CLAUDIA The carriage in which we rode in stopped in front of a beautiful and extravagant packhouse. I was lost in its beauty. About twenty people were standing in front of the mansion, they were arranged in a straight linear line. I could guess they were his pack members. The coachman handed his hand over to me so he could help me down. I gave him my hand with a feeble smile on his face. Alpha Everett walked past me and headed for the door. I gulped hard looking at the people that stood in front of me, they didn’t take their eyes off me, making me uncomfortable. As an important member of the Crescent Moon pack and the Wagner clan, I summoned the courage to walk up to them. “Hello.”The words fell out of my mouth heavily. The way they stared at me was getting creepy and I couldn’t stand it anymore. I stood still, not knowing what to do next. “Let us all welcome Claudia Wagner of the Crescent Moon pack into our midst. We would have a little introduction before she proceed
#warning!!!# This chapter contains a non-consensual sex scene. Please skip this chapter if you are sensitive to this. CLAUDIAI threw weak punches at his back as I struggled to get loose from his strong arms. He marched down the passage holding me very firm. I raised my head to see where he was headed, but I wasn’t able to see anything. Soon, he stopped walking straight down, and he took a turning. “Let me go! Must it be tonight? I am exhausted!” Tears rolled down my eyes as I yelled. The anger in me knew no bounds. I was both angry and scared. He stopped, and I saw him open a door. The lights in the chamber were not as bright as the ones in my chamber and the other part of the packhouse. *He is so evil, he even sleeps in such dim lights.*He got to the huge bed and threw me on it without mercy. I looked at his face with my teary eyes, and I could see no emotions on his face. At that point, he looked like the devil himself. “We don’t have to do this now. I am n
EVERETT I still had a hard-on after I was done marking Claudia. My pe*is threatened to rip my shorts apart. I got to my chamber and switched on the light. I looked at my bed and I saw Annette lying on it. She was wearing her undergarments. She laid with her back arched, and her hands were under her head. Her legs were raised, with her knees pointing up. She had a seductive smile on her face. “I thought you would spend more time with her.” “I have always told you Annette, this marriage is just to keep my pack and it’s name protected. If I could mark her without putting my pe*nis in her, I would have done that.” I walked to my wardrobe and began to remove my clothes. Annette got out of bed, and padded to where I stood. She embraced me from behind, and traced her fingers down my bare chest. I exhaled deeply and turned to look at her. She had a filthy grin on her face, and before I could say anything, she grabbed my erect pe*is. I let out a needy gasp and she chuckled. “He is so h
CLAUDIA The creaking noise of my wardrobe filled my ears as I slept. My eyes tightened sensitively to the noise. I moved my eyeballs under my eyelids, I wasn’t ready to wake up. The noise continued, and I was forced to open my weary eyes. I looked in the direction of the wardrobe with half of my eyes opened, and I saw someone standing in front. My vision was blurry, so I blinked severally to get a clearer vision. I opened my eyes again, and I saw it was Nellie. “Nellie.” My voice came out lower than expected. Nellie ran to me and lowered her head. “Good morning, Luna Claudia.” I tried sitting up, and she quickly rushed to me and helped me up. I rested my back on the pillow she placed behind my back. “Thank you.” “How are you feeling now?” “I don’t know. I am still in this house. I can never be fine.” Nellie exhaled and placed her hand on my thighs slowly. “You would get used to this, Luna Claudia.” “I don’t think so… Did you carry me from the passage last ni
EVERETTThe anger in me rose in multiple folds as I stared at her. I clenched my jaw as she sat still on the bench. Were her legs truly ruined, or she was just pretending? I moved closer to her and lowered myself. Her eyes widened as she looked at me. I bet she didn’t see it coming. “What are you doing?” “I am doing what you asked me to do. Carry you.” I grabbed her by the waist and threw her over my shoulders. She tried struggling but she was too weak. I could feel her pulse as I carried her on my shoulders. Being the stubborn mate she was, I expected her to throw punches at my back, but this time she was awkwardly calm. “Wait for me in front of the house.” Volker and Jan bowed their head, and I walked past them. I walked in through the back door and headed for her room. Soon, I heard her chuckle, and I furrowed my brows, looking at her. “You would carry me like this tomorrow and the next till I don’t feel any pain.” “You are in no place to tell me what to do
EVERETTI couldn’t stop boiling as we continued the meeting. Everyone and everything kept getting on my nerves. Alpha Horst kept glaring at me, and Joachim kept smiling. They both annoyed me. After the meeting, I stood up and walked out of the living room. I headed to my horse, and before I could get there, I heard Alpha Horst’s voice from behind me. “Alpha Everett! We need to talk.” I turned to look at him, and I saw him walk into the garden at the side of the packhouse. Volker approached me and whispered in my ear,“You don’t have to go, Alpha.”“I want to hear what he has to say. It’s either about the throne or his bloody daughter. I am interested.” “I can go with you in case…” “You don’t have to. There is nothing he can do to me. I am younger and stronger than he is.” I strutted down to the garden, and I found him standing in front of a tree. He folded his hands on his back. “To what do I owe this unpleasant impromptu meeting?” He turned to look at me, and I s
