Nikolai’s POV“What do you think?” I responded as I regained my breath and position. Andre stared at me with contempt before punching me and making me stagger again.“This isn’t what you told me,” he continued, his eyes burning with so much anger that I knew Andre was going to have a hard time trying to control, “how could you do this?” He asked.The way he stared told me that the conversation we were about to have or the one we’re already having wasn’t going to be pleasant.Andre’s chest heaved, his breathing paced and his hatred for me at the moment oozed out as he looked at me before running his fingers through his hair.The thought of what happened in the hell coursed through my mind and I felt my anger rising. I couldn’t believe that Andre could still have the balls to come to me like this.Anger swirled within me as it thrummed through my veins, I felt my vision changing and everything I was seeing had already turned into red as I lifted my gaze to look at him.“You have a lot o
Lilliana’s POVHurriedly, as fast as my legs could carry me, I made my way out of the venue and started walking back home. I didn’t wait for Andre because I wanted to be left alone and I was glad when I didn’t feel anyone following me.I still couldn’t bring myself to believe all of this but Nikolai’s words back in the hall kept playing back in my head and my cheeks burned in remembrance.It was a humiliating, deflating feeling that kept washing through me as I walked. My vision was blurry and my eyes stung from all the tears I was trying to hold back.“How could he? How could he do this to me?” I said to myself, doing nothing to keep my thoughts inside as my voice shook and my lips quivered.My face felt hot and I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me that I was crimson with resentment and humiliation. My pride had been seriously bruised but what was I thinking? That he was going to care about me?My embarrassment gradually turned into fury as I channeled all of my anger into my moveme
Nikolai’s POVRunning my fingers through my hair, I felt my heart race and my breathing paced as I tried to keep my feet on the ground. The pain soon stopped and my eyes widened when I realized what just happened. ‘It’s our mate,’ my wolf said as I stared at the door like I was expecting to see something, ‘she’s no longer our mate, she accepted the rejection.’ He finished.No. No. There’s no way the rejection was going to work without me being with her when she accepted it.Questions ran through my mind as I walked around the room, my eyes wouldn’t leave the door and it was as though I was expecting her to show up.Andre had just given me not only a piece of his mind but also of his fist and now the bond between Lilliana and I has been broken.Why? Why would she accept the rejection? How the fuck did she even remember I’d rejected her?I’d thought that I'd done more than enough to get her to want to be with me but she had to refer to a rejection and accept it?My head felt light, my
Lilliana’s POVGroaning, my eyes fluttered open and I shut them back as I tried to regain my consciousness fully. My head pounded but it felt light at the same time.Closing my eyes, I tried to remember everything that happened last night but all I knew was the fact that I eventually got caught by the guards.This is why you should always plan properly before trying to run away.I opened my eyes again and everywhere felt foreign to me, it was hard to reconcile my thoughts and the environment felt extremely strange.The walls were blue and white, completely different from Nikolai’s or my room and I was also wearing a change of clothes. “Hello?” I tried to call but my voice was lower than I intended it to be and it wasn’t until I looked properly that it dawned on me that I was in a hospital room.“What’s going on? Why am I here?” I asked the nurse that worked in and she was only smiling at me like her ability to speak has been taken away from her.“You shouldn’t be stressing yourself o
Nikolai’s POVShe looked shocked to see me but that wasn’t what was really clear in her eyes, it was the sheer look of hatred that caused a tingle in my chest.She looked like she didn’t want to see me and the sight of her being with Andre…. Again, angered me more than anything else.“What are you doing here?” Andre’s voice jolted me out of my thoughts and it wasn’t until then that I realized that he was already in front of me.“That shouldn't be any of your business, should it?” I retorted, the feeling we both had for each other was sort of mutual but I wasn’t in the mood to fight my best friend.I was too tired to want to do any of that because my heart has been racing for the past twelve hours, trying really hard to get my mind together.I couldn’t deny that I was worried and right from the moment that I heard about everything that was going on, I was already in the hospital and stayed up all night, waiting for her to wake up.Different thoughts and questions ran through my mind la
Lilliana’s POV“Wait, WHAT?!” I yelled again, completely dumbfounded as Nikolai left Andre to focus on me.My eyes were wide and I could feel my throat getting dry, making me realize that I was going to need a lot more than some water to regain the moisture.Really, what? There was no way I heard that right. There was no way that Nikolai just said I was pregnant.How could I be? How can I be pregnant and how could he know before me?The words kept ringing in my head over and over again but my brain still couldn’t comprehend it and I still couldn’t wrap my head around what I’d just heard.If I’m pregnant then Nikolai is the father and the last thing I want in this damned world where everything about me just seems to come out as ‘unlucky’ is carrying the child of a man I now hate with every fiber of my being.“W—- what did— what did you just say?” I asked like I didn’t hear the first time, my lips quivered and I was shivering visibly as I tried to think back again.It all made sense but
