Emma's silence at Melvina's question almost gave Derek a heart attack. He panicked, although not visible on his exterior features, thinking that his little witch wouldn't want a life with him, after finding out about his true nature. He wasn't even sure he would be able to let her go if she rejected him."Emma, they are waiting for your answers." Prescott told a quiet Emma telepathically, and she nodded, signifying that she knew.She was actually thinking about her family, about Amelia. She hasn't spoken to her sister in like forever, and now she was leaving her to be a luna in some pack. Would Amelia even believe her? What of her parents? Even if there was the possibility that they weren't her real parents, they had still trained her well, at least she hadn't lacked the basic comfort, or slaved away as a housemaid. They had the chance to do that, and they hadn't. For that, she was grateful.So, how could she leave them?"Babe, don't you want to stay with me?" She heard Derek ask her,
Derek opened the door to his room hurriedly, and immediately Emma stepped in, he pushed her gently to the wall and claimed her lips.Emma protested with a grunt, when he broke away the next minute. He pecked her lips, before going over to the door.Giddy with happiness and need, he locked up his door, not wanting anyone to interrupt them during this beautiful event he had been longing for a long time.That done, he returned back to her."I missed you." He muttered, but Emma pulled him down to her, not in the mood for small talk. He lifted her up then, smiling satisfactorily as she slid her legs across his waist, Instantly it brought her hot core of femininity, liquid with need, to press fully against his thick, fierce arousal, since she was wearing a thin pant underneath the gown. Derek groaned aloud, every sane thought, every good intention, flying out of his head. In its place was a need so strong and urgent that he fastened his mouth fiercely to hers. In primitive, stormy, almo
Emma opened her eyes slowly, drowsily, sexily. Derek smiled down at her, touched his finger gently to her swollen lips, caressed it for a little second, before replacing the finger with his lips. A peck, and another. She blinked to bring him into focus. Her body was locked with his; she could feel him, thick and heavy, buried deep within the tightness of her core. His smile was lazy and sated, his blue eyes holding masculine satisfaction that he had done so much more than simply please her. He looked as if he might start purring over his own prowess. Emma found her smile hovering too close to the surface. He was moving again with slow, languid strokes that kept heat scorching her body, keeping her nipples pressing into the muscles of his chest. The flickering lights of the dim bulb illuminated the fine sheen of sweat on his skin. His long hair was slightly damp, falling around his face, lending him the look of a pirate. She reached up and gently traced the hard line of his j
When Emma and Derek stepped into the big hall, it was like there hadn't been a bloodbath some minutes ago. There were no bloodstains anywhere, nor were there any scent of blood. It was sparkling neat and beautiful as it was before the intrusion.Aiden, his twin and Yodah had done a great job, together with Clem, and co. Prescott was not left out either. Since Emma had deserted him for her love, Freya had been carrying and talking with him. Maya and Ava weren't left out either.Emma smiled, feeling so happy walking arms in arms with Derek. Her mind was consumed with the hot sex they had just had and the playful atmosphere thereafter. Since they had been bathed with sweat after the hot beautiful exercise, they had visited the bathroom, where they had done a quickie first before bathing together. She could feel insides humming in pleasure and contentment."Stop ruminating on those thoughts. You are making it hard for me as it is." She heard Derek whine in her mind, and smiled, loving thi
Emma watched with furrowed eyebrows, as Derek was crowned the Alpha of the Blue Moon Pack. A golden crown with diamond fixtures was placed on his head.But that wasn't her problem. Her problem was that he was avoiding her gaze. What the hell was going on?She turned aside to Maya and Freya. They also had the same look on their face. They weren't sure what was happening.She looked around and found Aiden.She piqued her eyebrows at him, but he shrugged. He didn't know either.She shifted her gaze from him to Shane, who was standing between Clem and Leo.Coincidentally, their eyes met. He was confused too.Derek wasn't smiling. He was cold.Was this part of the drill? She thought, letting her eyes search for Anthony. He was his brother, so he must know something about what was happening.Her fears heightened as she noticed that Anthony had been looking at her sullenly all this while, and that immediately their eyes had met, he had instantly averted his gaze.Something was wrong. She cou
Emma bit her lips hard, unconcerned about the string of tears dropping down from her eyes constantly, as she watched Derek sprout nonsense out of his mouth. Yes, that's what she had tagged it. Nonsense. But did it stop the painful tightening of her chest or the weight that threatened to push her down? Of course not. She was caught up in an angry and hurtful haze, deaf to Prescott's shouts in her head to calm down.She flung roughly away, the hands of Maya and Ava that were trying to hold her still, to hold her back from her mission. Already, she had let Prescott drop from her hands whilst hearing Derek talk. She hadn't been bothered about his cussings on his butt scratching the floor, nor his whines about his body being dusted. Her eyes and focus had all been on Derek, swallowing whole and sinker, everything he was saying, even though knowing that it would hurt her the most, including the action she was about to take her.Behind her, in her moving motion, was Freya. The latter was stu
