PRIEST'S POVShe's mine..I stare still for a while, finding it hard to believe the words of the alpha. "Perhaps he is only joking about it l," I say to myself but then I kick the thought off at once. It is so strange that the king wants to get married again and more strange is the fact that he will come all the way to my house just to prank me about him getting married."You're getting married, Alpha?"I ask once Again just to be sure that I am not the one who heard wrong."Yes. Is anything the problem?" He ask with a thick frown and that is when it dawns on me that he isn't telling a lie and neither is he joking."Oh sir, noting is the problem? I only want to be sure I did not make any mistake in hearing you...." I say as I adjust on the chair I am sitting on, my hand running through my head."Okay, so I want you to help me check the right time for me to marry this person I want to marry," He goes on to say, grinning sheepishly like a new groom. I feel a bit of disgust as I find it h
I am slowly taken to the place where hunter is said to be working. I feel so upset that I can barely hide it even though I want to. I do not want everyone to know that I am angry as it will not give them a very good opinion about me. I heave a deep sigh, trying to calm myself down."You need to calm down nikolia, you calm down..." I say to myself over and over again as I am being led to where hunter is. I sight him from a distance with his head buried in his work. I stare at him for a few seconds and I realize that it isn't do difficult for anyone to fall in love with him with his smooth body and handsome face. Definitely, he only needs to get rich and he'll have almost all the girls flocking round him. I get so jealous and clench my hands into a fist."I feel like strangling him to death for making me feel so inferior..." I mutter under my breath but loud enough for my guide to hear me. He gazes over his shoulder to stare at me, only to meet a frowning man. He didn't need to be told
HUNTER'S POVI am taken aback by the way he suddenly pounce on me with his thick and domineering voice. I never expect to see someone of his class and caliber pay a visit so early in the morning when I'm still trying to settle down into work. I stare around with a confused grimace, perhaps he has come in search of someone else and I am here thinking it is me. I get the affirmation I need when he walks up to me with a frown on his face.I greet, a little nervous to see him. "Good morning sir, what brings you here," I Mutter and then I go mute while waiting for him to speak. I do not know what to say so I decide that it's best I leave him to do the talking while I listen to whatever it is he wants to talk about.I am taken aback by the response he shoots at me and I try to believe he said that but then he gives me not even the slightest chance to understand him. The next thing is him yelling at me like I am done two year old child or as if he feeds me. I become so furious and can hardl
WINTER'S POV. I spy Nikolai from the corner of my eyes and excitement washes through my skin. I find myself smiling like a lovesick teenager. I’m aware of my being lovesick but I need to stop behaving like a teenager around this man. My excitement fades and is immediately replaced by worry and confusion when I see the look of Nikolai’s face. I put down everything in my hand and sauntered off to where he stood without thinking. I could feel the other workers' long and hateful stares but I couldn’t care less. “Nikolai? Is anything the matter?” I ask when I reach him He’s not giving me an answer, he’s just staring at me and making me even more worried than I already am. “Say something Nikolai!” I persist impatiently. Does this have anything to do with what I said the last time we saw each other? No, it can’t be, it looks more serious than that. He just continues to stare at me like he’s trying to see through me. I lower him to a wooden bench close to the wall and sit next to him.
NIKOLAI'S POV. I walk in on my father grinning to himself and rubbing his palms against each other in a slow, weird way. I wonder what kind of mischief he’s up to this time but I don’t care enough to ask him. “Good morning father.” I say casually as I walked past him but he doesn’t respond. He’s too engrossed in his own thoughts. Does this have anything to do with the walk he took around the clan yesterday? This man has me really curious. “Good morning father.” I repeat, louder. Loud enough for him to snap out of his thoughts and flinch. “”What?!” he half-yells at me and my face knots in a frown. “I said Good morning.” I answer and watch him watch me. “Good morning to you too Nikolai. Now please, if you’ll excuse me?” He mutters quickly under his breath and stands up from where he’s seated. I narrow my eyes at him. He can’t be up to any good. “Father?” he reluctantly turns to look at me. “Yes, son.” He answers with a plastic smile that stretches so wide, it almost reaches h
NIKOLAI'S POV. “What do you think you’re doing?!” I yell at both of them and they flinch at the sound of my voice. “Nikolai, I was about to go see you too.” She says and walk towards me in a haste. Her eyes look puffy. “It doesn’t look like it, Winter. I don’t think you were about to go see me. I think you’re right where you want to be in, in his arms.” She turns to look at me confused like I didn’t just catch her hugging Hunter. “What’s that supposed to mean, Nikolai? Hunter is my friend and you know it!” she’s yelling on top of her voice but I can barely hear her over the sound of my heart beating fast and loud. I feel like it’s going to burst out of my rib cage in a matter of seconds. “Do I? Do I, Winter? Do you hug all your friends the way you just hugged him?” I sneer at Winter and Hunter opened his mouth to say something In her defence but I glared at him and he kept quiet immediately. I know I should have killed him when I had the chance. “Nikolai I don’t understand why
PATRICK'S POV. Asking the guards to fetch the slave girl is a very rash decision on my path but I can’t waste any more time on the matter. Nikolai dating a slave right under my nose is embarrassing enough, I can’t have them embarrass me even further. I had no idea she was a slave, even I was attracted to her, I can’t blame Nikolai for his mistake. The girl must be some sort of witch, inviting powerful men to her life with her eyes. I’m going to get rid of her before she does any harm to this kingdom but I have to do it subtly. Nikolai is my son but he’s also someone you wouldn’t wish to have as an enemy. As an ally, he’s the best but as an enemy, you’ll be sorry. I’m positive Nikolai will accompany her here and I’ll act normal and demand an explanation. The less he knows about my plans, the better. The ceremony is only a day away, I could use it as a decoy. WINTER'S POV. The look on Nikolai's face makes me wish I had told him earlier. I had no idea, a problem like this would
PATRICK'S POV. Just as I predicted, Nikolai is here with the maiden, glaring at me like we’re no longer father and son but mortal enemies. “Where are my guards?” I ask half-heartedly. I won’t be perturbed if none of them survived, they’ve fought side by side with Nikolai at wars and take overs. If not them, who should be able to attest to his ruthlessness, they should have known stealing a woman from him, especially one he’s infatuated with, was a suicide mission. “I’m sure you didn’t expect them to come back alive so why bother asking?” He’s clutching tightly to her hand like she’s going to run away any second which makes me more interested than I should be in her. How far would he go for this woman? I’m curious. “You're right, I didn’t.” I say without a flicker of emotion in my voice. I see Winter shift uncomfortably, she must be disturbed by how little the lives of those guards mean to us and its only right that she is but I still consider it weakness. “Why did you send them?”