Rhea’s POVAdrian was staring at me intensely while I tried to work through my emotions.Would he even believe me if I said I really don’t know the reason I was kept alive all these years? Or would he think I’m lying?Everything in me was telling me to bolt and hide inside my room, away from those inspecting blue eyes that were staring straight into my broken soul.But Hazel kept me in my place as she said intensely in my head “He has to believe us. We have no reason to lie”I looked him in the eyes and said calmly “I don’t know why he kept me alive Adrian, nor why he wanted to mate with me. I know there must be a reason but alpha Victor didn’t share it with me. I used to ask when I was young but then I learned not to ask anything about my past”His eyes narrowed at me before he asked with difficulty “What would he do when you tried to ask?”I gave him a weak smile that quickly turned into a grimace and avoided eye contact with him as I stared at the clear blue sky through the floor t
Rhea’s POV“What’s that?” I asked curiously as I looked down at myself, assessing my attire for anything I forgot to wear.Did I miss something he told me to put on?“You need to tie your hair in a bun or a pony tail. We can’t have it getting in the way of our training and throwing you off your game” he said softly.I wasn’t a fan of training in my human form, but he seemed intent on it.“I don’t think I have one here” I said firmly.“I’ll lend you mine then” he said playfully before he took a black, elastic band from his right wrist and gave it to me.I took it and gathered all my hair into a messy bun like him. Except mine was a lot thicker and more bigger.“Now you’re perfect for training” he said admirably.I didn’t know I could blush even deeper than before but I felt it happen after what he said.Why are his words always having that effect on me? I like his compliments there’s no denying that anymore, but I hate the evidence.“Well, someone likes that evidence very much. I’d go
Rhea’s POV“What is it?” I asked in confusion.His whole body went tense and rigid all of a sudden while his lips pursed into a thin line.“There were a couple of rogues roaming around the territory line. They disappeared before my men could catch any of them” he said in a hard tone.My blood ran cold instantly.“Did this ever happen before?” I asked rigidly.He shook his head tightly “Not in a very long time. It can’t be a coincidence”There was no more reason to ask further questions. This was about alpha Victor, clear as day. Was he after me, or after Alec and Adrian, or both?“They already fled the area but I’m going out there to check out their trail anyway. I won’t be long. Can you wait here for me until I get back? I really want to see your skills” he said firmly.My skills were the furthest thing on my mind right now as dread flooded my system entirely. How the hell did he find the pack so fast? Alec and I were put under an anti tracking spell. All the dead warriors from this
Adrian’s POV “So it’s happening is that what you’re saying? We’re on the verge of being invaded?” Derek asked me warily as we were walking back into the pack house after coming back from the edge of the territory where the rogues were spotted earlier. I sighed heavily and said in a hard tone “Yes. It’s happening a lot faster than I anticipated that’s why we’re going to triple the amount of patrol starting from tonight. We need a proper strategy to defend the land and it can’t get planned in a matter of one day. We need to make it very hard for them to find their weak spot and buy us some time to plan properly” “We should also inform Alec about the situation. He’s short on warriors. He can’t defend his territory” said Derek anxiously. “That’s another weird thing. If they know about my pack they must know about Alec’s too. But instead of going for the easy kill, they’re circling around my territory. They could easily attack Alec’s pack right now and they would probably manage to brea
Rhea’s POVHazel yells at me fumingly “Well speak dammit! She fucking insulted us just to get us punished or sentenced to death! She did that on purpose!”“Even if she did, you had no fucking right to do this to me! You were going to kill her! You pushed me out of control! Nothing I say is going to save us because we’re guilty. It’s over Hazel” I told her harshly.She whimpered in pain. Guilt and blame flooding through me from her as she realized that I was right about everything I just said.I may have initiated the attack with my own hands and was blinded by rage and hurt too, but I wasn’t going to kill her like Hazel was going to do.Adrian was staring hard at me, waiting for me to speak for myself and defend my actions. But I chose to remain quiet. I wasn’t going to apologize to that bitch and ask for forgiveness but I wasn’t going to defend myself either because I was at fault.“We’re not the only ones at fault you know. She plotted this, the alpha at least has to know that, Rhea
Adrian’s POVI never knew a person who felt this much pain before until now. I didn’t even know someone who could take this much pain and still be alive until now.She was lying in my arms, completely shattered and baring her heart open to me at last.I was angry at her when I stood in front of her. I didn’t have any physical violent tendency when I approached her but I saw her stiffen when I moved nonetheless, she was expecting a punishment.I only wanted to demand the truth from her but when my eyes noticed her split lip and saw the blood slowly trickling down her chin, my hand acted on its own.It moved to wipe away the blood, and she cringed away from me very slightly before she forced herself to stay in position while her eyes instantly braced for the pain she was expecting to receive and started to water. It shattered me to pieces. How much she’s used to the idea of being punished right away. Because that’s all she’s ever known from her former alpha.My face instantly softened a
