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2024-10-29 19:42:56I stare at my swollen eyes in the mirror. Shit. I haven’t cried like that since the day my parents kicked me out. How am I going to hide this mess from the others? I fill the basin with cold water and dunk my face in it, holding my breath until it feels like my lungs will explode before I come up for air. Well, that didn’t help at all, but it is what it is.
“Maya?” Edric knocks on the door. “You okay in there?”
“I’ll be out in a second.”
“We have thirty minutes.”
“I know, I know.”
Drying my face, I yank the door open, staring into Edric’s concerned eyes. “I’m sorry.”
“Why?” I push past him. “Not your fault.”
“I should have waited with that gift.”
“You couldn’t have known.” I feel uncomfortable, vulnerable, and I wish he’d stop looking at me like that. Avoiding his eyes, I yank open the closet and pull a clean dress from the hanger. “What should I expect tomorrow?”
Edric doesn’t look like he wants to change
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Edric closes the bedroom door behind us and throws his clothes on the bed. “We only have a few minutes,” he says. I have no idea what's going on. What he's planning. A few minutes ago, he just grabbed my arm and dragged me upstairs without a word. I can only guess it’s because I froze up and basically told the whole kingdom that my parents abandoned me. “I’m sorry.” “What for?” he asks. “For freezing up. Not saying my parents’ names.” “That’s my fault,” he says. I sit on the bed, bundling the dress and petticoats up under me. It’s a beautiful gown, I love it, but it’s not the most comfortable dress. I should have gone for something a little sleeker, but the moment Jolie and the queen saw me in it, they insisted that it was the dress. “You’re not angry?” “No. You told me yesterday that you don’t want to say their names, and I dismissed you. I should have listened.” He kneels in front of me, taking both my hands in his.
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“Alpha. Luna. This way please.” One of the True Omegas leads us to our table. As always, Edric’s subordinates, their mates, and his father are at the table with us. “That took a while,” Luca teases, and I blush like a teenager caught in the act. Edric bumps me with his shoulder, and holds up his whiskey glass. “We were distracted by the bar.” My mate and his Beta start chatting, while Jolie gets up and brings something over. “You’ll need this.” I take a leather satchel from her. “Okay. Why?” “You’ll see in a minute.” She sits back down without another word. I look at Edric. “What does she mean.” “It’s traditional to gift the she-wolf with cash. It’s so you’ll have a financial cushion if something happens to me, or if our…union breaks down. They started doing it decades ago when wolves were constantly at war with each other, and she-wolves lost their mates faster than they could count.” Slight panic starts tucking at my
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My insides contract as Edric slips his arms around me, cupping both my breasts and rolling my nipples between his fingers. My wolf purrs in response to his touch. Sighing, I lean back against him, trusting that he won’t let me fall. He drops his head to my neck, nuzzling me, tracing the lines of my jaw, leaving behind a trail of fire in his wake. Warm need flushes through me, electricity exploding from my centre when his lips flutter over the mark he left on me. I try to turn around, want to look at him but he won’t let me. Swatting the side of my butt, he keeps me in place with his strong arm wrapped around my waist. “The only words I want to hear from you are yes, no, or stop,” he breathes in my ear. “Otherwise, shut up or I’ll start spanking you.” “Okay.” He swats my other butt cheek, not so hard that it hurts, but enough to sting. Instead of scaring me like I expected, it turns me on even more. I really don’t understand my sexual side well enough
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It’s like I’m standing outside myself. Watching, hearing, feeling and seeing everything my wolf does. I have no control over myself and my body anymore. It was already too late when Edric brought me inside -- by then she had taken control because she sensed my hesitation. Edric tries to pull away from me, but she growls a low warning and grips his hair, roughly pulling him back to her, folding her lips around his mouth. The kiss steals the breath from my body and drives me insane with dark, needy lust. I want to stop fighting it, want to stop overthinking every little thing, I want to stop fighting my wolf and just let it happen. I want to find my mate again and be with him like we used to be when we found each other. Edric picks me up, and I wrap my legs around him. He carries me across the room, slamming me against the wall so hard that my head connects to it with a jarring thud. It doesn’t even slow my wolf down. Her claws surface and she rips his shirt to ribbons. I’m terrified
