Ellie's POVI wake up and it feels like I am breaking the surface of water for oxygen.My heart still beats from the last part of my dream and my eyes are heavy, feeling like snowflakes fell on my eyelids.I am alone in the room and when I pay more attention to my surroundings, I find out that I am back in my own room.It takes me a moment to recollect that I had been in Austin's room, and the last I actually remember is me kissing him on the lips and then falling asleep beside the Alpha King.How much I wanted him. But he did not want to compromise. Never knew there still existed males who think with the upper part of their bodies and not the lower part.Finally, I have lived up to his accusations of me being a seductive piece of feminine creation. And this brings a smile to my face. I caress my neck with one palm and stretch until I hear some joints shift in protest.I pull the covers off me and it doesn't surprise me any longer that my clothes are still intact and I don't feel like
Ellie's POV"Are you fucking kidding me?""Say what?" a little childish voice asks. I look down to see a boy not more than five, staring at me with a curious and confused expression.I open my hands and shrug at him. Then I dance around the boy, trying to make him get into the fun act. When it works, I herd him back to the team of furry suits and he forgets about Barney for a while and giggles at Mickey Mouse.I keep my gaze on Austin as he walks over to bloated Robin Hood and they shake hands like longtime friends. Suddenly, the manager seems to have developed a loud voice and I almost hear all the stuff he tells Austin, amidst the gleeful chatter from the kids around me.It turns out that bloated Robin Hood, whom I initially thought was the manager, is actually the owner of this amusement park. He must be rolling in money, and maybe that's why he is so fat. He is also a long-time friend of Austin.How they met, I have no idea, but I guess that it must be the money connection. Spoile
Ellie's POVWhen it is midnight, I hear it. The ripples come in form of sounds like someone is struggling to breathe. It spreads, like an endemic. And I almost feel it across my body like goosebumps.I begin to have a feeling that the medicine has begun to exert its effect on Austin's body system. And I am too nervous that I pause the movie, rise from my chair and open my door.The hallway is empty. There is a light seeping out from the space under Austin's door. I step into the hallway and tiptoe to his door. I need to know what is going on.I place my left ear to his door, ignoring the obsidian lion snarling at me. My body moves before me and I catch myself even before I fall inside. The door is ajar.Touche.I find Austin lying on the bed, his face to the ceiling. I move closer and his face is flushed, like a man about to give his last thrust before he releases all the seed in him. He looks even sexier in this state. I kneel beside the bed and put a palm on his neck.It's as hot as
Ellie's POVAustin doesn't ask me anything about that night again, and I relieve me to the bone. I cannot even believe that Dr. Nathan Edge's medicine was fake and had no positive effect on Austin. I was hoping that would mark the end of his wolfsbane, but life can sometimes be a playful bitch, and you just have to play along.We don't talk much in the days that pass, Austin and I, but anytime he looks at me, I can feel the electricity of desire crackling in the air between us.I try to make up another plan on how to get Austin to eat or drink whatever I bring him. And I need to do this regularly so he doesn't have to find out that I have been mixing my blood in his food or champagne, and serving it to him with a pleasing smile on my face.I use the internet on my laptop to do this. Discover a lot of ways to do what I have in mind, and choose one of them.It's on a Saturday morning when I corner Uncle Chris for a discussion in the lobby. He is dressed like a corporate waiter at the At
Third POVThe Alpha King stands in the doorway for a spell, without moving. And it looks like he is stuck to that very spot.Those blue eyes of his move in their sockets and scan the two ladies covering their mouths with their hands. He doesn't recognize the other one dressed like a school teacher with an apron. He isn't sure if he has ever seen her before.Then Ellie laughs and his attention is drawn to her like a magnet. Austin looks at himself and shakes his head. He cannot remember the last time he looked this messy."What is going on here?" he asks, his tone bordering on a stern edge. He really wants Ellie to stop making the situation look like a joke.The strange lady is the one who speaks up as Ellie collects herself. "My apologies, sir. We were having a dessert class and she mistakenly blew the chocolate cream."The Alpha King eyes the woman with interest now. "A dessert class? What is that?""I was teaching Ellie here how to make desserts," Madame Aquila says, trying to put a
Third POVThe Alpha King dusts and reappears behind Ellie, the cream completely missing him and smashing against the tiled kitchen floor. When she feels a presence behind her, Ellie turns and Austin is so close to her that she can feel his breath on her forehead. His suit is stained in some places and Ellie thinks he looks like some walking graffiti."You cheated," she exclaims scornfully, raising her hands in protest.Austin holds her wrists before she grabs the opportunity to smear chocolate cream all over his figure. He feels a tad bit aroused at the contact and if it isn't for the wolfsbane in his blood, he would think it is a good thing that can lead to an exciting show of intimacy."I improvised," he says, in defence of his latest act. "There is a difference."Ellie, too, suddenly stops struggling once he grabs her wrists. "There is no improvising in a chocolate cream fight."He grins, amused. "Who made those rules?"Ellie opens her mouth to say something but she thinks better o
Ellie's POVThe thing about grand banquets is that they are grand, and full of lights and colour. It never misses that part of flamboyance. The moment I am out of the palace, I hail down a cab and stop a few blocks away from the hotel and walk the rest of the way.In my mind, I just cannot stop thinking of how Austin will react once he sees me at the banquet.Will he take me by the arm and announce to all who care to listen that I am his female companion for the night as well? Or will he get angry at me for playing a fast one on him and throw me out like a waif?If the latter happens, then this will get me thinking: did he have someone in mind he wanted to come with?I shake this thought from my mind as it has no benefit whatsoever to me.There is a red carpet at the Chevron Hotel and I decide that whoever is hosting this actually has a lot of doughs that he isn't using. I follow the train and there are blinding flashes of camera lights from the gist chasers and paparazzi.Yesus, shou
Third POV"Bail," someone grunts out in the dimness.The crashing of the door appears to be a telltale sign to these cabal of men that they have been compromised. But it's not just a werewolf that they are facing nor is it an Alpha.It's Austin. The Alpha King.And the odds will be less decent than their usual melee.Austin sets his sights on the first man close to him. He grabs him by the neck and smashes him into the wall, causing a dent in the building and showers of stones to rain down.Ellie hears a grunt at the impact and the next thing she sees is a flash, and the bulb hanging with just a stretch of coil dangles like a pendulum bob. The light moves, and shines in another spot and she sees a fast arm taking a swipe at something.There is no impact, but there is suddenly a break in the ceiling. The light moves again and Ellie sees someone hanging halfway from the top of the damn building, like a light bulb on a goddamn stretch of coil.______________________Austin moves with the