Adrian’s POVShe looked into my eyes emotionally and asked “I know I smelled like a rogue the first time you saw me in the forest. But….do I still smell like one till now?”“That stupid Sophia woman!” Snarled Lennox in my head darkly.I tucked a loose strand of her hair behind her ear gently and looked her intensely in the eyes as I said truthfully “You never smelled like a rogue to me, Rhea. Do you know that the second I portaled into the forest that night, I smelled the most intoxicating smell I’ve ever smelt in my life. My wolf went crazy with how alluring your scent was, and it still is. Your scent is an addiction I would never recover from, Rhea. Believe me, there is no whiff of a rogue smell within you at all”Her eyes watered as she asked in a small voice “What do I smell like to you?”“The most beautiful, sweet, and delicate cherry I will ever smell. So sugary, so mouthwatering, that I feel like I’m drunk just from breathing you in” I said softly.She stared at me with so much
Rhea’s POV“If you’re my curse, I’m the luckiest cursed son of a bitch in this whole universe”How deeply this sentence burned through me in the most vulnerable place within me cannot even be described in words.It touched the core of my heart and nestled itself in there forevermore.It lit a match of fire back into me and the impossible thing I told him would never happen, happened. Scattered dead pieces of me sparked back to life. Reborn again from his vows and promises to me.“I accept you here and now as my mate, Rhea. I’m not pushing for a mark here, we still have a long time for that and I’m not going to rush anything unless it comes spontaneously from both of us, whenever that may happen. I just want us both to be on the same page when we leave this room. I accept you, will you accept me back, or reject me?” he said strongly.Hazel was whimpering in my head very emotionally, very affected by Adrian’s words as she begged me heartily “Please, Rhea. We cannot survive without him a
First thank you and first acknowledgement always goes to you readers. Another book comes to an end and you are the sole reason that keeps me writing more. Your encouragement is my fuel to keep coming up with new stories to tell and write about. I hope this one won a favorite place in your hearts like the other ones. I always write with my whole being and put myself in the characters’ heads, feeling all their feelings and experiencing everything with them. I hope you were able to relate to both of them throughout the story. Please keep giving me your thoughts and comments because other than writing books, reading how you think about them is the next best thing in my daily life. Alec will get his own book and his own POV, but his story will have to wait until I am fully done developing it in my head. My next book is going to be a CEO genre, if I can get it approved by my editor. If you read my other book ‘On The Border’, then you have a slight idea about my male lead; Jacob Snow,
The Moon Goddess’s POVI smile to myself in tenderness as I stare at my two beautiful children sharing such a romantic and heart melting moment together.Rhea was sitting in Adrian’s lap; both of them preferred this seating arrangement a lot more than the normal one where she sits on his right hand, she was enjoying having dinner from her mate’s hand.They were having their own private celebratory dinner after they won the battle a few hours ago. A victory I’m most definitely proud having witnessed it.I don’t usually watch every single battle my children go through, but this was a very important battle that I needed to see with my own eyes. It was important for more than one reason.First, I wanted to witness Victor’s death with satisfaction. He more than deserved to die and it was way past his due time.The things he’s made my delicate little girl go through made even me sick with revulsion.My poor child truly shook my heart with the way she suffered at his and his pack’s hands al
Adrian’s POVI took off after her, not planning on letting her get away from me. Even if I’m not allowed to kill her, I won’t let her escape for whatever reason my brother wanted her to keep breathing. Maybe he was just as curious as I was to know what the hell happened back there. Or maybe he wanted to kill her himself.At the edge of the territory, she had her supernatural powers back of course and she took advantage of that as she pushed herself harder to run away, knowing I was in hot pursuit behind her.The portal appeared in front of me as she was running towards it, I pushed myself to sprint faster and catch up with her.Out of the corner of my eye, I saw other rogues go through the portal, running away from the losing battle and saving their skins before they meet their downfalls too.I was this close to catching her, I extended my arm, trying to catch her long, straight, light brown hair which was blowing behind her.She gained more speed at the last second and I missed her b
