Cecilia POVMy heart pounded in my chest and my mouth went dry. For a moment, I just froze and stared at him. An image of the warrior in the basement with cuts and bruises all over his body flashed before my eyes. "A-are y-you going to hurt me?" I squeaked. "Like the warrior in the basement?" Alessandro chuckled."You and I are going to have a lot more fun than he had. But yes, it will probably hurt a little."”I don’t understand what you want from me.” I was exasperated. “I already told you everything!”“And I don’t believe you,” Alessandro growled. “Therefore I will do anything I want with you to make sure that I can trust you.”Goddess, why did that sound so sexy? “You bought me.” I retorted and crossed my arms over my chest. “You can do anything you want anyways.”Alessandro smirked at me.“You’re right.” He whispered. “I can do anything I want. And I want to make you sing.”I frowned.“I’m not much of a singer,” I said sheepishly.He chuckled.“You sang so beautifully in the
Cecilia POVI stared at Alessandro. “What Alpha’s daughter?” I asked.“The one from MoonStone pack,” Alessandro replied and released my wrists from the handcuffs. “I believe you.”I sat up and rubbed my wrists, feeling confused.I was the Alpha’s daughter.But I was very much alive.How could my body have turned up in the forest?“That’s terrible,” I said. “What happened?” “Her body was burned so no one really knows,” Alessandro said. “They only identified her on the hair and the wedding dress.”I frowned.Someone must have faked my death to get the warriors off my tail.I felt relieved that I didn’t have people after me anymore, but my heart still sank at the thought of someone losing their life because of me.“I suppose that you were telling me the truth.” Alessandro’s voice broke me out of my thoughts and I looked up at him. I shrugged. “I understand,” I replied. “We’ve just met. I don’t expect you to blindly trust me.”Alessandro sat down beside me and rubbed my wrists.“But
Cecilia POVI was startled awake by the door opening. I glanced at the time and frowned when I saw that it was in the middle of the night. I saw Alessandro walk in and relaxed slightly, but I tensed again when I saw a girl walk in behind him. I sat up and stared at them, unsure what was going on. “Is this her?” The girl asked. Alessandro nodded. “Cecilia, I’d like you to meet Soraya.” He said. “She’s going to be staying here for a while.”I blinked. “Yes, Alpha,” I replied and looked down. I figured it would probably look weird if I didn’t address him properly Soraya frowned. “I don’t get it.” She said. “You bought her at an auction and you let her call you ‘Alpha’? You let her sleep in your bed? She’s a slave. She should be calling you ‘master’.”Alessandro clenched his jaw but nodded. “You’re right.” He said and I looked at him confused.He turned to me. “You will only address me as Master from now on.”I nodded. “Yes, Master.”I didn’t really know what was going on. Who
Cecilia POVThe door opened, startling me for the second time in one night. “Get up!” Someone shouted. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. After everything that happened during the night, I had trouble sleeping and it felt like someone had run me over with a truck. I stiffly climbed out of bed and walked over to the dresser. I figured that I needed to wear something else than a lace shirt and a leather skirt. Thankfully, I pulled out an old T-shirt and some jeans from the dresser. Both were too big for me, but I had to make due for now. I put some slippers on and followed the rest of the Omegas to get some breakfast. When I entered the dining hall, I looked around for Olivia, hoping that I would see her somewhere. But the sun was out, so I guessed that she didn’t want to leave her room. The Omegas were quickly given a slice of bread with some cheese. I wasn’t really hungry, but still managed to scarf it down before we were ushered out to attend to the chores. “You!” Judith shouted
Alessandro POVReally? Did I just say that?I don’t trust anyone. Why would I trust a girl I just met?I couldn’t answer that.And yet, I let her live in my pack knowing she kept secrets. I shook my head to clear my thoughts and walked over to my office. Heaving a sigh of relief, I shrunk down in my chair and rubbed my forehead. I just couldn’t seem to figure her out. The thought crossed my mind to interrogate her again, but with Soraya around I didn’t trust that it would turn out well. A knock on the door made me look up and Soraya walked in, her heels clicking against the floor. “Hey babe.” She said and walked around my desk. “I think we should talk.” “I agree,” I muttered. Soraya pushed back my chair and sat down straddling my lap and wrapping her arms around my shoulders. “You need to stop protecting her.” She said. I frowned. “You scalded her.” I retorted. “Slave or not, I won’t tolerate you hurting her like that.” Soraya shrugged. “I didn’t know the water was so ho
Wanda POVThe Omegas in the kitchen glanced nervously at each other as lunchtime approached. The silent question hung in the air. Who would be serving the Alpha lunch this time?Everyone dreaded it. Especially the younger Omegas who were constantly groped and assaulted by him every time they served him. I sighed and rolled my eyes. “I’ll do it,” I said.The collective sigh of relief that was heard through the kitchen almost made me smile. “Thank you.” Alicia groaned. “He put his hand up under my skirt yesterday like that was the most normal thing.”I wasn’t exactly looking forward to having Alpha Jerkface’s hand up under my own skirt, but better for me than Alicia. She was 19 years old. She shouldn’t have to put up with pricks like him. After gathering the food and drinks for the Alpha and his bunch of stupid goons sitting around in the former Alpha’s office, I pushed the cart to the office and knocked on the door. “Enter.” A voice said curtly from the inside. I opened the door
