I wake up the next morning and to my surprise, he never came to bed. The bed sheets are still made, and everything is as I left it. Confused by the situation, I decide to confront him today and find out exactly what is going on. After all, I do deserve to know what he is thinking if it is going to directly affect our relationship or shall I say the lack thereof.
Making sure the bookmark is still intact, I place the book back on the desk before running a bath. Hearing a noise while waiting, I cautiously glance around the corner of the door and spy on Dominic as he changes his clothes. Clearly, he must think I am somewhere else because the next thing he does before he pulls on his pants, is to relieve his tension.
Watching him, my desire for his touch is amplified when he throws back his head and howls while he touches himself. The minute he climaxes, his whole-body freezes, and he must sense me staring at him because then he rel
I lay awake at two in the morning tossing and turning. Dominic still hasn’t come to bed with me for the last several nights. In the meantime, I have spent my days and nights laying around and reading my romance novels. At one point in time this evening, I thought he was going to come to bed with me. Instead, he rushes in to change and then disappears again before I ever get to say a single thing to him. The whole time, I felt like he was trying to ignore me so he wouldn’t have to deal with the whole situation. Feeling lonely, I have spent the remainder of my hours talking with Monique and chatting with my mother and father on the phone. Not only has their contract benefited them, but now they are traveling abroad when the moon is not full. My mother shares with me wonderful stories of traveling to Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland, and the America’s. I am happy for them, but admittedly I am a little dismayed at the fact
After a long boring day, I lay on the couch reading a particularly steamy story, when Dominic opens the door violently. He swings it with such force that when it collides with the wall, the painting of his father falls to the ground. When he turns to glare at me, I know that I must have done something wrong, but I have no idea what or how because I have been cooped up in this room all day long. Not feeling well, after lunch I came back to my room and decided on taking it easy for the day. Matter of fact, when he came in just now it is the first time today, I have seen Dominic at all. Earlier, Monique came by to make sure I was doing alright and then she said, “I have heard rumors of him spending time with another older woman in the banquet hall. No one knows who she is, but from what I gather she is not from this territory.” Worried beyond belief, I glance away and move to the love seat by the window before hearing him start to yel
“Look out!” Dominic’s voice rips through the night thunderously. Opening my eyes, I barely see something coming at me before Dominic barrels into it and slams it against the wall. Struggling to fully open my eyes, I stare at a bloody spot on the wall and then look lower to something slumped down on the floor, still where it landed. Glancing at Dominic, I shiver when I see the gold shimmering in his eyes as he goes in for the kill. I hear teeth gnashing and bones breaking before I realize that Dominic has bitten right through the things neck and severed the main artery. Blood gushes everywhere and sprays on up the white wall, just barely missing his mother’s picture. Before this, I had never seen so much gore in person, because my parents always locked me in the cage when others came near. If someone had come close enough to attack, they always kept it outside away from my young prying eyes. Now even in the dark, I can
“Monique, who is that gentleman?” I point to a man in the corner of the dining room who seems to not know anyone here. “I believe that is Alpha Erickson. I overheard the men talking earlier while I was coming to get you. They said that he is the Alpha for one of the southern territories and next in succession to Dominic if something were to ever happen to our King. That is, if he does not have a suitable heir in the meantime.” She says discreetly as she whispers in my ear. “What do you mean by suitable heir? Is there such a thing as an unsuitable heir?” I frown, because at this rate he won’t have either of them if anything were to happen to him. “Well, a suitable heir would be one between the union of the two of you. An unsuitable one, would be him and another mate besides yourself. You know, someone not agreed upon by the elders or yourself usually. If he were to lie with someone else and have
Panicked, I quickly change out of my bloody clothes and rush downstairs. I hear a loud commotion in the general area of the dining room and run in with my fangs and claws out. Thinking that perhaps another vampire has attacked, I scan the room to find that there are only two people standing there. One is Alpha Erickson, the other is elder Grey. When they see me approach them at a fast pace, they immediately become alerted and Grey turns to me before asking, “What has happened? We heard that Dominic has been hurt, possibly a fatal wound.” Taking a few deep breaths, I hesitate and then say cautiously, “We were attacked by a vampire, but I do not believe he will die. Besides a minor wound on his neck, he looked fine to me. He has just lost blood and I believe that he will be absolutely fine.” They look at me in disbelief before dismissing me and continuing their conversation between the two of them. When I am still
