IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
A lash came on my back causing me lose my balance. I winced from the pain and hurriedly got to my feet."How many times have I asked you to wipe the floors clean?!" I heard our alpha bark at me. Faye was like no other alpha, she hated the omegas of our pack, the Coven pack, because her father, alpha Resh, died while protecting us. "I'm sorry Alpha," I said. I dared not cry, it would only worsen my situation.She wiped my back one more time with the whip. I held the pain in, "I better not return to this room and it's not prepared for the annual meet up of the ally packs.""Yes alpha," I said, bowing my head in automatic submission to her aura.Alpha Faye looked around the room with poison glared gaze before taking her exit.I immediately let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.'Kira, that was fucking scary,' my wolf, Mel called, 'sometimes I just want to tear at her and pull her down.'I rolled my eyes at her, 'she's the alpha, there's nothing you could do even if you wanted to.
Damian's pov"What kind of king does not have a mate?!" My mother banged my desk, forcing me to look up at her and away from my table.I slid my hand through my hair, "mum, I'm busy." I watched as she paced around, two of her personal guards waiting by my door. She was in a long overflowing robe that swept the floor as she walked."Damian, they're talking... They're all talking." She drew her eyebrows together in, "you turned thirty, still no mate."Above all things, I tried to keep my calm. "It does not matter, mum.""Damian, they're all plotting to overthrow you, and give it to that..." She scrunched her face in disgust, "that brother of yours." Throwing her hands over her head, she cried, "this is a disaster, you know how his mother is, first thing she'll do is throw us out of the pack house once her filthy son becomes king.""No one can overthrow the alpha king." I tried to retain my calmness."Oh I hear them, all the whispers," she leaned in to say in a low voice, "I hear, his ma
Kira's povI fluttered my eyes open and tried to take the surroundings in. My head hurt. The room was grand and huge, there were multiple paintings with rims of gold, a red rug with golden strings coming out of it. The bed was king sized. There were so many details to take in, I couldn't assimilate it at once.I looked down at myself and realized I was in a hoodie, twice my size and in the warmth of the fluffiest sheets. I swallowed hard, realizing I was completely naked underneath my hoodie. "This has to be a dream," I said in a panic, "or a hallucination." If Faye had caught me, she wouldn't be providing me with luxury.My eyes trailed to the giant floor to ceiling door across from me and I got to my feet. It had to lead out of here at least.I reached for the handle but jolted back in fear as the door came open. I froze in place, staring at the tall man, his hair in a loose bun, clad in a black shirt and shorts.At first, I was mesmerized by him. He had the most perfect face, it
KiraAs his guards dragged me along, I hoped he would at least turn to look at me once but nothing happened.I bowed my head, sadness filling my heart.I was still so hungry and my back still hurt from the way Faye had hit me. I had forgotten about it momentarily, caught up in the temporary luxury.'I'm sorry Mel, our mate doesn't want us. It's all because of me, I'm sorry you're stuck with a human like me.'I could feel her presence but Mel didn't respond, so she must have agreed with me.The prison cells each housed five women. They were at least ten cells parallel to each other.The men pushed me into the arm of the prison guard who led me to one of the cells, rough handedly tossing me in and locking it after.The five other women in here looked ragged and worse, hair torn out, patches of clothes on them. I could only wonder what they were locked up for. "She looks good to eat,” one of them chuckled. Seeing the look of shock on my face as I widened my eye, she rolled her eyes, “I
DamianBay couldn’t bear the torture as The guards took our mate out but I had to prove a point to Lucy.“Happy? Now leave me to work.”“You had me worried there for a second,” Lucy sighed in relief, “you need to thread more carefully, don’t Create room for gossip.”“Lucy, take your leave.”The only one who did not tremble under my orders was Lucy and I let her have her way. Instead of leaving she reached for my shoulder and smiled, “my sister will be back from her trip in two weeks, you’re going to mark her like we initially planned, exercise more patience.”I didn’t respond. I only took her hand off my shoulder and led her out of the room. She bowed her head, “I’ll see you soon your majesty.”As soon as she was gone I wanted to go after the guards. I wanted to kill them for laying their filthy hands on her. The way they’d gripped her by the arm, I found myself clenching my fists by my side. I needed a new distraction. I could feel my wolf threatening to take over. Unlike me he
I was barely done with my words when his door was swung open. We both turned our heads in the direction of the door. A woman in an overflowing robe walked in and her jaw dropped. The guards that accompanied her waited outside Damian’s room for her. She approached me and cupped my cheeks, turning my face side to side, “Oh my goddess, look at you!” she frowned and turned to Damian, “have you lost it? Look at the state she is in, all bones and tattered, have you no sense of responsibility?” “Mum, what do you think you are doing?” Damian finally spoke since she had come in.His mother? It explained why there was no aura of fear in her. She looked so hot, and young I would have thought she was his sister. She turned to the door and yelled on top of her voice, “Melanie?!” A woman in a green dress walked in hastily with her head bowed. “Melanie? Give her a proper change of clothes, feed her, and a take her to one of the nice rooms to sleep in.” I didn’t know why she was doing any of tha
