Ella's POVThe men were back. I ran towards the house, heading away from the training ground where I had been with my father as soon as I heard the news.I was relieved that they were back and safe, knowing how worried Kevin had been for the past few days. He had pretended like he hadn't been worried, busy training the men and doing everything to get his mind off the impending war and the men he had sent out back home but he couldn't hide his emotions from me just as I couldn't hide mine from him.Relax, you will fall. You are running too fast.I snorted at Lucy's warning. She didn't just tell me that, knowing how the past few days had been for both me and Kevin.I could feel her rolling her eyes but she didn't say anything else. I also wanted to roll my eyes at her but refrained from doing that, realizing that she was only teasing me.I knew she missed me and was trying to get my attention by teasing me but this wasn't the time. I hadn't talked with Lucy in the past few days because
Ella's POVI bit down gently on my lower lip as I stared at him and wasn't surprised when his attention moved there. He looked back at my face, his eyes clouding with desire but he didn't make a move towards me.I wasn't bothered. If he needed more nudge, then so be it."You should dress up." He said but he didn't move away from me."You think?" I asked, running my tongue over my lip.He groaned. "Ella,""We still have twenty minutes." I reminded him, moving closer to him."We do." He agreed, letting go of his hesitation and drawing me closer.I moaned as his lips crashed on mine and held tightly to his shirt as I kissed him back. I let my towel fall and he groaned, his eyes widening as he saw me entirely naked."Ella!" He breathed. "You are beautiful." His compliment was a caress on my skin.I felt beautiful and sexy by the look in his eyes. His eyes seemed to worship me as they traveled all across my body, roving over my breasts till they got all the way down.I didn't think I could
Ella's POV"Ella, out." Dad shouted from outside where I was to have my trainings.I frowned as I stepped out of the house. Hadn't he said the training was to start by ten, an hour after breakfast? Why was he shouting for me to come out so persistently when I wasn't late? I shook my head as I moved forward. He could be funny at times.Kevin ran out to meet me and pulled me back by my hand, his face covered in worry. I smiled at the sight of him. He was always cute whenever I see him like this though I knew he wasn't trying to be cute. I wondered if he was ever going to stop acting like a worried mum. Even my mum would have trusted me by now and stop acting like I was going to the death cellar anytime I was going to train.I hoped he wasn't going to stop me from fighting the rogues on the D-Day of the war. I was going to fight him and bust his nose on that day if he tried to stop me."Kevin," I gasped, looking at where he held me and then back at his face. "What are you doing? I need t
Kevin's POV"Charge!" Zeke shouted at the top of his lungs and blew a whistle by putting few folded fingers between his lips.I think I was going to die now. I didn't think I could do this. I didn't think I could watch this. I loved watching battles and dueling among my men, both in wolf and human forms. I couldn't believe I was shivering at the moment because it was Ella in the ring right now.I understood what Zeke had said and planned to do. Ella needed to do more than training with him if she wanted to fight in the war. She wouldn't listen if she was asked to not fight but this wasn't what I was prepared to watch. Heck, I didn't think Ella was ready as well and that was what I had told Zeke when he had told me of his plans for today's training.Did he have to do that so soon? I asked myself even though I knew the answer to the question and knew that he should have done that way before now.I knew he was right but he didn't have to pick Damien and Loki to be her opponents. There we
Ella's POVGosh, this was hard, harder than I thought. Who was I kidding? I knew this was going to be hard before I signed up for it. The real war was probably going to be harder than this. They were rogues I would be fighting against. They were strong, brutal and violent. I couldn't afford to be weak.I was getting tired already from all the cuts and blows I had endured and the energy my body had lost from trying to repair it all. I was grateful I wasn't getting dizzy yet.I stole a glance at Kevin and winced, hating how wrecked he looked. I was the one getting beaten up by his men but he was the one suffering the pain. I needed to win this to put his heart at rest and put a smile on his face.I tuned in to the battle again, focusing on my two opponents who seemed to be enjoying this than they should be. Maybe I was tired and didn't seem right. They were probably too far gone in their characters and acting like they were having fun from this when they weren't. I was probably reading
Kevin's POV"My lord," Damien and Loki greeted with bows as they passed by where I was, figuring out how to calm my nerves down after watching the most frightening fight of my life.Gosh, I really needed to stop being dramatic.I turned to them, the residual anger I had felt from watching them fight bursting out into the open."You are greeting me now when you almost turned me into a widower?" I questioned them.They looked confused for a moment, wondering what I meant by being a widower when I wasn't married. I doubted they knew what I meant with the way they looked at me. The confusion didn't last long though as they smiled at me, their expression clearing up as they understood what I meant."My lord," Damien began. "We couldn't have done that to you."Loki chuckled and nodded. "He is right. How could we have done that to your mate?"I pouted. "It seemed like that to me. It seemed like you were going to kill her with the way you kept slashing at her face and throwing blows at her."
Kenneth's POVI sat in my office, rolling on the chair as I stared at the birds on my desk. Only four of them were back out of the countless birds I had sent out. I was worried, wondering if the birds had landed safely and the men had gotten my message.It had been four days since I had sent the letters and expected the men to be trooping into the palace but they weren't here yet. I hadn't even gotten a response to my letters and couldn't stop worrying about what the delay was all about.I feared the worst. I feared that the letters had fallen into the wrong hands. I feared that someone totally unrelated to who the letters were meant for had seen the birds flying in the air, shot at them with a catapult and eaten them.My heart squeezed at the thought of my precious birds being turned to meat and ending up in someone's belly. I didn't put precious time in raising them for them to have such a bland ending."Damn it," I cursed, banging my fist hard upon the desk and holding in my wince
Kenneth's POVThey were coming. Today. It was today they were coming and I was so excited. The men had sent other letters and had attached the date of their arrival to it.I was elated that they had all decided to do that. They must have known what a worrying mess I was even without anyone telling them. Good. I smiled, reminding myself why they were worthy of being my soldiers.I checked the calendar again for the umpteenth time, confirming to myself that it was truly today that they were here. They had told me that they had resolved their issues and would be around today. Though they hadn't used the birds that I had sent and theirs that they had groomed and I didn't recognize, I couldn't fail to recognize the handwriting and style of writing of my soldiers. I hadn't painstakingly trained them for years to not know information as little as that about them.I checked the sun, hating that it was soon going down and no longer as bright as it had been hours ago. I sighed, feeling worried