Everything and everyone had fallen silent and stopped as soon as I had yelled and slapped Zachariah's face. I look up and see that Zachariah had released the King's wrist and was standing with his arms crossed over his chest and a small smile on his lips. The King looks at me, then at Zachariah. He says something I don't hear. Zachariah turns and smiles at him and utters something in return. They shake hands and then they make their way over to me.
I put my hands on my hips as Zachariah stops in front of me and holds out his hand; I take a quick look around and notice that more of those big beasts have entered the room and there is no way I can defeat all of them on my own, so I slowly put my now shaking hand into his. He pulls me slightly towards him, bringing me into his arms. I don't like it, but my body does what it and I have always done and melt just that little bit into him.
I then turn my face in his chest, not wanting to show the vulnerability as the tears f
At his words and as he continues to slowly circle me, I stand from my crouch, still mimicking his movements. I am expecting him to move, but what he does surprises me; he doesn't go to hit me, which is what I was expecting. He grabs the back of my neck and pulls me into him, wrapping his other arm tightly around me as he kisses me again. I move my hands to his chest and push against him just a little. He pulls back from the kiss, placing his forehead to mine as he says, "I thought I had lost you! I love you! Yasmine" It isn't until that moment that I realize that I no longer care for him in that way. Even after everything and the renewed hate, I just felt for him, Zachariah is still slowly inching his way into my heart. I move one of my hands from his chest to his cheek and as he leans more into it, I can't stop the tear that escapes my eye as I whisper. "You did!" For the love I once felt for him, I give him one last kiss. I then take advantage of my
I run and run, looking over my shoulder as the beast continues to chase me through the woods. I wake with a start just as he catches me, pinning me to a tree and then biting into my neck. I sit up quickly, my hand going to the junction between my neck and shoulder where the beast bit me in my nightmare and then a sharp pain shoots through my arm. I place my hand to where the pain started, and I am surprised when I feel a bandage wrapped around my arm.I move slowly, pull back the blankets, and swing my feet over the edge. I gasp a little at the coolness of the floor under my feet as I stand. When I first came back from Valentino, I didn't notice the cold after being cold for so long, but now the cold affects me even more. I look around and realize that I am not in Zachariah's room. I get to my feet and move around the room. It is a very beautiful room. I am in awe as I find the window that leads to the balcony.I hesitate as I check the door, remembering when Zachariah
He leaves his fingers under my chin, but I still flinch as he places his other hand on my cheek. He then slides it around to the back of my neck. I let out a shaky breath as tingles run down from my neck and he closes the distance between us, kissing my lips. He then moves his other hand, wrapping it around my waist and pulling my body up tight against his as he deepens the kiss. I don't fight this time and allow my body to melt into his. I hesitantly lift my arms and wrap them around his neck as he tightens his hold on me and adds more dominance to his kiss. A wave of fear goes through me as he slides his hand down and then back up again but under the shirt this time. Just because I am giving myself to him, it doesn't mean I'm not scared. I have never done anything other than what Zachariah has done to me. He moves me backward until my back hits the doorframe leading back into the bedroom. I tense a little as I feel him pressed up against me. I then slowly slide my
He smiles, walks back over to where I am standing, and wraps his arms around me, pulling me in tight to him as he kisses me with uncontrolled dominance and passion. We don't seem to move, but the back of my legs hit the edge of the bed and I feel myself falling backward, but instead of hitting the bed; he guides me slowly onto the surface. Without breaking the dominant kiss, he moves us both further up onto the bed.When the knock on the door comes again, Zachariah finally breaks his kiss as he growls low. I move my hand to his cheek and whisper, "You have to go... And when you come back, we can finish this!! Zachariah!" Zachariah keeps his eyes locked with mine. A little bit of fear mixed with excitement runs through me as his eyes flicker from grey to gold and back again. As they continue to flicker, the knock on the door comes again, only a little harder this time, accompanied by the same voice. "Alpha Zachariah, Alpha Malik is waiting!!" I
I must have dozed off as when I opened my eyes, I was in the bed on my own. I smile as I stretch. The slight ache that goes through my body reminds me of what I had just done, what I had just allowed Zachariah to do. Now that he has had the pleasure of my body, I wonder how long he will want to use me before he decides to share me and then moves me on to another. I sigh and then move slowly off of the bed and find the shirt of Zachariah's I was wearing.I pull it on and then search the room until I find the bathroom. Once I know which door the bathroom is behind, I go back over to the bed and look around on the floor for the jeans I was wearing. When I find them, I pick them up and head back into the bathroom.I turn the water on, and while it warms, I remove the bandage from my arm. Once the water is warm, I step under the spray. I sigh as the heat seeps into my body. I wash my hair and then carefully wash my arm and between my legs, removing the blood from both.
