“What am I supposed to do?” Burton all but shouted, drowning in utter helplessness. “Prince Xaden will not let me within a hundred miles of my own daughter, and if I so much as even look at her the wrong way, I will lose everything!”Kenneth, however, was completely unfazed by his plight. “Yes, and
THIRD PERSON POVWith Burton at his beck and call, Kenneth stormed out of the office without another word or second glance. After twenty long, arduous years, his patience was finally starting to pay off and Maeve would soon be in his clutches.All he had to was take her.His mind ran awhirl as he ba
MAEVE POV“Mmm…” I winced, pressing my fingers into my slightly throbbing temples with some pressure.About an hour had passed since we returned home from the lunar banquet. Everything was fine and we were preparing ourselves for bed, until I felt the sudden onslaught of a small headache beginning t
My hands tightened around his—a silent gesture of gratitude. By now, my headache was mostly gone, just by his touch.Xaden was silent for a brief moment. “I’m… excited to go to the clinic with you tomorrow,” he admitted. “We don’t get to do a lot of things together out in public, so, even if it’s fo
THIRD PERSON POVVictoria stared wide-eyed at the grand interior of the building she was currently sitting inside, brimming with unsettled nerves.Earlier that morning, she’d received a call from a man she didn’t know—who turned out to be Kenneth’s beta—and was briskly informed of the details of her
Victoria smiled. “If you insist.” She turned back to the waiter and ordered a glass of chardonnay and a small appetizer of steak bites, seasoned with garlic butter and finely chopped parsley. She hadn’t come here to eat a nice meal, but if it was offered to her, how could she refuse?“And for you, A
If he were to take the luna’s words at face value, then he was to believe that the quiet, demure girl he’d watched from afar for two decades was some devious, sexual mastermind who had managed to snag herself a prince outside the capital’s most famous brothel. A dirty devil who used this newfound po
KENNETH POVI’d always been of the belief that if one is persistent enough and puts in the hard work to achieve something, good things would surely come.I used to think I knew what that meant.Not becoming alpha until I turned thirty had certainly tested my patience well enough. As did my daughter’