Scarlett is taken prisoner by the Lycan King, Draco after her pack is attacked. She is forced into becoming his concubine in the Coyote Palace. She is framed in his palace and sent to the cold palace. She is ambushed by Draco's men and falls to her death from the edge of a cliff. Years later, she has survived and returns as the fiancée of the Vampire King, Xavier who is seeking an alliance with the Lycan King. Her name is the Black Rose, and she is there to take revenge on everyone who had once made her suffer. But what happens when revenge turns to rekindled passion?
더 보기Scarlett’s POV The trumpet echoed through the palace before sunrise. It sounded like a demigod had blown it, there was power and an undeniable ease that he had gone to battle and was returning. Draco was home. I should have moved. I should have gotten up, dressed and walked to the courtyard like every other woman before me, with my head held high and my demeanor calm and my spine straight. That was how it was done but I sat frozen. What if he brought someone? A new concubine. What if she was beautiful, blood born and handed to him like a prized mare? Draco wouldn’t refuse her. I pictured the same blank and broken look I had on when I first found myself in his palace. What if history repeated itself right in front of me?My stomach turned. Maybe I was going to be sick. *** When I finally came out of the room, I was already late but he wasn’t in the court yet. I walked through the hallway and down the stone steps. The other concubines had gathered at the steps of the main
Draco’s POV “We’ll make camp when we get to the border before the Blackmoon pack.” I ordered. The horses we rode pounded against the floor of the forest in one rhythm. My mind wasn’t on the ride. It was on her. My Scarlett. I hadn’t touched her before I left, no kiss, no hand squeeze, not even a look to keep me anchored. She said she wasn’t feeling well. I didn’t question it out loud but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t bother me. I knew why she had said it. She had been different with me after I told her about my intended battle with the Black Moon Pack, she was still soft and warm but she was watching me differently. Like she was noticing something different about me, like she was measuring my every move.I’d seen the look before, it was the same look generals had before battle, and some women before a problem occurred. There was no hate in her eyes anymore. But there was something worse yesterday. She was disappointed. And for the first time in my life, I actually car
Scarlett’s POV Without Draco here, the palace felt different. It’s not that it was quieter or even emptier. No. It was wilder. Like something had been removed from the palace and now there was this big empty space, free for the wrong people to fill. Draco ruled with fear, control, sharp orders and cold looks but at least he kept the wolves in check. The concubines whispered, yes but they whispered carefully. And now? They were wantonly destructive. With Draco gone, the Coyote Palace became their playground again. The omegas shook like leaves in the wind, with their heads bowed so low one would think they had all developed hunches on their backs. There were no rules now, only hierarchy and the omegas were at the bottom. I was at the top of that hierarchy but all the concubines wanted me knocked off. *** I heard her before I saw her. I heard Lirah’s sharp voice laced with venom slicing through the hallway. “No! I said don’t touch that, you stupid little bitch! Is your hear
Scarlett’s POV He told me at dusk. I had just finished pointing out a minor route change on his map, one that could probably save his eastern patrols nearly three days of food supply. He hadn’t said anything to me at first, just stared at me, there was a strange calm behind his eyes. Then, without hesitation, he said, “I’ll be leaving before sunrise. The Blackmoon Pack has defied my direct orders.” My body stilled, my fingers halted on the paper. ”They defied you? How?” “They have ignored three summons, they hid a rogue I marked for death and refused to send their tax tithe last moon.”His voice was level, I could have said he even sounded bored. Like it was routine. Like it meant nothing. “And what’s your plan?” I asked, even though I already knew the answer to the question. He shrugged. “They’ll be reminded of who they answer to.” “What does that mean exactly?” I pressed.He looked at me like I was not catching the drift. “I’ll take their gates and make an example of them.
