"So we finally met," his hoarsely rough voice penetrated her ears whereas his amber eyes remained glued with her grey ones. His burly physique and tall frame resonated authority, dominance but most importantly cruelty. His darkened aura overshedded the darkness prevailing in that gloomy cell. His gaze keenly stared at her.
"What an honour to meet you, Princess Alexandria," Aereza watched an insolent smirk crept on his chiselled face as he uttered those words to her. So they all were mistaking her for Princess Alexandria. Aereza made no efforts to correct his mistake because that was least of her concern at that moment.
She witnessed his eyes took a brief overview of her whole body which turned his grin more iniquitous and cunning. Aereza clenched her jaw when his gaze again collided against her orbs.
"So, will Princess Alexandria Wilderwood do me the pleasure by telling me what she was doing in my territory at this time of the night?"his tone held amusement as he asked her. He had expected to see fear in her face but there was none. She was standing there, peering at him, fearlessly. Interesting….a fearless intruder. Crossing his burly arms against his muscular broadened chest, he took just a step closer in her direction which turned her alert.
"Does the Alpha of Emerald Stone pack have decided to send his daughter to spy on me?" He taunted her, grinning but she didn't open her mouth for once. Her silence made him take his steps further closer in her direction while uttering
"I am expecting an answer, Princess," his feet halted just before her. He waited for her to flinch or back away from him but she chose to be in her place. Her braveness was entrancing him to draw more closer to her.
"I am not a very patient man, bellissima…" he took his face a little nearer to her. His warm breathing tickled her lips.(Gorgeous)
"So you better open this beautiful mouth of yours or I will have to make it speak on my own," his tender voice laced with a deadly warning. They both knew how brutally ruthless he and his ways were.
Aereza didn't even think about trailing her eyes away from him because they had finally seen the face of that person, that person whose name was haunting her from the past 9 years like an evil shadow. Every inch of her existence was writhing in wrath. Her hands were painfully aching to tear his body and tainted them with his blood. Her eyes needed to witness him begging in front of her for mercy, just like that way she had witnessed her sister begging for mercy to those monsters whom he had sent.
She felt tears gathering in the back of her eyes but she tightened her jaw violently in order to hold them back. Her breathing hardened. His sharp eyes successfully caught that tremendous amount of hatred flaming in her gaze for him. It was not something normal. He clearly understood that her hatred for him was screaming for his blood but the question here was why? What had he done to this bewitching intruder of his to receive so much hatred from her? The curiosity to know its answer filled him with something interesting and content.
"Didn't your father teach you that …" he leaned closer to her ear and completed his words.
"We shouldn't go out all alone in the middle of the night because there is always someone in the darkness waiting for us to hurt and harm us, bellissima," his voice turned husky and sensual. He was not someone to be known for treating his enemies with calmness or tenderness but he could feel this enemy of his was a bit special from the others.
"A princess shouldn't be out of her castle at this time. She could ended up getting hunted with some predators," he sniggered
Aereza felt him lightly brushing his lips against her ears. Her fists balled aggressively and she finally lost it when she noticed him lifting his hand to touch her. She ended up trying to hit him with her fist but before she could even touch him, she felt his palm grabbing her neck and within a blink of an eye, she found herself caged between him and the nearby wall.
Slamming her against the wall, he towered over her. Darren peered into her enraged silver eyes and for a split second, he felt like getting drowned into them deeper. His whole body shuddered as soon as he felt her soft skin captured in between his rugged palm. Her closeness was spellbinding him. He could feel the beat of his rigid heart pacing. What was happening? Was she a witch who was casting some kind of spell on him? Her pale grey eyes were looking like the epitome of serenity. She had a bewitching smell of rosemary and magnolia. For a brief moment, he forgot about every single thing because his inner beast was yelling at him to get more and more close to her. He closed his eyes and breathed into her intoxicated smell which made his wolf, THUNDER, roar that thing inside his head ……MATE…
Aereza watched him snapping his eyes open and suddenly that playfulness in his eyes got replaced with something malicious and dark. He squeezed her neck in a very painful grip, almost blocking her air.
