Chapter One
Thalina “Don’t forget everything I told you, and make sure you send back reports of your progress every week,” Father said. I nodded at him and looked out of the window. I could already see the school, and my reality became clearer than before. I was being sent on a mission for my pack—a mission that could either take my life or the life of the most powerful person in the kingdom, the Alpha King. He was the ruler of all ten packs, and our pack was one of them. “He has been traumatizing us for years; we need to put an end to it.” Ever since Father told me about this mission, I had been wondering why I was chosen for such a significant task. I always knew Father didn’t care much about me, and he always blamed me for Mother’s death, but I couldn’t understand why he had to send me on this dangerous journey, especially when I just experienced the biggest heartbreak of my life. “Ember and Fenris will be getting mated soon,” Father said, and I immediately turned to him, my eyes wide. “Wh…what?” I stuttered. Ember was my stepsister, and Fenris was my mate. I had caught them cheating just a few days ago, and the pain was still lingering in my heart. I had tried every possible way to get those hurtful thoughts and that agonizing scene out of my head, but nothing was working. The only good thing about this mission was being away from Ember and Fenris, because just seeing them takes me back to the moment I walked in with excitement and joy to surprise him for the new job he got, only to be welcomed by sounds of moans and cries of ecstasy that tilted my world on its axis, leaving me breathless and confused. I had the widest smile on my face and my heart wouldn’t stop thumping with excitement. I had planned to finally have that first sex with him, one I had been looking forward to. I had watched so many videos just to learn how to do it the perfect way. I was waiting for the right time—waiting until I turned twenty-one—but soon realized I couldn’t wait any longer. I loved him so much that just the thought of waiting more months without being touched by him made my whole body heat up. I wanted him so badly, and that day felt perfect. I shook my head and sniffled, fighting back my tears as his cold words after I caught him rang in my ears again. He had said, “I Fenris Knight, reject you, Thalina Noir as my name,” and immediately, he turned to Ember and accepted her as his mate. Right there in my presence. Those words echoed in my ears again, and my lips shook. “Not again,” I murmured under my breath. I had spent the next few days crying and wishing everything I saw and heard wasn’t true, just as I desperately wished it wasn’t true when I walked in on them. The sight still makes my heart twitch with pain: how he was slamming into her and the cry of her body being filled with pleasure. How he was giving her every single thing I had imagined receiving from him. The way he groaned loudly and called her sweet names, ones he never called me. I was fucking stupid! I was stupid to have thought the small things he did were love. He did the bare minimum, and I assumed he loved me just as much as I did. But the fucking dunce was just playing games with me. How stupid of me not to have noticed! But I was sure I felt that spark, that tumbling and swirling of my wolf inside of me. I was convinced he was my mate. “They will be getting mated,” Father repeated, his voice harder and more serious than before. “You made a scene back there, and the entire pack now knows what happened. It is only right that we get them mated to protect the family’s dignity.” “Dignity?” I scoffed. Why was I the one being fed stories about family dignity? Wasn’t Ember thinking about the same dignity when she slept with my mate? And Fenris, the fucking dog who wouldn’t keep his cock in his pants and had to get down with my stepsister—I wish him hell! “You could have come to me to tell me what you saw instead of creating a scene,” he continued. “Ember and Fenris want to be together; it doesn’t ma—” “Father!” I chimed in. “Fenris is my mate. He loved me, he—” “He wouldn’t have done what he did with Ember if he truly loved you.” He shrugged. He was right about that. I needed someone to say that to me, someone to talk some sense into my head before it sinks in that Fenris never loved me. It was all a facade. “You will be sent the notice a few days before the mating ceremony. It wouldn’t be right for you not to attend,” he said, readjusting in his seat. “We are here,” he added. I looked up to see that we were right in front of the school, and my eyes fell back on him. He had that blank look on his face as usual, the one he always has when he’s with me. It was always different with Ember—smiles and laughter. I looked back at the school, and my heart sank. A mixture of fear and uncertainty gripped me, and I spent minutes wondering