Regina’s POV“You—You stupid bitch!” Nigel gasped besides my ear.He seemed horrified when Gray turned his gaze towards us and was now trying to drag me behind his back to stop people from staring.My sculp hurt so much and I couldn’t help but cried out again:“Gray…Help me!”A series of urgent footsteps came behind my back. And a pair of large hands rescued me from Nigel’s iron grip.“Alpha Gray—” I heard Nigel stammered in panic. But Gray lifted a foot before he could finish and kicked harshly on Nigel’s chest!Nigel was sent flying backwards and landed directly on that champagne tower. The tower crushed, glasses broke, and wine spilled, making a series of huge noises that echoed across the room. People screamed and run in horror while turning their heads around to see what had happened.Nigel was rolling around on a floor of broken glasses, holding his bleeding arm and shoulder while screaming like a pig getting slaughtered. Blood streamed down his face. And I felt my legs turned s
Regina’s POV“What on earth are you doing!” Lady Connie cried again and rushed forward to separate us.Gray’s hand dropped from my cheek to his body side. And the next second, I was dragged away from him by Connie.A surge of panic seized my heart.What were we doing? I honestly didn’t know.Was Gray trying to kiss me? Maybe I was wrong, and he simply wanted to kiss me on the forehead like he always did. But was I trying to kiss him back? God, what was I thinking? He was my brother for Christ’s sake!Lady Connie’s eyes traveled back and forth between Gray and I and she asked warily, “Were you two—”“NO!” I quickly denied.Gray glanced at me without saying anything. There was a sullen look on his face when he turned to look at Lady Connie and asked, “What are you doing here? I didn’t remember inviting you here.”Lady Connie seemed offended. She drew herself up and challenged back, “I am Barnie’s wife. I don’t need an invitation to be here. And I have heard everything that happened in t
Regina’s POVI take a quick step back because Nigel’s appearance had really shocked me.His handsome face had swelled to three of its original size. And there were bruises and bleeding scars everywhere on his face. He could hardly open his eyes because they were severely swollen.“N—Nigel!” I gasped, “What happened?”Nigel shook the iron bar abruptly and there was a desperate look on his face, “Regina! Regina, my love! You have to get me out of here! Alpha Gray he is—is crazy! He has 3 solders beat me from day to night! I can’t take it anymore! You have to save me from that monster!”I clenched my fists in silence.I didn’t like Nigel calling Gray a monster.Yes, I was shocked by Nigel’s swollen face and Gray probably shouldn’t have beaten him so hard. But Gray did this for a reason. He was avenging me. If Nigel hadn’t tortured me in the first place, Gray would have never done such thing!“Nigel, do you know why Alpha Gray did that to you?” I asked with a stern voice, “Because you hav
Regina’s POVI gulped nervously.I had never seen Gray like this before—so cold and stern—like I wasn’t his beloved little sister, but a total stranger.“Answer me.”Gray strode forward. His towering figure casted a huge shadow on my body.“Did you sneak into the dungeon behind my back? Yes, or No!”“…Yes!” I blurted out.Seeing the burning rage obscuring his face, I protested, “You can’t stop me from seeing Nigel! He is my husband!”“What husband!” he bellowed, grabbing my wrist forcefully, “That man is a total scumbag! He grabbed your hair and humiliated right in front of me! He should feel lucky that I didn’t rip his chest apart right on the site! It’s over between you and him. I forbid you to see him again!”FORBID?I was a grown person. I was fully capable of making my own decision!“You don’t have the right!” I struggled fiercely against his grip and cried, “And I have made up my mind already! I will return to his home with him!”“…What did you say?” Gray’s jaw tightened.“That’
Regina’s POVI couldn’t believe what I was seeing.Nigel as the servant?! What the hell!And I immediately looked towards Gray, knowing that this must be his idea. He kept his eyes straightforward, deadpan, as though he didn’t notice my furious glare at all.Others around the table had all recognized Nigel as well. They all seemed astonished. No one said a word.Nigel approached us carefully, walking around the table serving us coffee, starting with me. His hand was shaking so severely that a drop of hot coffee dripped on the back of my hand. It burned, but I decided to say nothing about it. Because I didn’t want to cause any more trouble for him.After Nigel was done with me, he moved onto Gray. He trembled even more. I looked at the pot in his hand nervously, afraid that he might still coffee on Gray.“A—Alpha Gray…Coffee?” Nigel stammered, breathing lightly.Gray didn’t say anything, but simply tapped his index finger on his empty cup.Yet Nigel didn’t notice that tap on the cup. A
Regina’s POVNigel stared back at me blankly.“What ash tray?” he asked with a frown.I had to remind him of that, “The ash tray that I broke last winter. Do you remember?”He let out a snort, “You broke a lot of things in my house, Regina. Let’s face it, you are not exactly the best sla—”I gasped in disbelief, “Slave? Are you calling me your salve?”“No!” he quickly said, shaking his head. “Wife! What I meant was—you are not exactly the best housewife. You aren’t good at cooking and house chores. But it’s OK. There is a learning process. I believe you will get better at it when we go back to Shadow Valley.”I didn’t want to argue with him about house chores, “And do you remember kicking me out of your house? You said that I was forbade to go back into the house before I finished chopping a block of woods.”“Oh yeah. I think so. It sounds like something I would say…But why are we talking about this now? We should be talking about getting out of here, babe.”Nigel reached a sweaty han
Regina’s POVGray was kissing me?My own brother was kissing me!And it wasn’t one of those peck-on-the-check, brother-to-sister kind of kiss. Instead, it was hot and passionate!I gasped in panic and tried to push him away. Yet my little resistance seemed to irritate him. He grabbed both of my wrist in one hand and pressed them against the wall on the top of my head. His other hand traveled to the back of my neck, holding my neck, and he deepened the kiss.His tongue slipped through my parted lips and explored my mouth, hungrily. I was horrified and tried to say something. But he tightened his grip on my neck to keep me in place and bit on my lip to punish my distraction.I felt my sanity slipping away.I couldn’t breathe, nor could I think straight. I felt like I was melting in his strong arms.And the weirdest part is—I didn’t hate any of these at all.Oh my god. I should be disgusted by this! He was my brother for god’s sake! He was my blood! What the hell were we doing?!But my b
Regina’s POVI couldn’t believe this.Gray was leaving here…He was leaving me? Right after we kissed?!He owned me an explanation. He initiated that kiss. At least he should tell me what that meant before fleeing away to the border!I was so fucking mad!“Are you OK, my lady?” Maya asked with a worried voice. “You seem—furious.”“Because I am!” I gritted my teeth. “Where is the Alpha? Has he left already?”“No, not yet. He planned to leave after dinner. I think he is at the front yard with his soldiers right now.”I jumped off bed and dashed out of my room, heading straight towards the front yard. There was a boiling rage inside of me. I couldn’t let Gray walk away from me, not before we sorted out things first!When I reached the front door, I saw him standing under an oak tree with a few soldiers. Great, he still hadn’t left yet.I rushed over and called out loudly, “—Gray!”He turned over with a surprised look on his face, “Regina, what are you doing here?”I stopped abruptly in fr