Stuck between the Royal Wolves

Stuck between the Royal Wolves

last updateLast Updated : 2023-05-26
By:  Cheryl FieldsCompleted
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Raya is the daughter of the town’s drunkard, her father had a dirty habit of gambling and losing money. He blames her for everything miserable that has happened to him, including her mother abandoning them. Raya wanted to see her mother again and ask her why she left her at the mercy of her father. When she got mated forcefully to Alpha Toph, her father saw it as a way to pay off his debts and start afresh, even when the psycho alpha didn’t love his daughter. Alpha Toph treated Raya worse than anything she has ever seen and Raya made up her mind, she was going to run away. Her escape attempt led her straight into the hands of her second mate, Alpha Toph’s half-brother and worst enemy. Alpha Nikolai. Alpha Toph would do anything to have her back and Alpha Nikolai isn’t ready to let her go.

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Chapter 1

Chapter One

RAYA

I had been watching the house for a while when the boom of thunder echoed over the dark rims of the overcast sky.

“Shit,” I swore under my breath, hefting the rucksack of groceries from the flea market higher over my shoulder and jerking the leather hood of my father’s old trench coat over my face.

I must not have been quick enough, because the whoosh of wind whipping back the hood as I darted across the garbage-strewn streets on my tiptoes had me letting out an embarrassing scream.

I clamped a hand over my mouth, my eyes wide as I glanced at the house again, feeling for all the world like I had sung a bad rendition of donkey kong.

Had he heard me? Images of the stout beefcake of a man and the imposing deep V of his eyebrows flashed before my eyes as I fiddled with the back door lock on the cottage house as the patter of rain pounded noisily behind me.

My heart beat a frantic rhythm in my chest when I realized the tapping noise I’d heard earlier was the sound of footsteps. Someone was coming around the side of our house!

It couldn’t have been the beefcake of a man with angry eyebrows! I’d seen him stumble into the house with a bottle in hand! I’d made sure he was asleep!

“Shit!” I cursed again, loud enough this time, that I could hear myself over the din of rain as I burgled into my father’s house, snapping the door shut beside me and waiting for my eyes to adjust to the yellow halo of the hurricane lamp that was dying on the mantle sill of the furnace.

The plates from last night’s dinner were still stacked in greasy piles on top of the small wooden cube of the dinner table.

I sighed, the weighty knee of exhaustion ground against my spine as I tossed the rucksack to the side, turning to glance at the side of the house through the dirt-streaked mirror before occurring back when a man’s broad face stared back at me.

“Saints!” I shrieked, aware of the sharp rise and fall of my chest as I watched the man’s fat hand shoot up to motion to the door, a nagging feeling started in the pit of my stomach as I hesitated.

What to do? I couldn't very well let him in to barrel through the house. Not when I was hiding from the man snoring away in the other room.

I felt my tongue dart out to lick my lips as I cracked the door open a notch, still careful to leave the safety latch hooked, not that he couldn't break through it easily.

The tree trunk of the man’s knee was bigger than the size of my head, the stranger looking even taller as he darkened our doorway, looking into the house over my head before I cleared my throat questioningly and his eyes snapped back to me.

“Raya Banks?” The stranger growled, the ominous rumble of his voice sounding exactly how I thought it would. Foreboding. I felt a shiver run through the length of my spine.

How did he know my name? I let my head fall in a nod, watching him shift his stance so that it was almost suffocating standing so close to him.

”Where is your father?” The question was so harsh it surprised me.

Could he hear the bear-sized man snoring inside? I let my gaze rake over the man once more. He didn't look like one of the traditional werewolves, but they were so advanced these days that it was impossible to say for sure.

I could see the clean skin of his head was tatted, and so was the open v-line of his manly chest.

I swallowed a curse under my breath. What had my father dragged us into now?

