Lucius's POVThe moment our lips touched, an electric current sizzled between us. It was so strong that it didn't just course through my veins and out, it settled in my heart.Her scent grew stronger like a deep blend of jasmine and roses."Mine..." My wolf growled within me recognizing the bond that intertwined around us.I had to pull away from her before my wolf took over. This wasn't like our mating ceremony in the pack. Humans wouldn't understand the primal sexual need that came when a male recognized their mate.As we pulled apart, she stared at me with clouded eyes. She must have felt the pull. She must have felt the wave of current driving beneath our skins... but she wouldn't understand it.The guests were clapping and screaming but we were in our little bubble. We could only see ourselves and no one else."You should smile... You will get to fuck her in the hotel... Calm your dick, brother!" Lucas whispered in my ears.I snapped out of my daze and forced a smile. Sophie and
Diane's POVAt the reception, I was practically fixed in one spot or anywhere away from Lucius.I couldn't stop my cheeks from turning pink each time our eyes met. The tension from the hotel had not lessened, rather it got even thicker.To think that we will have to stay together in that room again tonight and then go for the honeymoon...My heart made a major flip as I remembered that last update.Oh God!I moved my eyes to Sophie. She was with Lucas and a group of other guys laughing about something.I would have to find a way to drag both of them out for a conversation. I wouldn't be able to go on the honeymoon with Lucius.I was certain even he couldn't stand it. He was clenching his teeth and fisting his hands throughout our stay in the hotel room, except they wanted him to chew his teeth out.It couldn't work.I gulped down the wine in my hands and turned to where Lucius was talking to some people. We both had to speak to Sophie and Lucas."He is your husband now, if you want to
Diane's POVThe compromise passed and I couldn't be happier. A victorious smile remained on my face throughout the party. When we returned to the hotel, I slept peacefully because Lucius had somehow disappeared and my smile went along with it the moment I woke up in the middle of the night and found an empty bed.I got off the bed and wrapped a robe around my body. I went out to the balcony in search of him, but he wasn't there.I knocked on the bathroom door, waiting for him to respond —he had taken a lot of finger food. It was normal for him to develop a runny stomach."Lucius?" I called, but no one responded.My heart skipped a beat and panic started seeping in. What was going on? Where did he go?I tested the door knob and it opened. With a deep sigh, I pushed it wider and stepped in.Everywhere was silent. There was no sound at all. If he was using the toilet, I should have been hearing the trickling of water or shower or anything at all —but there was nothing."Lucius?" I cal
Lucius's POVThe tension in the car grew as we headed to the hotel, despite the conversation going on between Owen and Diane.Lucas was sitting with the driver at the front while Owen sat between Diane and me. But I could still feel the heat coming from her like he wasn't even there.My wolf was on edge. All I wanted to do was hold her in my hands and ease off the pressure in my heart. But I couldn't."What's that?" Her soft voice tickled my ears.I pulled myself out of my thoughts and looked at her. She was holding Owen's tablet, trying to understand what he wrote.Her brows were knitted together and she had a bright smile on her face as she turned the device around."You want us to go to the beach?" She asked him as she finally understood what it was.Owen nodded his head and smiled."That's a great plan but we will have to get to the hotel first. Your mummy has to freshen up and you need to get a nap," Lucas said from the front seat.Owen pulled his face into a frown and he scribbl
Lucius's POVMy eyes narrowed down at him."You have lost your mind!" I hissed as I pushed past my irritated brother and moved to open the curtain he had meticulously closed.I heard his footsteps coming toward me and I gritted my teeth in anticipation. He wasn't going to stop."But you want her. You can't deny it. I have seen it in your eyes!" Lucas' annoying voice filled the space around me.I rolled my eyes and moved to sit on the couch."Can you pour me a drink?" I asked, hoping to divert his mind to something else.He stopped hovering behind me and moved to the fridge to get a bottle of wine."It's not a crime to say it out loud you know... I am sure she is in love with you too," he beamed as he dropped the drink on the table."Humans don't fall in love just like that," I hissed. It takes time and effort from both parties."He rolled the wine glass in his hand and flashed me a small smile."Since when did you know so much about humans, Lucius?"I narrowed my eyes on him again. H
Diane's POVMy cheeks immediately turned red at this point. I wished the ground would open and swallow me whole.Kissing Lucius at the church during the wedding ceremony was one thing but doing it here on the beach was another.My heart made a flip and I felt it drop to my stomach as it started beating erratically."Stop teaching my son those kinds of things, Lucas!" Lucius growled and for no reason at all tingles spread to the top of my arm."I didn't teach the boy anything. You saw it yourself, he wrote it. I didn't!" Lucas defended himself."And when he does that can't you just tell him nicely that it is wrong? You should know...."The brothers continued to argue in the background but I tuned them out. Because each time Lucius parted his lips to speak, I found my stomach moving funnily.I was tempted to hold my chest to verify if my heart was still in place because the rate at which it moved scared me.I was losing my mind.How could his voice excite me like that?"Diane!" Lucas sh
