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Chapter 19 : Negotiations
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The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 20 : Growing Closer
Eleonore's POVHaha. I was in trouble.I just hadn’t known how much trouble I was going to be in till now.I took the risk but God—Goddess, I still hadn’t expected… this! Everything!Our first semester was coming to a close. Finals week was on its way as everyone started to study more and feel the pressure.Professor Cross had called me in after my classes because he found something on the topic of multiple mates, and I was excited to learn what he found but I was also… scared to hear it?After the vampire scare with that man Valerian, I’d just been getting to know the Sined brothers and forgot when they met me for the first time. It felt like I was the one losing control!They were… wonderful, and that was starting to hurt.Gabriel was usually silent when we went out, feeling no need to start a conversation, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t caring or loving. It was all in his gestures, the way he walked on the side that was closer to the street like he was protecting you
Last Updated : 2024-04-03The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 21 : Father Wants Me Dead
Eleonore’s POVThomas’s warning had left me paranoid over finals week, doubling my stress but somehow, someway, I managed to pull through. I was a bit worse for wear and run ragged, but the first semester of university was over, and we were allowed to start choosing our courses for the next semester.Professor Sanderson had given me back my final project with a proud smile and told me I had some real talent and that he was hoping to see me for his next class, and I swore that I almost cried.I was really doing it, huh? Learning like my mother did. She never got to build anything, after college she met father and was practically married right away. I wondered if I’d get to build anything or if father was going to drag me back before that could even happen—but no.For now, for now I was happy, and I didn’t have to worry about him. For now I was just focusing on the trouble right in front of me.My pills, seemingly harmless little things with no label beyond ‘take two a day’. No
Last Updated : 2024-04-03The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 22 : Hello, Doll
Valerian POVWould it be too much if I laughed at our ‘first’ meeting?Darius probably wouldn’t take it too well, but I just couldn’t help myself, barely restraining myself to a grin as she came out and saw me. Oh, Eleonore definitely remembered me.“Hello,” I smirked, watching her tense just the slightest bit but her poker face was good in front of her father and unlike last time, I doubted that she’d allow herself to run away with him at her back.Funny, you’d think that I was the more dangerous one between us, but I hadn’t shown her all my cards just yet, she had no idea who I was let alone what I could do. I could make her father look like the pitiful little rat he was.“Hello Valerian, it’s wonderful to meet you.” She greeted me so politely, so professionally that I never would’ve guessed we had met before, but I knew, and she knew too.Hahaha! How fun. My grin got wider, teeth flashing as I set her on edge. I’d play along to this, for now.“Go get to know your new f
Last Updated : 2024-04-03The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 23 : Ellie’s in Trouble
Gael’s POVCharlie called me, worried. That wasn’t how I wanted to be woken up, but I suppose that was my fault for sleeping in. The topic had me up faster than any alarm ever could though. Eleonore hadn’t met up with her for lunch and wasn’t answering her phone. Normal people wouldn’t have to worry about something like that. It could easily be written off as someone sleeping in or misplacing their phone, but not Ellie.She didn’t forget things like that, she was always early when she was meeting up with someone, and she didn’t blow people off without an explanation.Her phone was attached to her hip too, if only out of habit in case her brother called. She told me once, rather embarrassed, that she had barely any numbers in it but that her brother was always so busy that he had a special ringtone and everything, so she never missed a text or call. Same for all her friends.That meant something had happened and I couldn’t help but worry, so I told Charlie to keep an eye out
Last Updated : 2024-04-03The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 24 : One to Save Me
Eleonore’s POVThere was no greater irony than being hurt by your own hypocrisy.And realizing it only after the fact when your face was buried in a pillow, having just finished coming down from an emotionally charged moment you backed out of, that would’ve ended in tears if you stayed.Which was probably still going to end in tears at some point, which I very much did not need at the moment. That’s why I left, though, to calm down and think about this rationally without getting angry at them.I was not doing too hot, though, that might’ve been the blood loss talking. After finally answering Charlie’s flurry of worried texts and her bullying me into letting her come over with some electrolytes, I laid in bed and just sort of existed. This sucked…it was absolute b-bullshit!First father came with a surprise visit, then I learned he really would kill me for his own goals because ‘daughter’ was just a fancy term for bargaining chip to him. Then Valerian became Valerian Night
Last Updated : 2024-04-03The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 25 : Vampire Lord
