Roman's pov. “I would never leave you for Hunter Roman.” Scarlett’s voice is little more than a whisper yet I hear it deep in my soul. She scoffs and when I turn to face her she looks disbelieving and mildly irritated like the thought of it annoys her. Like whatever she’s thinking of is so downright ugly that she can’t even bear the thought. “I mean who would leave you for him? What kind of a person would see you and know you, and still choose a man like Hunter?” The anger in Scarlett’s voice drips some life into my veins and just like that, the dark clouds are gone. There’s something about her every action that makes me feel she’s the most endearing person I'll ever meet. And the answer to her question is known to both of us because someone did. My mate did. Elara who I loved fiercely and refused to forget even five years after she was taken from me. I had shown her myself, shared moments of happiness with her, but while she smiled in front of me, she cheated behind my back. A
Scarlett's pov “Is kissing the Alpha the new way to negotiate now?” I roll my eyes at Danis’s tease and try not to flip him the middle finger. I’ve gotten more brazen since I got here and I don't know if that’s a good thing or a not-so-good thing. Danis chuckles but he doesn’t stop. “Is your tongue swollen so much that you can’t speak Scarlett?” I turn and give him stink eyes, eyes at which he appropriately grins and gives me a knowing look. I’m sure he knows what Roman and I were doing. What we can’t seem to stop doing, and yes, he’s agreed to me putting myself in danger so I can get the necessary revenge for him, but I didn’t put it that way when I asked him to let me go to the Nightshade pack with wolfsbane for Hunter. “Is Roman ready for work now?” I frown and shake my head at Fen’s question, but he grumbles behind me and asks the one question I do not want to answer. “Do you have an injury on your mouth Scarlett?” Danis snickers. “Or maybe Roman took it out while….?” I
Aria's pov“How is he?”I throw my bag on the couch in the corner and walk hurriedly to Hunter’s bedroom. His woman trails behind me just as fast.“He came down with another seizure just as we were about to have…”“Sex?”I don’t have to turn to know she nods and I sigh so loudly it reaches my bones.If Hunter wasn’t my brother I'd have abandoned him a long time ago. Even with the fact that he is my brother I still feel like abandoning him because…. Why can’t he just keep himself in his pants for a few days?“This has always happened when you both try to do it right?”His wo….. Diane nods and I try not to let my animosity leak onto her. It’s not her fault that Hunter is the way he is, but it is still on her that she’s here instead of wherever it is she’s supposed to be. I frown and pin her with a stare.“Don’t you have a home to go back to? Like a life or something that doesn’t involve my brother keeping you as some kind of pet for his entertainment?”I see her anger rise and her lips
Scarlett's povDanis drives through the gates of Hunter’s mansion and soon we’re at the parking space. He parks beside Hunter’s cream Cadillac and I disregard the resentment that comes with me seeing the rows and rows of cars he has.He buys them down to gift to his women. The ladies who sleep with him and get into his bed despite knowing he’s a married Alpha, and despite knowing he brings them to our house, or rather his house, because I don’t live here anymore.“Scarlett.”My head snaps to meet Danis and the moment our eyes lock the golden flecks in his gleam. Magic flows between us and I feel it latch onto my necklace. It becomes light and heavy at the same time and then he’s done.Danis nods and I look away, bending to pick up the silver suitcase that weighs a ton but which I insisted I carry anyway.“How do you plan to confront the lady in there who was listening through you?”Danis stills slightly and I feel an icy wind blow. When I look at him there’s a foreign kind of deadline
Hunter's povThis scent…The wrist I am holding is small and warm. An echo of remembrance lashes through me but it’s gone as fast as it comes. Wolfsbane works its way into my system and all I can think of is how I held Scarlett’s wrist like this once.How I squeezed it and dragged her by that wrist. She would scream and she would beg andThe wrist in my hold is yanked away in one swift move and when I open my eyes, the ones that meet mine peer at me with open defiance and fury.Roman’s assistant is breathing a bit heavily and though my brain sparks with pain from the mate bond backlash, I smile.No one can resist me for too long.Roman won’t ever give her what she wants. He’s been a prude ever since he was young, believing in being faithful, in waiting for his mate. A mate I banged the hell out of even while she was with him.“Wishing you a speedy recovery, Mr. Tyson.”My wolf whimpers in pleasure at the sound of her voice and for the first time in hours, a trickle of relief surges th
Quinn confirms something I've known for a while now. Hunter is an animal. I don’t think there’s a human side to him. I wanted to believe there was. That deep down something in him curls when he does these things. That something in him protests when he has an old lady shackled and whipped by his guards because she couldn’t give him the results he wanted. The marks were red and furious on her back when Quinn showed them to us and I could see flashes of pity on Danis’s face as he numbed the flesh there. She had been crouching because of them. We’ve promised to get her out, but she has to keep her end of the deal. She’s agreed and now…… now Danis is as silent as a graveyard as we ride back to Ironclaw Corp. My heart pounds softly in my chest and something static resides in my bones. I feel still. I need Roman. At the thought of him, our mate bond pulses softly and I chase that feeling. The feeling of his strong arms and his comfortable heat. The way he can be a rock I lean on and
“Miss Vivienne.” I pull the hem of the turtleneck higher on pure instinct and raise my eyes to meet whoever’s at my door. Cool green eyes meet mine and his name comes back immediately. Oliver. My last-minute personal assistant, who is smiling so wide and radiantly I can definitely see his face on the cover of a magazine. He has that face. “Is something in my hair?” He’s also young. Really young and that naivety that comes with youth still radiates off him. I avert my eyes. “No, nothing’s in your hair. You can come in.” He nods, walks in, and closes the door behind him. His shirt seems to be a few sizes smaller today, or he’s grown a few sizes bigger. It’s nothing major, it’s just that I can see more than I saw the last time. “The meeting went well.” I nod and try not to let him see how nervous I am. Roman has a meeting, or at least had a meeting about thirty minutes ago, and before he left he took some time to give me a number of bright red marks on the skin of my neck. The
Roman is heaving when I get to him.I can tell he’s trying to control himself in the way his chest rises and falls. The call with Hunter has been cut and now I'm at the door to Roman’s office, eyes locked with him because the mate bond has alerted him of my presence, and ….. oh. The lady who’s seated right before him turns to face me and cold surprise seeps into my bones, because she looks very similar to a certain person who caused my mate a lot of pain recently.“Did I do something wrong, Alpha Roman?”She turns to face me fully and I can see the resemblance hit me full on.She looks like Elara.An uncanny lot like her, but there are differences.I haven’t seen much of Roman’s former mate to know exactly what she looks like, but that moment he pushed a vision of her into my mind is still branded heavily into it.I step into the office, my eyes on Roman and I take the seat beside her. She looks from me to Roman and I let the mate bond open up more between the both of us. I pass my m