between us.” Then she rolled her sleeves back down. “I know most of you think I’m a snob for keeping to myself, but the truth is that I’m scared that everyone will see my scars and find out how much of a weakling I am.” “That’s not true! He’s the true weakling! No real man would do that to a woman.” Again i wondered if James knew what his closest friends were doing to their wives. And if he did, did he ever try to stop them? Brianne gave me that pitiful smile again. “Only you would be kind enough to say such a thing Luna. I wonder if your opinion will change when I’ve finally starts hitting you too.” I started to protest that James would never do that but she cut me off. “I heard you have a meeting with the elders of the Council soon.” She said and I nodded. “Well let me give you a little piece of advice then. As soon as possible, let him go. Give him to her before its too late. No one, not even a Luna can ever come between two fated mates. It’s the will of the goddess.” I shakily thanked her and left. Soon it was 4pm and I made my way to the pack's hall where the meeting was going to hold. James was already waiting for me at the door, and he beamed at me. His smile reminded me of how a puppy looked when its favourite person returned home, excited and happy, like I was the center of his world. It felt amazing to be looked at like that. But then I wondered, ‘Did he also look at Lizzy like that?. Would he still look at me like that after he rejected Lizzy? or would he leave burn marks on my body too?’ The questions broke my heart. James kissed my cheeks and asked how the picnic was and I told him it was great. “Sounds lovely, are you ready to go in?” he asked and I nodded. But suddenly, I smelt something wonderful. A delicious mix of Vanilla, chocolate and Lavender, all in one. It smelt divine. I looked around, quickly scanning my surroundings for the source. That’s when I saw him. To be more accurate, that’s when I saw the back of his head. He was tall broad shouldered and fit. He was wearing a black suit and he had the darkest hair I had ever seen. He was walking into the hall far ahead of us so I believed I just caught a whiff of his lingering perfume. I was suddenly snapped back to reality when James took my arm and tucked it into his. “Whatever happens, its me and you till death do us part right?” He asked and I smiled back at the beautiful man I had loved for 3 years. “Till death do us part my love.” I replied with all sincerity.Hiii, I’m so excited to share this book with you! Please leave a review if you like it so far. I really want to know what my readers are thinking, and feel free to tell me what you think will happen next.
Avery’s POV I didn’t see the dark haired man when we finally entered the hall. But that wasn’t surprising because it was a very large hall, holding almost two thousand people. The spring pack was the largest, most prosperous and most advanced pack in the west, so the east and the south all gathered here for meetings. Every important person of power was here. The Alphas, noblemen, and finally the panel of elders. Alphas ruled the packs but these twelve elders of the Council where the rulers of Alphas. The meeting began with the most urgent and most important topic. The topic of “The Blight.” The Blight was a deadly pandemic, a rotten infestation that was slowly consuming and destroying everything it touched for decades now. From livestock, to plants and finally pack members. Nothing and no one was safe from it. The good thing was that it was very slow to spread and only the spring pack seemed to be immune to it for some unknown reason. The council finally came to
Avery’s POV This became our routine for the next few weeks. During the day, James would yell at Lizzy and she would cry and snap at him. Then at night, James would kiss me goodnight, then when he thought I was asleep, he would sneak out to her room and return very early in the morning. Sometimes, it was almost funny to watch them pretend to hate eachother. Who where they putting up the fake act for? To fool me? Or to make themselves feel better. In these two weeks, James did not make love to me even once. In the past, we made love several times a week and James seemed to not be able to get enough of me. But since Lizzy moved in, he barely remembered to properly kiss me at all. I also began to see him less and less. He used to randomly check on my work with the pack during the day, but now I barely heard from him at all until we were going to sleep. Lizzy on the other hand seemed more bubbly than ever. She was always laughing and trying to redecorate my home when she p
Avery POV It took Elder Novak quite a while to finally get the hall to settle down. It was obvious that everyone one hated the King of the north, or as he was called, the barbarian of the North. Alpha Kane was a greedy tyrant that suddenly began to attack and seize all surrounding packs until he completely claimed the whole northern region and declared himself king of the whole north. The north central was the only defense separating him from the rest of us, but he had now destroyed it too. There was nothing stopping him from attacking us now. “Please settle down, we haven’t even gotten to the worst of it yet.” Elder Novak revealed. “Alpha Kane sent us a letter last night. He has explicitly refused to help us provide food to the victims of the blight, not only that, he has formally issued a threat to us. He says that if we attempt to cross his territory again, he will not hesitate to slaughter each and every one of us.” The hall burst out in shouts of indignation. “How da
