"I, Luciano Marchetti, Alpha king of the Crescent Moon pack, reject you, Freya Delaney, as my mate and luna." His husky baritone scratched my ear, as he strangled and glared downward at me. "A-Alpha, i-it hurts." I whimpered, gazing up at him tearfully. + He rules his kingdom with an iron fist. At the mention of his name, every wolf shudders with trepidation. He is none other than Luciano Marchetti, the ruthless alpha king of the crescent moon pack. Meanwhile, Freya Delaney is a lowly omega maid in Luciano's palace who has never had the chance to see him. Her life falls apart on one fateful day, when she wakes up next to the corpse of Luciano's mother with a bloody knife in her grasp. As expected, no one believes her innocence, and she is immediately deemed a murderer. What happens when she finds out that the alpha king is her fated mate? What more when he rejects her on the spot and casts her into the dungeon instead?
Lihat lebih banyakFreya's POV
A choked gasp escaped my lips as I squeezed my eyes open.
It felt as if I had been running from a demon in my sleep before I snapped back to consciousness.
Confusion coursed through me as I scanned the exquisite ceiling of the room, from where I was lying.
Realization hit me like a wicked stepmother and I became aware that I was neither in my bedchamber at the servants quarters, nor was the cold, hard surface on which my back was glued to my bed.
"Danger, Freya. There's danger." My wolf, Ana, chanted from within.
I immediately tilted my head sideways, and as soon as I did, I wish I had never done so.
The gory sight that met my eyes caused me to jump as a frightful mewl emitted from my mouth.
I was lying in a pool of blood I presumed wasn't mine, beside the dowager luna.
The mother of the Alpha king.
Luna Lorelei.
Her face was deathly pallor, her eyes were open but they weren't moving, and there was a wide gash on her chest where blood was still oozing out in copious amounts.
Harsh cognition briskly dawned on me, and I realized I had been lying in the luna's pool of blood.
And she was most likely dead.
As I made to stand up, the blood vessels at my temple began to painfully throb, causing my vision to spin.
Through clenched teeth, I struggled to sit up and that was when, I heard the loud clattering of an object beside me.
For the umpteenth time that day, I gasped as I saw the object.
It was a bloody knife.
I realized something for the second time that day, my hands were drenched in blood, same as my uniform and socks.
Although, my pumps were nowhere to be found.
"N-No. This can't be." I muttered to myself like a senile widow who couldn't accept the news of her husband's death.
Something wasn't right.
In the past ten years that I had been a maid at the palace, I had never had the opportunity to visit the main palace, talk less of entering the luna's chambers.
The most frustrating aspect of the whole thing was that I couldn't remember how I got into the chamber.
The only thing I remembered was that yesterday had been the dowager luna's sixtieth birthday, and I was in the kitchen doing dishes with some maids after the party ended.
Apart from that, I couldn't remember anything else.
And now, I was in her bedchamber with a bloody knife in my grasp, looking disheveled.
"Dowager Luna's bedchamber is on the ground floor and the window is open. We can run away from here before we get framed, Freya." Ana suggested.
"No. That'd make it seem as if I have something to hide. I didn't do it, so there's no reason why I should run away." I countered, and I felt her bristle within me.
"You are fucking stupid at times. That's your problem." She bit back, and as I made to snap at her, the door creaked open and an elderly woman, who I presumed was the dowager luna's lady in waiting, strolled in.
Good. I could explain myself to her. I reassured myself, ignoring my wolf's grumble.
I guessed my wolf was right and I was really stupid because I didn't expect her to scream in terror or for her eyes to widen into saucers as she saw me.
I was foolish enough to think she'd have helped me without being scared or shocked by the unpleasant sight.
"M-Ma'am, calm down. I didn't do it. Please believe me." I started like an imbecile.
The elder woman shook her head in disbelief, her eyes darting between the dowager luna's corpse and I.
"You bloody murderer. What have you done? How could you do this?" She spat, tears rolling down her cheeks as she cradled the dowager luna's body.
"Murderer? I-I didn't do it. I swear to the moon goddess. I work here in the palace as a maid. I also have no idea how I got here, but I-"
The rest of my words flew back into my mouth as I heard a knock on the door.
"You should have escaped when you could." Ana taunted, and I ignored her.
"Are you alright, mother? I heard a scream from my study. Can I come in?" The gravelly baritone of a man came from behind the door.
Mate. Mate. Mate.
My wolf was beside herself with happiness as she chanted the word like a mantra.
How perfect. My mate had all these years to show up, but he didn't, he just had to show up on the worst day of my life.
But wait, "mother?"
Did that mean my mate was the alpha king?
"He's here, Freya. Our alpha is here." Ana swirled in excitement within me.
"You are not answering me, ma. I'm coming in." The voice wafted into my ears again, and I exchanged startled glances with the elder woman.
I squeezed my eyes shut in surrender as the door creaked open, and the man, my mate, strolled in.
So, that was him.
The alpha king who my best friend, Ivy, had an unhealthy obsession with.
I wondered how she'd take the news that he was my mate.
"Alpha." The elder woman bowed, and I found myself doing the same.
