Ashly's POV"You are leaving?"I was arranging my clothes in my box unsure of what to take and what to leave or if I should even take anything at all when I heard Shaun's voice. I turned to see him at the door, his expression frozen as he watched me, his eyes lingering on my half-packed bag. I tried to summon up a smile but it felt a little bit stiff and unnatural on my lips even when I licked my lips and attempted to speak again. "Dorian spared my life but I can't stay here."For a moment he didn't say anything, he just stood there then an emotion I could identify finally showed across his face. Anger. So much anger that I knew as he turned he was going to meet Dorian to pick a fight with him. I stood up in a rush going over to him as quickly as I could, stopping him before he could do that."Shaun, wait!"I wrapped my hand around his arm keeping him in place and his warm brown eyes fixed on me. I had never seen so much pain in those brown depths before and it made my heart lu
Keturah's POVAfter my meeting with Ashly. I couldn't believe how that nobody was questioning me. She should have felt grateful that I had even soared some of my time to see her. That was only because of the plans that I had for her. Once I was done with that, I would rip her open and show her what happened to those who stood against me. For now, I had something more important to attend to. The Lycan council members. They had responded to my carefully wired summons as I had expected them to and I went to join them for the meeting in my territory.I couldn't take the chance that we would be overheard. Being overheard meant certain death. As a minimal sentence. "Why have you called this meeting?" Garrett asked. He was the head of the council and easily the most outspoken. His opinions often reflected that of the entire group. If I could gmget hum to see things from my side then getting the others to agree would be a walk in the park. I went straight to the point."King Damien has
Kiara's POVThere was something so intrinsically special about waking up to your mate. It set the mood for the entire day and when you'd been waking up to your mate for days, life felt extraordinarily perfect.I kissed Damien's chest. "Hello, mate."His arms around me wrapped tighter."Hello to you too mate."He ran his fingers through my hair and I decided that was my favourite feeling in the world. The soothing touch of him. He kissed the top of my head. "You are beautiful."I giggled into his chest feeling so good at his words even if I knew that he had not seen my face before speaking. Instead of calling him out on teasing me, I nestled my head into his chest blushing. "And you are handsome."His broad expansive chest moved with unheard laughter. This was bliss. I could stay like this forever. Stay with him forever. "We are so cute." I whispered against his chest and he hummed, his body vibrating as he turned with me in his arms. He yawned, and then he kissed the side of my
Kiara's POVAfter breakfast, we went back to our room - Godddess it felt so nice to say that, not mine, ours- we took our time continuing where we had left off after Keturah intruded. It was passionate, hard and everything I could have asked for. As I dressed up for the second time that day because I needed to learn how to keep my clothes on in front of Damien, he sprawled on the bed watching me unashamedly. "You need to be presented to the court and council."I paused midway lacing up my front corset that did fantastic things to my boobs. Just because I was putting on my clothes didn't mean I wanted them to stay on. My mind was whirling. I was a werewolf and the council members had no doubt have been there for ages. What if they still carried the rivalry between werewolves and Lycans in their minds? Would they ever truly accept me that way?I looked at Damien."Do you think they will like me?"He stood up from the bed unashamed, naked and proud. And he was all mine. I swooned for
Damien's POVFor a moment, I sat stunned by the audacity of my council. How could they presume to tell me what to do?How dare they tell me to change Kiara? That was a decision that I would make on my own at her discretion and not theirs."Who do you think you are to make that demand?" I growled and the entire table fell silent. I knew that Kiara would never agree and this would end up being another sore point between us. I recalled the last few days of bliss before that assassin had come to ruin everything. I would fix that in due time but the past few days had to have been the best in my life. It had just been Kiara and me before the world intruded. I didn't want to lose the peace and stability we had attained in that time and if the council wanted to stand against me then I would show them why I was the King and they were the council. Garrett spoke up and I was surprised because he had always been so level headed in the last. I wondered what had changed since then. "The counc
Dorian's POVI couldn't believe that Ashly just threw herself in the line of fire for me. I had been so sure that she had found her way out if the room, the moment that things had done south. And now she was going to die for it if Damien had any say in the matter. I watched Ashly sway almost lifelessly in Damien's arms as her struggles finally ceased. I had told Kiara that I would never forgive Keturah he'll, I had told her as well but as I watched Damien strangle her for attempting to save me, I knew that I would never live with myself if I allowed this to happen. Damien dropped her to the ground and I noticed her chest lift and come down again. She was still alive. I just had to keep her that way. Damien moved and I knew that he was going for the kill. I stepped in front of him. "Stop!"Damien stopped but not because of my words, I think I had shocked him by choosing to save Keturah's life after what she had done to me. I was a little shocked myself. "Why do you want to spare
Ashly's POVWhen I opened my eyes, I was in the pack infirmary and Shaun was in the chair next to me, his face, a picture of worry and my traitorous heart skipped a beat. His brown eyes met mine and I saw relief bloom in them. "Hey." My voice was a croak, my throat still hurting from where Damien held me and my back and side hurt. He must have hit me there and or dropped me from such a height that it still hurt even now. "Hey." Shaun replied with a small smile on his face that had no right to make him look so handsome. As I tried to sit up somewhat, his arms wrapped around me and after he assisted me in sitting up, his arms lingered as he pulled me into a watkrm embrace, his head nestled in my neck. "Shaun." I breathed and his arms around me tightened but he seemed to know where my injuries were so he did it in such a way that he didn't aggravate my injuries.I took in his scent feeling unusually safe in his hold and basking in it. When he pulled away, he didn't move away full
Damien"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked Kiara who was now looking away sheepishly refusing to meet my gaze. How could Keturah have tried poisoning her and I was only just getting to know about it?I thought back to when I had thanked her for looking after Kiara in my abscence. I noticed that the atmosphere between her and Kiara had been tense but this was the last thing I had been expecting. Poison?I gripped Kiara's arm forcibly keeping her attention on me. "Kiara, I am asking you a question.""You want to know why? Fine I'll tell you."Kiara's face tightened and shr pulled herself out of my hold. "Because I didn't want you to blow this out of proportion like you usually do every single issue!"What was she even saying? She had kept the truth to herself about something as important as this simply because she wanted to stop me from over reacting? Was finding out about my mate being poisoned not a reason to get angry? To react? I wasn't over reacting. I was reacting plain and simpl