ROMAN
“Well try to get it done! I don't have all fucking day!”
“Yes My Lord."
Sometimes, I felt I was the only one with half a brain in this house. I had so many people around me and yet, none of them could think and do things without me asking or yelling.
“Where is Quinn?” I fought the urge to smack the guard who was staring at me.
Seeing the glare I was sending his way makes him snap out of it. He knows what I can do with my obvious bad mood.
The same thing is wrong. It's been wrong for the last twenty seven years and I'm sick of it, okay? I just wished I could find what I was looking for.
At this point, I may actually give up. Everyone around me had found their mates. Even people who turned eighteen after me had found their mates, got married and had kids but each year. I was getting closer and closer to the grave with no assurance of ever finding the one.
Was I going to be fifty when I had my first kid? Thinking about that made me uncomfortable.
You need to relax, okay? I'm sure you'll find her one day.
This was the positivity I hated. And it made me start resenting the voice in my head.
“It’s not eleven yet and you're already yelling? That's a new record. You normally wait till twelve to make our lives miserable.”
Quinn marched into the room with too wide a smile for my present mood.
“Listen, I'm not in the mood okay? Today has already gone to shit and I've barely even started any work.”
I felt very irritated and hot and uncomfortable and I just wanted to take a breather and be away from here.
“Relax okay? What's wrong with you? You've been acting strange lately."
I gave Quinn a look. I really didn't want to talk about it but at the same time, it might make things easier for me.
“You know what has been worrying me for the past twenty seven years. You've been telling me that shit for the past twenty seven years. I don't want to hear it, okay? If I don't find her this year, then I'm picking someone. Anybody.”
I knew I wasn't going to do that but at this point, I'm tired.
“Good. Then maybe finally, we could get married, '' Quinn jokes, wiggling her brows. “Except i would rather die than sleep with you.”
I shook my head at that because right now, I wasn't in the mood for humor.
“Okay listen” Quinn sat forward “I know the last thing you want to hear right now is my voice but that's all I can give you. You can't kill yourself just cause you haven't found your mate. There are loads of people who haven't found their mate and they're still doing good. I mean, look at me.” she pointed to herself.
“It's not the same."
“How?”
“You’re not an Alpha."
“I’m your Beta.”
“That's why it's not the same."
Quinn sighed and gave me a look that warned me that I was going to die if I kept talking. But this situation already has me feeling like that.
“I mean, look on the bright side. You're not celibate like me. You've been with every girl in this pack.”
Now that I heard someone else say it, it didn't sound as good as I thought it would. Kinda made me sound like a whore.
“That’s not a good thing and we both know it.”
Quinn nodded.
“It’s really not."
I was already in a very bad mood and this conversation was making it worse. I shouldn't have even bothered to have this conversation in the first place.
All those girls that I had been with had even made me feel worse than I was supposed to. It wasn't like they weren't beautiful or nice or all that. I had the best women as the alpha and a lycan.
As embarrassing as it sounds, they never got me off and at the end of the night. I had to finish off with my hand like a horny teen. It was embarrassing to me and I couldn't imagine even telling anyone else.
I was beginning to think that there was something wrong with me. Out of all the women I'd been with, no matter how appealing they looked, how wonderful they felt. I always ended up getting tired trying to finish on them while they enjoyed multiple orgasms.
I'd been with virgins and even people who have had crazy experiences. Professionals in the line of seduction. But they’d felt like plain water. And in the end, the feeling of never reaching the end hung over me like a death sentence.
You could imagine trying to sneeze. But never quite getting there. That has been my life for as long as I know.
That was until two nights ago.
Quinn's face lit up in excitement when I told her I had an assignment for her. I'd never seen anyone happy to work before. Until I met Quinn.
“You’re weird."
“Get on with it, man. It gives me something to do. I've been sitting at home all week!” she moans in frustration.
“You’re the one who didn't want to do anything I gave you to do."
“That's because they were minor tasks. All boring.” she scoffs. “You have people to do things like that for you. I’m your Beta, I deserve better. Now, get on with it.”
