All Chapters of Stuck between the Royal Wolves: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

ALPHA TOPHI balled the half-shifted claw of my hand in a tight fist and slammed it solidly into the assassin’s staunch face and watched his head snapback, his spine bending at an unnaturally crooked angle.”YOU'RE JUST THINKING TO TELL ME THAT YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH?” I bellowed into the man’s face, standing over his kneeled form and feeling the red thongs of anger worm into my eyes as I glared down at him.Nikolai had been here in the palace after all. And riding off in the fucking sunset with my mate! It was beneath him. Cruel.The way he had been as a child, always snatching my toys and thwarting the governess’s attention from me to himself, his gray eyes dancing with mischief.I had never been the favorite son, I had no delusions about that. Not with my father, or with my mother who was lying cold on the ground.Never been the most beautiful either, with eyes too wide apart on my head and a nose too broad for my face. It made me look brutish, like an ogre prince, whereas my b

ALPHA TOPHThe dungeon boy’s words fizzed like static in my brain before I felt my heart slam solidly against the iron of my ribs.“What did you just say?” I murmured, feeling the waft of something cold brush over the shell of my ear as the ginger-haired guard trembled before me, falling on his knees and face and stretching out his hands on the bright red carpet that snaked through the far double doors to the throne dias. “W-we found him face down in a pool of his own vomit your highness, he-he seemed to have choked on it, and the nursemaids are tending to the body in the dungeon as we speak.” He wailed and I shot out of my throne like a bat out of Hades, my red robe slapping firmly on my shoulders as it dragged on by my sides in sync with the thud of my feet hitting the floor.“You were supposed to be watching him,” I ground through clenched teeth, balling the lapel of the shaking boy’s shirt in my fiat and lifting him from his feet as he shook his head frantically, wide-eyed with f

ALPHA TOPH“Y-your majesty, we deeply... apologize for the inconvenience, we will find the prisoner immediately,” The chief guard murmured, coming to stretch himself out before me as I looked down lazily at him with nothing short of disgust staining my good looks. I let my eyes rest on the whale of a man, shaking my head slowly as I pushed the ringed opals back into the slender shafts of my fingers and squatted to scrape the thick drops of blood from the cool cement of the floor, feeling the scissor of my tongue shoot out to taste the metallic goo.Fresh. My assumptions must have been correct, Bryan Banks had been smarter than I gave him credit for, latching on to the high ceiling of the dungeon and scurrying over our heads while we sauntered past, oblivious.Brilliant. He had exceeded my expectations. I underestimated the drunk, the way I had underestimated his daughter and my brother. It was a mistake I would not be making again.“Draco,” I growled, stretching to my full height as

RAYA BANKS“The nerve of that fucking bitch!” Judith whispered harshly behind me as we burst through my chamber doors, snapping the redwood closed behind her.I pressed a shaky hand to my temple, willing the pounding in my heart to stop as Olivia’s words ricocheted in my head.“You are not the Prince’s type Raya, Nikolai would never choose a low-life like you,” I stifled the whimper that rose to my throat as I whirled to face the muscular unsmiling woman who was staring oddly at me now. “What?” I croaked, forcing a wide smile onto my face as I glided backward, feeling the knot of anxiety press farther into my stomach until I was almost certain its ground against the frail bone of my spine.Judith only looked at me, her large pea-black eyes filled with apprehension, her gray-frocked uniform hanging tightly over her lithe sinewy frame as she stalked forward, looking like a muscled panther from a damned manga.“I only hope you do not take those carrying maidens seriously, as long as I'

NIKOLAI“What the hell did you just say?” I bellowed, feeling the drums of madness clash loudly inside my head as blood rushed to my ears and I glared down at the cross-eyed man snagging Igor’s fur before he could deck him again.My lips curled with disgust as the man chuckled bitterly, before turning to face me once more, baring curved yellow fangs at me as he watched me from watery brown eyes.”Let’s just say, Your Highness, that the wench is potpourri right now, why, her first mate might even be rutting between her legs as we speak-” Bryan Banks wheezed sinisterly before Igor slammed the large hammer of his paws into his head again, knocking a few of his teeth loose so that it scattered noisily across the stone flooring.I staggered back as a low buzz started to build in my ears, the haggard lines of the man’s face blurring in my vision as the reality of his words sunk in.Tophas was headed to the Stone City? It was almost too gruesome to believe, I had left more than enough of an