Dawn's POV Ryan kept quiet for the next minutes, as my heart continued racing. I wanted him to speak so bad but at the same time, I didn't want to force the answer out of his mouth. He finally let out a loud sigh and looked at me. "I can't, Dawn. It's dangerous. I am sure that Xavier is going to find you there and-" I interrupted, because I was so desperate. "There are no buts, Ryan. I really want to do this, please. Xavier wouldn't find me, I promise," I pleaded, looking straight into his eyes. I could see that he wanted to help, but perhaps he was scared. "You can't survive out there on your own because it is dangerous to be homeless in this part of the world because other shifters may find you. Or even worse, you might be killed at night when vampires come out to feed at night." Immediately I heard that, my heart and head instantly got filled with dread. Imagining that made me so scared, and I could feel my hands tremble a little. But then, at this point, I was desper
Dawn's POV I watched as Ryan grabbed the stranger and threw him against the wall again. That was all I saw of the man, before Ryan came to me again. He removed the gag from my mouth and slowly helped me out of the car. The fear had overwhelmed me so much that my legs were still shaking. They wobbled under me, and Ryan helped me stand straight. Ryan was right beside me, holding me. So, why was I still hearing grunts from the man who wanted to rape me, like someone was still beating him up. I left Ryan's side and walked forward a bit, when I saw him. Zade. My heart hitched in my chest, as my eyes lingered on him. I didn't realize that I had missed him so much. Seeing him made relief wash over me, and I just wanted to run to him, hug him and cry in his embrace. But I held myself and just watched as he continued beating the vampire up. For the next two minutes, I watched as he lifted him up and hit him against the wall several times before his fist came in contact wit
Dawn's POV I sat up a little, moving closer to Zade so I'd be able to kiss him properly. With one hand, he pulled me closer to sit on his lap, holding my face in place, as his lips comfortably sucked mine softly. A small moan left my lips, as I wrapped my hands around his neck. For a second, he pulled away to stare at my flushed face, but after, he kissed me, harder this time. The kiss lasted for minutes, until I could no longer breathe. I pulled out of the kiss, and tried to catch my breath. I wondered how he didn't look like he was out of breath, like he had done this a million times. As an over thinker, I couldn't just brush the random thought off. So, I got off him and sat on the other side of the bed. In a split second, he was by my side, holding my shoulders. "What's wrong? Do you need something?" He asked softly and I wanted to say, "yes, you." But I kept my thoughts in and picked my words carefully. "It's nothing. I guess I'm just tired," I lied, and forced a smal
Dawn's POV I raised my head to meet Xavier's burning gaze. "I'm so so sorry, I didn't know -" I picked the pieces of glass from the floor with my bare hands and disposed of them. Afterwards, I noticed that my fingers were bleeding a little. I was about to walk out on Xavier to clean them, when he grabbed my waist, and pulled me back. "Come here." He took my fingers, and in a second, he put them inside his mouth and slowly sucked the blood off. I was shocked. When he was done, he looked away and told me to rinse my fingers off in the sink. I did that, and turned to face him. "Now that that has been solved..." He cleared his throat awkwardly. "...Can you now tell me why you decided to embarrass me last night? You looked so bad." I stood in silence, thinking of a response. I doubted if he even knew everything that happened yesterday, only if Ryan informed him. A few minutes passed, and I finally parted my lips to answer. "Um, I, I didn't think anyone noticed. I'm sorry,"
Dawn's POV I continued walking through the woods. From a distance, I could hear some howls but for some weird reasons, I wasn't scared. Infact, I hoped one of the creatures out there would come out of nowhere and kill me. Maybe when that happened, Xavier would finally let me go. As I walked, the wind became cooler and brushed against my skin. "Ouch," I flinched as one of the thorns that was in the plants pierced my skin. It started bleeding a bit, but I quickly cleaned it off and continued walking. A little voice at the back of my head was telling me to go back, as Xavier might be angry. But I brushed it off. I didn't have the intention to run away. If I did, then I wouldn't be passing the route that was close to his pack house, and I was sure that he'd definitely come after me, which might lead to my death. I wondered if I would ever be free from his grasp. I wished he could just get tired of me and let me go. But with the way things were going, I was sure that that might
Dawn's POV "Ryan?!" I ran to him, and pulled him up. I wrapped him in a warm embrace and felt tears brimming up in my eyes. I was so happy and sad to see him — happy because he had saved me and sad because he was in pain. He raised his head and flashed a smile at me. "You're fine, don't cry." He wiped my tears away, and we stared at each other for a few seconds before he started laughing. I wondered why he was laughing at me, until I realized that we were both naked. I quickly stood up to get my clothes, when he suddenly carried me up, and jumped back into the water. I shrieked and hit his hand for him to drop me down, but he refused. We went deep inside the water and swam around before we came up. I didn't know that he was such a good swimmer. It looked really good to watch. "You're so fucking pretty, Dawn. Your body—" he started saying, but I interrupted him by wrapping my hands around his neck. "Shush, don't make me shy!" I said, making him laugh. He wrapped his hands