"Who are you?" His baritone turned darker as he questioned her. His glowing amber orbs were now flashing like burning balls of fire. Her face reddened due to lack of air.
"Who the fuck you are? " He growled, dangerously. His eyes started flashing crimson. He had almost blocked her air but Aereza was quick to tackle the situation. She injected that wolfsbane in his neck which she had secretly taken out from her pocket.
She watched him clenching his jaw, as that wolfsbane started doing its work on him. His grip started loosening around her neck but his aura turned even more deadly and furious now but she knew she was in control there now. Shoving him away from her with a forceful push, she glowered at him.
His feet trembled as he felt like his senses were slipping away. The stinging sensation on his neck made him aware that she had injected him with something and he was sure it was a wolfsbane ... .a kind of thing which got used to turn werewolves unconscious.
"We will meet again, Venzor…." He heard her voice finally but it came as a faint whisper for his ear because his senses had started turning numb. He fell on the ground and watched his mate running away from there before he closed his eyes and lost his consciousness.
"Alpha….." Darren regained his senses and found himself guarded with his pack members and Beta, Rowan. He hurriedly got up on his feet and felt a throbbing headache but ignoring it, he roamed his eyes everywhere in that cell in search of her.
"Where is she?" He shouted like a caged animal. The fucking audacity of her. She came to his territory and dared to inject him with that fucking wolfsbane, but how could he get so careless to let her do it? The answer was very simple: he already knew that it was the fucking mate bond which had turned him reckless in front of her. She was his destined mate and he had felt it as soon as he touched her and smelt her. It was her all this time. HIS MATE….
Receiving no replies from his guards and watching their lowered heads, he got his answer. She escaped. She fucking escaped. For the first time in his life, someone had defeated him so smartly and bravely but he would not let it slip so easily?
Darren roared, shuddering all those guards in pure terror.
"Get ready to attack on the Emerald Stone Pack. I fucking want her in front of me before the sun will set tommorow," he commanded, enraged. His guards immediately nodded at his order.
Placing his hand on his neck where he could still feel that stinging sensation of that wolfsbane which she had injected in him, Darren dug his nails there, increasing the pain more. Playing this game with that beautiful intruder of his would be so much fun and he was so ready for it. Now he wanted nothing but her entire submission in front of her and he would make her do it at any fucking cost.
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Alexandria was pacing here and there in her chamber. Her heart was pounding inside her chest. She had reached the castle a couple of hours ago but Aereza had still not come back. Alexandria couldn't hold back her anxious thoughts. She was grateful no one knew in the castle that she had escaped to go to that lavender valley and she successfully reached her chamber without getting caught by anyone as the invisibility potion's effect only ended after she entered her back her chamber but what if anything happened to Aereza? What would she answer his father? He had warned her not to go there but she didn't listen to him and ended up going there and getting caught by those men and now just because of her, Aereza's life was in danger.
Dashing towards the open window of her chamber, Alexandria looked outside but there was no sign of Aereza. The night was almost on the edge of getting ended and the first ray of morning would bring countless troubles for her if Aereza didn't come back on time and she knew that really well.
The sound of the door opening made Alexandria snap her head towards it. Her eyes widened, witnessing that person entering inside.
"Aereza…." She uttered, shocked, before running towards her. Alexandria hugged Aereza tightly.
"Oh….my…. I am so glad you are finally here," she stated after breaking the hug. Aereza didn't say anything.
"You didn't tell anyone about my escape, right?" She asked her. Aereza shook her head before replying
"No, I haven't but I am going to tell about all of this Alpha Alanso,"
Her answer enlarged Alexandria's gaze. Fear washed over her.
"No, you couldn't do this, Aereza," she shook her head.
"You know that father will get so angry with me if he got to know about this. Please don't do this," she requested.
"But, Princess, if we didn't tell him then it might cause a very horrendous trouble for our entire pack," Aereza uttered. She knew that after her encounter with him, he was not going to let her away so easily. He believed that she was Princess Alexandria, so he might end up hurting their pack in order to reach her and she couldn't let him harm their pack members which included countless innocent lives.
"Please, Aereza….try to understand. At least, don't tell him about this now," Alexandria grabbed Aereza's hand. She looked at her with her pleading eyes.
