I wished I had never heard Sariel's words. I wished I had never come there and heard the sounds of him and Elora making out. It was nauseating. It was painful. It squeezed a long stream of tears from my eyes. I was hurt and angry, but the worst part of it was that I couldn't even barge in there to make a scene, because legally… Sariel belonged to Elora, not me.
I kept my mouth covered, fearing that my cry would betray my presence. My heart hammered erratically, as if it was trembling, just as my whole body was, yet some masochistic whisper told me to keep standing there, by Sariel's chamber. Perhaps some part of me was waiting for Sariel to say something else…but truthfully, I didn't know what I was expecting him to say, and of course, he said nothing else. Instead of words, I could only hear Elora's soft giggles and moans.
I felt my heart crack.
My feet turned back by themselves, and, in some self-defense mechanism, I returned to my chamber. Just
I opened the balcony and let the flow of cold wind brush my face. The sun was rising lazily in the perfectly clear sky. It seemed to be the beginning of a beautiful day, but I was far from enjoying it. I felt as if my heart weighed a ton and my chest could barely carry it.I could now see it as clearly as never before: I had been amazingly naïve. Sariel and Elora were husband and wife, and the king and queen, whereas I could barely earn the title of "respectable" mistress. If a royal prince from the human world asked me to become his wife, it would be obvious to assume that I was way below his status and I would never become the queen, so what made me trust that it would be different with Sariel? I believed in the cheesy slogan "Love conquers all", but even though my life was far from ordinary, it had always been the furthest away from romantic fantasy.I wanted to believe Sariel. I wanted to trust that he would make me his Queen soon, but how long would I be able
I wasn't certain how, but I forced myself to walk away from them. My feet turned around slowly while struggling to maintain balance. My heart dropped a thick curtain on my emotions. I stopped feeling anything at all. As I walked away, I met Mr. Parson's eyes. He grabbed my wrist worryingly."Are you all right, Lady Lilith?" The distorted sound of his voice hardly reached my ears.Slightly curling up the corners of my lips was the only sort-of-tactful response I could give him. I walked past him and bumped into Beta Ari. His questionable gaze on me made me wonder what kind of expression I must have had. Unfortunately, the trick with the pretended smile didn't work on him.I heard him say, "Wait here. I will find Alpha Draven."Of course, I didn't wait. I could hardly control anything about myself. Seeing Draven could have only triggered the surfacing of the worst, weakest version of me. I kept walking forward. I knew that no one could fix my state. My stat
We drove in Draven's car for about an hour. I stayed silent the whole time, constantly recalling the last view of the Palace the those whom I left behind. I hoped that they would forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye and that they would respect my decision. Draven kept glimpsing at me, checking if I was all right, but he didn't force me to be more sociable. I tried smiling at him a few times, silently thanking him for taking me away from that place, but for now, my smiley-grimaces couldn't be called sincere… I kept asking myself if I was doing the right thing. I still loved Sariel, but the relationship we had suddenly became polluted. I kept telling myself that he had to have a plan to act this way… He simply ignored me in it. In the end, when I saw him with Elora, looking at her the same way he had been looking at me, I started to question every single bit of the thing we had. I realized that if I wasn't able to tell the difference, he might have lied to me as well.
I looked around my new room. The wooden boards were framing a huge, wall-size window in front of me, which opened onto a small balcony. It let out a magnificent amount of light, just enough to brighten up the dark wooden floor. The white, raw walls perfectly corresponded with the dark brown flooring and the wooden furniture's skeletons wrapped in light-cream leather. But the most stunning part of the room was my new bed. The massive ebony frame went up to the ceiling, crowning the bed with a beautiful cream-white canopy. Below the falling layers of a silk-like fabric were a soft quilt and multiple down pillows. It was all amazingly cozy, but at the same time, unquestionably sexy. Just looking at it put me in a mood to…My heart ached again.I started to question whether that stupid bond-breaking formula, which I said aloud as if I had casted a spell, even worked. Maybe it did… on Sariel. Perhaps I didn't feel any change within me because I was a human&hel
Ian took me to the town center and parked the car right in front of a cell phone shop. It was a lively street, full of stores and boutiques. It resembled a high-end shopping district… only smaller, far less crowded, and much more friendly. As I walked out of the car, I instantly saw the smiling faces of people passing me by. They all looked carefree and peaceful… I narrowed my eyes, scanning their almost unreal happiness, which made me wonder if their smiles were genuine, or false, and I found myself on the Truman Show's set. Ian walked out of the car and glanced at me questionably."Aren't you going to go inside?" He pointed at the shop's door.The sound of his voice broke me out of a daze. "I am… I just…" I looked back at him, not knowing how to explain my weird behavior. "I'm going inside right now." I shot him the beamiest smile possible."Fine. I'll wait in the car," he tossed, opening the door on the driver's side."Actua
I kept staring at my reflection in the mirror, and I felt as if I was wearing a seductive nightgown. Not in hell, I was going to indulge his senses by presenting myself in this dress. I looked at the clock; it was exactly 1 PM. I ran to my closet and took out my favorite oversized, loose sweater. It was white, and it was long enough to cover my butt. I grinned wickedly, checking my look in the mirror for the final time. "Perfect!" I ran down the stairs, looking for the dining room. The door on the right was wide openas if inviting me in. I cautiously passed the threshold and found myself in a spacious room with a long, massive wooden table running the length of the room. "You're here." I heard a whisper right behind my ear. I turned around. Draven was standing inches away from me. He was wearing jeans and a black fitted T-shirt, partially exposing the tribal mark tattoos on his upper arms. His eyes slowly roamed down my body. I gulped but forced
I changed into jeans and my old sweatshirt. When I finally felt comfortable, I sat on the bed and started staring at my new phone. I was hoping to get a call from Kanan or Martha before tomorrow. I couldn't believe that it had only been a day and I already missed them. I would probably sit like that and wait if it weren't for Beta Ari knocking on my door. I let him in, and once he entered my room, I invited him to sit down."I assume that you and Alpha had a fight?" he asked as soon as I closed the door behind him.I smiled sourly at him. "How did you guess?""I saw him eat his lunch alone, murdering the food on the plate, and then he organized an extra training for his elite warrior squad," he smirked and narrowed his eyes at me."So why are you here instead of training?" I tried to ignore his interrogative gaze."I told Alpha that I would go and check on you. He agreed." Ari grinned cunningly."So I am your way of skipping training?" I chu
I guess you never know that you might miss someone until you are far away from that person. Martha and I had grown to be friends. It had happened unknowingly, and, at that moment, I wanted to hug her. Even though I couldn't, just hearing her voice was comforting and heartwarming. I kept smiling at the phone, feeling less alone in this new place where I was supposed to live from now on."Do you know how unbearable this day was?" She whined, obviously putting all the blame for her terrible day on me.I chuckled, "I know you'll tell me whether I want it or not.""You're damn right I will!" She let out an adorable roar, which made me grin even wider. "The corridor was so loud from the gossip about your leaving that it woke me up. Every servant was buzzing around that you had broken the blood bond to leave with the Alpha from the Moon Hill Pack. Do you have any idea how devastated I was hearing something like that?""It wasn't like I'd planned this to ha