Xavier's POV My blood boiled in anger. Dawn was getting so comfortable, so I had to put her in her place. She was just a mere prisoner, and that was all. I thought she had run away and gone far away, until Ryan offered to bring her back home. Here. This pack house was her home now and the earlier she came in terms with that, the better for her. "Why would you do that, man?" Ryan shouted, as he punched my shoulder a little. I faced him, he had a deep frown etched on his face. I wondered why he was so angry, when he literally brought her back to the house when she had already left. "Ryan? What the fuck are you saying? She already left, she broke the rules. You know how I get when someone breaks the rules!" I went back to the throne, fuming. Lately, Ryan and I had been having so many altercations and they were all because of that prisoner. I would make sure to make her stay in my room hell, since she decided to start feeling too comfortable. "Yes, I know that she left. But ta
Dawn's POV I couldn't believe that alpha Xavier really saw me naked! My body was still trembling minutes after he saw me. I didn't know why, but I wasn't comfortable with it, especially after everything he had done to me for the past one day. Reluctantly, I walked out of the room and went to the dining hall. Thankfully, he wasn't there. But not only that, nobody was there. For the first time since I walked into the house, there was no single plate of food on the table. It was empty. I wondered what was happening, so I walked to the kitchen to ask the maids if they weren't done with the breakfast, even though it was unusual and had never happened since I got to the house. I tapped one of the maids that was standing at the sink, she looked calm. "Hi, when will breakfast be ready?" Immediately the words left my mouth, she eyed me and hissed before walking away. I asked about two more and they reacted the same way. I was so hurt and confused, until someone appro
Xavier’s POV:Never in my life did I know that there would come a day when I would feel jealousy.Jealousy.It was a foreign word. One that I had only heard people often use but had never felt… and never thought I could, until now.My heart raced as Dawn’s soft moans filtered through the air, and it hurt. It hurt more because all I could do was listen. And I wasn’t the one making her moan so sweetly. It was Zade. I had the option to shut my door tight. I knew I could block out the sound but I didn’t want to. I couldn’t bring myself to. For some reason, I wanted to listen, I wanted to hurt myself and I wanted to know what it felt like to have to share the attention and affection of one’s mate with other people; and now that I have, I have come to decide that it is the worst feeling to ever exist. I squeezed hard on the wine glass in my hand, and when it broke, shattering into a million pieces, I didn’t care. Nothing mattered to me anymore, not even the trail of blood on my injured han
Dawn’s POV:“By the time I am done with you, you’d wish you never asked for it!” Zade snarled and with that, he pushed me off of him with a force that had me stumbling backward. Before I could ask what he meant by that, or why he had pushed me off so aggressively, he fisted one of his hands into my hair, and the other, he used to tug off my towel so forcefully that I had a friction cut from it.“Zade!” I cried, in both shock and pain and I saw his eyes flash again with an emotion, an emotion that I suspected was regret before he moved away from me to pick up my discarded towel.“I’m sorry,” he sighed as he pushed the towel into my hands and stepped away from me, whilst ignoring my eyes and me altogether.I was confused. I didn’t know exactly what he was sorry for... well, besides the fact that he had nearly ripped off a part of my skin. But still, it wasn’t his intention and I wanted it… I asked for this, and if there was anyone to be blamed, then it was supposed to be me. He tried
Dawn’s POV:As soon as my hands connected with Reagan’s face, his eyes flashed. He snarled as he threw his head back and to my horror, his fangs elongated. However, before he could sink it into my throat, I felt something like wind blow past me. It was so fast and so sudden that it had me stumbling back. What surprised me even more was the fact that by the time I regained my composure, I was standing face to face with Zade whose arms were wrapped around Reagan’s neck as he tried to subdue the obviously lesser vampire.“Zade…” I breathed out in relief. “Thank you.”For a minute, I could swear that Zade didn’t hear me. Or if he did, he pretended not to. He ignored me as he looked down at the vampire who was still clutched under his hold and snarled; “Why are you bothering the girl?”“Isn’t she just a human girl, Zade?” Reagan spat back angrily. “I was only prepping her up before I devoured her because as you may know, she’s nothing but food.”Something about his words irritated me to
