"There is something you need to see, my lady," said my maid to me as she opened the door and looked in my chambers.
Her countenance was that of someone who had seen something that beggars description and needed some other pair of eyes as a witness. So I dropped the dress in my hand and followed her out. "Speak no word as we go," Debra said. We walked down the steps that led outside the manor and swept past the gardens, and when she took me beyond the gates, I had to pull her back and throw caution to the wind. "Where are we going, Debra?" "I am sorry for being too secretive, my lady," she apologized, looking around warily. "But I felt this is important to you." "Why can't you just tell me what it is?" She shook her head and led the way again. It was towards evening, and the manor had gotten less noisy. I watched Debra closely, and it dawned on me that she was leading me to the hills, where Killian's private study was. "Killian?" I said. Debra just looked at me with those sad eyes and said nothing. That was when I increased my pace. ******** The back of the building was where she took me, and through a door that she tried so hard not to make it creak. The windows in the little lobby endured the last rays of sunlight that dropped on weaponry. We walked through there until I began to hear muffled voices and wondered what exactly Debra needed me to witness. The voices came from Killian's study. It was a large training room that bred the best of werewolf warriors. Always has been. Debra stopped beside the slightly open door. "Go through, my lady," whispered Debra. "Why? What for? Who is talking in there?" I said. "That is what I brought you here to see. We don't have much time, my lady." "If this has anything to do with..." "Your relationship with Lord Killian, then yes, you should know." I stepped through the door and wedged myself behind a pole. The voices came out clear. "Why are your drawers still on?" I looked towards the sound of the voice and saw the form of a man standing over the bent form of another figure against a table. There were other figures in the study room, all lined up in a file behind the man. I knew that shape at any time. It was Killian. The grunts and moans started, and I realized that my mate, Killian Romero, wasn't training those ladies, he was making love to them. One by one. ******** "What was that, Killian?" I demanded, interrupting his orgy. Killian turned to look at me and palmed his hair behind his face. "Get out, all of you!" he ordered. The ladies skittered out like turkeys. Killian walked over to one end of the room and poured himself a drink. My heart was beating hard, like a madman's drum. I wanted an explanation. He walked back with a drink in one hand. "What are you doing here?" he asked. "Does that even matter? I am your mate." "You have no business here at this time of the day." "You are avoiding the question, Killian," I said, somehow scolding. "I was fucking," said Killian curtly. "You have a mate," I said again. "Huh… I'm not so sure about that." "What are you talking about, Killian?" "Haven't you seen the signs, Valeria? Because you haven't, I have." "What signs?" "You have a deformity, Valeria," said Killian, as he pointed one finger at me. "You are defective. Where is your ability to turn?" "What?" "Should I assume that your question is just a pretense? You do know what I am talking about, Valeria." I breathed in because if it had come out the other way, I might not have been able to hold back the tears. "Is it my fault that I have been unable to turn? To be like you?" "Is it my fault?" rebutted Killian. "And, you are nothing like me, Valeria. Nothing." "So because you see me as defective, is this why you are cheating on me?" "Cheating, you say?" said Killian, with a laugh. "How is this cheating? Those ladies you made me send out are werewolves, and you are older. They turn. So I decided that since you cannot meet my expectations, maybe I should find someone else who makes me feel like an Alpha. Because, to be frank with you, Valeria, you do make me feel less of myself," added Killian as he drank from his cup. It was one thing for him to tell me this, but another to tell it to my face after I had caught him in the act. Killian denied nothing. "So it is the sex?" "No, Valeria. In as much as I see the sex as average, that isn't why I am doing this," said Killian. "I am just looking for the right one." Killian Romero was the Lord of the manor, and as such, was an Alpha, but it wasn't going to be made official for another week. If he was doing such to me, then he was looking for someone else before his coronation ceremony. This realization hit me like a bag of nails. "Why didn't you just tell me, Killian? Why have to make it so secretive?" "Would you have let me? Hmm? Anyway, I am the Alpha. I do not need to let you know if I need multiple bedmates. If you don't live up, you get properly buried in secrecy." "Are you rejecting me, then, Killian?" Killian drank from his cup again. I wondered why he hadn't bothered to wear his pants. I continued. "No, were you going to reject me on your coronation, banishing me to public shame?" "I wish I could say otherwise, Valeria," said Killian, as he shook his head. I shook my head as well but in disbelief. As I turned to leave, Killian said, "You brought this upon yourself, Valeria." And I believed I probably did. Being Killian Romero's mate. I had let him use me how he wanted and he was ready to dump me. I had never met a man so obsessed with a woman that he loved parting my thighs at least six times a day. And how mad did he do it? How long did he last on top of me and behind my arse? But was it my fault that I was born so? Unable to turn into a full-fledged wolf like my father and my brother? I didn't see Debra on the way as I ran out of the study. It wasn't until I was some goodish step away that I noticed someone behind me. "Stop following me!" I ran back to the manor, as something at the back of my mind told me it was a bad idea. But I didn't have any place else to go. I was wrong.BROOKE'S POVMy father dared to send my messenger back to me even with the threat of having Valeria in my custody.I'm going to send her head to him amongst other body parts then he would know that I'm serious. "Double her torture," I said to my men as I entered back into my tent.Over the past few months after I had lost various combat with Valeria, I decided to embark on a journey to build myself. All my mother's ideas though.