KADEN’S P.O.VI was shocked by Amelia’s interest in the rogues and it completely threw me off balance. I had not planned to tell her so much about it but she was too adamant and I ended up spilling much more than I planned. Whenever I tried to give her a half truth, she would call me out and remind me of our deal. It was shocking how well she knew me that she could tell when I was lying to her.I reluctantly ended up telling her how we were not the only pack being attacked by the rogues and how I hunted them down and killed everyone but I didn’t tell her why I did it. The last thing I wanted was to think about that boy and her. By the time I was done telling her everything, she just sat there staring at me in silence. I hated her silence because somewhere along the line, she had learned to hide her emotions and I couldn’t tell what she was thinking.“Amelia,” I called out and she raised a brow. “I would prefer words.”“I don’t know what to say. It is weird for rogues to just attack. W
AMELIA’S P.O.VI could barely sleep all night. I knew that I had calmed Kaden for the moment but I was worried that if this situation came up again, I wouldn’t be able to calm him down. His jealousy was justified, I would have been too if he was in my shoes. I needed to prove to him that I wanted only him and I needed to do it fast. One of the first things I learned about Alpha’s was that they were very possessive, I was shocked that he was showing this much restraint anyway.By the time morning rolled around, I was exhausted and worn out but determined to finish what I had started. Kaden wanted to drop me off at school but I told him not to. He didn’t seem too happy about it but I reminded him of his promise to trust me and that was the only thing that had him calming down. He kissed me softly before leaving and I waited until he had disappeared before I left the house.I had no plans on going to school. There were more important things at stake so I went to Clara’s house. I texted h
AMELIA’S P.O.VKaden didn’t wait for a response before pulling his fingers out until barely the tip remained and slamming them back into me. My eyes rolled into the back of my head and in that moment, there was nothing except the feeling of his fingers inside me and his hot breath against my neck.“Kaden, please, don’t tease,” I begged. I was dripping wet and I wanted him inside of me. His fingers were mind blowing but I wanted his cock. I wanted to feel that stretch when he pushed into me. I wanted it so badly I thought I would die.“Patience baby,” he kissed that spot beneath my ear that had me shivering. “You took such good care of me today, it is my turn now.”He slowed the movement of his fingers to a torturous pace almost as if he wanted to draw out every inch of pleasure that he could from my body. My hands found their way into his hair and I kissed him deeply. I moaned into the kiss and Kaden used that opportunity to slip his tongue inside. His tongue caressed the inside of my
AMELIA’S P.O.VAs soon as Kaden left the house, I jumped out of bed and got dressed. I was eager to get to the library because I held onto the hope that it would have all the answers I was looking for. A part of me couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if I didn’t happen to find what I wanted but I tried to shut it out. There was no use being negative and potentially ruining my entire day.My phone rang just as I got out of the bathroom and I picked it up without looking at the caller ID. “Did you get it?”I knew immediately that it was Clara and I nodded momentarily forgetting that she couldn’t see me. “Yeah, I did. I’m getting ready to leave right now.”“Do you want me to come with you?” she asked. “It might be more helpful if you have two hands on deck instead of one.”“No thanks,” I would have loved her help but this was something I needed to do alone. Besides, I wasn’t sure how the library worked and I didn’t doubt that there would be guards there. I didn’t want Kaden asking
KADEN’S P.O.VThe assumption proved to be correct. We waited for over half an hour before we got the first glimpse of the rogues. It was one rogue at first and he came to scout the area. Thankfully, we were well hidden and he couldn’t see us. We waited until the rest of the rogues had arrived before we exposed ourselves and attacked them.Some of them were smart enough to run away while the others were frozen in place from shock. I gestured to Caleb to follow the ones who ran and he wasted no time before leaving with half the guards. There were more rogues than we counted on but I kinew we still had the advantage of numbers.This team wasn’t filled with children, the youngest looked to be in his mid-thirties. They were experienced fighters and they put on one hell of a fight. I had no plans of taking any hostages because I knew that torturing these rogues would prove fruitless. There were countless scars on the skin of most of them and I knew that they wouldn’t be as forthcoming with
AMELIA’S P.O.VI recognized the woman instantly. Her sharp eyes were not something I could ever forget. She was also one of the first people in this pack to be nice to me. She looked good for her age and she smiled softly when she realized that I had recognized her. The main reason I couldn’t forget her was because she said she knew my mother. I had planned to go back and ask her about it someday but life got the better of me.“I didn’t think I would ever see you here, Amelia,” she smiled then gestured for me to walk with her. “It has been a while since we last saw you and a lot has changed, you are with the Alpha now.”“He’s my mate,” I didn’t know why I was explaining myself to her but I knew I could trust her. My wolf assured me that she was kind so I followed her.She hummed. “So I heard, how does it feel being mated to an Alpha? I assume it isn’t as easy as one would think.”“It’s not,” I laughed softly. “But it’s Kaden and he is worth it, I guess. Where have you been since we la
