CORA’s POV….I swallowed as I immediately turned away from him. What was I doing? I took a deep inhale. Was he staring at me because of the dress? Was he expecting that I would come to thank him for the dress? After all, it could be the only reason he was staring at me.I swallowed deeply as I turned away shyly, letting myself enjoy the ceremony like the rest. As they danced and sang, food was in surplus, and I had to help myself to some of it.I was eating when I turned to him again, and this time, he didn’t have his eyes on me. I turned away from him as I took some food, and just as I turned back to him, he was with Layla.I felt jealousy streaming through every part of my body, especially as he had his hands wrapped around her waist. She was smiling sheepishly as she turned to him. I thought I could handle all the jealousy while staring at him until she did the unthinkable: she kissed him.I gulped as I immediately turned away. How was I supposed to take this? And Leo was just stan
I turned away from his lips. What was wrong with me? Wasn’t it already enough for me that he even considered me worthy to dance with? Why was I suddenly letting myself get bothered by this? I swallowed hard; it was alright. I just had to compose myself.While we were dancing, he turned me around again, and this time, I landed in the arms of someone else. I was about to speak when I immediately recalled what the cordinator had said about it being a partner swap kind of dance.As I danced with this man, whoever it was, I just knew something was different. That feeling, the one I had when I was in Leonardo’s hand, wasn’t there.I just felt plain comfortable being with this man, and I couldn’t help but wonder what it was that was special about Leonardo that I didn’t feel with this man. Again, it was a partner exchange, and I landed with another man.I didn’t really know much about these exchange things, but I knew one thing for sure: there sure was a lot of exchange dancing; maybe that wa
At this point, I already had my eyes closed, and it felt like he wanted it too. I could already feel his breath on my face, which meant he was also willing to kiss me. I gulped, and just then, the music stopped playing."What the hell is going on here?" I heard a loud voice ask, and just then, I took my hands off Alpha Leonardo’s neck as I turned around, only to see Layla fuming as she started walking towards me.I swallowed, and before I knew it, she gave me a resounding slap across the face. "You whore of a woman!" She yelled at me, and I closed my eyes. She was definitely here to cause another scene.Why couldn’t she just let me be?Third Party’s POV,Most eyes were now on them, and everyone was surprised that the alpha could even be that close to a woman, a hybrid omega at that. Most people had stopped dancing to watch them as they were shocked at this.Staring at how close the both of them were and how they were dancing so smoothly, like a power couple, one would easily be mistak
"I’m not a thief!" Cora yelled as she stared at Layla, anger seething through her. "How could you ruin it?" She asked as she tried to get the necklace back from Layla, who pushed her away angrily."Stay away from me, Cora. Trust me, everyone is going to know who you really are. Today, the people here are going to find out that you’re much more than the crybaby you’re trying to make yourself look like." She said, and Cora turned to Alpha Leonardo slightly as she blinked, tears streaming down her cheeks, before she looked away immediately.Alpha Leonardo, not wanting to make things worse than they already were, moved closer to Layla. "Listen to me, Layla. Stop all of this now. You’re only humiliating yourself. What do you think you’re doing? Stop this, let’s go." He told her as he grabbed her hand, but she hadn’t had enough yet; she had promised to humiliate Cora at the ceremony, and until she did that, she wouldn’t stop.She pushed his hand away as she stared at him, looking straight i
CORA’s POV….With every accusation Layla made, I found myself itching to throw her off a building.When she had told me that she was going to ruin the ceremony for me, I had thought she would maybe ruin my dress, not give me food, or probably something like that, but what I didn’t expect was that she would go this far and accuse me of stealing."I am not a thief!" I yelled at her. If she was going to keep paying these accusations on me, I was going to have to defend myself.I had thought I was defending myself well and seeing the look on her face, I immediately knew she hated it. "I am not a thief, stop lying!"I told her, and just then, I recieved a resounding slap across the face.It was such a tight slap that I fell to the ground. I held on to my cheek as I raised my head to her, how could she? How could she slap me like that?I raised my head to see everyone staring at me, and even worse, it just had to be in front of the Dark Knight pack. I held on to my cheeks, anger running th
CORA’s POV….I raised my head to see him staring at me, and I swallowed, wiping my tears off slightly as I got up, and I made to leave when he suddenly called out to me."Cora," he’d called slightly, and I stopped.I stood there, tears streaming down my cheeks, when he came to where I stood, placing his hands on my shoulders, and at that moment, I let it all out. The moment his hands came on my shoulders, the tears I didn’t want him to see started to stream down my cheeks, and I closed my eyes as he led me back to the ground where I’d been crying before he came along."Don’t cry; it’s going to be fine." He told me as he rubbed my back slightly, but it wasn’t enough to make me stop crying.Stealing was a very shameful thing, and the fact that I had just been accused of it, especially because of a necklace, and in front of the Dark Knight pack, was the most embarrassing thing.I couldn’t bring myself to believe that she would actually stoop that low. I couldn’t believe that, despite now