if Father was doing this for the pack or to take me out of the family. No one has ever seen the Alpha King; no one knew how he looked like. Yet, I was sent to kill him. That didn’t make sense to me at all, but I was a girl who lost the right to live for herself and make decisions when I lost my mom. Father doesn’t care about my well-being and safety; the only thing he was bothered about was getting the position he had been promised if I succeeded in killing the Alpha King as I was sent to do. “You are here now; do not get distracted and forget your mission,” he turned to me. “I am going to be the pack minister if you succeed in this mission. I am going to be wealthy. You can’t afford to fail.” I wasn’t sure if that was a threat or encouragement, but I just nodded at him. It was the only thing I could do. I pushed the door open and was about to leave when he grabbed my hand and pulled me back. I was expecting him to say something nice and wish for my safety, but he cleared his throat and said, “You must attend Ember and Fenris’s mating ceremony when it’s time. Those two are in love.” I didn’t say a word. I pulled his hand away and got out. My bag had already been dropped by the driver. I grabbed it and headed for the school gate, with Father’s words ringing in my head. Thinking about it, they had many reasons for sending me on this mission where they knew it was eighty percent guaranteed that I wouldn’t return. If I were back at home, I wouldn’t let the mating ceremony happen. Ember and Fenris couldn’t live happily after they broke me like this. They couldn’t be together after they made a joke out of me. Silly me! I was so excited to spend my first night with him. I was happy and just couldn’t contain it. I had been looking forward to the day, but I wished I had never looked forward to it. If only I had known I would be welcomed with the most heartbreaking and painful scene of my life. Those scenes just wouldn’t leave my head; they wouldn’t fade away. How could he do that to me? “You have to drop your bags here, miss. They’ll be taken to your apartment later,” the man at the gate said to me, and I complied without saying a word. The only thing in my head was that scene of Fenris pounding into Ember with her moans filling my ears. “Scan that code and d******d the school app; it will help you through your stay here.” I scanned the code and downloaded the app as he had said. My mission was to find the Alpha King and kill him, but I was being sent to a school instead. I was also confused by this until it was explained that I could only enter the royal castle through this school. Every month, the top students in the class would take an excursion to the palace, and I would find the Alpha and kill him. Simple as ABC—those were Father’s words after he explained. “Take this,” the man handed a note over to me. “I hope you have your admission form with you?” I nodded in response. “Great! Find his office on the map and get him to sign the last part. You can only be qualified as a student when it is signed,” he added and looked up at me with a smile. “Welcome to Wolfhaven College.” I flashed a smile at him, which faded the moment I stepped into the school. Following the map to the office I was directed to, I remembered planning to do a lot of things with Fenris—how I thought I would go to college with him and we would live our best lives. I thought he was as excited as I was, but he never really cared about me; he never loved me. Every single thing he showed me was just a facade, a game he played on me with Ember. He could have been real with me. He could have just told me he never liked me and not made me believe he did and look forward to spending that night with him. He could have told me the truth and not let me walk in on him like that. Would it have hurt less if he had told me? I wasn’t sure it would, but at least I would be free from the sounds that continued to haunt me—the loud moans and cries that kept ringing in my head. I finally reached the door of the office and knocked, but received no response. After standing there for several minutes without getting any reply, I tried to see if the door was unlocked, and it opened. I took a step in, stopped, and looked around, but I still couldn’t find anyone. I wanted to go back, but what the man at the gate said made me stop; I needed to sign the form before I could be considered a student. I took more steps further and halted at the sound of familiar, heartbreaking yet soothing sounds. I shook my head, thinking it was the constant sounds that had haunted me ever since I walked in on those two buffoons. But I was wrong, completely wrong when I saw him. He stood tall, his broad shoulders framed by a white shirt that was untucked and rumpled. His trousers were dropped almost down to his knees. His round and perfectly structured ass made me drool. I