Lilliana’s POV“I’m glad that you’re okay now but when you feel uneasy, don’t forget to let me know.” The doctor said and I nodded as I smiled.It’s been four days since Andre and Nikolai’s last visit since I refused to see any of them. I couldn’t be happier that I was getting discharged.I knew I had no place else to go but I wasn’t going to go back to the same house where I was disrespected and treated like I was nothing even though Nikolai wouldn’t stop making it clear that I was going to come back to the house.“Thank you so much.” I responded as I took a deep breath. I felt stronger and I could walk on my own without needing any help.“Don’t you think I should call someone for you? Do you have anyone else except those two fools?” He asked and I laughed as I shook my head.“I’m fine, I’m not going back to the Alpha’s house anyway so I’ll just walk until I get somewhere.” I responded.Doctor Goldberg tried to urge me to call Andre to come pick me up since he seemed like the most re
Lilliana’s POV“What?” I asked, unsure how to react or what to even say to what the maid had just said, “I’m having dinner with Nikolai?” I asked and she nodded affirmatively.“That’s the Alpha orders ma’am.” She responded a little too firmly, getting a scoff out of me as I walked back to my bed.My mind wandered around and I just can’t help but wonder what Nikolai wants with me. First he’d forced me to stay in the house against my own will and now I’m going to be having dinner with him?That’s the last thing I want to do and it’s really the last thing I’m going to do because I’d rather die than sit on the same table with him.I would rather scratch my own eyes out than be on the same table with a man that didn’t care about anything while he was shoving my heart into a pit-hole.“Well you can go back downstairs and tell your alpha that I’m not eating with him,” I said after a while of silence. My stomach growled and I knew that I needed to eat something soon.It’s been a while since I
Nikolai’s POV“NIKOLAI!” Lilliana’s loud and alarmed voice reached me in the bathroom where I’d gone to take the ointment for her back.I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me that she’d already probably seen the mark on her back. Hurried, my feet padded back to the bedroom and I walked in to Lilliana freaking out.Her towel had dropped to the ground and she had an obvious look of terror on her face. Tears already welled up in her eyes as she stared at me.“W— What’s going on? How did these marks get there? What’s happening?” She asked, freaking out and thrown into a world of confusion.“Calm down, it’s nothing serious, I promise I’ll get to the bottom of things and we’ll get something done about the claw marks.”“Do you even hear what you’re saying?” She screamed and I could’ve sworn that my eardrums bursted with that loud sound.“They are claw marks on my back and you’re asking me to calm down,” she screeched, “how did they get there? What’s happening? Do you know something?” She bomb
Lilliana’s POVGroaning, my eyes fluttered open and I stretched out to feel Nikolai beside me. His eyes were closed and his sleeping features were hotter than ever.Everything seemed peaceful and as the memories of what happened last night flooded my mind, I felt myself melting.We’d left the dinner hall and had a really good time before falling asleep. A smile formed on my lips and I moved Nikolai’s hair away from his face.“When you stare at me like that, it makes me want to eat you for breakfast.” Nikolai’s voice jolted me out of my thoughts as he pulled me into him.“Maybe I won’t stop staring at you like that then.” I threatened and I felt his cock kick against me.“Well, Good Morning.” I smiled, grinding against his cock and feeling it grow even harder and an inch longer.“Stop doing that, you still look exhausted.” Nikolai warned but stopping was the last thing I wanted to do.I’ve been feeling unusually horny these days and right now I wanted him to fuck me but he seemed too w
Lilliana’s POV“I’m sorry,” I muttered an apology to Kieran with no idea why when he’d just told me that he hoped Nikolai would treat me right.I don’t know why this man seems to think that he has to have a say on my relationship and I hate the fact that whenever he says things like this, he says it with so much confidence.It’s almost like he’ll be waiting in a corner for when Nikolai messes up so that he could tell me that he did warn and tell me so.“Also, Nikolai has always been treating me right, I don’t doubt the fact that he’s going to do so tonight too.” I smiled and Kieran nodded.“Right, I’m sorry about that, I just say things without thinking.” He apologized, smiling as he walked me to the entrance of the hall.“You should go now.” He finished and with a nod, I walked closer to the entrance before turning to look at him but he only urged me on.If anyone had told me that Kieran could be this nice and this much of a gentleman, I would’ve argued because he has always been a j
