*TW: Blood and Gore.*
☽☽☽MIKAEL'S POV☾☾☾
"How dirty..." I shake my head disappointedly. "You couldn't take me down without a gun? Too scared of getting beaten up like your companion here? On behalf of all creatures, I am mortified by your cowardice!"
"Shut the fuck up!" He waves the weapon at me, motioning my hands up. "Put your hands in the air and keep your mouth shut!" Two clicks signify the pistol being cocked, and I sigh tiredly. It appears that vampires are not perfect at taking hints. In fact, they are positively awful at it. From the ease with which his partner fell, shouldn't he have called for backup by now? I want the entire team—if there is one—assembled so I can take them down one by one.
"That wouldn't be any fun now, would it?" I answer without an ou
*TW: Blood/Gore.* ☽☽☽MIKAEL'S POV☾☾☾ "Ah, Cascione." I ignore the tall Italian's question as I hop down from the counter. "It's been a while." "Yes," he agrees as his attention volleys side to side, noting the state of his patrons. His forehead furrows at the still dead that has parted the sea of bodies like a curse, but he straightens his frown out almost immediately and wears a coy simper on his face. "It's been a while since you last terrorized my club." "That was not my fault." I shrug before grabbing a pitcher of alcoholic concoction that my hand first touches. The bartender had long escaped from my reach, but at the very least, he left something salutary behind. Cool and refreshing, yet without missing its potency mark. I settle it as a delicate drink. "You did not teach your peo
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ Red lights gawk at me in the darkness, their glows unblinking. It's 2 am, but I haven't slept a wink, and I'm not sure why. Usually, I don't have problems fitting in, even in a new time zone. Being this restless is no norm for me, expressly when Kansas City is merely an hour ahead of Edmonton. Sitting up in bed, I stretch out my arms and let out a whale-sized yawn. I note that I'm not as tired as I previously wagered to be. It has to be the thrill from the past day still ringing in my bones, keeping me up. The peppermint tea Maggie made me in the evening, which I welcomed with glee, was expert at soothing me. It'd sluggishly permuted my nerves into mush. If only I could, at this moment, get her to bring me the serum that demonstrated a capability of hushing my deepest anxieties. I can't, of course. It's mi
☾☾☾SASKIA'S POV☽☽☽In all my right and wrong mind, I did not want to let go of Sage or, from a more angering perspective, give in to my father. My love for him made me willing to give up all the privileges I had.We would leave the pack if we needed to. I'd travelled around America and knew I could hold my ground plus do what was required to survive. I did not need to be babied or coddled.Sage did not believe me. He was ready to cut me off in lesser than the blink of an eye. His reasoning was that I belonged in Westardum. I was Princess of the Western Territories, and there was no chance he'd rip me from my stead, taking away what belonged to me.He clearly forgot that it was supposed to be a joint decision. He could not call all the shots and then leave me in the dark, mopi
☾☾☾SASKIA'S POV☽☽☽I scoff disbelievingly, gripping the cool metal with hands washed white from my terror vice-clamp. "It won't be a toy when I put a hole through you.""And you should believe your husband when he says that your bullets will not do much damage.""My husband?"Huh?It takes a moment before his words register, and my eyes almost desert their sockets. "Oh my goddess! Mikael? Is that you?""I take that you have only one husband, Luna. Or might you have important truths you'd fain to share with me?""No... of course not." I barely fall short of stammering. My head is heavy with confused thoughts. It's a chore to breathe.
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ Irritation burns in my chest at his assertion. "I am nobody's." "You do not make the rules,a mhuirnín. And need I remind you that respect is demanded of you when you're to speak to me?" I tilt the corner of my lips upward as I scoff. "You've said that only too many times." "Do not play smart with me, Luna." He says coolly. "You've heaped coals in the fire you've thrown yourself in with your discourteous attitude and rude insolence. I promised you'd gain a fair share of your punishments, did I not?" "You're blowing everything out of proportion." I pull on my arm, struggling to break open his clasp. "I haven't be
☽☽☽MIKAEL'S POV☾☾☾Her arousal.It permeates the air. Each unit I drag in is infused with her scent. Every molecule is saturated with her redolence. I'm intoxicated by her fume. It's enthralling. I revel in the way her channel clamps around my finger. It nearly drives me mad.My grunt roughens as I hold back from inserting an additional digit. It's not time to up her pleasure, but her slow twisting against my arm makes me want to bend her over and pound into her without mercy.She's so tight it's torture. I increase my pace, soaking up her moans of praise. I growl, nibbling at her soft lobe, then licking a trail down her neck to her collarbone. She clenches around me in response. I swallow a roar trundling up from my chest, and settle for pushing in a second finger. And a third.I perceive her discomfort as she winces in pain, and I shift to fit in the narrow passage. She milks around me with each pump in her. "I didn't hear you, leannán," I whisper gravely into her ears, my cock pu
☽☽☽MIKAEL'S POV☾☾☾ A thick brow slants up at his announcement. It's essentially implausible that he's right. But it could be... "How did you figure this out?" "By my search, Alpha." He slicks his dark-brown hair to his head, sable eyes cryptic and obscure. "After our talk over the line, I was inclined to plough through the Arkennan fields, where I combed out details I believed were being held out from us." "A smart choice," I commend him despite his disobedience of my orders. It was for the greater good, which is his saving grace, as otherwise, it would be deliberate insolence. "They did not know of your trespassing on their grounds?" "Not at all. If so, I would have been apprehended, and I did strive to be invisible to their watch." "What did you find?" "The leaders of the pack were gone. All the elders were missing, as well as a good number of the higher-ranking officials. The administration of the pack was in chaos as the responsibilities of the government were abandoned."