Without uttering a word, he gazed at his mother's corpse before diverting his focus on me.
I had come across various men from all walks of life in the one decade and nine years that I had been alive, but never had I seen a man as gorgeous as him.
Four years had passed since I started working as a palace maid, but I had never had the opportunity to see him because he never partook in festivals and rarely went out.
Alpha was a mysterious enigma to us all.
He had emerald eyes that looked stunning but empty and distant. His auburn hair was slicked back with a stray strand hanging beautifully on his forehead.
His ethereal face seemed as though it was carved by the moon goddess herself. His pointed nose sat perfectly on his face like a button, h-
"Mate?" His voice drew me out of my thoughts, back to the harshful reality of my miserable life.
His handsome facial features contorted into disgust as he glared from the dowager luna's body to me.
"My alpha." I whispered, forcing my aching body up from the floor.
As asinine as I was, my wolf still yearned for my alpha's mating mark.
She yearned to proudly wear the mark like it was a gift bequeathed to her by the moon goddess herself.
I craved to submit to him. It was a weird feeling and I didn't know what to do with myself.
"What happened to my mother, Arabella?" His thunderous voice reverberated across the room.
"Alpha, the evil maid wench killed her. I walked in on her removing the knife from her throat." Arabella lied, and I couldn't help the huff that left my throat.
"I-I ne-"
I was forced to swallow the rest of my words when I was forcefully yanked up from the floor and slammed against the cold hardness of the wall.
His emerald eyes had changed into an icy black void that seemed to suck my soul in, the more I stared at him.
"P-Please let me explain, Alpha. I-I"
"Keep your mouth shut, you darn murderer. To think the moon goddess decided to ridicule me by making a worthless omega wench like you my mate." He spat, curling his hands around my neck.
Instantly, I knew I was in deep trouble.
Ana whimpered softly inside me as he bore his fangs to me in a murderous way.
"Your name, what is it?" He growled.
Sniffing, I stuttered. "F-Freya Delaney."
"I, Luciano Marchetti, Alpha king of the Crescent Moon pack, reject you, Freya Delaney, as my mate and luna." His husky baritone scratched my ear, as he strangled me and glared downward at me.
"A-Alpha, i-it hurts." I whimpered, gazing up at him tearfully.
So tight that I was on the verge of hyperventilating.
"I-I accept your rejection, Alpha." I cried, and he finally let go as the excruciating ache I felt in my chest gradually fizzled out to a dull one.
I wasn't allowed to sympathize with myself for long before I was roughly hauled against the wall again by Luciano.
"I will make you regret this, you vicious killer." He whispered in an eerily-calm tone.
I fluttered my eyes shut in silent resignation as I awaited my brutal fate.
Freya's POV "Are you ready?" Ivy asked, getting rid of the last piece of clothing shielding her nakedness."More than ready." I grinned–I had quickly stripped naked and discreetly pasted a skin plaster on my neck to conceal my mating mark, immediately we entered the woods.I was more than determined to keep my complicated issues away from Ivy as I didn't want her to worry about me like the mother hen that she was.At twenty, it was quite a surprise that Ivy was still yet to find her fated mate.I was already in deep trouble because of the plates I had broken, so I thought I might as well go against her orders, so that I won't feel too miserable when she came back and unleashed her fury on me.After sighing blissfully, my bones shifted as the hair on my skin morphed into fur, and my limbs multiplied.In the past, Ivy had described my carnivorous counterpart as an averagely-sized white wolf with a set of crystal-like orbs that exuded an exotic aura.I let out a loud howl as Ivy also sh
Luciano's POV "The rogue is dead, Luciano," Darius uttered, gazing down at the illumination from his phone. "Reginald just sent me a text.""Damn it." I muttered, pursing my lips into a thin line.I couldn't give a fuck about whether or not the rogue lived, but the fact that he had kept the true murderer's name to himself until his death, infuriated the hell out of me.Last night, I had paid him a visit at the dungeon and had asked him to tell me the murderer's name to get the remedy to his gunshot injury which had turned a disgusting green and had maggots crawling out of it.However, to my utter frustration, he had remained mum about it. Even after I dealt him several blows on the head with the log of wood I had found lying around in the dungeon."That rogue is the most stupid idiot I've ever encountered. He just wasted his life for the fucking murderer. He could have simply confessed, now see where his fucking loyalty has landed him." I howled, trekking into the palace room where t
Freya's POV"Oh, fuck." I quietly cursed as the pile of ceramic plates slipped out of my hold and crashed to the floor.I knew for sure that Madam Sheila would have my head if she found out about what my clumsiness had caused.Gazing down at the ceramic shards, I heaved an exasperated sigh."Why is this happening to me?" I muttered before crouching to pick up the broken pieces of ceramic lest Ma'am Sheila decided to suddenly drop by.Thankfully, she was on a trip to her son's or so I heard, so I could say I was safe for the time being.Plus I was the only one in the kitchen–the other maids were outside doing only what the moon goddess knew."Those plates were gifted to the late alpha by a neighboring pack and you had the audacity to break them, you stupid wench." One of the voices that I dreaded to hear at that moment broke into my line of hearing and caused me to freeze for a split second.I had celebrated my luck too soon."They slipped out of my hands, I swear. I don't even know ho
