I saw Ailana the following day after my training with Draven. She was sitting on a bench by the waterside, looking lost and deep in thought. She didn’t look up when I approached her, she just kept staring into space. Her skin was pale, her eyes didn’t hold the shine it used to have. She looked different.“What do you want?” Ailana asked without looking at me.I flopped on the bench next to her “To say I’m sorry,” I sighed.“Sorry for what?” she finally turned to look at me, but I couldn’t tell what it was I saw in her eyes.“For everything,” I sighed “I’m sorry Draven held you in his dungeons. Believe me, I had no idea…”She laughed sadly “I wish I believed you, Ray,” she shook her head “I understand all of it now. You left the shitty pack, found your mate and fell in love. You got famous, became strong and important, and then you forgot all about your little old friend,”“Aila-“ She held up a hand to stop me.“Every fucking day since you left, I prayed to the moon goddess to keep you
DRAVENI had stopped listening to what the chief kingmaker was saying about ten minutes ago. This meeting was dragging on too long, and I was eager to get on to other things. He has been reading the Lycanthrope laws for at least thirty minutes, and it was tiring to hear it. I knew most of these laws by heart because my father made me memorize them as a kid, and the kinsmen knew this all too well. Yet, they took their time to read it during every meeting. I leaned back in my seat as my mind drifted off to my mate for the nth time that day. Her most enticing feature for me was her eyes. Half the time she tried to hide how she felt, but her eyes gave her away. Those round emerald green innocent eyes. There was something about her innocence that turned me on and mere thinking of her now, I could feel my member swelling in my pants. It's been like that since I marked her. Not an hour goes by that she doesn’t cross my mind. It was getting harder by the day to resist her.My beast made my p
HEATHER’S POVI massaged my throbbing temples and let out a breath that I didn’t realize I’d been holding. My beast was angry and she blames me. I was too late, it was all too late now because that disgusting piece of shit was already carrying Draven’s mark. I gritted my teeth in annoyance. I have never wanted anyone dead as much as I want that scumbag dead. I want her eliminated and all memories of her existence wiped off from the surface of the earth if possible.If only I’d had the information soon enough, I could have stopped the mating ceremony, but not in a thousand years would I have imagined that Draven will play me dirty like this. Was I not good enough for him? I loved him and pleased him in all the ways a woman could possibly please a man. For many years, I proved my loyalty to him, and even though I constantly had to compete with other women for him, I knew I had a special hold on him that most of them didn’t. He was fond of me, he allowed me lay in his bed, but everything
ESMERAYI lost track of Smythe who had been following at a close distance as soon as I got into Draven’s office building. As usual, everyone was busy and on their toes, an indication that Draven was very much within the vicinity. With the news of the coronation ceremony just around the corner, there was a lot that needed to be done before then. Since the announcement, I gained more fans. People stopped to stare at me when I passed, and some even fell on their knees to pay homage. The young girls who were bold enough to approach me wouldn’t stop singing praises to me and telling me how much like me they wanted to be. The respect came naturally, while a vast majority of them couldn’t hide their jealousy. Draven had warned me about the need to be extra careful now. I’ll be the easiest means his enemies could get to him, which is why he made sure I trained more.My training sessions were longer and more regular unlike before. I spent time in the office these days, and I was gradually cat
I moved without second thoughts, unable to hold my raving beast back. My fingers curled around Heather’s neck, and I flung her against the opposite wall in a flash. Her back hit the wall, creating a large dent. Little pieces of cement fell to the floor as her body slid to the floor. Silence followed. I stopped then, only realising what I’d just done. Not sure how in the name of moon goddess I possessed so much strength to lift a lycan by the neck, but my beast wanted me to beat the living daylights out of her. “Please, Draven, what is this?” Abigail shrieked. I turned then and noticed she was held by two warriors under Draven’s instructions. They already had her in handcuffs, but everyone’s eyes were now on me. “Get her out of my sight,” Draven ordered in a low tone, and without hesitating, Abigail was carted away and her screams resounding in the hallway. Heather had gotten back to her feet but was still staggering to get her composure while I glared at her, and then at Draven. Wha