“I think he is here.” Viktor stands up and seems to sense something odd before going to the door and opening it. He walks back in with a man who is wearing a hooded cape or something like it. The man walks with a staggered limp and has his head lowered so I cannot see him easily. From what I can see, it makes a shiver run down my spine and causes me to feel like I want to run very far away. I could swear that I saw a worm crawling through one of his eye sockets before he turned his head from my sight. Sitting down, I wait for whatever is going to happen. Watching him cautiously, I listen to the doctor’s conversation with him. “Oleckneth, you have to be kidding me. There is no way she is going to agree to that.” Viktor turns to me and says, “He requests your first-born pup, but also something else.” He hesitates before continuing. Saying quieter this time with a frown on his face, “Upon your death, he takes posse
“No!” I cry out when the pain shoots throughout my abdomen like someone is stabbing me with a sharp steak knife. Standing next to me, Viktor tries to press down on my stomach, but it only makes it worse. The sharp pain and the pressure is so extreme, that I feel like my belly is going to burst. Crying out again, “Ouch”, Dominic grabs my hand and rubs it gently to try and calm me. Watching Viktor glance over at me briefly, he runs around trying to assess the situation frantically. He looks at me directly and asks, “Are they kicking at all?” Before grabbing a gown and putting on gloves. Nodding, I cry out again yelling, “No, I am not pregnant! How can I be giving birth? Did the lich do something to me?” With Dominic still standing next to me, he releases my hand so he can help the good doctor with anything that he possibly can. “What is happening?” He asks seemingly clueless. Viktor looks between t
“Ana, can you come here for a minute?” I hear Dominic’s deep voice say before I see him round the corner to the living room with a big smile on his face. When I see something in his hand, I get excited before standing up and walking over to him. In his closed fist lies a small pastel blue box. From what I see of it, the box has a white silk ribbon wrapped around it expertly. As I meet him in the middle of the room, I notice two things. The first, that he seems very cheerful today, not usual at all for him. The second, there is a spark in his eyes that has never been there before. Today, is the Full Moon Event of the Spring. Many of our kind come from all around to party till the moon rises and then they take to the night as they mate all night long. Last time I heard it, I was in the middle of the woods, but I still heard it from miles away. Perhaps some of them got closer than my parents would have preferre
After he brings me to the bedroom, we sit there and talk for a few minutes when we hear a knock on the window from outside. We glance at each other, before he stands up and quickly rushes to the window. Seeing my father outside, he seems confused until I walk over and open it.He climbs in with Alina in his arms and when I see her, she already looks bigger than she did a couple hours before. I cock my head to ask, “Did she get bigger already?” Glancing between my father and Dominic before taking Alina and waiting for an answer.The minute she reaches for me, I feel my heart ache just knowing that I had given her away. I can’t believe that I could think this would be the answer when it was right in front of me the whole time. Surely, she can live off the animals in the woods and the ones we raise. Then after she drains them, we can use the meat for everyone else. A win, win situation.“Yes, s
Warning: Trigger of suicidal thoughts and attempt. If you can’t deal with this, don’t read this chapter’s end.“I heard that you are looking for me Anastasia.” I hear my father’s familiar voice echoing throughout the moonlit room from the shadows.By now the pups are walking because it has been 3 months since they have been born and our kind grow extremely fast, not unlike wolves in the wild. Alina has developed more of a taste for blood than I care to discuss with anyone. When she tried to suckle on my nipple and nearly tore it off, I stopped her just afterwards.That was almost a month ago. Since then, she has taken to draining the life out of various animals around the castle. So, when my father shows up in the middle of the night, I am more than happy to oblige him. “Father, you never told me your name, so it was hard to find you before now. I had to contact mothe
“Knock”“Knock”I open my eyes to see if Dominic ever came back to the room last night. When I realize that he hadn’t, I climb out of bed and throw on my robe. I smell the distinct aroma of bacon from downstairs and the minute I smell it, my stomach starts growling.After I walk to the door, the knocking stops for a second and I grip the handle before opening it. Just as I turn the knob, the knocking starts again, and it makes me jump when I startle. I say with a raised voice, “Hold on, let me open it.”When I pull it towards me, I see Monique standing there with my breakfast. “Here you go, I have brought this up for you. How are you feeling this morning?” She smiles before walking in and placing it on the table in front of me.“Oh, thank you so much. How did you know I was so hungry? The minute I smelled the bacon, my stomach was growl
