QuinnIt was a drill. A hard one. I could sense that the men were tired but I wasn't about to stop. I wasn't about to let them go. I was angry, not at myself, not at the men or at their leader but at their enemies.What nonsense! I didn't think someone could be as daft as that, asking that someone on give up up his wife to save his people. I didn't think anyone could have dared to say that and expect that he would listened to. Did he truly think that Ethan would do that and he would get what he wanted?If someone asked me to give Mia up, I would kill the person a thousand times over before I thought of doing that. That was to show that I was never going to do that.I thought that anyone who became kings or rulers were the wisest of a clan. That was my first time ever of meeting someone who was dumb and I was both shocked and mad.I didn't know what else to do except to geek pity for the people that he was lord over - he would definitely lead those people to hell with his bunch of wron
EthanI looked at the men seated with me in my court, all having eyes that blazed with anger as they surrounded me. I didn't need to ask what made them angry. I knew it. It was the same reason I was angry.I had been angry ever since I got the letter and it took Ava constantly whispering soothing words to me for me not to have fly over the handle.How could another man try to ask for the hand of my wife in marriage, as a return for stopping an attack? It sounded ridiculous to my ears and I wondered how he had come up with that suggestion.Even if Ava was my daughter and not my mate, I wouldn't have yielded to such a request. How could I give out my daughter to someone who believed she was a commodity that could be transferred by the decision of another person other than hers? How could I trust a man like that to respect and treat her well?I was angry and had to force myself to calm down for the sake of my people. They were angry already and they needed me to calm down so they could c
AvaI woke up to Ethan looking at my face and grinning at me. I blushed and giggled, turning away from him in mock embarrassment."Uhn uhn, what was that?" I chuckled as I turned to the other side. "I didn't think you would be here. I thought you had a meeting.""Yes, I did but we ended early." He smiled as he turned me to face him and pulled me into his embrace. "I came in to get something and couldn't help smiling at your beautiful face when I saw it.""Oh! Stop it." I chuckled."I mean it. You look so beautiful while sleeping. With how peaceful and beautiful you looked while sleeping, I feel like getting you pregnant every season."I snorted. "Oh please, let's not have that. That is all I ever do now. Sleeping till I am tired of doing so. I don't think that I am ever going to sleep again after having this baby with how much I'm sleeping now." I chuckled."Good. I need you well rested so our princess can be healthy.""It's a boy.""How do you know?""I'm the one who is pregnant."He
AvaWas this jealousy? No, it wasn't despite what everyone else seemed to think that it was. It wasn't jealousy. It was caution and dislike. Why would I be jealous of a man around my husband when I already had him? He was mine and I was secure in our love for each other to know that he wasn't leaving me.But that woman? The one who had her arms wrapped around my husband's neck as if she didn't know he was married now, I didn't like her. Even if she didn't know he was married - duh, everyone in the vampire lands knew - she could see the big wedding band on his finger and I didn't think that she was blind. I didn't think I had ever heard of a blind vampire so she had to have seen the ring on the king's hand but was just pretending not to.All the soldiers had stopped training the moment she came and I knew, just like I was, they were all curious to know who the lady who had dared to give the king a full-body hug was.Just like that, as if their curiosity about the lady wasn't enough, th
EthanI was avoiding Sharon. I rolled my eyes in disgust as I thought of her. I didn't think that she was that annoying. What part of I was now married didn't she understand? I had told Ava that we were just friends and she didn't have to be jealous of her. Ava was trying to be mature about her presence and not flip out but I didn't want to push her.What was going on with her? What was wrong with her? What was wrong with me? Had I been wrong about her? When did she change or had I been a bad judge of character and she had always been like that? I was sure that she wasn't that type of annoying friend or I wouldn't have become friends with her.What was the drama that she had done at the table while we were eating? Regardless of how close we were, she was a guest yesterday and wasn't meant to sit beside me at the table. There was an arrangement to how we ate at the table. None of my palace officials would have sat anywhere to eat with me. As a guest, she was meant to sit at the far en
ScorpioI couldn't believe my ears. That was impossible. I was livid with rage. I had thought to avoid the war and give him a second chance but he had messed it up. He had spat on my face and insulted my intelligence. I was angry but the lady before me was angrier than I was. She was mad and spitting with fury as a snake would spit out its venom."He didn't fall for it?" I asked in disbelief, just to be sure. What kind of man would reject her? I asked as I ran my eyes over her form. She was beautiful and filled up in the right places.She hissed. "He chased me out like I was a diseased dog.""What?" I sighed. No wonder she was furious.I had thought of not starting a war and making Ethan give up on his wife by himself. It hadn't been easy getting someone he knew and wouldn't be suspicious of to go to his land and do what I wanted. It had been pure luck when I found Sharon and realized that she had been once close to Ethan. I had talked her into going over to his place and seduce him o
RudolphI pushed my food aside, not interested in it at all. This was becoming a frequent habit with me and I frowned at what I was doing. I had lost my appetite. My stomach cramped at the thought of taking in food and I was worried of getting weak. Since we couldn't hunt and feed on blood as much as we wanted, our other option was to eat and binge on food as much as we could to get the strength that we needed.There was no amount of food that we could eat that could give us as much strength that we could have gotten from blood and that meant that the men had to eat more than necessary to make up for the deficiency of blood. I suspected that was one of the reasons the enemy attacked our men on our hunting ground, to keep us from feeding on animals and make us weaker when it was time for the battle. There was a limit to how much we could drink from the domestic animals and pets, unlike we wanted to kill them.Some of their owners who were attached to the animals refused to drink their
ScorpioI was mad. Well, that wasn't news. I was always mad recently. I couldn't believe we had lost. We had lost woefully to the vampires and had barely made it back to our land when we had fleed.I winced as the maid dabbed a piece of cotton wool on my face, using it to clean my wounds. I would heal pretty quickly but I had survived enough wounds from the fight that I would like to clean them up and not look like what I had fought. The men would soon come in before my body was done with the healing process and I didn't want to look as pathetic as I felt. I felt ashamed of myself already and I didn't want to look more shameful in their presence."I'm sorry, your highness." The maid apologized as she realized that I had winced.I dismissed her apology with a wave. "Don't worry about it. I knew it would hurt before I called you to wipe off the dried blood on the wounds."She paused and looked at me as if she couldn't understand why I was being humble.I sighed. I was injured. She could