"Get dressed."
My mother sneers at me and pushes me into a room before she locks the door behind her. My heart is in my mouth due to the fear I'm feeling but I ignore that and focus on getting dressed.
I passed out again somewhere in the middle of the strange man's conversation with my parents, but one thing is clear.
He's here for me.
I gulp.
The thought of it fills me with excitement and dread at the same time, but the excitement overpowers the dread and I find myself smiling.
Fuck.
My head still aches from the way I had hit it on Gerald's earlier and I haven't recovered from the damage they did to me before. My whole body hurts.
Regret is something I said I would not feel no matter what happened with my escape plan, but right now I regret trying to run away like that. I should have found somewhere to hide first before running.
Wolves always give chase to the prey they can see. What they don't see, never hurts them.
My mind drifts back to the blue eyed man again and I feel a shudder pass through me. Just his build, those long legs and the way his black shirt strained against the muscles of his chest and upper body.
A small moan leaves my lips as I envision it.
I would do anything to have a man like that.
~Oh really~
I jump as his silky voice sounds in my head. I look around frantically, trying to catch a glimpse but there's no one here. I can't see anyone else in the room, but I know he's here.
I can feel his eyes boring into the back of my head and I can feel his arms almost on me, cupping my breasts in one hand and rubbing them until the nipples become hard and pebbled.
"Fuck."
The word comes out low and throaty and as I touch myself, I imagine those hands all over me. I imagine those shoes off his feet, and his pants off those long legs. I imagine him standing behind me in nothing but his underwear, his hard erection poking into my ass and his chest pressing hard against the curve of my back.
An image appears in my head and I moan loud and long. I feel his hands spanking my ass, and his body all over me, and his eyes........... oh those blue eyes, i can almost see them staring a burning hole into the very essence of my soul.
I find my release with that and the high I am on crashes with it. My eyes are wide open, and my breath is coming out heavy.
What the fuck was that?
Again I hear a chuckle at the back of my mind and when the voice comes again, it's with cold humor and disgust.
~A filthy thing like you deserves to be manhandled Adelaide. You can be sure you'll get lots of that from me~
I want to ask 'who are you?' But I feel the presence gone the next minute and my present situation hits me with the speed of a moving train.
I haven't worn the dress!
I pick it up and slip into it as fast as I can. My hands still hurt and my breath is coming out heavy for a whole new reason now.
A frown creases the side of my face.
Who is that man and what does he want with me?
"You still aren't done dressing, bitch?"
My head snaps to the direction of the speaker and a slap brings it back down. My cheek stings but I know who's speaking to me already.
Jane.
The name echoes with hate in my heart. She's my brother's girlfriend and she will do anything, literally anything to keep it that way.
"Do you know what really disgusts me about you Adelaide?"
I don't and I didn't ask.
"It's this foolish hair of yours."
What?
"I had to fuck your dad just so he could fulfill my request to pull it off, but for some reason that didn't happen. Can you imagine how I felt when I saw that hmm? Can you imagine the sort of anger that coursed through me when I saw this hair still on your head that day?"
She did what???
It's hard for me to breathe now and I don't know what to think about this new information. My heart bleeds at the fact that my brother's girlfriend would go to the extent of sleeping with her boyfriend's father just to hurt me, but what really stuns me is why?
Why go through all the trouble when you already make my life miserable enough already?
"Answer me when I talk to you bitch!!"
Her next slap hits me at the ear and I stumble with the force of it. She grabs my hair and pulls and the scream that escapes my throat is nothing short of otherworldly.
"Leave me alone Jane! Please!"
My tears are coming out of their own accord now and I try to struggle against her hold, but I can't. I'm weaker than she is, the filthy omega that can't do anything to protect herself.
Jane yanks on my hair and my only option is to allow her to yank me with it.
"You always have to grab everyone's attention!"
"Jane, please stop!."
"You always have to be the one who everyone wants to fuck bitch!"
"Jane please!"
"Shut up you filthy whore! Shut up so I can pull your hair off and ruin your good looks!"
She's babbling nonsense and I want to beg her to stop again, but a loud crack fills the room for a moment and the pulling stops. I can hear the way my tears drop on the floor and the way my heart pounds weakly in my chest.
For one moment I pray that all my experience in having my bones broken made me mistake that sound for something it isn’t, but the next, Jane drops on the floor like a sack of potatoes and her hold on my hair is released.
When I look at her, it's with shaking hands and a racing heart.
"Jane?"
I lean down slowly to open one of her eyes. There is no movement and I cover my mouth, taking steps back instinctively.
I bump into a hard chest, and I lurch back in fear.
One minute he's giving me a jab to the side of the neck, and the next, he's gone and my body is hitting the floor.
Darkness creeps in again but only one thing rings in my head again and again.
