I’m numb.I can’t feel anything; not even Andreas’ blows against my face as he hits me with all his strength. He’s angry, I know, but it doesn’t even touch the way I am feeling right now. We’re in the underground pits underneath the mansion, the only place I could think of coming to after what happened with Umiko.Andreas stops hitting me, and I fall to my knees without any will to get up again. I can feel the wounds and broken ribs already starting to heal, and the wheezing because of my punctured lungs slowly goes away as well. It should be painful, it should hurt like hell and take slow to heal, but for some reason, Baron is preventing my inevitable death. “Are you going to fight back or stand there feeling sorry for yourself?” Andreas' voice is thick with fury as he chastises me; his tattooed fists are a mess of our blood mixed from him punching me so much.I look up at him through the blood dripping down my busted eye and scoff.“The only reason you’re not dead right now is beca
Baron has been quiet ever since, so I decide to break the silence and speak with him./“Are you okay?”/ I ask, and he opens his crimson eyes./“You nearly killed her and ignored my warning after telling me that I would kill her in the end. No, I am not okay,”/ he growls in annoyance.I sigh. /“I know, and I apologize for that. It is the reason we’re going to Him for help; I need to know if he knows what happened.”//“We can not trust your father,”/ he says the words I already know. My father is the last person I would come to for help, but I have a feeling that he knows a lot more and has been keeping crucial information from me.I notice that Andreas’ anger has disappeared when I walk into the garage and spot him standing next to our motorcycles. He looks up when he sees me and smirks.“Your Luna is something else,” he remarks, picking up his gloves. “Hot-headed, sort of like her mate.”“Watch it,” I chuckle and shake my head. “She was just worked up.”He scoffs. “Worked up? She fuck
Fenriz didn’t come home last night. I waited up until the sun started peeking through the drapes, but there was no sign of him. Just after midnight, I heard a motorcycle pulling into the mansion, but only one. That means that he didn’t return with Andreas; that means he’s not here.I still can’t believe that I smacked his Beta without thinking. That man has the power to rip my throat out without a second thought, and I just went up to him and slapped him because he hit Fenriz. Why the hell did I do that?! Fenriz is an Alpha and much stronger than Andreas anyway!/“Because you care for Fenriz, even though it has only been a few days,”/ Ahmya says and rolls her eyes. /“Oh, do you suddenly not like our mate?”/ I say with a chuckle. Before, she used to be all for him, but now she seems to be put off./“He nearly killed my host, so yes, I do not like him right now!”/ she exclaims in a huff, causing me to laugh. Oh, well, I’ll leave her to stew for the day. As tired as I am, I know that I
I have been wandering this dense forest for the last two days with no end in sight and zero sleep. Alpha Erik Helseth of the European Five now rules Norway in our stead and has given me a safe passage to speak with the people from my old village. The elders led me here to find a hermit, but so far, I have not seen a soul. I fall to the earthen floor and breathe out a growl of frustration with sweat dripping into my eyes. Even Baron has been quiet since we stepped onto Norse soil; this little act alone has alarm bells ringing. With no Pack Mind Link, no cell phone, and no one to talk to, I have been left with my own thoughts. That itself has been Hell on its own. Unwanted memories on repeat, the screams of my first and second wife, the absolute heartbreak of finding Mia dead and knowing I did it. I knew that I had to deal with this soon, that I would be face to face with the pain I had caused. I hate that I am such an enigma; I can kill without remorse, yet I lament over the three
I don’t know what I expected from Fenriz, but his rudeness wasn’t what I banked on. Yes, I changed my image a little, but that gave him no right to break my spirit./“You changed because of what that witch said!”/ Ahmya huffs as anger fills her aura. /“I told you to ignore their taunts and pressures!”//“I know,”/ I say as I wipe the makeup from my face at the vanity and kick off my heels. /“I just wanted him to like me.”//“You’re his mate; HE ALREADY LIKES YOU!”/ she says, not helping at all. I sigh, remove the clinging red dress from my body, and settle on the lilac summer dress and my flats. After using a beauty wipe, I remove the last remnants of the over-done makeup and look at myself in the mirror.Plain. Everyone has always called me plain for as long as I can remember. I wasn’t graceful and timid like my mother or beautiful like my sisters. I barely had curves and an average cup size - there was nothing noticeable about me except the fact that I was just. so. plain. I turn
I don’t know what to fucking do anymore. Do I still pretend to be the cold, indifferent Alpha around Umiko or just drop the fucking act altogether? I understand that a certain brutality comes with being in my position, but does that need to extend to my mate? Fuck it; I need to kill something. “We have a problem,” Andreas says when he walks inside of my office and leans over my desk. His eyes have split, which tells me he’s so much more than pissed off. His claws have extended, and he looks down as he tries to control his breathing before looking back up at me. “The fucking hunters are back,” he says. Those five words and his anger are justified. A few years ago, we had a group of hunters from a specific guild attempt to take out every supernatural creature in Vegas. The Sirens in my clubs were first before they nearly took out the Fae Folk in my casinos. To say that they were more than a pain in the ass is putting it lightly. “Are you sure?” I ask through gritted teeth, and he n
I lay and stare up at the ceiling while listening to Fenriz’s light snoring. Yesterday I had a plan, and it required me to take vengeance on Fenriz for the deaths of his wives. I was ready to go through with it once I got strong enough, but last night’s talk with him… just threw that out of the window entirely. He wants to trust me, he wants to show me the work of an Alpha, and he wants to be my friend. From what I heard, the other wives were all confined to the compound without seeing the heart of the city, but this morning he would bring me along! Not only that, but he opened up to me slightly about his wives and even told me the name of his beast. If that is not him willing to put his trust in me, then what is? /“Why are you still awake? We have a big training session scheduled for tomorrow!”/ Ahmya’s voice echoes in my head, and I cringe. Ever since her attitude towards Fenriz changed yesterday, I have been slightly cautious around her. She wanted me to trust him, but the mom
Not only does my mate want to try with me, but Kai and Konstantin have found Lilith alive. Barely hanging on with what she has been through, but still alive nonetheless. Umiko holds on to my every word as I recall my relationship with Lilith over the years and why I let her go. She knows about prophecies all too well; apparently, it is why her father sent her to me. He had a dream about Umiko and me being married.This little bit of news actually pisses me off; I’ll have to file it away and look into it at a later stage. The fact that Kaen was given insight into what would happen between his daughter and me doesn’t sit well with me.After a comfortable breakfast with her, I take her to the hair appointment at 10 am, but my phone rings again before I can drop her off. This time it’s Gabriel Priest.“Priest,”“Fenriz, glad I caught you,” he says in an odd, broken voice, and I frown. “Are you free to talk?”“I am for a few minutes; what’s the problem?” I ask and gesture for Umiko to giv