Scarlett’s POV The silence sounded like a trap, like it was trying to tell me something. The palace had been too quiet, I expected more. I expected the concubines to have tried different schemes on me, especially with the show Draco had put up at the last court meeting. The calm in the Coyote Palace had a name. The calm was me. I brought that calm, I still couldn’t wrap my head around it but I guess me being by Draco’s side brought some form of order to the palace. I was the reason things were changing and it wasn’t because I had asked for it. It wasn’t because I had wanted to play Luna but because Draco…. He made me look like their Luna. ***The concubines hadn’t confronted me openly…Not yet at least. They were far too practiced in evil subtlety for a public confrontation. Currently their war was waged with cold glances in whispers and in some strategic accidental run ins. None dared to do anything in particular. I wondered if it was because they feared what Draco would do
Scarlett’s POV I knew I should have walked away. After that kiss, after the soft way his mouth moved against mine like I was his perfect mate. I should’ve pulled back, maybe even pushed him off, reminded myself of everything he had taken from me.But I didn’t do that. Instead I foolishly let him kiss me. Out in the open and I took it a step further and kissed him back. *** He stopped hiding it. What we were, whatever he felt, he stopped pretending like it was a secret. The next morning, he moved with me into court. I didn’t stand behind him or trailing with the servants. No, I walked beside him. Like I wasn’t a prisoner of war, like I was his equal. And he didn’t say a word about it. He just placed his hand on the small of my back, and guided me into the Meeting Hall like I belonged there. Like I was something more. The whispers between his Alphas were almost immediate, their guards stiffened and they exchanged glances at the marble table. Hanna and the other concubine
Scarlett’s POV We sat down in the east tower, we had just finished a meeting with his strategists. Now we simply sat and enjoyed the sun. “I hate you,” I said flatly, it was more to myself than to him. Draco didn’t even blink, only an eyebrow arched as his robe blew in the wind. “You’ve been saying that since you got here.” “I mean it more now.” He smirked. “If it helps you sleep at night but you know you don’t.” “I definitely do.” He took a lazy sip from his drink. “Then stop acting like you want me all the time…” I blinked. “What?! I don’t.” “You do,” he cut in. “You are always in my bed chamber and you never leave.” My teeth clenched together. “That’s because I don’t have any other place to sleep, I don’t have a bedchamber.” He shrugged. “You don’t need one, since you already sleep in mine.” Arrogant bastard. “Your ego is insufferable. You know that right?” He stepped closer to me, his voice became lower. “And yet you moan when I touch you.” “Shut up.” His grin wi
Hanna’s POV Draco used to look at me like I was everything. I was the golden flower among the other concubines. Now he barely noticed me at all. And now, he devoured the new girl in ways he had never done with me. He gave her his attention, his time and his body, all things he used to give me. I didn’t even know what I had expected Scarlett to be like, our first encounter was the day she stood head to head with my Alpha demanding something. She didn’t back down from him, as if they were equals.I had half expected that after that day, he’d make her scream in pain from defying him, or sob, or even rot in her silken dresses until she’d fade away. But no, she wasn’t made a decoration or left as a pretty shadow, rather he kept her. She was never even assigned a seperate room or quarters, she slept in his bedchamber like it was her own. Like it was her place. She had been here weeks yet he hadn’t grown tired of her, she walked beside him and now he let her speak in meetings. An
Scarlett’s POV Draco rose early these days, always before me and always bare chested, moving slowly around the room like he was putting up a show for me. At first, I tried not to, I stayed still with my eyes half closed in a fake sleep. But I watched him anyway, every morning. There was something about the way his muscles shifted beneath his skin as he stretched, the scars on his back that I wanted to trace with my fingertips. The tattoo ink that curled along his spine like a serpent, the way he usually stood at the window looking at the grounds. “You’re staring at me,” he said one morning. He hadn’t even turned around, I guess my eyes had burned his back. “You’re not that interesting that I’d stare at.” I replied, my voice hoarse from sleep. He turned to me then with a grin on his face, “You know you can’t really lie.”He was right. I was always a terrible liar but before I got here, I’d never needed to lie. The worst part was with him, I wasn’t so sure who I was lying to mor
~Scarlett's POV~It will be the best day of my life today.I spent the entire morning submerged in laughter, watching as my Omegas dressed me into a golden silk dress, a fashion work of art that caressed me so snugly, that floral designs in pattern were inscribed onto its body. I sat as the Omegas were weaving pearls into my blonde hair, their high-pitched giggles that stayed behind like a tune.“Oh, Lady Scarlette, Sir Simon is going to lose his mind when he sees you," one of my Maid, Mira grinned after setting the last pin in my braid.I smiled gently and then scowled at myself in the mirror, my eyes lit up with joy looking at how beautiful I looked, and my green-gold eyes kept shining with anticipation. I bite my lips, tonight, Simon would take me as his mate. As my best friend. As my love.Everything was going perfectly. Until it wasn't.A low, unnatural boom shook the air and it made the Laughter in the room stop. I frowned in confusion as my heart grasped.I furrowed my brows, ...
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