KALOYAN'S POV "Jamal, not just anyone can barge into their Alpha’s room." I helped myself with my tie, thinking about my brother and Reagan. "It’s a good thing I'm not just anyone to you." He closed the door behind him, seeing me for the first time in two days. It had been a while since I heard from the constant pain in my ass, my brother. Joseph could have been serious about the ex moon goddess trying to regain her strength, but was it that simple? Also, I still had the conflict with Xander Kovani to deal with. I sighed at the thought of that headache and the fact that every wolf in the city now has a reason to gossip about me. They all had their thoughts, and believe me, none were in this cruel Alpha's favour. In the real world, where her betrayal didn't exist, Cara came from the Silver Eye pack. Xander is her Alpha, but she had clarified that her vote was with me in keeping the twins safe. I shook my head at the irony. The same man she wanted dead would keep the kids she cla
CARA'S POV It had been a day since I last saw him, but Kaloyan's presence had managed to keep me out of the spotlight for hours. It was like everyone forgot I existed, and I made sure to stay out of their way so I don't remind them that I'm still breathing.My body didn't ache anymore, just slightly. All the scars were gone, and I had him to thank for that, but he was the same one that put me here. Was my thanks really needed? I could only think about what happens next. When Kal put his pups inside me and made me bring them into the world, would the sufferings begin again?It would because Joseph Kaine was only bidding his time until the Lycan King was done with me. He would have no reason not to torture me until my death.I gulped, playing with a loose thread on the sleeve of my dress. I wasn't dressed in rags any longer, and I was now given proper baths, close to what I had at the Eastmoon palace.My breath hitched in my throat as I saw Jane walking up to me with those wicked guard
The aeroplane landed on a private landing. I had gone to the bathroom earlier to wash his cum out of my mouth. He behaved like a beast these days. Insatiable and rough. But it always threw the hard truth in my face. That I was now nothing more than a fuck buddy to him. After all, it was the reason he had invited me on his vacation with the twins. He wanted me to keep him company, and he couldn't even wait until we landed. I descended the steps, getting on the tarmac. He walked behind me while Jared and Jardran held hands with him. Was it really safe for him to be so far from Eastmoon? Reece's betrayal and mine were still fresh in all their minds. He must have had a plan. The pilot announced earlier that we had landed in Vermont in a city called Burlington. I still had no idea why we were here. I sat in the backseat with the twins flanked in between Kal and I. Our faces focused on the view outside the window. I had been avoiding him initially, but the view was magical that I could
I stopped walking. The twins ran to their father. They were excited to see him, but I had hoped I would have until tomorrow morning to receive an earful. I winced while imagining how he would chew my head off for what I've just done. Jardran gushed. "We saw Venus! And all the stars—" "There was also this large sculpture of a dragon. You have to see it, Dad! It was so cool." They couldn't even let him get a word out. Their excitement was through the roof. I willed my legs to carry me outside to the car. Kal held them close as he entertained their stories. They always softened the hard man that he was. The twins made him look different in the eye. Warmer. Less ruthless. The housekeeper was also here, and instantly, I refused to meet her gaze. Kal must have been furious when he realised the amounts that had been deducted from his account. I had no right to his money or to his kindness. I was just a breeder now, and strangely, the brothers of the Kaine household had decided to shar
My purse slipped from my hands, but Kal quickly caught it. I blinked, getting my senses back. This was starting to cross the line he had drawn before we came here. But Vermont seemed to have covered the past with a veil and let us dream. He left me cold, standing in the middle of the dressing room, but he had gone to the counter to pay. "Package the entire line, including the two I had chosen." I left the store five minutes later, holding a ton of shopping bags, which he hadn't offered to help me with. He was just eager to get back inside the car and start moving. I tossed the shopping bags in the backseat and slipped into the front seat, being careful with the hem of my long dress. If the heeled sandals Kal had bought me trapped in the dress, then that would be a disaster. I reached for my seat belt, and then I saw his eyes lusting over my exposed thighs. Kal swallowed, looking at me before staring ahead. He started the car, and we made our way to the restaurant. There was an u
KALOYAN'S POV I hadn't meant to go far at the restaurant's parking lot, but a feral lust overtook me before I realised I was fighting a losing battle. Telling myself I could control my want for her, the enemy. Telling myself that it meant nothing more than a meaningless fuck. This was a battle I wasn't going to win. To think I had laid the groundwork from the start. I made sure to detach myself. I made sure to remember everything that had happened between us, but the second we entered Vermont's sky, I fell under a hex. The hex to give up this fight. Seeing her touch herself on the plane brought out a wild side inside of me that I thought that I had buried a long time ago. Now we were in the car together, sitting on both ends, watching the view of the beautiful city rather than ourselves. I had to force myself to not smell her arousal or notice the way she slightly clenched her thighs. She'd been thinking about last night a lot. A lot more than would be good for anybody. Not to
