We’re stuck in a stared down for a few second with hard cold raw emotions hanging over both of us couple with the subtle arousal curling up from with me.This is the absolute worse time to be horny. Not when I’m in the middle of arguing why I don’t want to get tied down to him permanently.But neither my body nor my wolf cares at this point and this goddamn heat isn’t helping matter at all.That sexy brooding look in his eyes with burning flames of anger that could turn me into ashes if I look at them too long, it pools arousal fluids from my core messing up with my thoughts.Discerning what is important and what isn’t only grows more difficult.I stare at his lips, gulping down the saliva forming in my mouth.“Regardless of what you say, we aren’t mates.” I manage to force out of my lips He takes a step forward while his expression changes.“It seems I’ll have to force you to change your mind.”“No amount of convincing is going to change my mind.”Suddenly he’s too close to me and a
If only I had known Arden’s true plan, maybe I could have done something to prevent the situation, to avoid playing Kain right into his hands.Never in a thousand years would I have thought that he would give up his life’s mission so easily and let himself fall in a schemed planned by Arden.My life is only insignificant in comparison to the countless others that are at stake.I don’t bother with the rest of my food getting up and leaving, with Yvonne left behind me while she grumbles at my behavior.All that matters now is finding Kain, the same person I was planning to avoid until I am ready to come in terms with this mate situation.More and more it’s become easier to spot him especially when I really put my mind to it.It feels like a natural instinct just knowing what direction he might be in especially when he’s close enough.I follow my instincts up until the training grounds where he’s conversing with two of his warriors, laying don commends for them while they only nod in agr
The strangest feelings tug at my heart that clearly aren’t mine but feels like something close to it.Feelings of content and satisfaction seep endlessly into my mind waking me up in the process and I drag my heavy eyes opening moaning.I feel well rested, my joints feel refreshed and good like a newly born child, as though I’m floating on soft gentle clouds.An the emotions welling in my chest, happiness and content continuously welling and pulsing in my mind as though they are mine, in a way that confuses me.What is this overwhelming feeling in my chest?I try to move forward but strong hands grab at me drawing me back against a warm hard wall and pins me against it.Kain grabs ahold of me with both his hands.“Don’t leave yet.” He says simply getting comfortable with me right next to him.I don’t bother arguing not wanting to leave myself feeling the most at ease I’ve ever felt.I realize the feeling in my chest aren’t mine mixed with Kain’s.His emotions well up in my mind tellin
‘My queen’The words he has said the day before stick with me longer than I want I to.Was he serious, ds he even know what that means or was it just something that just felt right to say in the moment.Maybe the after effects of the mating bond messed with his sense and in the bid of struggling where to classify me as the words easily slipped from his lips as an answer to offer me in that moment so preserve my feelings.Though I don’t really mind, if I don’t fit in anywhere yet, everything is still messy for me and the fact that I am mated still feels a bit weird and foreign for me.And I’m not even given the chance to slowly ease into these new circumstances with Kain dragging me practically everywhere he goes today.Since the sun has risen I’ve been glued to his side, holding hands while we pass the hall way and receiving a lot of stares from the maids passing by.I’ve long since prayed for the ground to open up and swallow me whole, but that’s not happening is it.And Kain is a bu
Kain’s POVMinutes later from leaving the conference hall and having her give me more than a handful of reasons why she can’t be my Luna, she finally falls asleep the second she sits on the bed.I watch the gentle rise and fall of her chest and the way her lips, slightly ajar pout in her sleep.As though she couldn’t be even more perfect she shocks me again.I drop a single kiss on her head tucking her into my bed and giving her the room she needs to sleep.The mate bond might still be taking a toll on her, that would explain her tiredness in the middle of the day, but I don’t mind it. Times like this allow me the chance to take care of her.Something she would rather die than let me do.Her strong headed personality is both her strength and her weakness.I tread carefully out of the room closing the door behind me before facing forward again more sternly.I’ve had most of my fun for today, dragging her along with me purposefully to cause a stir and raise awareness, introducing her to
Lilith’s POVThere’s an immediate and sudden shift in the air around Kain’s mansion since then.The once indifferent stares turn into oddly respectful greetings and bows while I pass form most people and the few who disagree with it mumble while I pass.All this because of Kain’s favor, I find myself receiving from being his mate.I sigh to myself knowing I want none of it, the attention, the judgmental stares, the unwarranted respect.None of it.But that’s not what’s important to me right now.I’m finally apart from Kain today, I finally have that free time I’ve needed to myself since the mating bond has been sealed and since the course of my life has changed and the first place I need to go to is Ivan.It hasn’t sat right with me since Kain had purposefully ridiculed him and I had sat there and done nothing but aid it in a way.The look on his face, when our eyes met showed immeasurable torture that I can’t erase from my mind.I feel the need to do something to alleviate some of hi