Avery My face betrayed no emotion as James continued. “Since she’s pregnant, I have to marry her, or else the child would be a bastard.” He explained. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. Lizzy was pregnant? He got her pregnant after years of refusing to have a child with me? “I thought you weren’t ready to have kids. When I told you I wanted to start a family, you refused because you weren’t ready. Now you want kids with her?!” James closed his eyes as the look of guilt covered his face. “I didn’t mean for it to happen Avery. We some how got lost in the moment and it just ...happened. Please believe me, I wanted to start a family with both of you in the future, maybe next year. Not now.” He explained and I burst out laughing. “So let me get this straight, you were planning to get i and my sister pregnant at the same time?!” I yelled and he froze. This was hilarious to me. How had I never realized that my husband was a sick twisted asshole? Did love blind me
JamesI had a nightmare. A masked man was dragging my wife away from me. Avery was screaming my name and trying to hold my hand. I was trying to run to her, but someone who’s face I couldn’t see kept dragging me back.“Avery! Avery!” I kept screaming in fear, but my wife was disappearing before my very eyes.“Avery!” I screamed as I jumped awake.“Nephew, You’re awake!” I looked up to see Uncle Luther looking down at me with a worried frown.I felt dizzy as my memories started to flood my mind. I remember that we were attacked by northern men, and they had overpowered me before I blacked out.But what happened to my wife?“Uncle? Where’s my wife?” I asked and Lizzy suddenly appeared and rushed to hug me.“I’m here baby. You were passed out for hours, I was so scared.” She cried against my shoulder.I pulled away from her and frowned. “Where’s my wife?” I asked again as the nightmare replayed in my mind. “Where’s Avery?” I added for clarity but Lizzy looked away.“Nephew maybe you sho
Avery I didn’t know what I expected the northern kingdom to look like, but it was certainly not this. When I thought about Alpha Kane, I pictured dirty, old, dark, depressing castles that resembled dungeons. I never expected state of the art architecture or beautiful blooming flowers everywhere. The castle itself was majestic. Tall and proud, not flashy, yet it commanded attention and respect. Everything looked and smelt of wealth. We were led into what looked like a waiting room and forced to line up with our heads bowed. All of us were hand cuffed, but the men tied me up in another set of silver chains because of my earlier stunt with Greyson’s nose. I looked at Greyson’s bruised nose and smirked. I was very proud of my self. A man walked in, and from the sound of his steps, I realized that he was tall and confident… most probably someone important. I took a peek at him and realized I was right. He was dressed like a high ranking warrior.. most likely the gamma, but
Jame’s POV It had been almost 24 hours since my wife had been taken from me. I had already shared the good news of her being alive to the pack, but I had barely slept and I had not left her room the whole time. It still smelt like her and I wanted her presence around me while I made my rescue plans. Lizzy had knocked on the door several times asking me to come out but I ignored her. She even brought my meals to the front of the door but I refused to open it. How could I eat when I wasn’t sure that my Avery had eaten? Was she alright? Was she injured? Did they try to sleep with her?! I felt hot rage pile up in my throat at that thought. No! I couldn’t let myself dwell on such thoughts, they would only make me too emotional to think clearly. And besides, I was sure that they had not done anything sexual to her, because if they had, I would know, I would feel it through my mating bond, and it would hurt like a mother fucker. Dread filled my gut as I imagined experi
Avery POV “What are you doing?!” I yelled as I watched Alpha Kane start to unbutton the sleeves of his shirt. He had already thrown his Jacket and gloves on my bed, and he continued to strip, despite my mounting panic. To make matters worse, the king stayed quiet, but his eyes stayed focused on me. He was watching me like I was some prey that he wanted to devour. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise in warning. He took a step forward and my heart sized. “Stay back!” I yelled but he ignored me and took another step forward. There was no where to run to, his large body was blocking the door and the windows had bars on them. My heart began to pound in my chest. Was he trying to have sex with me right now? As if to answer my question, he looked me right in the eye, and started unbuttoning his shirt. My eyes darted to the left and to the right, but there was no way out. If I tried to scream, who would even try to save me? I was immediately snapped out of m