CARA'S POV I woke up with a terrible headache. The blinds had been shut, but a little daylight still seeped into the room through the cracks. I placed a hand over my forehead, willing the ache to stop. I was still in last night's clothes, but I couldn’t remember how I got here. Vera and I hit it off, but I had been out of it, too willing to get drunk. I threw my legs out, wanting to stand up when I noticed the medication waiting for me. Vera must have helped me to my bed and brought that up for me. I gulped it down and entered the shower, grateful towards her. After doing that, I decided to read a book. This room had come with a small bookshelf. I settled for a random mafia romance novel. The spice scenes had started to get me hot and bothered. I had chosen wrong. My cheeks heated because there was only one man at the centre of my fantasies. A knock sounded on my door, and my heartbeat picked up. It could be Kaloyan. I opened it and found the twins on the other side. Jared ann
A broken heart was all that's left of me. I know I decided earlier that I wanted to escape the Kaines. But now that Kal had handed me the opportunity on a platter, there I was, desperately begging him to take me back. I sniffled and swiped the back of my palm over my eye. The twins were in my bedroom, so I couldn't go back there to cry. I went to the backyard and stood next to the wall, crying because he had left me. Kaloyan's words kept coming back to me. He had told me everything I had wanted to hear, but this shouldn’t have been the outcome. I should still have him. But once again, this curse had taken something from me. Many believed that I was the cause of my mother's death. My existence brought her misfortune, and then she died. Vera and her friend, who always stopped by the house, Reem, came to me. She said, holding me, "You'd lose your energy. Go to your room and pull yourself together." I sniffled again. Another wave of tears threatening to break free. It crushed me. H
I arrived at the Eastmoon palace a while later. The cab dropped me off and I wouldn’t be surprised if Miles was tailing me with how abruptly I had left the pack house. The guards at the entrance immediately recognized my face. “I have a message for the Lycan King from Xora, the moon goddess.”The moment they heard the moon goddess, they figured that I was here on important business and they let me into the palace. I didn’t walk, I ran for where I knew Kaloyan would be, his study.But just when I was about to climb up the stairs, the twins shouted my name, “Cara!”They screamed, rushing over to me and I hugged them back, ruffling their hairs although this loud welcome was not what I needed at all. “Where’s Shirley?” I whispered but it was too late.“Right here.” She surfaced at the top of the first landing on the grand staircase. “What are you doing here? Last I checked, the Lycan King had commanded you never to return.”“My business is not with Kaloyan. It is with you.” I glared at
“When is she going to get here?” I huffed and Miles rubbed a hand over my back, placating my impatient pregnant ass.We were receiving Ingrid at the airport. She had travelled to the North pack again and knew nothing about Xander’s arrest. “Just a little more. I know she’d come out next—“Miles hadn’t even finished talking when Ingrid surfaced with her many bags from the airport. I rushed for her, pulling her into a warm hug. “Ingrid!” I shrieked, “how are you, my darling?!”She hugged me tightly like we hadn’t seen each other in years which wasn’t exactly the fact. We helped her put her bags in the trunk, while we were in the car and she rode shotgun, she kept going on and on about her trip. “I can’t wait to see Xander. The last time I left things were pretty tense around here. Miles even had you locked up.” Ingrid’s eyes bulged as she realised she was touching a delicate subject.“It’s fine. He knows he made a grave mistake and is currently paying for it.”“Where’s Xander, Miles
I stopped breathing. He had run out and it was my fault because I had put that dagger in Joseph Kaine’s heart. I worried my bottom lip with my teeth, distraught.“You need to rest, Kal.” I held his arm, begging him to not dare leave me behind. He had to fight whatever this was, but I had seen what lacking Joseph’s blood did to him. I knew deep down that he was in grave danger. We had to do something fast. “I won’t die today.” He kissed my cheek tenderly. “Promise me you’ll show up for breakfast.”I thought about it for a second. Being at a table with Shirley made poop more inviting. Though I was eager to see Kal’s next move. Would he fight for whatever we have that we couldn’t seem to get over?“I promise.”He smiled at me, taking his time to let go of my hand until our fingertips parted. I smiled back and offered a tiny wave, wary of the hope I felt inside my heart. Kaloyan would choose me this time around. He had just made a mistake the last time. He just needed to see Shirley’s
