Antoine’s POV "Shit!" I cursed inwardly. I don't like to feel this way. But why do I feel like I had just been caught in an act of doing something stupid? He came and stood beside me, grinning from ear to ear. God knows what's going on in his head. "You still haven't answered my question," he said. I had no interest in this kind of conversation, but it seemed like he knew about something. Could it be about the fact that Stacie was my mate? I hadn't told anyone, not even Damien. I didn't want to discourage them from finding their own mates. But I reckoned that Damien might still find out later. But not this soon. So I decided to brazen it out and force him to spill out what he knew. If he knew anything at all. "What makes you think I do?" I asked him. "Isn't it so obvious? You find her attractive, that was why you personally went to buy her and even sent me to drive her here. Plus you also made her your attending maid." "I've been wanting to ask you since. But I've been waiting
Antoine POV Stacie pressed the knife against my neck, and it cut slightly through my skin. I could feel the pain, but the funniest part of it was that I couldn't get my mind to think properly or even react. The impact of her soft breast pressing against my hard back was clouding my brain and overriding my senses. I opened my mouth to say something but then she pressed her breast further into my back and I closed my mouth back, swallowing hard in my throat. It was so confusing and it felt so hard, trying to utter a word. I didn't like the way I was feeling but I couldn't help it. Maybe being away from women, sex, and everything, all this time is taking hold of my body. Because, the last time I remembered, I used to have control over little things like this, over a little sexual desire, over a pesky libido. Even when most of the slaves had packed themselves to my chambers, naked and wet for me, I hadn't even touched them at all. Even with the fact that I had been drunk and everything,
Antoine's POV "A quick learner," I thought. Her movements were now much better than they had been some time ago, and I couldn't help but admire her once again. She came at my legs, now crouching down and circling around my legs, holding them, as if to forcefully pull me down. She would have done it successfully if she had been a little faster and more calculative. "Too slow," I told her, bending down slightly, and yanking her roughly with one hand from behind me, bringing her to the front. She gulped, staring up right at my face, fear evident in her eyes. It took all the self-control in me not to burst out laughing. I just so much enjoy seeing the look of fear in her eyes. She always looked cute the most then. And more beautiful too. I bent down to her level, having a menacing look on my face. I grabbed her chin roughly and lifted up her head slightly, causing her to shudder involuntarily, but she had already changed her facial expression. She was now staring hard, back at me, as i
Antoine's POV I hadn't expected Stacie's outburst. I was only asking a question, so why the flare-up? I ignored her words. "Just in case, you shouldn't slip it out to anyone, whosoever it is. Not by mistake, not by anything else." That got her on the edge again. "Why!? Why shouldn't I just go and shout out to everyone, in a loud and clear voice!" She said, then her voice softened as she said; "what is so bad about the fact that I'm your mate?" Her voice grew louder again. "Is there any reason I should not tell anyone?" "Just one. Because I'm asking you not to" Her expression hardened. "Not good enough." She started to turn away, but I caught her arm and pulled her into my embrace. "Stacie-----" Her body stiffened in my embrace, the gesture shocked even me. I quickly pulled out of the embrace, the moment my hand made contact with her arm. But I had felt the touch, light as it was and I could see how she had also responded to my touch in the softening of her eyes, in the slight int
Stacie's POV "So why were you so intent on learning how to fight?" I heard Antoine say, and I immediately froze. I hadn't seen the question coming. When he had asked me about how I was sold into slavery, I knew I would have to talk about my plight and Beta Daniel, but I didn't want to take the risk of telling anyone. Because I couldn't trust anyone yet, because Daniel could have spies even in this dark moon park. So I had told Antoine to ask me another question, but now he asked me even a more direct one that would even make me explain everything in detail. I shifted on his lap, we were too close. Our bodies were touching. When I didn't respond to his question, he placed his hand on my cheeks from behind and turned my head slowly to face him, and our lips were almost touching. He was looking at me with a concerned expression, but my mind wasn't even there, I was already lost in thought. Thinking about a lie to come up with and dish out to him. He placed his hands on my shoulders as
Stacie's POV Ariel laughed in my head, jolting me out of my thoughts. I was going to tell Antoine not to try to kiss me or anything, but then I looked closely at him and realized that the intensity of his gaze was not even because of me. He had also become lost in thought. And he was not even seeing me. He had never had any intention of kissing me. What if he was also thinking about having sex with me? That can't be! Someone that didn't even have any intention of Kissing me, despite how close to each other's skin we were. My face flamed up at my silly assumptions that he was going to kiss me. I blushed so hard, angry at myself for how close I had come to make a complete and utter fool of myself with Antoine. I couldn't help but imagine what he would have said. He would have laughed it off with a wave of his hand and even called me silly. He might even rebuke me seriously. Or would he have done otherwise? The exact opposite of what I was expecting? Would he have actually kissed me?
