“But Alpha-“ Damien protested.“Damien, this might be a very terrible time to argue.” Xerxes growled, rushed footsteps were heard before I felt someone breathing heavily.“I will not interfere, Alpha.” A few seconds later, I heard Damien’s timid voice followed by his footsteps.“Leave.” Xerxes commanded. His Alpha pheromones so overbearing and strong.“All of you.” He growled when no one made a move to follow his command.“Alpha-“ Roy voiced out.“I said, leave.” At Xerxes’s powerful order, everyone left. I could no longer feel any warmth but an icy presence besides me. “Are you awake, my flower?” Xerxes muttered, with utter softness that it made it almost unbelieving. I felt him swiping the hairs from my forehead. His fingers trailing over the bruises. My chest tightened and insides scorched with heat. Soul twisted to push him away. “A sane man would apologise for every thing I’ve done to you, hell I made you go through,” Xerxes said after a painful long moment. His finger lightly
I opened my eyes to someone struggling in my arms, it took me a moment to realise that Katarina was awake now. Like someone had poured a bucket of ice-cold water over me, I sat straight. I hadn’t realised when I slept beside her. Maybe this was one of the side effects of mating with her. Mating. I had marked her. My eyes instinctively moved to her slender neck, two puncture marks of my ownership decorating her nape. This spreading purple with yellow blotches was only the surface wound. The real one was within her, that feeling of betrayal, that breaking of trust that was so essential to true love. For what we love, we protect, right? But I failed her. I could feel it in the way she look at me. So broken and despaired. Katarina looked around warily, breathing heavily as I immediately helped her sit. Her angry eyes snapped at me as she slapped my hands away. My eyes narrowed as I felt annoyance resurfacing. “W-why did you do that?” She asked, for a moment I couldn’t decide what she wa
There was something Xerxes was hiding. His truth wasn’t a whole but fragments. Why would Lucien do that? I was sure Sofia was his mate, he had never mentioned her, but I knew Lucien was the kind of man to devote himself wholly to the person loved. He did that to me. Keeping his desires aside, Lucien was always there for me. I soon learn that love was constant and anger was temporary, that this was the way real bonds were. He was my father and my mother. I did not believe him and Xerxes sensed it as he pushed me to the bed with little force. Now that a few things were finally seeping into my head, I could understand the meaning behind everything Xerxes did. It still wasn’t enough to explain, but it was something. Everything he did was for his sister, just like I’d do the same for my brother. Startled, as Xerxes softly placed pillows underneath my head–he caught me off guard with his gentleness. It was different both times when I opened my eyes earlier and now when something felt chan
ONE YEAR AGO“Alpha,” Damien’s voice interrupted my morning workout. Jumping down from the tree, I didn’t bother to wear my shirt as I grabbed the water bottle from his hands. Sweat dripped down my body making my gym shorts stick to my thighs as I looked irritably at him. Just like always, he didn’t feel any remorse for breaking my morning peace. Damien passed me a sheepish grin before tossing my shirt at me as I caught it in mid-air. “There’s an urgent schedule for you,” Damien said as I wiped the sweat and we walked towards the pack house where other wolves were doing their training. I usually keep Damien as their trainer, but I needed him to go with me today, so today’s schedule was mostly free. I was not informed about any meeting. I frowned in confusion. This was so sudden. “All of sudden?” I asked, suspicion bubbling inside me. “Yes, I received the message from Alpha Andrei this morning.” I eyed Damien as he walked beside me.“Andrei? What’s he doing here?” I was not in a ve
ONE YEAR AGOHe prayed. For the very first time in his life as he sped towards the apartment, Sofia resided in. He hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep in the last few hours and his whole body was tensed, but Xerxes couldn’t bring himself to care. As soon as he landed in Europe in his private jet, he drove towards Birmingham. A small town on the outskirts of the city. Peaceful and beautiful. Just like Sofia wanted. But now he was not at peace, his heart beating abnormally fast and new fear engulfing him. Damien was following him behind but Xerxes hardly paid any attention to him. His sole focus is on his sister. Xerxes had never been religious. He believed only in the moon, but he was afraid if after today he’d trust the moon goddess herself. A human’s life was meaningless in this big world where thousands of people die every day, but to him, it means so much. Sofia was his life after their parents died, she was his reason for existing. The roar of his car was deafening, but nothing compa
I awaken with a loud gasp and a forward jerk as my body lunge onwards. My fingertips dug into the mattresses tightly clutching the softness. My eager and scared eyes snapped to the window as I was met with a soft morning breeze and warm sun rays. My eyes widen. How long had it been?Swinging my legs over the bed I quickly flipped the duvet off me as I rushed towards the mirror. My cautious eyes eagerly looked at my reflection as I removed my dress and gazed at my naked body. Devoid of any marks. There were no blue or purple bruises nor there were any indication of them ever existing. I couldn’t bring myself to believe that whatever happened last night was not a dream. I had fully expected it to be one, but knowing Xerxes would never tell me lies, even if he hurt me so much, I was sure his words held as much truth as the grief I noticed in his eyes. I sighed as I walked to the closet. Unstoppable thoughts raged through my head yet I couldn’t find the reason why all of this was happen
The black dress she purposely wore to lure him now cascaded on the couch. Laura’s legs hung over his shoulders as he slammed into her. Mercilessly. As beautiful as she looked sprawled all over the mahogany wood, he couldn’t help but imagine those golden hairs to be chocolate waves. Her bright blue eyes were in the deepest shade of amber, brown and intense. The black heels she wore for him were now removed and thrown over his shoulder as he groaned and pounded into her. “Did you finish your work?” he said, groaning and moaning to her with every thrust. “Oh, you are so good,” said Kai, already breathless. “Fuck me more!” The word left her lips in a drawn-out whisper, and Kai turned his eyes down to look at her, never stopping his pounding for a second. Her breasts were really sensitive, she moaned, guiding his hands to her free tit. He gave it a squeeze that made her close her eyes and sigh. “I swear sometimes I can nearly come just from that – oh, Alpha, we should have done this the
“Think of it as my way of apologising.” He muttered, his voice low and deep. It seemed like he was struggling with the way he tightened his arms around me. I could feel his emotions yielding to him. So intense and overwhelming that seeped through my veins to my heart, plaguing it with a disease called to care. I did not. I reminded myself. But who was I to deny it anymore. “For how many things are you going to apologise?” I said, almost too broken that Xerxes flinched. His fingers dug into my waist as he pulled me close. Afraid that I might disappear if he let go. “Everything.” Everything. “Then that will take an eternity.” Maybe more than that. Many more lives. Where I knew I’d been born as his. His captor for always. “I shall wait for eternity then.”The knot in my stomach grew. And we stayed like that. He knelt and my hands automatically moved to his hair. Xerxes stiffened but did not make any move to jerk as I intertwined my fingers in his silky hair. Running my fingers throug