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ I have chosen to forget what Mikael did. This doesn't mean I've forgiven him. It simply entails that I will not relive that moment again in my memories. If I make the mistake of doing so, I know I won't focus on how he foiled my orgasm but on the pleasure he'd brought me prior to. The problem with that is I'll obliviate his misdeed. And I don't want to afford that, especially since it's impossible to deny the effect he has on me. Throughout the night, sparks darted up and down my body repeatedly, hindering me from getting any sleep. It so happens that I have no need for my phone alarm's blaring tune as I'm already out of bed by the time it rings by thirty minutes after six. I turn the murderous rhythm off and pull my hair into a ponytail. I'd like to lie in bed and enjoy the early morning's serenity, but I want to get in a quick run before facing the duties I'll no doubt have as new Luna. It'll also be better for me to familiarise myself with the pack as soo
Hello, lovelies!Thank you for reading to the end of The Luna’s Possessive Alpha. This is Book 1 of the TLPA Series. Book 2 is titled The Luna’s Broken Alpha, and will be made available on Goodnovel in the next few days. I sincerely appreciate all your support for Book 1, and I hope to see you all in Book 2!*Please read the blurb for The Luna’s Broken Alpha below:“To establish a balance in the supernatural realm, the two most powerful packs in North America formed a political alliance. This was achieved through the union of Princess Saskia and Alpha Mikael. However, the infection among the werewolf packs has only grown stronger since the ascension of the new Alpha. The supernatural world is currently on the brink of falling apart. War is closer than ever as corrupted werewolves escape the grasps of their vampire lords; chaos is bound to ensue.*Saskia accepted her fate in her new pack and was willing to do all that was needed of her as Luna until she had her title stripped away by
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ "You know that's not how things work, Saskia." Wade's reply snags my focus, and I change my train of thought. "Once I pledge my loyalty to an Alpha, I become bound to him as one of his pack. The fact that I did already means that I was accepted. The only creature allowed to admit me into Guttenbrieg is its Alpha." I squeeze my eyes shut as a tremble shakes me to my core. It's difficult to process what Wade's made plain. I don't want to try because it's fatuous to do so. It would be pure idiocy to believe that Mikael's dead. It honestly can't be. I would know. As the woman who married him, who's mated with him, and most of all, as one who has come to love him artlessly, I would have known. I, of all people, should have felt him slipping away from this world. The planet should have felt off-center, tilted off-axis when he took his last breath. How could I not have known? What was I doing when—according to their hypotheses—he died? How could I have carried on w
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ Kaleb Sacramone makes no sense. No sense at all. Mikael's not dead. The man I talked to mere hours ago was everything but dead. Guttenbrieg's Lieutenant General often sucked at making coherent sense, but this is simply ridiculous. How dare he fake Mikael's death only to get under my skin? I might have slapped him if I didn't think he was insane. The werewolf needs a psychiatric intervention coupled with enough mental evaluations. His days in the dungeon must have turned him unhinged, a deranged creature. I make a mental reminder to request an appointment for him immediately after this is over. "Who is dead?" I parrot, pausing for him to assert that this is all a joke and rescind those hideous words. "Mikael isn't dead." Kaleb laughs in my face. Outright does so. I contemplate pulling out my daggers and holding them to his neck, drawing blood for his insolence. I fist my hands to keep from heeding any rash decisions. "Do you have hearing problems, Saskia? I b
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ You're such a fool, Saskia. The berating arrives only after the fibres of my undies have suffered the deluge of an Olympic-sized pool. It's embarrassing. My body still throbs for Mikael even after learning about his misdeeds. Even directly beside the man who's made himself vulnerable by disclosing a secret he's kept for years to me about his emotions, I'm thirsting for and craving the attention of a man who's bent on using me without a care for how much I'll hurt as a result of his evil deceitfulness. It's so ludicrous. I missed him before I knew what he'd done. And now that I know the crimes he's committed, I miss him maybe even more. Frankly, I just want him to come home so we can have an earnest discussion. I want to hear the truth from the horse's mouth. If I could help it, I'd pick up my phone and call him to hurry up and head back to the pack. I won't, of course. First, I have no inkling of my phone's whereabouts. Second, I wouldn't dream of hindering