never thought a man’s ass could be so sexy. His back was turned to me, and he had one hand gripping the edge of the table for support, while his other hand stroked his cock. I could tell that just from the movement of his hand and the way his head swung back every few seconds, also the raw, guttural moans and groans escaping his lips. “Yes! Fuck!” he groaned, sending shivers of pleasure up my spine, a thrilling mix of anticipation and desire coursing through me. I felt my stomach tightening into knots. Oh! God, I had waited for days to have this moment with Fenris, to share this moment with him, to hear him moan and groan like this. “Oh! Fuck it!” His gentle moans echoed through the air. I instantly became breathless and aroused. The tightening in my stomach seemed to loosen, sending my pussy dripping with so much fluid that I struggled to pull my legs together, causing me to stumble over the table beside me. “Who the hell is that!” His commanding baritone voice filled every corner of the room. My spine tingled with fear, but it was instantly replaced with thrill and excitement when he turned and my eyes fell on his over eight inches long cock. My heart skip with delight and my stomach knotted in a burst of ecstasy, my legs became wobbly and shaky just with the thought of having that hard veiny cock deep inside of me. Fucking hell! I was dripping and fucking wet just by staring at him. This was what I wanted from Fenris but he had to choose Ember over me. “Why are you late? And are you just going to stand there?” He grunted in frustration, his hand still moving through the length of his cock, stroking it hard and fast like he was going to cum soon. His shoulder length dirty blonde hair was in waves, which was now messy from swinging his head back and forth while fisting himself. The scent of his strong cologne gripped me, sending more waves of wetness dripping down my opening and making all my reluctance and confusion vanish. He was a stranger and a professor in this new school, but I couldn’t help it, not with his hard and enormous cock that I just couldn’t take my eyes off. Fuck it! I wanted that in my mouth. I shuddered at the overwhelming pleasure that completely engulfed my body. I was confused about what he was saying, and wanted to speak, but I couldn’t. “Get on your knees and do your fucking job!” He growled. “Your lips are so sexy… I want to fuck it very hard!” I quivered. Was he really serious right now? Does he really want to do that to me because I was so fucking down for it. “I hate to repeat myself, baby-girl. Get… on… your fucking knees!” The dominance and authority in his words guided me to him, leaving me with no protest or reluctance. I thought it would take me forever to get over Fenris, I wasn’t able to do with the thoughts of him for days, but at this point, all I could think of was getting filled up by his glistening cock.Chapter Two Thalina When I got close to him, the first thing I noticed was how tall he stood—well over six feet, towering above me and making me feel so small beside him. His presence was so overwhelming and commanding, I could tell he was pthe kind of man who commanded a room without saying a word. I couldn't take my eyes off his face. He was clearly older, maybe a decade or two my senior, but that only made him more attractive. God! How could he be so hot? Everything about him from his head, down to his cock was one to die for. The lines around his eyes, the touch of gray at his temples, and the soft groan that escaped his lips—all of it screamed experience. The kind of experience someone like me—innocent and untouched—needed. I knew this was wrong. He was a stranger, I just met him. Above all, he was a professor, someone I shouldn’t even be thinking about in this way. But the magnetic pull I felt towards him was irresistible, stronger than anything I had ever felt. It
Chapter Three Thalina “I want to fuck this these tits…” He stopped and squeezed my boobs, his fingers roughly pinching my nipples through the thin fabric of my shirt. A low, guttural growl escaped his lips as he tugged on the sensitive peaks, making my body arch into him. God! No man has ever touched me this way. He knew just where and how to touch me. "These perfect tits," he murmured, his breath hot against my skin as he lowered his head, brushing his lips over the fabric. "I’m going to devour them." His growl was followed by a sharp snap of his teeth, sending shivers through me, my whole body trembling with pleasure. In one swift motion, he ripped open my shirt, buttons flying across the room, creating sounds that only added to sparks flying around. His hands moved to cup my bare boobs, squeezing them firmly as his mouth latched onto one of my nipples, sucking hard while his other hand teased the opposite one, rolling it between his fingers. Fucking hell… This was it?
