I had loved my mum, my whole life. I had witnessed her pain as my father showed no consideration whatsoever for her feelings, treated her poorly. On several occasions I had lashed out at my father, but what could I do against his superior strength, I was just a boy then. I loved him too but because of his treatment of mum, I despised him and myself for being happy that he didn't come back alive from the war. I had sworn to avenge my mother, protect her from anybody that wanted to harm her... It was just an irony... a twist of fate that the girl I fell in love with at first sight, happened to be my enemy, my enemy's daughter. I recalled how we imprinted that first day with no care in the world and how happy I had felt. Vowing that I was going to treat my mate better than my father treated my mother. I wasn't going to be my father.... what a laugh, since I ended up being worse. How my father treated my mum, in my estimation was nothing compared to the way I treated Iris. I felt like a
'But I do not love Roxy', I said. 'I see her only as a sister... the sister I never had!' 'And who is responsible for that as well?' she flared up again. 'The Merryweapthers of course!' I looked sad. I had been do happy at the birthday party with Iris. I had thought that sunshine had finally come into my life but that was not to be because of a useless enmity between our families and a useless promise I made. Mum was still my mother and I wanted to make her happy. I already made the vow and I could not refute it but I also could not let Iris go. I wanted her by my side. 'I cannot marry Roxy', I started, the next set of words, feeling like they were bring dragged out of me. 'I shall marry Iris!' I insisted. 'So you are going back on your word to avenge me? You love this Iris more than your word as an Alpha and more than the mother who has loved and cared for you, since you were born?' she asked, her hurt tearing my heart apart. I was torn but I had mad my decision. 'Didn't I
Iris' POV It was really surprising how things turned out. I still believe that Adrian had lost his memory but it was obvious he wasn't faking it. Well, it was no business of mine.'Iris, I am happy you had a great time at the party yesterday', my mum, Luna Millicent said, smiling affectionately at me. 'I am relieved that you have started living again. What is the name of that young man you were with again?' she asked.'Mum, you have started', I said, hedging. 'I was with alot of young men! I don't know the one you are particular about!''If you didn't know the person I am referring to, why are you blushing?'' she asked, raising an eyebrow, playfully at me.'I am blushing because this discussion is ridiculous, Mum!' I said, seriously. 'Speaking and dancing with anyone does not necessarily mean I have accepted to date them or worse marry them!''Your daughter is right, she was with a number of young men yesterday and I even noticed someone with her that I thought I'd never see again!'
Alpha Andrew's POV I was delighted when Adrian asked about our mother. It could only mean one thing - that he had regained his memory. I was happy about such a welcome development. I had expected the road to his recovery, a long and dreary one but thank goodness it was quick.I recalled the fury that had filled my heart as he asked about Iris. I was hoping memory or not, he would not want to be with her that I might have a bit of a chance but he must still be interested in her for out of all the questions, 'What is my relationship with Iris?' was what he could ask. I suppose it was a fairly reasonable question, I admit to myself now especially for someone who wanted to find out things about himself but at that time I had been blinded by jealousy. The jealousy I had felt since Iris chose him instead of me and feeling history about to repeat itself, I had wanted to stop him coming between Iris and me even if meant getting physical with him.You stay away from her, do you understand?'
The feeling that Adrian still wanted to try to get back with Iris kept nudging at me. My mind kept trailing off and I had to to keep saying, ' Sorry, what did you say?'I wondered why Adrian was the only person I felt might actually succeed in winning Iris' love. Yes, apart from maybe Sean....Then unbidden again, the scene at the garden with Lyndon flashed through my mind. 'Oh God!' I exclaimed in my mind. 'What is happening to me?' How can I want a fellow man? Here I was trying desperately to dissuade Adrian from pursuing Iris, so that I could have a chance with her because I had felt a slight change in her at the party and knew she was ready for another relationship. But I was at the same time, fantasizing about a man, wanting to get him naked and kiss him silly! This was insanity.Miranda excised herself to go to the restroom. Thank goodness, the way she had been holding on to Adrian was becoming irritating. I nearly told her my brother was not going to evaporate into thin air b
After the cold shower that did little to calm my excited body, I dressed up to go visit Iris. I knew it was just yesterday that the party was held and she might need to rest a bit but I needed something to distract me and though I had thought that I didn't know who to choose, I'd prefer it be Iris. I had left ved her ally life. The passion I felt for Lyndon shouldn't start to cloud my judgement. The excitement of something new, experimenting... finding out things about myself I had not been aware of was ecstatic but I was not sure it would last.I got to the Moon Ville Pack and just as I was about to make my entrance into the mansion, I saw Sean holding Iris' hand and looking deep into her eyes.'What the heck?' was my first sentiment as I saw them. He was with her yesterday and he is here already today? This was more serious than I had thought and Sean was more clever than I had given him credit. Damn! The purpose of my visit here today was defeated. I didn't feel the need to barge i
'What's so funny?' I asked, hiding my embarrassment with anger.'Nothing', he said as he fell into step with me and we started walking side by side. 'just that you look so cute and adorable when you are embarrassed or angry', he said, smiling at me and nipping my cheek, affectionately. I looked up into his eyes and what I saw there caused me to catch my breath.I pulled away from him. 'Sorry', I said, in confusion. 'I think I better get going to the Moonlight Pack, duty calls!''Would you have been so fast as to go back to your pack if Iris had wanted you to stay with her very badly or if there was any chance that she would kiss you?' he asked, looking pained.'I... I...', I stammered. 'You don't know what you are saying!''Don't I?' he asked. 'It's okay. Go back to your damn pack and continue living in denial and lying to yourself that Iris would one day look at you as a lover would!' He started walking away and I turned to walk away as well. He turned again as did I.'At least, let
