ADRIANA’S POVI’m still in a state of mini shock even after Xander left. I didn’t even know why I was shocked, sure, I didn’t expect him to bound his sister and have her thrown into jail, but then I didn’t think he would take it that well.“Well, that was unexpected,” Daciana looks up at me and she smiles.“Xander is not that bad once you know how to deal with him,” she shrugs and walks toward the chair she was sitting on before. She lowers herself into it and I bring my legs up too, crossing them beneath me and then sitting on it.
ALPHA XANDER’S POVDonovan curses, stands up before sitting back down. His face is a shade darker and the violence swirling in his eyes has me raising my brows.“She won’t come here, she isn’t stupid enough to do that.” I tell him, hoping I sound more confident that I think I do.“Very comforting,” sarcasm drips from his tone. I have nothing better to say so I just keep quiet. “You know we can’t let her get into the pack right?”
ADRIANA’S POVI’m already nodding even before the words fully leave Xander’s mouth. The side of his lips stretch into a smile and I can’t explain what I feel in my stomach. I look away, feeling my cheeks heating.“Why do you always have to be a killjoy?” Daciana asks her brother, coming to stand in front of me protectively. Xander glares at her then turns back to me.“Don’t even think about it, I’ll see you later.” He says, shoots his sister another dirty glare before disappearing down the stairs. Daciana heaves and turns to me. “What is it going to be?” I lift both my shoulders in a shrug. Though I know deep down Xander’s word is law. I’m not bold enough to try and defy him, again. Not after what happened after the drinking episode.“Fine,” she grumbles and hooks my arm through the crook of hers. “You’re also a killjoy like him. Let’s go though, you can do something else.” She says, sounding like she is trying to convince herself. I smile and follow her, finding the exchange quite fu
ADRIANA’S POVI’m still watching Daciana with awe fifteen minutes later. I can see the driver from outside the shop window, sulking in the front seat of his car. To feel useful probably, he rolled down the windows of the SUV and has been looking out the windows. I feel a little bad for him, knowing he is stuck between Xander and his sister. Though I’m sure a part of him knows Xander will kill him if he doesn’t listen to his sister.What I still don’t understand is why everybody thinks he cares about me. I mean it makes butterflies swarm my belly but that is beside the point.“What plans do you have?” I remember her saying that in her room. Now I’m kind of curious.Daciana looks up at me over the cup of milkshake in her hand, then she bats her eyelashes which makes an amused smile touch my lips. “I told you my love, I can’t divulge my mental secrets for the fear of it being jinxed.” I sigh and pout. This time she chuckles. “Don’t look like that, you’ll find out soon enough. Come now, l
ALPHA XANDER’S POV“You look like you’re about to bolt,” Donovan has this disease called, I don’t know what the shut the fuck up syndrome. I ignore him and pinch the bridge between my eyes again. If I get injured easily, it would be bright red now probably with a bruise forming.Since Daciana and Adriana left, I haven’t been able to calm myself down. My entire being is restless and I feel my animal side pushing to the front. Normally, I would have pushed this on the full moon which will be in a few days. I fight for control during that time like every lycan and werewolf. Our animal side
ALPHA XANDER’S POVFeeling Adriana’s emotion, I have come to realize is both a bad and a good thing. Good because I can feel everything she feels, while she still has reservations against me, I can almost feel us getting closer and I love that.The bad part is, I’m always unable to concentrate, due to her being on my mind every second of every day. I try hard to stay, because I have shit to focus on, things that I need to do to keep her safe. I want her by my side for a very long time and if I want that to happen then I need to make sure she lives long enough for that.
