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Stuck between the Royal Wolves Chapter One Hundred and Twenty One
NIKOLAII whipped the reigns on the black horse I had been riding s we broke out from the trees and I caught a peek of the staggering mass of stone up ahead.It was almost morning, the sky was red and stained by smoky grey clouds hiding the yellow of the sun.The sound of hooves thundering through the grass drowned out everything else and I could feel the heaviness set in my bones as I tightened my thighs on the horse’s flexing sides.My castle! The words dropped in my head as I exhaled with relief, already catching the scent of pines and wild berries that lined the walls.“Wildings! Your Highness! From the north!” Gallagher screeched suddenly and the sound of the horses neighing filled the air as we slammed to a stop just outside the towering stone walls of my castle.I whirled to look behind us, my eyes widening at the sight of the hundreds of wolf Shadowlings that seemed to be pouring like water from the trees, rushing at us in the semi-darkness.“Quick! Blow the horns! Everyone up
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Raya BanksThe blast of lightning behind my eyes made me scream as I felt the creature’s claws drag around the side of my face and I squeezed my eyes shut, shifting into my wolf and whirling around to catch only air, the beast’s mocking laughter echoing sinisterly in the dim hallway.“I found you, little girl,” The thing drawled in a snakey whisper and I gulped reflexively, scrambling back as a whimper escaped my throat.It could talk! Since when did the shadowlings speak? The black bull with red eyes and a glimmering gold nose ring stared down at me from it's gigantic haunch on the wall, it was still. Motionless.Something was wrong, but I didn't have time to think about it. I could still hear Laura’s muffled screams from behind the door asking me to open up, but somehow, the creature remained focused on me.I inhaled sharply, digging my hind legs into the hard floor and shooting up to rake my claws at the shadowing’s face before letting out a gasp when it dodged.“No!” I screamed as
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Alpha TophI could feel it before I opened my eyes. Threads. Taut. Running through my body from the nape of my neck, the adrenaline and power that trimmed at my fingertips.What was that noise? I felt my ears itching as I gradually came to, feeling the fog of blackness slowly rolling away from behind my eyes to realize I was lying on my back.“Blasted hells,” I groaned, screwing my eyes open and blinking through the blur to see Gobar’s ugly mask of a face staring down at me coldly.“Well, that's one way to say it.” The dark descendant shadow king grumbled with a slight chuckle and a thousand different wires crumpled up in my brain.Something was wrong! I didn't remember anything save for the beast’s glowing red eyes as he stabbed his crystal knife right into my heart.Was I dead? I felt my hands squeeze beside me before my forehead crumpled into a concerned frown. Heavy. Had my body always felt so heavy before?I snapped my hands to my face, expecting to see disfigured limbs and rot g
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Olivia BurnsEveryone in the Stone City Castle had gone mad the minute King Nikolai arrived!I had been sitting by the big windows of my chambers that faced the foyer, twirling a blade of the willow tree that snaked out into my palm absently when I heard the first screams.The battlement guards always cheered when the King returned, but it was different this time. I had flown out of my seat by the window just as the gates flew open with a gaping screech and the villagers rushed in with their mid-century style outfits and milk maid hats for the women.Exhausting things the lot of them, I was going to make sure to get rid of all the villagers once I was Queen. Put them to work as slaves or something, Nikolai was much too light-handed with the grubby little gold diggers if you asked me.“Meredith? What's going on?” I snapped, glancing to Anya instead who stood behind me and shrugged her shoulders before I realized I had placed my hands protectively over my belly and wrenched the limbs of
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NIKOLAI“Get this shit open goddamnit! What in the bloody hell is taking so long?” I growled at the Keep guards warily looking down at me from behind the castle walls as the gate crawled open painful inch by painful inch.The howl filling my ears made it difficult to think as I ground my teeth and waited for the gates to open before dashing into the stone city castle.“Out of the way!” My voice boomed louder than I had anticipated as my heart raced in my chest and I flew past the looming stone walls, crashing through a litter of maids that had been standing idly, gawking at me.“Y-Your Highness!” Olivia breathed, staggering backward as I broke past the door into the room.I let my eyes search through the wide chamber of Raya’s room, the gold canopy bed that was slightly unmade with lavender flowers swirling around the rods and the black goo of the beasts that were slumped motionless by the window.“What the hell is going on,” I growled in my Alpha voice as the guards shuttled in front
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Raya Banks My heart was beating so loudly in my chest that it was all I could do not to pass out on the spot when Olivia Burns stared knowingly at me after her announcement. Was using the destiny stone worshipping the dark moon? Surely, Olivia couldn't know about my love hex with Nikolai? No, she wouldn't. I shook my head slightly to dismiss the thought, faking a smile and meeting her bright blue eyes gamely. “That’s a big accusation, Miss Burns, I reckon you make sure of your findings before leveling a resident of the Stone City Castle with such abomination.” Gallagher, the castle chief guard rumbled as he stepped up behind the King. His eyes were black, intense, and so sharp that it seemed like he was cutting into me with his glare. Crap. I needed to get out of here, I could feel the walls in my head closing in from the pressure of my guilt. If I wasn't careful, I would be the one falling to my knees to confess to Nikolai before the bitch even opened her bloody mouth. I presse
