Elena's POVAfter Andromeda calmly dropped that bombshell on us, everyone went their respective ways in silent confusion. I could see Jared and Valerian in the corner furiously whispering to each other, probably about me but I didn't care. Jared is not exactly my number-one fan at the moment.Valerian however over the past few days has been more accommodating, always checking on me. If he didn't do it lovingly, I would have felt smothered but I wasn't.I had taken some time away from everyone after what I heard from Andromeda to just think. Think about what I was going to do now, where my life would go from here. I needed to grow a spine and ask myself the difficult questions I didn't want to be confronted with. Once again, I didn't like the way my life would go would be determined by others, and for once I wanted to steer it how I wanted. However, I might like it or not Valerian and I know we're bonded and I had to face that fact. Not bonded in the true sense of soulmates, but from
Elena's POVWe stumble into his room, our lips still fused but he breaks us apart so he could set me down and remove my heels. He took so much time caressing my feet- which was lovely but...All the while, I simply want to strain the extra inch and press and press my lips to his. I want to kiss him as hard as I can."Elena…" he pulls back just enough to peer into my eyes. "Are you sure?"I nod, giving him the go-ahead, not trusting myself enough to speak right now.His hands slide over my neck, then my shoulders. I can't pretend my flesh doesn't tingle beneath his touch. His fingers press into my skin when he can no longer hold back the desire. His need to claim me is just as strong as my need to be taken. It's like a veil has been lifted and I can see everything so clearly now.When his head darts forward and his mouth covers mine, I melt like ice under a flame, clawing at him like a wild animal. This is the only time I can feel calm when he's kissing me. When his hands roam my body
Elena's POVHe works the dress off my shoulders slowly, then he loses patience and yanks it off which makes me gasp softly as the tiny beads bounce and clatter on the floor. Pulling the upper part down my body, he buries his face between my breasts. The slight scruff of his beard prickles against my skin. The way he grunts while peppering kisses against my throat and collarbone as I grind against his thigh which is still wedged between my legs.How is it always like this?We're undeniably explosive together. It takes nothing for him to light the match and set my soul on fire. It was quite different from what I experienced with Zayn and Ethan. Every one of his kisses, and his touch makes me crave more. I can lose myself in him completely if I chose to and that's what I need the most right now. To get out of my head, stop thinking and second-guessing every decision. To lose myself and forget about everything else. Even if it's temporary."That's right." He mewls, panting before sliding
Ethan's POV I shifted mid-jump into human form and continued my stride, breaking free from the cover of the trees behind and approaching Zayn's back porch, dodging the front entrance because I didn't want to be seen and I didn't feel like entertaining someone's crap tonight all in the name of being civil.The way I felt currently, just one wrong look my way would have me snapping someone's neck into two.One of my spies had reported what he recently just found out in Valerian's Court, Alpha King of Red Sun Hill city. The abomination burned my ears. As he hastily whispered the information directly to me, for fear of getting caught by someone, rage summered in my veins and my wolf called for blood. Specifically the blood of that bastard who dared to think he can get on with such an act.For a moment, I felt the buffoon had been fed the wrong information until I confirmed it from another source whom I trusted What the hell was Elena thinking?She wasn't, that's for sure.I'd felt unbot
Elena’s POVHIS cock is deep inside me again. Then again, it seems like he always is, ever since that fateful day."Where did your mind go?" I looked up at Valerian as he stopped moving to look down at me with a knowing look on his face. I can't deny sometimes I feel guilty and uncomfortable even though that's not his fault, it's mine.Before I could give him a plausible answer, he grips my cheeks hard and plunges his tongue deep into my mouth, sucking my lower lip and playing with my tongue."Don't worry about them, allow them to ruin what we have. Don't allow them to control or own you, even from afar," tells me, pausing the kiss like he knows exactly what I'm thinking. Seeing as we are connected, he does."Do you hear me?" He says softly, looking at me, his hips stilling. The way he looked at me belied the words he'd just spoken, and the butterfly wing feel of his lips, when they touched mine, brought tears to my eyes, making me feel silly for overthinking when I had this amazing m
Elena's POVI was still in shock over what happened yesterday, immediately the woman realized what happened. She quickly ushered everyone out and spoke to them about hopefully keeping their mouths shut about what happened.I got to find out that her name was Sophia, and one of Valerian's top security team members was a very skilled shifter. She was quite older too. After consulting Valerian and Andromeda, who I was getting to learn was a fountain of knowledge when it came to things like this, we learned that I was a Healer. An extremely rare breed of female wolf shifters said to be direct descendants or blessed by the Fates with the power to heal any fatal wound.Since I was an Omega, the ability had laid dormant in me since I was born but was always present. When Valerian fed me with his life force, it activated my ability. It was in my lineage as my grandmother had the ability but it skipped a generation- my mother- and landed on me.I was warned to be very careful with my ability
