All Chapters of Sold to the Cruel Alpha : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Raven's POV Rounding up on the book I'm reading, I take a deep breath and check the time. It's been about an hour now.Stretching my legs as I stand up. I leave the library, I need to find Liam or one of the enforcers to accompany me out.I get to the kitchen and Matilda is doing the dishes, while humming. She doesn't know I'm in the kitchen so engrossed in her chore.“What song is that?” I ask as I neared her“The gods!” She says, holding up her hands in fright. I must have startled her.“I'm sorry I scared you” I apologize. She laughs “oh no, it's fine miss Raven, I must be getting old now” she says, waving me off.“Oh please drop the title, just call me Raven”“Okay Raven. What did you ask earlier”“I asked what song you were humming”“It's a popular song back in my pack. We usually sing it during festivities.Some mother's sing it to their children to put them to bed” She says, with a dreamy look in her eyes. She must miss her pack.I wonder how things turned bad and she ended up

Raven's POV It's two days to the mating ceremony, I can't help but be nervous about it. Asher's out for a business meeting with Derek and Dale.I'm here sitting in the garden and wondering how everything is all going to go. The last time a ceremony was held for me was my 18th birthday, the night I was meant to shift but I didn't and that night didn't end well.What if something happens again? What if it all goes wrong during the mating ceremony?All these questions I keep asking myself. My wolf growls silently within, her way of saying she's always with me.Sometimes I feel like I can hear her speak to me, like I can hear her voice in my head, like she's protecting me.After a while, I get up and go to the kitchen to get something to snack on.Matilda clearing some dishes away and humming that same song I heard from her before.“Morning Matilda” I say as I enter the kitchen so I don't startle her again.“Morning Raven, did you sleep well?” She asks, turning to me.“I didn't, was res

Asher's POV Pacing up and down in the hall, anticipation and anxiousness about tonight.My wolf doesn't even help me out, he just wants to claim his mate. If it's up to him we couldn't be doing all this ceremony.He only wants to claim her here In Front of everyone and send them on their way or better still take her away from their prying eyes and claim her somewhere quiet.As the head of the council, there are some duties and responsibilities required of me. Eloping with my mate is definitely not one of them.“Stop pacing like an old man, it's wearing me out” Dale says, leaning against the bar. Derek's not here to say words that can calm me down, he's out welcoming the guests, so I'm left with Dale and he's not helping.“Shut it Dale, not now” I say pointing at him “You're behaving like an old man right now. Calm down, your beautiful Nate will be down any moment from now” he says, as he downs his drink.It's too early to be drinking heavily and he knows, but I guess he's also tryi

Asher’s POVWhen I heard her scream out in pain, I was so scared. Now that we’re mated I could feel her pain and they were so gripping. My wolf howled out, clearly feeling our mates' pain.This couldn’t be as a result of the mate bond, something else was going on. I held her in my arms trying to get through to her but she couldn't answer.She was shivering in pain, folding herself up, trying hard to breathe through the pain.Tears fell from her eyes, I couldn't bear to see her in pain but there was nothing I could do. I didn’t know what to do or how to help her.I looked up at Derek and Dale for help but they only stared back at me lost.A voice suddenly says “Oh my God! She’s shifting”. This brings my attention back to Raven, I could see her change begin, shocked at what i’m witnessing right now, I slowly back away, giving her space to shift.Her father also moves back, shocked at what he’s seeing too. The entire clearing goes quiet, all witnessing something we could never have expec

Asher's POV Strolling into the office hand-in-hand with Raven to hear what my betas had to say that is so important they had to disturb me from the quality time I was spending with my mate.My wolf growls, clearly disappointed and pissed off. He's so cranky that we couldn't spend enough time with our mate.Raven's hand in mind drawing small circles on my palm seems to calm him down a bit.She looks up at me with a smile on her face and I smile back at her. She's the light in my darkness. My beautiful mate.“I'm sure it has to be very important for Derek to want to inform you immediately” she says through our mindlink.I just nod my head in agreement as we enter the office.Derek and Dale were already waiting as we walked into the office. “Alpha” Derek says, greeting me as I make my way to my seat.“Alpha” Dale says, tipping his drink at me from where he stood leaning on the window frame, with his legs crossed.I pull Raven down on my lap as I sit. “What's going on?” I ask, staring at