When I hear the water finally turn off, my heart stutters a little as a shiver of something that I have never felt before runs through me at coming face-to-face with her again. Not liking this feeling that has shown itself and wanting to look more into it I walk over to the bathroom door and gently knock. She doesn’t answer me, but I know that she is standing just on the other side. I take a breath and say,“I had some food brought up for you…” I pause for a moment, hoping that she would open the door, but when she doesn’t, I sigh.“I will be down the hall in my office if you need me.”I turn and walk away from the bathroom door, leaving the bedroom and then my champers heading for my office. I open my private office door, walk in, close it, and then walk over and around my desk. I sit in my chair and go over my feelings. Eldridge chuckles at me.“It’s called fear, my friend.” “Fear… Bullshit. I have never been scared of anything in my life…” Vincent then joins, chuckling too.“Ther
I move, shut the door with my foot, walk over to the small receiving table next to the entrance and put down the tray of food. I then move back over to the door and lock it once more placing the key back into my pocket. I then walk over pick back up the tray and walk over to the bedroom door. Shifting the tray into one hand I then knock on the door and say,“Lunch is served.”I chuckle a little as she snaps back through the door,“Are you going to let me out?”“Are you going to behave?”“Yes.”Something in her tone and the slight shiver that worked its way up my spine told me that she was lying through her teeth and was going to try and escape again. I place the tray on the receiving table next to my bedroom door and pull out the key.I unlock and slowly open the door. I leave the tray of food where it is as I step inside expecting and knowing that she is going to try to do something as soon as I enter. I take a couple o
I wake to the wonderful warmth and feel of sparks that spread over my skin and through my body. I haven’t had that good of a sleep since I was a young vampup just after everything finally settled down once my mother returned and we became a family once more.I pull her a little tighter up against me and place a soft kiss on the back of her shoulder. Cole lengthens his fangs, wanting a taste but instead of sinking them in and just taking, I want her consent first. I place another kiss on her neck and then slip out of the bed. As I enter the bathroom, I open my link with Julian,“Julian, the Pride?” “The Innocent have been relocated, the participants have been detained for punishment and the Pride itself has been levelled.” “The Male Cheetah from the dungeon?” “My apologies, Nat, but He slipped away.” I clenched my jaw at the news that he had gotten away. I was looking forward to torturing him as he had tortured my mate. I wanted to hit something. Hunter and Cole each wanted to kil
I hold in my scream as the whip connects again and again with the skin on my back. Closing my eyes I take a deep painful breath wishing that each time I had passed out, that I wouldn’t wake up again. Not expecting the next lash I can’t stop the scream that leaves my lips.I sit up with that scream still stuck in my throat, I look around panicked expecting Graves to be nearby just waiting for me to wake. When I don’t see him I relax a little placing my hand over my heart and taking a few deep breaths.My eyes go wide when I realise that I am not secured, knowing that Graves wouldn’t want me to get away or fight him in any way, I then look around again, only this time a little slower.I am surprised when the room seems to be plain, there is nothing in here to say that someone actually lived or even stayed here. I would have thought that Graves’ chambers even with him being a male and a warrior, there would have been a little more of a masculine vibe to it.It actually looked like a gues
It is then that I look down and see that she is telling the truth and I have a shirt on that isn’t mine. Before I know what I am doing I slip my fingers to the collar, pull it up against my nose and take a deep breath. I close my eyes at the intoxicating scent of Oakmoss and patchouli with a touch of Vanilla. I then feel that stirring in my head again as it purrs and I hear that female voice once more,“Mate!” I shake my head, no he couldn’t be, could he?I snap my eyes open and look at the female before me again as she says,“It can be a bit of a surprise, can’t it?”“What?” I whisper finally finding my voice,“Finding one’s mate…”I slip down the wall to sit on the floor pulling my knees to my chest and resting my forehead against them as I mumble,“But I’m… I’m a runt… I don’t have a mate… I’m only good for service and breeding… We don’t get mates…”I glimpse as her eyes flash red and feel her aura increase as a wave of anger comes off of the female making a shiver of renewed
I had wanted nothing more than to spend the morning cuddled up to my mate using our aura and touch to help her heal and recover, as everyone does once they meet. However, unfortunately, with what I was in the middle of I didn't have that luxury, so I instead spent the morning walking the castle talking to some of the warriors and serving staff and all seemed to have a good report for the Princess.I then make my way down into the kingdom’s Pride. I walk the Pride and unlike the smaller Prides, this one is like its own little town similar to some of our bigger clans and a lot of the werewolf territories.I enter a few of the stores and as with the servants and warriors within the castle they too have nothing overly bad to say about the Princess herself or the way she oversees the Pride, though a couple of her high Council members were questionable.I spoke to a few of the older members who remembered what it was like under her father and they also agreed th
I cut the link and make my way down to the floor below. I send out my senses, find what room they are in and walk up to the door. As I knock and wait Victoria tugs our link, and I open the connection.“Is there a problem, Vic?” “No, Nat. I just wanted to know, what you wanted me to do. Your mate noticed the differences in your eyes and asked about them. Did you want me to explain about you to her or did you want to do that yourself?” I think on this a moment and believe that it would probably be better coming from me, I answer her,“No, that’s fine, I will tell her.” Just as I cut the link with Victoria the young female from the day before opens the door, the giggle seems to die in her throat and her smile slips from her face as she sees me, bows her head and whispers,“Your Highness…”I smile as I ask, “Are you feeling better?”“Yes, much better, thank you. Please come in.”She bows a
I don’t miss as Kyria’s face pales and a small wave of fear comes off of her at the mention of the two Beta warriors of their Pride, however, I will have to address that a little later as I ask my next question.“Why the need for dominant female warriors? From my understanding, all female WereCats are extremely good fighters no matter what their rank.”“True. However; Our Pride isn’t your standard Pride, most Pride's are made up like a WereWolf pack, consisting of both male and female members, as you have no doubt seen within this Pride. However; unlike WereWolf packs, Pride warriors are 95% females, as they are more agile and fierce than most males of our kind. Now, Vapor-Moon Pride is classed as a warrior Pride, we specialize in the training of strong high-ranked female warriors that other Prides can acquire by trade.”“Trade? Willingly?”“Most trades are done with the agreement of the warrior as they have to relocate to the new Pride and transfer loyal