KOA’S POV“You have hunted enough meat for us to feast on for months and you even got the flower crown you wanted so why are you still unsatisfied?” Faris, a beta who was terrible at his job of supporting his alpha, asked me. “Did you see her face?” I asked him. “Who?” He frowned. “Persephone Adelard.” I went through all that trouble to make sure Cassius Raven did not get the chance to impress her with a stupid flower crown. I was going to put a damper on the mood between them. She said it herself, she told me she did not care to be the Lady of the Hunt so I did what I had to do to make sure Raven did not get a chance to impress her. Then why did things turn out like this? Why did things turn out well for him and what was Randal planning with his parents? Why did that kid have to exist to annoy me? “Do you mean when you asked to be crowned the Lady of the Hunt?” Faris asked. “Well, I wasn’t looking at her but she did seem surprised when Cassius announced their mating. I w
I was thrown into a panic. Not knowing what to do, I could not think straight. What did he mean by a mating ceremony in a month? How was I to manoeuvre that? All I had stayed by his side to do was facilitate his downfall, not to mate with him. It would be easy to call off an engagement ceremony but a mating – once that bastard put his mark on me, there would be no going back. “Congratulations, Miss! I knew the Alpha would not make you wait long!” Dora and Hannah were by my side with large smiles taking up a good portion of their faces.“Miss, you need to see the awful look on April’s face. She has suddenly fallen ill. I love it!” Dora fist-bumped the air. “The Ceremony is going to be grand and glorious! An event that will impress even the Luna Queen!” Hannah’s eyes sparkled. “Oh, I can’t wait. It will be the talk of the kingdom for years. All those who have been running their mouths will finally shut up!” “I want to rest. You guys should leave,” I said to the girls who were pla
“If she’s bleeding then call a doctor. Why are you looking for me?” Cassius barked at the girls. “What can I do for a bleeding woman? Get out of my sight!” He was red in the face, having lost all his composure even before they brought their drama. “We – uh – she says – um –“ The girls did not know what to say and their eyes naturally fell on me. Since I was curious, I played the role of the kind and benevolent Luna. “Why is she bleeding? Where is she now? Take me to her,” I said to the girls whose eyes were pleading with me. “Where are you going?” Cassius caught my bicep as I made to walk past him. “We are having a conversation. Are you a doctor to attend to her yourself!?” His face twisted up absurdly. “It has nothing to do with you so let her be!” “Cassius, even if you do not feel anything hearing your mate is injured, I am to be the Luna of this pack.” I took a deep breath before I continued, showing I had run out of patience. “It would be strange for me to ignore a pack
CASSIUS’ POV April Arlington. What a bitch. I had thought I could find a use for her but she was not only useless, she was also a hindrance. I handled her with lenience since she was my mate and I naturally had a soft spot for her, but that spot was hardening. I could not let one silly omega ruin everything I had worked hard to achieve. ‘She is carrying my pup in her womb,’ my wolf growled. ‘You better think things through.’ My pup? That gave me more reason to end things with her. A pup with an omega? No, no way. Not when there was a woman with a strong bloodline beside me. I could not risk a litter of omegas when I had a woman who would give me alphas. ‘Cassius, this is our pup we’re talking about. Our blood!’ My wolf shouted. ‘If there really is a child in her belly, I will kill it,’ I vowed to my wolf. My words stunned him into silence so I continued. ‘You brought this on yourself. I told you never to touch her but you went against my words. This is your punishment.’
Cassius was up to something. For the past week, he went out frequently without telling anyone and he had dark circles around his eyes the few times I saw him. As his supposed Luna, his sudden unannounced outings meant I had to fill in for him.“The Alpha is not here today?” Elder Mark asked.I was now sitting at the head of a meeting that Cassius had called but did not attend as he was out today again. Sylvia informed me when the Elders gathered with no head so I happily waltzed in. “I apologize but the Alpha had more important things to attend to.” “More important things?” One of them growled. “I spent three hours on the road just to get here. What could be more important than meeting his elders?” “It’s okay,” Elder Mark rushed to appease. “Alpha Cassius has elevated Blood Crescent beyond my wildest dreams. He must be working a lot to get us to even greater heights.” Elder Mark was easily bought and thus not very influential so I paid him no mind. These men were the pillar
“Are you okay, Perse?” Sylvia said as she helped me get ready for bed. My hands shook uncontrollably and I could barely focus on what was happening around me. All that filled my mind were thoughts of Cassius and why he was actively looking for an assassin. Things had changed so did that mean this time he would try to get me away from him by using an assassin? Was he planning to assassinate me and my father? Why did he need an assassin? “Perse.” Sylvia’s cold hand touched my shoulder and I jumped in surprise, whirling around to glare at her. “Miss - what’s the matter? I don’t like how you look. What’s troubling you?” There was no way I could tell her so I just shook my head. If Cassius was planning to assassinate me, then I needed help. Who would help me? My first thought was my father but I had vowed to keep him out of my troubles. My next thought was Koa. Yes, Alpha Koa. He was to be my shield in this mess. I had to contact him for help but most of all, I had to leave this pla
I left home at the crack of dawn but even by then, Cassius had long since left the house. Today, I was meeting Alpha Koa at a coffee shop close to the palace because I knew I had to be more careful being around him.Today, I better disguised myself, going as far as to wear a red wig and plain clothes. The coffee shop was well known and thus had a lot of visitors but they also had private sitting areas which I hoped Alpha Koa had booked for this meeting.As usual, it was a long trip out of Blood Crescent to meet with Koa. The carriage was almost pulling to a stop when one of its wheels took off, nearly hitting the people coming up behind us. I hurriedly left the coachman to deal with it since I did not want to alert people of my presence.I walked the short distance to the coffee shop and searched around for Alpha Koa. I found him in a private sitting area, absentmindedly flipping through one of the books the coffee shop provided to their private sitting customer
I woke with a start. Darkness transformed to light in the blink of an eye and the first thing my mind zeroed on was the cold, then the throbbing in my head and finally, my parched throat. I sat upright and blinked. “Oh, you are awake.” Turning my head caused a lot of pain but I did it. I turned my head to see a man with dark hair and blue eyes staring at me. “Alpha Koa,” I called his name in a hoarse tone. “Where are my clothes?” “I took them off,” he responded with a nonchalant shrug of his shoulders. “Here, have some water.” He held out a leaky and tattered pouch of water to me. I raised my brows and he shrugged again. “I found this here and cleaned it as best as I could. Do you want it or not?” I grabbed it since my throat was too dry. It was disgusting but I held my breath and drank the remaining water that had not leaked out of the pouch. As soon as my throat felt better, I screamed at him. “You crazy guy! What did you do to me? Where are my clothes!?” I shouted but th