Robert POV.It has been four weeks since Marissa moved out of our bedroom. Every time I’ve gone to speak to her, I’ve been called away. She doesn’t leave her room, and I know she is depressed. I can feel it through the bond. She has even stopped speaking to Michael. I have been trying to get her through the mind link, but nothing. It’s like she isn’t even here and it’s driving me crazy.A knock on my door brings me out of my turmoil. I need to see her make sure she is ok. I keep messing up and she is right. She was pleading with me to let her help, but like the stubborn mule I am; I refused and now I wished I hadn’t.“Come in.” I call out, not wanting to see anyone. My father let this kingdom rot with debts and I’ve been trying to find solutions to sort it out, but as soon as I scratched the surface all the skeleton’s came out and I know how truly screwed the kingdom is.The door opens, and in walks Thalia. I groan internally. She has been coming more often and has tried her best to s
Marissa POV.Sitting on the sofa in my room, I smile as I look Athena over, but my heart hurts. I’ve missed so much. However, Damien and Roxy have done amazingly with her. I’m a failure as a mother. I don’t deserve her at all.“So, you going to tell me what has been going on since we left?” Eleanor stands in front of me before she sits down and I tell her everything, including what the omegas have been reporting to me. The rumours are still the same, but apparently she has been meeting someone outside the palace. I have asked the girls to find out where she is going and who she is meeting. I have a feeling she is meeting members of the harem.“How long?” I look at Eleanor and furrow my eyebrows at her. I don’t understand what she means. I have blocked the mind link to Robert and blocked Zarah as well. I have needed to be alone.“What?” I say to her as she stands and holds her hands out to take Athena and I pass her to her.“Lay down.” I do as I’m asked when she holds a hand out over m
Marissa POV.Once I’m in the hallway, I stagger as I sob. Leaning against the wall for strength, all I can hear is Robert screaming and trashing the office. It breaks my heart that he could do this. Zarah is whimpering in my head. I push off the wall, needing to get back to my room and pack my things to leave. I can’t stay here, I just can’t. I’m the laughingstock of the Kingdom.Poor little Marissa, who’s mate cheated on her, and she is now rejected once again. I warned him and there was no going back if he did this.Walking towards my room I try to straighten myself up but I can’t. I’m broken, broken by the one person I never thought would do this to me.“Goddess Luna, here, let me help you.” Kelly comes running to my side and I place my arm over her shoulder as she steadies me.“What happened Luna? Are you hurt?” I shake my head as I try to swallow the lump in my throat.“Take me to my room, please, Kelly.” I mumble and she nods her head.“Marissa, wait. Please, let me explain.” I
Marissa POV.Jogging towards the Omega’s quarters, I stop outside the room of Thalia. Pushing the door open. It’s neat and cosy. Shame she was a slut.“Luna, what are we looking for?” I move towards the bedside table and pull the drawer out. My skin itches as the blood is drying, but it’s the least of my worries right now.“We are looking for a perfume, lotion, anything that doesn’t look right. It will have an earthy, damp smell. Search the bathroom and leave no corner unturned.” I rip the mattress up, looking for a bottle. I tear the room apart looking for it, but nothing. I look at the rug and stand.Pulling the rug back, I look at the floor and see scuff marks. Moving to my knees, I run my finger over it. Feeling the ridges. There is something down here.Allowing my claws to slip, I rip the flooring apart and see a black box. Reaching in, I grab it and pull it out. Lifting the lid, I look at the contents.There are small green glass vials. Gently picking one up, I look at it closel
Robert POV.Confusion and heat washes through me, my little mate holding me under the icy stream. I need to feel her, need to be inside her.“Robert, look at me. You will be ok.” Her voice is smooth and that throbbing urge becomes stronger. I need to be buried deep inside of her. To feel her walls stretch to accommodate me. To hear those sweet breathy moans in my ear. The need to be with her in everyway possible, to hold her, kiss her and make love to her.“MINE!” I growl out. She smiles softly at me as her small hands stay firmly on my chest.“Lean back for me, stay under the water. Robert, you are under the influence of an aphrodisiac. I need to bring your temperature down. Do you understand what I’m saying to you?” I blink at her words as I tilt my head, watching her every movement, the blood coursing through her veins, her pulse point where my mark lies throbbing under her skin. I want to lick it, to suck on it. I groan internally. I want to push her up against the wall and take w
Marissa POV.“Yes, we do. Let me say this first, please. I’m sorry, I didn’t know what I was doing. I thought it was you. I understand why you rejected me and I’ll make it up to you, even if it takes until I die. Don’t leave me, Marissa. I wouldn’t survive without you.” His words are heavy and I know they are the truth. If I didn’t find Thalia’s secret stash, he wouldn’t be able to survive.“I know, my love. I am sorry for how I reacted. I couldn’t go through that again. We will sort this out. We need to work together from now on Robert. No more doing everything on your own. If I’m to be your queen, then we need to share the responsibility. It wasn’t your fault. She dosed you with an aphrodisiac, which was laced with wolfsbane.” I tell him and I watch as he makes sense of what I have told him. Athena bounces on my knee. Robert looks at her and holds his arms out for her and she throws herself towards him. I chuckle at her.“I believe the use and production of aphrodisiacs are forbidde