When Emma stood before Derek, her eyes cut across everyone standing around him, including his parents who both averted their gazes when they met with hers.A deep seated fury roaring its head in her body, threatened to burn the whole hall down and Emma, although she didn't really understand it, didn't want to dare give it an expression. No matter the fact that she felt like screaming the walls down, and burning up the whole place, she couldn't. She still loved him. And it hurt so bad, so bad that it confused her. Now, she could understand the vision Queen Zipfarah had. The woman had been trying to protect her, but she had stubbornly refused, deciding to save Derek before herself. And what had she gotten in return, betrayal. A stab on the back from the person she cherished the most. This was more than Pain. Zipfarah couldn't have seen it more. This was painful. Love was painful. She thought, tightening her fisted as her gaze landed blankly on Derek who was watching her with an indiffe
Emma hissed, watching Melvina's mouth drop open in shock.Why was the woman surprised? She thought, staring at both her and her mate in disdain.Whatever it was, she was sure that Derek wouldn't have done this, without their consent. So, why was she acting like she wqs surprised by her anger, or angry words? 'Damn me for thinking that she has been good! Hypocrites!' She screamed in her head, feeling more confident with the presence of the vampires behind and beside her. Although it didn't daunt the fact that she thought them wicked for feeding on human blood, she was still appreciative to them for standing with her, together with Prescott.Seeing Derek still mute, looking all beaten down and trodden, she smiled bitterly. She would make him pay. She promised him, sending the message through their private link.And when his eyes widened a bit, having read her message, he shifted on his feet, forcefully pushing his hands into his pockets.Emma knew he was frustrated, but she didn't care
Emma’s eyes were as active as anything active as she watched the elders slowly walk into the hall reserved for judging cases, like Annabel’s. As she watched them, her feet kept dancing on the floor in a funny unsteady motion; she was unsteady. One, one. Then two, two. Then one two. Once, Amelia had looked at her, with a piqued eyebrow. ‘What is that?’ Her eyes seemed to ask, but Emma had given no answer. What is it? It should be what are they?! When they were hurrying over to the hall, after convincing the guards that they would be around for the trial too, her sister had whispered that the cabin, her parent’s cabin, had been burnt by the master, Slediv. It had brought Emma up short, making her stagger on her feet for two reasons. That Slediv had really traced them, even without her then, and that the cabin was burnt; the loss it meant for her parents. Would they regret helping her then? Prescott didn’t think so. But Emma was still worried about it, just like her mind had tried
One week later:Emma had run to the clinic, immediately Adah had burst into her apartment with the news that Annabel and Amelia were awake. Over the couple of days in class, they had bonded over gossip, and training, seeing as the latter was the only one that had been sincerely interested in her. Emma had run with Prescott in her hands, and Adah right behind her. And when she arrived at the room she had frequented daily with prayers, and saw her sister and her friend chatting tiredly, she let out a scream of happiness and hurried over to them. “Amelia! Annabel!” She called gaily, garnering the attention of the two females sitting cross-legged on the same bed. Before they could let out a shout or smile of their own, Emma’s hands were already around them. “Oh my goodness, I am so happy for both of you…” she paused. “but give me a heartache again, and I will skin you both alive..” Annabel and Amelia divulged bouts of laughter, with the nurses. Prescott and Adah weren’t left behind,
Caden sighed in relief at his mate’s words, wanting to believe at all costs that the years he had spent with her, that the love they had shared, hadn’t been in vain. He didn’t know what he would have done otherwise. Cry, brood? Neither was acceptable in these times. And so, he wasn’t moved when his son piqued an eyebrow at his mate’s words, or when his daughter’s lips turned up—in disgust or curiosity, he wasn’t sure. But he didn’t care. He just hung on to the thread that his mate was spinning with. “I didn’t cheat on my mate, I’m sure he would have found out if I had done so, considering the mate bond and all that…” There was a pause, where relief sunk its foothold the more in Caden and his children. “So, if that’s what you are thinking, Caden… if that’s what you all are thinking, cut it out. I was surprised too when Claire had met me with the news at first, and I didn’t tell you, Caden, because I wasn’t sure how to explain the phenomena to you. I knew you held the lineage of you