ADRIANA’S POVA hand wraps around my throat, cutting off my air supply. I try fighting but her hold is too firm. All the alarm bells ring in my head and I panic, the first thing Zara said I should never do in an emergency situation. My mind is deaf to all her advice and warning and this is the worst time to learn a bigger lesson, thinking straight happens only when your brain is getting enough air. Something I am not getting right now.“Why don’t you fight back, slut.” She hisses in my ear, squeezing her hand tighter. I cough but it gets stuck in my throat, my eyes burn and tears stream down my face.I hear a few chatters close to us but I can’t comprehend what they are saying, I’m stuck in a sort of loop and the only thing my brain can register is that if I don’t get air into my lungs soon, I’m going to collapse and that is the one thing I don’t want to happen with this unknown woman that her intent has been clear since the moment I met her.“Weren’t you feeling all high and mighty,
ADRIANA’S POV“Oh,” is all I’m able to mutter and even that, about a minute later. I don’t even think Donovan is listening to me, as usual, he seems like a wall beside me and while I’m scared of him, I weirdly feel safe too. What I don’t know is, if it’s because of Xander standing a few feet away, or because he helped me.Well, Xander did technically but the Donovan I first met would have dragged me through the gravel to the car.“Guess she isn’t over him not wanting to see her again,” I drag my eyes from the scene back to Donovan. He is already looking at me, his expression unreadable.“Why?” I ask, although I have an inkling of the answer. I guess I don’t want to get ahead of myself.Donovan chuckles, though the sound is dry. His eyes look even drier if that is a thing. “Is that an actual question or are you trying to get me to stroke your ego?” I shake my head but don’t say anything. We stay like that for about five seconds before I hear a scoff behind me and Donovan’s voice comes
ALPHA XANDER’S POV “How do you know?” I’m not sure that is the right thing to ask but the question comes out either way. “I saw him,” he swallows. The tears fell this time, full of guilt. I know I’m a heartless monster but I still reach out and pat his shoulder in what I hope is a comforting touch. “I used to have trouble sleeping so I usually sneak into her room and sleep on her bed, she leaves the door open for me but he didn’t like that, he said I wasn’t man enough,” he frowns, his eyes hardening. He was just four, Jameson is a sick bastard and he deserves to die a slow and painful death. I vow to deliver that to him, in whatever hell he is hiding. “He had a pillow over her head and he didn’t stop until he was sure she was dead, I was too shocked to move. I ran to my room after, scared he would do the same to me and I never told anyone. I don’t know how he found out but he punished me and threatened to do the same to me if I said anything about it.” His throat bobs as he swallo
ALPHA XANDER’S POV“I know where he is,” Carlson says out of the blue. He has been quiet for about five minutes and I was reveling in it but that gives me a pause. I look up at him, his eyes are fixed on the ceiling like he is seeing a prophesy or some shit up there.“What?” I ask, because I can’t be sure what he said is right. If he knew where his father was all this while, why is he just telling me? I sit up and push the papers that are littered on my desk out of the way.“Jameson,
ALPHA XANDER’S POVDonovan suggested we cremate Adriana’s body, the look I gave him made him never mention that again.It has been three weeks, five days, three hours, twenty-one minutes and five seconds since I watched Dreaya slit her throat, and like I have been doing since it happened, I replayed every part of it. Every excruciating second of it. I try to analyze all that has happened, think of what I could have done to make the end happen differently. Burning Dreaya’s body was very easy but I made sure I left a mark.In whatever dumpster her ashes remain,
ALPHA XANDER’S POVMy entire world stops when she pushes the dagger deeper, a small raspy sound leaves my mate’s throat. That is the only thing I can hear is the drip of Adriana’s blood, I can hear every single gurgle from her throat.I try to force my legs to move but it feels like I’m rooted to the spot. No! This can’t fucking happen!Unlike the first time, I feel our connection sever. It is like my heart is being ripped from my chest, painfully slow, every vein being cut at an extremely slow pace. This seriously can’t be!“No.” I go to scream but it comes out in a small moan.Dreaya stands back and twirls the bloody dagger in her hand, she holds it to her face then brings it to her lips and juts her tongue out. I don’t feel disgust at her licking her daughter’s blood right off it. I’m in too much shock to do anything except stand there and watch all of this crazy shit. A part of me is praying this is just some type of messed up hallucination and I will snap out of it.I will give e
