XAVIER'S POVI had been anticipating her entry ever since I had picked up her scent.It took all the strength in my body for me to focus on the book in my hand and not raise my head to look at her as she entered.I was already struggling to read the pile of reports in my hand and her presence only made it harder.Before her arrival, I wanted to get up to speed on all activities and I had gone to get the reports. Even though we were just a band of rebels, we always made sure we kept records of our dealings.I had gone to our meeting spot in the palace and had picked up the records there.This witch had successfully wrapped me in her wiles so much so that I did not understand why I caught whiffs of her scent in the passages leading to the hideout. It was as if she had been there.I knew it had to be my mind playing tricks on me because there was no way she had been able to find that place out. It had taken my uncle's army years to try to find it and they still had no success so it was
XAVIER'S POVI watched as a cloud of sadness passed over her face. It happened so fast that if I had not been carefully watching her, I would have missed it.She did not say anything immediately and I understood this was because she was trying to gain the composure my last words had caused her to lose."You say I am not part of you?" She asked with a strong voice devoid of the sadness I was expecting her voice to carry.I did not answer her question. I sat quietly watching her.A small smile started to play on her lips and I wondered what could be going on in that despicable mind of hers.She took two slow steps closer towards me making her stand over me. I braced up for a confrontation.Although I was still relatively bigger than she was even when sitting, her standing over me gave her an imposing stature.My wolf growled."You know if I am not a friend, then I have nothing else to be than a foe. Are you sure you want me as an enemy Xavier?" She said strongly, she then kept quiet all
ANNA'S POVHe wanted to know why I wanted to join forces with him and I told him the truth."I want to avenge the plight of my people. I want to watch your uncle go down," I confessed.I spoke with so much passion because I was telling the truth. "I crave to see the day all he has built will come tumbling down and he will have a taste of his own medicine," I added.It worked. I had convinced him. I saw it in his eyes. The slits opened up revealing icy blue eyes turned warm in their totality. I had said to him what he had wanted to hear."I thought as much," He said, proud of himself for having guessed what even a child would have."But there is more you have left out," He added and I froze.Could it be that he and not his uncle was the Lycan who could read minds? I thought as I wondered how he could have possibly known that there was more to the plan and the story I had just told him.I wanted to open my mouth and say a lie to debunk whatever thought he had of my plan of destroying h
XAVIER'S POVIt hurt me to tell her those words more than it had hurt her and I wondered why.She had finally joined the family.My suspicions about her being my Uncle's informant were still not out of the books. If she thought she had won me over then she was a bigger fool than I was."When am I going to be meeting them?" She asked me."When I take you there," I answered dismissively. I didn't want the conversation to continue.I needed to find a way to tell my fellow comrades that the woman whom my uncle had forced upon me had now joined us. I wondered what their reaction was going to be like. Were they going to think that I had finally lost my mind? I was sure a couple of them already suspected that. I dismissed the thoughts before I heard her voice again."I want to meet them this night," She said sternly."No," I replied sternly as well.I expected her to insist and we would have to do a back-and-forth argument but then she kept quiet and let my decision stand.I watched her ever
ANNA'S POVMy entire body trembled as I felt the current course through my body. The aftermath made me jerk a bit.I was sure he had felt me shiver and I became so embarrassed. He now knew how much his touch affected me if I could shiver from just a graze of his elbow. I felt the urge to move a bit but that would only put me out, so I pretended like nothing happened and I continued to face my ledger.But I wanted more of his touch. What I had felt from just the slight contact of our skin had intensified the hunger that I had been feeling for a while now.My wolf was restless inside of me and it was at that moment that I felt his eyes hot on my skin, burning through me with their eyes.My wolf ears could pick up the hitch in his voice as he breathed harder and faster than he was breathing earlier.This was familiar to me and I knew what it meant. This had been the same way his body had reacted when I had seduced him the other day.He wanted me.I slowly squeezed my legs as warm juices
ANNA'S POV"Come in!" I said to whosoever was knocking as I needed the distraction it would bring.A maid walked in. When she saw Xavier and I sitting next to each other, she quickly dropped her eyes and I could see the look of shame on her face as she must have figured that she had interrupted something."His Highness has requested that you join him for dinner tonight, Your Highness," The maid spoke quickly."Thank you. Tell him we will honour his invitation," I answered without a thought.She bowed her head at my words and then practically ran out leaving us both in silence. I could only imagine what the gossip around the palace would be now.I waited for Xavier to say something as I was still, looking straight ahead of me like I was when the maid had come in.Then I felt his body move, then felt his body rise from beside me. I did not turn to look at him even after he walked away.I still sat there, trying to pull myself together.I had messed everything up. I had messed up the opp
XAVIER'S POV"Be ready in an hour. We are going somewhere," I said to her when her eyes fluttered open.She was a light sleeper and she had woken up with just a simple tap.I watched as she tried to get a hold of her surroundings and to understand what I had just said. Her green eyes darted from my face to other parts of the room as she cut ties with her life in her dreamland and adjusted to her life in reality.I had been up for two hours before waking her, making up my mind if what I was doing was the right thing to do or not, and I had spent about twenty minutes out of the two hours watching her sleep.The woman lying beside me was an enigma. One I longed to unravel and my journey to achieving that was going to take a step at a time and the journey was starting today."Where are we going to?" I heard her ask from behind me in a voice that was tampered by a yawn she was trying to stifle as I walked to the bathroom."You will find out soon enough," I answered her dismissively.By the
ANNA'S POVI did not know what to say to him. I felt so embarrassed as I stood there not knowing what to do.He had not told me where we were going to and so I had not known how to dress. After a lot of deliberation, I opted for a flowy milkmaid dress that was both casual as it was dressy. And for shoes, I had chosen a pair of heeled sandals to go with it. I had let my hair down and had applied very minimal makeup."If you had told me where we were going when I had asked I would have known how to dress accordingly," I spat out my voice heavy with anger.I was so much hurt by his mocking statement because it made me look like I craved his attention and was happy to be taken out on a date with him.It hurt me so bad that I could not unleash this anger on him as we were in the dining room and there were people maids around. If not for them, I would have long attacked the annoying man seated before me making him pay for making me look like a fool.The bloody bastard did not even grant me