"You know that tomorrow is one of the biggest days of my life but if you told about all of this to father now then it would get ruined," Alexandria said. Tomorrow was her mating ceremony. She was getting mated to the Alpha King Ralph, the Alpha of Dusk Walkers Pack. He was a very good friend of her father and their mating was an alliance to draw more power to both the packs.
"But, Princess…."
"Please, Aereza…. don't ruin my big day. At least wait for the ceremony to end. After that, you can tell father everything but not now, please……"
Aereza exhaled a heavy breath and finally accepted her pleading. She was right, it was a very big day for Alexandria, so she shouldn't ruin it. What if she does believe in love or mates, it doesn't mean others don't deserve it or worth it to be happy by feeling and celebrating it.
She nodded at Alexandria, making her smile. Alexandria hugged Aereza.
"Thank you so much,"
Aereza heard Alexandria uttering but her grey eyes were peering at that lamp burning over a table. Its fire made her recall those blazing amber orbs which made Aereza dig her nails in her palms. She knew it was not the last time she had seen them because she knew she was going to face them very soon but she didn't know it would be so soon.
"We are ready to attack and yes, tomorrow is Princess Alexandria's mating ceremony. She is getting mated to the Alpha King of Dusk Walkers Pack," Darren's Beta, Rowan, informed. He noticed his Alpha's jaw clenching as soon as he uttered those words to him.
Darren's flaming orbs continued to gaze at that flame of that igniting lamp in front of him which made him remember that inferno of hatred burning in those celestial pale grey spheres of hers for him. So his mate was getting mated to another man…
Rowan witnessed a barbaric smirk washing over that 32 years old Alpha King's face. Darren's mouth escaped those words before his palm extinguishing the burning flame of that lamp by clutching it in between his bare palm.
"I think I need to give her my blessings on her mating ceremony,"
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The next morning, Aereza reached that hut where she used to live with her grandmother Wren. Her home, the only place where she could afford to fall down her rigid walls of bravery and courage. The hut was made up of wood and mud. The place was very small but it was big enough for Aereza to breathe in relief unlike the rest of the whole world. She entered the hut and saw her grandmother cleaning the floor. "Grandma," she uttered in her displeased tone. Wren looked at the door and she finally exhaled a breath of calmness by watching Aereza standing there in front of her completely alright. Whenever Aereza would step out of that door, Wren always used to feel that terrifying fear of something wrong happening to her. Although she had full trust in Aereza's fighting skills and sharp mind, Wren still felt that fear for her granddaughter because she knew how immoral and brutal the outside world was. What brutality this world had done to her granddaughter, Ivory, it was still refresh in her
"That witch Sirena cursed you," A shiver ran down Aereza's spine when she heard those words escaping from her mouth. She hurriedly got up and looked at her grandmother, startled. Wren heaved a sigh before nodding."She cursed you that you will feel that same pain which she had felt that day of losing her love, her mate because of your father," Wren said. Aereza just gazed at her."And her curse was that the day your mate will mark you, you would have to watch your mate dying in front of your own eyes. The day you will get marked by your mate, you will turn mateless," For a brief moment, Aereza felt like everything around her turned numb. A sudden kind of aching started throbbing inside her. She didn't know where it was hurting her but it was hurting her real bad. Although, she had never even thought about having her mate beside her, even in her dreams but still, she couldn't control that pain ripping her existence apart after knowing that even if someday, she would find her mate, sh
Aereza watched him throw those ripped parts of body on the ground and then he wiped that blood on his face with the back of his arm like it was not someone's blood but his sweat. All this while his eyes didn't get away from her face for a single second, neither she looked away from him. Tilting his head a bit and maintaining that wicked smirk on his face, Darren's feet tried to make their way towards her. By peering into those silver balls, he walked towards her. He had just taken a couple of steps when someone came in front of him, blocking his view. Darren snapped his gaze towards that blockage and found the Alpha of Emerald Stone Pack standing before him. His jaw clenched in pure rage which made his palms start shifting into sharp and callous claws of his beast so that he could tear him apart because now nothing could keep her away from him. He was just about to attack him but stopped when Alanso got on his knees and lowered his head in front of him."We are accepting our defeat,