Cecilia POVIt had only been two days, but I already started to dread the sound of clicking heels. I was folding laundry this time, after washing it in the washing machines all by myself. And yes, I felt really proud of myself. I guess it was thanks to Alessandro that I managed to figure it out, but I chose to ignore that at the moment. My heart sank when I heard Soraya walking in the hallway outside the Laundry room. Before I could cross my fingers that she was going somewhere else, she entered the Laundry room and smiled at me tauntingly. “There’s the little whore.” She said sweetly. “I have a task for you.”I kept my eyes cast down even though I wanted to strangle her with a pillowcase. “Yes, Mistress,” I said. “Alessandro and I are going to Jägersro,” Soraya said. “And you are coming with us.”I looked up at Soraya in surprise. “Why?” I asked without thinking.Soraya glared daggers at me and pushed me backward. I tripped over a pile of sheets and hit my head on the sink
The man grabbed my wrist and I tried to pull away from him. “I have to go.” I squeaked out.The man tightened his grip on my wrist and I whimpered. Once again, I cursed the damn collar around my neck. Without it, I could easily have overpowered him. But as long as I didn’t have my wolf, I was as strong as any other teenage girl. And the man was definitely stronger than me. “You’re hurting me.” I whispered. He leaned towards me and smiled in a way that I guessed was supposed to be seductive, but just turned out creepy. “But we’re just getting started, little girl.” He replied and pulled me with him. I knew that I should be screaming and trying to get someone’s attention, but at that moment I just froze. All I could feel was his tight grip on me and his nails digging into my arm.He led me to a lounge and pulled me inside. As he closed the door, the spell broke and I managed to yank my hand out of his grip and back away. I let out a yelp when I reached the back wall and my hea
Rocco POVI knew that I wasn’t supposed to be in this part of the packhouse at this time of night, but I didn’t have a choice. I crept closer to the basement, where faint screams were heard. My hair was standing on end and I shivered at the horrifying sound. Being careful not to draw attention to myself, I snuck closer and peered inside the interrogation room. A man was sitting in a chair, his wrists duct taped to the arm rests. He wasn’t wearing a shirt and several cuts and bruises littered his body. I stifled a gasp when I saw Mia standing behind him. “Please.” The man whimpered. “I’ve told you everything I know.”Mia turned around, her body dressed in a tight leather bodysuit. “Oh, I know.” She purred. “But I’m not done having my fun just yet.”With that, she took out a knife and carved something on the man’s shoulder. He shook and rocked the chair trying to get away from her, but the chair was bolted to the floor. His screams gave me chills and Mia laughed at his anguish. “
Alessandro POVGabriel’s hands trembled as he walked up the steps, his head lowered. I would never admit it to Linnea, but I was going to enjoy this. Gabriel deserved it, and I loved getting my hands dirty. My father had trained me in hurting people the right way to extract information, and I had become really good at it. I took off the cuffs and instructed Gabriel to take off his shirt and face the crowd. Then, I turned to Linnea and made her back away a bit. I didn’t want to risk hitting her. Linnea looked at me questioningly, as if she was trying to see through me. Maybe she was seeing the excitement?I turned my face away and picked up the whip. “I’m going to count to twenty.” I said. “You should probably get down on your knees in case you pass out before then.”Gabriel nodded stiffly and sat down, refusing to look at the crowd in front of him. I unfolded the whip, the silver tip glimmering in the light as it came down on his back. Gabriel cried out from the pain, his hands b
Linnea POVAlessandro sat down behind the desk and I perched myself on his lap when there was a knock at the door. “Come in.” Alessandro called out. Wanda opened the door and showed a man inside. “Dante.” Alessandro smiled. “Thank you for coming.”“Do you know what’s going on?” Dante asked. “Soraya has been missing. I have no idea where she is. When you called, I guessed that this is what you wanted to talk about.”Alessandro nodded. “The council was here and took a lot of the people responsible into custody.” He replied. “I just wanted you to hear it from me first. Soraya contacted Alpha Harald in an attempt for him to claim my Luna as his. It backfired and the council deemed her an accessory to the crimes that had taken place in this pack.”I smiled apologetically when Dante stared at Alessandro in shock. “I’m really sorry about the trouble that she has caused.” He said after a while. “I’ll talk to the council since she is a member of my pack. I just never thought that she woul
