VIKTORKnock.Knock.Knock.“Are you going to answer that or do I have to kill someone this morning?” Rowan grunts from over my chest, her eyes still closed in sleep.“I might settle for the killing,” I tell her grumpily as I slowly blink open A glance at my alarm clock tells me it is just past five.In the goddamn morning.Death, it is.Knock.Knock.Knock.With an annoyed growl, I get off the bed and stall toward the door.“What?!” I snarl as I pull it open. Andre rears back from me with a wide eyed look.“Whoah!” He says. “Calm down. Why are you in such a mood?”“It is barely five in the morning and you are asking me that?” I growl at him“You have been up earlier than this before!”“Well, I didn't have my beautiful mate sleeping by my side before, did I?!”“All right, fair point. I am sorry.”“Just tell me what was so urgent that it couldn't wait.”“Ah, right. Dominic is here.”It is… beyond annoying how almost all my problems and issues seem to revolve around that man.“What do
ROWANUnfortunately for Luna Kaylee, we were not able to leave immediately.We still had to wait for the other wolves to arrive and she had to get back into her car, to drive into the territory, some of them including our favorite three.Sven had given us an exasperated glance as his car drove in and I couldn't help but chuckle at him.And while the convoys drove in, I and Viktor followed at a more sedate pace.“I want him dead today,” I tell him. “There can be no leniency or mercy. I want him dead.”“And you will have it,” he says as he takes my hand in his. “And I believe you are right.”“About what?”“About the wolf being a trusted person of Dominic,” he replies. “Look at how frantic and desperate he is. He must have a lot of secrets about Dominic in that head of his. Do you think he will tell us if we torture him some more?”“Nah. He is too loyal to do that. He would rather die.”“Yeah, you are probably right. Wait- what if we get Dominic to turn on him? The betrayal. might get hi
ROWAN“Dominic.”I watch in delight as he visibly flinches at the mention of his name.His eyes flit from one person to the other as he tries to rally his words.“What… I… he doesn't…”“You mean alpha Dominic had his wolf kidnapped you and …what?” Alpha Maxwell asks.“I don't know what it was they had planned,” Donald responds. “All I knew was that the wolf was insistent on bringing me to his alpha. That he would be pleased with his catch.”“Catch?!” Kaylee snarls, her dark gaze fixed on Dominic“This is unbelievable!”“I don't even understand what is showing!”“What kind of a game is this?!”“How are we supposed to believe this?” An alpha speaks up, one that I recognized as Dominic's ally from the last council.“It is one alpha's words against another,” he continues. “And let's be honest, we all know that Alpha Donald can be quite… impressionable.”“How dare you?!” Kaylee snarls as she lunges at him and the man narrowly escapes her claws by sheer luck. “I am just telling the truth,”
VIKTOR“Alpha Donald,” Maxwell calls. “Can you please tell us the events that led up to this trial?”“Um… okay,” Donald says before taking a breath. “I… I as well as some other wolves, including Alpha Viktor had gone on what was said to be a fact finding mission about the Winter Wolf Coalition but what was in actuality an ambush. When he, I mean alpha Viktor found out the truth, he tried to leave and a fight broke out. His wolves were… impressive and with him managed to take down all of us.“I… I had fallen into a ditch in an attempt to escape and had later woken up in some human’s house. I thanked them and began making my way back to my pack when this wolf over here,” he says pointing at Tommy. “... Came across me. I recognized him as a wolf from the Obsidian pack and he also recognized me. At first, he had said he was going to help me back to my pack but when I had refused, he… he knocked me out.”“When I regained consciousness, I was tied up and under a tree. He had stopped for th
LOUISA.“You have got to be kidding me!” Dominic snarls as I stand at the entrance, frozen in terrified shock.This is a nightmare.I knew that whoever my mate would be wouldn't be happy about it but I didn't think it would be Dominic, the Alpha.“How in the goddess’s name does this make sense?!” he continues. “You can't even shift into your wolf? How are you my mate?!”“I am so- sorry,” I stuttered, head bowed to avoid his gaze. “I didn't- I am-”“Enough! Goddess, you are pathetic. What was the goddess thinking? Pairing me up with you?” he mutters as he runs his hands through his hair.I stay silent, unable to answer.Honestly, I am wondering the same too. Why would I be paired with Dominic? The man hates me with a passion.“Why are you still here?” he snaps at me.“I am sorry!” I exclaim as I quickly look up, only to see the look of pure unadulterated loathing on his face. “You… you called for me… I don’t-”“Ugh,” he groans as he walks towards me pushing me out of the way and headin
LOUISA.The sun comes up to see me, huddled in a corner of his room.Bruised, bloody, and hurting.While he sleeps soundly without a care in the world.I want to kill him.The thought is as strong as it is alarming.In all my years of living with Dominic, I have never resented him for the way he treated me.Oh, I didn't like it, but I understood him.So, I tried my best to never cross his path.But this…This makes me cold.Not a sad kind of cold but a building rage that I try to tamp down.It is every shewolf’s dream to have a beautiful mating ritual, filled with tenderness and love from her mate.I… I was brutalised. Raped and broken all because of his own misconceptions about me.I never did anything to him.Never undermined him or insulted him, why would he hurt me like this?His own mate?It's not right.It's not fair.It makes me mad.And for the first time, I contemplate killing someone.My own mate.And yet, I don't move.I just stay here, huddled in a corner, like a pathetic
LOUISA.News of Dominic and I being mates quickly spread across the pack and the general atmosphere is that of shock and tension.Shock, because who would ever think that Dominic would be mated to me?Tension because they know who he is and are wary of how he would act.Hell, I am wary of his reaction but I don't plan on staying to find out.I hear it in the quiet whispers of those who pass by Harriet's door and in how they try to look inside.I see it in the tailor’s look as she takes my measurements for the ceremonial gown.I feel it in the sudden silence that envelops a place when Dominic walks by.And through it all, there is just one resounding thought in my head.Leave.Leave before it is too late.“This is a beautiful gown,” Harriet comments as she takes an admiring look at me, standing on a podium.I turn to look at my reflection and I will give it to her, it is a stunning dress.The gown is made from smooth, pure white silk, adorned with intricate silver stitching that sparkl
ROWAN.“Going somewhere? Mate,” he asks, his voice cold and his eyes even colder.“Dominic-”THWACK.My head hit the floor at the force of the slap and I tasted blood in my mouth from my split lip.“I told you never to call me that! It is Alpha to you!”“I am sorry…” I say, only to notice my vision going blurry.Something he seems to notice as I try to look up at him.“Good, it is working,” he remarks as he gets to his feet.“I told you it would,” a voice says.Clarisse.She is here…She drugged me.And he knew about it.Why?“You must be wondering what is happening right now,” he says. “So am I. Tell me, where are you going?”I don't answer him.He is not stupid, he can clearly see what I was planning to do.“Wow, she really has grown some guts,” Clarisse croons as she walks towards him, her vicious voice spitting poison at me. “She must think she is something special because she was mated to you.”“Quiet Clarisse, can't you see I am talking to your Luna,” he asks.“Luna my foot! How