CLAUDIA “You can go back, Gunther. I got her.” Clarence said to the other man that lifted me. My head was bowed and tears kept streaming down my eyes. I began to breathe rapidly, as I allowed myself to let out intense emotions. Gunther let go of me and gave me a bow before walking away. “Luna Claudia, I’m going to carry you now. Please be still.” He moved his left hand to the back of my waist, and his right hand to the back of my legs. He swept me off the ground and carried me in a bridal manner. I held onto his shoulders firmly and hid my face in his chest as I cried. His scent was that of the lavender plant, and it filled up my nostrils. “You shouldn’t have gone into his private chamber. Didn’t Nellie tell you it’s forbidden?” I looked at his face with my teary eyes and shook my head. “She told me. But I didn’t do in, there Clarence. I swear, I didn’t go in there.” I sobbed. “What? But how were you able to write a letter? Jan told me you wrote a letter to your father.” “I t
CLAUDIA“Why should she eat my food?” I furrowed my brows in confusion. I was lost. “You can’t trust her anymore. She could have poisoned the food.” I looked at Nellie unbelievably. I waited for her to tell me Clarence was mistaken. I wanted her to prove him wrong. “I didn’t poison the food, I swear. Beta Annette wasn’t aware I was bringing her dinner. I sneaked down here so that I wouldn’t be seen by Alpha Everett. He must not know I brought her food without him approving it.” There was silence after she talked. Clarence was still fuming in anger, and I wasn’t sure of what to think or say. I wanted to believe her, but I found it hard to. “Take a spoon and I’ll let you live.” She looked at my face in surprise, and I arched my brows. “Why? You weren’t expecting that from me?” She shook her head and crawled to where she placed the tray. She opened one of the dinner plates and I saw rice on it. She picked up the pewter spoon and scooped some rice. My heart skipped as she
~After eighteen years~Maximillian I gazed at the archery targets carefully, my left hand slowly lifted up, holding the heavy recurved bow firmly. My right hand reached for my quiver, and I pulled out one arrow. I positioned it in the bow and pointed it at the targets. I closed my left eye so that I could get the appropriate angle and degree to release my arrow. After being satisfied with my positioning, I dragged the bowstring and arrow real quick and let go of the arrow. The arrow travelled from where I stood to the archery target, and I nervously watched it move. The King, my father, was at the other end, and as soon as the arrow pierced the target, he ran to it to check. “Yes! You did it!” He yelled, and I jumped up and punched the air in excitement. “I told you I’d be able to do it!” I yelled back boastfully. *Since I turned ten, I grew a great passion for shooting arrows. No one in Jamba Kingdom was an arrow shooter, and I wanted to break that record. My mother, Que
CLAUDIA Everett and I sat in the living room with an awkward silence in the air. My head was full of many things. After witnessing Annette’s death, I wished I was never pushed to request her death. ‘What will my don think of me now?’ “Claudia, can you please tell me what is going on in your mind?” Everett asked, and I adjusted my eyes to look at him. “What will our son think of me now, Everett? I’m a murderer.” He shook his head and reached for my hand. He lifted my hand to his lips and planted a soft kiss on it. “You are no murderer, okay? I was the one that killed her, not you. She deserved to die, okay? Don’t feel so bad. You are a good person, Claudia, but sometimes, the good people are always pushed to the wall.” “About our son…” “Our son will be fine, Claudia. This would be written down, but you should know he would understand that she needed to be killed. She messed with the king, and the king killed her. You won’t be painted as evil because you aren’t. So be calm, okay
CLAUDIAI got to the front of the palace and threw Annette forward, making her fall to the ground. I could feel how fragile she had become because of the torture she went through in the dungeon, but she wasn’t ready to change, and I was done giving her chances to be a better person. “You are still alive till now, thanks to me!” I poked my chest and moved closer to her slowly. “It was so easy to tell Everett to get rid of you when you were in that dungeon, but I felt it would be so wicked of me, and I didn’t want anyone’s blood on my hands. But now, I don’t care if your filthy blood stains my hand.” “You think you can do whatever pleases you now, hun? You can order others around, but I’ll never let you order me around! I rather die than accept you as my queen!” She yelled back, and I scoffed. I wasn’t surprised she could still talk back at me like that. Everett had always said she is a fierce woman and won’t give up easily. “You rather die? Well, I’ll help you die.” I got to her
