I avoided his gaze as I nodded wordlessly, feeling both ashamed and nervous. Clearing my throat, my hand migrated to my stomach. While I prayed for the car ride to end, a stray thought entered my head that had me choking on air. I coughed so violently that even the driver chanced me a glance through the rearview mirror. “What is it?” The cursed – Valens asked and I pasted on a fake smile with trembling lips as I forced down another bout of violent coughing. “N – Nothing,” I managed to answer, feeling dizzy and suffocated under his piercing gaze – a gaze I wanted to escape. Rather than take my answer for it, he asked again, “What is it?” How could I tell him the thought that just crossed my mind? How could I tell him that I was pregnant and there was a chance the baby was his? Earlier in the day, I brushed off the thought of my baby being his because legend had it that only his curse breaker could bear his child but now – now we turned out to be mates. The chances that did not exis

It was an offer I’d never received before. Anywhere I wanted to go. Anywhere in the world. I was both excited and nervous at the same. A fresh start. A new life. Anywhere I wanted. I stared, in a daze, at the man offering me this opportunity but it was hard, almost impossible, to maintain eye contact with him when I remembered he’d had his tongue down my throat a minute ago and I felt a sensation too decadent to explain.They say the attraction between true mates was explosive but all my life, it had been nothing but hearsay to me. I couldn’t look up at him, embarrassed at how lustful I’d gotten from a kiss. I’d been on the verge of unravelling in mere minutes as pleasure I’d never gotten even from sex wracked through me and as if to taunt me, the sound of my moans from earlier echoed in my head.“Uh, a beauty – a beautiful place would be fine,” I said. Chancing a glance at him, I saw him already staring at me, his lips pressed together and his jaw grinding. “If that’s not too much tr

It took three days for me to accept my current reality. My so-called ‘mate’ was avoiding me. He was blatantly avoiding me and it confused me. Did he lie? Did my wolf imagine the bond with him? What exactly was going on? Why did I never see him and why did he refuse to mark me?After Jackson, I did not expect much from a ‘mate’ but Valens was my true mate which made my situation all the more confusing. Was he out cheating on me? Could he even cheat on me when we were technically not together? I didn’t know what to think and with my confusion came a budding fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of a reopening of old wounds.‘He may just be busy since we only just got here,’ Asia tried to rationalize but even she didn’t sound convinced. ‘There must be a lot of work for him to complete,’ she added.“I’m supposed to be his Luna,” I mumbled into the empty room. “If he is busy, then I should be too.”Perhaps he didn’t trust me to be a good Luna. I bit my lips, wondering if he knew of my past in Bl

“Valencia,” Valens also growled at the woman staring me down.“Stay out of this!” She hissed at him as she stalked forward. “Where were you hiding? Where did you hide!?” She attempted to poke me but Valens grabbed her hand to stop her. “Leave me alone!” She screamed. “This is between me and this – this –““I – Do we know each other?” I asked, confused at her anger. Of course, I knew for certain that I had never met this woman in my life so why was she so angry at me!? “How could we possibly know each other?” She screamed and for the first time, I noticed tears glistening in her eyes. “Where did you hide!?”“Cia, I swear to the goddess.” Valens pinched the bridge of his nose as he blocked me from the woman glaring at me as if she would breathe fire at any moment. In a second, he doubled over as she sucker-punched him.“This way.” Damita grabbed my hand. “Let’s show you to your room.” She took my hand and dragged me away.“B – But Valens,” I gestured at my mate who was getting beat u

My confusion escalated to anger as my mood soured. Resentment built in my chest and I flopped face-first into bed. What the hell was wrong with this man? If he didn’t want me, he could reject me!Ignoring the way my heart skipped a beat and my wolf whimpered at the thought of another rejection, I repeatedly punched the mattress to vent my frustration. Why did he make me feel so pathetic? When my anger turned to tears and my hand ached from punching the mattress, I got out of bed with a feeling of emptiness spreading inside me. I pulled on my clothes like a person without any reason to live. I kept thinking, ‘What do I do now?’ If he did not want me, he’d have rejected me by now but I was his curse breaker and I also had his child in my belly. Was that why he was keeping me around? I needed to hear his reason as doubt ate at me so I decided to find him.“Luna.” I came face to face with Lucian as soon as I opened the door.“Oh, hello.” The Beta was a quiet man with an intimidating buil