ANTONELLA'S POVThe shirtless Alpha walked up to where we stood and pushed Griselda away from me. "She's not your maid!" He growled. "Don't you ever touch her again."Griselda swallowed hard and nodded before running out of the room. I could see the tears that welled up in her eyes before she left and I knew that I was going to be in more trouble whenever Alpha Xavier decided to release me."And you," He snickered as he stared me down. "Where are the spices I asked for?"I brought out the ginger I had gotten and handed it over to him. He stared at it in my hands for the better part of a minute before finally collecting it.I was shocked when Alpha Xavier carelessly let go of the ginger, allowing it fall to the marble floor below. Our eyes met and his were burning with rage."What is this?" He growled.Before I could even think of a response, he brought his boot down on the ginger. He stomped it continuously and in a matter of seconds, I was staring at the powdered form of all my effo
SALVADOR'S POVI could not believe my ears. All my life, I had never heard Antonella raise her voice. I had never seen her get genuinely angry at someone, and it was very ironic that her first was me.I could understand her anger though. I had not treated her well, but it was only because I had not grown to fully trust her then, and now that I had started to develop the trust in her, she had made our relationship complicated by kissing Hermes, not even once, but twice! Moreover, Dan was watching me. I could not apologize to her in his presence. As the Alpha of the pack, I was never wrong. I had to find a way to turn the situation on her head."How dare you even raise your voice on your Alpha?" I growled."You are not my Alpha," Antonella retorted. "I'm not a wolf of your pack."My blood was boiling within me already. Antonella had the guts to talk back at me! "You didn't get me what I wanted," I growled. "And you still have the guts to challenge me?""I got you all you wanted, Xavie
DEMONTES' POVIt had been a week since Freya's attempt to help me recover fully turned out badly. Since that day, I had refused to eat. The blood of my guard I had seen on the wall that day haunted me and I could not bring myself to do anything. I was downcast for the whole week. All Freya's further attempts to get me to eat or even stand up from my bed were futile. She had even gone as far as inviting a few Alpha's that I was in league with to talk to me and raise my hopes but it still didn't work.I didn't want to hear anything. I knew that someone was watching me. Someone wanted me dead, and I didn't know who it was. I woke up with a start that morning, a week after the first incident and from the way my stomach rumbled, I realized I could not continue to live like that. I had to try and eat something.Freya was in bed with me and when she noticed that I was up, she turned to face me."My King," she smiled at me. "You look better this morning."I didn't say a word in reply. I sta
DEMONTES' POVFreya had never been the loud type. Until today.She screamed so loud when I was inside her fully and I knew that all my guards would have heard her.In a matter of minutes, I had climaxed inside her and we lay exhausted on the floor, with our faces to the ceiling."What do you say we have that bath now?" Freya smiled at me."Good idea," I nodded, rising up.I took her hand and together, we rose up from the floor and headed for the bathroom. There, we took turns bathing each other and I struggled to keep my eyes away from her body all through. Freya chuckled, noticing the look on my face and when we were done, we dressed up quickly and headed for the dining.The table was set already when we got there and the scent of the food was entering my nostrils and making me hungrier. I wanted to start eating immediately but Freya was on a call, and we always ate together."Oh my goodness!" She exclaimed all of a sudden.She dropped the phone and when our eyes met again, I noticed
ANTONELLA'S POVI woke up with a start and when I turned to my side, I saw Alpha Xavier sitting on the chair beside me. His eyes were fixed on me and I wondered how I had gotten to his bed.Slowly, I started remembering everything - how he had sent me to the mountains to get him some ginger and how we had quarrelled thereafter. That was the only thing I could remember.As he stared at me, his door opened and a maid walked in with a tray. She dropped it in his front and bowed before turning to leave. Once she had left, Alpha Xavier rose to his feet and I felt a knot tighten in my stomach. We were alone and I was at his mercy.He opened the tray of food and the scent of fresh loaf and cinnamon tea permeated the room. My hungry stomach rumbled at the scent of the food and Xavier drew closer to me with the tray in his hands.He sat down beside me and dropped the tray on the bed."I had one of the maids make you fresh tea," He started. "You need to eat."As hungry as I was, I shook my head
DEMONTES' POVAs soon as everyone had left, Freya moved closer to me. She led me away from the mess on the floor and closer to the dinner table. Once we had gotten there, she wrapped her arms around me in a bear hug. It was a gesture I had not expected from her but I hugged her all the same. I needed it at that point to calm down my nerves because I was tired and confused. Someone had been messing with my head for some time now and I needed to find out who it was."What's happening with you, my King?" Freya started. "You've not been yourself since we got back from our journey. What is going on? You know you can always confide in me."I stared down at her for a few seconds before I disconnected from the hug. Of course I could trust Freya. She had been a source of strength for me for a very long time now. The only problem was that I couldn't keep telling her these things. She would definitely think I was running mad. As I thought about how best I was going to present it to her, she smil
DEMONTES’ POV The anticipation in my eyes was enough to make me go crazy. Freya stared at me as I waited for her to speak. She had been the only one by my side to even help me out.“Speak woman, you’re killing me here!” I snapped once I got tired of waiting.She leaned in closer like she was about to tell me a secret and my stomach churned. What was she going to say?“I think you really are crazy.” She said scrunching her nose in the way that fucking made me blow up.That wasn’t what I needed to hear at the moment.“Have you gone mad?!” I bellowed at her frustration taking over me. “Do you realize that this isn’t easy for me to deal with?”Freya didn’t look a tad bit worried at my anger; it was more like she had expected my outburst. Her expression remained calm for a while before she burst into a fit of laughter.“Oh darling, you should have seen your face.” she giggled.I was glad she was having the time of her life at my expense but that wasn’t the solution to my problems at all.
There was something about life that I had come to hate, and that’s uncertainty. The way Xavier was acting was messing with my mind and I hated it. Why did he have to go from hating my guts and everything in between to acting like I meant to world to him.I was still frozen in shock from when he kissed my forehead. Wasn’t he the one, the same person who sent me to up high the mountain for some minor ingredients? Was he losing his mind or what?That had to be it. If not what audacity did he have to act like he care for someone he had shown how much he hated them from the moment they met?I continued to stare at him, and I watched him stare back at me. Where my eye held shock and confusion, his held worry and regret? He was not a man possible of regretting anything. He had never been and I doubt he would ever be.“You keep looking like there’s something wrong with you. Do I need to call back the doctor?” he asked worry laced in his voice which pulled me out of the shocked state I was in.