ALPHA XANDER’S POVI curse my damn luck for always putting me in shitty situations. Before I could think or act on the devilish thoughts that were running through my mind, I turned away from the half-naked woman standing in the middle of my room like it was the most normal thing in the world. Fucking hell.Did she not realize how she was fucking sin on legs, with a freaking pulse that just the rhythm was enough to drive a man mad?I’ve never felt like this for anyone before, nothing so extreme that I could almost feel my body trembling, shaking just from the effort it was taking me to keep myself from storming over to her.“Why the hell are you naked?!” I growl out, still watching the opposite end of the room. Where I thankfully couldn’t get a view of her. When she doesn’t answer, I start to turn but immediately turn back when I remembered the image that I would find. “Answer me!” I command, using alpha dominance. I was not above doing that to get what I want, especially not right now

ALPHA XANDER’S POV“You should start talking, I’m busy.” I say to the man sitting opposite me. His mouth is clamped shut like it has been since I came down here two hours ago.If I didn’t need something to distract me with, I would have already killed the damn fool already.“Wedding jitters?” Donovan asks from behind me. I turn toward him and glare, he laughs, raising his hands up in surrender. “Just asking, damn. Chill out man.” He rushes the words out, while I barely contain my rage.It wasn’t wedding jitters, I’m just fucking seconds away from calling it off. Not because I didn’t want to be with Adriana, heck, she was my mate, I would rather be up there with her than here trying to get that piece of shit to talk. Marriage is a different thing and I know damn well I’m not ready for that.I ignore the voice in my head telling me I had three hundred years to prepare. I’ve come close to getting married a lot of times in those three centuries, I never went through with it because none o

ADRIANA’S POVMy anxiety picked with every second that ticked, leading to the impending doom, also my wedding. Daciana hasn’t come back since she left which I wasn’t very happy about because it meant I was left with my thoughts. That was trouble for me as my mind was always running with ideas of how to get out of here, or words of discouragement. Every single terrible thing I’ve heard from my brothers and father came back to me.Lately, I’ve been thinking of my mother, the kind of person she was. How she might have been before she died. It was not confirmed that she died but I liked to believe that, as that is the only excuse I have for why she left me with my father. When I was younger and had the hope that she would one day come back and take me with her, I believed Alpha Jameson–I ceased calling him my father, threatened her and forced her to let me stay with him. Not because he wanted me, obviously, but out of spite. That was something he would easily do.When I got tired of the d

ADRIANA’S POVMy whole body shuts down upon hearing those words. I would have fallen to the ground had it not been for Xander who is fast and quickly wrapped his arms around me.“Be careful,” the pain of what he said was worse than a physical blow. I’ve felt it now and I know how bad it can be, it is almost as bad as it is when you’re not prepared for it. I’ve also noted the difference between how it is coming from someone who has experience fighting physically and that of newbies. Like my brothers.If anything, being in Xander’s pack has shown me alpha Jameson and my brothers aren’t who I should have been scared of all along. There are real monsters in the world and they are so much worse than all three of them combined.“Adriana,” Xander’s voice that surprisingly sounds worried pulls me from my thoughts, plunging me back to reality I didn’t want to accept.All my dreams, dreams I haven’t even let myself acknowledge were destroyed with that single statement. Xander doesn’t realize it

ADRIANA’S POV“N-no, it’s…I….”I shut my mouth, not knowing what to say, that he won’t perceive it the wrong way. He doesn’t need to know I’m opposed to the idea of marrying him today, he is still under the guise of me doing everything he wants. Giving myself to him fully.“You don’t have to get so nervous, I know marriage is a big thing and you must be worried. But that is the least of our problems right now.” his back straightens and my stomach tightens in fear, this always happens when the old him comes back.I don’t like the side of him I just saw, he was a little bit like the person that chased me that night, his threats I’ve come to realize were playful. I’ve heard what he sounds like when he is actually threatening someone and it is not something I want to relive again. So yeah, his tone changing is bound to make me nervous.“You’ve never met your mother?” he asks, walking to the foot of the bed. I expect him to sit at the dresser at the very least or drag a chair but no, he sit