Eloise’s POV:
I jump, whipping around when the towel is snatched off my hand.
“Kaden!” I growl at him, but he smirks at me, his eyes trailing slowly down my naked body still dripping wet. “Get out!” I snarl, my eyes darting to the other towels before he stepped into my line of vision. “Let me get one thing clear, mate,” he growled the last part as if to intimidate me, but I glared at him head-on. His brow raise. Leaning in, he breathes in my scent and growls. “You will respect the mate bond, it is sacred.” I scoff at his words. “Did my father sent you in here to change my mind? Well, bold move mister, but it is so not working,” I roll my eyes at him and shove him away, meaning to move towards my bathroom closet to get a damn towel because I’m bloody cold when he drags me right back in the same position. What the hell is his problem? “I am your mate,” he snarls. “So? I rejected you.” I say a-matter-of-factly, loving the way his lip twitched in his anger with my defiance. “And I haven’t accepted it.” I roll my eyes and brush past him but he blocks my path with his large, towering frame. “Face it, mate. You can’t resist it, the bond will always,” he leans closer and smirks at me. “Always draw you closer to me.” My brows spiked and I cannot believe I am hearing this shit. “Take your bond and f*ck off, Alpha,” I emphasize his title knowing it’s what boosts his ego and pride. He looks at me as if I had amused him. He smirks and steps forward, forcing me to step back until I hit the cold wall. “You will regret rejecting me, and you will come begging,” he growled each and every word with venom, and I scoff. “Well good luck with that, Alpha.” He snarls before spinning me around facing the wall. Before I knew it, my hands are trapped in his large, confining hands as he pinned me against the wall. I have never been in a vulnerable position in my life before Alpha Kaden walked in and decided to humiliate me like this. My ass is completely bare, my pussy pointed right at him. And I knew, he had the power to take it right now if he wants. My lips quivered as I began taking in deep, slow breaths. I have not shifted yet, so that is not a possible route for escape if the asshole did try something. I’m trapped, powerless, and utterly exposed before my father’s most loathed enemy. “Do not taunt me, Eloise,” he snarls, body pressing forcefully against my backside, yet I remain calm. I refuse to appeal weak to the man because of the fact I could not shift to save my damn life. “I’m not interested in teasing, Alpha,” I reply calmly, wondering if he heard the slight tremble of my voice. He chuckles into my hair, breathes in my scent deeply, and starts to run his nose down along my neck to my shoulders. I shiver. My wolf purrs at his actions. She asks me to wiggle my ass against his crotch to see his reaction, but I slam down the thought before she even— It was too late for that as she snatched my control on my lower body and wiggled. My eyes widen a little when Kaden growls low into my ear. “Is this what you meant by not being interested in teasing?” I swallow, my breath hitched in my throat as I find the right words when he abruptly spins me around. My back is now forced against the wall as he pinned my hands above my head. This time, I try to snatch them away in an attempt to cover my naked breasts, only for his grip to grow tighter. I whimper. His gaze lowered to my breasts, circling around my hard nipples that stood erect from being plastered on the cold surface. “Hmm.” He licks his lips, his eyes lit up as if he’d just seen his eye candy and is ready to devour it. I glare at him. “What, can’t wait for me to blow out your tits?” he chuckles, making me look at him in utter disbelief. “That’s not what I’m—” Before I could finish, he cuts me off when his mouth closes around my nipple, licking and sucking until I found myself making sounds I never knew I was capable of. Even more when he started sucking and grazing his teeth against my wet, hard nipples, aching for more. He does both simultaneously, and my eyes roll to the back of my head with his little mouth games wondering if I could keep up with his rough handling my breasts. “Mmnn…” Still, it felt so good, I never wanted him to stop. The moment I let out a loud moan, he abruptly let go. He growls, looking at me dead in the eye. His gaze was dangerous, deep, yet I couldn’t break eye contact even if I wanted to. I gulp. “I can fuck you right here, right now, if I wanted to,” he growls. I hold my breath, breathing heavy breaths as I played this staring down contest I had with Alpha Kaden. “But I won’t.” he says then letting me go. I quickly grab another towel, wrapping my body around it and when I look up, his back was already turned to me as he walked away.“See you at the ceremony.”
My lips purse into a line, hearing him slam the door shut before I finally came to my senses.I glare daggers at the door. The audacity of him to barge into my room while I was showering and prod my boobs like he did. My wolf, on the other hand, loved every second of the prodding and manhandling, as she whined about him leaving with unfinished business.