Gabriel POVI didn’t know how long I had been in the cell, but I was starting to feel stressed. My mother was locked in the cell beside mine and she hadn’t stopped glaring at me. “Was it worth it?” She asked. “Selling out your family?”I shrugged. “We should never have gone along with this in the first place.” I replied. “Now we lost everything.”“Yes, because of you!” Mom screamed, making the other prisoners throw annoyed looks at her. “You did this to us. You would have been Alpha by now.”“Would I?” I asked. “I want to be Alpha because I earned it, not because I got a pack handed to me that wasn’t even mine in the first place.”Mom sneered at me. “It’s because of your mate, isn’t it?” She asked. “Maybe I should have asked more questions earlier, but let’s do this now instead, since she seems to be the reason for this.”I growled at her. “It’s none of your business.” I replied. Before my mom could reply, a group of MoonStone warriors walked in. “You are being transported.” One
Linnea POVThe council took two days to sort out the information they had gathered. In the meantime, we decided to clean up the Red Rock pack. The pack was very well off generally, but the ranked members were sitting on all the money while the lower ranked members were struggling to make ends meet. When we arrived, I located the kitchen to talk to the Omegas. One thing I had learned from being an Omega in Alessandro’s pack was that the Omegas heard a lot more than they would let on and if there were anyone to ask about what was going on inside the pack, it was them. I managed to find my way to the kitchen and found a group of twenty Omegas hard at work making lunch. The door to the kitchen was slightly ajar so I stayed outside to observe their dynamic for a moment.“Hurry up, the new Alpha will be here soon.”I peeked in through the door and saw a woman who seemed to be the head Omega barking out orders to the girls that scrambled to fix the last things. Taking a deep breath and
Linnea POV“You know, if I’m going to be living with you and share a bedroom with you, we might need to make a few changes.” I teased as we got dressed the next morning.Alessandro raised an eyebrow. “Really?” He said. “You don’t like my bedroom?”I gestured to my room and chuckled. “Do I look like the kind of person that would be totally fine with having a room as dark and gloomy as yours?” I asked. Alessandro chuckled too. “I guess not.” He said. “We’ll get to work on that once things have settled down.”We left the bedroom and descended the stairs to the dining room. “So how would you want to decorate the room?” Alessandro asked. I shrugged. “I want it a little lighter.” I said. “It’s a little intimidating, you know.”“Can we keep the pillars by the bed?” Alessandro asked. I smiled seductively.“Maybe.” I replied. “That depends.”Alessandro pulled me closer to him.“On what?” He whispered, his voice husky.“It depends on if you are planning on using them?” I whispered back.
When the car stopped, three men and a woman stepped out and made their way over to us. They were all dressed in black suits and their faces all looked stern and cold. The dominating auras that emanated from them made them feel so intimidating and I shivered a little. “Alpha Alessandro, I presume.” A man with dark hair that reached his shoulders spoke. “Yes.” Alessandro asked. They quickly introduced themselves as Councilman Jonathan, Tore, Isac and Councilwoman Carina.“Thank you for coming so quickly.” Alessandro said and shook hands with the man who appeared to be their boss. “We’ve been aware of the situation for a while.” Councilman Jonathan replied. “We reached out to Alpha Harald, but he reassured us that everything was by the book and he was going to leave the pack in the capable hands of the Alpha’s stepson.”Alessandro shook his head. “The takeover was done without a challenge to the Alpha.” He said. “My Luna can testify to that.”He gestured to me and Councilman Jonat
Linnea POVWhen we got back to the packhouse, everything was in complete chaos. Our warriors were leading Red Rock warriors into the dungeons. “Where’s Antonia?” I asked Gabriel.“In the dungeon.” He replied. “I locked her in there and went to help you.”“Right.” Alessandro said. “I need to go call the council and get them here ASAP.”I nodded. “Yeah, we need to sort out a lot of things around here.” I agreed. Every region in Sweden had its own council. The Skåne council was located in a small town called Höör, that was in the middle of the region. It would probably not take more than an hour for them to get here once Alessandro called. A group of warriors approached me and Gabriel when Alessandro left. “Where do you want us, Luna?” They asked. I glanced at Gabriel and he nodded. “I should probably get to the dungeon too.” He whispered. “I’m sorry.” I croaked out. “I’ll do everything I can.”Gabriel smiled softly and I turned to the warriors. “Give him his own cell.” I said.
Alessandro POVI had no idea why she was here, but she seemed to be on our side, so I decided to let it go for now and smelled the air to pick up Alpha Harald’s scent. “Go.” The witch said. “I’ll take care of the last of these idiots.”With that, she threw a ball of lightning towards the wolves. I looked over at David, who nodded reassuringly. We took off together towards the forest. Two Alphas against a coward that relied more on his money and armies than his own strength. Easy.I forced myself not to think that this was a piece of cake. If I did, I might underestimate him when the time came. He took over this whole pack in a matter of hours. He might have some more tricks up his sleeve. I spotted a running wolf at the edge of the forest and quickened my pace. The wounds from the previous fight were healing pretty well and I was starting to feel stronger with every stride. Alpha Harald raced out into a meadow when we caught up with him. David ran past me and was just about to po