EZRAI slowly placed the coffee back on my desk and to hide my embarrassment, I picked up the report my beta had dropped off in the afternoon and focused on it but I was not seeing anything.The air was awkward and filled with tension as neither of us said anything. I thought she would leave but with how she remained seated, it seems like she had no intention of doing so.Was she going to talk about what happened today? Try to make peace as usual or… what?“You worked all day and even by this time you’re still working? Aren’t you exhausted? You’re not tired of all this paperwork?” She wrinkled her nose in an adorable manner.“Working is all I know,” I stiffened after the words left my mouth? What was wrong with me? Why did I say that? Now Annabelle was going to hound and try to know more about me because of what I just said.She snorted instead, causing me to move my attention from the paper I was holding so that I could look at her. Surprisingly, she had a look of contempt on her fac
EZRAFor the next week and a half, Annabelle and I settled into a comfortable routine. Our mornings began with breakfast alongside the twins, followed by riding my car to work together, where we'd slip into our professional roles as boss and employee. After a day of work, we'd ride home together, share dinner with the twins before retiring to my office. There, I'd work late into the night — or pretend to— while waiting for Annabelle to come with freshly brewed coffee. And we would talk, our conversations flowing effortlessly until the early hours of the morning.At first, I was reluctant to admit it, but as time passed, I began to look forward to those late night hours in my office. I liked talking to Annabelle, too much, and getting her inputs on some business matters even if she gave it after a lot of gentle prodding from me. I liked the way her eyes sparkled when she talked about the latest novels she was reading. Just because she was so interested in my life and getting to know me
EZRAJust as I was about to either ignore her or play dumb, Annabelle rose from her seat and letting the blanket that was wrapped around her shoulders drop to reveal her pink pajamas, she circled my desk and came to me. I gently pushed my swivel chair from my desk to create room for her to stand in front of me.She was saying as she sat on my desk directly in front of me. Her green eyes were sparkling brightly, “Everyday you keep staring at my lips when I speak,” I hadn’t thought she noticed. After all, I thought I was being subtle. Still, I arched one bushy brow, not willing to give in to temptation. I liked the way our relationship was at the moment. Adding kissing would lead to sex and sex would lead to complications.“Who said me looking at your lips means I want to kiss you?”She raised her brow too, copying my action, “Who said looking at my lips means you do not want to kiss me?” After her question, she swept her tongue over her bottom lip, the action slow and deliberate, ca
ANNABELLE “What do you think of this design, Ma chérie?” The woman in front of her asked, her voice thick with a heavy French accent as her workers held out a bright red gown for me to see. My breath caught as I walked closer to the gown and grabbed hold of one end. The gown was a ravishing red. It was silky with a strapless design that showcased a fitted boned bodice that crunched at the waist. It also had a subtle sheen that caught the light as it was held out. The material was soft and silky, I could almost envision how it would feel against my skin as I walked through the halls of the ceremony. “I like it.” I said as my lips stretched into a wide smile, “No, allow me to rephrase that. I love it. It’s so beautiful,” “Good. Good. I made it specially for you. I was ecstatic when Alpha Ezra reached out to me that he needed me to sew a gown for his fiancé,” Colette waved her workers off and they moved away with the gown. “When did he contact you? How did you sew the gown quickly?
“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
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
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 “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 “Only if he stops acting like he’s seen a ghost,”“You’d have the same reaction too if you were him,” my eyes went to Kelvin, “Sorry we are discussing you as if you’re not present,”“No,” he was still nervous and it showed in his excessive gesticulation, “No need to apologize.”Ezra brought everything to an end when he picked up his menu to order. I asked Ezra to order for me as well, just as Kelvin turned to me. The food on the menus looked very appetizing, leaving me with too many delicious options.The nervousness and tension left me as we drank our whole and made small talk while waiting for our orders. I almost forgot why we were here in the first place. It all came back too soon once our food was brought and we were almost done eating.“Are you ever going to tell me what is really wrong with you tonight?” Ezra haze dropped to my fingers which were twisted in a nervous knot on the table. He leaned over the table to peer at me with those dark eyes of his that looked lik
ANNABELLE “Are you okay?” Ezra asked as his hand came to rest on my knee, stilling its movement. I looked sideways at him and chuckled, the sound nervous, “I’m fine,”He cocked his head to the side to observe me and I looked away. He knew how to read me too well, I did not want him to see what I was hiding.“You look… I don’t know. You’ve been restless since we got in the car.” I opened my mouth to argue that it was not true but he kept talking, “You’ve been bouncing your knee and biting your fingers. You only do that when you’re nervous.”I let my hand drop from my mouth as I turned my head to look out of the car’s window. He was correct. I was nervous.We were in his car to the restaurant I picked for us to dine in tonight. At first, I was very excited about sharing my feelings with him. In my mind, he would also confess his feelings to me, tell me how much he loved and wanted to be with me forever and we will kiss and everything will be alright. I did not plan that once we were
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