We walk down to dinner hand in hand after a delightful afternoon of love making and lying in Dominic’s arms. When I sit down with a huge smile on my face, Beta Anne who is sitting next to me, states, “My, my, my. Someone looks happy. If I didn’t know better, I would say that you just spent all afternoon making love.” Turning to her and wondering what she meant by this, I dismiss it quickly because I am in far too good a mood to let anything like this bother me.I feel Dominic’s hand on mine and then I turn my head and smile at him before picking up my glass of wine and sipping it. Having way too much already, I start to laugh a little as I think about what we did all afternoon. Then suddenly, what she said starts to nag at me.What did she mean by that statement? Does she know something I don’t about him? Have they been together before? All this runs through my head an
“Oh, my goodness. Dominic, come here quickly. The pups are already crawling, and Joshua just said his first word. I gesture for Dominic to hurry over so I can show him. Then I start to tickle Joshua while holding him in my arms, before asking him sweetly in my mommy voice, “Joshua, what do we say to daddy?”He giggles and then glances between Dominic and me before stating proudly, “Daddy, daddy.” In the cutest little boy’s voice, I have ever heard in my life.Dominic instantly smiles and grabs him from my hands as he raises him up in the air and pretends that he is an airplane. “Vroom.” He says as he flies him in circles before landing on the ground safely.I smile and then giggle because I can’t help how adorable the whole scene is. Especially when Dominic turns to me now and scoops me up into his arms. He gazes into my eyes and says, “I have arranged for
“What is going on?” I ask Dominic quickly as I hear loud noises in the courtyard over the cries of the pups.He glances out the window and then turns around to answer me with a worried tone to his voice, “There is a fight down below. Watch them, I will be back soon. In the meantime, bolt the door shut. I don’t know if it is the beginning of trouble or just an actual argument. If it is trouble, don’t let a single soul through those doors.”I nod in acknowledgement and then he rushes out the door. As soon as he does, I bolt it shut and won’t let anyone in unless it is him of course. Hearing the roar of someone yelling, I run to the window and see Alpha Charles and Alpha Phillip fighting with their claws out now.The minute I hear Dominic’s voice loudly over the crowd though, I know that he means business, and everyone stops talking. Everything grows quiet as he co
“Here’s mommy.” Dominic says softly in the cutest voice possible when he hands me the first of the five.He smiles so sweetly and then stares at us while I feed him. Looking up into his green eyes, I see the love there, that for so long yearned for. Pointing to him, I say in a whisper to the little one in my arms, “Your daddy loves you so much he gave his own soul to keep you around. Now that is the greatest love one can bestow on anyone.”Gazing down at the sweetest, most handsome little thing ever, I watch as his bluer than blue eyes twinkle in the light and his lips form a smile, where dimples are showing. He wriggles around in my arms and then I could swear that he winked at me. I giggle and then smile again before watching him suckle on me. This little one wastes no time because the minute he was in my arms, he found my nipple and latched onto it.Turning to Dominic, I smile a huge smil
Hearing a roar behind me, I turn around and see Alpha Adolphus rushing at me right before Dominic intercepts him. Screaming, I yell, “Watch out!” When Adolphus turns quickly and almost slashes Dominic’s throat.I can’t believe our day has started this way. It all seemed innocent until Monique ran towards me and warned me of Adolphus’s intentions. That is when I heard him behind me before the two of them started fighting. Now as I stand here watching them fight to the death, I start to cry because suddenly I feel this overpowering urge to run.Run out of the castle, and straight to my parent’s house where I know I will be safe and sound with my babies. Then it happens. At first it is a thin trickle, then a gush of liquid rushes down from between my legs.“Did my water just break? I ask myself quietly under my breath.Not wanting to cause Dominic to lose hi
“If you don’t find that lich before these pups are born, what are we going to do when he comes for the first one?” I ask Dominic with tears in my eyes and so much fear in my heart right now that sometimes I wish I had never gotten pregnant at all.Losing even one might kill me, when the depression hits and I realize that it is all my fault. All because I couldn’t stand to live without him, I could end up losing it all. Because when the lich comes for my baby, Dominic is planning on trying to kill him, in that moment he might lose his own life instead. Then what was the purpose of any of this if he isn’t here to share it all with?This whole time, I have been dreading the babies’ arrival, because I know that the lich will come soon after. Shaking my head, I sit still on the stool while waiting for Dominic’s answer. When he doesn’t answer right away, the tears start to flow steadily down