Diane's POVMy throat suddenly went dry and at that moment I wished my cheeks showed less reaction.His brows were knitted together as he stared at me and it was then I got reminded that I had just yelled at him.I squeezed my eyes closed, "I am sorry, I thought it was Lucas...""Did he upset you?" His voice had suddenly dropped to that tone that triggered my hormones again.Oh God! Please help me..."Huh, yeah... I mean—" I paused as I realized that if I admitted it, I would be forced to tell him what had transpired between us.How was I supposed to tell him that his brother caught me falling for him?"It's nothing serious," I said instead, forcing a fake smile onto my lips."Are you sure?" Lucius asked, his voice now mixed with concern. "Lucas is just like Owen sometimes, he acts like a child. If he upsets you in any way please do not hesitate to tell me."I nodded and flashed him another one of my smiles. "Sure. I will tell you..."An awkward silence settled between us and I watche
Lucius's POVMy wolf was over the moon. He wanted to be let out. He wanted to kiss our mate, taste and feel every part of her but I kept him inside as I admired her beautiful body.Indeed, I was very lucky. The goddess sent my mate to me on a platter of gold. I didn't even have to struggle so much, she gave herself to me.My hungry lips returned to her lips as my fingers continued to caress her nipples, foundling with her breasts till she was completely breathless.I could tell in her eyes she wanted me just as badly as I wanted her. But I wanted to take things slow with her. Our first moment should be very memorable.I lowered her back to the bed and my fingers explored the beautiful curves on her body, tracing her delicate skin till I got to her soft mold.My wolf purred in satisfaction as my fingers rested on her clitoris."Hmm... Lucius..." She moaned holding my upper arm.I looked up at her and my eyes darkened. She had her lips pulled between her teeth and her eyes were closed a
Diane’s POVI felt something within me shift and before I could stop myself, I threw myself against Scarred-face, screaming my lungs out.“Let my baby go!” I screamed.In my mind, I was so sure that I would manage to create enough distractions to take Owen from them and run as far as I could, but all those moves were only in my head. I didn’t even get far before Liam grabbed me roughly by the arm.“Where do you think you are going? The party is just starting…” he growled and threw me hard towards the bed. My head hit the bedframe and I felt my consciousness dwindle before my eyes.I blinked, panicking even stronger. If anything happened to me now, I wouldn’t be able to protect Owen anymore. I would fail once again in protecting my baby.“Mummy!” Owen screamed and I tried to raise myself from the ground despite the dizziness in my head.I refused to give up. My body was groaning in defeat, but I would rather die. Adrenaline pumped through my bloodstreams, and I dragged myself back to m
Diane’s POVAs soon as Liam stepped out of the room, I saw it as my opportunity to escape from his room. I returned my shirt to their position and moved out at once. I still remembered the route we had taken while coming, so I traced it back to my room.I was about to take the final bend when I heard a deafening growl from a room on my right. The blood within my body froze and panic started drumming through my skin.They said anyone who knew could be rescued, so I let my curiosity lead me to the side of the wall where I could get a good angle to see what was happening in that room.“No!” the roar echoed out of the room once again. “Keith can’t die like that!” he screamed again, and I watched as Liam held his head and dropped to the ground with tears in his eyes.“My lord, I saw the body with my two eyes. Lucius had made sure there would be no regeneration for him. He is dead-” a man covered in a hood was saying.I covered my mouth as the realization of what this meant flooded through
Lucius’s POV“Are you sure we are heading in the right direction?” I asked Monique for the third time since we have been on the road. I noticed that we had been going around the same places for close to two hours now and she just sat there with a smug look on her face, watching me as I drove as if I was a new show in a cinema.“Monique? Didn’t you hear me?” I asked, throwing a glance in her direction. She was now sitting with her legs spread apart and the skirt barely visible anymore.“Hmmm, yeah… yes, of course… just keep going…” she said, waving her hand to the screen while her eyes remained on me.My wolf twisted with disgust at her position. If she couldn’t sit properly, she shouldn’t have worn such an absurd outfit. I wanted to reprimand her to adjust herself, but I decided to ignore it. She was not my responsibility.“I don’t know if you have noticed but we have been going round the same place for hours now. Can you look at the road and tell me where we are supposed to go?” I a