Elena's POVSOPHIA understood what I was going to do and she shook her head in defeat, moaning."No, no, no. Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have told you!." she shook her head about like a Barbie doll."Even if you hadn't, I would have found out. Where are they held?"She bit her lip to stop herself from telling me more, but I just folded my hands, an eyebrow arched until she spilled."We might have an idea but it is not solid yet. Why?""An idea just popped into my head right now"Look, there's got to be another way so you don't have to do this. Valerian's gonna kill me!" She hissed."He's not going to know.""I find it hard to believe he's not going to know his wife is missing." she eyed me disbelievingly."That's not what I mean, and you know it." She was still angry and a little bit headstrong so I grabbed her hands, forcing her to look at me, really look at me while I pleaded with her. "I can't just do nothing while innocent people are being hurt in this tussle between us and my mat
Valerian's POVI WAS neck-deep in confusion. The attacks were just coming back and forth so much that I couldn't step away from the command room for even a second. Only to catch a few hours of sleep and recharge.Even as I spoke, I had to strain to keep my eyes open."What do you have?" I spoke to the man right beside me, one that Jared had entrusted to me in his absence, promising me he would deliver a good job. I knew I remembered his name but my sleep-deprived brain couldn't be bothered to dig it out."Okay sir…" he trailed off, tapping a large tablet in his hands before sliding it over to me. "We have noticed that the attacks are concentrated on one part of the city. The part that is weak in security and structure, and I have also noticed that they haven't deviated from that consecutive attacks." He explains while I make sense of what he's showing me.I stopped the tablet with a finger, bringing it closer while I inspected it. Several red circles indicated spots that I knew had b
Ethan's POV I jerked awake out of the darkness with a deep gasp, clutching my heart which felt like it was going to jump right out of my chest.I felt my chest knit itself back slowly in my chest, and I felt the faint sharp cut still worrying me."What do you remember? Can you hear me?" Someone asked, leaning and blocking the light, which upset me. And of the three men, one guy came close being brave to check on me.I remember his cute, innocent eyes peering at me...I loved when those same eyes were bleeding with fear.I tried to raise my other hand only for the hand to stubbornly refuse my command, the other hand however have graduated enough to learn movement.Before even the next morning, I had already learned about the major languages in the country and can strangely pronounce them.My body and joints felt very awkward like they weren't mine and it took some getting used to.I moved forward, my muscles grinding against my bone, creating a very unpleasant experience.I wanted to s
Valerian's POV Ethan was so caught up in what he was doing that he didn't hear me coming in time and only turned back at the last minute.I rushed towards his knees, tackling him to the floor.I raised my fists and brought them down on his nose, breaking it with a sick crack.I lunged again but he dodged, rolling to the side and I lost my balance."Why. Won't. You. Fucking. Die?" He banged my head against the floor harder with each word he uttered as he tightened his hand on my head.I reach out to hit him but He rolls and leaps to his feet kicking me in my stomach. I curl into a ball as fresh pain blooms in my stomach as the kick reopened the wound. He didn't care, kicking me harder, so much so the force made me fly backward hitting the window and shattering the glass to pieces.I was so badly hurt that I didn't move after I slumped to the floor, just moaning in pain."Fucking pathetic prick." He spat, stumbling to his feet, and walked drunkenly towards Elena. She scrambled back,
Valerian's POV My heart was in my throat as we sped back to the city, all the while inside my mind I was beating myself up for not seeing everything they had planned out sooner.I should have known it was all a setup.I've heard stories about how sick those men were and I can only imagine the twisted and depraved things they were doing to my pack mates, people who right now were looking up to me for help….and I let them down."You'll drive yourself crazy if you don't stop." Jared came to stand beside me where I was fidgeting. I couldn't keep calm, eager to get back home and fight."I can't stop!" I hissed, whirling around to turn furious eyes at him. "It's all my fault that this is happening. I was in such a hurry to get to Elena, I rushed in blindly avoiding a lot of blinking red flags.""Blaming yourself won't help our people, pulling yourself together will."Due to my whole display in the woods, everyone kept away from me giving me a wide berth.I didn't like messy killings prefer
