Nadia is claimed by Cole when he lays eyes on her for the first time in years. The only problem is that Cole is a werewolf Prince who Nadia hates more than anyone else - and Cole's father has forbidden him to take a human mate. Cole follows Nadia to the south, where she joins a humanitarian mission to aid people who have been captured by a radical religious sect. Can Nadia help her fellow humans, and Cole win her heart?
View MoreCole“It’s disgusting, Cole,” she snaps, shaking her head at me like she’s disappointed. “I mean, I could maybe understand it if you wanted to have a human fling before you met your fated mate – but the graceless disrespect –““Watch it,” I snap, taking a step towards her, shaking my head. “There is nothing –““There is!” she cries, nearly shouts. “It’s an insult to she-wolves everywhere that you’d slum it with –““I said enough!” I snarl, slicing a hand through the hair between us. “You have no right to talk about this, Rose, even if you did understand –““I intend to be your second-chance chosen mate and Queen, Cole,” Rose snaps, closing the distance between us and glaring up
Nadia“But it makes sense!” I say, sitting straight, my wide eyes pleading for him to listen. “There could be kids in the caves! And even if your military swept the caves looking for them, they wouldn’t talk to them! They’d be afraid of them! But they might talk to me – I’m harmless!”“You’re also vulnerable,” Cole growls. “It’s out of the question, Nadia!”I sigh, slumping and glaring at him. “I think that they’re there, Cole. I just feel that it’s right – and I think it’s worth checking!”“The caves have been checked! There’s no one left behind!”“No one hides like a little girl,” I murmur, looking off into the night, thinking about all the little boys who might be up in cliffs right now, completely undetectable to everyone but Rose
NadiaDad shakes his head. “I’m sure that he wants all of them but feeding them? Keeping them in order? Keeping them obedient?” He narrows his eyes, shaking his head, still trying to sort it all through. “I just…can’t fathom how not even one got away. Surely there are those who were discontented, looking for a way out.”I watch my dad, worried now too. He’s right – it’s just…too neat. The total absence of both groups in a huge rescue mission like that is bizarre.“Something’s off,” dad murmurs, dropping his head in his hand and then massaging his forehead with his thumb and forefinger in the way he does when he’s got a stress headache.“You’re right,” Cole says, sighing, hands going to his hips as he looks over at the phone. “Let me make a call. I’ll run it by dad, may
NadiaI’m on the fourth hour of my evening shift, staying awake on pure grit alone because…there is nothing tonight getting my adrenaline going. And no Grace and Shay to keep me company – their shift is next. I yawn, looking back to the room, wondering if I need to check on the patient in bed six again when Cole comes to the door of the tent.I turn and see him standing there, looking for me. “Hey!” I call, raising a hand and jogging over to him, a smile already on my lips.Cole smirks at me. “And what makes you think I’m looking for you, Amir?”I slow my pace and put my hands on my hips, grinning at him. “You are.”He laughs a little and shakes his head, looking around the tent again. “You got a minute?”“Yeah, sure,” I say, shrugging and looking around for Daniel. He waves to me, already intuiting that I need t
Nadia“That’s impossible,” dad snaps. But his focus has shifted to the ground, a hand running through his salt-and-pepper hair, clearly more confused and frustrated than suspicious. I bite my lip, my hand turning over my wooden wolf anxiously in my pocket. Dad is so rarely unsettled like this, it always makes me nervous.“The mission is ongoing,” Ethan says, looking tired. I study him, wondering if he also missed a great deal of sleep managing this from afar. “The largest batches of patients came through last night because that’s when the majority of the actual fighting happened, but we’ve got the cave system surrounded. Hassock is inside; once our troops are able to capture him, I’m sure whoever is within the caves who needs help will be sent to you.”Dad sighs, shaking his head, still frustrated.But I turn to Cole, confused about why he’s unsettled.And then I fr
