The ride back to the house was longer than usual. Or was I the one distracted by my loud thoughts that rang in my ears?The driver pulled into the driveway and I opened the car door so he didn't have to.“Thank you,” I muttered when I came out and he nodded.I took a few steps before halting in my tracks and turning to him.“Can you please keep the little….detour between us?” I asked.He nodded once and I sent him a stiff smile before going into the house.“Where have you been?” Hilda asked with a loud shriek as soon as I entered the house and I couldn't help but smile back at her.“Out,” I shrugged.“The Alpha let you?” She asked, surprise written all over her features.“How are you?” I asked, avoiding her question.“I made breakfast. Are you hungry?” She asked but was already pulling me towards the kitchen.“No, no, I'm…” I started to protest because all I wanted was to lay down on my bed and curl up in a ball but my body betrayed me and my stomach growled loudly.She gave me a poi
My palms became sweaty and I looked around the room hurriedly.The windows were closed, just like I left them.I sniffed deeply but there was no other scent in my room to indicate that anyone had been there.Everything was just the way I'd left it.Who could have come in and dropped that paper there?With a determined look on my face, I left the room and headed downstairs, taking the stairs two at a time.“You're here,” I rushed out as soon as I reached Hilda and spun her around to face me.“What's going on?” She asked with concern and a hint of fear in her voice as her eyes searched mine.I took a deep breath to regulate my ragged breathing before asking, “was anyone in my room?”Confused lines marred her forehead and her brows knitted together.“Why would anyone be in your room?” She asked.“I mean, did you….?” I started but decided it was a waste of time.She didn't know anything.“Never mind,” I shook my head and let go of her arm.She looked at me weirdly but before she could ask
“What were you saying, Candice?” I shook her violently.“The Alpha,” she said with raw fear in her eyes.The loud painful howl came again and I dropped her limp arms.“We're not done with this conversation,” I said and ran out of the room.I stopped in my tracks when I got to the living room and my breath hitched as I took in the sight in front of me.Ares howled and writhed with pain on the floor and blood covered the whole space around him while the maids stared on in horror.“What the hell is wrong with you people?!” I yelled at the maids and ran to his side. “Call the pack doctor!” “No!” His loud growl shook the ground and I was taken aback momentarily.I stared at him for a few seconds before looking at the guards behind him.“What happened?” I asked them.They both shared confused looks and shrugged.“The Alpha insisted on going out alone,” they said but fear of saying the wrong thing was evident in their eyes.“Help me,” I said.They were by my side in mere seconds, helping hi
Ares' povIntense pain flashed through her eyes and even though it only lasted a nanosecond, it would have felt better for my heart to be ripped out of my chest than seeing that pain, knowing I caused it.I was about to say something to redeem myself because my wolf cursed me out and my conscience, which I thought I'd buried decades ago pricked me.“Right,” she beat me to it and nodded once.She stood directly under the lighting of the bathroom and it illuminated her red hair, giving it a fiery orange color.She looked so magical and I was lost in her misty eyes momentarily.Her clothes and parts of her body was stained with blood, my blood, and I balled my hands in fists to keep from walking over to her and dragging her into the bathroom to scrub every part of her delicate skin.She was probably also bewitched by the enthralling air around us like I was as she stood transfixed.Or maybe she was regretting ever letting me in.Something flickered in her eyes and she finally broke the s
Ares' pov I passed her room and walked down the stairs, vaguely hoping not to bump into her.Not because I didn't want to see her but because I wasn't sure how to react to her.I had healed considerably well after all the silver had been removed from my body and I could move with grace again.“Alpha!” I heard a feminine voice from the side.I knew instantly that she wasn't the one because she hardly ever called me by my title when it was just the both of us, not that I minded, plus her voice was more velvety than nasal.I turned to see the head maid and I gave her a questioning glance.“You're up and running already after….” I couldn't tell what expression I had on my face but she trailed off and knew better than to mention it. “I was thinking you'd want to eat first to gain energy after all the blood you lost,” she said.“Do I look like I need energy?” I asked.“No, but….”I cut her off with a glare and she swallowed the rest of her words before bowing and turning to leave.I've alw
Ares' pov“What happened to him?” I turned to the guards closest to me.“I…I don't know, Alpha,” he looked genuinely confused.I growled lowly and could already feel my anger on the lid.He was just about to say something.Heck, I could finally put an end to all of this.And then this?I was about to land a blow on the guard when something from my peripheral vision caught my attention.The guards held their breaths as I stalked towards the small table on one side.“What's this?” I lifted one of the two empty glass cups.“We had given them water when it looked like they weren't going to wake up,” the head guard said.I narrowed my eyes and then it made sense to me.I sniffed the cup but there wasn't anything suspicious but I knew better.“Who gave you the water?” I asked coldly.“The head maid,” he replied.As soon as the words left his lips, I smashes the glass hard against the wall.The guards exchanged worried looks but I didn't spare them a glance.“Clean this up,” I said and storm
“What?” I asked in a flat tone as I folded the comforter I had been using.“I want you,” he said without missing a beat but what missed a beat was my heart.I bit the inside of my cheeks as anger welled up in me at the same time sweet tingles ran down my spine from the intensity of his stare.He took a step forward and I tossed the neatly folded comforter to the side and it landed in a pile on the ground.“Do you enjoy this?” I spat. “Do you enjoy all of this?” My tone grew and I pointed at the space in between the both of us. “Do you enjoy messing with my mind?” His brows knitted together and I would have thought he was genuinely confused about my accusations if I didn't know just what type of devil he was.“What…”He trailed off and I closed my eyes in a bid to control my anger and tongue.“Just leave,” I said calmly.“Why?” He retorted.Are you kidding me right now?!I narrowed my eyes in slits and we got caught in a mini staring contest.When it became obvious that he wasn't goin
He stumbled backwards a bit like I had physically jabbed him with my words.I immediately felt a pang of guilt but that only lasted a second.I had finally let it out.I had fallen for him in the midst of all this chaos, so quietly that I didn't realize when he rubbed off on me.But for him, this was all a game.He looked like he was trying to process what I'd just said as his eyes searched mine.But I put my guard up and crossed my arms.The silence between us was so loud and the tension thick but none of us seemed to be ready to break it.We stayed that way, suspended in time and in each other's gazes.Mine, firm. His, confused.His lips were still swollen and wet from the kiss we just shared making it difficult to focus on my anger.“Tabitha…” he finally broke the silence.“Don't,” I cut him off with a shake of my head. “Domt say anything.”I was so convinced that he was just going to walk all over my feelings that I had laid at his feet with his words and I wasn't sure how much m