Dawn’s POV:“Did you find something?” I asked Xavier for the hundredth time today and in turn, he rolled his eyes at me for the hundredth time too before picking up the piece of paper once discarded on his desk.“You know, it’s not that easy to find answers to cases like this. It could take days… weeks even. Moreover, what if you had imagined it all? What if you’d been given wine but you thought it was orange juice?” He snapped back.Something about his words made me insanely pissed but knowing that I couldn’t act on it, I rolled my eyes and snorted as I plopped into the chair beside me. My eyes were fixed on him as I hissed; “Are you saying that you think I was hallucinating?”“Oh yes, I think so!” He snapped back without even doing as much as sparing me a glance. “Because that was obviously red wine.”His words hurt. So much. But I’ll be damned if I said anything about what that young servant had said to me that day. It was our little secret, our little something and in return, I ha
Dawn’s POV:I could hear the hushed mumblings among the crowd as they turned in the direction of the noise- me, but at this point, I didn’t care. I didn’t even care that Ryan was standing beside me, grabbing onto my arm like his life depended on it and muttering something to me, something that I couldn’t quite catch at the moment.All I cared about was the shattered glass on the floor and the fact that I could swear that Cassidy had served me orange juice, but now the liquid painting the beautiful porcelain floor wasn’t orange, it was crimson. I gasped.“Is that… blood?” I asked Ryan who in turn shook his head. “That’s red wine.” He answered softly. He looked almost… stoic and his expression was unreadable. “That’s a wine but you know you can tell me anything right?” He asked and all I could do was give a simple nod of approval.“Why did you let it fall? I know it didn’t slip… you intentionally wanted it to fall.”As I watched him talk, I couldn’t help but think about a thousand thou
Dawn’s POV:I watched Cassidy as she made her way through the crowd of people ever so gracefully, like a queen. It was shocking seeing how she could manage to have her ego untainted even though Ryan had made sure to bruise it.And he did it so badly.Today, we were hosting a party. Scratch that, Alpha Xavier was hosting a party to welcome some ‘Lord’ who wanted to stay a while with us to the pack. And somehow, for some reason best known to Ryan, he had put her in charge of the servants… the waitresses and the ‘meals’ and when I say meals, I mean the humans, the humans who now served as refreshments to the bloodthirsty vampires. Cassidy, clad in nothing but the soft cotton skirt and blouse that was the signature uniform of the ‘slaves’- that was part of the embarrassment that Ryan had put her through- stopped when she saw me. There was a dark look in her eyes, one which managed to send chills down my spine because of how malicious it looked. And then she smiled.“There you are!” She e
Dawn’s POV:As the warm water from the shower faucet cascaded down my body, I stood shakily under it, sighing as most of the pent up anxiety and stress knotted around my shoulders loosened up. I felt relieved, happy even, until I remembered my last conversation with Zade and how Xavier had walked in on us, interrupting us. What was worse was the quiet stare down that had ensued before Xavier politely asked me to excuse them.And now, here I was, bathing away the knots in my hair and the dirt on my skin while I had no freaking idea about what they might be talking about at the moment, and it only made me even more nervous to think that I would be the centre of the conversation. The one whose fate was being decided. I was the topic to be discussed and yet, I wasn’t allowed to witness it.Anger surged through me at the thought, but with it came frustration and confusion. I liked Zade a lot, and presently, I may even like him a lot more than I did Xavier, but that wasn’t enough reason to
Dawn’s POV:“Well, I don’t… I don’t know.” I stuttered as I looked up at Zade’s expectant eyes. “I have never lived with vampires before and I fear that-”“You’ve never lived with werewolves before either but you did and you did just fine.”he added, interrupting me and I gulped.Fine, I knew that he made a lot of sense saying that but there was no way both species could be compared to one another. Werewolves were like humans who had the ability to shift but vampires were different. Those were another species of beings entirely. They were NOT humans in any way and while humans and werewolves could cohabit, vampires and humans could not as humans were practically their food.The fear of living in a place where everyone saw me as potential food filled me with fear and with that fear clawing at my chest, I shook my head. “Personally, I’d love to live with you as you treat me so well, but I fear that I’ll be in danger back at your house. I am human, a human with human blood and it just do
Dawn’s POV:My eyes fluttered open, then went shut. This happened continuously as I tried- no, fought to keep my eyes open, but I couldn’t. In the distance, I could hear the sounds of hushed voices, arguing… and I could smell… that was strange because I could perceive smells so strongly now, and this place smells like shit.Despite the horrid smelling atmosphere, some distinct smells still stood out. It was like the combination of pines, of woods, of the morning dew of fresh leaves, of flowers’ nectar, of champagne and aftershave, and at that, my eyes shot open and I was immediately met with three pairs of breathtakingly beautiful eyes that had my breath hitching in my chest. They belonged to Ryan, Zade… and unfortunately, Xavier.“Dawn?” It was Zade who spoke up first and before I could respond, he sprung forward to pull me into a hug. God, I was happy to see him, ecstatic even but I couldn’t bring myself to hug him back. I felt confused, drained, and most of all, I couldn’t fathom