A knocking on the door brought our attention to it. Vadirr and Duron pushed their way in, with Duron first observing the dent in Draven’s wall. He looked at Draven questioningly before his eyes darted to me and widened in surprise.“Why is Heather still alive?” Vadirr asked first, his brows creasing together. I turned to Draven and quirked a brow too, folding my arms beneath my bosom.Draven didn’t respond. He moved to sit behind his desk and leaned back in the chair, “I’ll take care of her,” he simply said “Come,” He spread his left arm in my direction.“What?” I stared at him, my cheeks turning slightly pink. I was mad at this man, my beast hated the fact that he still carried some of Heather’s scent, but when he looked at me like that, it was hard not to notice how handsome he was.“Come, dear mate, sit with me,” he pated his laps lazily and the redness on my cheeks deepened. “Don’t let me come get you myself dear mate,” he said sternly. I obeyed reluctantly, but only because I
It was past midnight before he returned home that night. Unable to sleep, I got busy reading some of the books the other luna had recommended to me but half the time, my mind drifted off to our little argument earlier in the day. Zelinda had called to cancel tonight’s training on Draven’s orders and it was hard to concentrate when I didn’t know what was going on with him. Because he was a master at shielding his thoughts and emotions, I couldn’t always feel them although I carried his mark. It was like he was deliberately shielding it from me. Perharps I shouldn’t have referred to his late father, but heck we were mates. Was I only just imagining the fact that we were making progress?When I finally heard him enter, I pretended to be engrossed in the book I was reading while he moved around. “You are not reading that,” He spoke, sounding tired. “I am,” before he’d come, I’d planned to ignore him, but how could I? this devil had me wrapped around his fingers.“No one reads a book
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’
“Mommy, Darren says I’m not going to be king,” three-year-old Dayton told me teary-eyed “I want to be king like Daddy,” I glanced at Draven for help. He smiled and picked Dayton up, pecking him on the cheeks first “Oh but you are a king my little man, even better than your daddy,” “But I’m older,” Darren argued. The twin boys were exactly like their father and it made me jealous sometimes. They had his hair color, same eye color, same facial structure and they were already starting to sound like him at this tender age. I carried them for seven months! And I pushed both of them out of my vagina! Yet they didn’t look anything like me. A normal lycan or werewolf pregnancy lasts about six months but these two took their time before deciding it was time to face the world. “Yes you are, by ten minutes,” Draven told Darren. Though the twins were identical, it was not hard for me to tell them apart. I was gifted you see. Draven sometimes struggled to know who is who. “Can there be two king
My face was covered with Draven’s kisses by the time we made it to his former chambers and my stomach hurt from too much laughing. Our things had been moved to the King’s chambers and I didn’t realize how much I’ll miss this place until we got there. The King’s chambers were many miles away, so it was easier to come here. He dropped me gently once we were inside, and I moved round, noticing how lonely it felt.“Why can’t we just stay here?” I asked.“Because it is no longer befitting for a King and his Luna,” Draven pulled my hands and hauled me against his chest “I bet you will like the King’s suite better,” he assured me.“It holds a lot of memories,” I turned back to where a huge portrait of Draven used to be to find the wall empty.“We will make more memories in the King’s quarters,” he winked at me and my heart fluttered again. “Besides, you can always come here to spend some time if you please. There’s going to be a routine maintenance every year until our first son is of age to
ESMERAYIt’s happening! Hard as it is to believe, it is actually happening! If I had the power to, I would have loved to freeze this moment and bask in the joy I feel for just a little bit longer. I wonder why the goddess didn’t give me that gift. My beast howled in my head in excitement as I said my vows and took my oath, swearing my allegiance to the entire kingdom and my loyalty to the people, and my new role.A cut was made on I and Dravens right hands, and we shook hands, making sure there was exchange of blood. A charge of electricity flowed from my head to toe as we did, and this wasn’t the usual electric current I feel whenever Draven as much as touched me, it was different, making me feel even more powerful. Draven occasionally reached me through the mind link to make sure that I was okay, and I assured him I never felt better which was true. My beast felt more powerful, and my senses more alert.Soon after, we were crowned and pronounced king and Queen, and the crowd went on
DRAVEN“Where is Duron?” I asked Vadirr who was hovering behind me.“Right here,” Duron answered, casually walking into the room where I was getting ready to join the waiting guests. I have waited for this day for a long time, worked hard for it. My father had told me several stories about what to expect during the coronation and what and what not to do. Ever since I was born, I was groomed for this day. But with just a few minutes left before I am finally crowned king, I didn’t feel the joy that I thought I would.I knew why I felt the way that I did, but I convinced myself that I could live with it. Esmeray Grayson, the woman that would be my Luna Queen didn’t love me. The sparks between us had intensified more than ever. In the last two days, we have made love even more than the way we had in the past. She still reacted to me the way she usually would. I only had to look at her to get her blushing really hard. She squirms in delight whenever I called her beautiful. I heard the soun