I know that face, and I know those eyes.
If I could break out sobbing now I would, but nobody cries while they're passing out.
She's useless. That's the first thing i notice about her. Expending all that energy just to run away but never actually getting away. It's like she expected her capture before setting out and she waited for it patiently, like a good little weakling. "Any thoughts on how long this one is going to last before you kill her?" Cain is a lanky silver blond-haired presence beside me, and the only one who can talk to me without wetting himself. I appreciate that about him, so I reply when he speaks. "It'll depend on how well she performs." I hear his breath catch. "You want to fuck her first?" There is slight disgust in his tone and I turn to face him. "Is that displeasing to you Cain?" "She's an omega!" "And I'll do what I want to do. Am I clear?" There is a note of unbridled anger in my voice and I know Cain hears it too. His mesmerizingly beautiful silver eyes turn away from mine and he clears his throat as he adjusts his posture. "Yes Lord Lyros." The room suddenly feels too
The sound of a wolf howling in the distance brings me out of my slumber and I try to move. I can't. Amidst my tears and hysterical screaming, I was either hit behind the head or I screamed so much that I passed out. No matter what happened, my fate is sealed. Thinking about it now, maybe it's because of the way he appeared in my head before, making me touch myself and then calling me filthy after. Or maybe it's because of how he snapped Jane's neck without the slightest bit of hesitation. I always heard rumors of how such a man existed. One of the four Lycan kings in this realm, and the only man with the power to make any Alpha cower in fear before him, even those who were twice his size thought more than twice before they stood up to him, and no one ever did. I always imagined that kind of man to be the type that was all muscles and bulging veins. With the biggest bush of a beard ever grown and either some chainmail or a hacksaw in his hands. I never really thought that he wou
I always leave my brides to settle in for a day or two before I kill them. It makes them run mad with desperation. In those two days, they will do absolutely anything to escape the fate that awaits them and I find it amusing to watch as they place their chips on the bargaining table. Some offer family wealth. Others offer secrets. Most offer their bodies and sometimes I let the guards have their way with them. Werewolf packs will give you the illusion that they are nothing but a group of wolves, coming together for joint safety, protection and a common interest. The Alpha heads the pack, and he is always graceful, benevolent, and even if he's sometimes trashy at first, he'll naturally bloom into a strong man of honorable actions. It would have been nice if that was the truth, but it's all a lie. Some of those Alphas are born trash and they die as the trash they are. Werewolves have secrets they hide too, but I don't need this one to hand over any of her secrets. I want to kill
The Lycan king's words sound like falling sand to me. I can't see past the pain in my fingers.It's not just my fingers, but also my heart. I have been beaten, humiliated, cursed at and seen only in terms of what I can do for others and the pack. I'm the lowly omega daughter of the Alpha, a disgrace to the pack and the one who will never be free no matter how much she tries.The moment I hear the word freedom, my tears come out even hotter and I try not to break out into another sob.I can't help but feel like he's lying to me.There's no way I can ever be free."This offer isn't going to last forever Adelaide, I'm guessing you have....."Panic flares through me and I almost scream the words."I'm in!"They slip out of my mouth before I can even think of anything else and with my fear filled eyes, I look up to peer at the face of the man whose mercy I'm at.He looks amused, and somehow that makes me feel this is the right decision.He would have killed me if he wanted to kill me, bu
"It's a sad world for girls like you y'know." I watch as the guard peeks his head into my room with a smile on his face. He looks pleased with himself and I don't want to wonder why that is. "You're supposed to get some food to eat today aren't you?" My head aches. Like someone's hitting it with a mallet and my body is weak. Seven days without food, only dreams, and I didn't even eat in those dreams. I open my mouth to speak but my voice comes out raw. What I say does not make any sense. The guard chuckles and walks into the room, his eyes roam the expanse of my skin and he frowns and wrinkles up his nose. I took a bath the night of the first day, so I got rid of some of the grime on my skin, but I haven't taken another bath since then. Personal hygiene is the least of my problems. He leans down and crouches before me. He's the guard from last time, the one with the scar, and as I suspected before, whatever magic they had worked on themselves was what made me find them irresisti
I watch as Gorm moves. He hits the door again, and again, blinded by the rage he's feeling and driven by pure lust. You'd think this fool was sex-starved, and he might be but that's none of my business. What is though, is the girl he's probably going to rape once he gets in there. I saw what she did when the mutt from her pack tried to mount her unwillingly. She cracked her skull against his head so hard that she passed out. Maybe that's why I'm going to spare her the additional trauma of being manhandled by a dumb fuck. The door goes down with a crash and my ears twitch. Gorm's breath is coming out heavy and the smell of his anger is potent in inspiring disgust, mostly in me. "You should have let me fuck you willingly." Despite my best efforts, memories rush into my head and flash past my eyes like a slideshow. I feel my chest tighten up and when I move, it's with blind rage. Screams and the sound of choking waft into my ears but they sound far away. I don't know where I am
