Amber’s PoVAs soon as the guests had all been accounted for, we were ushered through to the performance hall in preparation for the talent show that had been arranged in honor of the prince’s birthday.‘A little warning would have been nice,’ Rae hissed in annoyance as I made my way to my allocated seat.‘To be fair to the Alpha King and his Luna, they arranged these celebrations earlier this year. If you think about it logically we were a late addition to the guest pool. We haven’t been mated to Ryan long, and it probably never occurred to them to ask us to participate at such short notice.’ I answered as I tried to appease Rae.She was still riled from the confrontation with Anna and uneasy that Ryan had disappeared off to discuss business matters with a few other Alpha’s. He had assured me that he wouldn’t be long and Lilly had been at my side, but for some reason, she had been seated at the far end of the hall. Sitting alone in my seat with no one else seated near me left me feel

We stopped dancing for a moment as we turned to watch both Peter and Viola slow dancing together, their eyes locked into each other’s gaze as they turned slowly in the center of the dancefloor.We weren’t the only ones that had stopped dancing either as the majority of the couples on the dance floor had paused to see what was happening. Before long the entire ballroom was filled with the low hum of chatter as word spread.We moved towards the edge of the dance floor as the rest of the couples did the same, leaving only Viola and Prince Peter in each other’s arms with the whole room’s attention solely on them.“Oh! Did Prince Peter find his mate? How lucky!” A hushed whisper reached my ear.“Who is that?” Another voice came with a confused tone, “She can’t be a ranked member if I don’t recognise her face.”“Isn’t that the other daughter of the Alpha of the Scarlett Pack? I heard she has a terrible temper.”“Wow. How wonderful that both of his daughters have managed to land themselves s

Viola’s PoVI still couldn’t believe this was happening to me. All these years that I had spent trying to make sure that Amber knew her place and the Goddess had done it for me. I should have just trusted in Her plan, even when it turned out that She had chicken Ryan for Amber’s mate, with me, she had gone one better.The future Alpha King was my mate! If anything, the Goddess was simply ensuring that I would always be able to kick people back down to where they belonged.“What are you grinning at?” Ryan asked me as he closed the door to the store cupboard room behind him and stalked towards where I perched on the edge of the desk.“The fact that I get to spend the rest of my life with you, as your mate.” I giggled as a small smile appeared in the corner of his mouth and he chuckled lightly.“The Goddess certainly has unique plans for all of her people.” Peter answered with a cryptic smile as he stalked towards where I perched with a predatory look on his face.I swallowed nervously a

Amber’s PoV“Do you think they’ll be okay?” Lilly asked me as she clasped her hands anxiously in her lap.“Of course they’ll be okay,” I answered her with a confidence I didn’t quite feel and forcing a smile on my face to reassure her, “Both Ryan and Tom are two of the most capable men that I know. It’ll take more than a poorly planned assassination attempt to bring them down.”Lily smiled back at me half heartedly and Rae whined anxiously in my head.“We should be with him Amber….it feels wrong to leave his side…” She whined as I sighed internally.“I know but…what can we do really? If they’ve sent trained assassins then what hope do we stand against them? We couldn’t even take our own father down…”“You’re wrong,” Rae hissed back, “We’ve trained and we are stronger now than we were back then. I bet we could help…”“It’s pointless arguing about this Rae, we’re already miles away from them, we’ve been traveling for such a longtime it would take forever to get back to them…” I paused a

Ryan's POVWe found the bastards fairly quickly because they hadn’t even bothered to pull them off the main road into a secluded area that would have reduced their chances of being discovered.That was probably the only thing that I was grateful for in this whole mess of a situation.The metallic scent of blood tainted the air as I launched myself out of the car and sprinted toward the direction that Amber’s scent was coming from. The fact that her scent was so closely intertwined with that of fresh blood terrified me and my mind raced with a thousand different scenarios that might be occurring as each second passed.All I could hear was the fear in Amber’s voice playing on repeat in my head as I raced towards the group of unaware males, all so focused on their prize that lay in the center of the ring that had formed. I was certain that this was where Amber lay.And then, I saw her.The sight of her helpless form laying naked before all of these predators only served to fuel my rage.