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Olivia Burns Lightning fast, that was how quickly everything happened, how quickly my brain and heart pulsed in my tight body. It was a good thing that I had arrived only seconds before the dark prince to tell the story in front of everyone, knowing it was bound to make Nikolai act, there was no wiggling the bitch out of treason, half-mate or not. “Heavens!” The crowd whispered between themselves as Raya fell into Nikolai’s waiting arms and something in my chest twisted at the sight. I saw a couple of white and black-uniformed nursemaids rush forward to carry the olive-skinned maiden from his arms and prop her in the red cushion chair as they fanned her face. “I just cannot understand why everyone’s fretting over the bitch like she's some glass princess when she's just a common bottom-barrel wolf,” Anya hissed bitterly in my ear and my lips tightened more in anger. I could feel the rage rolling off the King in waves as he stood with his hands clenched into fists by his side, his
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Raya BanksI had lost him, the king. The weight of the organization made the hollowness in my chest ache even more as I stood, sagging against the grand piano in the corner of the room, keeping my eyes trained on my fur shoes.Something had changed inside him when I saw him after waking up, and I was almost certain it was Olivia’s handiwork. How could Mary betray me so mercilessly? After everything we had been through back at Alpha Toph’s castle and even in Stone City!“Escort the maiden to her new quarters, Igor. She will work like the rest of all the other maidens. I have revoked your guest status in this castle,” Nikolai’s deep baritone rumbled through the room and shook the overhead gold chandelier slightly as I spasmed awake.What?! I was shaking my head before I realized it, making to move toward him and stopping when the guards warned me with their spears.“Y-You can't do that Nikolai! I...I can't work at the castle! That's too much punishment for me,” I cried in a hoarse voic
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Raya BanksI hadn't stopped glancing anxiously through the wide carriage windows after we left until my breath caught in my throat when I saw the looming buildings of the castle up ahead and leaned back in my seat, suddenly feeling my pulse jump.“It's okay Raya, I'm here...I won't let anyone hurt you.” Nikolai growled and I felt something warm unravel inside me at the possessive tone of his voice.I nodded, searching his stormy gray eyes once more before looking out the window again at the wet plains of the fields off to the sides.And Olivia? I wanted to ask, but something stopped me and I shook the thought out of my head, resting on his shoulder instead as the giant gate of the castle creaked open and I marveled at the cheers that boomed and erupted.“Holy shit,” I whispered and my cheeks warmed to hear Nikolai laugh beside me. Gosh, I never wanted him to stop laughing! There were rows and rows of ruddy-faced wolves holding large bouquets that they threw like confetti at the carri
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NikolaiThe voices, by Jove! The rush of shadows and voices crowded into my head as I wove the moonstone around my neck must have made me mad!I roared, feeling my rage amplify and baring my teeth with bloodlust as I turned my body to see Alpha Toph charging toward me like a bat straight from hell.“You bloody prick! I'm going to annihilate you once and for all!” He bellowed, his lumpy muscled frame flying into the air before I surged forward to meet him halfway, almost stumbling when Raya’s soft whisper carried to my ears.I love you, I love you, I love you. I inhaled sharply, throwing everything I had into the fight as our bodies slammed meatily together before we landed heavily on the floor and I pushed against the bracket of his arms. His disfigured eyes stared at me from behind the barricade with such hate and venom that I threw away all the guilt I had swirling inside me.“Not if I kill you first.” I sneered, jamming my knee into his sides and watching him crumple in on himself
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158Raya Banks“Nikolai! Watch out!” I shrieked loudly, feeling my gut wrench with fear as I saw the king get knocked down by Alpha Toph’s hulking frame.“You let a woman be your weakness again Nikolai, it's almost as if you never LEARN! Wasn't Olivia’s betrayal all those years ago enough for you?” Alpha Toph gurgled in a voice that sounded like rushing water and I felt chills wash over me as I tried to struggle to my feet before one of the shadowlings slammed their heavy foot flat on my back, knocking the breath out of me.“No!” I cried out, winded, and stretched a hand to the huge gray wolf that was being mauled ferociously by Alpha Toph’s half-human, half-beast frame. A trap! The beast had set a trap for the king and now he was cut in between. I knew almost immediately what he had planned to do but there was almost no way to warn Alpha Nikolai as he crossed the field to rescue me.Had I been his weakness? How did he find me? It couldn't have been that long since I was kidnapped an