Chapter Four Thalina His words sent a shiver down my spine, and before I could respond, he dropped to his knees, setting my legs on his shoulders, his eyes locking onto mine with a hunger that made my heart race violently. A hunger I had never seen on anyone’s face—a hunger that made me quiver with longing, sending heat rushing through my core. His hands gripped my thighs, spreading them wide and resting them on his shoulders. God! He was so perfect. He was a professor, and this could put us in difficult situations afterward. I could be ruined if anyone found out that I did this on my first day here. But fuck that! I didn’t care. I wanted him more than I cared about the consequences. He buried his head between my legs, the heat of his mouth sending waves of electricity through me. I quivered, more wetness dripping down my thighs, and he chuckled. "Already so wet for me," he growled against my skin, the vibration of his voice causing my back to arch, pressing harder again
Chapter Five Talon Maverick Working undercover at a college with my kind of status could be tiring, boring, and sometimes overwhelming, but a few pussies here and there were all I needed to get back into the rhythm. And these women… they were always willing to give in to me. Who would taste my cock and not want to have it again? Absolutely no one. Jayden, my beta, and my right-hand man always did an excellent job finding ladies who knew exactly how to please me with every part of their body. But today’s selection was quite exceptional, I must say. She was perfect. She was everything I had been looking for. When I first saw her, I thought she looked too small, too innocent for what I had in mind. I don’t go easy on women I fuck... No. I was going to pay them for it, so why not take what I wanted, as hard as I wanted it? I thought she was too small for that. But she surprised me, taking more than I ever expected. The way her tongue wrapped arou
Chapter Six Talon Maverick She bowed gently, and moved to the only open chair, near the front. Of course. Of all the places to sit, it had to be where I'd see her every time I looked up. Where I couldn't avoid her. My chest tightened as she took her seat, flipping open her notebook like she had been here all along. I noticed how her lips parted slightly, as though she wanted to say something but didn't. Her presence was a reminder of the moments I let go, of the moment I lost my discipline. I just hoped I was seeing wrong. There was no way I buried my head between the legs of someone who was supposed to be my student? A lower ranked wolf. This wasn’t just going against the soothsayer’s instruction, but also against my rules. I had sworn not to ever get involved with any student, or anyone who could be lower ranked. But no matter how hard I tried to convince myself that I had made a mistake, I couldn’t deny the tingling of my breath and the sparkles that flies throu
Chapter Seven Talon Maverick “What the hell are you talking about?” I growled, fighting the urge to grab her and take what I wanted, what I knew she wanted, too. She chuckled, stepping closer, her hand slowly moving to the fabric of her clothes. My mind flashed to the last time, when I ripped the buttons from her shirt, unable to stop myself from feeling every inch of her skin. Now, she wore a sweater vest over that same shirt, and I knew if she took it off, if I saw those bouncy boobs again, there’d be no stopping me. I’d lose control all over again. I’d take her right there with the same force she was teasing me. I turned away, clenching my fists. “Stop!” I shouted, my voice cracking under the weight of both anger and the lust I was trying so hard to suppress. “What do you think you’re doing?” I growled, forcing myself to sound harsh, to remind myself this shouldn’t be happening again. The soothsayer had warned me about temptations on this mission, but no one had prepar
Chapter Eight Talon Maverick "Take her! Right here!" my always-horny wolf howled. This was the only time it was super active after the curse. I shook my head, trying to block out the thoughts, but the demands of my body were louder, more insistent. This girl... this infuriating, desperate, hungry little girl had no idea what she was doing to me, and what she was getting herself into. She didn't understand what kind of fire she was playing with. She doesn’t know me. She doesn’t know what I was capable of. I wasn’t some boy to toy with, some harmless fling she could tease and manipulate. I was dangerous. And if she pushed me too far, I could break her in ways she’d never recover from. “Maybe I want to be ruined by you.” She continued, her hand now swaying down to my groin. The restraint I had been holding onto snapped. In a swift motion, I spun her around, pinning her against the wall. My body pressed against hers, my hand bracing the wall beside her hea