Unfinished business my ass. Then I remembered his little comment before he popped in. I groan out and kick my bathroom door open, aiming for my walk-in closet. Jerk!Eloise’s POV:My father has been in and out of the house this week. He doesn’t tell me but I know he’s been out meeting Alpha Kaden, negotiating pack lands and pack assets. I could tell easily when he moves past me. One whiff of his scent and my wolf perks up in attention, salivating and wagging her tail for her mate. She has been howling insufferably in my ears, forming a pounding headache for the last hour.‘Ok, that’s enough,’ I finally snap.‘This is all your fault,’ ‘How is it mine?’ I ask, appalled my own wolf would blame me for something I did. Not that this is the first, still.‘Did you have to be a bitch and reject our mate?’ she snarls. I roll my eyes. ‘And do you really have to be such a drama queen?’ ‘At least I had the brain to think through things, before randomly blurting out a rejection that could well damage our life!’ ‘Don’t tell me you’re still sulking over that. You know who he is. A guy like that? Nothing good will ever happen with us being mated to someone li
Eloise’s POV:Everything that happened afterwards slipped by in a haze. We were both drinking, and I don’t remember half of the Arcane movie he made me watch before I passed out. It was something about family members who’ve lost their way before they found each other again, and that’s when he lost me.Hmm. Strange, I remember talking to Dex about Alpha Kaden and my father’s plans on marrying me off to him for some alliance. When I came to, it was dark outside, and I was already in Dex’s car’s passenger seat. “Wakey wakey sissy,” I hear Dex whisper into my ear. The smell of his perfume brought me back to my senses.“Will you stop calling me that?” I snap at a surprised-looking Dexter leaning his arm on the wheel. He was in the same white fit shirt and shorts when I came to his apartment.“God, I’m sorry, what time is it?” I groan, touching my temple and rubbing small circles to soothe it. I close my eyes. I have this worst headache ever. My head is pounding and for some reason, my bo
Eloise’s POV:ONE WEEK LATERDad and I were watching TV while my Mom cooked us dinner. We watched a new drama series and now we’re debating on whether the lead character was getting a comeback. I thought otherwise. I was just about to throw in my argument when the news flash turned on. I wasn’t interested and was ready for my rebuttal.“So, I was thinking—” My father points his finger and shushes me.“Be quiet, Elle. It’s about our pack,” he mumbles without even looking at me and his eyes plastered on the screen.I roll my eyes and get up, about to move towards the kitchen to help my Mom when I hear my name called out from the same news my dad was watching.Slowly, I moved back towards the living room. My body tenses as I feel the intense, deathly aura oozing off from no other than my alpha father. I gulp, finally stepping back into the living room where I see him now standing watching the news. His wolf’s fur was jutting out of his skin, his eyes flickering bright gold as he fought
Alpha Kaden’s POV:My eyes are glued to the video clip on the screen my beta, Colton, handed over to me an hour ago. One hour. One fucking hour had passed but I still couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. My whole body trembled with rage, and I’m surprised I was able to hold it in even for an hour of rewatching the clip over and over.It’s her. The woman on the same video clip I kept rewatching being stroked by another man is my own f*cking mate. Naked from head to toe, her mouth opens and closes in between moans, her face contorting in pain. I have seen women who liked mixing pain and pleasure in bed. Apparently, she’s one of them.“What are you going to do?” My beta Colton asks. I deadpan to him. My face devoid of emotion. Colton leans against the wall of my office, his arms folded across his chest with a deep smirk on his face. He finds it amusing that a woman, my own mate no less, would actually cheat on the me. Never in my long line of dating women had any one of them actually we
Eloise’s POV:The feeling was instant, a suffocating pain rolling over me before the phone slips out of my grasp. My entire body is shaking, my wolf howling miserably in my head as I fall apart. My heart is breaking, and I don’t know when it will stop. A scream tore through me, and my mother who had fallen asleep by my side jolts awake, looking around in confusion before noticing I had rolled off from the bed. My body colliding with the floor once again and grazing my wounds, but I didn’t care. “El, El,” My mother’s warm hand touches my face but I flinch. I am still suffering from the aftershocks of his rejection, and my body seems to be going through a rough time processing it. I scream, scratch, as if my instincts want me to tear my heart out of my chest so it would stop hurting. My mother shrieks and tries to stop me from clawing at my chest, but I won’t budge. Tears escape my eyes, streaming down my face while I cry out in pain. He’d made it sound so painfully clear, that he can
Eloise’s POV:Some of the omegas I had passed by snickered as I walked. My face reddened feeling the humiliation finally wash over me, making me realize just how real all of this is.I kept my head low, not wanting to place attention to myself. It’s the last thing I need after my private, reproductive organ had been blasted across the news. I was an embarrassment to the city, to my pack, and most of all, to my family.Entering the door to the pack doctor’s clinic, I find him sitting across his computer, typing away. His eyes move to me standing by the door before a shock crosses his features, almost as if he’d seen me grow two heads. Then he briefly moves his gaze back to the screen before tapping one of the keys on his keyboard a little too harshly before getting up.“El—I mean uh, Miss Eloise, why are you here?”The doctor looked rather worried, his forehead showing the fine wrinkles he brought with age, his lips pursed into a thin line as he looked over to me“I was hoping you coul