KADEN’S P.O.VI never realized how hard it was to smother thoughts of murder until I knew another man wanted my mate. A part of me was furious that he would even think about it and I wanted nothing more than to storm into that pack and rip his head clean off his shoulders. I doubted Gregory would care but there was the little issue about him being mated to Gregory’s daughter. If anything happened to her, I knew Gregory was going to tear the world apart to kill whoever harmed her.The only thing that was keeping me sane was my promise to Amelia to trust her. I wanted to lose control, my wolf wanted to lose control but the knowledge that I would be hurting her by doing so was the only thing keeping me from making a drastic decision.“Kaden,” Amelia’s hand on my shoulder snapped me back to reality.After cleaning me up in the bathroom, she pulled me into the bedroom and made me lie in bed while she went to prepare something for me to eat. I loved whenever she cooked for me because it sho
AMELIA’S P.O.VI was practically floating in the air for the rest of the day. I was so terrified to tell him how I felt and instead of the rejection I expected to be met with, he had repeated the words back to me. It felt like things were finally aligning in my favor. I was with a man who I loved and loved me back. We spent the evening together just cuddling in bed and eating snacks. There wasn’t anything sexual about the way he held me, it was just intimate.I woke up the next morning to him shuffling around the room. When I glanced at the window, I saw that it was still dark outside. I sat up slowly glancing at the alarm clock as I did so and it read 4 a.m. my brows furrowed in confusion. Kaden had his back to me and it wasn’t until I cleared my throat that he turned to me.“Hey baby,” he whispered as he crossed the length of the room to kiss me. “You can go back to bed, it isn’t time to get up yet.”“Where are you going?”“There was a little disturbance at the border but don’t worr
KADEN’S P.O.VAs soon as Caleb drove off with Amelia, I felt someone slap me upside the head.There were only a handful of people who would dare to do that- my mother, Amelia and Pamela- I didn’t need to turn around to know who it was.“You idiot,” Pamela hissed. “What were you thinking? She told you to stop multiple times and you kept going. Did you not hear when she said she would hate you?”I did hear her actually, I just convinced myself that she was upset and it would be fine after. I didn’t realize that she meant it or I would have stopped. It was a shitty excuse and I knew it made me a fucking terrible mate as well.“I know I messed up,” I ran my hands through my hair in frustration. “I’ll make it up to her.”Pamela scoffed. “You stupid child, this is more than just making it up to her. After everything she went through, you were meant to be her safe place and you hurt her. This isn’t just about you outing her in public, you betrayed her trust. She has no one right now.”“That’
AMELIA’S P.O.VI walked out of the dining room and out the front door.I knew I was being a tad bit unreasonable but it pissed me off to no end that he couldn’t just trust me. I didn’t want to have that conversation in front of everyone, I didn’t want that part of my life out there. We were having a child together for goddess sake and yet, he couldn’t just listen to me.“Amelia!” Kaden’s voice echoed through the air as he rushed over to me. “Baby, please, just wait.”I ignored him and heads straight for my car. My guards were nowhere to be seen. They must have left after Kaden arrived. It didn’t matter to me anyway, I could drive. It was a terrifying thought to go home alone but I was going to do it. I wasn’t going to sit back and give him the satisfaction.I got to the door of my car when he placed a hand on the car door. “Please, Amelia, let me just talk to you, please.”“I have nothing to say to you,” I crossed my arms over my chest without looking at him. “Just go, okay? I don’t w
AMELIA’S P.O.VClara didn’t say a single word regarding my conversation with Aaron. I could tell she was thinking about it though. She was many things but stupid was not one of it. She knew exactly what that conversation was about and I expected more questions from her but there was nothing.“Do you want to come in?” was the first thing she asked when we got to her house. “My grandparents are home but that’s about it. They’ve missed you. They might want to say hi.”I didn’t want to take the offer but I also realized how cruel it was that I hadn’t come to see them yet. They took me in when they didn’t have to and treated me like their own grandchild. Before I could talk myself out of it, I nodded and followed her up to the front door.My palms were clammy and it felt like my chest was closing in on me but I forced myself to walk into the house. It smelled the same and looked the same, nothing had changed since the last time I was inside. It almost felt like I had never left.“Clara are
