Alpha Luciano's POV"No." I didn't have to think twice about it. The nerves on this girl. How dare she think to make demands of me? Me! She was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Arabella Bianchi was fearless now that she'd discovered she had nothing left to lose since she no longer cared if she lived or died. I would change that. The problem was that I had never expected Arabella would be hiding claws beneath that subservient exterior so I was ill-equipped to handle this situation. A gross oversight on my side that I would soon correct. "That will never happen." I repeated making sure she got the point. Give her the right to pick the times we would have sex? Yeah, that was never happening. Did she think we were courting or something? This was not a fucking democracy, it was a dictatorship. I gave the orders, she took them. That was all it could ever be. That was all I would allow. She rolled her eyes. Fucking rolled her eyes. I was going to kill Arabella Bianchi and damn the consequenc

Arabella's POVMy eyes widened in shock and I squeaked in fear as I saw Alpha Luciano at the door. I stumbled back in an effort to get away from him and my legs gave out beneath me. As I fell, he caught me. My hands went to his shoulders automatically as he gripped my waist. We stared at each other for a second. Me in a loose hospital gown, my leg bandaged. Him in an extremely form-fitting suit that seemed solely cut and designed to show off the superiority of the wearer with Margaret passed out on the floor behind us, her blood staining the tile.A nurse walked in with a notepad and saw Margaret. She shouted raising an alarm and the moment was gone. Alpha Luciano let go of my waist and I removed my hands from his shoulders balancing on my good leg. He looked at Margaret and whistled."You made quite a mess here, Arabella. Here I was thinking she was your friend but I guess one never knows for sure with you Bianchis." He regarded me with clear blue eyes filled with malice and dark a

Arabella's POVWe arrived at the council meeting place. It was situated in the middle of acres of council-owned vineyard fields somewhere in Sicily. The place looked like a private mansion of some crazy rich don. It was large, sprawling and completely white with sculptures and columns that recalled anything I had ever seen before. Alpha Luciano and I dismounted from the car and Zaza the driver turned the car around to go drop it off at the parking lot. Wherever that was. I couldn't see any cars from where I stood. A staff dressed in a suit featured for us to follow him and we did. Alpha Luciano's arm went around my waist as though providing me support to walk in my heels but I knew what he meant it to be. A show of possession. I fought the urge to push his hand away and simply walked with him.We entered the house and were led through a hallway with numerous paintings and murals. Lights hung from designed placements lighting up the entire house as though the windows were open. We

Arabella's POVI ran towards our wrecked car and searched for Alpha Luciano's phone. I found it outside the car, the screen was broken and it didn't come on. I checked the driver's dead body for his own phone. It was a burner phone with its records cleared so I couldn't call anyone. The only phone numbers I had memorized were that of my former pack members and my dad. If I called either of them, I might as well kill Alpha Luciano with my own hands.I was going to save my mate. I had to believe that there was a real reason the Moon Goddess made him my mate. He was a wicked, heartless man but when push came to shove, he'd saved my life. Someone like that wasn't irredeemable. If the fact that I was willing to forgive all he'd done made me a weak person, I would take that label. When he recovered, he could do even worse unspeakable things to me and I accepted that too. The one thing I had was my integrity. I would always do what felt true to me as a person. In the same way, I had chose

Arabella's POVI shouldn't have spoken to him like that. I definitely shouldn't have bitten his earlobe but I was pissed. I'd thought that him not touching me wasn't a problem. It wasn't. But I didn't want him touching other women either.What we'd done in the shed had changed things for me. I now wanted things I had no business wanting. Alpha Luciano growled then he yanked my hair back and devoured my lips. It wasn't a kiss but a claim. He rolled his tongue into my waiting parted lips and kissed me like he wanted to clean away the taste of any other man in my mouth to replace it with just him. I moaned into his mouth and I moulded my body to him, rubbing my breasts against his chest and grinding against his length. He squeezed my breasts and I used my claws to slice his shirt open and pushed it off before sliding my arms around his neck pulling him closer. The feel of his skin on mine was entrancing and I shivered against him. He pushed me up against the tree and hiked the skirt o