Stacie's POV "Did you just mention Beta Daniel of the Silverstone pack?" He asked me, his voice sounding hoarse. I nodded. "That man is really a monster!" His voice was laced with so much hatred as he spat the words out. I didn't know why he was saying all this. I felt so confused. Was he angry at Daniel because of me? Still feeling very confused, I asked. "You know him too?" And he nodded. "He was the one that also killed my father in a friendly duel. And I also want to kill him and avenge my father's death." I gasped in shock at his words. Beta Daniel must have made a lot of enemies for himself. He should better be watching his back from now on. Especially when someone like Antoine had him on his to-kill list. "I heard about it from my findings that he had killed the former Alpha and Luna of the Silverstone pack. But had spared the princess' life. I would never have imagined that the princess would actually be my mate." "The mate that you rejected!" I said in my head. Then I sai
STACIE'S POVI turned to look at the maids who were talking but she immediately looked away. I had a nagging feeling that they were talking about me. "Is something wrong?" I asked. I know that I won't be able to go to bed if I keep thinking about this. The maid immediately shook her head. "No, no, nothing is wrong," she said. "Really? Because I can see that you guys were talking about me" I said. "Well, it's just, you are training. You are the first....slave who gets to train in this place. We are all very envious of you" she said. I gave her a gentle smile. They have no idea what is going on. Antonie wants to use me as bait for Beta Daniel and I don't even know what I'm supposed to make of that. Is he asking me to go because he doesn't care about me or because of something else? I have no idea. "I'm tired. I'm just going to go to bed" I said. I didn't want to continue this conversation with them. I immediately entered my room and slammed the door shut. I went to take a bath
ANTOINE'S POV"Sophia and Ethan are dead? Are you sure of that?". I asked Nolan. He nodded his head. "yes. From now on, we don't have to worry about them. They won't be bothering you anymore. Now we just have to focus on you and Stacie. You know that she's pregnant right now and she can't be agitated for any reason at all" Nolan told me. I nodded my head. "Yes. But now is not the time to relax. We need to completely get rid of Daniel before I can be rest assured that it's completely over. Beta Daniel will definitely not let it go since I have killed his son. He will want to get revenge on me but I have to beat him at his game and make sure that he's dead before I can enjoy myself with Stacie " I said to Nolan. "Do you know who you are going to make the Alpha if Daniel is dead? It's not like we can leave the pack unattended right? We need to place someone there so that the pack won't be thrown into chaos " Nolan told me. I nodded my head because I know that he is right. We need to
DANIEL'S POVI paced up and down in the throne room. Ethan has been gone for a few days and I haven't heard anything from him yet. I was really worried about him. I know that he won't be able to defeat Alpha Antoine. All that I wanted was for my son to come back here in one piece. That is the only thing that I need from him. One of the guards walked inside and bowed in front of me. I waved my hands. I don't need him to bow to me. All that I need is for them to find my son and bring him back to me. That is the only thing that I want right now. "What is going on? Did you find out anything about Ethan?. Do you know where he could be right now?" I immediately started to question him. "We have no news from Ethan just yet but someone told us that the Alpha had already completed his mating ceremony a few days ago. Stacie is now the Luna of the pack" the guard told me. My heart sank to my chest when I heard this. The plan was for Ethan to kill them at the ceremony. The fact that the cere
ETHAN'S POVDo you think that you'll get away with it again?" He asked me. "What are you going to do to me?"."What do you think? Of course, I'll kill you!" I was so scared that I wanted to throw up. I don't want to die. I don't want to die just yet. I want to live. At that moment, I saw my life flash past my eyes. I had a good life before I met Stacie. Even if I did not like what my father did to me, at least I was safe. There was no threat to my life. But ever since I met Stacie, it's as if things went downhill for me. All that I want is to stay alive right now. I regret a lot of things. I should not have kidnapped her. I should not have taken her against her will and brought her to my pack. I should not have come back here just because I found out that she lied to me and I want to kill her. I should not have done all of those things. I suddenly glared at Stacie. It was as if I lost all of the love that I felt for her immediately. The only thing that I could feel for her was