ANNETTE I stood in front of my full mirror and stared at myself. I looked so ugly and sick, and I hated everyone for that. No one cared when I was in that dungeon, and this made me see no reason why I should care for anyone too. If someone told me Everett would change drastically to the extent of throwing me into the dungeon, I’d argue with that person. This time, it was worse. He locked me in there for about nine months, and he didn’t bother to check up on me for once. He was busy with his wife. I rolled my eyes and tears dropped from them. I lowered my head and began to play with my finger. “Annette, you are not a woman they accept defeats. You can’t let this pass as if nothing happened. You are more powerful than that, baby girl.” I said to myself and looked in the mirror again. “Annette.” I heard Volker’s voice in front of my door. I looked at the door and saw him open it. He walked in with a tray in his hands. “There you are. I brought you some food.” He walked to the tab
~The next day~ CLAUDIA I woke up feeling much better, I slept all through the night, so I didn’t expect less. I dragged my body up and sat on the bed. My eyes ran through the chamber real quick and fell on my baby’s cradle. Beside the cradle was Nellie. She had her hand in the cradle, and she was smiling widely. “Nellie,” I called calmly, and she raised her head and looked at me. “My Queen, you are up.” Sue stood up and walked up to me. “Yes, I am,” I responded with a bright face. “I’m happy you look better, my queen. How are you feeling? Do you have aches?” She asked, and I shook my head. “I’m not feeling anyone. Am I supposed to feel any pain?” I asked, and she chuckled. “I have no idea. I haven’t given birth before,” She responded, and I giggled. “Sorry. I shouldn’t have asked that kind of question,” I said, and she shook her head. “It is fine, my queen. Your baby is still sleeping soundly. Have you found a name for him?” I shook my head and looked at the cradle again. “I
CLARENCE I sat amidst the pack members as they chatted and cheered. The other day, I wasn’t feeling so good. I couldn’t stop overthinking. Now that Claudia has given birth to the heir, what would happen to us? What if she is now in love with him too and wouldn’t want to leave? This has always been my fear, but what can I do when it happens that way? I would have to accept my fate and move on. She is a wife and a queen, I can’t ruin their marriage because of what I feel for her. I grabbed the jar of wine that was on the table and poured myself another cup. Jan looked at me and knitted his brows. “Hey, are you good? That is the seventh cup you are drinking. Do you want to talk?” He asked worriedly, and I shook my head and smiled. “I’m fine, Jan. The wine is just so good to put down,” I responded, making him chuckle. “It’s the best wine in the Jamba Kingdom, what do you expect? The king is in a very good mood and that makes us happy. You can drink up all you want. But if you want t
~After seven months~ EVERETT I covered my mouth with my hands and began to pace in front of Claudia’s chamber. It was her delivery day. I was with her when she started feeling weird, so I had to call the best midwife in the kingdom to take care of her. “Push!!!” I heard the midwife scream, and after her voice, a roar followed. It was Claudia’s. My pack members, the elders were all waiting in the living room, but I was too anxious to wait there with them. I wished I was in the chamber with her. “Push!!!” I heard the midwife scream again, and I heaved a loud sigh. I hit the door and yelled, “Can you please take it easy with her?” “I’m sorry, my king but I just need one more push from her and the baby will be out. One more hard push,” She responded In a loud tone, and I lowered my head. “Claudia baby, you can do it, okay? Just one push. I hate the way she keeps yelling at you,” I said and moved slightly away from the door. “Arrrrggghhhh!!” An extreme roar filled the air and my eyes
CLAUDIA “Are you going to do whatever I ask of you?” Alpha Joachim asked Everett, who sat next to me on the couch and never let go of my hand. “You are leaving me no choice. What do you want?” Everett kept his eyes on my hand as he spoke. “I want you to invite Thorsten back to the Jamba Kingdom.” Alpha Joachim smiled after talking, and Everett raised his head to look at him. “Why would I want to do that?” Everett asked, making Alpha Joachim shrug. “Because Thorsten is my friend, and I care about him. If you want to get your wife back, without me telling everyone the evil you have done, then you’ll do this little favor.” Everett gulped and heaved a loud sigh. He lifted his eyes and looked at Thorsten who stood behind Alpha Joachim. “I’ll let him into my kingdom on one condition. I must not see hun anywhere close to the palace. The day I see him anywhere around the gates, I’ll kill him.” I watched Thorsten’s face as Everett spoke, and I could see anger register on his face. He clen
EVERETTAfter Two Weeks I walked into a familiar building. I tried to remember where I had seen the building, but nothing was coming. My head was blank at the moment. I boldly opened the main door and walked into the living room. I had one thing in mind. I needed to find my wife. I looked around the living room and my eyes fell on someone. He sat on a chair but I couldn’t see his face because his back was turned to me. I started approaching hun and wanted to speak when all of a sudden, I heard footsteps approaching. I looked up, and I saw Claudia walking down the corridor. She heard where we were standing. “Claudia! My wife!” I called and began to approach her. She opened her arms with a large smile, but before I could get to her, a man stood in front of her, making me stop abruptly. I looked at this man, and I saw someone I wasn’t expecting. “Alpha Horst?” I called in surprise. I looked at the chair, and I saw that the man that was seated on it was gone. He could guess the man