Get ready for next chapter, it's going to be rocky!
Beta Darius's POV "How can I trust you?" My voice boomed with a false confidence I didn't feel. The cove was ghost-quiet except for the crunch of dried autumn leaves under my feet and the haunting screech of owls at the foot of the cove. The blinding darkness reached into my lungs and squeezed mercilessly, making breathing a Herculean task. Jittery nerves shot to my feet like a bolt of lightning and turned them to jelly. I hoped to the Moon Mother that these disgraceful nerves didn't burst to the surface and betray the brave expression I hoped looked convincing enough on my face. I let out a shaky breath, "Say something. I have come from a far distance," My heart was in my throat, threatening to leap out. A low, crisply accented voice sliced through my thoughts like the edge of a blade from behind me. "The Lycan Beta of Adivaine, Beta Darius. Am I correct?" My head snapped around so sharply in shock, a jolt of pain zapped through my neck. Where the fuck did she come out from
Alpha's Zane's POV Howls pierced the air as we stepped through the dividing doors, welcoming the presence of their king and queen. I didn't remember this event being such a big affair but then it's been thirty years. My eyes took in the whole occasion. There were fifty packs in the entire kingdom of Adivaine. Each pack gave up their best and most skillful werewolf to the royal guard selection process. Five neat rows of impressive-looking and eager, young pups bowed as I appeared with my luna draped on my arm. I stole a glance at her one more time. Her pale skin glowed in the dark with her silver hair scattered in wild curls, framing her face beautifully. She could as well be the Moon Mother herself. Fierce possessiveness burned in my chest. Freya was mine. She was my queen and - I let my gaze wander down her slim, curvy figure - she definitely looked the part. The urge to cancel the guard selection process so that I could sweep her off her feet, take her into my chambers an
Luna Freya's head lay in the Lycan King, Alpha Zane's lap, as she slept. Delta Burke shot up to his feet as fourteen out of twenty of the earlier dispatched recruits floundered in on wobbly feet. Some of their counterparts that came out stronger were supporting those that couldn't hold themselves up. The Alpha Lycan king's gaze searched the disheveled mess of recruits for Logan. His real target. A glimmer of a smile touched his face upon seeing Logan. He looked less alive than a dead person. His brow quirked up at the young male holding him up. He recognized him as the lad his mate, Freya, had saved earlier the night before. "Now," everyone jumped - Delta Burke's voice even that early in the morning was louder than the cry of a female in labor - "our valiant recruits have returned." "But oh what a pitiful sight you lot make. What terrible thing did you encounter in that forest?" Luna Freya stirred awake from her position on the king's lap and sat upright as she yawned, confu
Freya's POV "Release them," I calmly commanded the pale skinned guard that was permanently stationed at the entrance to the servant quarters in Beta Darius's wing of the castle. He looked up at me and his pale face turned as white as a leper, his hands tremoring like they were a mass of quivering jelly. I gave him my sweetest smile, "You remember me, don't you, pup?" His sword clattered to the rough ground as he fell flat on his face immediately, begging me to take his life. "I have committed high treason against her Royal highness. Kill me for I don't deserve to draw another breath." Oh, please, not another fear-forced appeal to be killed. I've had my fill of that to last a generation. I wondered for a moment if he said this because he meant it, or because of Krayne's tall, imposing form behind me. I rolled my eyes, unimpressed. The utmost least he could do was spare me all that shit stinking nonsense. It stank to the high heavens. I sighed, bored. "Just get up and release t
Freya's POVThe realization hit me like a ton of bricks. 'Oh my God,' I gasped, covering my mouth as I staggered backwards a bit.I sucked in a sharp breath and whispered, 'Oh Zane…"It all made much more sense now.For some reason, his eyes gleamed with amusement. "Freya?" He started to speak."No. No. Wait," I raised a finger to stop him. I needed to think.I paced about as I came at an utter loss while struggling to piece all the information together.My head felt full but my stomach, unfortunately, wasn't."So you're telling me that there's – ugh - I'm hungry. Isn't it time for breakfast yet?"My stomach rumbled at the sound of breakfast."Your highness?" A voice called out gently from the other side of the ornately carved double doors, unmistakably Odella's."Breakfast is ready, your highness. Shall I ask for it to be served at the table or shall you have it in your chambers?""We will have our breakfast in bed," I announced loud enough for her to hear me. Maybe a little too loud
