I awoke with a banging headache and an unsettling feeling. I squinted my eyes and groaned as I tried to seat up. As usual, Draven wasn’t in bed and the usual disappointment settled at the pit of my stomach. “Thank goddess you’re alive,” I flung my head to find a frail figure seated at the extreme end of the room. How did I not catch her scent?I giggled and held out my arms to my best friend, “Ailana! How did you get here?” I have been too busy these days to see her and I’d had it in mind to go to her today.She hugged me and giggled too “Your mate told me to come be with you,” she answered.“He did?” I asked, not hiding my surprise. Draven wasn’t comfortable with me having friends, especially not Ailana considering their history. “Suprised me too,” she sat next to me on the bed “He went from telling me to stay away from you to ‘Ordering’ me to come stay with you and not let you out of my sight,” she laughed “He cares for you,” I rubbed my wrist that still ached from when he’
HEATHER’S POVI resisted the urge to haul my phone against the wall as I started to lose my patience. What the fuck is taking him so long? “Calm down Heather, everything is going to go as planned,” Donovan scoffed, irritated by my constant pacing. I gave him a death glare but he just shrugged. Draven was starting to trust me again, or maybe not. He could have killed me by now if he wanted to and now that I still have my head on my neck, I have to do it once and for all. Marvin wasn’t a newbie to things like this. He’s helped me in the past, and he was particularly good at this, but what if what they said about her visions were true? What if she’d seen all of it and evaded the situation?I don’t think I ever hated anyone as much as I hate Esmeray Grayson right now. She was getting stronger, especially after bearing my man’s mark. I growled inwardly. I have to do all I can to sabotage that union and stop her from being crowned Queen. If I’d done what I had to do a long time ago, she w
DRAVEN’S POVWith the coronation ceremony fast approaching, many lycan and werewolf alphas have been clamoring for an invitation. The Luna’s are making conscious efforts to befriend my mate, and she happens to be doing well with her duties so far. Esmeray Grayson has impressed me. From being the timid girl to speaking up and offering her ideas. It’s weird that my beast enjoys her little challenges. If another man that wasn’t Duron or Vadirr dared to object to my laws and punishment, I made sure they didn’t live long enough to apologize. With her, things were different. I’ve tried in many ways to break her stronghold on me, to convince myself that I didn’t enjoy her company and that the only reason I was attracted to her was the simple fact that she was my mate and carried my mark. But I was wrong. Her kind-heartedness and willingness to see the good in every situation were her best features. She was smart, smarter than I’d given her credit for in the past. She has adapted pretty we
EIGHTY-ONE‘Stop shutting me out, you are going to want to hear this’ Duron seethed through the mind link after finally opening the link to him. I was in no mood to listen to anything he had to say unless it involved finding my mate. If anything happens to her, everyone dies. The Lycaon palace had gone on lockdown under my orders, and unless Duron had relevant information about my mate, which I doubt that he does, I wasn’t interested in hearing what he had to say.‘I’ll forget you are my brother and slit your throat first if this isn’t as important as you make it sound,’ My beast responds. He was going on a rampage, and I couldn’t hold him back, I didn’t want to hold him back. Why did a part of me feel awfully guilty about her disappearance? I should kill Smythe for his negligence. He was supposed to be following her around but that stupid mutt just couldn’t do this one thing right. What if my enemies have finally gotten to me? I had so many of them that I wasn’t sure who to trust
This, perhaps, had to be the easiest chase I ever gave. I had him on the ground in a second, my arms pressing against his neck on the hard floor. I smashed my fist into his face, once, twice, and a third time until blood poured from his nose. He struggled beneath me, but his efforts to escape where futile.“Where is she?” I growled at him. I could worry about how the fuck he managed to get into the palace without my knowledge later. Right now, all I wanted was to see her. To know that she was okay, and he’d not laid a finger on her. “I do-n’t know what yo-u are talking about,” he choked.“Where the fuck is she??” I commanded, flashing my claws in his face. The last person I wanted to kill so bad was my late father. I picked him up from the floor, only to throw another punch in his face, my claws digging into his skin. He screamed and staggered back as blood gushed from his face. That would most certainly leave a scar, but what did it matter since he was going to be dead in a few m
ESMERAYWhite fog. I remember this place all too well. I have been here before. This has to be heaven. The first time I came to heaven was after Zella had smacked me with an aluminum tray after I broke her expensive wares in the kitchen. I’d been happy to be in heaven then, but right now, something felt off. I wasn’t ready to come to heaven, I felt like I’d left something or someone on Earth. That’s weird. I have no one.I blinked several times, then I heard feet shuffling and stopping next to me. I heard whispers, but I couldn’t clearly hear what was being said. “You are awake,” I heard an unfamiliar voice, and I turned my head to the left at the sound of the voice. Someone was smiling broadly at me, dressed in white. Is he an angel? I smiled weekly at him as my eyes started to gradually adjust to the environment. Someone stood beside the angel, and when my eyes met the marine blue ones of the man who looked somewhat worried, everything started to come back to me. This wasn’t heaven
DRAVENI failed at the one thing I was supposed to be good at, and I’ll carry the guilt with me for the rest of my life. I made a mistake of letting her out of my sight, but that’s not going to happen anymore. I’ll die before I allowed anything happen to her again, and to make sure she is safe, I had to kill my brother. Heather had vanished again, because I’d failed to eliminate her when I had the chance to. I realized her involvement in the ordeal when I found that camera. I recognized it because I’d gotten it for her on one of her birthdays. All of it was my fucking fault.Betrayal is downright unforgivable for me a man like me, and letting either Heather or Donovan live felt like I was betraying myself and my mate. I wanted to curse the goddess for the ill luck she has dealt me.The oracle had told me once that some bad mistakes I made in the past will come back to haunt me. She had said that I would be the cause of my own downfall and every day, I see it playing before me and I’
ESMERAY“Esmeray, please come out,” I heard Draven say for the tenth time at the door of the bathroom. I ignored and continued to scrub my body with tears still streaming down my eyes. I cast my mind back to the events of the last few days, and the more I think about it, the more I felt hurt. I wanted to wash Donovan’s filthy hands off my body but no matter how many hours I spent in the bathroom scrubbing my body with different scents of body wash, I still felt filthy. My skin still itched like I’d caught scabies.I remember all of it. From the ambush to when Marvin had taken me to Heather and Donovan. I remember the argument between the two before Heather left Donovan to finish the job. I remember Donovan wasting time and just staring at my face while I lay there before getting to the job. I cried when I remembered him stripping me off every piece of clothing and lusting after my body. He’d had time to wank by staring at my body and fondling my boobs first before starting to take th