BASTIAN’s POV.It all happened so fast and I found myself running towards the fort. I was out training with Lance and Zen when my coatyl reached out to me and told me Adeline was in trouble. I immediately believed him because it was a first, he had never told me about Adeline before.infact, he hates her and detests her guts.I immediately sheath my sword and start running towards the fort where I meet some of the king’s soldiers. The king is here? When did he get here?But that’s the least of my problems right now, I need to find her. None of them bother to stop me mainly because almost everyone in the Palace knows me but are too scared to say a word. I can’t count the number of people I have massacred just because they called me the son of the king and I have no regrets. I have no connection to that old man and I hope everyone will cooperate with that.I looked for her everywhere around the fort and I couldn’t find her until I entered Cahir’s room and I found that door. My heart skip
CAHIR’s POV.I know he lied to me about not being with her, that shriek was from her but I am grateful to him that he took her away before the king saw her. He would have ordered her execution the moment he saw her. Even though I hate him, I am glad he was able to save her.After securing the wards in the room again, I leave to find her. And needs to understand that she can’t come and go from my room like she pleases.I meet Xena at the gates and from the look on her face, she wants to talk but I am not in the mood to speak to anyone else aside from my wife. Wife? Since when did I start acknowledging her as my wife? The thought of it makes me scoff.“Cahir….“Not now, xena” I tell her, “I am not in the mood for that”“It’s important, Cahir”I let out a heavy sigh while massaging the space between my brows.“Tell me”“Father is looking for Adeline right?”“How did…“You don’t have to lie to me anymore, I already have part of it figured out. I know he is looking for him, tell me is ther
ADELE’s POV,When I enter the training room later, I see Cahir practicing but that’s not what catches my attention. He is bare chested , beads of sweat rolling down his body while the sword moves freely in his hand like he has become one with it. My cheeks flush, gods help me. He looks so good, so good like a sin I wanted to commit at this particular moment.He stops training when he sees me, an expressionless look hovering over his face.“You are late”“I was letting the others know I won’t be joining them”“You did not need to tell anyone” he cuts me off.“Well” I cover the space between us, “I don’t want anyone misunderstanding us, i genuinely do not want to be the center of attention around here”He grimaces but doesn’t say anything, he sure knows how to hide his expressions, I genuinely won’t know what is going on in his mind.“No one will question you” he sheaths his sword as he comes to stand in front of me. I can feel the heat from his body, it is something between sandalwood
ADELINE’s POV.It’s been one whole week since Cahir left and I can’t lie, I miss him. I know we don’t get along well and he doesn’t like me but I can’t stop thinking about him. The feel of his body against mine, the way my body reacts to him, the way he makes me feel. The last time he made me orgasm time and again and I swear to the gods that I couldn't get enough of it. I wanted him inside of me but he wouldn’t do that. He was messing with me, I could see the mischievous glint in his eyes.But even after a week, I still miss him, I want to see him and feel him.“Fuck!!” I mutter under my breath as I allow my sword to fall to the ground. I have been training nonstop for three hours and my body is already reacting to the pain.I rake my fingers through my hair, allowing another cuss word to leave my mouth.Picking up my water container, I chug down a mouthful of it before letting out another sigh.“Finally” a familiar voice filters into my ear and I raise my head to see Bastian coming
BASTIAN’s POV. For the umpteenth time, I let my sword fall to the ground while Lance keeps looking at me, confusion hovering over his face. We have been going for about an hour but I can’t even get my head in the game. Adeline’s words are still ringing in my head, I can still feel the taste of her words. He touched her, that bastard touched her and she didn’t seem to hate it. She called him her husband, she looked proud to say it.“What’s going on with you, Bas?” He asks me.Part of me wants to scream and yell and just grab that fucking brother of mine by his neck and sniff the life out of him. His mother did a good job in keeping the king from my mother until she passed away. He was doing a good job trying to steal the woman I have loved all my life. I loved Adeline so much that it hurts. The gods be damned, I will make him pay for daring to even look at her.“What’s going on with you, Bas?” Lance asks me again, a look of concern etched on his face,“Nothing, I am fine”With that, I
ADELINE’s POV.For the umpteenth time, I angrily bang my hand against the wall that has refused to open for the past two days. I have been trying to get the wards off but it is not coming off. I didn’t know Cahir was this strong, I shouldn’t have underestimated that broad of a general. Even when he is not around, he is not making my life any easier.It’s been a long time since I saw him and it’s been a week since I last spoke to Bastian after our little fight. We haven’t said a word to each other even when we are in the same space. I see him stealing glances at me at times but he doesn’t make any effort to come up to me and I have made peace with that because a few days ago, Caroline herself told me about her and Bastian fucking themselves and I believed her. Everyone is talking about it but Bastian didn’t even try to say anything about it. I thought he hated her but after a fight with me, he goes ahead to fuck her…pathetic.“You need to calm down,” I tell myself before backing away f