AMELIA’S P.O.VClara and I sat down on the wooden chairs while Aaron remained at the edge of the bed. He looked better than the last time I saw him, much better actually.“You haven’t used your powers in a while,” he didn’t waste any time before going straight to the point. “Both of you, not just you, Amelia.”I shrugged. “My wolf was drugged for weeks and I just haven’t had a reason to recently.”“You will soon.”It sounded more like an ominous warning than anything and I wanted to ask more about what he meant but he had already turned away from me and was facing Clara. She had her hands folded neatly in her laps and her face was cast down.“I just didn’t want to,” she shrugged. It was clear she was very uncomfortable with the direction of the conversation.She already told me why so she didn’t need to tell him, especially if she didn’t want to. Besides, I was concerned with how he knew that we hadn’t used our powers in a while. We didn’t talk about it outside his door so there was n
AMELIA’S P.O.VI regretted my words the moment I saw the three guards that Kaden had arranged for me.He had a smile of pride on his face once they arrived and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. They were quite possibly the biggest and scariest men I had ever seen in my life. One of them had tattoos all over his arm, the other had a mean resting face that could make a grown man piss his pants. The third didn’t look as scary as the others but his sheer size alone was enough to make a person pause.“These are your guards,” he gestured to the men in front of me. “They’ll take you to Clara’s house first and you can go wherever you want after.”I crossed my arms over my chest and stared at him blankly. “Are you serious?”“You said as many as I want. I wanted to get you four guards but I figured it would be too much.”“And you don’t think three is a little over the top?”“It’s this or nothing, baby.”I let out an exasperated sigh before turning to the guards. “Fine.”Neither of them broke
AMELIA’S P.O.VI was done hiding.If Blake was willing to leave his pack despite not having his wolf then he was a greater foe than I knew and I couldn’t just sit on my ass and wait for him to attack whenever he felt like. He wasn’t backing down anytime soon, I knew that much. I saw the look in his eyes yesterday and I knew what it was. It was a look of pure determination. I knew that it wasn’t about what I wanted anymore or about what he presumed to be a mate bond, this was about an Alpha whose ego was just bruised.I embarrassed him and made him look weak and he wanted me back to show that he wasn’t. I was the shiny trophy that he wanted to keep in a display and I’d be damned if I let him do that to me. He couldn’t control my life- not anymore at least.For the first time since I returned, I woke up earlier than Kaden and made my way down to the kitchen to make breakfast. It felt so good to be back in my own house, barefoot in my kitchen and able to do whatever I wanted.I had bare
KADEN’S P.O.VBlake was a fucking coward.For someone who was brave enough to keep my mate for days, he ran off like a fucking wuss when he realized that he didn’t have his wolf to fight for him.I made sure to comb the entire border to ensure that he was not lurking around. The last thing I wanted was for someone else to go missing. It was torturous enough searching for Amelia, I wasn’t sure I had it in me to search for someone else.As soon as I was sure that Blake wasn’t hiding anymore, I rushed over to Amelia. Her mind was quiet which wasn’t unusual. Ever since she returned, she preferred to stay on her own with her thoughts. I hated it but I knew it would take some time before she went back to the way she was- if she ever did. If she never went back, I didn’t care, I just wanted her.The moment I got to the car, I knew something was wrong. Caleb was standing next to the car but his brows were furrowed in deep thought. He looked somewhat relieved when he saw me but when I asked, h
AMELIA’S P.O.VI didn’t realize just how badly my legs were shaking until I got to the car. I had barely reached it when my legs gave out and I had to grip it so as not to hit the ground.“Shit, are you okay?” Caleb was at my side in an instant but he hesitated to touch me. “Do you need me to call Kaden?”I shook my head. “I’m fine, I swear, I just- I didn’t know how scary it would be to see him after everything.”Caleb assessed me warily but said nothing. I slowly sank to the ground not having the energy in me to open the car. Besides, the grass was much softer and it was fresh, the wind was blowing and I could feel the breeze on my face. I didn’t feel caged anymore and I needed to remember that.“Do you want some water?” he asked and I nodded.I watched as he reached into the backseat of the car and retrieved a water bottled. It smelled like him so it was obviously his but I couldn’t bring myself to be picky. I just uncapped it and downed the water. My heart was pounding violently i
AMELIA’S P.O.VWe sat in the tub until our skin started to prune. True to his words, Kaden didn’t say a word as we got out of the tub. He didn’t even speak as we ate lunch or dinner. I thought he had forgotten and a part of me was relieved because I knew that whatever he wanted to say had to do with Blake.My relief lasted until sometime around ten when there was a frantic knock on our door. I glanced at Kaden who looked to be as confused as I felt. He gestured for me to remain seated while he went to check it out but he should have known better because as soon as he was out the door, I was behind him.“Amelia,” he hissed but I waved him off.I was dressed in lounge pants and a loose shirt. I was prepared for whatever it could be. He muttered something under his breath that sounded similar to ‘goddess help me’.“Stay here,” he told me once I got to the bottom of the steps. I pursed my lips but I was close enough to see the door so I waited.He pulled the door open and I could feel th