CLAUDIA The creaking noise of my wardrobe filled my ears as I slept. My eyes tightened sensitively to the noise. I moved my eyeballs under my eyelids, I wasn’t ready to wake up. The noise continued, and I was forced to open my weary eyes. I looked in the direction of the wardrobe with half of my eyes opened, and I saw someone standing in front. My vision was blurry, so I blinked severally to get a clearer vision. I opened my eyes again, and I saw it was Nellie. “Nellie.” My voice came out lower than expected. Nellie ran to me and lowered her head. “Good morning, Luna Claudia.” I tried sitting up, and she quickly rushed to me and helped me up. I rested my back on the pillow she placed behind my back. “Thank you.” “How are you feeling now?” “I don’t know. I am still in this house. I can never be fine.” Nellie exhaled and placed her hand on my thighs slowly. “You would get used to this, Luna Claudia.” “I don’t think so… Did you carry me from the passage last ni
EVERETTThe anger in me rose in multiple folds as I stared at her. I clenched my jaw as she sat still on the bench. Were her legs truly ruined, or she was just pretending? I moved closer to her and lowered myself. Her eyes widened as she looked at me. I bet she didn’t see it coming. “What are you doing?” “I am doing what you asked me to do. Carry you.” I grabbed her by the waist and threw her over my shoulders. She tried struggling but she was too weak. I could feel her pulse as I carried her on my shoulders. Being the stubborn mate she was, I expected her to throw punches at my back, but this time she was awkwardly calm. “Wait for me in front of the house.” Volker and Jan bowed their head, and I walked past them. I walked in through the back door and headed for her room. Soon, I heard her chuckle, and I furrowed my brows, looking at her. “You would carry me like this tomorrow and the next till I don’t feel any pain.” “You are in no place to tell me what to do
EVERETTI couldn’t stop boiling as we continued the meeting. Everyone and everything kept getting on my nerves. Alpha Horst kept glaring at me, and Joachim kept smiling. They both annoyed me. After the meeting, I stood up and walked out of the living room. I headed to my horse, and before I could get there, I heard Alpha Horst’s voice from behind me. “Alpha Everett! We need to talk.” I turned to look at him, and I saw him walk into the garden at the side of the packhouse. Volker approached me and whispered in my ear,“You don’t have to go, Alpha.”“I want to hear what he has to say. It’s either about the throne or his bloody daughter. I am interested.” “I can go with you in case…” “You don’t have to. There is nothing he can do to me. I am younger and stronger than he is.” I strutted down to the garden, and I found him standing in front of a tree. He folded his hands on his back. “To what do I owe this unpleasant impromptu meeting?” He turned to look at me, and I s
CLAUDIA “You can go back, Gunther. I got her.” Clarence said to the other man that lifted me. My head was bowed and tears kept streaming down my eyes. I began to breathe rapidly, as I allowed myself to let out intense emotions. Gunther let go of me and gave me a bow before walking away. “Luna Claudia, I’m going to carry you now. Please be still.” He moved his left hand to the back of my waist, and his right hand to the back of my legs. He swept me off the ground and carried me in a bridal manner. I held onto his shoulders firmly and hid my face in his chest as I cried. His scent was that of the lavender plant, and it filled up my nostrils. “You shouldn’t have gone into his private chamber. Didn’t Nellie tell you it’s forbidden?” I looked at his face with my teary eyes and shook my head. “She told me. But I didn’t do in, there Clarence. I swear, I didn’t go in there.” I sobbed. “What? But how were you able to write a letter? Jan told me you wrote a letter to your father.” “I t
CLAUDIA“Why should she eat my food?” I furrowed my brows in confusion. I was lost. “You can’t trust her anymore. She could have poisoned the food.” I looked at Nellie unbelievably. I waited for her to tell me Clarence was mistaken. I wanted her to prove him wrong. “I didn’t poison the food, I swear. Beta Annette wasn’t aware I was bringing her dinner. I sneaked down here so that I wouldn’t be seen by Alpha Everett. He must not know I brought her food without him approving it.” There was silence after she talked. Clarence was still fuming in anger, and I wasn’t sure of what to think or say. I wanted to believe her, but I found it hard to. “Take a spoon and I’ll let you live.” She looked at my face in surprise, and I arched my brows. “Why? You weren’t expecting that from me?” She shook her head and crawled to where she placed the tray. She opened one of the dinner plates and I saw rice on it. She picked up the pewter spoon and scooped some rice. My heart skipped as she
EVERETTI opened my tired eyes and stared at the ceiling. My hands were under my head, and my legs were upon one another. I had my clothes on. I couldn’t sleep soundly throughout the night because I kept thinking about how to get rid of Horst and Joachim. I would be a disgrace to Late, King Lukas if I don’t rule that throne. It has never left my family. Annette laid next to me, her hands were wrapped around my upper body, and her head was on my chest. We had incredibly rough sex last night again. I poured out all of yesterday’s anger on her when we were mating. She was enjoying it at first, but she couldn’t take it anymore when I turned and pierced her skin very deeply with my claws. I quickly moved away from her so that I didn’t end up killing her. After about five minutes, her wound healed up, and she moved closer to me. This time I was already calm and wasn't in the mood to have sex anymore. So, we just slept till this morning. I looked at her and saw she was still fast
CLAUDIA I stormed back to my chamber and shut the door against Volker’s face. I started pacing in front of my bed. I was thinking about Clarence. What if Alpha Everett killed him? What if he sends him out of his pack? I would be the cause of it all, and I would never forgive myself. I should have never asked him to stay with me. I should have never slept on his shoulders. I should have… A knock on the door threw me out of my thoughts and slammed me against the wall like a ball. “Go away!” “Luna Claudia, it’s me, Nellie. I need to clean you up.” “For what? I am not going to sit down at his bloody meeting and act like everything is okay because nothing is okay!” “If you don’t allow me clean you up, Luna, he is going to kill me. Please let me clean you up and prepare you for the meeting. It won’t take more then twenty minutes my Luna.” I stop pacing and glared at the door after hearing the word “kill”. I wasn’t going to let him kill anyone because of me. Clarence is al
#Warning!#This chapter contains assault . Please skip if you are sensitive to this. EVERETT *Why is he praising her?*I stared at them in confusion. The way Joachim smiled at Claudia and the way her face became calm after seeing he was the one. *How do they know each other?*She looked at me, and I cleared my throat. I showed her the chair next to me with my eyes, and she got the signal immediately. She walked to the chair, still lifting her gown. She sat on the chair and lowered her eyes. I looked at Joachim and saw he still had his eyes on her. “Where did you meet her?” I forced a smile on my face. I didn’t want to make my anger visible to him. “We met at the moonball party. She was the first woman whose beauty caught my undivided attention. She was the fairest of all.” I looked at Claudia, and I saw her cheeks flush. I clenched my jaw in jealousy and looked at Joachim again. “I know she is the fairest of all and that is why I’m married to her. I first set my eyes