Audrey's POV I rolled my eyes as Jenni walked out of the throneroom with Kendrick and Jake rushing after her and turned to Eric. "I need guards to be stationed at the entrance to this room from inside the palace. It seems like we just don't need guards at the outside entrance only," I instructed. "Yes, My Lady," he bowed and began leaving the room to carry out my bidding. "And also send someone to inform that fool to clean the stables," I added and he paused his exit to listen. "Make sure you send a guard first to confirm that the stables are extremely dirty before sending someone to her." "I will do that," he responded and finally left. Cleaning the stables was even such a small task. Jenni deserved way more punishment for her stupid behaviour just now. She had also been acting rudely towards me throughout my entire stay here in the Blood Moon pack, without any remorse or shame for how she had treated me when we were children. How could she dare to act in such a brazen manner?
Kendrick's POV I knew that there were only two things that could be happening right now. It was either I was being set up to be punished or Audrey just wanted to stress me out. I was fully aware that she had eaten already which was why her being hungry certainly wasn't an option. There was however no way out of the ugly situation Audrey had planned ahead for me so I had to go to the kitchen to request for food for her just like she had requested. "Food for the queen please," I told the head maid as I ran into her even before getting to the kitchen and she bowed. "You really don't need to do that." "You are still the Alpha of this pack, My Lord," she countered and I wasn't even in the mood to argue at all. Everyone in the pack already plainly refused to stop calling me Alpha also so that kind of remark didn't surprise me anymore. Sometimes, it didn't even feel like some of the people did that because they still respected me but because they had gotten so used to calling me Alpha t
Audrey's POV "My lady," Eric bowed in front of the throne where I sat. "Eric, what do you have to report?" "It's about your parents who went to the Lycan kingdom," he began. "Everyone leave us alone," I commanded and the guards and maids in the throneroom began walking out. Soon, there was no one around except the guards at the outside entrance to the throneroom and they were out of our earshot. I sniffed the room just to be sure only to realize that I could sense the presence of a werewolf even though there was no one around. "Eric, look around if anyone is nearby," I instructed and he swiftly obeyed. "There is no one around except the guards outside," he reported and I frowned. Were those guards the werewolves I was sniffing? The smell wasn't coming from that direction though, it was coming from the inside entrance. "Did you check the corridor that this door leads to properly?" "Yes, My Lady, no one is there." "Speak then, what is happening in the Lycan kingd
Kendrick's POV I had been walking towards the throneroom when I saw everyone coming out. I immediately asked what was happening and was told that the Queen wanted to have a conversation with her Lycan guard so asked everyone to leave. My first thought was that she was planning something against this pack for her to require privacy which meant that I had to be there. She would probably sniff me out since her wolf was active as a lycan but I still felt like I needed to risk it. Maybe they would be too preoccupied with talking to notice me. Or she wouldn't recognize my scent and mix it up with that of the guards outside. The second seemed very much unlikely so I was just going to hope that the first would happen. As I moved on, I saw Eric walking out of the door leading to the throneroom and stealthily slipped into a room along the corridor. I slowly stuck my head out after several minutes and saw that he was no more in the corridor so strode forward. "... are reluctant to particip
Kendrick's POV I really should stop thinking of Audrey as anything more than my tormentor. Whenever my thoughts shifted even slightly away from that, she always did something to remind me that she was just my tormentor and nothing more. How come I was even able to think of her as a woman for the past few minutes? She had done so many awful things to me in the short period that she had been the ruler of this pack and always expressed her hatred for me whenever she could. Despite how terribly she treated me, there was even the fact that I was married. How could I find some other woman attractive when I didn't even feel that way about my wife? It was already wrong enough for me to think so lowly of my wife romantically and sexually but now I was also thinking of some other woman sexually. It was true that I didn't even imagine much before she stabbed me but still... What if she hadn't distracted me? Would I have had even more erotic thoughts? 'What is wrong with you, Kendrick?