Eloise’s POV:My vision doubles as I whirl around, wondering who the hell slapped me and what for. I blink, shaking my head and wobbling on my feet.“You little sl*t!” someone sneers.Blinking, I squint and instantly recognize the face of the woman standing in front of me. Amanda, a middle-aged woman who is also our valet, was glaring daggers at me like I’ve did her terribly wrong, leaving me rather confused. She’s never looked this angry at me before.“Slacking on your first day? The Alpha will surely hear about this,” she snaps, and I stare at her. “Excuse me?” I furrow my brows, wondering what’s gotten into her. She never talked to me like this before?Amanda scoffs. I notice the omegas starting to gather around us, mumbling amongst each other.“Playing dumb now, are we?” she sneers, making me more confused.“What are you talking about? I just need to get back to my room,” I groan, clearly not understanding why she’s keeping me here on my feet when I needed to get to bed. My injur
Eloise’s POV:All day I worked, cleaning here and there, tidying up things I never noticed even existed when I’ve lived in this pack house my entire life. Somehow, I didn’t hate it. It provided a distraction while I wrap my head around the fact that there’s a werebaby growing inside me. And the fact that I now have to decide how I’m going to raise him or her alone since the father obviously wanted nothing to do with me. Yet, I couldn’t imagine having a family without a father figure. Growing up, I always dreamed of finding my mate, getting married, and of course, doing everything together as a team. My parents gave me the best childhood I could possibly have, and now I’d hate for my child to grow up not having that. I meant to use the house telephone to call his number. But I get dirty looks every time I go anywhere near it. So as soon as I return to my room, I decided to give him a call. Wiping the mirror for the last time, I let out a tired breath. This is my last chore before lun
Eloise’s POV:We make our way back to the grounds. I’m relieved Kaden at least saw through the wolf for who he is. A man, and for years, he’d been lost after losing his mate and unborn pup. I couldn’t even begin to imagine how he felt that day, when the rogues clamped their teeth around her belly and ripped it out of her. Even now, outside that memory, I can see it. All the blood, and his hands covered in Maya’s blood and his unborn pup’s, makes my heart break.I couldn’t imagine my life without my pups. They are everything, and I would give my last breath for them in a blink.Still, the anguish and excruciating pain he felt was devastating. He lost everything, and I couldn’t help but feel, in some way, how it must have felt for Kaden.I glance at Kaden walking by my side. He had been awful silent for a while ever since Walter shifted. I noted the shock on his face, but his lips had been sealed shut.Logan left to run some errands, but before he left he winked at me and smiled, earnin
Kaden’s POV:Eloise’s body is flush against mine. I could feel Logan’s piercing gaze glare holes into the back of my head, but he’s the last thing I should worry about right now. I’ve just witnessed my mate search through a rogue’s memory, which is near to impossible, unheard of. I can tell by the way her eyes rolled to the back of her head. Also by the way the wolf whimpered and his eyes flicker like his life had flashed before him. And also because Rictus told me.But how could this be? Even Rictus have no idea. But something else stirs inside me, unsettled.Eloise sobs into my chest. Her body shaking uncontrollably.I lift her chin with my finger, whispering sweet nothings into her ear before she lifts her eyes, locking onto mine.“Tell me,” I rasp, “What did you see?”Her bottom lip quivers before she finally speaks, and proceeds to tell me everything. Apparently, this wolf right here is beta to some unknown pack. And her pregnant mate was attacked by rogues who had the unquenchab
Eloise's POV:Kaden slits his eyes and looks at me, "Eloise," "No." I glue my feet to the ground, letting him know I am not going anywhere until he listens.Why does he want me to leave so bad?"You have to listen,"Kaden moves his gaze between me and Logan who tosses a knowing smirk my way.Kaden sighs, "Fine." He grunts.Logan gives me a nod, and I turn back to the wolf, Walter.I extend my hand, slipping it between the bars which inevitably elicits a growl from Kaden. I shoot him a glare and he does not move, but his eyes are glued to my hand, preparing for the worst.Before I can place my hand on the wolf's fur, he leaned forward, pushing his forehead onto my hand instead. The moment my fingertips brushed his fur, my eyes roll to the back of my head as I am transported to a place where my feet is rooted to the grass. I felt my soul leave my body as visions began to flash before my eyes in nanoseconds, but I feel as if I am right there.I blink, opening my eyes slowly. When I look