My eyes suddenly felt heavy and drowsy. It's no wonder, I hadn't slept well since that night.
“I need you to help me find her. The girl I was with on Monday."
Quinn looked at me like I had lost it.
“How the hell am I supposed to know who she is? What's wrong with you? Why do you want to find her?"
Quinn was a great bta, don’t get me wrong. Because of how inquisitive she was and how good she was at her job.
We met when she was hired to spy on me and she came to my back as a poor orphan. I had believed her before I found out who she actually was. Instead of pleading for her life, she offered her services to me.
We grew closer. When I realized I could trust her more than all the people I worked with. I made her my beta.
We’ve conquered packs together and risen to the top. Now, we are the most feared in the world.
But still, she got on my nerves to no end.
“Hello?” she snapped a finger in front of me, trying to gain my attention.
See, what I mean.
“What do you want with her?”
I opened my mouth but no words came out. She knows I never sleep with the same woman twice. They are all here for the same thing. For one thing. And once they don’t deliver, I get rid of them.
It wasn’t like me to ask for them. I barely even knew their name. Never bothered with it.
What was I going to say? I need you to find her because she was able to get me off. I was maybe obsessed with her because she had managed to do what others have been trying to do for years?
“She stole from me.”
That came out before I could even think about it but…oh well.
“She did what? Little bitch actually had the nerve.” she growled. “Oh well, what's her name?”
I thought back to that night in the bar. I was so carried away with her that I hadn't even bothered to know anything about her.
But I did hear the lady at the bar call her name as I walked her out of the bar.
“Eden. Her name is Eden.”
EDENI looked around the room, more confused than ever. The last time I was here was on my birthday when my father said I had to come.It was Nelly’s eighteenth birthday and my seventeenth. They were throwing her a big party. Important guests would be here and God forbid he looks like an irresponsible father.I hated coming here because his wife hated me. I didn’t even blame her. I was proof of his infidelity.Ryker was there and it had been bearable because he stayed with me the whole time.I was scared to think they were going to have an event today in her honor, and I’ll be forced to attend. I’ll be forced to watch her and Ryker together. He has probably marked her.And knowing her. She’ll make sure she wears clothes that are revealing enough for me to see.“Eden!!! If you don’t get here right now I’m going to kill you with my bare hands. I promise!”My father’s angry yell made me get off the bed in a rush. I ignore the discomfort I feel between my legs. I don’t even want to get in
EDENI didn't even know who to blame for my present condition.Do I blame myself for being careless and stupid? Yes.Do I blame the guy I had spent the night with for taking advantage of a drunk girl? Do I blame Angela for letting me drink so much and then leaving me at the mercy of a strange man?Or do I blame my father for overreacting and getting me locked up in the cellar?I didn't know what issue to even face.Between the injuries I had sustained from Nelly and her mother's beating. Or the fact that I hadn't eaten in three days and I was pregnant. Or maybe it was the fact that my father was going to have my head when he found out I didn't know who the father of the baby was.How did my father even know that I was pregnant? All he did was look at me and all of a sudden, he was asking how I was pregnant.Maybe the doctor’s told him. So much for keeping information confidential.I had sex once and all of a sudden, I was going to become a mother? How did that even make sense? I was
ROMANI was on my way up to my room when I heard footsteps behind me. I sharply turned around to see Quinn running towards me and I rolled my eyes. “Yeah, I'm happy to see you too.” Heavy pants filled my ears as I waited for her to speak. “I have something for you.” She finally spoke.With my hands in my pocket, I tapped my feet impatiently. “Speak up or I'll have to take your tongue out so it'll speak for itself.” The smile she had on her face disappeared at once and she cleared her throat. “Okay, I have some good news and bad news. Which one do you want first?” “The one that doesn't get you killed." My reply was instant. “I found your girl. Eden. I went back to the bar you were at and I asked around. Apparently, she's a runaway from- get this. Silver Edge.” My shoulder stiffen.“Silver Edge?” I asked. “That silver edge?" I repeated the question, like I was expecting it to change after. Quinn nodded.“One in the same. It's crazy right?" You have got to be fucking kidding me
