SARAI couldn't keep back my smile as I made my way back to the car. My plan had worked!I kept getting the thoughts of Nadine confronting me later but I shrugged it off to enjoy the moment. I had texted Kai we were on our way to the castle before leaving the house. He had left home, as usual, giving the notion he was going to work but he had been around the Castle all day.I feared Nadine would see right through me when I told her I forgot the camera that never left home. It just had to be perfect.As I opened the car door and eased my way in beside Adam, I let out a yippee and a heavy sigh escaped through my mouth. Kai had seen me at the entrance and I couldn't be more glad he complied with the plan. I caught a glimpse of them together before I went to the car.I couldn't help but grin seeing Nadine scowling and Kai smirking at her. I was a hopeless romantic. Despite knowing Nadine's primary presence in Eden City is to save us all from perishing, I could ask for a better mate for my
NADINEHe thinks he's a smart mouth, I scoffed as I walked towards the windowless gaps in the room.We were still at the top floor and I was getting more enthralled by the grandeur of the castle every minute. Antiques lined the width and breadth of the floor. If I weren't so passionate about architecture, I would have poked my nose into sculpture classes.Touching the antiques got me fervently riled up and I couldn't help but feel like I found something I had lost that I hadn't quite come to terms with in them. The atmosphere was breathable and tranquil and I would have been more comfortable if not for Kai's presence l which seemed to annoy me at the same time heating me up.I wondered if I had breathed at all since we started touring the castle.I had tried to restrain myself from talking about anything or asking him the multiple questions I had about the whole place. I had been wholesomely fascinated and my curiosity knew no bounds. But I failed when my curiosity attained its highes
NADINEThe kiss robbed me of my breath. One minute, I was admiring the view that was absolutely magical, and the next, I was being pulled into a strong pair of hands and body and my mouth was being devoured in a searing and most intense kiss that I've ever known. If I had thought that our first kiss was intense, then this was definitely putting it to shame. His mouth was fervent on mine, hungry, needy, and demanding and forcing mine into submission and compliance. His kiss incinerated everything and the only thing I was aware of was the fact that I was being kissed by this man like I was the source of air that he had been deprived of for so long. God! This man definitely know how to use his lips as he backed me against a wall, his tongue exploring and plunging deeper and deeper with his lips and teeth pulling and scratching and making me experience the kind of pleasure that I never knew was possible. Only from a kiss! I fleeting wondered just how pleasured he could make me feel
KAII was back at the council meeting after calling an emergency meeting right after I dropped Nadine off at the house. The atmosphere was immensely heavy and poignant.A rogue was on the loose.Everyone was talking at the same time but I paid no attention to any of them. My wolf has been seething ever since I found out a rogue was free on the streets of Eden City. There hadn't been one for a century now. It was surprising how he just emerged from nowhere.My first instinct had been to protect Nadine. I had rushed Nadine to my car which was parked outside the castle. My reflexes had been triggered by the screams and I had pounced right from the top of the castle. Nadine was frightened out of my mind and her horror-stricken face contorted with fear.I had made my way back to the castle and the castle manager had come rushing to my side. A rogue had made its way inside the castle and attacked tourists and murdered two of them. My mind went back to Nadine and I quickly assured myself tha
KAIThe drive back to the house was mentally draining for me. I kept on ruminating on the possible reasons a rogue could have shown on the grounds of the castle. The elders were right, Nadine had to be shown to the people of Eden if they were to truly believe they were safe.Nadine.She was pretty shaken when I drove her back to the house and dropped her off before heading back for the emergency meeting. She was silent the whole time during the flight and I could feel her dread.My hands gripped the wheel firmly as I thought of her having to witness such a gruesome event when I was right with her. I was sure she had seen the mauled bodies before we got to the car. Just when I thought we were getting somewhere, a miserable rogue had to pop up. I didn't realise I had been gritting my teeth till I parked the car at the garage.I relaxed and took out some deep breaths before heading into the house.I picked up Mama Teresa's and Sara's scents as I made my way towards the living room and th
NADINEMy last two brain cells had shut down the moment I hit the bed in my room after Kai dropped me off at the house. The events had happened so soon and I hadn't quite gotten a grasp of everything.The memories of the intense kisses and all I had allowed Kai to do to me up in the castle were quite visible in my subconscious but it was overridden by the ghoulish scene I caught sight of before Kai locked me in his car. Bodies were mauled at the feet of the castle and several shivers had run down my body when I saw them.I couldn't lie, I had felt a little bit of solace while in Kai's arms.With my knees bent close to my torso in the car, I could make out snippets from conversations of people running out of the castle. There were loud shrieks and bangs from people rushing all at once and they kept hitting the car intermittently.My anxiety levels rose with each bang. Some of the things I could make out from the rushed conversations had been there was a rogue on the loose and it seemed
FORTY-TWOKAII joined the whole house for dinner that night. If making them safe was also to keep tabs on everyone, I could start with that. A poignant air was up in the room, everyone seemed to be in their heads and I couldn't bear the thought of them living in fright because some run-away rogue, claimed to be dead, was up and murdering people in public places.The silent clanging of the utensils against plates infiltrated the room. I had barely touched my food as I kept surveying the table. They were all fixated on their plates as if they were trying to solve a difficult puzzle with furrowed brows.My mind steered back to the documents I had brushed through in the study about wars between rogues and Alphas. Mainly they targeted the Alpha, but usually, the council rises with the Alpha to defeat the rogue.I could clearly remember that some of the statues in the castle were to remember such wars. Ironic it all happened back at the castle.They were rascals who just didn't understand
KAII couldn’t tear my eyes off Nadine throughout dinner and she made a solid attempt at ignoring me too. I felt hunches of guilt sweeping over me as I remembered the fright that had evidently stood on her face at the castle.If hating me before the attack at the castle wasn't enough, she would probably add disgust to the hate she already had now.Adam had left the table immediately after he finished eating which was before any of us and left to get the document's on the rogue wolves. He had mind-linked me about dropping them in my study. I would set to work immediately after I finished something here.I wanted to talk with Nadine. It was high time she agreed to stay in Eden City and see her importance in the course of events.With her blatantly ignoring me and seeing me in the light of a monster, I needed to convince her to save Eden City. I knew she might still be in shock of what had happened at the castle but something had to be done soon.As I watched her drop her cutlery after d