Vanya's POVHe removed himself from my breast with a filthy "pop" Sound that had blood rushing to my head. "You're soaking,""Don't say that!" I covered my face with my hands. "Don't say stuff like that!""But it's true." He took my hand and pulled it down. "you should see for yourself,"I gasped as my fingers grazed myself. My eyes widened and I looked at him, shocked and embarrassed, and at the same time impossibly turned on."Do you feel it?" He whispered, leaning down to kiss my lips briefly. "I haven't even done anything, and you're so wet already.""It's biology," I said.He burst out laughing. "Biology? Well I'd be damned. Lift your hips for me okay."I turned an even darker shade of red. "Don't say things like that." You're making me shy. Incredibly shy."My apologies," He said, in a tone that meant he wasn't sorry at all. I lifted my hips off the bed, unable to meet his eyes as he took my panties off. My eyes met mine in the mirror. My body, lithe and naked, and looking so s
Vanya's POV I watched as people trooped into the 'Marigold Afternoon of Lunches', an event held once every year that every food company looked forward to. This was where the luncheon of our newest dish was taking place. The weather was promising, so was the atmosphere and the people's happy chatters. "Going as planned." Tara sighs falling beside me. "It's all set." Acknowledging what she had spoken with a nod, my eyes moved to where our dish was set. We had decided to buy that space because of how into sight it was. It was the first dish everyone saw when they stepped into the hall. "I wish I could eat now." Tara groaned. "Not until all the food here is fully launched. " She groaned, slouching before raising herself up again. The place kept flooding with people who had come to taste the new dishes that were going to be released into the world today. It was a grand opportunity to find investors for the food company owners, and no one slept on such opportunity. Especially when there w
Vanya's POV"Oh my God..." I covered my mouth with my hands. The audience was thrown into a fit as the other two joined the first man, collapsing to the floor. "Call the ambulance!!!" Marigold yelled, running to the men of the floor. My food had been poisoned. I drew in shaky breaths as the people began to troop out of the hall in a bid to get far away from the event as possible. She turned to me, her face nothing but anger. "You've ruined me!" She yelled at me."I swear I had no....""You had no idea miss Jacobs?! No idea?! Is this how incompetent and careless you are? This is unhygienic?!" She yelled at me, her voice rattling the glasses. "And here I was thinking about all your praises that had been sung. Guess I was stupid.""No... This is not... I don't know this would happen. I had no hand in it. My kitchen is pristine, it's..." But she had already turned away from me to the ambulance that had arrived, some paramedics carrying the three men into it, heading straight to the hospi
VANYA'S POV"I've been waiting for the moment you'll ask me to do that." He replied, the sound of keys of a keyboard being strick resonating the air. "We also found something else while digging." Something else? What I had on my plate wasn't it more than enough? "Does it have to do with destroying Josephine and burning her to the ground?""Then I don't think I have business with...""You see, this is why we don't get along Vanya. You don't even want to hear what it is. Well, your call not mine.""Wait!" I beckoned on him before he could end the call. "I'm not in the best mood right now.""I know. I saw the news. But this news I come with cannot guarantee you a light heart, just so you know, Josephine was also the one responsible for all those rumours that were spread about you." I scoffed and began to laugh, my voice slowly dropping to barely a whisper."That makes sense." I said to myself rather than to him. "All of it now makes sense." I sank into my seat, my hands in my hair. She
Vanya's POVI got them dismissed due to how late it already was and sent them home leaving Tara and some of the communication team members. Jeremy and Samson refused to leave so I let them stay. We needed security after all. Night came, and we hadn't heard from Mike. "He says he's still working on it." Tara had said. So the both of us, the communication team and the security had to spend the night in the company. None of us slept. We worked all through the night, as we worked to patch the damage and see what we could do about the hearing that was coming up, all I could think of was the next move from here, the next step to take. What of Mike couldn't find the culprit? The thoughts took the better of me until we began to hear the chirping of birds.Thankfully, the chiming of phones and the consistent calls had been reduced. So we showered and freshened up. Thank goodness we had bathrooms and clothes in the office. It was not until 1:45 p.m. that Mike came into the office with a youn
Cian's POVFrom the crown of my head to the sole of my feet was a horror. Covered in bruises and dressed in my clothes that had now become rags, torn at the hem and other unimaginable places, so bad that even a mad man would think twice before putting them on, I limped towards my pack, barefooted, hungry, tired and poisoned. The bastard had release me and dropped me close to my pack, but leaving an ample distance for me to walk, knowing how weak he had made me.I sat beside him in the car, his unruly beta driving. I watched him through cloudy eyes that I couldn't even open clearly, seeing the man I had always wanted to murder right in front of me without being able to do anything. I tried to move my hands, aiming for his eyes, but was betrayed by the way my body felt. He had smiled. That wretched smile, annoying me to the core, before flicking my limp hand away like it was some kind of toy a child flicked at.I was close to my pack but not close enough to stop walking and call for Da
