EZRAI stood beside my Beta, a polite smile on my face as I shook hands with alpha Gabriel. His ink was the last one. He and his pack were leaving today and most of them met their mate during the ceremony.“Thanks for the invitation, alpha Ezra. It was a lovely ceremony,” his grip was firm.“Thanks for honoring it. I’m glad some of your people found their mates,” we made small talk before he got in the car and left with his pack. They were from another country so they would be taken to the airport by my guards.I released a sigh as I watched the car drive out of the compound holding my pack house. Once the cars and buses were out of sight, I turned to return to the car that drove me here so I could go back home when my eyes fell on Annabelle’s parents, they were approaching me.“Take care of the other things that need attention,” I told Carden, dismissing him. Even if I was not in the mood to talk, it would be impolite, not to talk of rude, to ignore Annabelle’s parents. There were a
ANNABELLE I jumped awake with my heart pounding loudly in my chest, my body soaked with sweat and a bitter bile at the back of my throat. Another nightmare you may think… it was definitely another nightmare only that it was different from the other about fighting and being taken captive that I’ve been having recently. It would have been better if it was another nightmare about a war. I could feel my stomach turning.I looked at my side and it was not a surprise that Ezra was nowhere to be found. I’d not really expected him to be present when I woke up in the morning. He must be regretting what we did last night. Even with the dream… or vision I got just now, I could not still bring myself to regret last night. Not when I enjoyed it so much and wanted a repeat every night; the urgency as his mouth fused with mine, the deep sound of his groans and grunt, the way his fingers dug into my lips as he thrust into me over and over again and the way he held me to sleep. Yeah, I definitely wa
ANNABELLE One month of bliss and I could not be more happier than this. My heart was filled with joy and with each passing day, it only got fuller. I might not have my memory and had been told that my dream was to travel the world and become a best selling author but this new life after the loss of my memory was total bliss. I won’t give it up for anything in the world.A week after that mating ceremony where Ezra and I finally tumbled in bed, he and my parents had officially signed the alliance agreement and had finalized everything and our engagement party would be in three month’s time. My parents pack now had the security they needed and I now had a lovely fiancé and two bonus children that I never knew I needed until they were thrust upon me. I’m not complaining but the elders and lord’s in Ezra’s pack were.They did not like me and do I care? No. I won’t let them know I did not care about their opinion though as that would only worsen the bad image they already had of me. It wa
/-Melucia-/Blood, fire, Iron. Arrows.Screams disturbed the silent night as people ran helter-skelter, throwing balls of magic, in hopes of buying time. I saw wolves rip my people apart with their canines and tear open their stomachs with their claws. What would have been a peaceful night was adulterated with chaos. I didn't even have the time to reason how the wolves had been able to find our coven. All I knew was the air was polluted with poison and we needed to get out as soon as possible.“Enough!” I screamed, triggering a dune. The violent wave swept everyone within a ten-mile radius, and my body weakened momentarily. I took a look around. There was no attacker or victim. Everyone was on the floor now, some wounded and a few dead. I created a portal and hurried over to help a few of our people. I was hoping to buy us enough time for the remaining living witches to get out of there but then something struck me in the shoulder.It was an arrow, made of pure iron and it sent c
/-Melucia-/After accepting to his terms, he gave me a room in his wing. I was not to leave the room for any reason and I was appointed a personal maid to take care of me. Later that night, a maid came in to prepare for him. I didn't utter a word as she undressed me and prepared a jasmine bath. As I soaked in the water, I thought about the things that would happen tonight. As a priestess, I had never known any man, but today, I was going to lose my virginity to save my people. It made me anxious.Ezra was a very frightening man and I didn't know how he would react if I failed to please him.“Your shoulders are too tensed, my lady; you should relax,” the maid told me. It was shocking to hear a wolf speak so nicely to a witch. “I'm trying…” I told her, giving an awkward smile. After a few minutes, I decided to ask her. “Your Alpha… what kind of person is he?” “You mean Alpha Ezra?” She asked. “I can't really say. He has more of a mysterious personality. He can be extremely nice when
/-Melucia-/At the end of the fourth month, I had utterly resigned to my fate. Nine heads were already enough to crush whatever flicker of hope I had. However, the gods seemed to have seen my plight.My eyes watered as I stared at the doctor’s smiling face. “Congratulations, miss. You're one week pregnant!” He announced and I literally jumped off the bed in excitement.I was pregnant! Finally!After three months of unending violation and annihilation, I was going to give the cruel man a son. After being locked up in a room surrounded by iron bars with my only connection to the outside world as the windows, I was finally going to be free.My people were turned into slaves and although it was good to see them alive, the nine heads I have been forced to see haunted my dreams.It was a relief to see that all that was about to end. “Are you certain?” Ezra walked into the room. I shot him a glare. She was a doctor, why on earth wouldn't she be certain? He was just looking for a reason t