He tightens his arms around me as I try to move. Instead of looking at Rania, he looks into my eyes as he replies,"You are right, Rania, I never wanted a mate, but the Moon Goddess had other plans for me..."I tense in his arms and he moves his hand and places it gently on my cheek, and continues"I wasn't expecting to find a fiery Yasmine, hiding in one of the many bunkers the elders in the village had built..." I gasp and whisper,"You knew about the bunkers?""Of course, I knew about the bunkers, I also kept an eye on you, as I do with all the females growing up in my villages! It was how I knew you were different from all the others. I was, however, surprised when I entered your village that night and I could smell the scent of my mate telling me that she was about to or had just reached her 18th year. I followed my mate's scent through the village and it lead me straight to you... My Lycan wanted you then and there, but then you attacked me..
I smile and look out at the woods, then back at him and then back at the woods as I ask, "Zachariah, can we go and do some training in the woods? After everything, I need some open space!" He growls and I return my eyes to his and then sigh, lowering my eyes again. I should have known everything would change once he fully owned my body. I move off of his lap and move to the railing and cross my arms over my chest as I lean on it, I snap, "So, Zachariah. How much is going to change now? Now that you have taken my virginity and broken me in... Are you going to share me as that beast wanted? Or are you going to lock me up in the bedroom and make me your personal sex slave? Maybe share me only with Raphael... Or are you just going to lock me inside the mansion, make me cook and clean? Make me learn my place and do as I am told?" He walks up behind me and wraps his arms around me, pulling me tight up against him as he growls. "Yasmine. Nothing is g
"So, how many points we going for?""How about first to five?"He then surprises me by moving quickly, sliding his hand behind my neck and pulling me into him, kissing me deeply. He then lets me go and smiles as he says,"That's two!"I let my temper get to me as I go to slap him. He grabs my wrist and pulls me towards him again, turning me so that I am trapped in his arms with my back against his chest. He leans down and kisses his mark. I can't stop the moan that escapes as tingles and pleasure spread through me down from his mark... He then moves his lips to my ear and whispers,"I love this side of you... That makes three!""Really..."I shiver as he runs his nose back down my neck. I move to turn in his arms and he loosens his grip just a little to allow me to do so. I look into his eyes as I ask,"Did you mean what you said about me being your Queen?""Yes, and I meant it when I said I would do anything for you..."
>YASMINE“So this is what it feels like to die… I thought it would have hurt more…” “But we aren’t truly dead, are we?” Zelda asks. “Yes, but No… We are in the in-between. The nothingness between life and death.” Lorelei answers. “So, how long we here for?” I ask, looking around at the endless darkness around us. “We are being held to our body through the power of the ancient dagger. So as long as nothing has happened to Zachariah, then we will return to our body once he removes the dagger and Summer performs the resurrection ritual...” “What happens if something has happened to Zachariah and he can’t remove the dagger and someone else does?” Zelda asks, getting more worried. “I don’t know and I hope that we never find out…” Lorelei says, finally not having the answer. “You have nothing to worry about, my daughter. Everything is as it should be. You can and will return to your loved ones soon.” I turn in the dark and just manage to spot the blue glow as it fades into the dar
The Final Battle Continues... She was off limits; she was the Masters; she was Kastrath's. The general forced the lower Demon back to their world as he landed and then took his place lying over the beautiful female that will be his Queen. Yasmine struggles against the new Demon but stops rather quickly as she feels the difference between the Demon that was just holding her to the one that is now. She looks into his bright red eyes and he seems to smirk at her before leaning down and running his double-forked tongue over her skin. Yasmine shivers in disgust and starts struggling again as the general leans down and pushes his rough, demonic voice into her head, “You, my dear female, are lucky that you are already claimed for if you weren't your life from now on, would be a nightmare for you, however; pure hell for me…” Yasmine tenses as she is then hit by her gift opening and entering into the Demon on
The Final Battle Continues…Zachariah wakes slowly, tightening his arms and only finding air. he reaches his hand out to be met with cold sheets. He sits up and looks around. He smiles to himself when he sees the light on in the bathroom and hears the shower running.Zachariah slips out of bed and walks over to the bathroom with every intention of joining his mate. However, the scene in front of him as he enters has him bewildered.He moves quickly, stepping into the shower and crouching in front of her, first grabbing her hands, stopping her from doing any more damage to her skin. Then he places one hand on her cheek as he scans her body, assessing the damage, stopping at the two bites he can see on the top swell of both breasts.He lets out a low growl, bringing her eyes to his. Zachariah doesn't get to say or do anything as Yasmine's resolve breaks completely and she jumps at him, whimpering."I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I coul