Chapter Nine Talon Maverick "I can’t keep my hands off you, your body is my party," I hummed to the solemn song playing in the background. But honestly, that wasn't right. It should be, I can’t keep you off my mind, your body is all I think of. Because ever since that encounter with Thalina, she’s been haunting my every thought. How could I forget the way she sucked my cock like it was the last thing she'd ever do? The way she drained me, taking every drop of my cum like it was hers to claim. Even now, with all the distractions around me—naked ladies swaying to the rhythm of the music I was playing, hired to help me clear my mind, courtesy of Jayden—all I could think of was her. It was like these ladies weren’t even there. Every curve, every movement they made only made me think of Thalina more, because deep down, I didn’t want them. I wanted her. I wanted her dancing in front of me, teasing me, waiting for me to take her like only I could. I clenched my jaw, frustrated t
Chapter Forty Talon Maverick My lips still burned from the brutal scrub after that terrible mistake I made, but the ache went deeper, clawing through my chest, digging into something I didn’t know could hurt this much. All from a single sight: Thalina stepping out of a sleek, tinted car just few steps from her dorm. The memory of her words slashed through me immediately—“I have a meeting with another professor.” Was that it? Was this him? Another man? Another professor? My jaw clenched. Was she cheating on me now? No. It wasn’t like this was some real relationship, for it to even be called “cheating.” But damn it, she had more pride than that, didn’t she? Jumping to someone else, right after… Why was I even here, lingering outside her place like a fool in love? I was no man to give in to such weak emotions. Why did I care if she walked off with someone else? And why couldn’t I just step out, confront her, demand the answers to the multiple questions disturbing by peace? “
Chapter Thirty-nine Thalina Was this a dream? A twisted nightmare I could still wake up from? Or some cruel joke he thought would be funny? Because the man who just yesterday had told me I was different—the only one he’d ever wanted to kiss this badly—was right there, kissing someone else. Not just anyone. My roommate. The same man who asked me to sit on his face, who had looked at me like I was his sole obsession, was entangled with her now. How could he say all those things, make me feel so much, then betray me like this? But was it really a betrayal? Did I mean anything to him at all? My chest tightened, my heart twisting in that awful, familiar way. Just like when I’d walked in on Finn with Ember. Why did this keep happening to me? Was I not enough? Wasn’t I giving him everything he wanted? Or was it because of the contract? Because I wouldn’t sign? But no… even without signing, I’d been doing almost everything he wanted. Why did he have to do this? Tears pricked at my
Chapter Thirty-eight Talon Maverick The phone buzzed, yanking me out of the thoughts I wasn’t supposed to be having. I grabbed it off the nightstand, the screen flashing with my mother’s name. Great. Pack business, no doubt—something that could wait, in my opinion, but it never did with her. I slid a finger across the screen. “Mother.” “Talon,” she said in that tone that told me I didn’t have much of a choice in whatever she was about to say. “You need to come to the Royal castle. There’s a situation with the pack that requires your attention.” “Is it really necessary?” I fought to keep the impatience out of my voice. It wasn’t like her requests were optional, but a man could try. She was quiet for a second, maybe trying to decide how much of this I’d push back on. “Yes, Talon. It is necessary.” I pushed a hand through my hair, glancing at the door, my mind drifting back to Thalina once again. Yesterday at the mall, the way she looked at me… that damn dresses I’d bou
Chapter Thirty-seven Thalina I watched as Professor Maverick’s car disappeared down the road, the tail lights fading into the darkness. And yet, I stood there, with my pulse still racing, my body still tingling from the memory of his hands, his mouth, and the way he made me feel. The last few hours replayed like some fevered dream: his intimate hot touch at the Ford’s mall, the stolen passionate kisses by his car, the tension filling the air in the car, so thick between us it was hard to breathe. I couldn’t believe I was the girl who had just shared all that with a man who was practically a stranger, but it still felt right. He was a man who saw me, not just some wounded version of myself. My fingers tightened around the handles of the shopping bags, heavy with things he’d asked me to pick. I glanced down at them, barely able to believe it. How did I get here? How did I get to this point where I was being treated more special than I could have ever imagined. After Mom passed