“H-he's not in, hasn't been around these here parts for a week now.” I sang, flinging my hand behind me as though he could see. I watched the piercing gray of his gaze roam through the crack in the door before they settled unnervingly on me.

“Is that right?” He drawled, and the chill was back in my spine.

I nodded disjointedly, making to close the door before I watched with horror as the man’s foot stuck out to brace the opening so that for a moment, I thought he meant to push the door open after all.

“You tell him to call this number when he comes in,” The bald man with tattoos on his skinhead grunted, holding out a surprisingly glossy call card that I snatched up gratefully, allowing myself a small exhale.

“You have a good night ma’am,” He whispered, taking one last sweeping glance above my head before he put the black cotton of a face cap back on and disappeared out of sight into the grey darkness.

I let my shoulders sag, slapping the door shut and latching it only to turn around and catch the fuzzy oblong of my father’s head peeking from the corner of the hallway.

“Christ,” I grated, swallowing another scream.

“What did he say? Has he left?” He rasped, and I jolted when I realized how close his voice sounded, turning to see the large bulk of my father’s frame was hunched over, the bottle rim now pinched loosely in his hands.

“Yes, father, what have you done now? The Alpha father? Really?” I needled, the spike of bitterness surging in my heart curdled when I watched his head snap toward me, recognition staining his beady eyes until the swollen skin around his sockets tightened and puckered.

“You, how dare you talk to me like that?” My father grated, baring the yellowed squares of his teeth at me so that I stumbled back a step, whimpering raising my hands to brace against the ceramic plate he threw at me.

“Useless! That’s what you are!” He bellowed, and I could see in his beady eyes, the moment he snapped. The grey pallor of his face darkened into a mask of hate as he towered over me.

“Father, please,” I whispered, gulping reflexively as the bulk of his arm came swinging down and I squeezed my eyes shut, letting out a scream when it connected with the side of my head, sending a blinding pain bouncing between my temples.

I gasped, my mouth dry as I heaved frantic breaths, scrambling away as he stalked toward me, the honeyed green of his hazel eyes blazing.

“You are a disgrace, Raya, get out of my sight.” He sneered, the tight pinch of his lips turned down around the corners as he started down his nose at me making something vile and bitter twist in my heart before I nodded, getting up to stumble up the narrow staircase to my room.

“Goddamn bastard can't do anything right! I should have had your whore of a mother abort you while I still had the chance!” He roared, and I choked back a strangled sob, groping blindly for the doorknob of my room door before my fingers caught on the cool steel and I turned it with a soft click.

I could still hear the muted growl of his baritone through the wooden floorboards, but it was distant now, I was tucking myself away, into the box, into the darkness, the quiet place in my mind where nothing could hurt me.

Not anymore.