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ "Ignore what I said." "Okay." I can't. I swallow hard, glueing my sight to the road. Wade loves me? Perhaps he means as a friend. But we were talking about Mikael as a baseline. The Alpha wouldn't love me as a friend as I'm his wife. Moreover, that wouldn't be a kind of love worth being broached in chatter by another wolf. Things genuinely just got incredibly weirder. And awkwarder. My head feels like there's been a crater blasted into it. The indented hollowness is the equivalent of a cavity, and I find myself scrambling to fill my head with reflections other than that which refuses to dissipate: Wade loves me. I love him too, I realise. I love him as one who's been by my side for ages, one whom I've relied on in the thickest of battles, one who's never shied away from being a firm shoulder I could cry on. I love him for being an incredible person, but I have never dwelt on what kind of love it is. It's always been common sense that we care for each other l
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ Wade's hand is fisted by his side when I return to scrutinising him. "I w-wish I realised...earlier that this was how... you'd been feeling. I was too occupied...and engaged by my self-imposed job of being...the happy-go-lucky guy. I never noticed...that you were burdened...by how we all treated you. I'm sorry, Saskia." He lingers between his words, trying to catch his breath and possibly summon the strength to speak. My heart clenches in my chest. I wish I could take away his pain and make it nonexistent. He doesn't deserve what Absalon did to him. I guess the thought that's been keeping me restless is the odds that his injuries aren't from Absalon's antics, as he claims, but from the destruction I caused with my powers. I can't yet envision forgiving myself for what I've done so far; if I was the one who truly hurt Wade, I know I'd truly never be able to grant myself forgiveness. It wouldn't matter how many years might pass; I'd continue to hate myself for
☾☾☾ SASKIA'S POV ☽☽☽ Wade is a damned liar. I should have known better than to trust him to tell me the truth about how he felt. Even more annoying is that he clearly fooled me with his charms. While I often harped on the fact that werewolves could make themselves more attractive to others through their supernatural magnetism, I'd forgotten the fact that, in specific, they could conceal defects about themselves. In my state of despair, I'd become easily subject to his prowess. He'd gotten the chance to disguise the true extent of his injuries. If I say I'm not entirely beyond pissed off, then I'd be telling a lie—something those I cherish as friends and family seem adept at doing when I'm involved. "You don't need to do this." Wade coughs, a shadow of himself, having drained up to half the quota of blood in his body. I eye him in irritation. Is there any time he doesn't annoy me like it's a hobby of his? "I'll do what I want, Wade. Kindly shut the fuck up while I do." I want to
☽☽☽MIKAEL'S POV☾☾☾ "What the...fucking...hell was that?" I scramble to rise, but my efforts are thwarted by a force field smashing my length to the ground. It all clicks in at once: magic. The weight on my spine, crushing my neck and torso to the ground, is of a mammoth's mass in thousands of tonnes. I snarl as the invisible load intensifies at my joints, breaking my bones. Whatever witch is responsible must be incredibly skillful. It's a hellish experience that might have had a more inexperienced version of myself centuries ago whimpering in pain. I've long learnt to endure worse. Warning bells wail in my head. It's evident Cillian and Whelan planned this from the genesis of our interaction. I'd been too blinded by my fury to see through their plan. Cillian hammers on this point with his utterance, "you were an idiot not to suspect the cause of our visit, Mikael." My hateful gaze pans upward, but it does not land on Cillian. Instead, Absalon's distasteful countenance is caught
☽☽☽MIKAEL'S POV☾☾☾ A scowl overtakes my cast as I set eyes on the fair-headed man bent over a walking stick, not from age but for a ruse. "Missed the train home, Whelan?" The bitterness yet stored within seeps into my tone. "Whelan?" The old, heavy voice rumbles like a clap of thunder rolling down the beak of a mountain. Long ago, in a distant land bound by time, I'd been a lad afraid of its owner. "I imagined I was once Seanathair to you, Mikael. Ain't it so, Cillian?" Cillian pulls further out from the woods—left untouched and spared from Saskia's dismantling—at the query. I do not give the coward a chance to voice his opinion. "You mean nothing to me. I don't remember a grandfather. Nay, I recall a sadistic fiend who gloated in sacrificing others for his evil causes—his family included." As patronising as the word might ever entail, Whelan corrects, "Family means naught without loyalty. I attack not those under my wings. You must've understood that by now, Alpha of Guttenbrie