Leila’s POVI woke up bright an early with a mission, to drag Cora’s ass through an ocean of pain that would barely compare to what she’d put me through on the night of the witch trial. Even though she’d gotten off the hook because she wasn't a witch, at least I didn't lose on all sides that night because I found out that she had a magical heirloom that had been protecting her from my spells all this while.Luckily for me, Kai had asked her to get rid of it and that meant that I could now cast spells on her at will and it’d work without any interruptions. On cue, the puppet I needed to carry out the most important part of my plan against Cora knocked on my door to resume her morning duties.“Yes? Come in” I called out and she pushed the door open cautiously, probably trying to gauge my mood because in the past week when I was recovering from the injuries Cora inflicted on me, I’d taken out all my anger on her in various inhumane ways.“Good morning, miss, I'll get your bath ready now”
Kai’s POVI’d gone on a two day trip to receive an honorary title as the greatest protector for all the lands that contracted me to do so because they’d never been under an attack by their enemies and lost. After the ceremony was concluded, the Alphas who had benefited from my protection decided to celebrate with me and I invited them to return to my palace with me.Before we arrived, I sent a guard ahead of me to inform Levi to prepare the palace bar with liquor and various delicacies for the celebration. As soon as we reached the palace, I was told by a guard that the preparations had been concluded and I led the men to the palace bar with me as the chattered amongst themselves.The palace bar was purposely located close to the maids’ quarters because men in my company always loved to feast their eyes on the various beautiful woman that I gathered as spoils of war and turned into maids, in fact on some occasions, I ended up selling whichever maids they took interest in at outrageous
Kai’s POVAs much as I didn't want to admit it, I’d been thinking about Cora an awful lot since the last feast and her behavior at the palace bar the day before just made my thoughts even more focused on her and I fucking hated it.Before now, the only time she crossed my mind was when I was thinking up a punishment for her or how best to milk her body for riches, because all she was to me was a plaything, a mouthy whore that dared to defy me countless times and nothing more.After how she’d slapped me angrily after I fucked her at the feast, all I could think about was how displeased she was with me to have gotten physical. Normally, she’d stick to raining abusive words at me despite knowing how much that pissed me off especially in public, but she’d refused to care about the consequences of slapping me and went for it.The days that followed, it’d bothered me so much that I couldn't bring myself to go the dungeon to see her, my feelings were heavily conflicted and I was constantly t
Cora’s POV“Leave her to me, but wait outside in case she puts up a fight and needs to be restrained” The head matron told them and they nodded before they let go of me.As I stood at the door and stared at her, my chest heaved angrily as I wondered what bullshit she had in store for me this time around. She communicated with her eyes to the guards behind me as I was stalling getting into the room and the pushed in so I staggered and almost fell to the floor before they shut the door behind me.“In the bathroom, now” She ordered me and I looked her over with disgust before I walked in through the open door and she followed after me.As much as I desperately hated taking orders from anyone, what I hated the most was being restrained and treated like a animal and I knew that's what would happen if I disobeyed her and she had to call the guards in for assistance.I stepped into the bath tub without being told and she started to wash me clean with expensive bath oils and fragrances that I
Kai’s POVThe Alpha that had just had the pleasure of touching Cora was being given handshakes and claps on the back by the men in the audience as he made his way back to his seat and it was glaring that they were impressed at what he’d done and so was he from the huge grin that graced his features as he finally settled into his seat.I didn't know why I followed him with my eyes all the way to his seat but I didn't care enough to figure it out before I turned and made my way back into the glass cubicle to meet Cora.“How’d that feel? You look like you can barely stand” My eyes wandered to her legs that were visibly shaking even as she tried to stabilize herself by holding on to the walls of the cubicle.“Are you done? Can I fucking leave already?” She glared at me but based on the million other times that she had, I was pretty immune to it so it didn't bother me.“We're nowhere near started, or are we gentlemen?” The last part of my statement was raised to the crowd and the men whole