Marissa POV.Morpheus arrived the following day, and to say he looked sick would be an understatement. He looked like death.Thankfully, Cody and Lucy arrived at the same time. I gave the orders to them both and a team of doctors that I wanted full blood work done, body scans and the aphrodisiacs and antidote researched. We needed the chemical formula for both. I needed to understand exactly what we were dealing with, and if we could make the antidote stronger and more efficient.“Marissa, what do you need me to do?” I smiled up at Robert from the information in front of me.“I need you to get in touch with Thomas and get a team of your best medical experts flown in from the company. We need to find a solution to curing him. Also, I need you to set up the meetings with the elders and Alphas so I can present the findings. Oh, contact your lawyers. We are going to need to issue a statement about the laws in regards to the use and distribution of the aphrodisiac. Sorry, I know it’s a lot
Robert POV.I am the luckiest man alive to have a woman like Marissa at my side. Watching her in her element makes me smile, even if it is for the wrong reasons. I know it’s no secret how my father didn’t approve of her, but she is the only one who can save him now.Walking beside her, our fingers entwined as we walk towards the bedroom of where my father is. I know she is a woman on a mission and no matter what she needs, I will do it for her. I have a lot to make up for and I will do whatever it is she wants. Damn, I would walk through hellfire for her, same as she did for me.Entering my father’s room, it breaks me to see him like this. In some way, I could have ended up the same way if Marissa didn’t see it sooner. For that I’m grateful she decided to give me another chance but I know this is will be my last chance, otherwise I will not only lose her, I will lose Athena and my pup. I don’t plan on letting that happen at all. I love them too much.“Father, how are you feeling?” I s
Marissa POV.The moment the crown was placed on my head, I felt the exchange of power from Lita. But that wasn’t all. I thought it was over until Robert took my hand and I turned to face him.“Marissa, you have always been my Regina, my queen. I have loved you always and I will continue to love you until I take my last breath. My queen, my love. My heart, body, and soul belong to you and only you. Will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?” I look at him with my mouth agape. I chuckle to myself as he pulls out rings from his pocket. He looks gorgeous in his royal attire. The red, gold, and black.“Yes.” I say without any hesitation. He turns to the elder and gives him a nod and he starts to speak about marriage and that is it, a sacred bond. I stand, shocked. Wait, we are doing this now?“No time like the present.” Zarah says in my head, and I guess she is right. I’m lost looking at Robert, who winks at me. Why the sly dog.I don’t really hear everything. All I hear is I do from R
Marissa POV.It has been nearly a year since Robert and I started over. The first few weeks were rough. I found every opportunity to cause an argument with him and I threw the betrayal in his face on every damn occasion.He let me rant and rave because he knew I needed to get it out. Even though I knew it was wrong to throw it in his face, I needed to vent and make him realise it still hurt me. He just held me as I screamed and sobbed. After that, something in me just changed towards him completely.He proved to me that he will never do it again and it took time for me to believe him even when I pushed him away time after time. He came back to me every single time to prove to me that he would never hurt me again. In fact, the only one I was hurting with rehashing the past was me. I spiralled into depression.It took months before I could I walk into his old office without seeing the image in my head. He moved offices and removed every trace of the harem from the palace while I was awa
Marissa POV.The moment I saw the heartbreak on Robert’s face, I knew I was in the wrong. I should have told him I was planning on dating. I have been seeing Steven for a few weeks now and he is kind, funny and a genuinely nice person.Steve is an Alpha, but because I never had my coronation as queen, he didn’t know I was Robert’s mate. So when Robert left, I had to tell him who I actually was. He is a new Alpha and took over the position when his Alpha died a year ago. He was originally the Beta of his pack and he hasn’t found his mate.When I told him who I was, he freaked out, which is understandable. He had heard of the True Luna, but didn’t know it was me. When his Alpha was called here three years ago, he wasn’t with him as he was running the pack. So he had no idea who I was.“So you are technically our queen, then? And King Robert is your fated mate?” I remember the look on his face when I confirmed who I was. The poor guy looked like he was about to have a heart attack.I exp
