Adrian’s POVI don’t know for how long I stood there watching here clinging to my sweater but I couldn’t get enough of this adoring scene.I can’t wait to be the one she holds so dearly to her in her sleep.I can’t wait to see love bloom in her heart for me and for her to miss me whenever I’m gone like I miss her and think about her whenever we’re apart.She stirred in her sleep and I froze in my place next to her bed side.I know I look like a creep watching her sleep like this but I can’t help it. She is so fascinating.I didn’t want to get out and pretend that I haven’t been watching over her. I want her to know how attached I’m becoming to spending more time with her. So I stayed in my place but knelt down to her level on the floor as I whispered softly “Wake up, Rhea”Her eyes fluttered before they opened sleepily and fixed on me.She smiled at me softly as she mumbled “Adrian”I adore my name coming from her lips in every tone she uses.“How did you sleep?” I asked huskily as my
Rhea’s POV“I can’t believe I won from the first time!” I squealed excitedly as Adrian and I were walking down the hallway back to my bedroom.It's been three days since my melt down in his arms back at the training room.Three of the happiest days of my entire life.Adrian has been so soft and gentle with me. Not once did he go back to being an arrogant ass who looks down on me as if I’m much lesser than him.It made hope bloom for the future between us. Hope grew especially because I haven’t had any nightmares since I started sleeping with Adrian’s scent in my arms.Every night before I sleep, I keep inhaling his addicting smell through the sweater he gave to me when I shifted until I fall asleep, and I wake up the next day without any night terrors. I didn’t give it back to him and he hasn’t asked for it.The absence of those haunting memories did wonders to my personality as I started being a little more open, less guarded and scared, and more joyful in the presence of others.Oth
Rhea’s POV“Sandra told me the same thing when she saw me” I told him shyly.“Is Sandra being good to you? Please tell me the truth Rhea” he asked with little concern.“Yes, I think she is becoming a friend like Alec. She is very nice to me and I liked her more when she took my side and told you everything that happened with her sister and me. I never expected her to take my side but when she did, I decided that she is a really good person” I told him truthfully.“I’m happy you’re starting to feel more at ease among them. They all like you very much” he said lightly.“I like them too”“I’ve been thinking, or rather Lennox has been nagging, he wants to meet Hazel and I think it’s time since I know how much she’s used to being out and about before she came here. She must be agitated” Adrian said gently.Hazel instantly howled in my head in excitement and I chuckled at her exaggerated reaction.Adrian laughed at my chuckle and said “I think she’s celebrating in there, isn’t she?”“Pretty
*Trigger Warning: Some sensitive and gruesome content in this chapter*Rhea’s POVI knew better than to disobey, I knew he could separate my head from my body with a single hit from him, or he could slice me limb from limb, little by little until I go crazy from the pain just to make an example out of who ever dares to defy his orders. I knew all that but I couldn’t get myself to shift.My eyes were stuck on the little boy and how big his teardrops were as they were falling down his angelic face. The biggest teardrops I’ve ever seen and they massacred my heart to pieces.“I don’t have all day Rhea. Kill them or die along with them” he said coldly with dead eyes.Hazel was whimpering in my head in both fear and pain.She wasn’t going to force the shift and do it for me unless I asked her. She was willing to accept death if it meant not getting blood on our hands, especially those people’s blood.I thought I could do this, I was preparing myself to do this for years but when the moment
Rhea’s POVIt took me months to recover from my first two kills. If you can even call it recovering when my soul was already dead.I was alive and breathing but it made no difference for I was dead inside.Alpha Victor made sure of it.Ever since that night, for months, alpha Victor would always order me to kill the women and children of each pack we invaded to ensure my allegiance to him and to break me to the point of no return.And I did it.I never defied him again.I never dared to help the innocent people I found hiding in their houses ever again.I killed with no mercy. I killed them and gave them the quickest deaths I could manage. I never looked in their eyes, I never kept their screams trapped around in my head, but it didn’t matter.Nightmares filled my sleep every time I closed my eyes. That boy’s face, his tears, his cries haunted me until I thought I will go crazy with the amount of guilt and suffering I was experiencing.I almost took my own life as I reached a point wh
Adrian’s POVI gasped loudly as I felt like I was catching on fire, burning alive even though there were no real flames enveloping me as I looked down at my body to check.A second later, I understood what was going on.“Rhea!” I called out in panic as I jumped off the bed and was out the door in the blink of an eye, heading straight to her room with a tremendous amount of dread.The last time I felt her pain in my sleep was absolutely nothing compared to what I was feeling right now.This was a million times more worse. And if the last time was any confirmation, a shallow cut won’t be enough to make it stop. Try a thousand cuts and it won’t even scratch the surface.I ran fearing the worst.I could stop her pain without endangering her life. But I knew she wouldn’t ask me if I left it up to her. She would rather cut herself than seek my help. She’s still not used to counting on someone else other than herself.We were progressing the past three days. She hasn’t seen any nightmares si
Adrian’s POV“I’m so tired, Adrian. I thought my nightmares will end if I hold on to your scent and sleep with it. I thought it was working, but it didn’t. They will never go away until I end them myself the only way I know will work” she looked at me as she said in surrender.“No! I won’t let you harm yourself anymore! No more cutting, not under my watch. I can keep them away from you, My scent will. It has been working so far but my scent must have faded from the sweater that’s why they came back” I said angrily.She looked at me in surprise and I realized my slip up.“How do you know about….about my cutting?” she stammered.I came clean, no point in hiding it anymore. The only way to work through this is to be open and honest from now on.“I saw you do it in the bathroom a few nights ago. I got woken up from my sleep when I felt your pain through the bond. I watched you suffering in there, and witnessed how you dealt with it. I wanted to come inside and confront you about it but I
Rhea’s POVHis first kiss put out the burning sensation in my heart, while his second kiss ignited the fire back into it, but I never felt happier to have it catch on fire in that sort of way before. A fire that didn’t burn me in pain but burned me with love and affection for the first time.The kiss made me believe what was real and what wasn’t. The person hugging me to his chest right now, giving me his all, he’s the only real thing in my entire life.He is my only source of light. My only source of life. And I was clinging to him with everything I had, unafraid to show myself to him anymore. To show him the real Rhea as he put it.I still don’t believe he should know about what I’ve done in the past. It still scares the hell out of me to come clean about the most disturbing things I’ve committed to a lot of innocent people.But I wasn’t lying when I said that I seriously could not go through this right now.I felt like my body and my mind have been through hell and back.“Let’s bot
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