Kai’s POVMy hand remained tightly latched around her neck as I dragged her away from the hall, I could hear confused whispers among the men but none of the dared to speak up against me because they knew I’d have their heads on pikes in seconds for daring to question my decision.As soon as I walked out of the hall, I could hear Levi trying to diffuse the situation and dismiss them but I was more focused on how furious Cora had managed to make me once again, and in front of all those men like she’d done a couple of times.“You don’t know when to keep your fucking mouth shut, do you!?” I asked her angrily knowing that with how tightly I was grabbing unto her neck she couldn't respond.“You just do as you please and assume that you can take the consequences, don’t you?” I kicked the door of my room open and pushed her into it violently before I shut the door behind me.She’d landed on her ass painfully but she put on her usual tough act by refusing to make a single sound that would sugg
Kai’s POVI was thinking about Cora again.At this point, it’d become a fucking plague—No, another curse that I was doomed to bear when I was still actively struggling with another. I’d tried to shove it deep down within me, down in the darkest parts of my being that strangely held an appeal for her, one that I’d deny until my grave, one that I’d never let her be right about even it it kills me.Hell, it's killing me already.The wildest part was that the one thing that was in a loop in my head was how she’d handled me when she took control, how she’d given me the sort of a pleasure that a man couldn't forget no matter how hard he tried, how I’d been the helpless party in out dynamic for the first time because of how experts she’d handled my cock.I wanted to end that loop of thoughts and take back the control from her, I’d never been the submissive party and I’d rather roam like an animal and live on grass than let Cora assume that she could take the reigns like she had without being
Cora’s POVAh, I felt like a warrior with renewed motivation as I stretched awake the next morning.By the time I’d returned to the maids’ quarters with my excuse of a dress, smudged lipstick and ruffled ponytail everyone was fast asleep and yet I’d still woken up before them. I think it was what I’d just discovered the evening before rush energized me.Normally, I’d be running off to bath and violently scrub off all the impurities from being touched by Kai and those degenerate Alphas, but this time around I felt like Kai was the one on the losing end and I’d gotten relevant information from the feast to give me a steady advantage over him that’d help me exert my revenge once and for all.The fact that I’d realized that Kai’s possessiveness was both his strength and his weakness made my heart flutter with glee. That was the one edge I now had over Kai; knowing that I was more than a common whore to him and more like a woman whose sexual prowess he’d gotten attached to without even rea
Cora’s POV“Bitch, if you don’t get back in there!” Nina caught me just before I could sneak out to Kai’s chambers. “Man, you’re such a cockblocker,” I blew a raspberry at her and rolled my eyes in annoyance before stepping back into the room. “It’s bad luck for the groom to see his bride while she’s fully dressed and you know it,” she entered right after me. Maybe If I’d snuck out the second after she left I’d have met up with Kai for a quickie and I’d be back before she could come and spew rubbish myths to keep me away from him. “That’s a myth and whoever came up with it is clearly a hater!” I sunk into my chair, fully dressed in the most stunning wedding dress I’d ever seen all my life. “I’ll let you get away with that only because it’s your wedding day,” Nina chucked a purple flower in her hair to match her chief bridesmaid’s dress. “It’s my wedding day!” I squealed so loudly that Nina had to use both palms to block her eyes while smiling at me. I still couldn’t believe it.
Kai’s POVLevi’s pain strengthened me even more, he had no idea.“In your next life, when you get an opportunity to kill your enemy, don’t be an egoistic bastard by waiting to organize a lousy ceremony first and just fucking do it!” I gave him the last piece of valuable advice he’d ever get.“C-Cora….” tears dropped down his face as he fixed his desperately pleading eyes on my woman.“You brought this on yourself, Levi. I’d never have grown to love or trust a man that could betray someone he’d sworn an oath of eternal loyalty to, it just meant that you could switch up on me someday too,” she surprised me by intertwining her fingers with my bloody ones as she spoke.“I could never ever betray you, Cora. You’re my fated true love, and it’s not too late to leave this deceitful monster and save me,” my blood began to boil all over again as I watched him plead with her.I gave him one fatal blow to the jaw and he dropped to the floor groaning.“Stop fucking talking to her, you dead meat!”