Audrey's POV I sat in the throneroom after a meeting with the werecouncil, extremely bored and thinking about what I could do to entertain myself. I missed my family, both my foster parents and my biological family. I felt really lonely today which I suspected was partly because Kendrick who would have distracted me from such a feeling was gone. I had to let him rest for the remainder of the day and the next day after stabbing him. This was the second day after his injury and I didn't even know whether I was going to summon him today or not as I had ordered him to stay in till I called for him. I needed a new distraction from my thoughts, not just temporarily but for the rest of my stay in this pack as tormenting Kendrick was starting to be torture to me also. I thought for quite a while before I suddenly had a wonderful idea and called out for Eric who rushed in immediately as expected. "My lady," he bowed. "I want to go to the market," I declared and Eric's eyes widened for
Kendrick's POV "Where is Kendrick?" I heard Audrey question in irritation as I walked back into the throneroom after changing my outfit. "I'm here already," I announced and my mouth nearly fell open on seeing her. I couldn't imagine that I had thought that I concealed myself too much when I was dressing up inside. Audrey was the one who was doing that contrary to my beliefs. If not that I had heard her talking when I came in, I would have doubted if it was her and if I had seen her in the market, I would have walked pass her before suspecting it was her. I would not have even concluded that it was her at all unless if I ran into her more times than one. "You don't look so different, I can recognize you immediately," she snarled on seeing me. "I think he looks slightly different actually, you just need to give him a hat in addition to his dressing and it'll be perfect," Eric suggested. "Hats were usually sold at the entrance of the market," she muttered. "I don't know if they st
Audrey's POV I was very uneasy when Kendrick came out after dressing up for our outing looking poorly disguised. I didn't want the people to find out that we were hanging out together at all as they would treat us differently. I wanted to have the real market experience, not the experience of having an entire market sucking up to me so they needed to be fooled by our disguise such that they would not realize that Kendrick and I were together. I walked to the market with him in a hurry, trying to hide my worry that we would be discovered by the people on the streets. I was all too glad when we got to the market and the hat stall was still where I remembered it to be located even though it was a different trader. I selected the most concealing hat for Kendrick and once he tried it out and I found it fully satisfactory, I paid for it and we began walking in the market. I was happy to see all the sights that I had admired whenever my mother took me with her to the market. The place h
Epilogue Readers' POV "Uggh!" William groaned as he arched his back. He loosened his grip on Kendrick and staggered backwards. Kendrick coughed and sat up tiredly. He finally noticed that an arrow had pierced the back of William's head. There was not healing or coming back from that! Kendrick sighed in relief and looked around for the person who shot it. From the balcony on the second floor, he saw Jenni standing there with her bow drawn. She seemed to be shocked by what she had just done as she stared wide eyes at her bow. Jenni came back! That was shocking, after she suddenly left him because he went back to Audrey. Kendrick diverted his gaze back to William, who had now collapsed on the floor. He seemed to stare longingly in a particular direction as the light faded from his eyes and he went on a journey to the underworld. He looked in the direction William was looking and saw that he was staring at Audrey! Annoying prick! He just didn't want to let her
Readers' POV After they both marked each other, they shared a really nice kiss and after so many hours of talking, imagining their futures together, they finally slept. The next morning, Audrey jolted from the bed and she opened her eyes instantly. She looked around and she saw Kendrick sleeping peacefully, with his hand lying lazily on her waist. She had thought that her mating with Kendrick was a really good dream that she badly wanted to come to pass. She touched her neck and she could still feel the heat from last night. She pushed her head into the pillow and smiled. It wasn't a dream at all. It really happened. She turned her head to face Kendrick. She didn't want to wake him up, but she couldn't help touching his face, nose, hair and literally everything her hand could touch at that moment. She was touching his hair, when her eyes went to his lips and she started using her index finger to trace the little line around his lips. She was really enjoying what sh
Kendrick's POV "Find him!" My voice boomed across the kitchen and Audrey flinched as well as the rest of the sentries who scampered out after my outburst. "Hey," I said softly, reaching for Audrey, but she flinched again, breathing hard and fast, staring at the direction in which Williams had gone, eyes wide with fear and despair. "Ar--" A whimper escaped her and I hated that I could smell her fear. I hated that she trembled so much. It hadn't been long since I had made her go through the same fear. I had made those tears drop from her eyes, broken her spirit, broken her heart, and...seeing her now, with the same fear in her eyes…I hated myself for everything I had done to her. "Audrey," I said, barely able to hear my voice over my raging heart. Audrey didn't either as her sobs began in full earnest. It was like I didn't exist. She couldn't see me. Or hear me. She was scared out of her mind. "Audrey!" I roared, unable to keep my wolf at bay. Her gaze snappe
Audrey's pov Inside my room, we lay cuddled against each other, as we slept soundly. Time ticked by slowly. I soon untangled myself from Kendrick and turned to the other side of the bed while sleeping. I began to fidget little by little. My face soon morphed into a frown. I began shaking my head subtly from left to right. My body tensed and I instantly shot up. I was panting like I had just run a marathon. My eyes were dazed and unfocused as I seemed not to see everything around me. Kendrick also woke up after he heard my panting. When he looked towards me and saw my disheveled state, panic and worry settled in him. He crawled out from under the covers briskly as he came to stop before me. He saw that I was totally unfocused so he cradled my face and made me look into his eyes. He already had a vague idea of what happened. "Baby! Look at me! You are all right! I'm here! I'll always be here. He cannot hurt you!" He comforted as he rubbed my face soothingly.
