Aunt Paula and Uncle Bennett came rushing back by evening like tornadoes. Apollo hadn’t returned. They had a thousand questions on their lips and looked so pale that my heart went out for them. They just couldn’t believe that I had taken such a drastic step and that Apollo was my mate. We were sitting in the living room with aunt Paula beside me on a sofa and Uncle Bennet opposite us. There was a sense of urgency on their faces and a worry I couldn’t quite understand. Shouldn’t they be happy that I found my mate? “When did you come to know that he was your mate?” asked aunty. She was holding my hand, no, squeezing it as her eyes drifted to the marks on my neck. A shudder passed through her at the sight. I took a deep breath. “Apollo knew it from the day we met, but I came to know about it just ten days back…” I lowered my head. The guilt still weighed me that I could never understand his passion for me. “He didn’t want to tell me, but—” I looked away as I dragged my teeth over my
I stared from Uncle to Aunt to Apollo and then back to Uncle. There was a palpable tense calm in the room, as if just before a storm. “You knew that he was alive and still you kept me hidden from him?” Bile rose in my throat and my vision became blurry. “Just because you didn’t want me to be known as a rogue’s daughter?” I didn’t know whether to be grateful to my aunt and uncle or hate them. I looked at Apollo for long seconds, but he stayed quiet. “You don’t know how they treat the rogues, Natasha,” my uncle said. “They are like an outcast in every werewolf society. They are not respected, they are—” I knew it, but to hear it from them was as if they were throwing sharp daggers in my heart. “I don’t want to know about it!” I snapped and then got up to rush back to my room. Tears rolled out of my eyes. My father was alive and they kept me hidden from him. In order to keep me protected from the vices of society, they kept me away from one person who was closest to me. They told me th
Apollo rubbed his cock over my core and another moan escaped my lips. He grabbed my hips and guided me slowly down his length. He sank into me to the hilt. “Ah!” I cried when he stretched me completely, his cock swelling inside further. I rolled my hips against him and his chest rumbled with a rough growl. He guided me slowly up and down, up and down. He broke away the kiss and dropped his lips to my neck, to my pulse point. I knew that his fangs were lengthening again. His wolf wanted to mark me in so many different ways that the idea of it made me shudder. And I also knew that his human form was trying his best to control his beast for the fear that it would hurt me. He sucked the skin of my neck, nibbled it until it was raw and then licked it as he continued to slide me up and down his length. I felt like I was bouncing in the ocean as I slid up and down his length. He held me close and tight against his chest and allowed me to build my pace. I would roll my hips once every mome
I was expecting only five people for my wedding which excluded the Shaman, but when I entered the hall with my uncle, I found the hall was… packed! I gasped. How was it possible that people who hated me were attending my wedding? There were students and teachers from my school who I recognized, and then some more. I stuttered to a stop and my uncle too stopped with me. He leaned over and as if understanding what I was thinking, said in a low voice, “They all are looking at the mate and bride of Apollo de Vries, and not at Natasha. In short, the girls here are dying to be in your shoes and those who aren’t will try to come close to you. You are going to be Mrs. Apollo de Vries. And that is a big name in our world.” As if the fact that I was looking into a sea of faces was not enough, Uncle Bennett dropped this bomb on me. I started trembling for I had never ever been in the limelight, let alone being in the center of the limelight. I felt like running away and I felt like this was a
We were the first one to leave the party. And to my mortification, I saw a big red heart attached to Apollo’s jeep that had a white arrow sticking out of it and had “Just Married” written on it. I thought this was Nicole’s idea and it was confirmed because she giggled when I blushed. “Now go! Will you?” she shouted. As if on her cue, Apollo picked me up in his arms and carried me bridal style to the jeep, strapped me with the seatbelt and then amidst all the cheers he drove us off to the lodge. All the way, he held my hand and kept it on his thigh. Sometimes he would take it to his lips and kiss me. When we reached the lodge, he carried me inside bridal style. The whole place was blanketed in silence and I wondered if Victoria was even there. I was surprised when I saw that beautiful fairy lights hung everywhere on the trees outside. I wrapped my arms around his neck as he took me to the bedroom. He set me on my feel on the soft rug and stared at me with his hands on the small of m
I started with school the following week. It was impossible to go to the school just after my wedding. Apollo was hardly leaving me. We would spend hours in the bed, come out to eat something Victoria would cook for us, and then go back to the bed. There wasn’t a surface in the house that he didn’t take me on. It had become a joke of sorts that I was exploring the house by having sex everywhere. During that week, my aunt called me exactly two times and then also, when Apollo was in between my legs. Damn it, I didn’t want to pick up the call, but Apollo being the scoundrel he was, he tapped the green button on the cellphone without telling me and I am sure my aunt must have become beetroot red after hearing all my moans. After that she didn’t call me at all. It was worse when someone else called me because he was inside me. He had pushed me over the kitchen counter and was thrusting from behind. When he saw the number, he tapped the phone on and spanked my ass so hard that I cried as
Natasha had gripped her head as she heard my father’s command. As wolves in a pack, we were so used to the mind links and my father’s commands through the links that we never had any problem. In fact, this was a way of life. But for Natasha—it was different. She had never been in one pack to which she would give her allegiance to. Paula and Bennett had been constantly moving and hence they weren’t with any pack. Which also meant that they never had to listen to the commands of the Alphas in their minds. Obviously, Natasha was born and brought up in that environment and on top of that she was homeschooled. She hardly ever stepped out of the house. How would she know? And I forgot to mention or prepare her for this situation. After I had sunk my fangs in her, my venom had gone into her blood supply. That means that she was now an ally of the Black Moon pack. Only my father, Alpha Jacob, could communicate with everyone in the pack through the mind link. And he could do that without bein
Panic sliced into me like corrosive acid pouring down my throat. I gripped the bars of the bed where she was lying and they groaned under my tight grip. With red in my eyes, I walked out to the nurse station. “Where is she?” I growled. The nurse sitting over there immediately rose to her feet. She bowed to me, wincing at my demeanor. “She’s still with the doctor. They are running tests. She has gained consciousness though.” I closed my eyes and my shoulders slumped with relief. “I would like to go where they are conducting tests.” “Sure,” she said and hurried out of her station. “This way, Sir,” she said and then waved her hand to the corridor on the left. We walked for five minutes until we came across a large foyer that opened into various rooms and labs. The nurse took me to the last room on the right. As soon as I entered, I saw that Natasha was lying on the bed and the doctor was doing an ultrasound of her tummy. Dread blasted inside me as I scooted closer to her bed. “Apoll