Rhea’s POVAdrian was staring at me intensely while I tried to work through my emotions.Would he even believe me if I said I really don’t know the reason I was kept alive all these years? Or would he think I’m lying?Everything in me was telling me to bolt and hide inside my room, away from those inspecting blue eyes that were staring straight into my broken soul.But Hazel kept me in my place as she said intensely in my head “He has to believe us. We have no reason to lie”I looked him in the eyes and said calmly “I don’t know why he kept me alive Adrian, nor why he wanted to mate with me. I know there must be a reason but alpha Victor didn’t share it with me. I used to ask when I was young but then I learned not to ask anything about my past”His eyes narrowed at me before he asked with difficulty “What would he do when you tried to ask?”I gave him a weak smile that quickly turned into a grimace and avoided eye contact with him as I stared at the clear blue sky through the floor t
Rhea’s POV“What’s that?” I asked curiously as I looked down at myself, assessing my attire for anything I forgot to wear.Did I miss something he told me to put on?“You need to tie your hair in a bun or a pony tail. We can’t have it getting in the way of our training and throwing you off your game” he said softly.I wasn’t a fan of training in my human form, but he seemed intent on it.“I don’t think I have one here” I said firmly.“I’ll lend you mine then” he said playfully before he took a black, elastic band from his right wrist and gave it to me.I took it and gathered all my hair into a messy bun like him. Except mine was a lot thicker and more bigger.“Now you’re perfect for training” he said admirably.I didn’t know I could blush even deeper than before but I felt it happen after what he said.Why are his words always having that effect on me? I like his compliments there’s no denying that anymore, but I hate the evidence.“Well, someone likes that evidence very much. I’d go
Rhea’s POV“What is it?” I asked in confusion.His whole body went tense and rigid all of a sudden while his lips pursed into a thin line.“There were a couple of rogues roaming around the territory line. They disappeared before my men could catch any of them” he said in a hard tone.My blood ran cold instantly.“Did this ever happen before?” I asked rigidly.He shook his head tightly “Not in a very long time. It can’t be a coincidence”There was no more reason to ask further questions. This was about alpha Victor, clear as day. Was he after me, or after Alec and Adrian, or both?“They already fled the area but I’m going out there to check out their trail anyway. I won’t be long. Can you wait here for me until I get back? I really want to see your skills” he said firmly.My skills were the furthest thing on my mind right now as dread flooded my system entirely. How the hell did he find the pack so fast? Alec and I were put under an anti tracking spell. All the dead warriors from this
Adrian’s POV “So it’s happening is that what you’re saying? We’re on the verge of being invaded?” Derek asked me warily as we were walking back into the pack house after coming back from the edge of the territory where the rogues were spotted earlier. I sighed heavily and said in a hard tone “Yes. It’s happening a lot faster than I anticipated that’s why we’re going to triple the amount of patrol starting from tonight. We need a proper strategy to defend the land and it can’t get planned in a matter of one day. We need to make it very hard for them to find their weak spot and buy us some time to plan properly” “We should also inform Alec about the situation. He’s short on warriors. He can’t defend his territory” said Derek anxiously. “That’s another weird thing. If they know about my pack they must know about Alec’s too. But instead of going for the easy kill, they’re circling around my territory. They could easily attack Alec’s pack right now and they would probably manage to brea
Rhea’s POVHazel yells at me fumingly “Well speak dammit! She fucking insulted us just to get us punished or sentenced to death! She did that on purpose!”“Even if she did, you had no fucking right to do this to me! You were going to kill her! You pushed me out of control! Nothing I say is going to save us because we’re guilty. It’s over Hazel” I told her harshly.She whimpered in pain. Guilt and blame flooding through me from her as she realized that I was right about everything I just said.I may have initiated the attack with my own hands and was blinded by rage and hurt too, but I wasn’t going to kill her like Hazel was going to do.Adrian was staring hard at me, waiting for me to speak for myself and defend my actions. But I chose to remain quiet. I wasn’t going to apologize to that bitch and ask for forgiveness but I wasn’t going to defend myself either because I was at fault.“We’re not the only ones at fault you know. She plotted this, the alpha at least has to know that, Rhea
Adrian’s POVI never knew a person who felt this much pain before until now. I didn’t even know someone who could take this much pain and still be alive until now.She was lying in my arms, completely shattered and baring her heart open to me at last.I was angry at her when I stood in front of her. I didn’t have any physical violent tendency when I approached her but I saw her stiffen when I moved nonetheless, she was expecting a punishment.I only wanted to demand the truth from her but when my eyes noticed her split lip and saw the blood slowly trickling down her chin, my hand acted on its own.It moved to wipe away the blood, and she cringed away from me very slightly before she forced herself to stay in position while her eyes instantly braced for the pain she was expecting to receive and started to water. It shattered me to pieces. How much she’s used to the idea of being punished right away. Because that’s all she’s ever known from her former alpha.My face instantly softened a
Adrian’s POVShe looked into my eyes emotionally and asked “I know I smelled like a rogue the first time you saw me in the forest. But….do I still smell like one till now?”“That stupid Sophia woman!” Snarled Lennox in my head darkly.I tucked a loose strand of her hair behind her ear gently and looked her intensely in the eyes as I said truthfully “You never smelled like a rogue to me, Rhea. Do you know that the second I portaled into the forest that night, I smelled the most intoxicating smell I’ve ever smelt in my life. My wolf went crazy with how alluring your scent was, and it still is. Your scent is an addiction I would never recover from, Rhea. Believe me, there is no whiff of a rogue smell within you at all”Her eyes watered as she asked in a small voice “What do I smell like to you?”“The most beautiful, sweet, and delicate cherry I will ever smell. So sugary, so mouthwatering, that I feel like I’m drunk just from breathing you in” I said softly.She stared at me with so much
Rhea’s POV“If you’re my curse, I’m the luckiest cursed son of a bitch in this whole universe”How deeply this sentence burned through me in the most vulnerable place within me cannot even be described in words.It touched the core of my heart and nestled itself in there forevermore.It lit a match of fire back into me and the impossible thing I told him would never happen, happened. Scattered dead pieces of me sparked back to life. Reborn again from his vows and promises to me.“I accept you here and now as my mate, Rhea. I’m not pushing for a mark here, we still have a long time for that and I’m not going to rush anything unless it comes spontaneously from both of us, whenever that may happen. I just want us both to be on the same page when we leave this room. I accept you, will you accept me back, or reject me?” he said strongly.Hazel was whimpering in my head very emotionally, very affected by Adrian’s words as she begged me heartily “Please, Rhea. We cannot survive without him a