/-Ezra-/I sat at my desk, going over the reports for the day, but my mind kept drifting back to her. The witch. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get her out of my head. Melucia. Yes, our deal was done. I didn’t just have a son—I had two. That was all that mattered now. She was gone, and so were her people. She had been a breeder, nothing more. I couldn’t afford to think otherwise. I just hoped she wouldn’t cause any trouble for me. I pushed the reports aside with an exhausted sigh. Why couldn’t I stop this troubling feeling gnawing at me? Is it that I’ve made a mistake? Should I have kept her with me? I shook my head, reminding myself that I had made a deal to let her go. She had given me two sons—Axel and Dani. Now my focus needed to stay on them. Just then, a knock at the door pulled me out of my thoughts and I looked up. “Alpha,” the guard's voice came through. “You need to come outside. The sky... it’s bad.” “Bad?” I grunted before pushing the chair back, rising t
/-Ezra-/The drive back to the pack was silent. No one spoke, not even Carden. My hands were gripping the steering wheel harder than necessary as I kept glancing at the side mirror. I could still smell the smoke, still see that twisted sky, and that damned anklet burned into my mind.I decided to drive because some men had stayed back to clean up Carden’s mess. I had privately given orders to one to bury Melucia’s body in a separate grave and it was to be marked because in spite of everything, she was still the mother of my sons.When we pulled up, a crowd was already gathering near the meeting hall. They knew something was wrong. There was obvious tension in the air. I stepped out of the vehicle, and the crowd parted like a wave, their eyes full of questions. I didn’t give them any answers.Inside the hall, Carden stood in front of me, his face blank. Behind him, the elders were lined up. They were like a wall of stoic faces, ready to defend him. They looked like they already knew wh
ANNABELLE One month of bliss and I could not be more happier than this. My heart was filled with joy and with each passing day, it only got fuller. I might not have my memory and had been told that my dream was to travel the world and become a best selling author but this new life after the loss of my memory was total bliss. I won’t give it up for anything in the world.A week after that mating ceremony where Ezra and I finally tumbled in bed, he and my parents had officially signed the alliance agreement and had finalized everything and our engagement party would be in three month’s time. My parents pack now had the security they needed and I now had a lovely fiancé and two bonus children that I never knew I needed until they were thrust upon me. I’m not complaining but the elders and lord’s in Ezra’s pack were.They did not like me and do I care? No. I won’t let them know I did not care about their opinion though as that would only worsen the bad image they already had of me. It wa
ANNABELLE I jumped awake with my heart pounding loudly in my chest, my body soaked with sweat and a bitter bile at the back of my throat. Another nightmare you may think… it was definitely another nightmare only that it was different from the other about fighting and being taken captive that I’ve been having recently. It would have been better if it was another nightmare about a war. I could feel my stomach turning.I looked at my side and it was not a surprise that Ezra was nowhere to be found. I’d not really expected him to be present when I woke up in the morning. He must be regretting what we did last night. Even with the dream… or vision I got just now, I could not still bring myself to regret last night. Not when I enjoyed it so much and wanted a repeat every night; the urgency as his mouth fused with mine, the deep sound of his groans and grunt, the way his fingers dug into my lips as he thrust into me over and over again and the way he held me to sleep. Yeah, I definitely wa
EZRAI stood beside my Beta, a polite smile on my face as I shook hands with alpha Gabriel. His ink was the last one. He and his pack were leaving today and most of them met their mate during the ceremony.“Thanks for the invitation, alpha Ezra. It was a lovely ceremony,” his grip was firm.“Thanks for honoring it. I’m glad some of your people found their mates,” we made small talk before he got in the car and left with his pack. They were from another country so they would be taken to the airport by my guards.I released a sigh as I watched the car drive out of the compound holding my pack house. Once the cars and buses were out of sight, I turned to return to the car that drove me here so I could go back home when my eyes fell on Annabelle’s parents, they were approaching me.“Take care of the other things that need attention,” I told Carden, dismissing him. Even if I was not in the mood to talk, it would be impolite, not to talk of rude, to ignore Annabelle’s parents. There were a
