All Chapters of Stuck between the Royal Wolves: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

NIKOLAIThe stone of the castle battlement seemed to give under my feet as I sat hunched, unmoving in the night, allowing the bright yellow beams of my wolf’s eyes to roam over the quiet silhouette of trees.“Where the hell are you Igor?” I growled under my breath, feeling my heart fluttering wildly in my chest as the case of a distant owl grated in my ears.The man should have been back from his scout to the Burning City by now. What the hell was taking so long?I could feel the whirl of the castle sleeping behind me, the loud snores of the Keep guards rising like train whistles in the night so that I ground my teeth uselessly against each other.Had he been caught? The thought left a bitter taste in my mouth so I inhaled sharply, knowing Alpha Toph would no doubt call for a public beheading of the intruder.“Shit,” I grunted, leaping back down into the castle and feeling more irritated that I couldn't leave. I was trapped here, with an army of residents that saw me as a god, and a w

ALPHA TOPHI ground my boot first into the man’s mouth, watching with my wolf’s sharp eyes as his lips tore against the tough leather and the porcelain of one white tooth flew out and clattered noisily to the stone floor.”How dare you Hagrid? After all, I've done for you!” I rasped breathlessly, feeling the ragged breaths burn in my chest and nostrils as I wheezed through the anger that was bubbling inside me, unwinding the chain whips that had been hanging in the corner slowly and stalking back toward the assassin.I gritted my teeth, lashing out the thorny whip and watching it crack and tear into the skin of the man’s arm, the flesh of his wrists sizzling with smoke so that my eyebrows flew upwards before i barked out a bitter laugh.The little shit was trying to shift into his wolf, to beat me! I couldn't believe the nerve he had! It was a good thing I invested in the silver chains that had been wrought with wolfsbane.“Where is my mate Hagrid? This doesn't have to be any harder t

NIKOLAI“There’s something you should know about Raya Banks, something that could destroy the Stone City if it falls into the wrong hands...Your Highness,” The woman whispered fiercely, and I watched her eyes glaze over, her bare oval face and the cracked line of her pink lips quivering with the effort that it took to hold the tears back.I inhaled sharply, leaning back on my haunches and swirling the glass that had been sweating on the table before downing the whisky, feeling tears spring to my eyes when the alcohol burned my throat.”Goddamn Raya,” I whispered, gulping reflexively through the lump that had formed in my throat, my hands shaking on the slim shaft of the cigarette I held between my fingers.“What are you going to do Nikolai? If Raya is your half-mate, and she has this...this curse, or power, or whatever! Do you still think it’s safe to bring her to the Stone City?” Igor whispered, cocking his head to stare me in the eye before I sighed heavily again, The woman’s words

“Don’t make a sound,” Mary whispered through the wide spaces in her small boxy teeth, the whites of her eyes flashing in the sepia blackness as we knelt, hunched behind the wide stem of a tree.I nodded disjointedly, feeling my heart twist and squeeze almost painfully n my chest I struggled to breathe past the panic that had formed an ice-cold tower in my lungs as the snarls we had heard got closer and closer.The tension made me feel dizzy so that the skewered form of the trees around us whirled and distorted in my vision and I felt myself slipping, falling, before the pixie-haired girl’s hot hands slapped against my shoulders.“Snap out of it goddammit! Stay with me! Don't move a muscle, you're going to get us fucking killed Raya!” Mary hissed, sucking her lips so that they curled around her teeth dangerously and I stabbed my fingernails into my palms to battle the wave of nausea.I couldn't die here, not like this, at the hands of Alpha Toph’s hound dogs. I had openly defied the cr

NIKOLAIOlivia Burns stomped away from me whipping her curtain of red hair in my face as she stormed into the shadows, Igor’s stunned scoff echoing slightly in my ear.I exhaled slightly, letting my shoulder fall back and feeling the pound of my heart dull until it returned to normal, before I turned to face Igor, catching the way he narrowed his pea-black eyes at me, one golden eyebrow quirked upward.“Good going Nik, you've pissed off the gods, should do this more often...It suits you,” The blonde man whispered, brushing his fingers through the peach fuzz of golden hair he had shorn close to his soul before patting me on the shoulder and skulking off for his rotations, turning to smile at me with his pink lips curved beautifully when he was on the cup of darkness before he disappeared.I resisted the urge to roll my eyes, unable to help the chuckle that bubbled from my throat when I felt the dark thing that had been swirling inside me settle.I shook myself, my lips tugging down in