The male named Cain is........ something.I don't know how to put my finger on it, but I know he's not the mean self-conceited prick he's making me feel he is.To begin with, he's given me food. More food than I can carry, and it's all for me.I hear a sweet chuckle behind me and the most beautiful lady I have ever seen appears in my line of vision. She has brown hair like me, and brown eyes with the most wheaty complexion I have ever seen on anyone. She's beautifully tan and when she smiles at me I feel something like butterflies flutter in my belly.Her smile is so kind."Don't be embarrassed about anything okay? It's nice that you eat so well."I duck to hide the blush on my cheeks and when I turn my eyes back to her and I can see pity in hers."They put you through the whole seven days of starvation stuff didn't they?"I nod and she sighs."Happened to the best of us. I just hope you survive the rest."I nod and grab a drumstick from the platter on my lap. It's huge and succulent,
What is she doing? "I said no. I can't do these things, whatever it is you want me to do for you with my body, I can't." I can hear the prisoner girl's words being choked off by something in her throat. I suspect she wants to start crying again and a frown lines my face. What's the use of being disobedient and then crying? It's not like it's going to change anything. Lyros is already angry. I can feel the air in the air around us getting thicker and I know I should stand back. He could freeze her on the spot. He could make her claw at her face and continue doing so until she gouges her eyes out. He could make her feel pain, true pain, and real anguish. Killing her off would be a favor. Something too close to mercy and the Lycan king of the north is not anything if not merciless. I straighten my back and assume an unaffected pose. I don't care about what he does with his pet. He can kill her for all I care. "Come here, Adelaide." There is pin-drop silence after his words and
Cain grabs onto my waist and kisses me, hauling me up and plastering me against him. His voice is a rough husk in my ear as he whispers “You did it, Adelaide.” Tears run down my eyes and he hugs me, holding my body to his as I sob into his chest. I don’t think I'd believe what just happened if someone told me it would a few months ago. All I wanted was to be free and run off to hell knows where, but I'm glad for what I did. Now I know I have parents, parents who loved me and a mother who would have done anything for me. I’m not just the pack omega destined to be maltreated and beaten for all of her life. The suffering I went through changed me. It gave me tougher skin and with the power of my heritage… I've just won back my kingdom. Freedom is mine if I want it. Freedom, and power, and love, if I want any of it, and all of it, and I do. I really do. I kiss Cain again, just to cement the fact that we are a thing now. We’re more than a thing. I’m wearing his ring. He’s as much
Lyros is no longer the all-powerful Lycan lording his majesty over the weak populace. We are powerful in our own right now.And in the face of real power, the Lycan king can only do one thing, cower, like a coward.Lyros attempts to run but almost like he knows it’s futile there’s no spirit in it. Lycan speed might have given him a chance, but running was just one final way of making a dash for his life.I flash and slam Lyros with my sword, the blade slapping the side of his face and drawing blood as he tumbles to the ground. I lean down and whisper close to his ear,“I don’t intend to kill you Lord Lyros.”I feel his heartbeat intensify as my words graze his ears but I continue confidently, “I intend to make you pay for all you’ve done. For the young girls you plucked from weak werewolf packs, only to kill them after torturing them, their dreams ended and hopes cut short because of your wickedness. I intend to make you pay for the cities you’ve attacked, the people you have killed,
I rip through the fabric of space as I burn.I feel the Lycan’s flame coursing through my being and it sets me on fire with the force of a supernova. I feel the strength of a thousand stars in me. The flames lick at my dress, burning it short and tattered, turning me into a version these men see, but which they don’t see at all.I wonder how many times Lyros has looked at me and seen nothing but skin. Nothing but clothes in pieces, flesh for the taking, a body to be claimed, and a mind to have fun with.I wonder how many times he’s seen skin and ignored the fire that rages in my heart. Ignored the love I have for the simple things. Ignored the fact that I am more than just skin and flesh, that I am heart and brains and emotion. That I am not his plaything.I am a Queen, and this Kingdom is mine.I kill the King beyond the border first. The battle with him takes less than an hour.In my hand is a sword hot as flame and solid as diamond. Rafie attacks me next so I slay him too.Raymel