"You think so?" He asked me, and I nodded."Yes, it’s a very nice name; I like it a lot. I’d actually call you Eddie. Is that fine?" I asked him as I smiled.He nodded. "You can call me monkey, and I’d be fine." He said that, and I burst out into laughter.While I was laughing, I placed my hand on my face. Laughter? Was I actually laughing? I swallowed, and just then, tears started to stream down my cheeks.What was wrong with me? Why was I crying? He had made such a funny joke, and I was supposed to still be laughing. Why did the laughter suddenly bring tears to my eyes?"Oh my, did I say something bad? I’m so sorry; I didn’t mean to hurt you, I promise." He tried explaining himself, and I chuckled slightly."It’s not you, Eddie. Actually, smiling, laughing, having fun, and being kept company are not my things. And now, you just made me laugh. Remembering that these aren’t things I’m familiar with brought tears to my eyes. Sorry if it made you uncomfortable." I told him with a smile
I couldn’t be thinking about that, at least not now. He was hurting Edgar badly, and I just couldn’t stand there and watch it."What are you doing? Let go of him!" I told him as I tried to separate him from Edgar, who had started to bleed from the beatings."How dare you hug her? How dare you lay a finger on her? Don’t you know who she is? Don’t you?" He asked, and the moment he asked if Edgar didn’t know who I was, I staggered.How much more foolish could I be? While he was only punishing Edgar for getting so close to me, a hybrid omega, I thought he was jealous because someone else had their hands on me."Stop this; this is foolish!" I yelled at him as I continued to try to get him away from my new friend."Stay away from this, Cora. It’s none of your business." He told me, and with that, he pushed me to the floor.I raised my head in shock as I stared at him. Did he really just push me to the floor? I got up again and said, "Stop this, alpha Leonardo. You’re hurting him!" I yelled
CORA’s POV….WEEKS LATER…I groaned, weakly as I rolled on the bed, Leonardo still holding on to my hand as I tried to assure him I was fine, but he wasn’t having it.“Leonardo, I’m fine. I assure you, I’m alright.” I tried to tell him, but he ignored me as the doctor arranged her things.“You’re not fine. Didn’t I tell you already? I’ve been telling you for so long already, Cora. You need to see a doctor. You’ve been feeling extremely weak, throwing up at intervals, feeling too sleepy and now, you fell unconscious at the event? No way I’m believing you’re fine.” He told me, and I took in a deep inhale.This was how he was. This was how my Leonardo was, too caring. Ever since we got married, he spared no effort in taking care of me. He made sure that I wasn’t too stressed about being Luna and he made sure whoever hurt me got it. Together, with him being supreme Alpha and me, decantedant of the moon goddess, we had gotten this pack to greater heights and now, many packs wanted to be on
CORA’s POV..“Leo…” I gasped as his hands moved slowly around me, his lips still on mine, slowly sucking on my lips as moans of his name escaped my lips. I gasped as he kept moving his hands around me, pulling me even closer like being an inch away from him would send me away from him.I could feel my wolf, Alexa, jumping in joy as my boobs pressed against his hard chest, and as he locked hands with mine, raising it in the air as he turned it, placing me between his legs as he buried his face in my neck.Staying between his legs, I could feel how hardened he was and I smiled as he trailed his hands up my thighs. Again, he turned me to himself as he kissed me, again, and gosh, this was like the best day of my life.As he placed me slowly on the water, caressing me, slowly as the cold water refreshed me even more, water pouring on us, goodness, again, I felt like I was in a dream.He took my top off, slowly as he threw it to the floor, rubbing my thighs, slowly as he took off his shirt,
I pulled her in for an embrace as I hugged her tightly, tears streaming down my cheeks as I embraced her, tightly.“I forgive you, Layla. I’ve always waited for this day. I’ve always waited for the day you would acknowledge the wrong you did me so I can open my hands to you and forgive you. You have no idea how happy you’ve made me by coming to apologize to me, Layla. You really don’t.” I told her, more tears streaming down my cheeks as she wrapped her hands even more around me.“Thank you, Cora. Thank you. Ever since Leo threw me out of the pack, I realized I did you wrong. I realized that it was no use trying to ruin my fellow woman just for a man who didn’t even love me. Finding my mate, Cora, I realized that I would die if any other woman was competing with me for him and that was when I realized how hard it must have being for you. Thank you for forgiving me, Cora. Thank you.” She told me and I sniffled as I rubbed her hair.Slowly, my life was falling into place. It was like thi