Audrey's povDays later... When I saw Kendrick looking like he was half dead in Eric's hands, my heart skipped so many beats and I ran towards him. At the moment, I was just thinking one thing; Kendrick. My eyes were so focused on him. When I was just a few steps away from him, Eric stretched his hand forward, to stop me from moving any closer to Kendrick. When he did that, I looked up at him with confusion written all over my face. I didn't know why Eric stopped me from hugging Kendrick when he clearly needed my hug more than ever. "I'm still the queen, don't forget that,"I I said, and ignored his stretched out hand. I tried moving closer to him, but this time, I continued pushing his hand. I backed away from Eric and Kendrick and I left the way for him to bring Kendrick in. I walked past him and I went to the bed without answering Eric. When I got to the bed, I grabbed his hands and I placed soft kisses on both of them. I dropped the left one and I raised
Kendrick's POV After checking her, the doctor confirmed that she was okay, and slowly woke her up. When the doctor left, I tried convincing Audrey to sleep, but she continued refusing as I continued asking. She looked really tired and I knew that she was going to pass out if she didn't sleep in the next few seconds, so I didn't give up. I still continued telling her to sleep, but she wasn't having it at all. It got to a stage and I started begging her to sleep. "Please, just sleep. For me? You can do that for me, can't you?" I tried making puppy dog eyes, but it didn't work. It only made her laugh loudly at how ridiculous I looked. She hit my shoulder playfully and she told me that she was fully awake, even when her eyes were closing every second. "Of course, I can do that for you." I looked into her eyes and asked her, "what's the problem, then? I knew I was never important to you." I removed her hand from my hand and slightly pushed her away in a playful mann
Kendrick's POV After we saw that Audrey was now stabilized, we took her back to the pack house to rest properly. I stayed with her till it was late, and I went back to my room because I knew that if Audrey was awake, she would have been so angry at me spending the night in her room, regardless of the situation. I sat on my bed as I held on to my head, memories of what had happened earlier replaying in my head again. I screamed in anger as I threw my pillow to the floor, as that scene kept replaying in my head. I dragged the duvet off the bed and started ripping it with my bare hands, imagining it to be the leader of the rogues. Still angry, I went to the vase on the table, picked it and started smashing it against the wall and while I did that, I imagined it to be the leader’s head. To continue, I started kicking against the wall angrily, while I screamed in anger and pain. I fell to the ground as I punched against it in anger, hatred and betrayal. I kept on seei
Audrey's pov After everything, I started hearing some noises outside. It sounded like a fight was going on, or about to start. That caught my attention, as I stormed out to check. Oh no! Just like I thought, a fight was really going on, but it was just a fight, it was more like a war. The rogue pack that we fought with recently were back, and they seemed like they were in for a big one. The leader stood in front of them, and glared at me. Slowly, I backed away out of fear and suddenly felt someone's hand around mine. I flinched, and was about moving away when I saw that it was Kendrick;he stood beside me in defense, with his eyes fixed on the rogues pack. "Why are you here? Aren't you scared to be back here?" Eric shouted from the back of us, and I glanced back to see the whole pack members assembled behind us. The leader chuckled inwardly, before the dirty frown settled on his face again. "We are not here for any of you, we are here for him," he said, po
Maria shook her head as she began to speak frantically. "I'm sorry my lady... I mixed up the plates... it's my fault, I got confused." The stupid girl couldn't do a job properly and almost got me killed. The poison wasn't meant to kill anyway, a good thing since I ended up talk it. It was meant to weaken and cause Aubrey pain, so she wouldn't be able to keep seducing my husband and acting all mighty for days. I deepened me elbow and I saw her wince in pain. "So you tried to kill me?" I said. "No,.. no.. my lady. I would never do that... It was a mistake!" Maria was hysteric, pleading with all that she had, she was crying already, her eyes red. "You know what would happen if I say that you were the one who poisoned the food right? Because in a way you did" Maria nodded now full on bawling, she clasped her fingers over her mouth to prevent her cries from echoing. "Please my lady.. " "Kendrick will kill you for touching me, his wife." I said again because I needed to instill fear i