Robert POV.Every time I collect the girls, I am reminded of what I did to Marissa. Her scent lingers on the girls and it makes the feeling of loneliness worse. Every time I look at the girls, I see her face shining back at me. The girls are so much like her it hurts.After Aurora was born, I pulled myself together. I made the changes I needed to make not only to prove that I had changed for Marissa but to prove to myself that I could be a better man.I have not looked at another she-wolf since I fucked up two years ago. Some would say it’s a little too late and I know that. I should have been stronger, but I wasn’t. Just because I was big and strong physically. Mentally and emotionally, I wasn’t. I was depressed and weak and I gave in. Goddess knows I tried to resist the urges, but I couldn’t.The day my world came tumbling down around me, I knew I had to change. No more wallowing in self pity, no more blaming everyone else for what I did, no more acting like a pup. No, I needed to s
Marissa POV.It has been two years since Aurora was born and Robert has been in her life as often as he can be. I have not once felt any pains of betrayal from him. I don’t see him when he comes to see his daughter; I make myself scares so I don’t have to look at him.The research into the flowers has opened my eyes to what they are both capable of. They both have healing properties and we have been able to use them to create new drugs for the humans. One of those drugs helps with fertility issues and the other being the scientific breakthrough in the human world. It can cure most cancers without the patient having to endure months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.The human governments wanted to slap it with a huge price tag but I declined and told them the drug will not be brought. It is to be given for free to those in dire need. To say they weren’t happy would be an understatement, but they soon got on board and so far, we have saved countless lives.Goddess Labs is the top in the
Robert POV.I roar in pain as I clutch my stomach. Is Marissa betraying me? No, she wouldn’t do that, besides the pain comes and goes in waves like a … contraction. She is in labour.“Mom, mom Marissa, get to Snow Vale. She is in labour.” I shout as I breathe through the pain. Nero has refused to speak to me and I know he is allowing me to feel her pain. He has the ability same as every male wolf to lessen the pain so the human can remain strong to support their mate through the labour process, but he won’t do that. He wants me to feel everything.My insides feel like they are on fire and being ripped out through my ass. Fuck! I grit my teeth as another one builds and I pant like I’m the one pushing. Sweat coats my skin as my father enters the room. He comes to my side and assesses the situation.“Lita, call Snow Vale. Marissa is in labour and Nero isn’t taking the pain from Robert.” My mother scoffs from the doorway. She still isn’t speaking to me.“It’s no more than you deserve. The
Marissa POV.It feels good to be home back in my pack. We have been back now for three weeks and I know I am close to giving birth. I instructed Shari that if Robert came here, to not allow him entry. I need to be alone without him or his family trying to make me backdown.When we arrived home, I immediately had the antidote patented and I now own it and it’s production. My team is currently looking at what else the plants can be used for so we can extend on the market.Rowan went back to his thrall and promised he would visit once I have my pup. He will also bring Luca, so he and Athena can start to form a friendship. Damien and Roxy both know what happened and Damien knows not to show me pity. He knows I hate it, so he has been his normal self and for that, I am grateful.Everyone in the pack has looked at me with pride as it takes a lot for anyone to walk away, especially from a mate bond that can’t be broken, but I think I knew this day would come sooner or later. I just hoped it
Robert POV.I’m going to lose her and it’s what I deserve. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I couldn’t help it. Thalia was showing me affection and attention, and things got out of hand. I didn’t know that Marissa was being drugged. I’m glad she was. I didn’t want her to feel it, and I know that makes it so much worse.There were times she drugged me, but that’s no excuse. I know Marissa will walk away, and there is nothing I can do to stop her. There is nothing I can say or do to show her I am sorry. Nero has blocked me out completely as he warned me to not give into Thalia, but I didn’t listen and now I am paying the price.“Son, you need to go and speak to your mate. She is leaving.” My father’s voice enters my head and I ignore him. She deserves to be happy and if that means without me, then so be it. I can’t stop her even if we were on good terms, so no matter what I do, she will still leave.“Robert, you need to try. You fucked up son and now you will pay the price. The on
Marissa POV.After the conversation with Kayla, I’m in shock and sadness. She told me everything. I don’t feel bad for her because she betrayed the sisterhood for her own gains. The Alpha marked her, causing the death of his Luna.The priestess’s had no choice but to hunt her down to kill her and her Alpha. They only found him. She ran away like the traitor she was. Others found out about what she had created and so she began making more for profit.Kyla said it was only supposed to be used on the harem’s and nobody else but it got out and others starting to make their own version of it. Without the Ice Lily, it wouldn’t have been as potent. All this heartache and pain was caused by one love sick woman who, in the end, lost everything she wanted.She told me her organisation runs deeper than just the Lycan Kingdom. She is still part of my pack and so she has pledged her allegiance to me and has handed over more information, which I need to get to the elders.She will remain here until