I held my breath, trying to figure out what had happened. Still leaning into the kiss, he snaked his arm tighter around my waist and pulled me in even closer. I could feel the goosebumps trailing along my skin, all my senses lost in that moment. I didn't want it to end.He pulled away from me, staring directly into my eyes, he tucked my hair behind my ear and lowered his face to mine, I stared directly into his eyes with my heart racing fast. He was so close I could actually feel his hot breath against my skin. The corner of his lips pulled up into a malicious smirk, "looks like you do want to have something to do with me."I needed to snap out of whatever trance he'd put me in. "Why are you doing this?" I said, my voice low and whispery."What am I doing?" His eyes were fixed on my lips.I backed away, ignoring the tingles I felt between my thighs."What do you want? It is clear you don't want me." He was making me so confused. "You're not befitting for the alpha king." He said wit
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
IThe king finally set me to my feet. After a long time of arguing, it felt like we had been walking for miles and miles. I completely lost my senses at one point, but I kept going because I was the one who insisted on coming here. We got to a cave, and it was huge. It was hidden in the mountains, and it could take all the warriors that were present. They only created a separate space for Alpha because he was the king and did not want to share all the space with everyone. He held my hand."What do you think you're doing?" he raised one eyebrow at me. "I'm going to settle in with everyone. I guess we all need to sleep before the big battle tomorrow." I shrugged at him. "Have you lost your mind?" He took me, pulling me closer to him. "Why would you sleep with all these men around? Come on, you're going to stay in the same cave as me.""But do you think that is disrespectful? I'm not your maid or anything. Everyone would get upset.""Nobody's getting upset, trust me. Everyone just w
I remembered her name. Instantly, I knew that she was his previous mate, he had never fully told me the story of how she passed away. And so, I furrowed my eyebrows together, staring at him with a lot of confusion. "What do you mean, Libianca?"He suddenly bowed his head as if the memory of a person was taunting him. “It was like a situation like this too. We were going on war. She was a warrior this entire time. I knew that I should not have asked her to come on that journey, and I knew that she was not strong enough. But my selfishness, because I couldn't stay away from her for even a second. Was the reason why I convinced her to come to the war and I lost her, I'm not about to do that with you too. You're too weak for this kind of work. I'm telling you that I might not even survive. And you think that I will let you come along? What about the children?"“I already spoke to Locks about it and he's willing to take care of them under his protection.”"What.""Yes, that is how determin
The next morning, I was awake before it was even five in the morning. The king was still sleeping in bed, and so were the children.I had made up my mind, and I knew what I wanted to do. I got to my feet and I crept out of the door as quietly as I possibly could. I went to find Locks in the room that I thought belonged to him, and I was surprised when I knocked the door, and he was still in charge of this room.His eyes were heavy with sleep, and when he opened the door as if he wasn't expecting it to be me, he widened his eyes in shock and slammed the door in my face.I flinched, taken aback, wondering what was going on. He reopened the door a few seconds later. His face was washed, and he had packed his hair up. I couldn't help but smile. I wondered why on earth he was trying to look good for me."Hey, I wanted to talk to you. I'm sorry to come and barge into your room so early this morning.""What did you want to talk about?""So I know that you discussed with me about the King's W
I was shocked by Clyde's love confession. "What? What are you talking about?""Yes, that's the problem. I was also wondering why I was being so dramatic until I saw you with the king. The way you were smiling with him. It reminded me that the first day I saw you, I loved you from the start until you gave me that boundary, and I was going to keep it until the very end. But I didn't realize how jealous you've been with somebody else was going to make me so—-“ he groaned. "Trust me, I would still do it again if I havethe chance to.”“I'm not interested in all this nonsense that you're going on flapping about.” “I know it seems like I’m saying bullshit but as long as you're with the King, I will not back down, and I won't give up." I stood to my feet. "Clearly, you've gone mad, and I'm going to give you the chance to heal before I release you. Don't worry, I'm not going to be in this dungeon forever. It's just until you learn your lesson and learn that there are some things that you ne
I was still trying to process what he had said when the children started to cheer they had already heard what he said. "Yes Mommy, please let's stay in this big fancy room." They both started jumping on the bed, playing and giggling at the big bed. I turned to look at him."Why would you say that in front of them? Now I can't say no," he whispered in my ear. "Are you sure you can't say no because of them or because you don't want to?" I found that in the end, he was right. I could easily change my mind if I wanted. A part of me wanted to stay in this room with him. "Fine, but only because the children want it," I told him. "And don’t hold me like that in their presence." I warned him."You two must be very hungry." I turned to face them with a smile. "Yes, Mommy." "Okay, I'll go make you something to eat. Don't worry. You don't have to stress about that, I'll ask One of the guards to prepare something for them to eat.""Hell no I can't trust anybody in this palacs especially wi
"Where is he?" I asked them on top of my lungs, running away from them as if I knew where they would be.They ran after me, trying to keep up with my pace. "They are in the King's room with the king and a few guards."I increased my pace as if my life was about to end.I burst into the King's room, and I saw the children sitting on the bed.The king was still partially in his wolf form. His claws were still his wolves, and his body was still covered. His eyes were struggling, a very bright red. I wondered how the children were not terrified of his image.As soon as they saw me, they jumped to their feet, from where They were sitting and ran into my arms.I crouched to their height as they both came so hug me. I began to cry, checking their faces and inspecting them for injuries."Oh my goodness, my babies. How have you guys been?""Mommy I've missed you so much." Leah beamed."Me too," Leo said, showing off his shirt that the King gave to him."Oh my goodness." I turned around to look