CHAPTER 7MANUEL’S POVI watched as Lucia paced wearily outside Roberta’s room, waiting for her to unlock the door. She had run to her room in tears and locked the door behind her after her walk in the garden with Vincenzo. I wonder what he said.Finally, she opened the door and her red, swollen face popped out.“What happened to you?” Lucia demanded, holding Roberta's face in her small hands. She sniffed and pouted, her eyes a bright pink shade.“Was it Natalie? I don’t understand who you won’t just tell Alpha…”“He doesn’t believe me”, she cut her off.“Oh”, I muttered softly. Lucia pulled her towards herself and hugged her gently.“I just want to rest”, Roberta said.Lucia nodded understandingly and stepped back, allowing Roberta to close the door.As soon as she turned around, I was in front of her.“Hello birdie”, I sang. My chest tingled at the level of proximity. “Hey”, she answered wearily. I knew that she was happy to see me, but she was just concerned about her best friend
CHAPTER 8ROBERTA’S POV“You’re a little late. That’s unlike you” Brandon said. I giggled childishly at him as I hopped towards where he stood.He stood brightly beside a tree with a big woven basket in his hand. His blonde hair shone brightly under the sun.“Well, I had to be extra careful around the stream”, I answered. He laughed and lent me his hand to help me step down from the rock I climbed.“I brought fresh fruits for our picnic”, he said, holding up the basket. I smiled and walked beside him.“I’m happy that I have you in my life”, I beamed.Suddenly, the air around us changed to a thick dark fog. I felt my throat closing each time I breathed it in.“You don’t deserve anything”, he said in a very sinister yet familiar voice. I gasped when he turned to me and peeled off the face I had been used to.After pulling apart every piece of skin, I was stunned to be standing face to face with Alpha Elij
CHAPTER 9Charlotte's POVI sat beside the window of my room staring out at the sky. There was a soft breeze and the sky was a clear blue. A few fluffy white clouds hung about in the air, making the day seem calm.“May I come in?” I heard my maid beckon from the post of my door that was almost completely ajar. I turned my neck to see her and nodded slightly in response.“What is the news from Brandon?”, I demanded impatiently, readjusting my entire body to give her my full attention. She swallowed nervously and looked down. I felt a frown forming on my face. When servants fidget around me, it usually means something went wrong. I couldn't stand for anything to go wrong with my plan to get rid of Roberta.“Some of the spies found his body”, she said shakily. I straightened my back slowly, not taking my eyes off her.“What about Roberta?”, I demanded in a low, deadly tone.“They say she is the one who
CHAPTER 10ELIJAH’S POVI startled awake when I heard the bell toll.It rang once. Then again, and once more.I gasped and sat up rapidly. It could never be.There are three bell toll announcements in this pack. One toll is to signify a duel between two wolves. This is usually between two males who want the same mate. They fight to the death, defying destiny and letting the strongest and bravest have her.Two tolls are for the death of an elite in the palace.Three tolls, however, signifies the death of the Alpha.My father had died.I hurriedly threw on my robe and stormed out of my room to see for myself. When I got to his room, I saw his body sprawled on his relaxing chair on his balcony.As I approached him, his image became more and more sickening to me. His face was very white and pale. The veins around his head and neck were purple and they seemed like they were going to burst open. His lips looked gray and cracked.He looked weak, which was ironic because he used to be the stro
CHAPTER 11 VINCENZO’S POV I yawned and stretched as I sat up on my bed. The sharp invasion of daylight meant I had to blink to get my coordinates right. Once I came to, I looked around my room with a slight frown and a line of sweat on my forehead. My left breast hung heavily outside my nightgown and my hair bonnet was beside my feet. Crazy night. As soon as I stood up from the bed, I came face to face with a bouquet of fresh cut flowers. They looked and smelled so wonderful. I smiled widely, thinking to myself that it was a very beautiful thing for Roberta to wake up to. I could hear her just waking up too. I immediately got up and found the card that came with the flowers. I took my pen from my bedside table “Good morning, Sunshine Vincenzo” That's what I wrote on it. I sighed as my smile dropped slightly.