Somewhere on the outskirts of Red Sun Hill CityZayn's POV The soft rays of the early morning sun were filtering through the clouds and I moved around impatiently, waiting for the signal.We were all gathered here since yesterday, camping in their backyard. It was quite hard to conceal this large number of people from the city's radar but our people on the inside helped with that, diverting any attention away from us."What's the status?"I spoke into the earpiece I'd wired into my ear for easy communication, while one eye was on my mate. She was by Ethan's side, her head swept to the side to display her collar which was a symbol of our ownership. "It's a go, sir." A voice squeaked over the earpiece, quite difficult to hear but I easily got the message since it was what I'd been waiting to hear all day.Immediately I signaled to the Alpha for them to kick into action, then called Trent to the side.He jogged over to meet me, decked in his battle gear with several daggers and a knife
Valerian's POV "Hey," Jared calls out and I turned from where I was on the balcony to stare at him, watching his long legs eat up the space before he crossed over to where I was."Heard anything from her yet?" It had taken him a few hours but he healed from the wound, and after being placed on mandatory bed rest he was back to his normal jovial self.The search was still out for Ruby but I doubt we would catch her, I had a feeling she was long gone.I turn back, looking down at the activities taking place below.I was at the Court for some meetings- which seems never ending recently - and also because I needed to think. Being clouded by Elena's things and her scent in the house wasn't helping me think clearly.I had needed to come to a fast decision on what to do, either to forget about Elena and try to move on with my life or to fight like hell for her.I was quite torn about it for a while, the natural instincts as Alpha to protect my pack weighing heavily against my selfish desir
Ethan's POV"I've been thinking," Zayn announced out of the blue, gesturing for us to take a walk down the line of trees by the cabin away from prying eyes. "About what?” I ask, watching two birds tweeting at each other.“Elena.” The sound of her name was like a blaring alarm which caused me to look up at Zayn.“What happened to her?” I think back to the unconscious woman lying on the floor a few feet away from where we stood.“I want us to perform the mating ceremony today.” He informs me, not looking anywhere near me.“That’s sudden,” I turned to look at him. “what caused the change?” “If she’s mated with us, she would truly become one with us in every aspect physically and up here” he tapped the side of his head looking fierce. “she won't be able to hide anything.""You're not giving her the choice?"We might have not been the most loving of mates but there are some lines I do consider extreme, we are mates but performing the mating ceremony has to be the choice of both people i
Ethan's POV I watched Zayn down drink after drink of alcohol, trying to blot out whatever he was feeling.When he first found out, he yelled, raged, and raked for the longest time until I thought he wouldn't stop.I totally understood why she would do that, she was a simple creature that just wanted love and to be loved, unfortunately, she got saddled with the wrong people but what made Zayn so angry was that she was going to take our child away from him.I opened the door quietly and looked at where Elena lay unconscious on the floor with the mark on her thigh.Zayn had rubbed wolfsbane into the wound to ensure that it didn't heal properly, even if it did heal, it would ensure that his name would forever be branded on her thigh.I had initially wanted to stop him thinking that that would be too much and it would definitely make her hate him all the more, but then I understood that he was hurt and he needed to lash out, in whatever form.After he stomped out still angry, his marks on
Elena's POV I was rudely awakened when someone dragged me out of bed in the morning by thrusting the covers back, letting the chill of the morning air kiss my skin, and winding their hand around my arm, pushing me out. I blinked my eyes several times to clear the grogginess and focus on the brick of a man dragging me away, my night dress flapping around my feet. I whimpered when my bare foot stubbed on a table, effectively clearing the sleepiness from my eyes and the man turned to look at me and I realized it was Zayn. I sagged in his hold with relief and looked up at his face. "Za-yn slow down!" I shrieked when he increased his pace. He rounded the corner, his long legs eating up the floor and I hurried behind him walking twice as fast to keep up. He almost ran down the stairs, still dragging me without paying any attention to me or even stopping. If I thought my words were going to convince him to let up, boy was I wrong, because if anything he started to walk faster. "Zay-n! P
Valerian's POV "Someone get me, Jared!" I yelled to the entire room not speaking to anyone in particular, raking my hand through my hair in agitation. I've been trying to get across to him but to no avail. We were supposed to meet up this morning but he wasn't picking up at all and after a while, the calls were going to voicemail. I was getting worried, it was not like him to dismiss an important meeting without cause. "Sir." Someone called my attention to the front and I turned in that direction, meeting one of the younger shifter's earnest gaze. "I've tracked his phone as you suggested, its location is still pinging that it's at his house. 'So why wasn't he picking up the phone?" I mutter to myself. Then I picked up my keys and dashed out of the room like my tail was on fire. The beta assigned to drive me today saw me rushing out of the building and standing up in a hurry, to jump into the vehicle but I paid him no heed, rounding to the driver's side and I sped off without lo