EVERETT The fear in her was extraordinary, I could feel and hear the racing of her heart, it was like she had seen a ghost. “Come with me.” I moved aside and she scuttled past me and walked in front of me. I picked up my shredded clothes and followed behind her. As I walked behind her, I began to assess her body. She was slender and average in height. Her light golden brown hair looked so shiny and silky under the lights. She must have paid great attention to her hair. I could perceive the fragrance her hair emitted as I walked behind her. We kept walking down the tiny footpath in the garden, and when as got to the darkest part of the palace, I stopped her. “This place should do.” She came to a halt and refused to look back at me. “Look at me.” She teetered as she turned to see me very close to her. I was just an inch away from her. Her breath ceased and I took my time to assess her face. Her blue almond-shaped eyes pierced through mine, they were indeed beautiful. Her lashes
CLAUDIA “Father wants to become king? Since when have you two been planning this?” I was shocked, I was never been carried along with anything going on in our pack, talk-less of the clan. But this, I should have known before the time of his speech. “For some time now Claudia. We wanted to surprise you.” “Surprise me? Or you kept it from me because you feel I am not mature enough?” “Claudia please, not this time. Your father needs us now, we can continue this talk at home.” I heaved a sigh and looked at Mr. Prophecy. He announced his name to be Everett Durchdenwald, but I’d prefer calling him Mr. Prophecy. He had a cold look on his face and I wondered why. I looked at what he was staring coldly at and I saw it was Father. *My father and my fated mates are rivals in becoming king. Why does the moon goddess hate me so much? This makes absolutely no sense! They would turn their backs against each other!* The people applauded Father as soon as he got to where the Monk stood. The no
EVERETT“You have been speechless for minutes now. Are you okay?” I sat next to Annette in the dressing room where I first met Claudia. My head was lowered in thoughts, I was trying to evaluate and plan how I would win the throne over Alpha Horst. “Talk to me Everett, I am worried.” Annette placed her hands on my shoulders and I sighed getting her hands off me. “I have so many things I’m thinking about Annette and you are distracting me! Please leave!” She flinched, and her mouth fell open after seeing my mood. She stood up and stared at me. I kept mute and lowered my head again. “Is this because of that small girl? You yelled at me Everett, because of her?” “Alpha Everett.”She went blank after hearing me speak. I looked at her coldly and she scoffed. “Alpha? Do I have to put the title now? Because of her?” “She is my mate and this has nothing to do with her! Not everything has to do with you, Annette. Let me be, I need to think!” I sprang up from the chair and appro
CLAUDIAI was sleeping on my bed, in my room when all of a sudden I heard a familiar voice whisper in my ear. “Claudia… Claudia, wake up.” Ma’am Petra tapped me softly as she called. I shrank my eyes and opened them slowly. I saw her face very closer to mine and I furrowed my brows. “Wake up, you need to see something.” I further arched my brows and sat up, I still kept my gaze fixed on her. “Why are you whispering?” My question was in a whisper because I wasn’t sure I could speak normally, not until she stopped whispering. “There is a man, he looks like he is in his early thirties, he is in the living room as I speak and he has a meeting with your parents as we speak. I overheard part of their conversation, I think you are getting married soon.”Everything inside of me stopped working, my heart felt so heavy for my body immediately, and tears heated my eyes like I was in severe pain. “It wasn’t a dream, I thought it was a dream!” I hurried out of the bed and began
CLAUDIA After father left the living room, I ran out of the packhouse and headed to Thorsten’s packhouse. “Claudia!” Mom, Ma’am Petra and two other women from our pack called but I turned deaf ears to all of them. As I ran down the dusty road, my legs turned dirty as I kept beating the dust with my bare feet. I forgot to wear my shoes, and I didn’t care. Not after father just gave us his blessings. I wore my silk nightgown which extended down to my ankle, I raised it as I ran. The people that saw me as I ran stared at me as if I was crazy. Well, I wasn’t sure if I was sane anymore, my eyes were so heavy that I couldn’t barely see the road. I sighted Thorsten’s pack house from afar and I increased my pace. I couldn't wait to fall into his arms and cry. I needed someone to tell how badly hurt I was and he was the only one I could think of, he had always been the only one. I got into their compound and I pulled the attention of almost everyone that was in the compound. I could even
EVERETTShe shuffled out of the packhouse with her head bowed. I arched my brows as I saw what she wore. *So the rumors were true.* I had overheard some women talking about how Alpha Horst’s daughter had run out of his packhouse without shoes or clothes. I asked the women talking where Claudia was headed and they told me the Schulz packhouse. These rumors made me hurry down to the so-called Schulz Packhouse. She approached me looking so pale and rough. She dragged her bare feet on the ground and she left me wondering how the sand didn’t hurt her. She wore a thin strap wine silk nightgown that extended down to her ankle. Her hair looked so unkempt and her eyes were swollen and puffy. She stood in front of the horse and I could see the shape of her small, but round breasts. Her nipples threatened to tear open the fabric she wore. “You came down here to stare?” She folded her hands under her breasts and lifted them, giving me that sassy attitude I hated the most.“Let’s go home.
CLAUDIA It was two hours before my wedding ceremony. It was 6pm, and the wedding ceremony was to start 8pm. Ma’am Petra had told me that the wedding ceremonies in Jamba Kingdom always took place at night because that was the period the moon goddess had chosen. The packhouse was busier than usual, it was more than the Moonball party’s evening. Ma’am Petra finished bathing for me, and she already treated my hair. She let my hair loose and it fell on my shoulders, she told me that was how it was supposed to be for the wedding. She applied the bright red carmine blush on my cheeks, and some other beauty patches on my face. I was wearing my under-bust corset and a linen skirt, I stood in front of my mirror. Mother walked into the room with two other maids of hers, they carried two dresses in their hands. “Claudia child, which one would you love to wear?” “I would love to wear nothing.”I kept my eyes on the mirror, I kept staring at my puffy eyes. Ma’am Petra tried to cover
CLAUDIA I needed no one to tell me what Alpha Everett’s slut meant, it was quite understandable. My marriage to Everett Durchdenwald is nothing but a sad one. “Do you know her?” Thorsten kept his gaze on her as she proudly walked away. “She is the woman that was with Everett at the moonball party. I am yet to know her name, but there is one thing I am sure of, she hates me.” “Why would she hate you? You are his mate, not her.” “Thorsten, I don’t care about what she thinks of me. What I care about is you. I won’t be able to see you anymore, and this breaks my heart more than anything else.” “I perfectly understand you, Claudia, I feel the same way too. But sometimes, we just have to accept fate. “I thought of something Thorsten,” I moved closer to him so I could whisper my words in his ear. He also moved closer to me and turned his ear to me. “Once I get to his mouth, and he marks me, I would run away.” I moved back and look at his face, he looked shocked because of wh