CHAPTER 12Vincenzo's POV My relationship with Roberta was going very well. She fully trusted my love for her, and it was the most beautiful feeling in the world.We had spent the remainder of the previous night kissing on every pathway, in every corridor, every hall, every room.She had said she wanted to take it slow and I respected her decision, even though her body was telling me entirely different things.Even as we sat at the dining table to eat and her seat was right beside mine, my hand gently gripping her thigh as I watched her eat, I could feel the moist warmth exuding from her centre and it made me want to take her on the table.I was so focused on her that I didn't notice Manuel's absence from the breakfast table. That was until he walked into the dining room and stood at the head of the table.“Oh, Manuel. Where were you?” I asked as soon as I lifted my head
CHAPTER 13Roberta's POV I stirred from my sleep to see that the room around me was dark. I couldn't believe I slept from the morning until late in the evening. I sat up on the bed and immediately noticed that my foot was done healing. I stood up and looked around for Vincenzo, but I couldn't find him in the room.I saw a lamp lit in the garden and I immediately knew that he was out there. The cold in the air caught up to me and I shivered, wanting to be engulfed in his bulky build.I took the blanket off the bed and wrapped it around myself, heading outside to the garden.As soon as he saw me walking towards him, a smile spread across his face.“You're finally awake”, he said.He stood on a little bridge in the garden that stood over a small, magical stream.When I reached him, he grabbed my waist and pulled me towards himself, pressing my body into his and pro
CHAPTER 14Vincenzo’s POVI stared at Roberta’s face, stroking her forehead that was folded.After the events at the garden ten days prior, we had been at it in every corner of the house.I could not keep my hands off her, and even if she was still a bit too shy to admit, she could not keep her hands off me either.She cooed like a baby and left her mouth hanging open, causing a warm smile to cut across my face.I felt a flutter in my chest, the same one I hadn’t stopped feeling since our lips first touched. The same one I felt anytime she walked into the room, anytime she looked at me, anytime she touched me. The same flutter I got anytime she…I knew exactly what that flutter was, and I was determined not to run from it.Ever since I marked her in the garden, our mate bond had gotten stronger, and my desire to be with her had become impossible to assuage.“Good morning, Alpha,” Natalie greeted. She stood at my doorstep and looked at me, waiting for me to give her audience.“What is
CHAPTER 39Vincenzo's POVI sat on the bed as soon as Manuel's knocks woke me up from another one of my nightmares where Roberta died right in front of me with both of our children."Vincenzo, you need to come out now, please", he said, hitting the door steadily.I turned away from the door and stared at the window. Heavy drapes hung lazily across the pole on the wall, making it impossible for any light to get in or out of the room.I had closed the curtains in hopes to trap whatever remained of Roberta's scent in the room. I didn't even know what the time was, or if it was morning or evening."Vincenzo, I saw a council member's spy today. They are definitely plotting something”, Manuel said. His voice had been muffled by the heavy door and the thick wall that surrounded the room.I could, however, hear what he said clearly.I slowly got off the bed and walked to
CHAPTER 38Manuel's POV I huffed in anger as I walked away from the door to Roberta's room.Vincenzo had been in there for a whole week after he returned from the wastelands and said that his entire family was murdered by Charlotte and her guards.It made me feel like a terrible person to be so upset at him for grieving for just a week when I had spent almost a whole year going in and out of taverns and pubs after Lucia died.Even though I was coming to terms with the fact that people grieve in very distinct ways, I was still upset about Vincenzo’s seclusion technique because even though I was drunk most of the time, I still did my job after Lucia died.I walked out to the courtyard where a small crowd of townspeople had gathered, waiting to be received. Just as I mentally prepared myself to go to them and hear what they had to say, one of the palace guards walked towards me with swift strides. I sighed and slowed down my pace, giving him time to catch up.“Good day, commander “, h
CHAPTER 37Vincenzo’s POV My eyes shot open and all the lights around me took that small opportunity to concentrate themselves on my face and find a way to leave the painful sensations that I felt in my head as I slowly stood up to my feet.I raised up my body slowly, feeling pain grip me in certain areas as I got up off the floor.“What the heck is this?”, I asked, getting up on my own two feet.I squinted my eyes and shielded my face with one hand as I tried to take in the scope of my surroundings. I seemed to be standing on a very bright green piece of land.I stood at the training centre, but the grass in it seemed greener and brighter than it had ever been before then. Something felt different about the place.If places could feel things like people, I would have thought the training arena was just in a good mood.I started hearing grunting and the clanging of weapons from a distance. I decided to walk towards the sound and see whom I ran into. A great part of me was anticipat
