LOGINLeah’s POVThe smell of fresh food was the first thing I noticed when I began to wake up.Still half asleep, I adjusted into the pillow that was kept under my head. I was hoping to wake up to Lucien’s warmth beside me as I smiled and reached out to touch him. My hand met nothing but the softness of the fabric. I frowned my face and tapped on the pillow again. I was searching for the familiar warmth that oozed out from his body but then I found nothing but only an empty space as I slowly opened my eyes. Lucien was nowhere in sight. I sat up so fast that the blanket slipped from my shoulders. My eyes went across the room as it searched, from the bathroom, the sitting area, and the small space beside the windows. But still there was nothing. “Lucien?” I tried calling out to him. There was no answer.I felt a sudden wave of panic instantly hit me. Had something finally happened to him? Had his condition become way worse over night? Had someone rushed him to the physicians while I w
Lucien’s POVBefore he could answer, the door opened.A maid stepped into the sitting room carrying a tray of food. She stopped almost immediately when she noticed us, her eyes moving between Owen’s furious expression and my clenched fists. The tension in the room was obvious enough to make her look as if she had walked into the wrong place.“I’m sorry, Your Majesty,” she said quickly, lowering her gaze. “I didn’t know you were—”“It’s fine,” I interrupted.She looked up hesitantly.“Take that back to the kitchen. I need you to prepare something for Leah to eat.” I ordered. “Yes, Your Majesty.”“And make sure you don’t wake her. Let her sleep as long as she needs to.”The maid nodded quickly. “Of course, Your Majesty.”She turned and she walked out hurriedly, looking relieved to have a reason to quickly leave here. I watched her disappear through the door way before I turned back to my uncle. Owen looked as if my Simple instruction had personally offended him.“Unbelievable,” he mut
Lucien’s pov“Where the hell are you Adrian?” I muttered, already frustrated. I needed him now and now was the time that something chose to have gone wrong. Whatever he knew about Owen and the Kitsune bloodline could no longer wait, we needed to put the pieces together. If my Uncle had a hand in this curse, we needed to know about it before the day was over. And I knew damn well that he was not going to spill anything to me, he had tried to kill me before and this might be his chance to finally get whatever he wanted but I was ready to go the hard way if he refuses to comply. He might be older than me. Maybe Wiser. And even knew far more than I might ever know but I was still Alpha and as long as the packs rules were concerned, everyone and everything in this pack answered to me. I moved out of Adrian’s room, determined to find him somehere close. I checked the study, then the corridors that were leading to the private offices, then the archives, but still there was no sign of Adr
Lucien’s POVLeah laid in my arms with her head resting on my chest. Her breathing was slow and peaceful. She looked like she was completely knocked out. And I could not help the small smile that touched my lips as I brushed a strand of hair that was on her forehead. She looked so peaceful I hated myself that I was going to take it from her when I was gone. But it’s either me or her and there was no way I’d give her up for myself. I pressed a soft kiss on her forehead and pulled the blanket over, hugging her tight as I tried to close my eyes. My body felt different tonight. For the first time in months, My Alpha strength had surged through me without warning as it answered the bond that was between us with an Itensity that almost made me forget she was human. That kind of strength is something I’ve not felt in a really long time. Even the pleasure from the heat almost made me forget I was dying. Almost.Because even as I held the woman I loved, the black veins under my skin stil
Leah’s pov The door closed gently behind us with a soft and final click. And at that moment it felt like the world finally stopped existing. It was just us. The moonlight poured into the room from the tallWindows, silver and cool against my bare skin as I turned to look at him. Lucien was standing and looking at me like I was something scared, and like something he wanted to devour all at once. The intensity in his eyes made my stomach flip and my thighs press together. His hands moved and stayed on my waist as he pulled me against him. I felt the hard, thick ridge of his cock pressing on my stomach from the thin fabric of his trousers. He was already so hard that it made my breath catch. The heat flooded betwen my legs making goosebumps rise on my skin. “Last chance,” he said in a low and rough voice that’s sounded almost like a growl. “Tell me to stop and I will. Even now.”I answered him by standing up on my toes and kissing him like I had been starving for it. Our mouths ope
I found myself actually thinking about the question. Then my mouth moved before my brain finshed thinking. “Somewhere quiet.” I said. She smiled. “I knew it.”“You did?” I asked playfully. “You look exhausted every time someone asks you to attend another meeting. I think you would enjoy a place where nobody knows who you are.”That was true. “And what would I do there?” I aksed further. She tapped her finger on her chin like she was thinking deeply of the right word to use. “Sleep.” She finally said. I raised an eyebrow. “Huh?” She laughed. “You heard me. You would sleep for an entire week, and then I would have to drag you out of bed.”“I thought you wanted me to be happy.” “I do. But I refuse to spend the rest of my life watching you sleep.”The words slipped out so naturally that she did not seem to notice them.The rest of my life… I looked at her, and for one brief moment, I allowed myself to imagine it, even if I knew damn well that I didn’t have up to a week to spend