Chyra didn’t know what Clem was talking about—the end of the world, and all that—but she knew that she was to blame for Claire rejecting her mate considering what she had soaked into her daughter’s mind about the alpha’s family, about how the Luna seat was her birthright. She also knew that she shouldn’t be working with Arnold. But she was too proud to concede to that, to concede to anyone, and so she shrugged her shoulders to Clem’s question. In the next second, she saw why that had been a wrong play on her part. When she saw Clem fume in anger, when she saw Claire glare at her stinkingly, when she saw her mate watch her like she was foolish, she knew that she had made a mistake. It would have been best if she had kept quiet, than giving off that nonchalant attitude. But her pride held her back from apologizing. Why should she apologize for being a mother caring to give her daughter the best? “Mother, are you so daft that…” Clem was saying when his father shouted him down. Caden
At this point, Clem didn’t know what to think about his sister, Claire. He had thought that their parents had been her motivator to reject Curtis, to follow Curtis up and down, to join the meetings that prince Nathan held with the others, but from the thick astounded silence that dwelled in the room, it could be safe to say that his sister had been acting on her own, without any external influence. He didn’t know what to think of that. He looked at his mother; she looked more shocked out of her shoes and mind than his father, quite expected since the mother and daughter duo were quite close, since his sister had no mind of hers, except put into place by his mother. As much as he was not happy with his twin, he was happy that for once his mother had no part to play in her recent escapades. “What do you mean…Claire?” Caden asked, pushing himself ahead, his elbow resting on his knees. “What do you mean when you say that Curtis is your mate? When did that happen? When did you find out?
What Claire saw first when she stepped into her father’s room was her parents sitting in the living room, with Clem, their backs hunched, the air filled with pregnant silence, waiting. They were waiting for her. She knew it from the moment she had dropped a note in Clem’s mind that she was on her way home. That he hadn’t bothered with a response, should have been enough to let her know that her twin was still angry with her. But she had held out hope, until she had reached the borders of the pack and he hadn’t been waiting for her. This was very different from the times they had quarrels. She knew, however, that this quarrel was different. She had denied her mate, because of the throne; had gone ahead to push Emma away from the pack; and when Derek still hadn’t chosen her, she had returned to Curtis because he was an Alpha. Would she have returned to him if he wasn’t that? She didn’t know. That was the truth. She didn’t know. She might have gone back to Curtis, even if he wasn’t a
At Wind Winders Pack.“Dad, what is this? What was Zoe doing in my room so early in the morning?” Curtis questioned, a second after he rushed into the dining room where his parents were having breakfast. He had slept in obviously, but he didn’t care. Yesterday’s training had been rigorous after all. He darted his eyes between his mother and father; his mother’s widened eyes told him that she had no idea what he was talking about; quite expected since this turn of event hadn’t been part of their plans. Hence, he trained his eyes on his father; the old man just continued eating his breakfast like he hadn’t spoken. Curtis thought of repeating himself, but thought better of it. He walked up to his father, and took away his plate of food; an act that he wouldn’t have been able to try before; an act that might have spelt his death; but considering his father’s few options of allies, he knew that he had a chance to live. And so, when his father glared at him heatedly, he didn’t quake in hi
“Hey…how are you feeling?” Emma whispered, touching Prescott’s head softly, as she watched him open his eyes for the second time. The first time, she had screamed and had called for the nurse in charge of his treatment, not minding that Adah was with her. Nothing could have dampened her joy. She had just checked on Annabel and Amelia, who although their vitals were stable, was still asleep, yet out of coma. According to the chief nurse, a week was enough for them to wake up now. Then she had checked on Prescott, and only touching him with fondness had elicited the response of his eyes opening. Emma had been overjoyed. “Prescott, can you hear me?” She asked softly, dragging a seat to herself, whilst Adah watched on, not understanding the communication method of the squirrel and Emma. Like the people in the community, she had never seen a talking animal, or rather an animal that communicates as Emma had painted Prescott to be. Her friend who was in the upper echelons of the community
No professor spoke to her, and Emma couldn’t help but wonder why. Had Prince Shiloh ask them to avoid her? Or had professor Brooks’ defeat scared them away from her? Well, if that was the matter, then she believed it was for the greater good. She had no interest in making affiliations after all, so long as they taught her what she wanted to know, and treated her fairly. “So, do you think you can cope?” She heard Adah ask, and turned aside to see her new seat mate. The mischievous glint in the latter’s eyes made her smile, howbeit small. “I believe I can.” She answered, before getting on her feet. She took her bag which Gira had provided that morning and slung the straps across her shoulder. It was time to go home, or rather check on her friends. Classes were done for the day. “Where are you going?” Adah asked her, getting to her feet. As they walked toward the door, a couple of the students swiftly moved, and stood before the door, causing Emma to furrow her eyebrows. But she chose