The Final Battle Begins!THIRD PERSON… Kastrath paces in his castle's realm. He had watched Young Yasmine live and grow. He had been watching the panther shifter bloodline and had known who and what she was from the moment she was born and had been watching over her ever since.Kastrath watched as she grew into a headstrong, fiery female that would make him proud and would be worthy of standing next to him as his Queen.He had known the moment Queen Margaret and King Jason had summoned him, that deep into the future they would provide something he had been looking for…Something that he had been searching for a millennium.Now he knew that he had to wait until after her mate had changed her first, forthe real her to be released. However, Kastrath hadn't taken into account just how powerful the Moon Goddesses' mate bond would be between them o
I struggle against his hold, trying to push him away from me until he tightens his arms around me and whispers in a low tone,“Now, now, my Queen. I am only here to congratulate you and to remind you that you can avoid all the bloodshed to come if you will just say yes and come with me now…”Even with the anger and conviction in my voice, as I say,“Never…”He just laughs, then moves one of his hands to my cheek as he takes a deep breath and says,“Mmm… So much fire… Just a few more weeks, my Queen and you will be mine.”He then holds me tighter against him as he presses his lips to mine before disappearing into his tentacles of grey smoke, leaving me to collapse to my knees as the smoke disappears. Zachariah runs over to where I am and helps me back to my feet as he whispers,“What happened? One minute you were there dancing in my arms, the next you were gone
I then place a soft kiss on his forehead as he steps back and into Summer's arms. She gets to her feet and bows before her and the others disappear and enter the throne room from another door. I stand up straight and take a deep breath before giving a slight nod to the two warriors that are once again standing guard at the doors.I hear the music as the doors open stop and the Royal announcement chimes ring out I take a step and enter the room and freeze just inside the door, I still hate being the centre of attention as everyone steps aside and bows, revealing a very handsome Zachariah standing in the middle of the room wearing a traditional Royal black tux. He smiles at me and opens our private link,“Yasmine, look at me and only at me. Remember…” With his voice in my head, I smile as a quick flash of the last time we did something like this and he had asked me in front of the whole pack to be his. I walk slowly toward him
I feel the bed dip and then feel his fingers lightly touch under my chin. He applies a little pressure, making me lift my head and look at him. Tears sting my eyes and one seems to escape. He then moves his hand to my cheek and wipes away the tear as he whispers,“It’s okay… Yasmine, it is a natural response. We didn’t get to spend the time we should have with them once they were born. So your protective instincts to do with them will be heightened for a little while.”I then snap my eyes to the door once more as there is a knock. Zachariah gives me a kiss on the cheek and then gets off the bed. As he leaves the room, he says,“Relax, I’ve got this. You lay down with our pups.”He closes the doors behind him and I do as he says and I lie down, wrapping my arms around my pups. I take a deep breath of their scents and then drift off into an exhausted sleep.**Dream** I look like a
As Zachariah talks to Jasper and the other Alpha, I walk up to Mary and give her a hug. When she pulls back, she steps to the side. With her arm around my waist, she says, “Yasmine, I would like to introduce you to Alpha Isaac's mates, Leah and Nyla.” “It’s nice to meet you both.” They both bow and then I think it's Nyla who steps a little closer and places her hand on mine as she whispers, “I am glad that Alpha Zachariah found you. He deserves to be happy, because if it wasn’t for him, then I wouldn’t have met my mate or found my sister…” I feel as all her walls drop and she opens herself up, and just as Darius said I can’t control it as my power flows from me into her and I see everything that was her life, I can’t stop the tears that fill my eyes and then slide down my cheeks at all the suffering she went through at the hands of Valentino. As with Alpha Clive, Zachariah seems to be standing behind me when my power returns to me and I sway on my feet. Zachariah wraps his arms a
I look around the room at the pack that is in the room casting its vote. Most of them have stopped and are looking at me and Zachariah. Zachariah follows my gaze as it passes over the room. He smiles, turns so that he is now facing the room and says,“If you will excuse us, but family is calling. Please continue to cast your votes.”When he turns back to me, I look at him with wide eyes and whisper, shocked,“But don’t we have to be here for this?”“Technically, yes, but we haven’t seen much of Darius since we have been here, and I can feel that being with him is what you need, so that is what we will do. We can count and look at the votes tomorrow.”Then, without another word, he steps up to me, grabs me around the waist, throws me over his shoulder and then walks out of the throne room. I lift my head just as he steps out of the doors to see Alpha Clive with a smirk on his face before he turns his attention back to his pack and the voting going on around him. True to his word, Zach