The club was empty of any witnesses by now. The only ones here were me, Nora, Darian, and his royal guards. If they killed us, nobody would know.Darian took a visibly deep breath, he took a step closer so I took one back but I immediately hit the doorframe and though he scared the shit out of me,
Kiera, the name didn't seem familiar, I hadn't heard it before but Zade seemed awfully sure that Darian would know it.He left after the very brief visit and now I just sat on the edge of the bed with my feet firmly on the floor in case I needed to spring up as fast as possible.I waited for him to
DARIAN’S POVKeira. That name hadn't been spoken inside this palace for years. Nothing so beautiful belonged here. The only other time I felt that was when I brought Hazel home after the Hunt. Every step felt like it defined the turn of the world and the halls seemed longer, infinite even, when I
DARIAN’S POVI lifted my head and met the Council member's prideful glares with a careless one of my own. But they were suspicious. Every other time that they had delivered the next one of their little games, I'd read it right away and then we’d have a drink and I would act like they weren't the scu
I stopped reading and looked up at the men sitting in my chairs, drinking my scotch while their Guards fucked the girl I paid for. “If you keep reading we will kill them,” Rhys snarled. “If I don't keep reading they will kill her,” Rhys and I were well aware of the reputation we had and what peop
HAZEL’S POVWhatever that name meant and whoever it belonged to deserved a medal for what it did to Darian.His face fell for the first time since I met him and his eyes looked haunted by the memories of the person who carried the name. There was emotion in his eyes and for the first time it wasn’t
Zade left and I stood holding a knife and stared at my reflection in the blade.The closer I looked the clearer I saw the sadness in my eyes.“No shit, you’re about to get us killed,” Trixy snidely remarked.“If you want I'll stop and we can just spend the rest of a probably very long life living as
He grabbed my neck and claimed my lips like he’d been waiting for it.His hands roamed my body like he was starving for my touch and he knew my body now better than I knew it myself, after having drawn paths many times before, he followed them as though they led him home.The lock holding my teddy t
“Your mother gave you a potion in a needle to stun your abilities?” Gabe was fighting back a growl as he walked in.Darian stood still in the back, equally as angry as his brother but when his eyes landed on me they softened and he smiled as he pushed off from the wall and walked over.Kiera nodded
Darian had to hurry off and help with the cleanup- after which he needed to get word out to all the members of the pack and let them know what had happened. I was aimlessly strolling around the bottom floor, unsure of where to start and what my job was right now. When I neared the door I saw Nora’s
Nora heaved where she stood a few feet away. It was a morbid sight- all the bodies that lay scattered, some in pieces and others like dolls- you’d think they were just asleep.The smell of decay rose in clouds; my eyes wouldn’t be able to see in a shade other than red for quite some time.“You did g
I slid on my knees when an arm shot out about to smack my throat and the ones I needed to fight on the way, I took care of. But I was close now, the Elder’s naturally hooded eyes were focused and his nose wrinkled as I closed the distance between us with a swift hit that he dodged. For an old wrinkl
The Elder staggered back and held a hand over his wounds but from the choking came a laugh, a dark chuckle as he lowered his hand and his wound started healing. That shouldn’t be happening, he should not be healing from that, not that quickly anyhow. Nora’s head whipped to the side when his fist cra
Every visible inch of the Elder’s skin turned cherry red, as he stood unharmed on the sidelines. There there was barely a nick on his wrinkled skin apart from the cut in his hand. The news of my pregnancy was not celebrated by anyone, let alone myself as we stood in the middle of a war field, our nu
“Why?” He sucked on his teeth and looked around the fight starting again.“I can’t say, but you can figure it out.” He grabbed my shoulders and gave me a light shake. “Figure it out, Hazel, and everyone will walk away from this,” he searched my eyes desperately, but his riddles were lost on me.“Yo
“Well it’s a shame that your future Queen chooses her own life over her people, of course enticed by her King to do so I’m certain,” the Elder’s voice scraped my ears like thorns when I walked out. He lifted his hand about to give another grand speech when his eyes rounded and landed on me. “Well,
It was impossible not to listen to the grunts and the last screams of a person before they fell dead. The bloodshed was already massive and the healers were running around to tend to all those who had been hurt.We had volunteers outside bringing in the wounded and the bodies of the dead ones were l