Adrian’s POVAlec’s scream of agony got embedded into my soul.It took us five seconds to snap out of our paralyzing terror, both Lennox and I. Five seconds where dread was coursing through me at the thought of losing my brother forever. I could never recover if that happened. Alec was more than a brother, he was like my other half. He was the only family I had left, the closest one.I shifted my eyes on the girl that made my heart hurt with so much agony. She couldn’t be more than eighteen, maybe even younger. But the look on her face is what baffled me the most. It was filled with venom and direct hate towards Alec. As if this wasn’t about winning a battle on behalf of her rogue alpha, this was personal. She was targeting him specifically. Like she knew exactly who he was even though Alec never spoke before the battle began.When one of the two men surrounding him moved to kick Alec in the face making him drop on his back; making sure the stick that was halfway embedded through his
Adrian’s POVA very menacing growl escaped past alpha Victor’s lips as he bared his teeth at us with so much anger in his eyes, it could light the whole town on fire if it could.I enjoyed the hell out of his reaction and went in to add insult to injury as I spoke harshly “I also know exactly why you took her in when she was just a baby. You wanted her skill. But now, you can’t have it because it got passed on to me and my pack. Rhea gave it to us openly and generously, because despite the cruelty she faced in your pack her entire life, she still has a heart of gold and a pure soul still capable of love. That’s something you can never begin to understand. So I will talk to you in the only language you do understand. I am going to make you pay for every second of pain you made my mate go through, alpha Victor, I will make you experience every bit of it before I rip you to shreds for hurting her in the past fourteen years”He just gave me a cold, evil smile as he said in a condescending
Adrian’s POVEverything was ready.This is going to be the night we rid the world of the most evil rogue alpha in the region along with many of his evil, vile followers.It was such an impactful moment in our pack history that will set the pace for the next generation to come after us.All of my fighters plus Alec’s were standing behind me and Rhea, prepared for the moment the rogues will portal through to end this darkness once and for all.Our training was over, this was the real deal now. This was the real and most important fight we will ever go through and every single person was prepared and ready for it. They were prepared to fight with honor, they were ready to kill and not be killed.We were standing at the edge of my territory, silent and waiting.Rhea held my hand and squeezed it tightly, causing me to look over at her.She was gazing at me with a mixture of nervousness and determination.I squeezed her hand back and told her firmly “We will win”She nodded her head once ti
Rhea’s POV“Yes” my answer was instant, confident, and I gave him more proof by opening my legs to him, giving him direct access to do it.“Nah, I don’t think you are yet. I think we need to bring back some of that moaning and begging that will have you leaking out so hard, that way I can get inside a lot easier and less painfully” he said tauntingly.I groaned in a soft voice. I both loved and hated it when he played with me to intensify my releases, I mean I like the end result but I hate the process because it’s always overwhelming and sweetly torturous to endure.He kissed my lips passionately, making me lean into him to deepen the kiss more. Our tongues fought for access until they were satisfied before he moved down to my mark, licking and sucking it fervently making me writhe under him with renewed pleasure.My nipples came next and when he was done with them, I was left a heaping mess of arousal and desire.Just when I thought he was done, his mouth claimed back my left nipple
Rhea’s POVHe smiled at me warmly but asked carefully “I know you loved it. That’s the only reason I kept going. But despite that, I still want to make sure of something. Did I hurt you in a way that made you remember what happened to you in the past? Please be honest with me”“Not for a single moment, Adrian. Never. I truly loved the power you exerted on me, it turned me on very much, and I’m pretty sure you saw the evidence of that” I said a little shyly.“So you’re saying we can do this every now and then?” he asked curiously with a hint of desire shining in his eyes.I could see how much he really enjoyed that experience with me, how much he loved me submitting myself fully to him, and how much he enjoyed making me come on his own terms.But I could also tell he would never do something I’m not comfortable with even if he himself liked it, and for that, My love for him surged inside me harder at that moment.“Oh yeah, I think even your pain is addicting to me, alpha” I said playfu
Rhea’s POV“No what? You seem to forget my rules very easily, Rhea” he said slowly as his hand rubbed gently on the spot he just hit harshly, slowly easing my pain away with his soft touch.While the blow to my ass cheek made me feel pain, I couldn’t deny that it also gave me pleasure in a weird, complicated sort of way.“I’m sorry alpha, I will not forget them again” I said in a small voice, trying to regulate my suddenly rapid breathing, and sort out through my confusing emotions.“That’s exactly what I want you to think about while I help you learn your lesson through this punishment. Now, I want you to count out loud every time I spank you, and I don’t want you to slip up and miss a certain number or I will have to start all over again from the beginning. Can you do that?” he said firmly while he continued to seductively run his hands over my ass, making my core tighten and tingle in response to his erotic touches.“Yes, alpha”I screamed out again when he unexpectedly hit me on m