EDENThat voice made me freeze and my heart beat faster in my chest. A familiar scent caught my nose and I thought hard about its origin. Suddenly, I started seeing flashes of what I seemed to have forgotten. Flashes of that night. But it was all blurry that I couldn’t really say I got anything tangible. “How dare you?! What the hell are you doing here?!” I heard the Alpha’s loud voice rumble through the house filled with so much anger.I've never heard him speak like that with anybody. Not even me. I could see the deep frown on the Alpha's face and the way he was shouting at the top of his voice. Almost baring his teeth, made me wonder who it was that he was speaking to.I couldn't help the uncomfortable feeling that I felt in the pit of my stomach.Nelly was standing in front of me so I had to look past her legs to try to see what was going on in front but I still couldn’t see since I was seated. “I’m telling you, Roman. Get the hell out of my pack before I lose it!”A loud lau
ROMANWe’ve been sitting in silence for almost ten minutes.Tim kept drinking water like a whale and it was starting to piss me off. I was sitting with someone whose head I've wanted since I'd grown up to know what hatred was. My father wanted his throat. Both of them had been at it since the beginning of time and I’d never known why but all I'd been told was that my father said to kill him as soon as I had the chance. It has been like that since his grandfather and his grandfather’s grandfather.The two families were like water and oil. They never mix. They never come to an agreement.And I was going to put all that behind us and slit his throat right now if he doesn’t stop drinking that damned water. “What the fuck is your problem?” I snapped, when I finally lost my patience. “Take what you want and leave.” He replied immediately. Like he had been waiting for me to speak. How stupid did he really think I was? I should take her so he'd ambush me when I least expect it? No way.
EDEN The Alpha came into my room two nights later with the same signature scowl in his face. I hadn't been expecting him to be here since I hadn't seen him all day. I even thought he’d left and I was relieved. After all, Nelly and Ryker’s wedding was happening this weekend and he had barely been around all week since he had things to discuss with that pervert.So when he walked into my “room” that night, my heart almost grew twice in size because of fear. “Good evening, Alpha.” Of course he didn't respond. That disgusted look he gave me every time he saw me didn't fail to show itself today.“The Lycan has decided that your marriage will be arranged for this weekend.” What? What was he talking about? What wedding?“What wedding? Who's wedding?” I stuttered.“You are going to marry the man you got pregnant for, you whore!” No. He had to be joking. I couldn't marry him! That would make me bound to him forever. I thought he just wanted the baby, I thought the baby was his desire so
EDEN Nothing would prepare me for the events that would take place leading up to the doomed wedding. One of the guards came down one day while I was preparing to come up for the day.“Pack your bags. You're coming with me.” That was all he said and before proceeding up the stairs like a robot. Maybe it was a mistake. I had thought to myself.I didn't have any bags to pack and also, I hadn't seen this guy before. What was Nelly planning this time? Or was it the Alpha? When I was still standing in that same spot, he came back down and we entered a staring contest. ”Come with me, the Alpha is waiting.” He sounded pissed off. When I heard that, the thought that the Alpha was calling me and I was wasting so much time crossed my mind and I really didn't want any more punishments. My body was getting too weak for that so I just stuffed a few things in my bag and went with the guard. Where were we going? And why did he ask me to pack a bag? I followed the guard in silence till we go
EDENSomehow, I’d been able to keep track of the days, so I knew today was Friday. The day before the wedding.Rather, the day before my life got completely ruined.The ride to this pack took a few days since it was at the far end of the state due to disputes regarding the borders between werewolves and Lycans.Initially, I didn’t know where I was being taken to until the lady said that I didn’t have to look so scared here because I was in the pack of the Lycan King.We arrived at night so I didn’t get the chance to properly see anything or anybody. She just put me in this room and asked me to tell the guards at the door if I needed something or if I wanted to see her.This room was huge. I had my own very soft bed, my own bathroom and windows. I’d also been eating very well and not just scraps. I didn’t know if it was because I was pregnant or because I was pregnant for the King.If that made any sense.The night I arrived, I slept on the floor, thinking that the bed was reserved for