Ethan's POVI need to show her what it means to mess with me! "I am not the one who's going to die Stacie. You are the one who's going to die! What do you think I came here for? Do you think that I will still be so blindly in love with you that I won't be able to tell you that you're a horrible person who deserves to die?" I asked her.She laughed in my face. "You want to kill me? Ethan, you really think that you can kill me?" She asked me in a mocking manner. Where did she get all of this confidence from? What the heck is going on with her? I decided not to waste words with her. I am done talking to her. I took out the dagger I hid in my body and rushed to stab her with it. I was just inches away from her body when I felt as if there was an invincible power pushing me away from her. No matter how hard I tried, I could not move...I was stuck there. "What....what is going on?" I caught sight of the smug smile that Stacie had on her face. "I told you. You can't touch me!" She sai
ETHAN'S POV"What do you mean by that? Aren't you happy to see me?" I asked her with a smile on my face. "I said what are you doing here and how did you even get in here without anyone seeing you?" Stacie asked me..she was looking at me as if I am her worst enemy in the whole wide world. She wasn't like this before I took her away from me. At least then she was still nice to me. When did it all change? When did I become someone that she can't even stand? "The same way I took you away from here without anyone finding out. Back then, they didn't care about you so I took you away easily. Now, they still don't care about you and I am going to do whatever it is that I want with you! Why are you like this Stacie? If only you had come with me... if only you had stayed put then this won't have been happening right now! You know that I love you and that I am willing to do anything and everything for you! So why did you betray me?! Why did you throw away all of my feelings?! I was willing to
ETHAN'S POVI haven't heard of the Alpha going against the elders of the pack like this before. Do you think it's okay for me to come with you?" The bartender gave me a weary look. I know that he doesn't trust me completely. After all, he doesn't know me and he doesn't know who I am so it's understandable that he doesn't trust me at all. But I am going to convince him to take me into the palace with him. "Come on. I really haven't seen something like this in my life before. An Alpha going against all of his elders just to make the she-wolf that he likes his Luna? It must be fascinating!" I said to him. The bartender nodded his head. "Yes. You are right. It's fascinating. That is why all of us are going to see it. " He told me. "So please let me tag along with you. Don't worry. I'll be sure not to get you in trouble. As soon as I take a look at her face, I'll leave the palace. Do this for me okay?" I asked him He still seemed a bit hesitant. I suddenly had an idea. I took out some
ETHAN'S POV I was sitting in a bar. I had spent the entire day, walking through the pack and trying to figure out a way to enter the palace without getting caught by the Alpha. The security measures in the palace have increased since the last time that I was here. But I already expected this. After all, I did kidnap Stacie and take her away under everyone's noses. It's clear that the Alpha is going to want to protect her even more. I'd be suspicious if the palace wasn't guarded. I would think that they are setting up a trap for me. But as it is, there's no way they can know that I am here. I did a good job disguising myself when I came here after all. I was still lost in the thoughts of how I am going to torture Alpha Antoine and Stacie when the bartender walked over to me. "Hello, Sir. I am really sorry but you'll have to leave. We are closing up now " he said to me. I turned to glare at him it's not even twelve yet so why the heck are there closing up so soon? "What
SOPHIA'S POV The next morning, I immediately got dressed and left the palace. Alpha Daniel did not even ask me where I was going when I left. I think that he was all too happy to see me go. As he said, I am one of the reasons why his son decided to put his life in danger and go back to Alpha Antoine's pack just to get revenge. I know that I had indeed manipulated him into doing back because I want him to take revenge on Stacie for me but he won't have done it if he didn't want revenge too. He wanted to get back at her for the so-called humiliation that she gave to him so even if I didn't say anything, he still would have done something. Anyway, it no longer has anything to do with me. If he can really kill Stacie, that will be best for me because it will mean that although I didn't get the Alpha, she can't get him either. But if he doesn't manage to kill her then, he'd be the one to die and I seriously don't care at all. It's none of my business. All that I care about i
CIARA'S POV I was really worried when Sophia ended the call and told me that she was going to think about it. I thought that she had figured out that I had sold her off to the Alpha and that she was not going to show up. Sophia has always been very smart anyway so it won't be extremely hard for her to figure it out. In fact, the only thing I am counting on now is the friendship that we have with each other. If she really sees me as a friend then she won't suspect me so easily right? I was still worried about this when my phone rang again. I picked it up and saw that it was Sophia. I answered it immediately. "Fine. Ciara. Let's leave. where do you want to meet me? You are right. I need to get out of this place. And you need to get out too or else the Alpha is going to come for you sooner or later" Sophia said. I was so happy that she bought my explanation. Everything is going as planned soon, I'd be far away from this pack. As for Sophia....well, I guess that she'd be de