***"Brooke we cannot continue like this, one day we will be forced to face the reality before us, your younger Step-sister taking over the throne, do you want that?" She asked."No, I do not want it. What do you suppose we must do, Mother?""We need to seek for help,""From whom?" I asked her in confusion"I know just the person," she said.Then she took me alongside her and we met a sorcerer who was banished from Donbule because he practiced dark magic."I want my son to be powerful enough to defeat his sister, the lycan princess, and take his inheritance,"
JACK'S POVIt all happened very fast in a split of seconds. It was on the ground. Because of the impact of my fall, my head was hurting badly. It took a while for my vision to clear as I felt dizzy."I have no idea who you are and what you might want from me, let me go already?" I said moving my body to free myself from his grip."If I were you I'd stay still?" The man said."Let me go," I said, trying to loosen his grip but I couldn't."I'm not here to hurt you," he said, which was unbelievable. I stopped trying to let myself loose as I looked at him. He looked advanced and didn't look harmful as he was unarmed."How can you say you don't want to hurt me when you have me on the ground?" I asked in confusion."I just want to talk with you," he said."Can you not talk to me without hurting me?" I asked as I was perplexed by his actions."I did it to get your attention," he responded."Now you have my attention but I'm not in a comfortable position," I said as I was still pinned to the
KILLIAN'S POVThe past few days have been amazing, I have grown to like Alex more and more as she engages in my activities with my maidens. She was not as useless and irrelevant as I thought. I was softening towards her, regardless of how I hated it I couldn't help but want her. It wasn't a bad thing because after all, she is my mate legally."Lord Killian, you sent for me," she said as she entered my chambers. "Yes Alex, come to the bed," I said as I was already lying down."Where are the others?" She asked, looking around in confusion."Today I crave just you," I said and this made her blush."Really?""Yes, really," I replied and she got on the bed.When we were done she went back to her room. Guard! "Guard!" I called out from my chambers. "Yes my Lord," one of them responded as he came to my chambers. "Is Sebastian back?""No, he isn't my Lord, would you want me to do anything in his stead?" The guard asked."Not at all, just inform me when he returns," I said to him and he nodded
ADOLF'S POVWe've traveled all morning and we don't seem to be getting anywhere."My king, I think we are headed in the wrong direction," Sigil said to me and I was shocked by his statement although I suspected it."What do you mean? I'm good with directions. Do you want to know what they called me back in the day?" I asked and without waiting for his response I continued. "The navigator, so what do you mean by the wrong direction?" I asked him."We have passed by this same tree with three markings like three times my king, I suppose we are going about in circles," he said and I looked around somewhat confused. "Oh really? My oh my,""Yes my king, I suggest we make use of the compass or map," Sigil said scratching his head"Okay, where's the compass," I asked and he looked at me as though he was confused."I'm not with it my king, who's with the compass?" He turned around asking the other men and apparently, there was no one with the compass."How are we going to locate East, if none o
JACK'S POVI still haven't recovered emotionally from the death of Valerie, she died after being attacked by wolves in the woods. Why was she out all alone? Was she pursued? I planned to go get her when I was better now she's gone and it's all my fault because I wasn't there to save her.I wasn't myself after hearing the news, although I was glad that it wasn't Valeria, the pain I felt would be a lot worse. That aside Valeria was still kidnapped and her stepbrother Brooke wasn't making things easy. He wants the throne. Power is indeed good but I see no reason why people chase after it resulting in taking drastic measures to attain it. It's a good thing that the king alongside Sigil had gone to go get her. I couldn't go because I'm not fully healed for battle.I sat there looking at Valerie's corpse as Matthew was the one who found her dead body in the woods. As a form of my last respect to her, I'll take her back to her hometown and give her a proper burial."Father, Mother, I'm leavi
SCARLETT'S POV"Vladimir, I don't see any signs that someone passed this trail, are you sure the heads and tails game we used in deciding which path to take was a good idea?" I said, whining in frustration. The weather was unusually hot and we had no horse traveling by foot this weather was equivalent to a death sentence, why weren't there horses in Donbule, even the one I brought with me when I came seemed to have disappeared into thin air."It is the right direction, and stop complaining already, unless you want me to start regretting asking to follow you in the first place," he answered slowly, swinging a little roll tied to a stone on his hands."Don't say that, why are you sounding that way aren't you as tired as I am? We've been traveling for hours now and no sign of life only a few birds have flown by, and it's making me wonder if we are actually on the right path,""We are so stop complaining already and put the energy into your legs and move faster," he said as he increased h