ANNABELLE “Mmmff,” I moaned softly as Ezra sucked the skin at the delicate dip at the base of my throat, my hips rising softly to press against his.My arms are wrapped around his back, needing him closer and when I couldn’t pull him close enough, I pushed him away from me, moaning softly at the loss of his body heat but it would be just for a moment because I had another thing in mind that would make us closer.I reached for his white shirt that he had been wearing under his suit. He discarded his suit jacket just before he threw me to bed and it was lying somewhere around. My hands were shaking as I unbuttoned the shirt and Ezra seemed to have noticed before his hands came to rest upon mine, stopping my action. He took off the shirt faster than I could have and then his pants followed before he reached behind me to unzip my gown.My breast spilled out as he pulled the gown down and then he took it off and I was bare before him, safe for my panties that followed immediately and the
ANNABELLE “Drop me down you stupid caveman,” I yelled, thumping the hard muscle on his back with my closed fist, “Let me down,”I continued to scream and hit his back as he kept on walking to wherever it was that he was taking me to. There was a sting on butt, it shocked the hell out of me that for a second, I froze and then, I was consumed with anger.“You did not just hit me, you bastard,”“You can hit but I can’t?” He asked.“I would not have had to hit if you did not pick me up,”“Semantics,”I was just about to curse him when he rounded a corner and dropped me down. I immediately tried to walk around him to escape but it seemed like he already anticipated it because he grabbed my neck, his hold tight yet not tight enough to block my air flow. My mind quickly flashed to different dirty things that I had no business thinking about at the moment.“Let go of me,”“No,” he told me as he wrapped his free arm around my waist to drag me close to his body. Even with our clothes between
ANNABELLE “The fuck is wrong with you?” I growled at Ezra as he grabbed my waist in a firm hold and refused to let go as I struggled. My body was stiff in his embrace as I fought hard to ignore his mouth watering scent and how right it felt to be in his arms, and even if I did not want to move, I had no choice. “Keep quiet and dance. People are watching,” he said, looking over my shoulders as we slowly dance. I knew that anybody looking at us right now could see the tension.Through gritted teeth, I snapped at him, “If you care so much about not making a scene then you shouldn’t be forcing me to dance!” “I wouldn’t have had to force you to dance if you came willingly,”“And why should I do that? You spent so much time ignoring me tonight, I wonder what Jennifer would say if you saw us dancing together,” I cursed in my mind as I said it. He finally stopped looking over my shoulder and his eyes that held understanding met with mine.“You’re jealous,” he said.I snarled at him, “I’m
ANNABELLE One, two, three… dances in a row, I remained on the dance floor, lost to the sound of music and reluctant to leave. After my dance with Joshua, another alpha son approached me for a second dance and then another young alpha came to me for the third one and by then, I was enjoying myself and had forgotten all my sorrows and the fact that Ezra was ignoring me.“May I have this dance, ma’am,” another man, whom I don’t even know appeared once I was done with the young alpha. He bowed like a gentleman and held out an open palm to me.With a small laugh, I said, “Yes,” and allowed him to wrap an arm around my waist.“You’re so beautiful. This red dress really suits you and compliments your skin tone,” he said once we began to move to the flow of the song.My eyes stung with tears at the compliment. Even if it was not him I wanted to hear it from, it would do. But why couldn’t it have been Ezra who complimented me? After all, he got me the dress.I felt him before I saw him. The h
ANNABELLE I hate this ceremony and everybody in attendance. I folded my hands across my chest but when my mother shot me a scathing glare, I quickly dropped it with a huff. Since we arrived a few hours earlier, I’ve not been able to sit still — mother has had to tap me a couple of times — and I never knew that forcing a smile could be so hard until I had to do so today as I walk around, greeting and getting introduced by father to other alphas and their children.“Annabelle has grown into a very beautiful woman,” One alpha Isaiah told my father with a patronizing smile, “My son is yet to meet his mate. I’ll be handing over the pack to him on his birthday in two months. I’m sure he and Annabelle would make a nice couple. What do you say, Alpha Knight?”“That’s left for Annabelle.” My father responded, returning alpha Isaiah’s smile, “This one is stubborn. I cannot force her to anything she does not want,”“Ahh that means she’s just like you when you were younger. You were so stubborn
“When is the perfect date to announce my engagement?” I yelled as I walked into my father's house to meet my parents who were sitting in the living room. They both had their backs to me, their arms wrapped around each other as they watched the movie playing on the big screen television.Both of them jumped at the sound of my voice before turning their body to look at me. Surprised showed on their faces but it quickly morphed into delight as they both got up and held their arms open.I rushed forward, circled around the sofa and threw my arms around them, hugging the both of them together.“We did not expect you to come home tonight,” my mom said when we finally separated after a few minutes of holding each other.“I wanted to surprise you both,” And it was true. I did not tell them that I would be coming home and attending the mating ceremony tomorrow with them.“Eh? We are really surprised,” I saw worry in my father’s eyes that he was trying to cover. I knew there were a lot of quest