Natalia: “Mum, you do realize that I am marrying a man over a contract?” I asked looking at my mum who just handed me the paper which had arrived with the man’s lawyer. The idiot hadn’t even bothered showing up to sign it along my side. He had signed his and sent it for me to ‘read’ and ‘sign’ before coming. “Natalia, it’s not like you wanted a wedding to begin with” Mum argued, trying to convince me that this was okay. “I can’t even have one, mum” “Then I don’t see what the issue is, Natalia…” “Mum, the man is a billionaire, don’t you find it a bit odd that he wouldn’t want an extravagant wedding where paparazzi would be swarming the place?” I raised my hand in confusion. Mum shrugged and I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. I looked at the paper which has been on my dresser for the past twenty minutes as I debated whether or not to sign it. There was no backing out now, I knew that for fact. “Natalia, the man is the best that you would be able to find. You saw his pictur
Blake: “Alpha” my second beta, Ryan, said avoiding my eyes. He could already feel my anger, and I had a feeling that whatever he was going to say wasn’t going to make things any lighter. “What is it, Ryan?” “We have a little problem” I nodded dismissing him and looked at the woman who stood in front of me. My wife… Her brown hair was neatly curled, though remembering the picture mum had shown me; I was already aware that her hair was naturally curly. I pulled my phone out my pocket and called the maid to come over. I had already assigned the maids that were to be at her service. “Alpha” “Jodie, this is my wife, you and the girls would be tending to her needs. For now, I believe that she would want to go and rest, her trip had been a long one” I said walking past the women out to the front porch where I could hear my pack members. The smell of a foreign wolf made my own wolf stir, and a growl escaped my chest before I could control it. “What is it?” I asked walking out of the ho
Natalia: I paced around the yard as I processed what I had seen. The man’s body falling to the ground played in my head, making my heart throb, and the fact that the man who killed him saw it as normal only made this worse. I just married a monster. My chest aching more than I thought that it would as the air grew heavier around me, making it harder to breathe. It wasn’t like I was human, but fucks sake, I didn’t go around killing people so casually. “Natalia, you pacing around this much would only make you dizzy” “The man just killed another…” “He was a rogue invading his territory, this is only natural” Blake’s dad, Daniel, said so casually, stopping me from finishing my sentence. My hands shook as fire formed under my palm, the energy that I was carrying radiating from my system in reaction to the fear that I was feeling. “How is it that you find this so casual? Your son just killed a man” “I would have done the same thing, Natalia, this is nature's instinct for every wol
Blake:“What the hell was that?” Dad asked the second everyone left the dining table. I simply raised an eyebrow as an answer before getting up and walking out of the room, heading to my bedroom which just happened to be next to my wife’s. Mum’s orders, not mine.“Blake Knight…”“I am the Alpha of this pack, and unless the woman learns to respect me…”“She just got here” mum snapped and I gave her a smile.“Then she would learn not to cross her limits” I said calmly “she dared cross her limits on me, my mate…”“Your mate is dead, Blake, get that drilled…”I growled, stopping mum from what she was about to say, and noticing the sensitivity of the topic, dad pulled her back behind him “you two are the only elders allowed in this mansion, you know that the others have their own villas in the compound. However, if you two keep interfering in my decisions and life…”“Is that a threat?” Dad asked.“Take it as a warning, a pack can only have one Alpha, and you yourself chose to resign your
Natalia:I woke up to the sound of my alarm ringing.Knowing that I had work to attend to made this a whole lot better, and though I technically was supposed to be off for my ‘honeymoon’, I didn’t think that it was necessary anymore.I got out of bed and walked to the bathroom, quickly freshening up and looking at my reflection in the mirror. Just the idea of knowing that I would need to see that bastard after I knew what he’s been doing last night with whoever he had brought to his bedroom. To think that he would have the decency of respecting the fact that my room was next to his.Quickly getting dressed, I debated whether or not to tell anyone that I was leaving. However, I quickly decided against it, it wasn’t worth while, and they wouldn’t care anyway. Therefore, I walked out of the room and toward the door, I could get myself something at the office.“Natalia?” Rosalyn called, stopping me. I smiled and turned around, nodding in respect to Daniel. “Good morning, Rosalyn” I said
Blake:It took every bit of self-control I had in me not to hurt the woman who didn’t know what she was playing at.The fact that she was openly challenging an Alpha told me that she didn’t know the danger of it. Her being my wife or not, even a mate wouldn’t be allowed to test her Alpha the way she was.Sensing the danger within the walls of Natalia’s bedroom, Mason, Ryan, my sister Jordan, and her mate Kyle walked inside the bedroom looking at the two of us.“Natalia, I do suggest that we go for a walk” Mason said, wrapping his arm around her. She frowned in confusion before nodding and taking a step back. Her eyes looked me up and down as if she was waiting for me to react, but I wasn’t going to, not yet anyway.She walked toward the door, attempting to pass me before I grabbed her arm, squeezing it until she flinched “if you ever cross your limit with me again, not even your powers would be able to save you”Her arm’s temperature rose as she attempted to burn me, but I kept a tigh
Natalia:I walked out of the house heading to work.Having had breakfast in the kitchen before anyone woke up. Blake made it obvious that he didn’t want me joining him on the table, and I didn’t bother trying to head to their dining room since the night he kicked me out of it to begin with. I had more pride than that, and I was making sure that everyone in the house knew it.I smiled as I started my car having bought it last week, it barely arrived yesterday. I was proud to hear its engine running. It’s been ten days since I’ve married Blake, and need I say that I was proud that the week passed without problems. Not that it was going to be possible anyway as the two of us didn’t bother speaking once.My phone rang, breaking my train of thoughts and I frowned when I saw that it was Amanda who was calling. The fact that the woman knew that I would be coming, and yet was calling told me that something must have been wrong.“What’s wrong, Amanda?” I asked the second I picked up the phone.