Lyndon's POV I was attracted to Iris, that's true but the feeling I have for her cannot compare to the pull of the mate bond I have for Andrew. Andrew loves Iris and I love him. Since I was attracted to her as well, I felt I wouldn't mind a threesome if Iris would agree to it. But I doubted she would. At her parents marriage anniversary, I had wanted Andrew to grow jealous of the attention I paid her. I wanted to find out of he felt the mate bond I felt as soon as I laid eyes on him but he seemed to have eyes only for Iris and I had to take matters into my hands and lured him out where I kissed him. I knew then that he felt it but he was not going to own up to it. I was prepared to be patient and if getting Iris to join in our bond since both he and I were not indifferent to her, was going to make him mine, I was willing to share. Andrew thinks that it was at the anniversary that we met but it really wasn't. I had met him almost a year previously and at the time I hadn't known
I woke the next morning to find someone standing by my door with a bouquet of red roses. The roses hid their face but I could guess who the person was. No other person had this kind of aura. An aura of danger and passion. Why was I thinking that? I wondered. Pregnancy hormones must have started acting up.He shifted the roses from his face and smiled at me. 'Good morning gorgeous!' he said.'Good morning, Adrian', I replied, wondering how he got to this place as early as this and still looking clean and refreshed. Was it his speed or did he spend the night in the hotel? I felt self conscious all of a sudden, I had slept late into the morning and had not freshed on yet. I collected the bouquet and smelt the roses. 'Thank you for this!' I said, smiling thinly, not sure if I wanted him to be this nice to me. I was going to shut the door as I turned back to go in when I looked at his expectant face and thought, he had been good, why not invite him in?There was an instant when I debated t
Iris' POV Since Adrian had sniffed me and claimed my unborn child as his, my heart has been in turmoil. Why did it have to be his? Couldn't it have been someone else's? I wouldn't even mind if the person had been gay. Why was it Adrian's semen of all the semen in the sperm bank, that happened to be injected into me? I wished he hadn't been at the gathering and heard everything. It felt good though the way he had stood up for me back there but if he thought that it changed anything or that my pregnancy is a means for him to get back with me, he was seriously misled.As I walked away, I thought of going home to my parents but I felt they might be disappointed. They had believed that this time my marriage was the real thing. Telling them it had ended in disaster would only break their heart. Also, I didn't want any lecture and that was why instead of calling my family to pick me up or speaking to them through mind link, I changed my mind and decided to stay in a hotel till things cool
Alpha Adrian's POVI walked fast. I needed to catch up with Iris but how come she had covered so much ground in such a short while. Her speed was admirable. I still cannot get it out if my head that she was pregnant with my pups. How had it happened? I need to talk to her about it and perhaps now that she had rejected her mate and her divorce is in progress, I might have a chance with her.'Iris, wait up!' he called as soon as he got close enough for her to hear him.'Adrian, thank you for standing up for me there, but that is all there is to it. We owe each other nothing!' she said as I caught up with her.'I didn't come here because I wanted to disrupt your marriage', I said. 'Truly, I have kept tabs on you but it is just to be sure that Sean doesn't mistreat you, because I regretted and still regret how I treated you', I paused to allow my words sink in. 'I was happy that you were happy in your marriage and was getting all I couldn't give you when we were married, love, care attent
'You are not leaving this godforsaken castle of mine!' he said mimicking her words, his eyes glowing in his fury. 'If you think I am going to stay quiet and allow you leave this place so you can go live with your lover, you are sadly mistaken and if you think I will sign this document, you have been misled. I will not divorce you. You will never be free to remarry your ex husband', he vowed, his nose flaring up.'I have many of these prepared and my lawyer will visit you with another copy but so that you know how decided I am, we shall do this the traditional way', she said, placing her hand on her chest. 'I Iris Sylvester, Merryweather Anderson, reject you, Alpha Sean Anderson of the Golden Moon pack as my mate and Alpha!' she said.Alpha Sean's face registered shock and then he staggered back, clutching his chest, wincing. He straightened up with great difficulty. 'I reject your rejection!' he said, his chest heaving with an emotion that could only be fury.Iris, looked at him, shoo
Third Person's POV'How is this possible, Iris?' Alpha Conqueror said as he got to Iris' side with the speed of lightening. 'I smell my pup in you!'Iris looked shocked and stared at Adrian as though he had grown horns. 'What are you talking about?' she asked, brushing his hands off her.'I am saying, no matter how unbelievable it is to people that you are pregnant', he said. 'To me, the unbelievable part is that it is my pup growing inside of you!''You are insane!' she said, and happened to look at Madam Fairweather who smiled and nodded.Iris' shock increased. How could that be? Adrian never donated his semen to any bank but Fairweather's facial expression showed that he was right and it must, else how could he have smelt that she was pregnant and that the pup was his... except, Fairweather was manipulating it?'It is not possible', Alpha Sean said, laughing mockingly. 'She cannot get pregnant even if you pumped a tank full of semen into her!' he said and his words hurt Iris badly.
