Davina
At his words, everyone in the hall gave a loud and collective gasp of shock including the elders and even me too. What was he saying? As far as I knew, my late fiance didn't have an heir. So who was this man who was claiming to be his heir? Was he serious at all? He couldn't be. I knew that.
The most senior elder rose from his seat and came over to where the man was. When he was there, he said, "Let's have this discussion in a moment, Keith. The rest of the pack cannot be around to hear it all."
I almost gasped in surprise. So the elders knew him. That meant may be he was telling the truth? But then, just because the elders knew him didn't mean that what he said was true. He could be lying for all I knew.
He nodded and the elder stepped up to the podium and then took the microphone, making me give way for him. He spoke in a tone that brooked no arguments or objections from the people of the pack.
"People of Antarti pack, this meeting has come to a close. Make sure you follow the messages we have given you this night. You can all depart now."
As he said that, the people of the pack began to depart just as he asked them to. They all filed out in an orderly manner and within minutes, the place was empty except for the four elders, the strange but handsome man called Keith and myself.
The senior elder spoke again. "Let us all move to the meeting room," he said and began to lead the way.
We all followed behind him and he walked to the end of the large auditorium, stopped at a door that was hidden behind a thick and heavy curtain and he unlocked a door. Without him telling us to, we followed him inside and settled down in chairs around a table.
The elder started without preamble. "Keith, why have you come back to the Antarti pack?"
Keith answered him almost immediately. "My twenty years exile ended today and I have come to take back what is rightfully mine; the seat of the Alpha of Antarti pack," he said confidently.
"Are you aware that your father was poisoned today?" the senior elder asked.
This time too, Keith answered without missing a beat or hesitating for a fraction of a second. "I didn't know before my arrival in the pack. I arrived just as the bell was being rung for the emergency meeting. And I overheard it on the way here from the conversations of the pack members."
After Keith's statement, the elders didn't say anything again. The air was filed with tension which was almost thick enough to choke. After a while, the senior elder spoke again, this time, directing his attention to me.
"Davina, I know you must be feeling quite in the dark about all of this but I will explain everything to you. You see, your late fiance had a son with his late wife and that was Keith," the elder said and I gave a gasp of shock. So the man had been saying the truth all along.
He went on. "Twenty years ago, Alpha Callum's wife was murdered and Keith was accused of doing it; of killing his mother. After a lot of evidence against him, he refused to prove himself innocent so he was sent on exile for a period of twenty years which is now over."
Now Keith spoke without mincing words. "I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room, elder, and that is my birthright. My father did not have any other child apart from me and even if he did, this position will still be mine because I am his first child. Now he is dead and there is nothing for you to do except crown me as Alpha. I came just at the right time."
Without speaking, the elders moved to another part of the meeting room, and they conferred silently among themselves for a while. When they were done, they came back to the meeting table.
The senior elder spoke again this time. In fact, it seemed as if he was the one who had been doing all the speaking throughout today. The others were just there for advice and suggestions.
"We, the elders of this pack, have all conferred among ourselves and we have come to a conclusion. Since it is your birthright and it is only right that the position of Alpha be given to you despite the bad name you have with the people of this pack, we have decided to crown you as Alpha."
"Well, you are certainly going along the same lane as me now, elder. I knew you would come to my side in no time," Keith bragged.
The elder paid no mind to Keith's words. It was as if Keith didn't even speak for all the reaction he gave. Instead, he went on with his speech.
"But there is a condition attached to your being the Alpha of this pack," he concluded.
"What is it? I am eager to hear it," Keith spoke with urgency in his tone.
"Since it was your father's wish that this pack and the Juno Pack be united and that was why he decided to marry Davina, you must fulfill his wish if you don't want your reign to have bad luck and that means taking Davina as your mate and making her your Luna."
I gasped in shock and before I could begin to say what was on my mind, Keith spoke up. "So that is it? Well, I accept then. I will take her as my mate and Luna if that makes me become the Alpha of this pack," he pronounced.