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Olivia BurnsIt was the silence that haunted me the most now. The empty hours from dawn to dusk and everything in between, just me and the shadows, and the shadows and me.“You rest up now Miss Burns, His Highness will be back to the Stone Castle in no time.” Meredith’s calming voice rang, making me snap my eyes to her pale oval face that had lifted into an encouraging smile.“Enough, I'm positive ill turn into one of the meadow fishes if you soak my stubs any longer.” I hissed impatiently, feeling my heart squeeze when the woman only smiled, snatching up a dry, white towel from the rack before wrapping my tender feet in it and toweling me off.I sneered at the unhealthy size of the swollen lumps as she massaged them into a reasonable size, and I stirred uneasily in the low plush stool that had been placed in the sunlit room.The King had ordered renovations for me, giant blue ceramic pots with fake gold flowers at the corners of the room that hid the shadowlings from my sight. The bi
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NIKOLAIShe was RIGHT THERE, a few feet from me before he snatched her right out of the air. So close, and yet, so far away.“It doesn't have to be this way Tophas, my mate has no business in our rivalry, let her go.” I deadpanned, hearing the din of my voice as it caught in the wind whipping about us before my brother’s uneven face jerked into an excited smile.I could hear the thud of my heart beating and was aware how fast my breaths rushed out from my chest and yet, I could do nothing but stand and wait. No sudden movements.“But you lie, brother, Raya Banks is my mate too don't you reckon?” Tophas growled, slamming one thick paw that looked like the fingers had been snapped all the way back against Raya’s full cleavage.“Please!” Raya’s desperate wheezes twisted at my heart as I held out a hand, stopping Gallagher’s copper-colored wolf from morphing out and tearing forward. I could sense his agitation, because it was double in my gut, watching the woman I loved so much desperatel
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Raya BanksI couldn't stop the shudders from running through my body before the sound of wolves laughing heartily in the distance reached my ears.“Oh God, oh God, help me,” I panted, squeezing my eyes shut and clamping my lips firmly to keep from whimpering when what felt like a tongue licked at the underside of my ass from the stone.The damned thing was alive! Like the stack of bodies in the corner of the room! Wolf zombies, immobile now, no doubt until the dark shadow king Gobar wanted to command them!“A feast! We shall have a feast!” Alpha Toph’s voice boomed in the distance and my body automatically stiffened, still as a rock.It had been some time since he left and the hearty yellow beam I could see beyond the cave opening flaps if I angled my head right had now turned a smokey gray. Dusk. I had to get out of here fast, I couldn't hope on the King any longer, he may as well have moved on with his betrothed and heir and here I was slaving away, holding out hope and waiting for
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Alpha TophMy tongue pressed against the uneven ridges of my teeth as I fiddled with the lock of the shadow king’s secret compartment.I had caught a glimpse of the mammoth beast leaving the small shed, the spot on his neck where the blood moonstone hung bare. I knew then that Gobar had to have been hiding it here. He never wore it to hunt.“Come on!” I gritted through clenched teeth, feeling my eyeballs sting as the sweat rolled down from the cliff of my forehead.Everything had begun to feel weird, it was hard enough to feed without tasting the worms from the inside of my mouth in the blood.If I could just get my hands on the dark moonstone I could stop the transformation and have SOME chance of killing the shadow king.Yes! I had to kill him, there was no way in seven hells I would have gone through all the pains to settle for being his eternal stooge!The numbers I tried to spin on the lock didn't make any sense and it was beginning to get dark. I glanced around quickly, catchin
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Meredith The Maid“MEREDITH!” My name, I answer it with pride when my mistress calls, but she does not call today. “MEREDIFFTH!” My name, whenever the mistress was in one of her moods and couldn't stand to get the words out nice and proper, her shrill tone seemed to shake me to my very core.She was in one of her moods again as I led her away from the King’s horses, holding the blubbering countess by the hand and helping her climb the stairs until we were behind the safe walls of the familiar quarters.“What time is it Meredith? I haven't had my afternoon tea and all that screaming has made me rather, famished!” Miss Olivia exclaimed and I caught my tongue between my teeth before I could tell her she had taken her lunch already. Thrice.“Of course, I'll send for it M’lady,” I cooed softly, lowering her onto the plush cushion of the high bed and propping her feet too before smothering her with the rich red duvets that had been layered on the foam.“My Merd, what would I do without y
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NIKOLAITime seemed to stand still as I swung the silver sword in a neat arc, striking the stretched meat of my best friend’s neck and feeling the sword spasm in my death grip before cutting cleanly through the bone and clanging up to my shoulders against the hard rock of the dias.My heart pounded wildly in my chest as the brightly colored room blurred in my vision for a moment before I caught the lapse and blinked everything back into focus.The silence was so loud that my ears rang from the nothingness, not a breath, not a word, nothing but quiet. I watched Igor’s blood-spattered head roll quietly down each stone staircase until it toppled in a neat circle and stopped on the floor.I was breathing fast, and heavily, with my fingers shaking on the hilt of the executioner sword I still held tightly in my hand and yet I couldn't manage to shake it off.It was like a part of me had died the moment I held the blade. My fault! It was all my fault. I had let my best man turn into a trait
