All Chapters of The Four Sides of Desire: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Marcus’s POVWhile Marcus truly believed that being the president of a country was nothing like running a pack, it was pretty damn close. Work every day, all the time, seven days a week, and then some, and on call whenever shit went down and even when it didn’t.Negotiations, spats, over territory, resources, allies, everything, anything. Documents needing to be looked over and signed, transfers to other packs both diplomats and marriages needing to be approved, and programs and more to support not just the packs and werewolves but all supernaturals, and keep their hidden community safe.So, when Marcus managed to get to bed after a hard day of work and making sure a vampire lord wasn’t about to rain hell down on his sons and was just in their usual haunt, he didn’t expect or want to be woken up a few hours later to deal with a problem.However, that problem was his sons, so despite how tired he was, and how irritated the situation was making him, he grabbed a robe to throw ove

Eleonore’s POVNo one told me that breakfast was at 8 a.m. I assumed it would be early but after last night I had hoped we’d be sleeping in. Apparently not.We all only got a few hours of sleep, so when Missael came to get me, he looked just as tired as I was. He handed me a bundle of clothes I could wear and then I followed him down to the dining room in a pair of slacks and a button-up.They weren’t the right size, but they worked well enough for the situation. I left the campus with nothing but my laptop, my driver’s license, and a stack of homework, so anything I could actually wear was greatly appreciated.He stopped me outside of a pair of large doors, taking both my hands and squeezing them encouragingly, sharing a quick kiss before letting go and escorting me inside. Showtime then, I guessed.The Sined family and I were the only ones in the dining room beyond some people who were laying plates of food on the table.“Seems your guest has arrived,” Marcus spoke, going

Eleonore’s POVMy professors were all kind and understanding. It was rather easy for me to get approval to continue my classes online. I couldn’t go to any lectures and had to do a lot of self-research and homework to make up for it all, but it was something.I wouldn’t be flunking out of my classes or ruining my GPA. It also gave me something to do, along with an excuse to stay in my room. For two weeks I had been in the care of the Sined pack and things had settled down.That didn’t mean my position or situation changed though. Lillian very grudgingly guarded me and hated my guts, I had yet to see Alpha Sined since that first breakfast, and my mates were all busy with their own schoolwork, so we were only able to meet up during meals or in very public areas.The rest of the pack wasn’t very fond of me either. No fault to them, I wasn’t exactly the most welcoming sight at the moment, not with the things coming after me. They at least had the decency to keep their distance and

Missael’s POVWe watched as Eleonore had to hurry to catch up to Lillian so she could be led back to her room while we had to go meet with our father. It felt like an attack that he chose NOW of all times for us to meet.It had been so long since we’d been able to spend time with Eleonore so none of us appreciated having that messed with.Gael had actually put a lot of work into setting up that dinner and Lillian just casually helped ruin it. Worse, I don’t think she felt guilty about it.I don’t know if Gael was acting oblivious or not, but Lillian had been burning a torch for him for him for years. I wasn’t sure when it started, they’d been just friends before fooling around and causing trouble.While Gael kept to mischief though, Lillian sort of sobered up to it, but seemed to come to like Gael more than just a friend. It was probably for a number of reasons but one of the main reasons was that he respected Lillian.Lillian was rather young when she became part of the Al

Eleonore’s POVI had never woken up more upset. Not even when I woke up to learn my first period had started in the middle of the night and I thought I was dying. Not when I was told Thomas was going to be shipped away overseas barely a few months after Mother died.Waking up in a strange decrepit room right out of a medieval castle after being kidnapped by someone I was coming to detest brought me to a whole new level of upset that it completely blocked out the fear.But only for a moment. And for that moment I lay there, shocked and confused and wholly unsure of just what I was supposed to do.I had just been kidnapped by my nightmare incarnate, no one knew I was kidnapped, and now something nefarious was going to happen without my position in an indiscernible amount of time.Suffice it to say I was in a mental limbo where things were not well. Just laying on the, frankly ugly, bed though wasn’t going to help me, so I blinked hard to keep the tears at bay and sat up.Now