Levi’s POVIt was today.The day I’d watch Kai meet an embarrassing end just before all of his power was transferred to my deserving arms. The gods knew that I would’ve been better suited to be blessed with his boundless abilities and fate had finally turned things in my favor.“Are you prepared for the ritual?” I practically whispered as I bent towards the elderly men that were meant to perform the soul swapping ritual.They dropped their hoods at the same time and nodded in a slow synchronized movement, “As prepared as the gods permits their servants to be.”Creepily, that was also said in unison before the covered their hoods again in one swift motion and walked off towards the lifted stage where Kai’s body would be placed for the public execution. As weird and disturbing as their identical movements were, it didn’t deplete my excitement about the execution ceremony.“Welcome all,” I stood to my feet as I began to address the hundreds of people in attendance.“You have come from lan
Levi’s POVI knocked on Cora’s door again when I didn’t get a response.“It’s me Levi, are you in?” I called out.A few seconds passed and then I heard a door open that signified that she must’ve been in the bathroom when I knocked earlier.“I’ll be right there, give me a minute,” her sweet voice called out and I nodded even though she couldn’t see me.I tapped my feet on the floor as I waited for her, and then finally she pulled the door open.“You wanna come in?” she moved aside as she pulled the door open.Her hair looked a bit wet, her cheeks were glistening like they’d been oiled and she was wearing the most adorable little pink dress paired with white cute flats. Even before now, I was always eager to see what she’d wear every single day, but it was more fulfilling now because she was all mine to ogle.“Nah, there’s something I have to show you,” I grabbed her wrist and began leading her away from the room.“You mind telling me where we’re headed?” she finally asked after we’d ta
Levi’s POV“Has she gotten the bouquets?” I asked the maid that I’d sent on an errand earlier.“Yes, sir. I delivered them first thing in the morning,” she answered with a bow and I waved her off.The morning of the day we’d overpowered Kai, I remembered watching him gather flowers after he’d thought I left on a tax collecting trip. I watched him make them into a huge bouquet and I was pretty irritated that he thought flimsy flowers would fix all the damage he’d done to Cora when he regarded her as an enemy.However, it had given me a brilliant Idea.I decided that I’d send a bouquet or more to Cora’s room every morning with a heart warming note just to remind her of how precious she was to me. She never failed to thank me for it at breakfast and it made my heart swell. I loved that I’d finally gotten the chance to woo her and I knew I’d do a far better job than Kai could ever have.Speaking of that monster, Kai, I was skipping breakfast to go and see him in the dungeon, to see how muc
Cora’s POVI woke up in a pool of my own sweat.My eyes searched the room to see if the beast in my dreams had crossed into reality by some chance for an opportunity to continue torturing me, but I was lucky that that hadn't happened. The only other person in the room was Nina, not a grizzly monster.She was curled up into a ball on her mattress and she was buried so far into the duvet that I could only see her eyes and a bit of her forehead. And yes, she was crashing here because of the nightmares.The same horrid nightmares that had been recurring for a while now.After the first two nights, I’d told Nina about it because she noticed the heavy eye bags underneath my eyes and then she’d scolded me for not speaking up earlier before gathering most of her things and moving into my room.Oh, trust me, I protested. I assured her that it wouldn't happen again, but she gave me the ‘this isn't up for debate’ look and did as she pleased.Carefully, I moved off the bed and walked over to sit a
Kai’s POVI could smell her, so I knew she was near.Her scent was refreshing and intoxicating and I wished I could drown myself in it one last time, just once. I knew I looked like absolute crap but I was still eager to see her, to look at her and search her eyes for any feelings of remorse, to find out if the memories we shared meant anything to her.As much as my determination to kill Levi for betraying me was one of my driving forces for staying alive, the primary reason that I hadn't let my spirit break was because I was desperate to see Cora again.Delusions aside, I was ready to break my chains and make things right with her.I tuned my ears to the sounds of her footsteps as she neared, heels clacking on the cemented hallway she was walking down to reach the torture dungeon.One might tag me as a helpless fool, but I felt a tad excited to gaze upon her stunning face again.“You look like shit,” was the first thing that left her lipstick clad lips as she pulled the door of the d
As I walked behind her toward the dining hall, I couldn't help but admire every single detail that was in my view.Her body was clad tightly in a lovely purple dress—a color that signified royalty which was what she’d finally become now that Kai was put away— that made my insides ache as her full hips swayed in it, her legs were being carried in black heels that made her look elegant, and her hands were accessorized with pure golden bangles that matched the necklace she was wearing.The only thing that was out of place was the crystal bracelet that rested in between the golden bangles, but that didn't matter.All that mattered was that she’d dressed up for me.I remember how incredibly jealous I usually felt whenever she dressed up for Kai, especially because she was always so gorgeous and she still treated her like bird poop. I’d never make her feel that way, how could I even dare?“Have I mentioned how stunning you look tonight, Cora?” I asked as we finally stepped into the dining h
Levi’s POVKai’s face? Priceless.The mere fact that he’d been cocky enough to assume that I’d be blindly loyal to him despite how much of a monster he was made it glaringly obvious that he was nothing but a muscled idiot. So, seeing the shock on his face when he realized that I’d betrayed him was far more rewarding than I’d thought it’d be.Nothing could've prepared me for how powerful and satisfied I’d been when I saw him looking raggedy and helpless in chains.He’d brought his miserable fate upon himself and I was beyond pleased that the moon goddess had chosen me to put him in his place. I strongly believed that everything was set in stone on the very day that Kai had unintentionally exposed his weakness to me.I still recall that day like it was an hour ago.Kai had been drunk to stupor after our first major win, we’d conquered an army of almost a hundred and fifty thousand werewolves with an army of only two hundred werewolves. Kai had intentionally subdued the beast within him i