Alexia's POVPlaying double agent was like cooking a meal for both the king and his servants in the same pot.The food must be sumptuous enough to please the king's discerning palate, yet not so savory that it would taste too good for the servants.If not, the servants would begin to expect and even feel entitled to a dish that was only fit for royalty.Every ingredient, every spice, had to be carefully considered.One wrong move, and the entire dish could be ruined….and the cook might be beheaded.I was the cook.This was constantly on edge, my stomach churning with anxiety so gripping I couldn't breathe sometimes.I was fully aware of what I got myself into and I knew that if I made one mistake, I could lose everything, including my life.But I had to keep going. I was neither friend or foe. Just the cook.I had to cook the perfect meal.For the king.And for his servants.I had to carefully balance the flavors, ensuring that each bite was a delicate dance between opulence and auste
Freya's POV"How does it feel?" I found it quite funny that I was actually curious.To see me.To be you right now.To be the one being beaten and bruised like a common slave.To see me seeing you like this.To be broken on the inside.To long for death desperately.I wasn't sure which strange mix of emotions mingled in my chest as I looked at the battered face of the man the Beta that the Moon Mother made the horrible mistake of giving me as a father.Satisfaction, tiredness, sadness, pity, fear?Maybe.Whatever it was, peace was definitely not a part of these feelings. I realized this with a frustration I didn't think I had the strength to feel. It was almost comical.But most of all, I felt a dull, pulsing rage spreading sharp shards of ice through my veins.Jaws clenched, I let my eyes roam the black, bare walls of this dungeon I didn't know till today that it existed.My feet itched to run away from here but I sat on the chair in front of him instead."Fancy seeing you here, Beta
Beta Darius's POVIf the guards and royal attendees found it strange that their Lycan king's right hand and second-in-command with his sister were scurrying about like greased pigs on a scorching hot day into the throne room a few minutes to midnight, no one dared to show it.There was nothing that could be done about that. It was either this humiliation or brutal death.As evidenced from the barely concealed laughter from my lesser subjects, it was clear that we picked humiliation.Death wasn't an option. At least not yet.Not until the "Lycan King of Adivaine" was dead and left with no one to bury his body. Then I might consider dying after I've ruled Adivaine to my satisfaction.Alexia huffed and panted, "I'm just playing along with this, Darius. Later, you must tell me what made you think that there is another Freya that was created to kill us."I chortled mirthlessly. She always seemed to forget that I was a Lycan.I also had dark magic.The muscled guards at the entrance to the
Faster! My wolf kept urging me.The young, fair headed female beside me kept her head bowed as she escorted me out of the courtyard to my escape. We walked awkwardly in silence. Or maybe I was just the one feeling awkward. Whatever.The guards nodded their heads dutifully as I passed them. I noted this with some unease that I knew would never fade away.I was still much unused to this…"publicness". After living in the shadows all my life, even the smallest glimmer of spotlight could blind me."My lady!" The child next to me gasped and I whipped around, my senses immediately on high alert."What is it?" I saw no danger, just the blue azaleas that lined the porch and the wide stretch of trimmed green leading up to my destination. The only living things around were the guards standing so perfectly still under the burning sun."Tell me, what is it?" I inquired harshly.The child looked scared for a second. "I'm just—I wanted to ask you to slow down your pace, my muscles felt ready to tear
Zane's POVI shifted back to my human form. Fully naked, I stretched out my wrist. Using the sharp edge of my claw, I sliced it open and let the dark red blood pour to the ground. Then I crouched low and pushed my wrist over Nylf's mouth. The poor thing was barely alive in Freya's trembling arms.A taste of my potent, Lycan blood was so powerful it could bring him to life. But then, it could also be too powerful.Lycans and vampires were similar this way. We gave blood to give life. Only in this case, I could really kill my own pup, or bring him back to life safely. Let's see what happened.Like I said. I had been alive long enough to know when a werewolf was dead.Nylf wasn't.The wound I created was healing up fast. "Force his mouth open, Freya." She did. No doubt with some supernatural strength. The pup's jaws were locked tight.My blood dripped into his mouth as the wound closed up. Nothing happened. His mouth was still hanging open. Then he gulped weakly.That was enough for me.
