Slow and steady they are going… the King and Queen are not in any rush. Lol, we continue in the next chapter… See yA!
{Cayden’s POV}I gave the command and she sensuously spread her thighs for me.My breaths grew heavier and I felt a strong pull towards her. Her scent was calling me and it was almost like I couldn’t control myself. It was driving me crazy.Now that we were mates, it felt like I was conjoined with her in some mystical way. I could hear her heartbeat from where I was positioned on the bed and also feel the measure of her happiness. I could read off her emotions from her without her having to express them and I knew she could do the same for me since it was a mutual relationship.It was beautiful.The mate bond was a remarkable concept and I was glad I got to finally explore it with Isla. We were mates once before but it hadn’t felt this blissful— maybe because I was a total Jerk who saw her for less than her worth and wanted someone who was more than worthless— Ivanka.But then again, I’m thankful for how things later turned out. I could have made the greatest mistake by marking Ivanka
{Isla’s POV}“My Queen, can I add one more item to the menu?” Shrilly asked in a hushed voice after he crept to my side. I turned to look at him to see him carrying a huge tray of doughnuts.Of course.We already had enough food on the table but I didn’t want any drama and I couldn’t win him if we debated about the doughnuts so I nodded in acceptance. I had to.Shrilly smiled and went over to his seat on the opposite side of the table where he placed the doughnuts in front of himself like it was for only his menu.I looked over at my mum and caught her talking to my mate and both of them laughing. “Mum!” I called her and they both turned to me. “We’re here to have a family dinner and not for you two to tell each other jokes and laugh.” I told them and Cayden smiled. He rested into his chair, smirking at me.“Don’t be jealous, my love. I’m yours, remember?” He said, showing me my teeth mark on his neck.I frowned at him. “I’m not jealous. I want you two to focus on the dinner and make
{Isla's POV} “You make love to me so close just to throw me so far away,” I muttered in tears as I staggered through the shaggy forest path with my bruised heart and my wounded hope— I was literally drunk on my grief. Almost immediately, I realized I was being followed. I wasn’t quite sure who these creeping bunch were, but I knew they weren’t coming to have a chat. And I clearly understood why. It’s not every day you see the eminent Luna of GreyStone Pack wandering through the eerie Woodlands-- alone! I tried to creep faster now but the swollen weight of the grief in my chest hampered my already shaky legs from making any new advances. To be honest, there was no point in trying to escape from these prowlers. For all I know, nothing they could do to me would equally match my present agony. Nothing mattered anymore, not even my dear ‘esteemed’ life. So death was the least of my worries, and the stream of doleful tears still trailing from my eyes was an extra validation of this f
{Isla's POV} “Cayden!” I yelled, drawing all the glares at the table to my person. Cayden’s expression still remained straight as he didn’t bother sparing me a look, but in that instance, I wasn’t intimidated by it. I was there to pour out my heart and get answers, and that was what I did. “Who is she?” I started with a solid tone, aiming my finger at the crafty lady on his side. “For the past few days, this woman has been staying in this house and nobody has bothered saying anything? She and Cayden are suddenly so close, and everyone is chill about it? Don’t any of you think I deserve, at least, an explanation for all this muddle!” I was doing so well until my tears betrayed me and began trailing down my cheeks. However, I couldn’t blame the tears because, with the heat in my chest, even my heart was threatening to leap out. “You don’t get to talk to us that way!” Cayden’s mother, Sassaba, voiced as she shot to her feet. “Who do you think you are!” Who am I? Who is she! I motion
{Cayden’s POV}“Did she just…” I knowingly stopped my attempt at continuing that sentence as I already completed it in my head. It was the plan all along— for her to take the compensation and quietly leave my life, but I didn’t expect her to reject me so suddenly and seriously.I was to do that! In fact, the whole episode was still very shocking to me as I had never known Isla to be so… so wild. She had shown me her confidence and a feisty spirit that I had never seen before in all our years as mates.I had been really provoked with how she talked to me but at the same time I had been too puzzled to react, and she had walked off leaving me that way.I could still hear my mum cursing and protesting in the background, and for some odd reason, I wasn’t really comfortable with her volume anymore.“She has no right to reject my son! A low-born Omega like her rejecting an Alpha? She should be killed!” She bewailed while Ivanka supported her claim.“Mum!” I bawled as I spindled myself to f
{Isla’s POV}“Be cautious. They say she’s almost as strong as him.” I heard one of the cronies still trailing behind me chatter and I couldn’t stop the smirk that threatened to grow on my lips even though it was very insignificant in that instance. I wasn’t going to fight them and I wished I could just tell them— maybe turn around, throw my hands in the air, and plead for them to capture me. But that would be too dramatic, even for me.In any case, I knew it was only a matter of seconds before they attacked and seized me, and for all I knew, I was already a prisoner. But who knows, it might serve as a very good distraction from my harrowing misery.I suddenly stopped cold in my tracks to make things easier for them and almost immediately, I felt the aggressive weight of three hefty bodies collapse on me, sending me forcefully to the icky dirt of the forest floor. My face dug into the dust as my body jounced vigorously from their wrestle. One of the trio’s claws dug into my sides and
{Isla’s POV} The next time I woke up was due to the perception of hands gently wrapping around my body and lifting me. I slowly struggled my eyelids open and drove my misty gaze about in an attempt to know where I was, and my gaze promptly stretched with my realization. Home? Suddenly, I was forced to remember that I was still in the clasps of a stranger, so I immediately shifted my gaze to the figure’s face and my glare stretched even further. The figure had a graceful face that was complemented by his roughly coiled honey-blonde hair, well-groomed eyebrows, and a well-defined jawline that augmented his supremacy. He had fiery hazel eyes just like mine and from the breastplate resting over his unbelievably broad shoulders, I could tell he had just returned from scouting. “Dad? …” “Hush now, Buttercup. You’re safe now.” He pronounced in his warming baritone and I immediately dug myself into his snuggly embrace as tears trailed from the corners of my eyes. “Dad, I’m sor
{Cayden’s POV}My head was still wobbling with distressing thoughts, but it was less chaotic now. I had busied myself— distracted myself if you may, with going through the Merger documents for the alliance between RockyHill Pack— Ivanka’s Pack, and mine, GreyStone.Since we were together now, it meant that her Pack and mine would have to merge, and since Ivanka’s father, the Alpha of RockyHill Pack, was about to step down due to his aging, Ivanka would ultimately have to become Luna since she was his first daughter. Hence the alliance.I would finally become the alpha of two of the biggest packs of the North, making me the biggest Alpha in the Northern Reigns! … which would ultimately increase my chances of being noticed by the Lord Alpha— the King.I was supposed to be happy. But I wasn’t. And I didn’t want to ask myself why.My office was peaceful, calm, and quiet— conducive enough to aid my office work. But the quietness seemed somewhat offensive to me.Yeah, weird. But It felt l