Kai’s POVI lowered Cora’s weak body on my bed while Leila followed closely behind me with her potion kit. As I dropped Cora and took another look at how badly she was hurt again, I felt like crossing the gates of hell to find those rogue bastards and kill them all over again.My body was pulsing with a level of protectiveness towards her that I’d never experienced before, I wanted to make the person who’d locked her up in that dungeon pay with every single drop of blood in their system.Nobody touches Cora, nobody!“Why the hell are you standing there like an invalid instead of attending to her!?” I shoved Leila toward the bed angrily when I realized that she hadn't started tending to Cora.“I was waiti—”“I don’t want to fucking hear it, treat her now!” I was short of breath as I yelled at her, I felt so fucking helpless and I hated it.“Y–yes sir” Leila opened her kit quickly and began to mix her potions.I was antsy the entire time, pacing up and down the room and running my hands
Cora’s POVMy eyes fluttered open to the most beautiful sight.A man’s hard bare back was turned to me and golden rays of sun rested on it as he flexed his muscles while doing something I didn't care to know, all I wanted to focus on was the movement of his strong gorgeous arms as he moved.Then he began humming a nursery rhyme I knew on the back of my hand, swaying gently as the notes floated through the air and eased the slight headache I had woken up with, a headache that the sight of him had made up for the instant I spotted him.“Ah, you’re awake” He turned around and I suddenly felt ashamed for ogling him when I realized it was Kai.But that mean I’d deny how utterly tempting his chest muscles looked as they faced me now. And just for a second it saddened me that I’d have to kill such a beautiful man eventually.No, a beautiful monster.That wasn't important though, I just needed to leave Kai and go elsewhere, being around him confused me so damn much.“I shouldn't be here” I tr
Cora’s POVNina just stuffed her mouth with a huge piece of ham and I just slowly shook my head at her knowing that she’d stolen it off my plate.“You love me so much it's sickening” she smiled after she’d finished chewing a mouthful.“Get over yourself, please” I stacked the plates we’d just emptied and kept them aside knowing that she was dead right, I’d just rather eat ass than admit I had feelings, I’d already done enough of that when I thought I was dying.“Speaking of love, I finally gave Evans the note I wrote him,” Nina turned red in seconds and it happened the moment his name left her mouth.“Shit” I laughed at her discomfort “I didn't think you’d ever grow the balls to do that” I said matter of factly.“Me neither” She surprised me by laughing too, I think she’d started to get accustomed to my teasing.“I just like him so damn much so I need to know if it's mutual or not so I’d move on from obsessing over him like a fool” She was tying her sandals as she spoke.“Sounds like
Cora’s POVIf looks could burn, my eyes would be burning a hole through the ridiculous note in my hands this very minute.Hello partner, it read.Meet me at the chapel in five minutes, I’ve got nothing more than a few minutes to strike a deal with you so I took your little friend so you’d hurry your ass over here without wasting a second.P.S; I hate being kept waiting and I have a glass of wolfsbane that I’d love to share with your friend if I get bored.“That fucking pig!” I tore the letter to shreds as my blood boiled with fury, no one touched Nina, not even as a ploy to gain my attention.I didn’t waste another second—just as the shadow had predicted—and I sped toward the abandoned chapel as fast as my wolf’s ability could handle. As soon as i reached the door, i noticed that it was slammed shut and a piece of Nina’s dress was tied around the knob.“Real fucking classy, to shred a woman’s dress to pass a message” I yanked the piece off the knob and kicked the door open so hard tha
Kai’s POVThere she was again, looking ethereal and irresistible. “I’ll set the table, you can go get the missing cutlery” She smiled tiredly at her mystery friend as she started to fix the table clothes in their proper spots. “You’re the best!” The other maid smiled and blew her a kiss before running out of the dining hall and almost bumping into me. “Oh, sh–” she froze as she saw me standing by the door and the curse word died in her throat. “I’m so sorry, Alpha” She cowered fearfully as the apology left her lips.“Leave” I simply told her, more interested in watching Cora from an unsuspecting angle than anything else that I didn’t even hear her footsteps as she scurried off. After a few more torturous minutes of watching her move tiredly around the huge dining table, I finally let myself into the hall. Barely three steps in and she’d snapped her neck around to check who had walked in, and there was a heaviness in her eyes that I immediately understood. “It’s just me, wildcat”
Cora’s POV“Must you always be so obvious?” I snapped at Nina who’d been smiling like a lovestruck fool for hours.She turned to glare at me sharply before she hugged the envelope she’d refused to tear her eyes away from since Evans delivered messages this morning. I could swear that she’d read it a million times while cooing childishly and flailing her feet in the air, yet it seemed like it’d go on forever.I mean I get that she’s in love, but eww.“If you’re so bitchy because you're anxious about what’s in your envelope, take it out on the asshole that sent it and not me” She snapped back at me when she noticed that I was still staring at her.“I’m not being bitchy because of a flimsy envelope” I lied through my teeth, hoping that saying those words out loud would make them true.My eyes moved down to the red envelope with a purple Royal seal that’d been lying on my bed since Evans delivered it that morning. I knew that seal, it belonged to Kai’s Royal Court, I mean I should know it
Cora’s POVMy eyes were probably engorged from how I was staring at the lovely setup before me, but I don’t care, I’d rather stare at it all day.Kai had somehow pulled together a little dining date under the largest tree I’d ever set eyes on, the tree had vines with different beautiful flowers lined around the bark, there were several tiny lightbulbs hanging from it that I believed were meant to light up everywhere when it got dark.There was a little round table craved from the finest wood and as if that wasn’t good enough, there were hand painted flowers on the table that matched the ones running around the tree. The chairs at both sides of the table also matched the designs on the table, and then the path that led to it was lined with flowers as well.“If we stand here staring at the setup all day, we’ll never get to watch the sunset” I heard pride rumble in his deep voice as he linked my arm with his and started to walk us toward the table.The closer we got to it, the more my he
Leila’s POVMy eyes were still watering from the horrid fog I’d just stepped into, and my hands were clutching my sides as the chilly weather assaulted my body—but it was all for him, so I’d weather even the worst storms to help him find his way back to me.Even if the storm in question was searching the forbidden lands for a deadly plant.“Kol! Can you fucking walk like you’ve got blood flowing through those veins of yours?” I turned around and snapped at the stupid guard that was accompanying me.For a trip that was meant to take at least five days, the bastard had made sure that it lasted for a over a week because of his sluggishness while riding the carriage and how easily he took the wrong routes because he couldn’t read the maps.“I’m sorry, ma’am” He gave me his usual flimsy apology that didn’t mean shit.“Then move like it, you waste of space” I was trying my best not to scream and attract any wild animals but he was testing my patience and making it thin by the second.Kol fin