A chill spread goosebumps all over my skin. My eyes doubled in size when a woman came in pushing a tray. The first sign of danger was the smile on her lips and how she entered my room without waiting for my response.“I didn’t order anything,” I said but she continued to smile, shutting the door behind her.“It’s a gift for our special guest. The manager heard Cahir Armani’s Luna is staying at our humble hotel so he sent a special meal for our esteemed guest.”An enemy.Aristo's words rang in my head long after I left Alpha Blood and with the sudden appearance of this woman in my locked room, my frayed nerves became even more frayed.“Thank you but I’m not interested in eating. I’ll call for room service when I’m hungry.”I was hungry before she came in. I’d planned to go downstairs to explore the hotel grounds after my bath but now, I felt my hands tremble as I gripped my dagger.“Oh, really? Well, is there anything else you need, Luna Sihana?” She opened the curtains closest to her

He caught up with me. Of course, he caught up with me. He was the hunter and I was the prey. There was no outrunning a hunter as skilled as Cahir Armani. “Stay.” The command that fell from his lips – the words that fell from his lips, they were not his. The voice wasn’t his!My eyes darted all over the place in search of an exit but I ended up looking directly at an unmoving body – the corpse of a man who he slaughtered in less than a minute! I wrestled as he grabbed me, my heart beating an erratic staccato. Even Asena wanted to run as fast and as far away from him as possible.“Stay!” I heard a gnashing of teeth as my body went still at the Alpha’s command. “God dammit, you’re causing a lot of trouble!” He shouted, still clutching me to him, my back to his front. How voice had returned to normal but I didn’t think I could ever be normal again. Not after I discovered this.Everyone said Cahir Armani was a ruthless killing machine, they called him a blood-hungry monster but no one actu

“Come in,” Cahir answered the door meanwhile, I was already burrowing into his skin. My hands found their way around his neck and I pressed my scrunched face into his chest as I awaited whoever it was on the other side of the door. Another assassin/kidnapper disguised as room service? “Alpha.” A familiar voice greeted. I raised my head from Cahir’s chest to see a raggedy-looking Sebastian enter the room.His hair was sticking out in spikes, clothes dishevelled with what looked like puke on them, and his mismatched shoes.“I have contacted the Alpha in charge of the island and cleared out the parking lot,” Sebastian spoke in a low and subdued tone with his head bent.“You have done well,” Cahir replied in an unimpressed tone. “Begin your punishment before I decide what to do with you.”“Yes, Alpha.” Sebastian bowed himself out of the room. He looked smaller somehow. Perhaps the way he hunched over had something to do with it.“What is he going to do now?” I asked Cahir, worried about t

I was happy but I didn’t think Cahir was impressed. Who knew something as simple as ice cream could make me feel this way? After I went through a tub of ice cream while Cahir watched, he asked if I wanted more. He shouldn’t have because I knew I shouldn’t have more but it didn’t stop me from wanting more. With his prompt, I decided to have a cone which I carried along with me as he got some clothes to change into.After we visited two stores and couldn’t find anything that fit his taste, he started to get huffy. Unfortunately, this was an island and because of their festival most shops were closed and the ones open catered to tourists. They stocked colourful attires. There were very few suits on display but none fit him– well, there was one but it was a bright lemon that made him flinch. No dress shirts, no black trousers and thus nothing of his taste. I’d been nursing my ice cream but it was starting to melt and create a mess but it pained me to see it go.“You can get another one.”

I was surfing on a cloud. Life couldn’t be better. My vacation turned out better than I expected. Who would have thought that the person I was running from would be the same person to make the vacation worth it?“This will be your first bargain,” Cahir reminded me. As if I could forget.It was time for me to cash in on Alpha Malachi’s blank check. I’d prefer to wait until the end of our vacation but delaying things would make me look indecisive and that was not a good look for me.“Yes, and I’m buying up shares in the FT Hotels. And because an attack against me is an attack against my pack, Alpha Blood has to receive something,” I replied.“Foreigners can’t own more than one percent share of FTH but we’re going for twenty. Start as high as you can but don’t go lower than twenty,” Cahir advised. “Entering their market with Wolf’s bane is a bargain they may not accept but pitch it anyway.” I nodded at his advice. I hoped not to fuck it up but as Cahir said, I had nothing to lose.“Luna