Blake:I ran my fingers through my hair as I paced around my room. My mind went wild with thoughts as mixed feelings filled me. I didn’t understand what they were, but all I knew was one thing. I didn’t like them, not one bit.The feeling I felt when I was around Natalia was all too familiar that it both pleased and disturbed me. Pleased because it gave me a sense of peace which I’ve only felt with one woman before, and disturbed because I knew that I wasn’t supposed to feel it with her. The woman who I felt whole with was gone, and no one on this planet was going to replace her.“You need to calm down before you end up cutting off your own hair” Ares said in my mind. My wolf has been silent since my beauty had died, and yet, he was now calm, in a good mood even. That wasn’t a common thing when it came to being an Alpha, one who was both shattered and enraged.“What is happening? Why am I feeling this way?” I asked him.“For someone who's been through this process before, I’m surpris
Blake:I smiled as I wrapped my arm around my wife, guiding her toward the flower field just like the vision that I showed her.Though I had to admit, the last thing that I expected was for her to be pregnant or the two of us as injured, but I knew that it was now or never. And I wasn’t going to lose the chance to make her the happiest woman on the planet."You actually had them making the garden?” Natalia asked and I smiled before connecting my lips with hers. I bit her bottom lip, pulling it gently before resting my forehead against hers as I pulled away from the kiss. “I take it as a yes?”“A thousand times,” I said, watching as she turned around to look at the flowers. The smells of roses, lilies, orchids, and jasmines filled the air around us, and I couldn’t help the smile that formed on my lips when she turned around to face me as I kneeled down on one knee. It was something that I dreamed of, but I didn’t know how things were going to be. But I knew one thing, I wanted to be a
Natalia:I frowned as we entered the room to find Myla dead on the ground with a knife dug deep in her chest.“Blake?” I asked, voicing out of my confusion and he shook his head.“It was the right thing to do, and she would have done it to herself anyway.” He said, and I frowned in confusion. I got inside his head and my heart dropped as I heard and saw what he was referring to. “Blake, that means?” I asked and he shook his head.“I don’t know how accurate it is, but I know that things are going to be complicated from here.” He said, and I looked at Ryan who was quiet throughout the whole thing. I knew that him being the Alpha’s current beta, he would be lost in so many thoughts, but right now, we needed to know whether or not they needed our help. “They are in their graves…”“We are just going to have to dig them out,” Blake said, stopping me. He frowned as he looked at the door behind me and it wasn’t until screams echoed through the walls that I frowned. I went to rush toward the
Blake:My heart raced against my ribcage as different monitors kept beeping. I squeezed my eyes tightly before forcing them to open, reminding myself of my ability to use my motors.However, that didn’t go as well as I planned for it to as I found myself squinting my eyes shut, trying to avoid the light that was in the room.“Blake?” My mum’s voice filled my ears, and though I was hurt by her and dad, I couldn’t describe the pain that I felt because of them, I couldn’t help but feel thankful for her presence.“Natalia?” I said, shaking my head as I tried finding her. My heart raced and I couldn’t help but frown when I saw her laying beside me, her chest rising and falling with each breath that she took. She didn’t have an oxygen mask, unlike the one that I had, but I could see the bandages that were almost all over her body.“She is just asleep right now. The doctors have instructed that she gets as much rest as she can as she would need to regain her strength after what happened.” M
Natalia:My heart raced as I looked at the demon who formed in front of me.The fact that she was burning the room that was beside me, the room that had my mate inside, made my heart race. And that was something that I knew she was going to try and play with, my fear, anger, and worry. But that wasn’t something that I wanted to give her. “I do believe that it would make things faster if the two of you choose to give up.” She said, her voice sending chills down my spine as I looked at my mate who was trying to stay as far away from the fire. I tried controlling it, but nothing seemed to work. The fact that I knew that Jaiden, the man who was supposed to be my father, was fighting his own dad at the podium scared me. If anything, the fact that they were a father and son getting into this was something that broke me inside, but I knew now that no matter what I was going to say or what I was going to do, nothing would matter. It wasn’t even about me and my husband, these witches were ai
