ZAYDEN“Get out of my room,” I growled at the brunette, flinging her clothes to the floor. She scurried to her feet, clutching them to her chest in her haste to escape my wrath. She was still naked, but I didn’t care, the sight of her angered me and my wolf was furious. After hours of fucking, she couldn’t give me a damned release, the only thing my body needed right now.“Alpha Zay-“ she stopped by the door, her eyes misty with tears, but I didn’t let her speak, I threw her shoes violently at her. I missed my target, and it hit the wall with a loud thud, skidding to the floor. She picked it up with shaky hands and ran, her sob echoing after her.What the fuck is wrong with me? I brushed my hand through my hair and growled in frustration, knocking a book off my table in annoyance. I knew what the problem was. Ever since she left, it has been this way. Maybe I should have fucked her while I had the chance to, maybe my body wouldn’t want her so bad now. I didn’t think her absence will
ESMERAYThe Lycaon place was thrown into jubilation after the announcement. The sound of music blazing from different households, fireworks in the air, and people laughing out loud was heard around the place. I felt a change in the atmosphere and it warmed my heart. People were smiling at me, and I had to meet tons of Alpha’s after the gathering dispersed.That same night, I was introduced to the important members of the Royal families, some of them had questions to ask and others just smiled on. I’d rehearsed the answers to their questions already, and by the time we were done, my cheeks hurt from too much smiling. Draven didn’t leave my hand for a little over a minute. He was beside me through the night until midnight when we dismissed the last members of the Royal household, and boy, did he play the role well! If he didn’t have my fingers intertwined with his, then his arms will be wrapped around my waist or on the small of my back. And he’d kissed me twice! In public. Once while
DRAVENMy eye lids still felt heavy as they slowly fluttered open, and my body weak. A groan escaped my lips when I realized I’d slept. Unbelievably so. I waited for my eyes to adjust to the daylight when I felt a movement beside me, someone snuggling closer. I stilled, waiting for my beast’s usual protest, but it didn’t come. My eyes moved to settle on her face as she slept peacefully, a satisfied smile on her lips. She was having a dream.My beast had a reversion towards women being too close or showing too much affection. It has been that way ever since I was sixteen. It was his way of rebelling against my father. King Cadeyrn-ruaidhri wanted me to be everything that he was, but my body rebelled. My father was a tyrant, a manipulative son of a bitch. He took away my childhood and growing up for me was all hard work and torture. People that called him a psychopath were not so far from the truth. For the longest time, I hated a woman’s skin grazing mine. It’s why I never allowed any
ESMERAYNothing prepared me for the crowd gathered in front of the castle as I made my way to meet the other royals. Afterwards, I was to go to the Lycaon office building where an office was being set up for me. People gathered in their numbers, some with cameras, and some just hoping for an opportunity to get a close view of their next Luna. Draven’s arms wrapped around mine protectively as he led me past the crowd with Smythe and two others clearing the way.“Are you going to mark her?” Someone shouted from the crowd. “Is she an omega?” Another voice screamed above the others.“Tell us when the mating ceremony will be,” Another lady screamed.But Draven didn’t act like he was aware of their presence or that he heard any of their questions. He was used to this kind of things, but for me, it feels surreal, like a movie. We finally got into the vehicle in one piece and when Draven’s arms wrapped around my waist in the back seat, I drew close to him like he’d instructed. I was his to
“Come here,” he stretched his hands to me as he settled on a sofa in his office. I hesitated but all he had to do was give me one stern look and I scurried towards him and took his outstretched arm. A yelp escaped my lips when he pulled me to sit on his laps, his hands narrowing around my waist and his head settling between my neck.I held my breath as he breathed me in, wondering what the hell had come over him. One minute he was boiling like a volcano ready to erupt, and the next he had me straddled against his laps, breathing me in. When he pulled back to look into my eyes, I noticed his eyes were not their usual blue but had now taken a deeper shade, and his next words threw me off guard.“Kiss me,” he commanded with an unbelievably deep voice. His command washed over me like a tide, my heart slamming heavily against my chest. I moistened my dry lips with my tongue as my eyes settled on his waiting lips.“What?” I blinked, my heart rate picking up.“You did it once, don’t act
“Wait,” I sprang up from my seat and rushed to him, grabbing his hand just before he opened the door. His brows shut up, his eyes hard as a rock as they bored holes into me. What gave me the courage to stop him, I’ll never understand, but I had a bad feeling about the call he’d just received – call it a premonition.He dropped his eyes to where mine rested on his, narrowing his gaze to show his displeasure for stopping him. My hands on his quivered but I didn’t pull them away.“I don’t know what it is, but I don’t think you should go,” I swallowed as the words left my mouth. His eyes had now grown completely black, a vein twitched in his jaw, and for a minute I was so sure he was going to strike me. “Do you know what you are doing?” his gaze did not waver from my hands as he spoke, his voice a deadly whisper. His powerful aura filled the room, making me want to surrender to him, bare my neck to him, and apologize for my insolence.Truth is, I didn’t know what I was doing or what came
“Do you think Donovan has a hand in this?” I heard Vadirr ask as I gently pushed open the door to the room Draven was in, with Duron behind me. The two men turned to face me, Draven’s eyes darkening as they met mine. He was seated with nothing but his trousers on. His chest was bare, and his left arm bandaged, but asides from that, there was nothing else to indicate that he’d just suffered a gun injury. In fact, he looked even more handsome with his hair falling over his face. “What is she doing here?” He looked angrily at Duron who shoved his hands into his pockets and pursed his lips. “She insisted she needed to see you,” he answered. It was evening already, and I’d spent all day worrying about him, yet he took one look at me and acted like I’d been the one to pull the trigger. “I told you that you mustn’t let her out no matter the situation,” he started to rise from his sitting position “After what happened today, you should know better,” “She’s your mate. If anyone should be
DRAVEN “I don’t have a hand in this,” with one hand shoved in his pockets, Donovan leaned against the door Esme just departed. I wish I believed him, but I didn’t. I love my youngest brother because he’s the only thing left that reminds me of my mother. He took all her good traits, but his character was questionable. I tried to make sure he didn’t have the life I and Duron had while growing up, but he always took it the wrong way, and we fell out occasionally. He wanted so bad to please our late father, to be like him at all cost, but father never liked him, simply because he was the only child that took after our mother and not him. Donovan never passed any opportunity to tell me how much he envied me, and I’d never forget how many times he went out of his way to please the late King. While I and Duron had a hatred for my father, my youngest brother adored him and worshiped the ground he walked on. Going after women at an early age was his way of showing his father that he was man