Leaning against the headboard of the bed and sipping from his glass of liquor, Darren was patiently waiting for the arrival of that grey-eyed owner. He had called for her and now both, he and his wolf, Thunder, they both were wanting her presence in front of them as soon as possible, especially his wolf, he was longing to have his mate closer to him but instead of getting pleasured with her intoxicated presence, Darren saw his beta, Rowan, entering into the chamber. Darren's displeased gaze told Rowan that he was not waiting for his arrival and he knew exactly for whose arrival he was waiting there. "She has left the castle for her home," he informed Darren which made Darren lift his one brow. "Aereza Monroye lives with her grandmother. She doesn't live here," Darren took another sip from his glass and silently heard his beta. "Should I send someone to take her here to present her in front of you?" He asked which made Darren smirk viciously. Rowan saw him shaking his head in a n
"This is your chamber," hearing the maid, Aereza stepped inside the chamber. She wandered her eyes everywhere and caught herself getting mesmerised with the ethereal beauty of that chamber because she could not just help it after watching that place. Different kinds of carvings were encrusted in the walls and ceiling of that chamber. It was neither very big nor too small. It was not reeking of royalty but it had a beautiful touch of serenity. Perfect for someone like her to live who hated overly luxuries of living. That chamber had a couple of big windows and from one of them, the gleaming light of the moon was straight coming inside through it and was falling on the bed which was placed in the head of that chamber. A dimmed chandelier was burning just above and in the middle of the bed, enhancing the captivating aura of that chamber room. It was perfect…. perfect for fulfilling her unthinkable needs. Aereza felt like this chamber had been made only with the purpose of completing he
After he left from that rose garden, leaving her alone, Aereza aggressively wiped her mouth with the back of her sleeves and then looked for her sword. She found it laying on the ground. Dashing towards it, Aereza kneeled down and grabbed it. His crimson blood had stained its edge completely. Gritting her teeth, Aereza got up on her feet and stormed inside her chamber through that door from which she had come outside. Entering inside that chamber, Aereza started cleaning her sword with her clothes. His blood disgusted her. She loathed it. She hated his closeness. She despised his very existence. Her thoughts turned so aggressive that it stopped her other senses from working. She started cleaning the sword with her bare hands. She just wanted to wipe away each and every drop of his blood. Aereza vigorously started rubbing the sword and ended up piercing her hand with it. A hiss escaped from her mouth as soon as she felt that sharp stinging sensation on her palm. Aereza looked at her
After taking a relaxing bath and cleaning herself, Aereza stepped out of that pool but then she remembered she had not taken her clothes with her to this bathhouse and her previous clothes were not in a condition to get worn again without getting washed first because they were reeking of her sweat and his blood and after a lot of efforts, she had gotten rid of his blood stains from her skin, so she was not going to wear those dirty clothes again without washing them.She looked here and there for something to cover herself and found a black colour cloth placed on a table which she assumed was there to dry oneself with it after taking a bath. Aereza grabbed that cloth and unwrapped it. It was fortunately big enough for her to cover her naked body with it. She draped that cloth around her wet naked body and it decently covered her from her bosoms to slightly below her knees. She sighed and tugged her wet brown strands behind her ear. Her hair was dripping water just like the rest of he
He started licking the place of her mark with his tongue, making her shudder. Aereza felt his other palm cupping her bare core. In pure panic, Aereza looked around for something to save herself from him. Her eyes caught a lamp stand which was placed on a table beside the bed. Stretching her hand, she grabbed that lamp stand and when she felt his canines grazing against her skin, she hitted the back of his head with that lamp stand as hard as she could. She heard him loudly growling in pain and it ached something inside her. That same foreign sensation which started emerging deep from her inside after hearing his painful growl but no, all of this was wrong. She could not let him harm her like that. Aereza again hitted him with that lamp stand with even more ferocity this time and on that same exact place on his head. He slightly pulled back and looked into her glossy eyes. Blood started dripping from all over his head and fell on her face. Aereza noticed his glowering orbs got fill