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T White
liking it so far! unique, kind of fun storyline.
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SHANTOYA
haha, okay this is kinda good! Good job author!
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160 Chapters
Chapter One
RAYAI had been watching the house for a while when the boom of thunder echoed over the dark rims of the overcast sky.“Shit,” I swore under my breath, hefting the rucksack of groceries from the flea market higher over my shoulder and jerking the leather hood of my father’s old trench coat over my face.I must not have been quick enough, because the whoosh of wind whipping back the hood as I darted across the garbage-strewn streets on my tiptoes had me letting out an embarrassing scream.I clamped a hand over my mouth, my eyes wide as I glanced at the house again, feeling for all the world like I had sung a bad rendition of donkey kong.Had he heard me? Images of the stout beefcake of a man and the imposing deep V of his eyebrows flashed before my eyes as I fiddled with the back door lock on the cottage house as the patter of rain pounded noisily behind me.My heart beat a frantic rhythm in my chest when I realized the tapping noise I’d heard earlier was the sound of footsteps. Someon
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Chapter Two
RAYAI had startled awake before I realized the pounding sound coming from the oak wood of my room door had stopped.“What the hell?” I growled still grouchy, rubbing my eyes to look about the room when my gaze caught on the clear blue of my father’s eyes.I jolted, scurrying back into the sheets with a whimper rising in my throat.“Finally decided to grace us with your presence Aye? Fucking bitch! Get up!” He mused before roaring toward me, the tall bulk of his frame tight around his stomach before I felt his hands tighten on my neck.“Please father,” I wheezed, beating at his large hands as stars appeared in my vision.“You see this whore? This is the summons to the Alpha’s palace! And guess why it came today? Because you are a stupid little cunt who can’t get anything right!” He bellowed, brandishing the neat white of a paper I couldn’t read, only noticing how white it looked compared to the yellowed plate of his nail bed.My heart beat a jagged rhythm in my chest as I wracked my m
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Chapter Three
RAYA BANKS“No! Wait!” I gasped, feeling my hands shoot out to reach for the man a split second before the iron clasp of his royal guards jerked me back, the metal pound of iron clashing on my head and sending me into the darkness at breakneck speed. The sound of voices drifting from the spaces in the wood door when I came to was almost deafening.Where was I? I cracked an eye open, fighting the darkness that was pressing down heavily on my eyelids when I caught the tall shadow of a man standing over me, the wolf of his scent so overpowering it couldn’t have been anything but royal blood.“Y-your majesty,” I rasped, struggling to my knees and managing to look up at the man, the glint of his claws half-hidden in his tunic cuff catching my eye and I gulped reflexively.“You disappoint me, Banks, I could have taken you as mistress you know? Put you on your good little throne beside mine in the throne room dias. This futile struggling, it is...appalling.” He hissed and I gritted my teeth
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Chapter Four
NIKOLAII had a half-dead woman in my arms and an itch in the back of my throat.“Who is she?” Igor asked with an air of mischief I was accustomed to, and I turned to glare at the roguish-looking man with a smirk playing on his purple lips.“I haven't the faintest idea Igor, prepare the horses, we’re going back to my Stone city castle.” I breathed over my shoulder at my best man, letting my eyes roam over the woman’s bare neck, the thin gold chain of a necklace caught my eye.It was the same kind I had stretched in a tight ring around my neck. The kind the moon goddess had given me the night of my first wolfing.My breath caught in my throat when I realized what it meant. “Are you certain Nikolai? Your father would be quite upset,” Igor tempered with a hint of warning in his throaty voice that sent shivers down my spine.Upset would have been putting it lightly for the King. My father would be livid, I could almost imagine him blowing a vein in his forehead when the concierge gave hi
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Chapter Five
RAYAIt had always been the same, my nightmares of the woman in the red hood with claws for hands and her bloodied fangs extended dangerously from her twig-thin lips.My mother had never said anything to me when she chased me through the fog, the crimson of her cape bleeding in and out of view until my breathing seized in my throat and I snapped awake.Again and Again, night after night up until today, when I felt the thud of my heart pounding into the soft cushion of a comforter I felt under my back as her words rang in my mind’s ear.“Run,” The woman had whispered when she’d suddenly burst through the fog to grip me with burning hands, her hot breath scalding my face.My mouth fell open as I peered into the empty sockets where her eyes should have been, before I felt the weight of my body shoot up, gasping and twisting awake as a chill clawed at the seat of my spine.“Are you alright miss?” A disembodied voice boomed so close to my ear that I let out a banshee scream, throwing my ha