We all stand in wait for her.Me, Rafie, Alizadeh, and Galan, all four Lycan kings, we wait for a weak omega female and something hollow rings in my chest. It was stupid to think I could find love.Even before the truth of Elara’s betrayal was revealed to me, I already knew. I already knew something was wrong with my heart and that I couldn't love properly anymore.I should have left it out of the cards, left love to those foolish enough to crave it but instead, I had to go ahead and try to keep her. Adelaide made me imagine something hot and exciting between us, something fiery and passionate, but at the end of the day, she’s expendable.She’s always been. Only I matter.A kingdom rests on my shoulders.“Is she on her way?”Rafie’s voice grates against my nerves but I nod. I’m not angry at him anymore. He’s doing what I didn't have the strength to do.Galan chortles where he stands and I feel my hands clench. I should kill him for using his trickster magic on me, but he saved my life
“How sweet.”Cain’s hand stops immediately and my foggy brain can’t even make sense of what’s happening. Has Cain taken me to the point of release this morning? Yes.I’m worried I might be a horndog.I turn to see Safira leaning on the doorframe. Her dress is so pretty, it drapes over her body like liquid and damn, I almost forgot how pretty she was.She smirks as her eyes meet mine, “Should I leave?” Cain answers sweetly before I can and his reply makes me chuckle. He goes “Yes please.”Safira’s hand twitches and a pillow launches itself at the back of Cain’s head. I let it hit and burst into subdued chuckles when he lets out a slight “oof.”Safirs sighs and shakes her head “You have a meeting in like six minutes. Will you be down?”Cain smirks lazily and shrugs. Safira’s gaze darts to me and she fixes me with an inquisitive stare, “Will he be down?”I nod because despite how much I want him to stay with me and kiss me silly, he’s already explained to me how things are here.He has
Diane visits me one last time in my dreams. She smiles at me and though my heart breaks, I smile back at her.I know this is the end. This is the last time I will see her, and as we stand on the sandy beach, our eyes locked on each other and the resemblance undeniable, I let her embrace me as a mother would her child, and I cry so bad my heart feels like it’s going to break.Diane kisses my forehead and wipes my tears, “You’re stronger than your pain my love. You know that right?”I want to nod. I desperately want to nod. The moment I saw Cain, the reality of what had happened to me seemed to come crashing down on me. The moment I saw Lyros instead of him, saw flashes of me and him behind my closed eyes each time I blinked….. How do I live with that?How do I live with the knowledge of all the things I did with the man I hate? A man who used me?I wish I could forget.“This is fire Adelaide,” I clutch Diane closer as she pats my hair down, tears still streaming down my cheeks “Like g
Anger makes my teeth crack as Adelaide asks me a question. She looks up at me, uncertainty in her eyes, her expression scared and bleak.“Would you still love me, if I showed you what Lyros and I have been doing these past few months?”Something threatens to snap in me but I know what this is.I’ve seen this before. I’ve done this once.I nod and Adelaide’s shoulders shudder. I can see how fervently she’s trying to control herself. How ferociously she’s attacking the emotions that are surging forth.Something’s happened, and when I ask her, she tells me everything.Trapped in a memory chain of the Lycan King’s making for three months, her magic being the thing he used to fuel that spell, Lyros turned her magic into her trap, and then she tells me what the memories were about. Entire years' worth of memories of her waiting for him patiently in the fortress.Memories of how he saved her from her pack and brought her to a better life in his care, Memories of how she became his personal p
Cain and Safira comfort me and tell me it’s okay. I can feel Cain’s concern for me like eyes at the back of my head.He’s always staring at me. He looks at me with such intensity that I feel all the things in my stomach churn and my thoughts go filthy. Memories flash past my eyes each time I close them.Memories of me and him in this world.Memories of me and him in a cave, happy sated smiles on our faces and our bodies totally unclad. We’re nude, and we’re comfortable.I see memories of deep and easy loving. Love that took me to the peak of pleasure, and threw me off the edge of my climax, again, and again, and again.My body begins to warm and Safira hits me on the arm, “For skies’ sake, Focus Adelaide. Are you sure you’re okay?”I turn to her and at the sight of familiar deeply tan skin and obsidian black eyes, a smile lights up my face. “I haven’t spent a day here and I’m already being mothered.”Safira grins and chuckles at that, and I feel light in my heart.She and Cain give
My heart melts with each passing moment i listen to Cain’s words and I almost can’t believe this is happening.My mind tells me if I blink he’ll go away, so I keep my eyes wide open, and I stare at him. I know it’s real when he stares at me in that same way.The lines of Cain’s face look new to me now. His warmth feels so familiar yet so alien. There’s an air around him that I can’t place, but I love every bit of it.I love it the way I love him, and when he leans in to kiss me again, I can feel the desperation in his touch. He’s as scared of me leaving as I am of him not being real in this moment. Finding him shouldn’t be this easy.It shouldn’t have been this easy, yet it was and I can’t seem to believe that.A sudden scream makes me cling to him like a frightened puppy until my brain realizes i know that voice.I know the texture of that squeall. I’ve heard that feminine tilt before.Safira’s scent invades my senses immediately and a warm body plasters itself to mine. She’s sobbing