“Phoenix! You are not feeling a mate bond with him. In fact, you can’t even feel it anymore but I do,” he said, and then he suddenly let me go after he realized what he was saying, “and I am not saying I am mesmerized by it. I am just letting you know that he is dead and you talking about him, bringing him up like he is alive is hurting us,” he tried explaining why he was so focused on who was whose mate and who was feeling the mate bond but it didn’t make sense.“Then I am alone again?” I asked through quivering lips and a frowning forehead.“How did your wolf die?” he asked me a question instead, “Why didn’t you tell us before?” he added.“I am not answering you. Because I have to mourn the death of my mate now,” I said with a straight face. I just found out that my mate is dead and he wants to gossip with me?“Phoenix! Get a hold of yourself,” he growled while I walked past him and opened the door to leave. To stop me from leaving, he grasped my wrist and pushed me back until I lan
I had woken up in his bed with a salutary of the pack checking my blood pressure.“So, what is going on now? What did you find?” Aramis was standing beside her, watching me open my eyes. It didn’t take me long to realize I have woken up from a nightmare.“I don’t know. I have heard about people losing their wolves but they would eventually get them back because no matter what, we are incomplete without our wolves.” The Salutary was an old she-wolf, probably in her 60’s and being the best Salutary of the pack.Suddenly, my eyes wandered to her face. What did she say, I can get my wolf back?“But in her case, I don’t know for sure. The story about people losing their wolves and then finding them? Those things are just myths and fantasies. Nobody has ever come forward to claim they have lost or found their wolves again. The wolf never dies actually, so they cannot claim they lost it. It is a shock though that she lost her wolf, that was not supposed to happen even after being poisoned. H
"What did you say?" Joce was able to get herself together and ask him after his claim had shocked them into silence."We have felt the mate bond way before I brought her here. So, to help you not worry anymore, it's not inappropriate to have my mate in my bedroom," he stated without any shame. I didn’t get what happened to him, how did he go from hating me to forcibly making me stay in his room and also telling others that I am his mate."Mor--" Joce watched Morgana’s face who let out a whimper and ran out of the room after hearing that I am Aramis’ mate, "But what is the people going to say? They will point fingers at you for accepting your brother's killer as your mate," she tried to tell him that he needs to think again but he looked pretty stubborn about it."Did you not hear me before? She didn’t kill him and besides, I would love to see who can point a finger at me and gets to live," he said and made direct eye contact with me. Now that this was out in the open, I didn’t feel li
After bombing us with that announcement, Aramis left for the office. I didn’t get a chance to have a word with him and tell him my decision. Not that it would matter but I still needed to try.“Wait right there,” I was walking in the direction of the Alpha King’s room, which was now my room as well when I heard Joce commanding me to stop.Upon turning, I saw her walking in my direction aggressively with her daughter behind her.“Is that why you ruined their date the other night?” she stood face to face with me and dared question me.“What kind of a shameless creature are you? Your wolf felt a mate bond with both the brothers? How gross!” Morgana added, that she was shaking out of anger.It wasn’t a surprise that she wanted Aramis for herself, I was just amazed how bitter they were towards me when they can be upset with Aramis too.“It is not my fault that the Moon Goddess didn’t give you Aramis,” I shrugged my shoulders, not letting them have the satisfaction of making me feel guilty.
“You w---,” I wasn’t sure what I was hearing. My heart was doing all sorts of stunts inside my chest now.“I am not serious of course,” he realized a little late that he shouldn’t have joked about it, “I want to punish the ones who orchestrated this whole plan against my brother,” once he explained why he was now accepting me as his mate, I just felt lost.I might have sounded too convincing when I said I don’t want to be his mate, but his true motives let me down again.“So you thought it would be the right thing to use me without even letting me know?” I was hurt but it wasn’t something too bad. I could expect that from him.It is not like he had ever been truthful to me, so I was going to recover quickly.“It is just that our mission is one. You want the ones who murdered your wolf to be punished and so do I, my brother deserves justice,” He declared and I bobbed my head, “I want them to feel cornered and helpless from every angle. There is no way they came up with the idea of writ
Aramis left with his guards in search of Morgana while I stayed behind with Joce. I was not satisfied with how things turned out. Joce used this moment to her advantage and persuaded Aramis into accepting Morgana.“Sit down, you are giving me a headache,” Joce had her hands on her head and was sitting in the lounge, waiting for any good news regarding Morgana.I had been pacing back and forth this whole time in anxiety. His last words had been embedded in my head and my entire focus was stuck on them.“Ugh!” Joce let out a groan when I didn’t listen to her and continued walking around in worry. Her attention was shifted to her phone when it started ringing. I too looked at it with hopeful eyes but she shook her head at me and got up from her seat.“Some old friend,” she spoke under her breath and marched away to attend to the phone. I was a little shocked that she decided to speak to her friend instead of worrying about her daughter’s whereabouts.I had this weird feeling inside me th
“So you got yourself two young girls and you thought calling one wife and the other mate will not make things look weird?” I was yammering ever since Aramis had walked into the room.He looked tired and exhausted, they made him run around when she was hiding in plain sight.“Phoenix! I am tired as hell. Do not try me tonight,” he warned me while searching for some shorts to wear for the night.“Oh! Maybe the idea of having two women has exhausted you,” I bobbed my head, leaning my body against the wall and folding my arms over my chest.“Okay! What is it? are you jealous of her?” he gave up and turned around to piss me off. The smirk of skepticism from my lips disappeared and a straight line was formed out of my lips.“She played you,” I stated and he narrowed his eyes in my face, demanding me to explain my statement, “It was their plan to lure you into accepting her,” I was watching his face and when his expressions didn’t change, I began to worry.“Did you not hear me?” I asked just
It was then when he turned the light switch on, that I acknowledged what an idiot and desperate I was to quickly assume his kid would be a child.“Excuse me?” he groaned sleepily,I was able to see a grown-ass man, shirtless with tattoos and black long puffy hair, rubbing his eyes and complaining in just plain gray shorts.“I---,” I stammered, shaking my head and looking away from him in shock.What the heck?“What are you doing in our room? wait! You are that prisoner girl who killed Tanner?” he finally stopped torturing his eyes and deepened his stare at me to see me clearly. He had emerald green eyes, suiting his thick black hair and pale skin.“I did not kill him and neither am I a prisoner,” I voiced, placing hands on my waist and giving him the same quizzical look.“Do you ever quit talking? I heard you argue with air too,” he rolled his eyes at me.“If you speak to me, I will answer you back,” I used the same commanding voice that I use whenever somebody is near to piss me off.