By the next day, I had made up my mind on what to do. I took a fresh shower, washed my hair and put on a particular lingerie he’d complimented once. I covered myself in a robe and waited for him. I was not sure if he was going to come home or not, and I was not going to call his office phone to find out. But I made up my mind that if he didn’t get home by nightfall, I’d go to his office with hopes to find him there.I was feeling unusually nervous, so I picked up a book and started to flip through it. Seconds turned to minutes, minutes to hours, and frustration started to kick in. I lost the courage I had mustered and put the book away. There was no point, maybe I should just give up this ridiculous act. I’d just started to untie my robe when I started to feel his presence. Shortly after, I heard the front door open and my heart pounded loudly in my chest.I tightened the robe around me when he entered. As usual, he didn’t spare me a glance or acknowledge my presence in the room. He w
I’d tried to talk to Ailana after that, but she decided to hide in her room again and wouldn’t let me in, so I thought it best to give her some time to come to terms with it. She wasn’t the only one hiding apparently. Duron too did not show face for dinner and when I asked about him, I was told he’d left the palace unannounced.After my first shift, I found out that my visions were much more clearer and didn’t come with their usual headaches. That night, I decided to visit the oracle as I’d intended to do so a long time now but the events of the last days had not allowed me the time to.Smythe took me to her and I found Cordelia seated at her usual spot on the floor. She looked up as soon as I entered, a wide smile plastered on her face.“Luna,” she greeted cheerfully, quickly rising to her feet. I smiled back at her and looked around her room. There had been a few changes since the last time I came here, and I told her. She nodded her agreement and pointed a chair for me to sit but I
ESMERAYOn the seventh day, we laid the departed to rest. Draven had fully recovered and immersed himself in repairing the damages and compensating the families of the bereaved. He also made sure that those who had invaded his territory were apprehended. None of them went away scot free. Even those that fled, he’d sent trackers to find them and judgment was passed on them.The members of Silver Moon pack were sold off as slaves to other packs. I didn’t interfere with Draven’s decision when he passed it or try to plead on their behalf because I knew most of them probably deserved it. There were a few innocent ones though, but I could only hope that the goddess herself brings them goodwill in their new journey in life. If they were indeed good people, their innocence would vindicate them.Draven, however, avoided me like a plague since he left the hospital bed the same day that he awoke. I watched him from a distance in deep conversation with the new kingmaker and Vadirr by his side. No
DRAVENI cupped my erection as my mate did a little striptease for me. She looked absolutely beautiful and dangerously sexy in her underwear. She was shy, but with every second that passed came a little bit of confidence. She smiled at me, and her smile grew into laughter, but she stopped suddenly and started to get into her clothes hastily. Her smile was suddenly replaced by a look of fear, of worry. I watched her get into her clothes, wishing she would not stop her little show, but I started to get alarmed too at the worry on her face.My heart broke into a thousand many pieces when she started to cry, weeping like a bride who just got jilted at the alter. She was uncontrollable. A woman in distress. I reached for her hands and tried to touch her, but the more I tried to reach her, the farther away she drifted. My heart was pounding in my chest as I watched her drift away from me. “Esmeray,” I gasped, my eyes fluttering open immediately. I tried to sit up, but my whole body felt
“Drop it,” Ailana ordered her father whose gun dropped noisily to the floor immediately she said those words. Her face had a seriousness I’d not seen in them before. This isn’t exactly the type of reunion one would wish to have with ones father.“You are not going to kill your father, are you, child?” Thane’s eyes were on his daughter’s fierce ones.“You are not my father,” Ailana argued “You were never my father, never have, and never will be. I know you never wanted a girl child. The only reason you tried to like me was because you started to realize your perfect son wasn’t so perfect after all,”“What are you talking about Aila? You know you were my favorite. Zayden was a fool, which is why I was going to put you up against him for the alpha seat. You were better than him in every aspect,” Thane reached to touch Aila’s arm but she flinched and pressed the gun tighter into his forehead.“Aila-“ I stopped when a lone tear dropped from Aila’s eye. Her lips were clasped tightly. I didn