NadiaI ignore Rose’s glare, crossing my arms over my chest and waiting for the video chat to begin. As the screen shifts I lean forward to look at the image of the five of us, grimacing when I see that my hair is…insane.I scowl and hastily try to fix it, tucking strands behind my ears and straightening my messy bun. I’m talking to the damn King, for heaven’s sake, and this is how I show up?The image changes to display Ethan Kincaid sitting in his posh office and I stand up straight. I glance at Cole, the smirk on his lips confirming what I already know. He thinks me coming to this meeting with bed-head is funny.I scowl and turn back to the screen.“Good afternoon,” the King says, looking us over quite seriously. His gaze lingers longest on his son, which I supposed is to be expected, before Ethan Kincaid turns his eyes to Stanzor and dad. &ldquo
Nadia“You need to shave,” I murmur, my eyes moving over his gorgeous face, which is somehow even more handsome when his hair is rumpled, stubble dotting his jaw. Just…much more raw, less polished.And fucking…hot. Annoyingly hot.“You do it,” Cole murmurs, flopping his hand towards the corner of the tent where the basin still sits, full of water. “There’s a razor over there. Clean me up good.”I grin at him. “I can only reach half of your face.”He shakes his head, one cheek still pressed to the pillow. “I’ll turn over when you’re halfway.”I laugh and release my hands, laying them both on his broad shoulder and giving him a little shake. “Cole, get up. We have to go to a meeting and I don’t even have pants.”Cole sighs and slowly turns his head, opening his pretty green eyes to look at me. “Nadia, you not wearing any pants is not something that’s going to make me want to get out of bed –“I burst out laughing and shove his shoulder again. He laughs too, whipping his arm out and grab
NadiaCole laughs, shaking his head at me and reaching for the hem of my shirt. “I’m not using this as an opportunity to get you naked, Nadia. There’s blood all over –““Oh fine,” I say, raising my arms. I’ve got a bra and a tanktop on underneath, anyway, so it’s not like it’s scandalous. But as he starts to lift the top I squeak, pushing his hands away.“What?” Cole asks, frowning at me.“My little wolf,” I murmur, reaching into the breast pocket and taking it out, smiling at it. “My good luck charm. Nobody died on his watch.”Cole smiles softly at me, nodding and then helping me take the shirt off, tossing it on top of an empty laundry bag. My pants come off next and I’m too exhausted to feel prude about it. It’s not like my boy-short underwear are shocking in any way, and if Cole is feeling somehow turned on by this then that’s his problem.I sigh, finally laying myself down on the bed and curling up, my wolf carving clutched in my palm.Cole moves around behind me, setting things
Nadia“Your father has informed me,” Arbroth continues, “that you’ve been checking medical texts out of the library since you were four, Nadia,” the doctor snaps, her patience at an end. “You’re the cleverest girl in this camp and the hardest working. If you weren’t so stubborn about flitting off to humanitarian projects – yes, your father told me about those as well - you’d likely be halfway through med school by now. And I’ve watched you – I’m not sure that medical school will teach you anything about field medicine that you don’t already know! So now go and help those patients – I deputized you for a reason! Whatever treatments you pursue have my explicit permission! Go!”I stare at her for a second and then take a step back.Arbroth gives me a final sharp nod and drops my arm, turning away.I tu
Nadia God, but my butt hurts.I shift uncomfortably on the wooden bench that I’ve been sitting on since the ferry station opened at dawn, glaring up at the departure board as I’ve been doing for hours, waiting for my ferry’s dock to be announced – across the bay, back home. Far, far away from Cole fucking Kincaid, that Alpha jerk who claimed me last night – in front of his entire family, in front of my dad.I scowl, turning over the events in my mind for the millionth time, getting just as steamed and mortified about it as I was since the moment it happened.That smug jerk coming down the formal staircase inside the damn palace while I was just standing around waiting for dad to stop talking to the King so we could go. I knew I shouldn’t have listened to dad when he said it would be no big deal to wait for me there – I haven’t gone back to the palace since I was eight for a reason.I hate those stupid royal wolves – I never wanted to see them again.And the moment Cole had seen me ...
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