Lilliana’s POVI was still stuck behind the big oak tree with Kieran, the night was silent, peaceful but there was nothing peaceful with being either Kieran.I’d just seen him walk into the dinner hall clinging onto Jenna and I know I shouldn’t care but I couldn’t help the multiple questions that kept running through my mind.Are they dating now or their date was supposed to end as soon as the dinner was over?Sighing, I pinched the bridge of my nose and couldn’t believe that I was stuck with Kieran of all people, my heart raced and I felt uncomfortable.“What were you doing in the bush all alone?” His voice jolted me out of my thoughts and I shuddered, “you could’ve really gotten yourself killed, Lilliana, what were you thinking?” He added.Turning my head to look in his direction, I felt the hairs at the nape of my neck curling as the cold breeze grazed my ear like the touch of cold fingers.The last thing I wanted was to get myself engaged in a conversation with Kieran, even though
Lilliana’s POVWalking as fast as my legs could carry me, I could feel my heart racing and I knew really well that it was because of Jenna.She was the last person I was expecting to see and I can’t just stand being in the same space as her.I felt bad for judging too soon too because a part of me felt like Nikolai didn’t really know that she was going to show up to the dinner.The sound of my phone ringing jolted me out of my thoughts but I continued walking since I already knew who was calling. It was Nikolai and he had called multiple times already but I’d decided to ignore the calls.I wasn’t mad at him or anything because I knew there was an explanation for everything and in Nikolai’s case, he didn’t know she was coming but I also can’t bring myself to go back there until I’m calm.Finding a place to sit, I took a deep breath and looked up at the sky. I didn’t want to wander too far off because Nikolai might try looking for me.The fact that everything looks familiar calmed me do
Nikolai’s POVThe night was going smoothly and having Lilliana in my arms felt like having heaven within my reach and when she hugged me.Goodness, when she hugged me, it felt as though time had stopped and it felt so good. I was so afraid of moving that I couldn’t even breathe.She felt so warm and her body felt really soft pushed up against me, I wanted to keep holding her without ever letting her go.My heart pounded and I could hear the gushing sound of my own blood as it rushed through my veins, spreading to every part of my being.Closing my eyes, I took in a whiff of her delicious scent and I wanted nothing to take away this moment.The urge to keep her close to me was insane, I didn’t want to let go of her, I wanted to maintain that proximity, to keep loving her and overall, to protect her. I felt her muscles tensed and I could feel that something was wrong as she pulled away from me.“What’s wrong? Are you okay?” I asked but she looked so lost that she probably didn’t hear w
Lilliana’s POV“You look really gorgeous,” one of the maids complimented my hair and I couldn’t help the smile that formed on my lips.“I bet Alpha Nikolai would not be able to keep his hands off you.” Another added and I could definitely see what they meant by that.Taking a look at myself in the mirror, I could barely recognize myself. It’s been a while since I looked this beautiful and I felt tears welling up in my eyes.My hair was made perfectly with all sorts of adornment even though I’d said that I didn’t want anything extra.My dress is an extremely beautiful strapless lilac gown and as I stood up, I wondered if my stomach was going to be a problem but it wasn’t.These past days, Nikolai and I barely spent enough time with each other and just when I was starting to feel frustrated, he thought of a way to turn things around.He had insisted that everyone take a break and the day off so instead of the meeting, everyone just went out for food and drinks.He made sure to set every
Lilliana’s POVI’d slowly walked into the room with everything that Kieran had told me playing back in my head over and over again and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop the thoughts.I hated the fact that I was letting what he thinks have so much effect on me like that but there was nothing I could really do about it as I curled up on the bed like a wet cat.“I’m back,” Nikolai announced cheerily and that would’ve changed my mood if I hadn’t met Kieran and listened to him say all those things.“Welcome back.” I managed to let out before curling even harder as I tried my best to ignore Nikolai.From the way his breath brushed the nape of my neck and how he pulled me into him, I could tell that he was on the bed with me already.“What’s wrong?” He questioned, his voice bridling with his worry as he turned me over to face him, “you’re not in a good mood.” He added.Shaking my head, I let out a forced smile as I tried to assure Nikolai that I was fine but I’ve never been a good
Lilliana’s POVIt was as though my legs were moving faster than the rest of my body. I was running as fast as I could but the more I ran, the more it felt like I couldn’t escape.My heart was in my throat and I felt my stomach knotting in fear as I went deeper and deeper into the woods.My head felt light and my eyes kept going in and out of my head but I knew that I dared not wait.I dared not stop to catch my breath because if I stopped then whatever I was running away from, whoever I was trying to avoid was eventually going to catch up with me.The eerie sounds became louder and my legs were starting to feel weak, slowing down and making it difficult for me to run any faster.“I can’t stop. I can’t stop.” I kept repeating to myself like it was some sort of mantra but my legs were giving up on me and that was when I remembered.Although it was dark and seemed like no matter how loud I screamed, no one was going to come to my rescue. I could see that I was alone but despite seeing th