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Chapter Six
ALPHA NIKOLAI“Fucking hell,” I cursed under my breath as I shut the door behind me, catching my bottom lip between my teeth as the ringing in my ears faded and I spread out the wrinkled paper between my fingers.Rays Banks, the daughter of a merchant tailor from the main city was wanted for absconding from the royal palace.I balled the paper in my hand, gritting my teeth as the implications ran through my mind.My brother was as merciless as he was ugly, but you would never tell from his dastardly good looks, the straight line of his spine, and the lopsided smirk that seemed to be permanently etched on the line of his bow-shaped lips.I knew how the village maidens daydreamed of him in the fields and farms, wishing for a dark prince that would whisk them from their sad little lives, up until he pressed the pointy tip of his sword at their throats.He would not give up easily, not without a fight. It didn't help in the least bit that I was spoiling for one.I cast my thoughts back to
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Chapter Seven
RAYA BANKSI shifted my weight on the soft comforter of the bed uneasily. The longer the maid girl stood at the threshold of the silver-lined room, the more I struggled to clamp down on the urge to bite into my finger beds, the stretch of silence hanging like a maiden’s tits in the space between us.”Judith was it?” I croaked, managing to clear out the rubbish at the last syllable and affecting a measly charge of authority in the time it took the girl to look up and nod dutifully, staring at me through the heavily-lashed rims of her soulful eyes.I shifted again, glancing around the richly-dressed space and feeling like a brown-nosed donkey in a wedding dress as the unease settled like lead in my belly.“I’ll draw you a bath Miss, it’s almost time for dinner,” Judith voiced suddenly, startling me into what felt like a disembodied nod, grateful when she disappeared into the washroom and left me alone with my thoughts.Had Nikolai filed that under her list of duties as well? The though
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Chapter Eight
RAYA“What the hell is that?” I coaxed, hardly trusting myself to breathe as I exchanged wide-eyed looks with the slack-jawed handmaiden.It had stopped almost as soon as it started, the shrill noise of a woman’s scream that felt like it was coming from outside our doors. My hands shook as they shot out to grip the cowl of the girl’s maiden smock, forcing her back into a squat as she rose to go.“No! Judith, it might be dangerous! We don't know what’s out there!” I whispered harshly, searching the twin black pools of her eyes that seemed to lack emotion. I would have thought the lady quite strange, if I hadn't heard the rapid thudding of her heart under my iron grasp.”I’m sure it’s not a big deal miss, these things happen sometimes around these here parts,” She started, and I blanched instantly, snatching my hands away from her bodice as she had just told me she liked her coffee cold and stumbling back into the tub, feeling the soap suds of the water flop and slosh about me.Not a b
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Chapter Nine
NIKOLAIMy feet hit the ground almost noiselessly as I bounded toward the gates, feeling the dense calcium of my bones snap and twist as I shifted into my wolf mid-air, leaping up to the fire-lit cubicle of the Keep’s guard stations.“Y-Your Highness-” One of the hollow-cheeked keep guards exclaimed, lowering the spear gun he had spun to face me and adjusting the oversized helmet on his bald head with brown-rimmed claws.“Status report Baldy,” I growled, feeling the pool of drool gather on the sides of my law as I peered down the steep wall to see the large beige-furred wolf that was writhing and groaning outside the castle gates.I felt my brows furrow with concern as the guard launched a long spiel about how the soldiers had to trap the wolf in silver-wrought chains to keep it from biting off any more of the guards heads.I could tell it was agitated, throwing the triangle of it's head this way and that with deep, sorrowful groans as the silver bit into it's fur, leaving angry red w
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Chapter Ten
ALPHA TOPHThe balls of my eyes shifted in my head restlessly as I watched the thin flaps of my father’s lips open and close with something akin to irritation.“You have to learn to get along with your brother Tophas, it's never been heard before in our history that the pack brothers are sworn enemies! This rubbish you have with your brother simply must stop!” He roared in his alpha voice, the red-rimmed balls of his eyes sending a shiver through my spine before I looked away.I hated that he called me Tophas, why the fuck couldn't he just call me Toph like everyone else?It was shorter even, easier on the tongue. A part of me knew already that it was to spite me, to show that he still possessed some sort of twisted dominance over me.“Do you understand me? There are issues we must attend to as a pack! Our legacy is on the verge of -” He started again and I felt something in me snap as I jumped to my feet.“Enough father!” I deadpanned, the clenched bell of my wrists shaking slightly
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