Diane’s POVI planned on convincing Louis to help us escape but after hearing that Liam and Keith had his family, I couldn’t bring myself to say anymore. I would do anything to save my family, so I understood exactly where he stood in all of these.In the next couple of hours, I tried to remain positive as I studied every inch of the room, we were kept in, hoping that a miraculous door would appear from nowhere and I could step out of it.I even took my time to think about my decisions, wondering if things could have been different if I had acted in another way. I was stuck on a roller coaster of emotions till sleep managed to steal me.But even the sleep didn’t give me the rest of mind I needed. I kept seeing horrible endings to our situation that soon turned into a nightmare. The worst of them was when I saw Liam kill Owen. I was going to die first before I let anything happen to Owen.By the time my eyes opened, they went straight to Owen and I only relaxed after I saw that he was
Lucius’s POVIt was already in the early hours of the morning when I got to Macy’s house. As usual, as soon as I parked the vehicle in their driveway, I noticed the move of the curtain and I was suddenly reminded of Fred’s death.At some point after all of this was over, I would have to inform her of what had happened to her brave husband.My heart was heavy with sadness, but I swallowed it back. If I slacked now, her husband wouldn’t be the only bad news I would be giving her.I got out of the vehicle and this time Lucas stepped down with me. Together we went to her front door and just a few feet before we got to it, the door opened, and it wasn’t who I was expecting.“Where is Diane?” Sophie’s firm voice rang out around the area like she had a microphone buried in her throat.“Something came up and she… can I come in, there is a lot I have to explain to you,” I said. My voice was heavy with emotions, and I hoped she didn’t aggravate things.She studied me for a second before her sha
Lucius’s POVWith Keith dead, I left the captain of my soldiers and Kasper in charge, and I took one of the cars back to the human city to get the answers I needed.There was still a lot to be done, but I knew that I could trust my men to do a very good job of clearing everything and sorting what needed to be sorted.As I drove, my eyes were fixed on the road, but my heart ached for Diane. She was going to be broken when she found out about her grandfather but more than that, I needed to get her before Liam decided to do something crazy.Each moment I spent in that vehicle increased the number of questions rolling through my head and by the time I got to Bucks quarters, I practically jumped out of the moving vehicle.Lucas who had already been notified was standing at the entrance waiting for me and the moment he saw me, he ran towards me and hugged me. A rare moment where we shared our bond as brothers and as much as I wanted to just push him away and proceed inside, I could understa
Lucius’s POVThe sound of clashing bodies and screams filled the area in seconds. Just like I had thought, this was more intense than what we had done at Keith’s pack. The ninja wolves were far more trained than the guards’ Keith’s pack.My men were starting to struggle. Each time one of theirs fell, two of mine fell. If things continued at this pace, we were going to lose.I tore through the bodies of soldiers and tried to make my way into the castle where I knew that Keith would be waiting. He had planned this very well; he knew that it was going to take a lot more to bring him down with the ninja wolves on his side, but I refused to give up.I tapped into my alpha abilities and skillfully cut through them, but they were like ants. If two fell another four appeared and I knew that I had to strategize again if I was going to beat them, or they would change the narrative of the fields. We had come to capture their ruler but if we weren’t careful, they were going to end up capturing me
Lucius’s POVI marched toward the tent where Fred was being kept with a boiling heart filled with rage.I felt so stupid. The signs had always been there from the very beginning, and I failed to recognize them or maybe I was just too blinded to see them.From the very first day I met him, I recognized the strange scent of him. When he gave me that cock and bull story about his pack, I knew there was something about it that didn’t entirely add up, but I chose to believe it.And then it didn’t stop there, when the council had arrested him suspecting him to be Patrick, I had the feeling that they were on to something. My council might have been cowards, but they were not entirely stupid. Something must have led them to Fred’s doorstep, and I had closed my eyes to that possibility.Fast forward to the day I went to tell him about his freedom, he had been on the phone speaking about something strange. Yet again, I let it slide. He even had the guts to call me and give me intel like he was
Diane’s POV“You have lost your mind, Liam!” I hissed shaking my head in disgust and disbelief. If he really thought that after everything, he did to me I would belittle myself to the point of sleeping with him then he must have truly lost his mind.He threw his head back and let out an irritating laughter before stopping to look deeply into my eyes. “Do not worry. We have all the time in the world. Lucius is Keith’s reward, while you are mine. No one is going to stop me,” he said and got on his feet.I felt the blood in my body scatter and my heart started beating at a dangerously fast pace, but I kept my cool. Owen was also staring with a glint of fear in his eyes, and I held him tight. I was ready to protect him with my entire life.“Louis please, take them inside. Let her freshen up,” he said to the traitor who had sold me out and then his evil eyes turned to me, “When I need her, I will call for her. I hope you are smart enough to take this moment to relax that beautiful body of