Luciano's POV "Alpha." I heard someone call while simultaneously knocking on the door.I was in the midst of getting ready to attend the pack council meeting. It had been quite a while since I attended one due to the fact that I had been either postponing the meetings or asking Darius to go on my behalf.My mother's sudden death had broken me that bad, coupled with the fact that I had mated the omega who could be her killer.Thinking about it made me want to dig up a hole and bury myself alive inside it.Six days had passed since the ugly mistake that should never have happened, occurred between Freya and I.And the amount of self hatred I felt toward myself was still immeasurable. The fact that Killian also made it a point to always remind me of it at every chance he got didn't help matters either."Are you in there, Alpha Luciano?" Another voice wafted into my bedchamber.This time, the voice was unmistakably Reginald's and he sounded quite impatient.I stopped knotting my tie as I
Freya's POV My legs felt like huge slabs of lead as I waddled toward the room that I shared with three other maids.I couldn't believe what I thought had transpired between the alpha and I had truly occured–everything felt like a scary illusion.It felt as if I was merely making things up in my head. However, the pleasantly painful sensation in between my legs coupled with my aching back made me think otherwise and yanked me back to reality.My neck was also sore due to the way Luciano had strangled me earlier.I would be the most stupid person in the world, who didn't value her life to blabber about having sex with him to the other maids.Hell, we weren't even on speaking terms, so how would I even tell them?Plus, I knew what Luciano could do and I was also aware of the fact that he was a brutal and egoistical psychopath that could truly kill me and whoever I had decided to tell."We are now mated to him." Ana growled within me."I know," I whined. "I should have stopped him. Now,
Luciano's POV I groaned, annoyed as blinding rays of sunlight diffracted through the window and seeped into my eyes.Muttering a string of curses underneath my breath with my eyes still squeezed shut, I reached for a pillow, so I could use it to block the sunlight and get more sleep.However, the other pillow was occupied to my total befuddlement.It was then I recalled the mysterious arousal that had befallen me the day before while I was drinking with Darius and how I had texted Mia to come over."What the fuck are you still doing here, Mia?" I scoffed, flapping my eyes open.I forgot how to breathe as my heart stopped instantly on seeing her.The chuckle that left my mouth sounded strange even to my ears as I frantically scrubbed my hand over my face to ascertain that I wasn't daydreaming.That Freya wasn't lying naked in my bed with her hair disheveled and a stunned countenance etched into her face.That the omega who could have possibly murdered my mother wasn't the woman I had
Freya's POV The electrifying feeling of something long and moist lapping at my wet entrance drew me out of my slumber with a choked gasp escaping my mouth.A confused moan slithered through my lips as I found myself subconsciously arching my back, in order for the thing to gain more access inside me.The thing then slid into my core without warning, prompting me to mewl sensually and flap my eyes open with a start.My mouth hung open like a fish out of water as I beheld the sight which I wasn't mentally prepared to see even in my wildest dreams–Alpha Luciano was kneeling between my legs and eating me out.Was this a dream? Had my wolf suddenly gone mad that I was having such a vivid and arousing dream?It was then I recalled how I had walked into the alpha's bedchamber unknowingly while I was deeply engrossed in my thoughts.I choked out a cough as I further remembered Luciano pushing me on his bed and calling me "Mia" while we mated through coitus.The rest of my thoughts wafted awa
Luciano's POV I sighed as Mia whimpered into my mouth, sending sparks of electricity into my sex-addled brain with my boner straining painfully in my pants.Without breaking the kiss, I unbuckled my pants and promptly discarded it before peeling off my tank top and flinging it across the room, with a swift urgency that stunned me.Never in my life had I been so close to the edge and in need of an immediate orgasm like I was at that moment.The dim amber lights from the ceiling also helped by setting a passionate ambience in my bedchamber. I couldn't see her face clearly in the torrid darkness of the room, but for some reason that only made me hornier."A-Alpha," Mia mewled when I detached my lips from hers to run my tongue over her plump breasts.They looked extra sumptuous and huge that night which aroused me even more.Never in the past six years that I had been having coitus with Mia had I felt so aroused by her body.The gentle curves of her body felt so soft and delectable like
Freya's POV With anxiety coursing through my veins, I dragged my feet to the kitchen where Madam Sheila, the head maid, was assigning duties to the omega.Six days had passed since I was miraculously released from the confines of the dungeon and it still felt like I was in a blissful dream that I was really scared to wake up from.My broken arm and wounds had also healed nicely.Ever since I had started working at Luciano's quarters, I hadn't gotten a slight glimpse of him, and it made me wonder if he truly lived at the palace."Ma'am Sheila." I bowed to her when she finally got to me.As usual, she ignored my greeting and started listing out my chores for that afternoon."Clean the guest bedrooms in the whole of this wing. Make sure they are all spick and span because I will do a thorough inspection when you're done. Now get out of my sight." She snarled, and turned to the next maid.I bowed to her even though her back was facing me before retrieving the cleaning supplies and making
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