Weeks pass by since the accident and since then I haven’t set foot close enough to the men’s quarters completely avoiding the training grounds and every other place Ivan would be in.Call me a coward but I just can’t face him again and go through all that.It took a while for me to accept it but it truly isn’t anyone’s fault, and if it’s all come to an end then I would accept it wholly.It’s only left for Ivan to realize the very same thing I guess.Instead I’ve busied myself with other occupying matters like the fact that there’s a ceremony were the alpha introduces the Luna to the pack members formally.It’s a small tradition observed by every Alpha that has ever taken up the mantle of power in the history of Deathstone.I’d essentially have to dress up in a lavish red dress with a veil that will be removed by Kain in the presence of all pack members for their acceptance before the official title is given.Despite Kain’s speech about not caring what everyone else thinks I can’t help
The blade slashes through the sleeves of the dress before I realize what’s going on and I just barely dodge the hit gaining a new scar on my wrist.The pauses breathing heavily and string at me with bulging wolf eyes.“I’m going to take what is rightfully mine one way or another!” She screams“what the fuck is wrong with you!”She’s gone completely insane, risking her own life by attack me but she doesn’t care about the consequences.She lunges at me again swinging her knife frantically.I dosge the next swipe of her dagger again, not wanting to hit her yet. Maybe I can talk some sense into her before it’s too late.“You don’t need to do this Yvonne. If I get hurt Kain isn’t going to let this go.”She growls at me ferally.“Then I’m going to make sure both of us don’t make it past today. You don’t get it Lilith, if I can’t have him no one else can, no one else deserves to be by his side!” She screams running at me again.I doge her next hit and the next, but before I can dodge the nex
Kain’s POV2 YEARS LATER…A lot has happened over the years, I’ve lost some gained some; most of it changed my life completely in ways I never knew I need.Now standing over the grave of a child that never got the chance to see the light of day I mourn it as I’ve always does, though I never got the chance to meet him for the split moment I knew of its existence where one of the best moments in my life.Even while everything around us burned and we were bruised the news of his arrival brought a smile to her lips like nothing else could.And though it’s taken more than a few years to get over our loss, we’re still taking small steps to get there.I drop a flower over the small grave.To little sesame, the name Lilith calls it, because it didn’t grow old enough to have a gender.A child’s laughter echoes from behind me while a little girl turns out of her hiding spot rushing for me.Her little feet don’t take her too far before she stumbles and falls face flat on the ground and burst int
Jonah’s POV5 YEARS LATER…Hiding behind the pillar beautifully decorated with flowers by the fountain I stay hushed, pursing my lips together while still covering them with both my hands to stay hidden.I do this all the time and still she still seems to always easily find me when we play this insufferable game.Hide and go seek.An hour at it and she still hasn’t found me yet, which is the longest times he’s taken to find me.Which lead me to think that maybe, just maybe I’m the only one playing this damn game.The thought of just giving up seeps into my mind until I hear footsteps approaching from ahead and stay quiet again.The gentle sound of feet slowly approaching lets me know it’s a she-wolf. Months of training from Beta Ivan comes I perfectly handy in moments like this.Hopefully in a few more years I’ll be able to join brother-in law’s guard, that is if he will let me. My sister’s hold over him has dictated far too much in my life.It’s been years since I’ve fallen ill and n
Kain’s POVI’ve finally found her, my mate but the sight of her sets off every bit of my anger I’ve been trying to put on check.Her face bruised and her clothes ripped to the point that she’s almost left bare and naked. Nothing matters anymore. My rage takes over me and all sane thoughts dissipate.I look at the fool I had tossed across the room desiring nothing more than to tear him apart into pieces of flesh lying around and feeding it to the dogs.“You bastard.” I seethe, seeing nothing more than red.I shift into my wolf in the next second lunging at him without restrictions.Or every scar on her skin I add five more on his, every bruise on her body five bones crack under the force of my attacks.I slash at him continuously with my claws while he screams in agony just barely managing to change into his wolf to have even a fighting chance but that changes nothing.He had a death wish the moment he decided to mess with my woman.He tries to attack back but it’s a puny attempt from