Eloise’s POV:The cells is probably the filthiest place in the pack house. While everything above these old cages are filled with luxurious pieces from floor to the damn ceiling, everything down here gathers dust and filth. What’s more, I feel like the prisoners here were plucked and tossed into the pit of the abyss, never to be seen or heard from again. And it reeks of blood and feces that can never be seen clearly as not a single ray of sunlight touches these dark cells.Is this what the rumors were all about when they labeled Kaden as the notorious, merciless alpha ever known?I can’t believe this. I can’t believe him.I step towards the cell Logan has brought me to see, and I duck my head to see the same wolf who took my side unexpectedly that day I was attacked in the forest.“Hello,” I speak out, trying to reach him. He was still in wolf form, curled up facing the far wall.“Can I talk to you just for a second?” As my eyes focus on his form, I furrow my brows when I see blood co
146Eloise’s POV:Shaking my head, I hold back angry tears before they rise to the surface. The hallway is wrapped in suffocating silence, which also means he did not follow after me.Good. If he really wants my trust, he would let me wallow in my regret for ever coming back here in the first place. I swallow the lump in my throat, and walk faster before turning around the corner.The next moment, I slam into a hard chest that has me stumbling backwards, and I lose balance. I brace myself for the fall as I feel my body leaning back. I squeeze my eyes shut knowing this has got to hurt but surprise fills me when a hand wraps around my waist and my back hits something hard. And that is not the cold, tiled floor of this ridiculous mansion of a pack house.“Look who finally woke up,” a deep chuckle resounded in my ear, and I blink my eyes open.“Logan,” He flashes me his handsome smile and places me gently back on my feet.“You scared the shit out of me,” I chuckle, unable to hide the ne
Eloise's POV:I groan, blinking rapidly. My mind is in a whirlwind of complicated emotions as I try to figure out where the hell I am. The last thing I remember was the sound of growling and snarling as a fight breaks loose all around me. Rogues. And one I couldn't seem to get off my pounding head.The wolf with blue eyes.He helped me. My head whips up so fast and I gasp when I remembered everything that had happened so far.And that scent that engulfed me while my body felt like it was flying in the air, lingered close. Logan.He saved me, didn't he?"You're awake." My head snaps to my right as a shiver snakes down my throbbing, aching pussy. It hurts so bad. And I'm not even exaggerating it.The voice had broken out so close right next to me, before I was even aware of his dark figure leaning against the wall and his arms crossed against his chest."Kaden," I blow out a breath as I take him all in. His hair sat a sexy mess on top of his head, looking like he'd run his fingers thr
Kaden’s POV:‘Alpha, we found her.’ The pack link split through my head. The words sending an instant relief through me and I come to a screeching halt after running for miles for hours. If I were being honest, the run was driving me crazy.Eloise isn’t in any condition to be wandering around outside the pack house. Hell, she shouldn’t even be one foot away from her bed.Everyone knows that she-wolves mated to Alphas turn extremely weak after their Alpha mate successfully broke their heat. Eloise does not just happen to be my mate, but she is also Alpha by blood. In terms of sex drive, Alpha females are on par, or they might even exceed an Alpha’s sex drive. She may not remember everything from the past three days she had gone into extreme heat, but I had kept my eye on her and could say she had the drive of two she-wolves combined. Her wolf took that opportunity and dominated me in every way and I let her. And fuck, did I relish every singly moment of it.She was beautiful as when sh
Eloise’s POV:I have never seen eyes that glowed like that before, nor have I ever seen wolves, rogues at that, bearing the same eye color.‘Be careful, Eloise.’ My wolf warned me. As I thought, not even Adeline could tell how the hell these rogues turned out the way they are.They exuded a strange aura, the same but strong aura none of them should be able to possess. As a matter of fact, once a wolf turned rogue, their aura ought to be diminished little by little. And by the time they had turned feral and completely lost their sanity, their auras should have been as good as gone.But these rogues…Their aura is surprisingly strong, which was in itself impossible.I gave my wolf a nod of acknowledgement just before the largest wolf lunged right at me. Just in time, my body reacted and I ducked my head, sprinting forward, but the action caused enough pain shooting through my body and I winced.Ignoring the pain, I attacked the largest wolf just as it turned around to bare its sharp tee
142Eloise's POV:Adeline, are you sure this is the right way? I try to ask my wolf for the hundredth time, but all I heard from her for the past hour were grunts and hums that didn't even sound right. See that tree over there? We have passed by that tree fifteen times already. This is the same clearing we reached only going on different paths, yet we end up in the same one.Adeline still wouldn't answer me. She had been silent ever since I shifted. Well, I kind of forced the shift, even though she warned me there would be consequences if I did without healing properly first. But I can't stand idly by while the thought of Kaden discovering my Mum in her state, and the fact that Dad had been hiding her for the past year might become a reality. For an Alpha, that would be treason. I pant, feeling the weight of my body gradually press down on me like deadlifts, and I doubt I can keep up. My head is a mess right now, with my vision a steady blur and my foresight unusually inaccurate.