Cian's POVThe bright light was foreign to me, the sweet scent of rosemary also foreign. It seemed like I was in heaven, enjoying the pleasures of it all. The scent of good food, the enchanting scents of herbs and spices. The feeling of peace... And then just in the twinkle of an eye, I regained consciousness of where I was and how I had been treated. I shot up from the bed, my head hit with a splitting head ache."Alpha Cian." David came to my side, his face no longer the hardened one. "How do you feel?""How do I look?" I threw the question back at him, taking a look at my messed up self expecting to see how badly looking I was, but my eyes was instead met with a set of clean clothes. I smiled but my smile soon faded as soon as my eyes met with the mirror in front of me. The healer that had been tending to my injuries and bruises while I was asleep, chose that time to be the perfect time to apply ointment on one of my injuries. I yanked her up, throwing her at the mirror. David caug
Cian's POV"What did you just say?" I asked David getting up from my seat. I was in my office when David had returned a day later with all the information I needed on Tristan. And what he had said was nowhere what I had imagined. Not even the least bit close. "He's from America and is the most powerful Alpha in America." He repeated. "He's also the second largest in Europe." He added. I was beginning to think I was hearing something different when he added. "Not only is he the most powerful Alpha in America, he also has packs scattered all around the continents. He is the Alpha Blackwood..." I almost passed out when he added that piece of information. " But most people don't know that he's the one.""Wait..." I cut him off. "Did you just say he's the alpha Blackwood?""Yes my lord. He's alpha Tristan Blackwood of the Scarlett pack." "Fuck!" I began pacing around as I ran my hands through my hair. I had bragged to him that I was the most powerful Alpha in Europe without even knowing
Vanya's POV "You look even better." "Don't think of blasphemy Tristan. The goddess is the best of all bests. Another headline just popped up. It says... " I paused. "A new world order, a new religion, the Blackwoods." "Indeed. A new religion. " He chuckled before he paused. "I'll get the kids from school today. You'll just have to get off from work and go home." "The last time you got the children back from school Tristan, all of you wrecked the house!" "And we apologized and promised we'd never do it again." "Whatever. Thank you for getting them in... Advance " I said to him. "At your service my queen." I smiled, grinning from ear to ear. "I love you." I said to him. "I love you more." He replied. "We'll talk later, gotta go." He mused, before blowing a kiss into the phone's speaker and then hanging up. I sat down on my seat, thinking back in all that had happened in my life. All that had happened to bring me to this day. To this moment of true happiness. I had never kn
FOUR YEARS LATER. Vanya's POV "Is this what you really want to do? Still be a chef?" My love asked. "CEO of a good company honey. And yes. That's what I want to do. What I still want to do. " I opened the door to leave, turned, and pulled him towards me with his tie, kissing him full on the lips. He edged forward, closing the door and winding the glass up. His hand trailed to my waist, pulling me closer to him, before they made to unbutton my blouse. "What are you doing?" I giggled, throwing my head back. "I told you " He grumbled. "That the next time you do this on a work day, we might end up having sex in the car. " "And I said?" "Mm... You said nothing." I opened the car door. "And silence in court means...." But I had jumped out of the car, blowing him a kiss as I shut the door. He looked like a pouting child that would soon begin to bawl. "Just go." I mouthed, shooting him away with a wave of my hand. "You're in for tonight." He mouthed back before blowing me a kiss
Vanya's POV "Wait..." Tristan paused them. "You knew he came after Vanya." He questioned his father. Which he nodded to. "Does that mean you've been in London all this while?" He nodded again. Tristan stared at him in disbelief while I listened to their story. Waiting earnestly for them to finish so I could throw everything I wanted at them. "When we heard he came after you..." My father had become serious. "I told Marco and Vladimir that it was finally time for me to come out of hiding." They both nodded. "And worst of all, when Marco told me about your outburst." They nodded again. But he continued. "They weren't really buying the idea, and Vladimir promised to take care of you and Marco but I had been hiding long enough." "So we finally decided to come out of hiding," Vladimir said. "And deal with Magnus." Marco added. The sitting room now went quiet as I weighed everything they had said. I had missed my father since I was thirteen, thinking he was dead, but he had been aliv