CHAPTER 36Manuel's POV I knew something was up when two days had passed yet neither Vincenzo nor Roberta had returned from their little adventure to the wastelands. I paced around the front yard of the palace, thinking about what the next best course of action would be.I was considering calling aside a few of my most trusted men and rallying them up to go to the wastelands and see what was going on.At the same time, I was thinking of storming Charlotte's territory straight ahead and demanding to know what she had done with our Alpha and Luna, but all those thoughts seemed evasive and far-fetched.“Commander “, someone said behind me.I turned to see one of my men standing there.“What is going on, Diego?”, I asked, standing in front of him.“There's someone at the gates, commander. We think you should see who it is first”, he said.I followed him out to the front of the palace gates where a group of guards had gathered.As I got closer to them, I realised that there was someone
CHAPTER 35Elijah's POVI walked around the open room leisurely as I held my dick in my hand, rocking it back and forth.I stopped in front of the giant mirror as I clenched my butt as I rubbed my dick continuously. I threw my head back and closed my eyes.Roberta’s image ran through my head. Not the way she used to look when she was in our territory, getting bullied and tortured by Charlotte everyday.I thought of her pink, plump lips; how they parted when she spoke, how they stretched when she smiled, and what they would look like wrapped around my dick.I moaned as I wanked even faster, feeling my precum begin to grease my cock.I thought of the way her tongue darted out of her mouth to lick the icing off her cupcake.“Oh fuck!”, I moaned as my cum flew out and plastered across the mirror.I panted heavily as my penis began to relax.I placed one hand on the mirror and took my time to organise my breathing before I walked to the bathroom. I got a dry rag and wiped the cum off th
CHAPTER 34Roberta’s POVI opened my eyes painfully and winced as I felt a sharp headache shoot across my skull.I tried to sit up but there was so much soreness in almost every part of my body that I simply admitted that staying still was the best option.I shivered at the chill that filled the air as it ran down my spine. I could barely move. All I could do to express myself was blink.I tried clearing my throat, but it hurt to do even that.“You're awake”, I heard a man say.I tried to move my eyes downwards so I could see him, but it was a wasted effort.He walked towards me and stood beside my head on the bed.From a suppressed point of view, I could see his facial features.The sharpness of his jawline was beautiful, and his eyelashes fluttered richly as he stared over me with worry in his eyes.“How do you feel?”, he asked.I wanted to speak and tell him I felt like shit, but the lingering pain inside my throat told me otherwise. He flashed me a small smile. It was heavily dec
CHAPTER 33 ~anonymous pov~ I sucked in a huge amount of air as I sat up and looked around me. I was in a very dimly lit place. I could see traces of female bodies moving up and down the place even in the dim light. I saw one of the figures walking towards me and felt a tingle run through my body. She knelt down on the mat I woke up on and straddled me, pushing me back into a lying down position. I could feel the warmth of her bare center rubbing on my chest. She placed both her hands on my shoulders and began to rub them softly with her tender hands. I leaned back and watched her as she massaged my shoulders, moaning softly the whole time. After a while, I felt something liquid trickle down on my feet . I looked at it and saw that it was another naked woman, pouring oil on my feet and bending down to rub her huge breasts on them. I felt my cock jump in my pants as the both ladies continued their ministrations, moaning softly as they did. Immediately, I felt my pants slide d
CHAPTER 32 Vincenzo’s POV As soon as Roberta and I got to the top of the cliff like we had seen in the painting, my wolf was on high alert. I pulled her into hiding with me behind a rock as soon as I sensed another presence besides ours. I looked out from above her head to see her cousin, Charlotte. I could not see her face, but I knew it was her because of her hair. It was neatly braided to the back and her dark cloak clung to her back in the absence of any wind to give it the dramatic effect that I knew she was going for. She was surrounded by fifteen hefty guards. I looked around at all the men, assuring myself that I could take them all by myself. The only problem was that one of them could grab Roberta, and that would leave me vulnerable. I looked down at her as she continued to look at Charlotte and the men, totally oblivious of my eyes on her. I had already begun regretting that I had not simply forced her to remain at the palace. “I can’t see the kids”, Roberta whi
Chapter 31Roberta's POV “I should at least come with you guys. This is obviously a trap”, Manuel said. He rubbed his forehead wearily and paced up and down as he spoke.We were standing in the secret game plan room in the training arena.Only the three of us stood there; Vincenzo, Manuel and I.Natalie would have been with us, but she had vanished alongside my children after she went undercover to investigate a rival territory.After seeing the note from Charlotte and the painting of the cliff, Vincenzo and I came to the conclusion that it would be better if we went alone, like Charlotte had asked.It was foolish to obey the enemy and we knew it, but we were willing to risk whatever would happen to us. It seemed to be worth the risk if we stood a chance of walking back with our children alive.“We have to go alone. She will know if you come with us”, I said to Manuel.He