“What are you doing? Hurry up and take this to the prince!” Astrid shouted at me. I stood with the tray shaking in my hands, fear paralyzing me from head to toe. I didn’t want to do this but I had no choice. I didn’t want Skylar to implicate Celeste because I refused to do it. She’d not rest until she destroyed everything that I was and held dear so I didn’t have any choice but to comply with her wishes if I didn’t want something bad to happen to my best friend.I took the tray from the kitchen and mixed the poison into the drink on the Alpha’s tray. This would be the second time I would deliver his meals to his room in the penthouse of the pack house. I hoped that like the first time, he wouldn’t be around when I entered the room.The suite was dark when I entered, only a small light from an open door illuminated the place. Dropping the tray on a table, I straightened, prepared to run out as the Alpha himself stepped out of the bathroom. My mouth flapped open and closed like a fish w
His smouldering gaze didn’t waver from mine as he gestured to a seat that I fell into with my eyes trying to avoid his. Artemis was howling with joy, giddy with excitement but I held myself from reading any meaning into his actions. I learnt early that I couldn’t be disappointed if I expected nothing.‘Did you not hear Beta Jabari?’ Artemis panted, taking a break from dancing around to speak to me. ‘He called us Luna.’ As Beta Jabari didn’t speak for Prince Valens, I didn’t see her point.“What is your name?” His clear, authoritative voice asked. I heard nothing in his voice and I expected to hear disgust, anger even.“Aysel.” I studied a scar on my index finger as if it was the most fascinating thing in the world. I did so I wouldn’t have to look at his body like a pervert. Fear wouldn’t let me look at his face but his body attracted my eyes. He had light brown nipples and light-tanned skin.“A beautiful name.” He pretended to sound impressed by my name.Artemis howled. She hadn’t be
“Where are you coming from?” Lucien asked with a scowl painting his face and his hands tightly crossed over his broad chest. My head fell from his face to look at my shoes as the waves of his anger threatened to bury me.“I went to see the Alpha.” He stood as I closed the door behind me and leaned against it as he stalked forward with unbridled anger in his eyes, his stance, even his aura radiated his displeasure but it couldn’t even be compared to the simple aura of the prince.Lucien came forward and pressed his hands into the wall beside my head, his body caging me to the wall as he breathed down on me. I looked to the side and cussed myself for not fleeing before he stood, before he had the chance to put me at a disadvantage but I knew Lucien. If I ran, he would give chase.“What is your relationship with him?” He snarled into my face, his teeth clench and hot breath warming my skin and kicking my heart to race faster.I had done nothing so why did he come down on me as if I did s
“First, you tried poisoning me and now, you deal me another betrayal?” The Alpha Prince rummaged through a dresser with his broad back to me.While my wolf howled in happiness at our proximity, the man in me shivered in terror, knowing that this was bad – terrible for me.I had stopped denying we were mates. I couldn’t deny it for much longer, not with the way my wolf kept yapping at his proximity and the fact that I still had my head on my shoulders. I knew without a doubt that if we weren’t mated, Prince Valens would have severed my head from my shoulders the minute he knew I’d tried to poison him.“To have your lips on another?” His words sounded cool. Too cool. Dangerously cool. It made me fear he turned his back to get out a weapon to destroy me or something equally as cruel but when he turned, he hadn’t gotten out anything.“You wound me.” His words sounded sincere. Sincere and angry. Seriously angry.“I’m sorry, Alpha.” I bowed my head to show the depth of my repentance even if
I slept in the prince’s bed that night. The same bed the pack reserved for distinguished alphas who were visiting for a short time. Alphas couldn’t stay in another’s pack for more than three days except on special occasions because the imbalance of power may trigger an unplanned fight between the visiting alpha and the ruling alpha, especially if the visiting alpha had more power than the ruling alpha.I couldn’t sleep that night as the bed was too soft, the room too warm and the presence of power too strong. He didn’t sleep beside me. In fact, he didn’t sleep. I stayed up all night in the penthouse room listening to him move about and it made me wonder if he too couldn’t sleep. If I disturbed his peace or if insomnia was a part of his curse.At early dawn, sleep took me by surprise and when I woke, I woke to panic in my guts. I was so afraid of the choking aura of power surrounding me and the fact that I woke up later than usual. Astrid would kill me. It was already past eight so I k
The training grounds were meant for warriors. Even this early, there were people training, people who skipped breakfast to improve their strength. No one paid attention to me as I sat in a corner, watching those sparing around me or just warming up for the training ahead.The alpha came in a long time later with Skylar at his side. She gave me a gloating smile once she saw me sitting in a secluded corner.“Rise.” I stood as my alpha commanded but my eyes were on Skylar’s hand on his bicep. She tightened it when she caught me looking, her smile widening.She most likely had figured out that the alpha and I were mates even if he wanted to hide it. Skylar hated me so she took this opportunity to make me feel miserable and it worked. Seeing her beside the alpha, I realized we would never look so good together. She was a strong alpha female, capable and beautiful. She was everything we expected from an alpha like Valens.“Skylar tells me she has trained warriors before.” I looked from him
“Kiss me.” The command washed over me like a tide.I expected him to tell me to kneel or get out or for him to scold me but not that. My legs froze to the ground while my cheeks turned crimson. His words embarrassed me but when I dared to look at him, he looked nothing but serious.“I – Alpha –“ I swallowed down bile caused by nervousness.“Kiss me. I’m sure you know how to do that.” My skin felt too hot for my body, as if I was burning from the inside.“I –“ I’d never initiated a kiss in my life. In fact, I’d only ever kissed Lucien and I didn’t think he would want to know that.“You must have kissed someone before, am I right?” When I looked into his eyes, I had no choice but to nod because there was no point lying to him. He already knew about Lucien and me and he hated lies.Admitting turned out to be a grave mistake.He grabbed my nape with firm hands and hauled me to his chest in one move with his dead eyes alive with anger. The white around his eyes turned red and his lips pull
“Hey, wench! Clean this up and fetch me a glass of water!” Bethel the former alpha and premium asshole yelled, pushing his plate away while glaring at me. I walked over to him and filled his glass with water. Lucien followed my movement with smouldering eyes and a sharp glare at Bethel but I paid him no mind.If these people knew I was the prince’s mate, would they treat me differently? Or would they not care seeing as the prince himself didn’t seem to care? Or perhaps they would want to hurt me for breaking his curse?“We need to talk.” Lucien pulled me to a corner as soon as I stepped out of the kitchen. I looked around, expecting to see one man from the Alpha Pack walking about but I saw nobody. I felt like a fugitive or an adulterous woman, in fact. I didn’t want Lucien to be anywhere close to me.“What is it you want this time?” I pulled my hand from his, putting a bit of distance between us. His brows creased and he looked hurt as I stepped away from him.“What’s your relationsh