Chapter Thirty-six Talon Maverick “Solace." I couldn’t believe I’d said that to her. I’d always made a point of not making any woman feel special; they weren't worth that. But this time, I knew the word hadn’t just slipped out — it came from somewhere deep within me. She was my newfound solace, and I didn’t want it to be true. She was supposed to be just a woman to satisfy me when I needed, not someone who could burrow under my skin and make me break my own rules, make me feel and say things I’d never even said to Seraphina. I was slipping. Losing my grip, going past boundaries I’d set to cage the part of me I’d only shown to Seraphina — the part that paid the price with everything I once held dear. I couldn’t afford to let that happen again. Love? That was weakness. It wasn’t for a man like me. I opened the car trunk as she placed the shopping bags inside. There were about nine or ten, filled with dresses, bags, shoes — things I couldn’t believe I’d just bought for a woman
Chapter Thirty-five Thalina “Are you ready for more, my little slut?” “Yes… yes daddy.” I shuddered. With a swift move, he lifted me up the table, my legs wrapping instinctively around his hips as he pressed my back against the wall. The hard surface behind me only made every sensation more intense. His mouth found my neck, his teeth grazing over my skin, and I gasped, my head falling back as he held me firmly, his rhythm unrelenting. My hands tangled in his hair, pulling him closer, desperate to feel him as deeply as possible. He moved again, shifting us to the floor, his body blanketing mine as he settled between my legs. He raised my hand above my head, pinning it to the floor, and then leaning up to kiss my neck, my ear, until he got to my mouth again. He pressed his lips on mine, a deep owning kiss that made me lost in the passion of it all. “Hmm…” I breathed as he shoved into me with a punishing pace, his hips moving slowly against mine, his cock straining har
Chapter Thirty-four Thalina He chuckled darkly. “But don’t think you won’t get punished for holding back on me.” His breath grazed my neck as he leaned closer. “You don’t know what it did to me, seeing you come into my office, looking like that, knowing exactly what I wanted, how I wanted to put you in different positions… and having to wait.” His hand came down sharply on my ass, a stinging slap that jolted me forward. “God…” I gasped. “Apologize,” he commanded, his voice dripping with control, that I was left with no other choice than to do as told. “I… I’m sorry—” I barely got the words out before another smack landed on my bare skin, pulling a sharp gasp from my lips again. “That,” he growled, “is for keeping me from what I want.” Another sharp smack followed, and I could feel the length of his fingers and broadness of his hand making contact with my skin, hard and sharp. “And that’s for keeping yourself from what you want.” “Yes,” I breathed, my body arching insti
Chapter Thirty-three Thalina What will it be? What will it be? My eyes traveled over the shelves, lingering on each tantalizing, pussy-dripping options laid out before me. He had promised intense pleasure no matter which one I choose, but I was still confused. My hand moved almost on its own, reaching out to brush my fingers over a slim leather paddle, but then I hesitated, my gaze shifting to a set of silken bindings hanging nearby. Every choice felt like a promise, one he’d undoubtedly keep. I moved through the space between the shelves, with him following right behind me, and I lost concentration. Heck! Why did he have to follow me? Now I can’t pull my eyes away from his enormous cock that was still glistening with the remnant my cum, moving slightly with each step he took. Damn! I wanted that inside of me again, I wanted him to fuck… it was like I’d pass out did I didn’t get him to do that in the next minutes. “Take your eyes off my cock, and choose, Lina.” I coul
Chapter Thirty-two Thalina Tasting myself on his lips was dizzying, like a heady, forbidden wine that left me clinging to him. My fingers laced into his hair and then tighten around his neck as though he were the only solid thing in a storm. Every movement of his fingers inside me, the deliberate way they pressed against that sensitive spot, sent shivers racing across my skin, a raw, uncontainable desire igniting with every shift. When he paused, his lips barely brushing mine as he pulled back, frustration flared hot in my chest, an unsteady whimper slipping from me before I could stop it. A sly, knowing smile played across his face as he raised my legs, his fingers slipping under the waistband of my panties, teasing me. His gaze never wavered from mine, each second dragging as he slid the fabric down my thighs. He lifted them to his face, inhaling deeply, his eyes flickering dark with satisfaction. “God, that smell,” he muttered, his voice husky, and for a moment, I could onl