Eleonore’s POV“—and that’s why I’m pretty sure that my father’s sold me to Selene Thornwood for some reason, and that my engagement to Valerian Nightshade is nothing more than a legal cover story, which also explains the heavy dose of suppressants. So I don’t EVER find my mate. Any questions? Please be aware I might not be able to answer them.” With that, I waited.Gabriel, Gael, and Missael had been more than ready to finally talk, and talk we did, spilling everything about our pasts to each other, or at least the cliff notes. I’m pretty sure Gael didn’t want to go into detail about how he was almost poisoned by his family member.But everything was out there now, from my suspicions to my father’s treatment of me, along with how dangerous it would probably be to BE with me romantically.However, despite the trouble it would no doubt bring, it didn’t chase them away.“Uh, yeah, I have a lot of questions but they’re more along the lines of how we potentially fight a Vampire l
Last Updated : 2024-04-03The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 26 : A Magical Night
Gael’s POVSomehow I was giddy and nervous all at once. I’d been on dates with Ellie before, we all had, but there had been this invisible wall before. Less nerves and more like…a distance between us.I suppose it was because there’d been so much we hadn’t told each other, so much we didn’t know.Ellie’s father was apparently a bastard. She had no desire to talk about him, and really, it hadn’t been relevant until he made himself a threat like that. Here at university where she was away from him meant that he couldn’t have that much control over her.That didn’t change the mental damage he did though, how it was only now she was starting to look like she was free of him. It was a good look on her.We’d have to do something about him and Valerian at some point, but for now, we could just enjoy each other, enjoy being mates.I won the vicious rock paper scissors contest that almost ended in another fistfight, but I got to take Ellie out first and had planned everything. Now I
Last Updated : 2024-04-03The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 27 : Very Charming
Gabriel’s POVIf fratricide wasn’t illegal, I might’ve killed Gael for his audacity, even though he apologized furiously and said I could punch him for it.Punching him might’ve made me feel a little better, but it didn’t change the fact that he informed me fifteen minutes before my date with Eleonore that she didn’t like dancing.Where on said date I’d be taking her out dancing.Something he knew but just forgot since he was on cloud nine after his date.There was no way I could just plan an entirely new date in so little time. So all I could do was tell Eleonore and hope that going somewhere else at the last minute would be alright.We’d all been trying to plan fantastic dates because we wanted to treat her to something special. We just wanted to spend more time with her, show that we were going to cherish her and love her, and prove that she had nothing to fear with us.Her father was a powerful man, but so were we.“Gabriel, there you are, I’m sorry, I thought you’d
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The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 50 : Worth It
Eleonore’s POV Alpha Sined scolded his sons for their actions of preemptively marking me. I was let off rather lightly and given some reading material to go over while he had the guys train until they dropped. Despite that though, the marks remained, mostly covered by my hair and so faint you could barely see them but just brushing my fingers over them made me stupidly happy. After that, it was time to finally return to college. It felt like so long ago since I’d been on the campus, and even though winter was just around the corner the grass was still green as I stepped out of the car and took in the sights. Lush green, students milling about, and plenty of opportunities. So many opportunities that I didn’t know what to do, I was too excited. “I’ll see you guys later, alright!” “Don’t keep us waiting too long, alright?!” Gael called as I hurried off towards my dorm, well, my new dorm. I had already exchanged my keys. After my father cut ties, he pulled away from being a
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 49 : Complete Satisfaction
Gabriel’s POVThere was never a sight more beautiful than Ellie. She was…absolutely everything, and I adored her so much. To think that day in the library would spiral into this. So much had changed in so little time but I already knew that she was IT.There would be no one else, no one else I’d want or love as much as her, I knew that deep within my soul.Lying there on the bed, sprawled out the way she was and looking so content it felt like a sin to disturb her. Gael and Missael ran her hard, not that I blamed them. We’d all been waiting so long to finally have her like this, as we so desperately craved.Wholly. Intimately. We couldn’t help such desires any more than we could help loving her.Watching had been a strange sort of pleasurable torture, and reassuring in the weirdest of ways, to know that they could take care of her so well when I would be busy and couldn’t be around.And that was the crux of the matter, wasn’t it? When I was the alpha, I’d be busy, there was
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 48 : Please, Don’t Stop
Gael’s POVI owed Gabriel like, an entire week of me not giving him crap, holy shit. I hadn’t expected watching Ellie get fucked to be so inspiring but damn, I wanted to be there, doing those things to her.Before I’d been fantasizing about it, who wouldn’t when you had an absolutely gorgeous partner? However, that’s what it had been before, a fantasy, and now it wasn’t because I didn’t need to imagine how she looked without clothes or how she sounded like getting fucked.If I’d been desperate before then whatever I was now was probably going to die from the sheer need, not just to get off because I wanted to make Ellie feel good. Maybe it was just the people pleaser in me but I really, really wanted to make this good for her.I think Gabriel could see that, and Missael could definitely feel that which was why I was allowed to go next.Ellie was a sight, with flushed cheeks, chest heaving with every breath, and I joined her, tilting her head to kiss her, twirling our tongues
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 47 : Tight with Pleasure