ADRIANA’S POVI’ve thought I felt what an out of body experience is before, but what I’m feeling now, I realize, is exactly what it means to have an out of body experience. I’m here, I hear things, I see things but I feel absent. In my body. I know this isn’t just my wolf taking control and pushing me back, it is more than just that.“What did you want to say again?” Xander asks, sounding bored.The woman—my mother—it feels weird calling her that because I didn’t feel any of the things I thought I would feel if I saw her. No joy, not even disappointment or anger. I just feel numb, and she could as well be anyone at this point. She hasn’t turned or spared me a glance since she came and that is probably adding to how I feel about her presence.I’d known it was her the moment I caught sight of the long blond almost whitish hair, so much like mine, and her eyes, I have a feeling they are the same color. Even our statures are quite similar. It is like I got all my genes from her and not Ja
ALPHA XANDER’S POVThe hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention, I don’t turn immediately. Letting the shock wear off my face first.My first instinct had been to get my mate out of there, then on second thought I didn’t move, knowing she was playing a game I have no idea how to. If she gets an inkling of my affections towards her daughter, this will just be a million times worse. I already have a lot to lose as it is. Any more and I would be left with nothing.“Hello Xander,” her slightly raspy voice says. This time I spin and face her, my eyes flicker to the bed, where Adriana is sitting still like a sculpture or something inanimate. I make sure the look is as brief as humanly possible, a blink is slower than that.Beside the bed, standing in her full glory is the woman I had hoped I wouldn’t have to face since the last time we tried to kill each other, a century ago.I feel the darkness that has been hibernating in me all these months, probably even years, the main reason wh
ALPHA XANDER’S POVThe most unlikely place for me to think is when I’m in between Adriana’s legs, or on the verge of cumming from how good she was riding me. If I wasn’t so sure about her being innocent, I would have been worried about how she knew how to do that.Wolves and lycans know the natural instinct of mating and since she is more wolf than human now, it makes sense that she would want to mate, completing the mate bond on another different level. If I was thinking straight, I would have stopped her knowing what would come after this. She would want to mark me and it won’t stop that way, her wolf, now linked to me and feeling my lycan aura would want to shift. That would be disastrous seeing the state the manor is in. The first shift is always horrendous.I’m lost in the sweet world of ecstasy that only involves my mate and me, and the pleasure and high we’re chasing.Everything goes well and I try to soothe her while she transitions into her true self and submit to her natural
ADRIANA’S POVI can admit one thing, I’d thought of taking control from Xander just to see how he would react, and because I was thinking with the throbbing between my thighs and not my brain.What I can’t agree with is what I did after, or what my body did. I’m feeling more confused than ever now.Xander’s eyes are widened into slits as he looks up from beneath me, the fire in his eyes makes my insides burn and they travel down my body and finally settle where I need him most. I’m sitting right above his crotch and I feel his excitement, it takes a lot of effort for me to not further move down and just end this torture.“Fuck,” He groans throwing his head back, he closes his eyes for the briefest of seconds. “You look beautiful on top baby, that is where you belong, above everyone else.” He says in a deep sexy drawl, I feel the need to clench my thighs but it is impossible because of the way i’m sitting. Xander places his hands behind his head, making his muscles flex and. He adjusts
ALPHA XANDER’S POVI almost decline his offer, then I stop when something comes to my mind.“You can help with something, but first, I need to make sure I can trust you.” Telling him is not the best thing, but it is not like it is something we don’t know. He knows I don’t trust him, not even a little bit, and the feeling is mutual. I’ve just grown a little liking toward him after interacting with him.“What do you want?” he looks a bit cautious asking that, as he should.“For you to answer a few questions for me too.” I haul his words back at him. The sides of his lips tip up in an almost smile.“Do I have to sit through a lie detector test?” he asks, it sounds like a joke but there is a hint of seriousness to it.“I have more effective ways of getting the truth out of people.” I smirk and point to the door. “Feel free to make yourself at home. Ring a maid or something if you need anything.” I’m going to see Adriana and hopefully try to work through her wolf issues with her.“Yeah sur