"What? I do not accept to this! I will not marry this arrogant man whom I do not know from anywhere!" I said, already close to anger.
The senior elder spoke in soothing tones. "I know this must be hard on you but you have to understand where I am coming from. Your father and your late fiance wanted this treaty to be fulfilled and you have to honor them. And again, the pack members won't really take kindly to Keith becoming the Alpha since there is still a murder allegation on him so that is why you have to be his Luna so that the minds of the people will be at rest. They already know you; you are a familiar face to them. And they also know that you are a good person since you were going to marry the late Alpha. Please, Davina, just accept to do this. For your father and your late fiance."
This time, I was the one who stood up from my seat. I walked to the end of the room. I needed to think. I started pacing as I went through my thoughts.
The senior elder had a point. My father really wanted this treaty and I didn't want to let him down. And what he said about the people of the pack and me was true. The people of the pack liked me and since my speech this evening, their respect for me had soared. In fact, all what the senior elder had said was true. He was right.
And in truth, I didn't trust Keith. He had a funny and dubious look about him. He was also arrogant. I couldn't leave the people of this pack in his hands; I had to rule alongside him and that couldn't be achieved except I agreed to be his Luna.
And I had also promised the people of the pack that I would protect them. I couldn't let them down after my vow.
So I walked back to the table of men and spoke. "I will agree to be his mate and Luna but I have conditions too. We will have separate rooms and we will never have sex."
"I agree," Keith said.
And that was it. I had agreed to be his mate and he has agreed to be mine. So now I was to be stuck in a marriage where I hated my husband.
Davina It was exactly four full moons after our mating ceremony–I had been counting– and I was still not used to the stranger who had become my mate by providence. We managed to put up a good performance on the day of the mating ceremony for the sake of the pack and I had held back my disgust when people winked suggestively at us. They expected me to be glad that I had snagged a supposedly handsome younger man as a mate compared to the much older Alpha I was to marry earlier on. Mating would be easier with a younger man, they assumed. If only they knew how wrong they were. Sitting in my room for hours was both advantageous and disadvantageous. On one hand, it would limit the number of times I had to see Keith and as a result, reduce exchanging words with him. On the other hand, however, I would get nothing done all day and the pack’s growth was of utmost importance to me. “Lily, have you seen Kei—the Alpha today?” I spat out the honourific reluctantly. Goddess knew he was undeserv
Davina His sudden exclamation instinctively made me feel self-conscious and I glanced down at what I had on. It turned out that in my provocation, I had forgotten to change from my light domestic clothes. It was breezy and almost transparent. Lily had not noticed either and it was so embarrassing that Keith had been the one to point it out. Nevertheless, his reaction to it was more of frustration than critical. I had him where I wanted him. “And what about it? After all, we are in less than this when we shift to embrace our true nature. A few clothes should not bother you.” “Who said I was bothered?” he immediately defended himself, a scowl furrowing his forehead. “If you would ban me from your bed, your own mate, you would be capable of doing anything even resorting to being a tease.” I had taken enough insults from him and that was the last straw. I launched myself at him, grabbing the lapels of his deerhide shirt and tugging him off his throne. A gasp of surprise left his lips
KeithOnce Davina had gone and Jason had not returned, I decided to turn in for the night. I ached from my struggle with my rather strong Luna and I had the wounds to show for it. Alone in my sleeping chambers, I eyed the adjoining door between she and I. It would only take the twist of a key that we both had possession of and I would be in her room. However, she did not want me and I was not so clouded by lust that I would beg for affection from a female. I gingerly lowered myself to my bed after stripping off my clothes and tossing them over a chair. My room was in disarray but it was not as cluttered as the space in my head. I was supposed to be the murderer of my mother and not many people had forgotten. The pack members rarely ever visited the House of Alphas and when they dared to, they preferred to seek audience with Davina, shunning me in the background. They wanted nothing to do with me and my reputation was shot. The open gash on my back was slowly stitching close, slower