I snatched the amulet from his neck while he fell lifeless on the ground. The mask wore off and Miles began to understand what was happening.“What were you thinking, Cara?! That was too dangerous—“I wore the amulet and breathed in power. It coursed through me. Miles stopped in his tracks because he could see it too, what was currently happening. I was becoming one with the gods item. And this had not happened before. “Cara,” he muttered.And I smiled, chest rising and falling hard as I declared, “It’s finally mine, Miles. I’m the rightful Queen of Arzdith Valley and Salems power flows through me!”“No!” Our head snapped to the piercing scream we heard. Reagan bounded over. She slid to the ground at Joseph’s side, shaky hands holding him close. It was weird seeing her this way.I didn’t know evil was capable of loving someone, but I guess it was true. In their own twisted way, they had loved each other. The rest of the protectors and the black guards and Dax’s army dashed over, so
The moon goddess was right. I was in the wrong place. The back of the line was not meant for me. I should be looking for Joseph Kaine and cutting deep into his throat. If it was Reagan I found first, even better. I grabbed a sun sword from the ground. The black guard that had been carrying it was dead on the floor. His green eyes were open and lifeless. I said a prayer for his soul as I stepped over him.“Argh!” I screamed, fighting with all my might and casting the fire spell which consumed the blade of my sword. I was slashing through demons at a rate of knots. The fire was destabilising them, giving me the advantage of speed when it should have been the other way around. At the back of my mind, I knew there was something I had to do. Who led the demon army? That question was yet to be answered. I had seen Joseph, Xander and Reagan conniving at the Silver Eye pack, but it seemed I had missed out on the last piece in the band of evils. Two demons came at me. I used my eyes to con
Kaloyan and Miles got down, followed by Sky. I stayed in the backseat, holding the twins close as they approached the cloaked figure. The streets were dark and lonely. There was mist floating in the path ahead of us. A chill coursed through my spine. I didn’t want any more danger. I needed a breather. A moment with my family again—even though, technically, they were no longer mine. When I saw the three of them bowing to the cloaked figure, curiosity had me getting down from the car. I put Jared in charge. He was more mischievous than his brother, but Jardran could never control Jared.“Kal, what’s going on?”I gasped and lost a step when I saw the face underneath the hood. She was as magnificent as Reagan was back in the Silver Eye pack. I gaped at her glittering pale skin and blue eyes. There was no doubt who this was. The one whom only the six protectors were given the luxury of speaking to face-to-face.“Oh my God, you’re Xora. The moon…the moon goddess.” I bowed my head so low
I gulped, freezing for a long moment. There were a thousand and one ways this could go, but neither were about me escaping this unscathed. Reagan was here because he knew. “How did you know?” I sighed, pulling the mask off and switching back to myself.“I dated you. And even though you don't believe a word I'm saying, I loved you once—”“People who love me die, Xander. Stop lying to yourself.”He rolled his eyes and stepped forward to cuff my hands. “Either way, it was easy to tell that you were not my cousin. You escaped. There was only one place Cara would go and that would be to the Order, just to convince Miles that your Lycan King is innocent. Am I wrong?”I said nothing, just staring at the traitor he chose to serve. The evil that would be upon all of us soon. I had to think of a way to save the twins, but I could only come up with a miracle.“So you knew from the moment he texted you that this was going to be a trap?” I gaped at him. “Miles already suspected me the day he lock
CARA’S POVI headed out to meet Xander while wearing Miles’s face. It was highly dangerous because this could be a trap, but I could get to see the twins again and stall him from harming them. That was all that mattered. I drove his fast car, reminiscing the night of the accident when Athena died. It always flashed back to me whenever I sat in a car, but I had gotten used to the memories and the sadness that overtook me.There was a GPS tracker on the car. I carried his cellphone because everything had to be right. Xander couldn’t suspect a thing until we had him fooled. The Silver Eye pack laboratory was close. As I neared it, I said a silent prayer to Xora, begging her to save us all this once. I would protect the twins better if we got out of this mess. “Xander,” I called in a baritone Miles would use when I went down the stairs, leading into the underground laboratory.“You’ve always hated coming here.” His voice came behind me and I snapped my neck to him.He was right there,
KALOYAN'S POVI moved closer to where they stood because I couldn’t keep myself far away from them any longer. I hated the way this wolf looked at Cara. Those eyes of his. I knew what it meant.He was in love with mine. I had no claim over Cara after everything that had happened, but I couldn’t help myself. My wolf still craved her. Her scent still drove me wild. I wished there was a way she would forgive me for the wrong choices I had made. But I wasn't yet out of those wrong choices. Shirley was my mate now.Miles glanced at me and stopped talking, turning away and leading us to where the rest of the Scarlet Order were settled. I walked paces behind Cara, not wanting to invade her personal space, even though my wolf was hungry to feed on her scent. Once we entered the camp, all four of them stood on their feet, their razor sharp gazes pinned on me, the enemy. Miles Kovani seemed to be crossing the line here with my presence.“What is the Lycan King doing here, Commander?” “Sky