Kain’s POV“Riverstone pack has looked down on us for the final time. They have injured our beta and gone as far as kidnapping the Luna and we will not be silent anymore, will not seat idly and take any more of their insults. Whoever dares cross our paths to victory or slanders our name will incur the wrath of Deathstone!” I yell out to the group of men before me, my army set and ready to be thrown into a fully fledge battle, waiting just at the borders of Arden’s pack.He has bitten more than he can chew this time angering not just me but everyone else and sadly for him the only leverage he has over me is gone.“Yes alpha!” they response is thunderous and echoes loudly.“Today we walk into battle but this time to finish what we started and make our enemies beg for mercy that will not be given, for our fallen brothers and for our own legacy to go down in time as the gretats pack in all Wolfdom!” Ivan steps up yelling as well.He leans against a cane to help him stand and walk with his
The sound of the loud slap takes me by surprise and the fact that it isn’t me this time.Arden strikes his accomplice across the face in a split second, in the exact moment the announcement rolls off her lips.She falls unto the ground clutching her cheek and looking up at Arden with utmost surprise equally not expecting such an actionBut he stares back at her fuming, if steam could puff out of a person’s ears no would be the perfect time for that.He visibly trembles from the emotions moving around inside him, but none of that is any of my concern at the momentThe news takes me off guard, it isn’t even the last thing I was expecting because the thought has never crossed my mind before.“I’m pregnant?” I mutter under my breath stuck in a daze.My hand falls down to my belly that I thought was bloated due to an illness.Inside me right now is a tiny person, a little version of a mix of Kain and me in one person?How could it be?Could it possibly be a mistake somewhere, maybe she had
Lilith’s POV“Get away from me, you pervert!” I kick and scream at him desperately trying to keep more distance between me and this psychopath that’s too sick to realize just how much he’s lost his mind.All those years he had called me ‘Lili’ so fondly I begin to wonder if it had been me his eyes stared at with so much care of someone else.If the nickname little rose had been because my mother’s favorite flower was a rose.All those times she had just a passing thought of how weirdly interested in her was just in fact her instincts screaming at her to keep distance away from him, warning her that he would ruin her completely.“Get away!”Kain! Kain please help.I cry continuously begging him not to come even closer while silently praying Kain can hear me where ever he is.Arden’s rage returns again and he smacks me the other way trying to shut me up and he doesn’t stop with his assault attacking over and over again trying to get me to shut up.“You should love me and not tell me to
Kain’s POVEvery time I close my eyes it starts out with a nightmare where I lose my love, Lilith.This time she falls over a high tower and I’m running to catch her but the floors turn into quick sand that sinks beneath me and I can’t reach her before I’m thrown out of my own dream.I wake up jump right up drench in my own sweat and with my drawn out wolf claws ripping into both sides of the bed.It takes a second for the new reality to sink in and I can calm myself again.The two day mark has already been reached, she should be back soon but something feels deathly wrong.The bond feels already weak from the large distance between us and even then I can feel bits of her own despair seeping through my own end.I can’t help but be on edge and paranoid constantly.Was she not successful in saving her brother?Whatever the reason of her sadness maybe, I will fix it when she gets back, all that matters is that she returns to me safe and sound without a single scar on her bodyI will rage
For some reason his words make me feel dizzy.The room spins and swirls around me like a dull illusion manufactured to twist my mind and unravel it.I’m lost in a hazy dream that I might forget all about the second I open my eyes again, but the dream has morphs into a never ending nightmare that feels way too real and taunts me.Hot tears prickle my eyes painful while I stare back at the mad man in front of me in horrified shock that steals my ability to even speak, or utter a sound and yet he’s smiling.Somehow he’s smiling in the middle of all this, in the middle of confessing his part in my parent’s death.I shake my head slowly choosing to doubt this reality that plays tricks on me.“No…” I whisper under my breath, denying it.“Yes.” He responds nodding his head firmly with a wide grin.“No!” I scream out suddenly feeling my entire reality crumble. “You’re lying. You’re saying that just to mess with me. You know that if that’s true that I’ll… that I’ll—“”“That you’ll never forgiv
My consciousness seeps into my body for the third time, I think in one night.This time my eyes don’t open at will though.My body feels too heavy, like logs are resting over each limb, and if they aren’t neither of them respond to the signals I tell them but I’m awake just unable to control my body.From whatever paralysis I’m having I can hear mumbling in the background that lets me know that I’m not alone.A female giggling from something.Must be that bitch and then a new voice, deeper and bolder.Finally my eyes open but very slowly and takes way too much from me causing me to groan from exhaustion.I can make out two figures that remain blurred from in vision while I try so desperately to look at them.“Ah, she’s awake.” The male voice speaks.I recognize his voice s Arden’s immediately.Rage feels me in the next second followed by the desire to fight back but I’m still paralyzed.Footsteps drawn closer and I’m lifted up from lying on the cold floor and put in a seating position