CAHiR’s POV.For three weeks I didn’t see her and when I got news on her, the king wanted to kill her. Who gave him the right to think he could hurt her? Who gave him the right to think he can do anything to her? She is mine and mine alone. I won’t let anyone hurt her, no matter who or what he is.That’s why I left the battlefield and allowed the army of silvercrest to cater for themselves. The king made me promise to fight for them and in my absence he wants to kill my wife? How pathetic.As soon as those words leave my mouth, all eyes turn to me, surprised and confused. This is not the way I actually wanted to show everyone that she is my wife but this is the only way I can save her. I know the king might hang onto something, the fact that she could be the one he is looking for but when we get to that bridge, we will cross it.After climbing off ivar, I make my way towards the crowd and to Adeline. How dare they hold her in this way?“Let go” I tell the two guards holding her down,
BASTIAN’s POV.Fuck!!Fuck!!Fuck!!I messed up and I messed up big time. I should have told her, I shouldn’t have hidden it this way. I should have told her but I didn’t know how. I didn’t want her to find out this way and now I don’t even know how to face her. For two days, we haven’t spoken to each other. She hasn’t come out of the fort for two days and Cahir won’t let me see her. I will fucking break his bones if I see him. He is purposely keeping her from me, wanting me to go crazy.And truth be told, I am about to go crazy, not being able to speak to her. Two days ago, she looked me in the eyes like I am the worst person on earth. She looked so hurt and I didn’t know what to do. I promised I wasn’t going to lie to her again and now I did, I lied to her and I don’t think she would ever forgive me again. How would I be able to win her love if I kept lying to her and keeping things from her? I know everything about her and she knows nothing about me. I didn’t lie to her on purpose,
ADELE’s POV.We stay like that for a while, my head on his shoulder as the chirping of birds continues around us. I don’t even know how I got to this part of the forest but it looks so calm, I could stay here forever and not get tired of it. But something immediately clicks in my head and I immediately pull away from him. A look of surprise appears on Bastian’s face.“Stay away from him” Cahir’s voice rings in my ear as he slammed into me with reckless abandon. He made it clear that he didn’t want me hanging around with Bastian and even fucked me to tears so I wouldn’t forget that.My face flush, how did we get here? How did..“Are you okay?” His voice cuts through me again, concern written on his face, “tell me, did something happen to you?”I abruptly stand up, dusting the back of my pants.“I am fine,” I manage to tell him, “but we should probably go now. It’s getting late”“Why? We can stay here as long as we want, no one will say anything. Rest assured”“Well” I fold my hands ac
ADELE’s POV.I didn’t expect Bastian to take it lightly but I didn’t expect him to look me in the eyes and say such horrible things to me. He said things that he would never say and no matter how much I tried, I couldn’t shake those words out of my head. He was mean to me, he said horrible things to me and I will make him remember that for as long as he is alive.“Cadet” a voice calls behind me and I raise my head to see one of the palace soldiers.“Yes”“The Queen will be ready to leave in a few minutes, you should get ready to escort her.“Okay, I am already ready though”“You should get her chariot out”“Sure”After getting the chariot out, I wait by it and after a while, I see her coming towards me with Bastian beside her. They are both saying something and laughing about it. My heart cramps but I shake it off, it is actually none of my business.“Your majesty” I bow to her but she ignores me and turns to Bastian.“Please, ride with me”“Of course not, your majesty” he says, “I wi
BASTIAN’s POVFuck!!!I have never been so angry in my life; I have never felt like killing someone like I feel now. I want to kill Cahir, I want to cut his body into tiny tiny pieces and scatter them all over the country. He touched her, he was in her room , she was naked and he fucked her.My blood is boiling, my whole body is shaking. I have never felt so helpless like I feel now. And she even allowed him, she let him touch her. I thought she said they were over? So what is he doing in her room? Did she lie to me, did she plan all this with him?I rake my hands through my hair, she can’t lie to me. Adeline is far too naïve to do that, he must have forced her and that’s why he was in her room. She must have begged him, she must have tried to tell him not to touch her but that bastard, I am sure he didn’t listen and he took advantage of her. I am going to make him pay in such a way that he will beg but I will be the one laughing last.I dip my whole body into the water again, lettin