As Dexter and his men charged towards us, Leonardo, Layla and her mate, Andrew howled as they rushed to him and I immediately hid behind a tree even though it was of no use as they all fought hard.Leonardo, Andrew and Layla were in their wolf form so it was easier for them to fight but at the same time, it put them in a lot of danger as one mistake could lead to their death. I placed my hand to my chest as tears streamed down my cheeks, fear hitting me hard as I stared at them, and I placed my hands together as I closed my eyes, saying my prayers to the moon goddess, just so that they could be saved.As I said my prayers, all I kept hearing were the agonizing screams of the warriors as they fell to the ground, and slowly, I opened my eyes as I watched as the opposition fell to the ground and my jaw dropped in shock. What was happening? What the hell was going on here? I swallowed as I took in a deep inhale and staring at my hand, I realized it had become silver. It was glowing.What
“Hey; she shouldn’t be allowed to choose. Didn’t you hear me speak? She has been threatened, brainwashed and she’s a fool. She can’t make a decision. Let her stay with me.” Dexter yelled, and I closed my eyes as tears streamed down my cheeks.“Cora Watson, who do you want to stay with? Alpha Leonardo or King Dexter?” I was asked again, and staring at Dexter, I could see he was blood thirsty.“If you don’t choose me, it’ll be the end of Leonardo.” He mouthed to me, and I swallowed in fear.“Cora, ignore his threats, I’ll be fine.” Alpha Leonardo told me through a mindlink and tears streamed down my cheeks.Leonardo would never tell me he wasn’t fine. Even though he had a problem, at this crucial time that we were so close to being together, he would never tell me and staring at Dexter and the group of soldiers he had come with, all staring at us, blood thirsty, I didn’t know what to do.I hated Dexter, I didn’t want to be anywhere near him; but then, what if I chose to go with Leonardo
CORA’s POV…As everyone took their places in the courtroom, I could feel my heart thumping in fear, and worst of all, Dexter was only seated a few inches away from us and he was making these threatening signs as if he was intentionally trying to threaten me.At this point, he even sent the person close to me to tell me, “you’ll die after this, Cora. Once I defeat Leonardo in this case, trust me, it’ll be over for you.”I grasped on to Leonardo’s hands even tighter , I was scared. I knew I wasn’t wrong to want to be with my mate, but then with all that was going on, oh goodness, I couldn’t help but be scared. I took in a deep inhale as after sometime, the wolf judge came in, taking his seat immediately as his assistant took a note and started to read.“King Dexter has filed a complaint against his new Luna and Alpha of shadow lake pack, Alpha Leonardo Rodriguez. According to him, the two have been having an affair under his nose and now, Alpha Leonardo Rodriguez is planning to take h
“Leonardo!” I called, bending to his level as tears streamed down my cheeks while I checked his wounds.Raising my head to Dexter and his guards, I could tell that they were ready for war, and the fear of what these men wanted to do to us sent shivers down my spine. I took Leo’s hand in mine as I rubbed it.“Cora, I’m fine.” He told me, but from his little groan, I could tell he wasn’t and was only saying this so I wouldn’t get worried.“Leo, take a look at yourself, you’re not fine.” I told him, but he shook his head.“I promise, I’m fine. It’s just an arrow.” He said, and with that, he pulled the arrow out of his shoulder as I gasped, some blood coming out of his shoulder as he threw the arrow to the floor.Seeing the blood that was coming out of his shoulder, I tore off a piece of my dress as I wrapped it around his wound, trying to stop the bleeding, but even though it helped a lot, it didn’t do as much as I wanted and tears streamed down my cheeks as my heart sunk in pain.He got
CORA’s POV…With the sun getting into my eyes, my head was aching, and I could feel my wolf jumping in excitement. I took in a deep inhale as I placed my hands over my eyes, trying to stop it from getting into my eyes.My head was throbbing, everything hurt, I was in so much pain. I turned to the other side, and turning, I felt my body press against another firm body, and I opened my eyes immediately, to find Leonardo laying beside me. My eyes widened in shock, and almost immediately, I came back to my senses as I got off the bed.I looked around, the empty bottles of alcohol, the scattered plates of food and then at the clock, oh my goodness! It was morning, Leonardo had spent the night here!I took in a deep inhale as I ran my fingers through my hair.I was trying my best to stop the headache, and it was at that moment that I recalled what Dexter had told me. He had said that he would make sure I regretted it if I didn’t come to his room last night.“Oh… shit!” I cursed, sliding my
I opened my eyes, slowly, after withdrawing from the kiss as I stared at him, caressing his hair, gently, and he pulled me by the waist, closer to himself as he took in a deep inhale. “I love you, Cora.” He told me, and this time, more tears started to stream down my cheeks as I turned away from him, going to the window as I placed my hand on it, resting, as more tears streamed down my cheeks.I took in a deep inhale as sniffling, I wiped my tears, and just then, he wrapped his hands around my waist from behind as he closed the curtains, burying his face into my neck as more tears streamed down my cheeks.“Why is Selene being this unfair to us?” I asked, still sniffling as it felt like my heart was beating just to see me in pain and not for me to live.“You know, normal is boring; right?” He asked me, and I closed my eyes.I knew he was only trying to make me feel better but then turning, and then looking into his eyes, I could see that more than I was, he was in so much pain.“Can we