'I dragged him into a room close by and we mated. After that, I was so tired I slept ', she narrated. 'When I came to, I was in a warehouse somewhere outside the pack with some goons waiting to harass me. They tied me to the bed and we're ready to ... to.. but thank goodness, Alpha Merrick came and rescued me!'What she narrated got me furious and I knew who was responsible for her experiences but when it got to her rescuer, she spoke his name with so much gentleness that I smiled yet again. She was in love with Alpha Merrick, I decided.hadnt been sure before but I could tell that the feeling was mutual and I couldn't be happier. She deserved it.'Your so called doppelganger is someone I have suspected from the very first that Angela planted', I revealed. 'Her intention may have been to thwart my plans and she succeeded'.'But why would she want to do that when she wanted the Alpha for hers of?' Anna asked, her brows furrowing in thought.'She must have felt that it was better for her
Iris' POVAfter I got a call telling me that Anna had been found and her location sent to me, I hurried right away to go see her. I was overjoyed but hoped that it would not be a wild goose chase. 'Let it be Anna indeed, dear Moon Goddess!' I prayed. I had been scared that Angela had killed her.I got to the Bedrock Pack and asked to see the Alpha. I stated the reason for my visit and I was asked to wait at the reception till he was able to see me. Thankfully, it was not long.'Good afternoon, Luna Iris of the Golden Moon Pack, Princess of the Moon Ville Pack', he greeted. I looked up surprised. He was well informed. 'To what do I owe this august visit?' he asked.'I am looking for someone', I said, going straight to the point after acknowledging his greetings and offering my own. 'I heard she is in this pack and I wish to see her. It is really urgent!''Who might you be referring to?' he asked narrowing his eyes at me.'None other than Anna Smith', I said, looking him straight in the
'Crystal told me all about it', Fairweather admitted. 'It was indeed an accident and she - we are sorry for your loss!''Alpha Merrick, you are really a fast worker that you immediately put her in the family way even before your wedding!' Alpha Sean said, not sure if he was happy that Anna was engaged and fated to Alpha Merrick or not. Anna was supposed to be his breeder, for goodness sake and not a mate to a more powerful Alpha.'Oh, you're wrong, Alpha Sean', Alpha Merrick remarked. 'The baby was yours. It was the seed that you sow in her that night you both slept for the first time before she was viciously carted away to be murdered but for the Goddess' intervention!''My pup?' Alpha Sean whispered harshly. Was the surprises of this day never going to end? 'And what kind of accident deprived me of it?' he asked.'I was going for a walk, which Alpha Merrick didn't permit by the way, when I saw my look alike and was shocked be cause I never knew I had a twin', Anna answered. Alpha S
'You did what?' Alpha Sean asked, his eyes wide and nose flailed up in fury.'I just wanted you to know that it was not natural, though for it to have worked so well, you might have laboured a little attraction towards her', Fairweather said. 'My potions are potent but if you really found her repulsive, it would not have worked as well as it did. She didn't seem to encounter any problems!''Of course, he didn't until you snitched on me to him about Ben!' Angela accused.'I did no such thing. But why would you two time such a great man as he?' Fairweather asked. 'Your Ben cannot be compared to Alpha Sean in any way!''So of you helped her with a charm to make me find her irresistible, you did the same for your daughter Crystal!' Alpha Sean accused.'I did no such thing!' Fairweather repeated, more vehemently this time. 'What you feel for Crystal is natural. It was not spell - induced. I never meant for you to sleep with her, just to take the place of the real Anna until Angela could ge