ADELE POV.Someone frantically knocks on my door and I push my body off the bed but before I can even get to the door, it pushes open and my husband’s angry face comes into view. He looks so upset, so fucking upset.“Cahir, you…..The words hang in my throat as he yanks me closer and slam his lips on mine. Anger, desire, pain, lust and everything in between. He pushes me back against the wall and deepens the kiss making it almost impossible for me to breathe. Part of me like it, the part that want to have my hand wrapped around his torso while he fucked me into oblivion but the other part, the logical one wants to push him away and make him understand that he can not just walk into my room and kiss me like he owns me. Technically he does since we are still married but that aside, he can’t just.With my last ounce of logic, I gently push him off and a frustrated groan leaves his mouth as he pulls away from me. He is still close, so close that his natural scent is making a mess of me a
CAHIR’s POV.“Good, I want all of them in before next weekend” my voice resonates round the room as all eyes remain on me. Two days after I returned from Drakeworth, it has been boring. I haven’t seen her in two days and I genuinely do not know what’s going on. If I had known that Bastian would pack his belongings and go with her, I would have thought of something else to do with her.With hearfyre still out there, the urge to protect her continues to grow. I trust that she won’t be able to get her back in Drakesworth because it has been an age long tradition that drains are not allowed in the country unless with their bonded humans and that’s why I can always take Ivar with me anytime I visit.“Is that all?” Xerxes asks, cutting off my train of thought.“Didn’t you get it?”“Sorry?”“Don’t be stupid, Xerxes” the words are out of my mouth before I can even stop myself. I am being a bastard now but I genuinely have no intention of stopping. My wife is in Drakesworth with my brother wh
BASTIAN’s POV.I watched her leave, her shoulders hanging low. I knew Adele ever since she was a child. One thing is that she would never want to bug anyone with her problems no matter how large it is. She is having issues with her family but no one knows. Her sister and her mother both treat her badly but after knowing her, she opened up to me.I can say that I know her the most in this world, I know her more than everyone and it gives me a kind of joy to know her and be able to help her. That’s why the moment I watch her walk out of the palace gates, I turn around and walk back into the house. I need to have a serious conversation with Desdemona, I do not care if she is the queen but I do not play about Adele. Yes, I killed her father but she doesn’t know about that and she doesn’t need to know. He found out what he was not supposed to and that led to his death. Once again, people should mind their fucking businesses.Shoving the thoughts of him to the back of my head, I quicken my
ADELINE’s POV.I have known Gwen for a while because she is related to mother. What I didn’t know was the fact that she was Cahir’s nanny and even Bastian knew her. Now I am standing in front of them wondering the other things I do not know. It’s official, I am the most kept in the dark person in Drakesworth.They look close, Cahir is smiling genuinely at her and even Bastian too. They look really close.“I didn’t know you worked for him, aunt”“The palace kept it a secret, my dear” she says, “even your mother found out recently when she told me that you had gone to the borders to become a soldier. Then I told Cahir to take care of you. I think the gods are on my side because the two of you got marriage”“It was a sham marriage, Gwen” the words are out of my mouth before I can even stop it, “we are asking the king for a divorce”“What?” Her head whips towards him, “a divorce? Why?”“We are not getting a divorce, Gwen” Cahir says as a matter of fact, “you can try all you want. Gwen, I
CAHIR’s POVWith each step I take away from her, the urge to turn back and pull her into my arms and tell her how much I love her and how much I want to be with her. When I saw her earlier with Bastain, I was so upset that I had to come here to find her and when I saw her looking so beautiful inside that water, I wanted to keep looking at her forever but I didn’t want her to know she is my weak point , I want to be able to protect her without raising suspicion from anyone including the king and Bastain. The only person who knows about my plan is Desdemona and I will kill her if she ever thinks of betraying me.After leaving them, I make my way back to the palace, just in time to see the king before he leaves. Because of Adele, I have been frequenting the palace lately. Even though I don’t like it, I have to do it for her and nothing else.Today, I used my powers to trap Bastian in an endless loop of looking for her, I don’t know what I will do next when it comes to her. The only thing
ADELE’s POV.I stiffen in his embrace the moment his lips crashed against mine. It is hungry, vicious, ferocious and everything in between. He fists my hair in his hands and deepens the kiss, prying my mouth open in the process. This man before me looks so different from the Cahir that I knew, he looks like he is about to bring the world to its knees.But we shouldn’t be doing this, he is the same person who pushed me away, he has no right coming here and kissing me like he owns me and moreover I owe Bastian every iota of respect, he has helped me by bringing me me to his and his mother’s favorite place so how can I disrespect it like this?With my last ounce of power, I push him off and my hand lands on his face in a slap. How dare he? How dare he come here and act like everything is fine when he was the same person who pushed me away because he was sleeping with his step mother. The mere thought of it makes me so upset that the urge to drown him in this water encapsulates me.“How d