Missael’s POVThe mating ceremony was like the werewolf version of a wedding, along with a few almost ritualistic notes to it.In the evening under a full moon, you’d exchange vows, present yourselves to the Moon Goddess, and under the light of the moon, be blessed with a wonderful union. Then, you’d bite your mate and leave your mark deep enough to scar.Similar to wedding vows, standing before the pastor, then exchanging symbols of loyalty to each other, which was then followed by a big celebration. The Moon Goddess was the witness to the union. We had done something a little different with our bites and they were more akin to a promise ring, though, in the end, Father might still be scandalized by our actions.We had all talked about all our choices and what we wanted to do and decided that this was it. We agreed upon it and there was no second-guessing ourselves. We knew what we wanted. We didn’t want something as flimsy as paper getting in the way of our relationsh
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 46 : A New Family
Eleonore’s POVRecovery had been a bit slow going but as was promised, after a week of being laid up in the hospital and monitored, I was released.I was still a bit weak but other than that I was perfectly fine and was escorted back to the manor where I was placed in the east wing, all my things already moved.The room itself was lovely, and reminded me a bit of my old room, just a bit grander. The bed looked like it was king-sized with luxurious sheets while all the furniture seemed specifically chosen to go with the soft blue walls and white ceiling.It looked nice, like a place I could call home.The first thing I did after arriving home was call Thomas. He was beside himself with worry that I swore he cried for ten minutes after hearing my voice as I did my best to soothe him and explain what had happened.He explained that father had called him and that I’d been struck from the family records, so instead of just being handed over to Selene, I was no longer Eleonore Ev
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 45 : Pride and Regret
Lillian’s POVEver since I was a child I was a proud person, I’d never deny that. Both of my parents had been rather affluent members of the pack, so I’d been proud of them and as a consequence of that, I became prideful of myself.I wanted to be someone as spectacular as them, so I held myself high and never looked back. There were times it got me into trouble, and I’d refuse to apologize, believing myself to be right.Sometimes they’d have to force me to apologize for a mistake I made when I was truly in the wrong—and I would, but Goddess did it hurt worse than pulling teeth when I had to.That should’ve been the first sign that maybe I had a bit too much pride, but it wasn’t like I didn’t work hard to have something to show for it, not just my parents’ accomplishments but my own.I had chosen to become a member of the Alpha’s guard. It was an extremely lofty position, very few people were able to acquire such a title. As a rambunctious kid who got into scraps and fights, I
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 44 : Home
Eleonore’s POVWords could not describe how relieved I was to not be staring up at a medieval stone ceiling the next time I woke up.I might’ve been hooked up to various medical machines, in a robe instead of the clothes I was previously wearing, and with a needle in my arm but it meant that I was no longer in Selene and Valerian’s hands, which was good in my book.Words could also not describe the sheer exhaustion I was feeling either, though.For a moment, things were too foggy, and I was just too tired to make sense of anything, but it slowly came back to me. What had happened at the vampire manor?I remembered…gravity pressing down on me. Of everything growing so cold as my blood and life were sapped away before I saw—I saw Gael and Gabriel and despite fighting Valerian again, Gabriel came and fought Selene.For me. They came for me, and even now I couldn’t help but tear up at that realization.After that and watching him get beat up I couldn’t stand it, so I crawled
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 43 : To Hell and Back
Gabriel’s POVThere was something extremely upsetting about my little brothers being the ones to throw themselves straight into danger without hesitation and knowing there was no other option and that they were doing the right thing.I hated myself a little, but I had to trust them like they trusted me. They trusted me to save Ellie, to defeat Selene, and it was a lot of pressure. I didn’t know if I could defeat her when I had already struggled when facing Valerian, but the consequences of losing…No, I couldn’t think about that right now. As I sprinted up the stairs I only had one thing in my head. Save Ellie. That’s what we were here to do, that’s what we were GOING to do.Climbing the same damn stairs was starting to get old though, I’d even been close enough to hear Missael fighting which just fueled my determination to see things through.I was glad I didn’t have to kick the door down again. It wasn’t the most stealthy way to take care of things and I could finally see i
The Four Sides of Desire Chapter 42 : Black and Breathless
Gael’s POVDamn Missael for being cool as fuck in the most stressful moment of our lives!It hurt to leave him behind, but he was right, we had to save Ellie. Falling for their plans and distractions wasn’t going to cut it. A bunch of half feral vampires, while a bit overwhelming, was probably going to be one of the easier fights in this place.Gabriel and I had to trust that Missael knew what he was doing and could take on those vampires. Finding the place was only possible thanks to our father. He narrowed down the location for us and with Missael with us, it wasn’t too hard to find a place inside the forest where there were people using his empathic gifts.He’d been doing most of the heavy lifting on his own ever since we started this trip and I was starting to feel a bit lacking. But I’d make up for it with a damn good rescue like Missael had trusted us to do.So, while he was taking care of the mooks, Gabriel and I ran through the strange castle manor, following the feel