Blake:I growled as I saw my brother shifting, no longer able to contain himself as his instincts took over.The portals revealed the manipulators that were summoned by my wife, and I couldn’t help but find myself growing proud of her strength. To say the least, I knew that she was going to grow a lot stronger now that she knew who she was and what she was capable of.Drake let out a low growl, and I couldn’t help but recall the fact that the man wasn’t even in his head. Whatever was going on, I knew that the witches were having some sort of control on him, and though it pained me to consider, I knew that I had to end this one way or the other.Natalia looked at me and I nodded in assurance as I watched Crystal take flight. The fact that she fought against the control of the witch made me proud of how strong her bond grew with Natalia despite the short period.I took a step toward my brother, my stance ready for his attack as I saw Ariana and Riya, the two who pretended to be on our s
Natalia:My heart raced against my chest as I felt my dragon being close and yet so far to reach.I could tell that Crystal was here somewhere, I just didn’t know where she was.Blake wrapped his arm around my waist, pulling me closer to him as we entered the podium. No one really bothered to approach us, and I knew the reason; everyone now believed that we were either cursed, or they thought that they were going to watch us die.I looked at mum who was standing in the center of the podium along with Blake’s parents and the two of us frowned before being approached by them. Almost everyone else had their families waiting for them. Mum wrapped her arms around me, pulling me in for a hug before I could say a word, and though I didn’t understand her reason, I couldn’t help but feel my chest ache.This was the first hug that she has given me in years.She pulled away to look me in the eye before running her finger over my cheek, clearly in pain because of what was happening to me. Thoug
Blake:My chest ached as I found myself waking up beside my wife on a field of grass.Flowers were sprawled almost everywhere around us, and for a second, I could swear that I was back at the house, OUR garden. But I could also tell that it was different, this was a place that we knew, but it wasn’t ours, not yet anyway. Natalia frowned and shook her head in question before I got up from the floor. She sat up and pinched the bridge of her nose before turning to look at me. I watched as she stood up and looked around, taking the scene that was in front of her.Birds flew around and the sound of water could be heard from a distance, but I couldn’t catch a scent to let me know where I was, nor could I define the image that we were seeing. “Are you in my head again?” She asked, and I shook my head, making her frown. “Not that I know of,” I said, only to frown when I saw Alexander and Nikita standing in front of us. The two of us were wearing complete white outfits, my beauty wore a whi
Natalia:“How the fucking hell did you manage to get out of this one?” Riya asked, glaring at us. I smiled at the woman as my mate tightened his arm around me.To say that I was at peace was an understatement to what I was feeling. Hell, the man was not only giving me the love that I wanted and desired, but he was giving me the contentment that I knew I wouldn’t find elsewhere if their lives were taken for me to find it.“I believe that it doesn’t concern you, especially considering the fact that you too managed to pass.” Blake said, smiling at her. I knew that he was also feeling not only content, but at peace. His wolf has been purring lowly for my ears and I couldn’t help the smile that was plastered on my face regardless of how hard I tried wiping it off.Hell, as hard as this was, this day was the best of my life.“You two are playing the rules way too much for my liking.” Drake said, entering the hall where we were standing. Not even he could bother me tonight, that was one thi
Blake: I wrapped my arm around my mate once I’ve put my clothes back on, smirking at the fact that she managed to conceal my nudeness in front of the audience, not that it mattered to me anyway. It wasn’t like I would be having anything that they haven’t seen or don’t have, but it proved to me that she simply wanted the sight for her eyes. “Are you okay?” She asked, handing me a stone cup which she formed before filling it with pure water. I smiled and took a sip of it before handing her the cup to drink. She smiled at my concern and took a sip of it before handing it back to me. “You need it more than I do right now, and a sip is more than enough for me.” I kissed her forehead before drinking the rest of the water, not wanting to break her word before turning to the final round of the day. The Forest of Doom was engraved on the ground and both Natalia and I rolled our eyes as we read the words. The last thing that we needed right now was to deal with such a fact, and considering