Kendrick's POV"I said what was your rejection of my offer to bath with you supposed to mean?", Jenni declared boldly.What exactly was this supposed to mean? Since when did Jenni start talking back at me? And even if she wanted to begin firing words at me, this reaction was totally uncalled for."Jenni, are you feeling alright? Did you hit your head somewhere?", I asked her."I'm perfectly normal!""I'm actually not sure because your reasoning seems very disoriented right now. Are you genuinely trying to pick an argument with me just because I refused to let you have a bath with me?""You should know that the bath is not what I want", she pouted."I actually understand that fact very much.""Then how can you reject me despite knowing that? That is what is getting me angry," she vented. "It's been months since you last touched me, Kendrick. It's not like you have ever made a move on me without me initiating it but in the past weeks, I've attempted severally to get you to touch me but
Audrey's POV "Audrey," I heard as I found myself looking into the green eyes that I could never forget even in the years that I had been away from the pack. The eyes of my mate who rejected me minutes after finding out we were mates without caring that we were in public or minding how I felt. Kendrick's eyes. But the person who had called me wasn't him. He was in way too much shock and embarrassment to even think of calling my name, or at least the name I was called here in the Blood Moon pack. My name had come from someone else who was standing beside him. It was Jake, my childhood friend. What was he doing here with Kendrick? "Audrey, you're alive!", he yelled and took a large step towards me, probably intending to hug me but the tip of the sword of one of the guards beside me landed on his chest before he could complete the action. "Keep your distance from the princess," the guard growled and Jake quickly stepped back. The guard drew his sword back into its sheath once Jake
Audrey's POVI yawned loudly as my eyes slowly opened and stretched in the bed I was lying on. It was so comfy for a bed I was sleeping on for the first time and I loved it.To be honest, as at when I left the royal guestroom where my Jake, Kendrick, his Luna and my adoptive parents were, I wasn't sleepy one bit. I wasn't even tired either.Why would I even be tired when all I did was sit in a carriage? And whenever I got tired of sitting, I got down to walk a little bit before getting back in. I also had servants offering me fruits, food, water and everything I could need even though I wasn't interested and declined. My entire journey was wonderful.However, I needed to keep Kendrick waiting and that was not even all I intended to do. What I planned to do was to infuriate every single person that I was to deal with while here in Blood Moon. They all needed to pay.So yes, that was my motivation for saying that I wanted to rest. When I got to the room, my belongings were lying beside
Jake's POVIt had been hours since Audrey took her leave to rest before we discussed the state of the pack with her. She should have been awake by now but apparently, she wasn't because we had been waiting.The werecouncil had not minded waiting for her to wake up from her nap when informed that she wished to rest. Now however, they had become impatient and were already complaining, all feeling insulted by the Lycan kingdom.Was this actually what the Lycan kingdom planned? But Audrey wouldn't accept to do such, would she? Audrey would never accept to mess around with her elders just to show superiority like the werecouncil assumed she was.Audrey wouldn't abuse the privilege she had received to become a princess, the princess, of the Lycan kingdom.That was just Audrey though. I didn't know of Princess Emerald, because all this had made it obvious that Princess Emerald wasn't my friend, Audrey. They were two different personalities and I wasn't sure if Audrey was erased to create Pri
Audrey's POVI turned slowly with leaden feet on hearing Kendrick's voice call me and met his green eyes fixed on me."Is there anything you want? Why have you been following me?""Audrey...", he began but I raised up a hand."The Audrey you are looking for is dead, Princess Emerald is all that's left of her and you would do well to address her properly," I snapped then dropped my hand and his eyes narrowed slightly."Fine, Princess Emerald. I'm sorry for not addressing you as I ought to," he sighed."As you should be. Now what do you want?", I asked him while maintaining a fiery look on my face."How can you ask me what I want? You were informed before you retired to your room that we had arranged a meeting between some of the people of the pack and you. We even informed you that they were already prepared to meet with you but you said you needed to rest first and we let you do that," he complained."So if you truly agreed to me taking my rest, what is this confrontation about?", I f
Kendrick's POVEveryone in the room suddenly kept quiet as Audrey announced that we would have to fulfill a condition before she would decide to stay in the pack. I didn't like the sinister smile on her face presently and was desperately hoping that she would ask for something we could give to her."What I want to have before I can decide to stay in this pack until the blood moon and do whatever you all need me to do on that day is...", she began and I shivered slightly. "The rulership of this pack," she concluded and it felt like a bomb was dropped in the room.My ears suddenly hurt as if the pressure in the room was too much and the men immediately began muttering amongst themselves in confusion and outrage."Princess Emerald, what is this about?"Jake was even composed enough to try challenging her. I couldn't even move any part of my body due to the extreme shock. Was this the reason why the haughty Lycan kingdom stooped low enough to send their princess here? So that they could t
Jenni's POV I was in the royal garden with the maids overseeing as they gathered the flowers that would be placed in the flower vases inside the palace when I noticed men trooping out the doors of the palace. I figured that they were the werecouncil members and the other people who Kendrick invited to welcome the Lycan Princess which turned out to be that brat, Audrey. That suspicion made me pay more attention to them and I noticed that their body postures were totally giving off annoyance and so much negativity. I was too far off to know exactly which emotions they were radiating but it was obvious they were annoyed. Or did Audrey not come out to see them? That stupid girl had told us that she was going to check out her room and rest a little bit shortly after she arrived. We couldn't try to stop her or convince her to just see the people who were waiting for her so we let her go off. The werecouncil members and the other men even believed that she wouldn't take too much time
Kendrick's POV Audrey and Jenni were standing face to face, their eyes locked in a heated stare-down and I could do was stare at them. Why did Jenni act so rashly? Why was she losing her calm so easily these days? The fate of the pack was fully dependent on Audrey at this point in time and Jenni knew that. Why was it that all she wanted to do right now was still to pick a fight with Audrey despite knowing that? "Why would I mind my tone while speaking to a weakling who merely became someone important by accident?" Jenni growled. "I'm still more important than you could ever be, whether by accident or merit so shut your mouth," Audrey fired back. "I can't believe you would even think about taking control of my pack, Who do you think you are?" "Why don't you ask me that in a few days when I've become the ruler of this pack?" Audrey replied, her voice calm and steady. "Rulership of a pack is the job of the Alpha and Luna, why are you trying to go against the general rule of werew
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