Vanya's POV "Is this some kind of joke to appease me?" I turned to Marco. "Joke? No. No it's... Not." "I'm not buying this shit. None of it." "And where did you learn how do speak like that little crow?" "Don't you dare call me that!" I spat at the man. "And where did you even hear that from?" "I didn't hear it from anywhere. We made it up, together. At the spring fall close to your school when you wouldn't stop crying about how boring school was and how you wanted to be a doctor but not go to school for it..." I bit my lower lip. This couldn't be happening. I was dreaming. It's all a dream. "And what did I say?" I asked him for confirmation. "If I can make it as a doctor without books, I want the world in return..." "No..." I exhaled, forcing myself to stay calm and tearless. "And I said to you..." I remembered clearly what he said to me that day. Even if you want heaven... "Even if you want heaven..." Daddy wouldn't hesitate a second... "Daddy wouldn't hesitate a
Vanya's POV I walked out of Tristan's office, and when I was out of earshot, I ran to our room, shutting the door behind me as I wailed my eyes out. I shook as the sobs took over me, fully in control. How could he? How could Marco? He was my father's best friend. He was supposed to stand by my father, was supposed to protect him. Was supposed to be a true friend. I hate him! I hate him!! I sniffled, still sitting down on the floor. How long I sat there, I couldn't recall but I knew it was well past afternoon. Tristan had come to knock on the door during lunch, asking me to eat. I had told him I wanted to be alone and wasn't in the mood to eat. "In case you change your mind." He said as I heard a rattle of plates in front of the door. "I'll leave your lunch here." Then he had left. After some time, he had come to the door again, knocking to check up on me. "I'm fine," I replied. "Vanya..." He started. "I know it's tough. I wish I could help... Or... Or do something." He sig
Tristan's POV I was in my study with Vanya that morning when Adam and some of my men brought Magnus into my office. Hands bound as he knelt him down before us. I was sitting on the arm of the seat while Vanya sat on it. From where he knelt, Magnus glared at us. His face filled with venom. Like the fuck I cared. He had gone after Vanya for whatever crooked reason it was. Had killed her father, my father's very good friend. He had ruined her chance of having a father and a mother too, potentially making her an orphan. The reason my Luna had no parents as shoulders to lean on, was because of this man. And heaven knew, I wanted to rip out his throat. There was a tremble on his venomous face even though he tried to hide it. He only glared as a defense mechanism. "Such a flimsy defense you have there Magnus." No need putting the Alpha's honorific anyway. He didn't deserve that respect. He blinked that I called him by his name but covered the shock on his face by glaring harder. "Oh!"
Tristan's POV "I'm fine talking while standing." Her voice came out wobbling. And she folded her arms, warily watching us. I nodded, going straight to the point. "What did you say to Vanya that made her stomp off?" Her eyes softened. "She didn't tell you. So why should I?" Angel snorted behind me. I rubbed my temples, realizing I too was standing. "So much drama in a day." She whispered behind me. The woman shot her a glare which Angel returned with a bare of her wolf canines. "You claim to be her mother..." "I am her mother." She cut me off, her voice almost a screech. Two of my men moved to get a hold of her as she strolled towards me, but I motioned them to remain put. "I carried her for nine months and almost died giving birth to her." "So why disappear all these years and appear now to try and talk to her?" She squinted angrily at me. "Yeah." I continued before she could speak. "Vanya has never mentioned you to me before. Never." "Who knows, that may be because you are
Tristan's POV "You should have found out!" I yelled a her. "What?! You expected me to eavesdrop on their conversation?!" Before I could reply, she added. "What is wrong with you?! You've barely been married a month and you're already acting like a big bad dog!" I took some steps towards her. "You don't get to speak to me like that! And after all that happened, she shouldn't be out there alone!" "When has she never been able to handle herself?" She threw at me, contempt in her voice. "When you weren't officially mated, it was eight bodyguards, now the whole world knows, you might actually keep tabs on her every movement. In case you don't know brother, it's spying and a sign that your suffocating, over protective nature that cost our mother her life, is resurfacing again! " The room stilled, I stilled and so did she when she realized what she has just said. I took steps backwards, watching her as I shook my head in utter disbelief. "Wow Angel. Just wow!" "Tristan I'm sorry." "N
Tristan's POV I killed the ignition of my car, sitting there and thinking about nothing in particular but everything at once. Vanya had only met Selena once and they had not gotten along. Not as if any one could ever get along with Selena. But why would Magnus go after Vanya? What did he want from her? ***Flashback*** Vanya was speaking to the strange woman who claimed to be her mother, so I decided to go back to my house which was now Angel's house to wait for Adam after I had sent him to figure out who the rogues were and why they wanted Vanya when Angel came to me. "There was one thing I noticed about the rogues. I didn't want to let you know about it because Vanya was there." I sat back down, placing my coat on the seat I had been seating on. "What was it?" "All the men had a wolf tattoo on their right shoulders." "Werewolves have tattoos all the time Angel." "I know." She countered. "But it was split in half." She looked at me, going still for a moment before that still