Freya's POVMy eyes reluctantly fluttered awake.I don't know if it was the silence or the insistent prick in my neck that woke me up.Judging from how my hand swatted away the paper that was crumpled and formed a pointed edge against my neck, the latter option was more probable. I fiddled with it a bit and traced the lettering on it.B U N W E L T A R U S O O DWhat was this?I knew one thing for sure. It was Zane's handwriting.A few questions sprung up in my mind. Like why had he decided to wedge this small parchment near my neck? And more importantly, why had Zane written gibberish?I crumpled it back and threw it off the bed, settling on the easy explanation that I was experiencing a momentary brain glitch as I had just woken up.The soft rustling sound of the paper hitting the carpeting was loud in my ears. This made me aware of how…noiseless the room was.The silence was strange. Too strange.At any slightest movement from me, Zane would have called out and said something by no
Gertrude's POVWe were on the run.Fugitives, rogues, we were labeled by anyone within a thousand miles.A grand bounty had been placed on our heads. One hundred bars of pure gold and an honorable seat among the members of the royal court.This was fantastic news for deltas, omegas and gammas who never got a chance to enjoy the benefits normally accrued to only Alphas, Betas and Lycans. They were avidly on the lookout the most. And these particular sets of werewolves were everywhere.The search was hot against us.So, fueled by zero to two scattered hours of sleep and the top diet of acrid-tasting mango nectar with live squirrels or wild mice since two weeks ago, we ran and hid and ran again.We never stayed anywhere for longer than two nights. Three at most if the packs were filled with mostly geriatric werewolves whose teeth had already fallen off due to age and were too old and useless to do anything that the rest of them were tiny child helpers.The latter option worked. For a whi
Freya's POVA stream of curses poured out from his mouth as he pumped into me with slick, deranged slaps, the front of his thighs hitting the backs of mine in a pounding rhythm.His one hand fisting my hair viciously, the other gripping my right hip, claws digging into my flesh and drawing blood, his cock thrashing my insides while he released depraved sounds that only threatened to topple me over the edge of my climax. No, I wasn't going to scream. I needed to be fucking obedient to his rules.I bit my lip until I tasted copper spreading over my tongue. I was struggling not to scream and bellow and cry and howl my lungs out in acute pleasure.It was fucking hard. I was fighting everything in me to hold on enough to keep grappling at that control even if it meant losing something as inconsequential as blood.I had to do this. I needed to do this. To keep myself from exploding around him. To obey him. But I was in a losing battle, and I was a fucking liar. I was not going to obey him a
Freya's POV Unlike before, now we were both in the bathtub. And not really getting any bathing done. I was the main culprit. I couldn't keep my hands off Zane, and he let me. Though, that was proving quite difficult now that he had positioned himself at my feet. I needed him closer. "Zane." I called him. "You're way too far from me. Just come back to me, I want to feel you some more. Please?" I asked solicitously. "Shhh, Freya. Feel the night. Enjoy the silence." Feel the night. I let out a brief laugh. Sometimes I forgot that Zane was over a century old. "Why feel the night", I asked, "when I can feel you, Zane. Allow you to feel me." I slowly spread my legs apart for him to see where I really needed him to feel me. He was quiet as he stared at my pussy. It was slight but I saw his impassive gaze slip for a fleeting moment before he pulled it back on. I didn't miss how his eyes darkened before he bowed his head and swiped my inner thigh with the cloth in his hand. After that
Freya's POVMy legs were water. I couldn't use them anymore than I could use my vocal cords. My voice had left me due to all the screaming from about thirty minutes ago.I was in the bathtub of his study soaking up the warmth of his familiar musk-scented bath that he had drawn for me before he left the room. He left to do his cursory check of the palace and keep appearances as the mate who was tortured because he wasn't able to see his Luna.What was taking him so long anyway? Quite a good chunk of time had already passed.I closed my eyes and sunk into the bath and sighed as I let my muscles relax. Needless to say, I was so deliciously sore. I played back the events of the night in my head again and I felt my face spreading with a smile. I was so perfectly wrapped up in bliss I almost forgot my fears. Almost.I saw them again. Krayne's eyes. My eyelids flew open that very instant. Doing that was useless, I didn't need to open my eyes to escape seeing his eyes. They were still there.
Zane's POVMoans, cries, grunts, skin hitting skin, Freya's wet white hair sticking to her skin that was slick with sweat.Her claws had scratched me every part of my skin she could find. The resulting pain only served to sharpen the raw pleasure that bloomed thick in me….and if I wasn't careful, would burst prematurely.She was too intensely aroused. And this is me putting it mildly. Very very mildly.Her pussy juices were leaking out of her in gushes and dripping down onto my study desk. This was making her slide up and down the desk, her perfect tits bouncing in my face.I watched her go. Her glossy blue eyes were rolled backwards so properly only the whites remained while I railed her without mercy. Gods, she was incredibly beautiful.I pinched her swollen, hard nipple just a little but it was hard enough to send her eyes flying open and her gasping. This soft action contrasted sharply with how hard I was fucking her. "You're forgetting something, sweetheart. Do you remember what
Freya's POVHe didn't move to kiss me at first. His whiskey orbs ping-ponged both of my eyes like he was searching for something. I always wondered what he wanted to find whenever he looked at me this way. My mind flashed back to our first intimate moments that happened in his brooding nest after meeting in the woods that fateful night I tried to escape this castle. I wasn't his mate then. Just Darius's sex slave.He looked at me the same way he was looking at me now. Hopeful? Maybe. I wasn't sure. It was almost as if he was convincing himself to face the reality–which was no longer brutal or haunting but….me, his mate– and let down his defenses. That it was okay. That I was here. That he didn't have anything to worry about. That he didn't need to hide from me. That he was never going to go rabid as long as I was by his side.I watched him for a moment then I let out a little sigh. I figured I needed to make a bolder move to initiate sex. So, I unlaced my fingers from his neck and ste