DavinaThe sun was still up by the time we returned and I pondered continually on Keith’s unusual behaviour earlier. Around the pup, he had been gentle and softspoken, making her feel safe. That was a side to him I had never seen. Another reason it bothered me was seeing him act so homely around pups also meant he might want some of his own. Coincidentally, I would be expected to have this pups with a man I was not fond of. Keith was facially a more-than-okay male, good looking and had a dangerous edge to his grin that endeared females to him for some reason. I could not deny the fact that I found him attractive too to some extent but it didn’t mean I would be comfortable mating with it. That was a nightmare, just thinking about it. While his back was turned to me, I took it as my cue to leave and change into something less constricting. “Luna, wait. I would like a word with you.” His sudden interruption to my much desired exit was unexpected and unwanted. I halted in my tracks and
Keith I howled at the emptiness that laid in front of me, though it had little effect on me; my worries were lightened, lot of things had happened since I returned and though I had made a strong decision that nothing would faze me, I was still shaken. Firstly was the overly confident wife I married who's unexpectedly my mate, she reminded me of how much I loved my mother and beyond with the emotions that Sparks within me when I'm in contact with her and there's the whole pack suspiciously monitoring my every move. Everyone seem to be against me, everyone except Jason and Davina though she's posing to be a threat yet she deeply cares about me. My wolf did a little growl at the thought of Davina, I'd definitely take more cold baths as my groin begun to ache, I have a large degree of self-control but my patience juice was running out when it came to Davina. I ached badly for her. The sky began to darken meaning I had to get back home else there would be cause for alarm. I'd apparently
Keith I chuckled mischievously and yawned, sure Davina's eyes was observing my every move, I brushed the space between us, she became defensive almost immediately and held up her fists as they were curled into a ball, I wanted to laugh but I kept a stoic face. There I was in the middle of the room trying to tease my mate. It resounded in my ears that I had better things to do and I was making a mistake but is ignored the voice from within, there was no going back. "I give you two minutes to step away from me." She blew hotly. "Else what?" I dared. She let out a little growl, the glory of her wolf almost seeping out of her skin. "You don't want to know." She said lowly. It was advisable not to push things forward but no matter what happened j could still make her succumb to my wishes, she's been growing wings. I most definitely want a strong woman beside me, one who men would cower in fear under her watchful eyes, my woman would be the female version of me. She would be my Lucy
Davina My instincts told me to retreat but my body disagreed, I found myself moaning softly to his touch. 'This is so wrong.' I muttered but all that came out were soft moans. It was a forbidden passion and I was willing to take the risk, the consequences wouldn't be as fatal as I fear it will. I inches closer to him; giving him full access to my nape, never have I thought I would feel this way or ache for a man's touch but my sense of reasoning was overridden in the first place. I felt my hands shook as the need for them to grab something arose, probably his chest or muscular frame. My thoughts were going wild and they definitely weren't pure. Our little exchange got frenzier as our breathing intensified, his breath was both soothing and hot at the same time. "Mate." His wolf growled. I knew what it meant; dominance and possessiveness and my wolf wasn't inactive. The hunger and thirst to be marked suddenly arose in me. There was a sudden knock on the door but I ignored it, we
Jason "Give me few minutes, I need to cover up." Keith said briefly. "Hmm." I muttered and nodded. He left the door again and disappeared into a room, he resurfaced half the time it takes to boil tea later and headed out, I walked behind him closely and we both walked in silence. "Pay no attention to her." He advised, breaking the silence. "I won't." I assured him. We continued walking, we were headed to nowhere in particular and judging by his look; there was a thousand thought running through his mind. The moon shone on his hair as he takes his fingers through it, revealing his manly looks. I was dazzled by him momentarily, I had to be, his looks were far beyond average and made a name for itself amongst the female. "Rumors have been flying around town." I said. I could hear him sigh, I stole a glance at him and he wore the indifferent look he always wore. "That's no news, I'd been damned if the people are quiet at this point, anything to be wary of?" He said dismissively, sa