Arianna:
I got dressed, frowning as I caught sight of my pack’s mark on my left shoulder.
The last thing that I needed was for him to recognize where I came from, and though I knew that we rarely ever revealed who we were or our marks, I knew that as my father’s rival, that he could know what the tattoo stood for.
I shook my head at myself before running my fingers through my hair, throwing it over my shoulders as I let my curls cover my breast and shoulder. I was just going to find a way to lie about this as well, there was no true other way to do it, and this wasn’t something that I was going to back away from, not when I was this close to what I wanted to find.
I took a deep breath and walked out of the changing room, my eyes catching sight of the Alpha who was already inside the pool.
His eyes met mine and he smirked, eyeing me up and down for a second before nodding at me to come.
I jumped inside the water, diving in as I swam toward him, knowing that I had his full attention. I knew that it was what I had to do to get the keys. I had to distract him somehow, and to that, I had to use the one thing that a man like him would want to see in a woman.
My body…
It was something that I learned the hard way, but it made me who I was. And I wouldn’t change it for the world, especially when I knew that now, I had nothing to lose. If anything, I aimed to gain, and I was going to start with the key.
I rose in front of him, making sure to cover the tattoo with my hair before my eyes met his. He smiled and extended a hand for me to take, and I smiled, standing on the step that led to the stool of the bar.
“Boss,”
“Please, call me Dean.” He said and I blushed. The fact that I had to fight my wolf to ensure that she didn’t force me to give in to the mating bond was something that annoyed me, but I knew that it was something that I wouldn’t be able to help. The closer I was to him, the harder it would become, and that was one of the main reasons why I got the training that I had.
The one downside about my training was that no one, not even the man who assigned me to this, my father, knew that the man was my mate, and that was something that I intended to keep a secret. I didn’t need to lose the mission when I was this close to getting what I wanted, especially when I have been working my ass off, suppressing my instincts, and fighting my wolf off, for months.
The one thing that I could do was mask my scent, and that was something that I did well.
“Dean,” I said and he chuckled. I shook my head before he motioned for me to take a seat. His eyes met mine and I couldn’t help the smile that formed on my lips, fighting back the purr that my wolf almost forced me to let out at her mate’s soft side.
The mockery fate had for me was something that I didn’t like.
Despite the number of wolves that were around, and the Alphas that were around, the one person that I couldn’t stand most was my chosen one. How unlucky could I have been to be going through such a fate?
He walked behind the bar and I raised an eyebrow as he pulled out two glasses of wine for the two of us. I raised an eyebrow at the fact that he was the one serving me, and he smirked. “What are you doing?”
“You serve me almost every time I come to the bar, why is it any different?” He asked, and I smiled as he poured the two of us a drink.
He handed me mine and I took a sip of it before setting the glass down. “Thank you,”
The man nodded in response as I noticed the necklace around his neck. And I had to avoid looking at it as not to drag his attention to the thing, but the fact that it was as close as it was told me that I couldn’t lose it.
“I have to admit, I have never seen a man, especially not a boss, serving at his own bar or club, especially not to his employee. To say the least, I know for fact that you have many things working for you and you could have assigned one of them to do it.” I said and he raised an amused eyebrow before walking toward me. He sat on the stool that was by my side before taking a sip of his drink.
“Well, it seems like both of us have seen something that we’ve never seen for the first time.” He said and I raised an eyebrow as I waited for him to explain what he was referring to. “For instance, I never saw a woman bribing a man to drug his date’s drink only to stop and threaten him in the middle of the bar.”
“What?” I asked, my heart racing against my ribcage as I held my ground, careful not to say or do anything that could cause a stir. His eyes met mine and he raised an eyebrow before pulling his phone out of the bar’s drawer, showing me a video of myself, giving the man and woman their money outside the bar.
My chest ached and I found myself frowning when I felt like the air was growing tight around me as it became harder for me to breathe. The Alpha pulled out a small bottle and put it in front of me. “This is the antidote, and believe me, unless you choose to explain yourself, you are going to end up losing your life.”
“I didn’t do…”
“Now, now, your time is short. So, there is no use of using it on lying,” He said, stopping me. My chest rose and fell with each breath, and despite knowing that I was trained to be immune to the poison, I hated the agony that came with it.
“Who the fuck are you? And why the fucking hell are you here?” He asked, glaring at me. I held my breath, knowing that it was the way to get out of it. If the man wanted answers, then he wasn’t going to let me die. I knew that he wouldn’t.
My vision blurred and he cursed under his breath.
The last thing that I felt was him wrapping his arms around me as the bottle opened before everything went blank…
Dean:My heart dropped as my wolf called ‘Mate’ at the woman who was sitting, choking, in front of me.Her heartbeat slowed down, and I wrapped my arms around her before opening the antidote and forcing it down her throat.Her breathing evened in a minute, but she slept in my arms as I looked at her with keen and careful eyes. My body aching with the need to figure out how I wasn’t able to sense her.I lifted her in my arms and got out of the pool, carrying her inside, heading to my suite. There was no way that I was going to leave now that I knew that my mate was here, and all this time, for months, she was working for me.She laid her head on my chest, her wolf purring despite her being asleep and I couldn’t help but return the purrs as I ran my finger over her bare shoulder gently.“Boss?” Viktor asked, frowning in confusion as he took sight of me, processing what he was seeing. I had to fight back a growl, reminding myself that there were humans around, as I grew protective over t
Arianna:My heart dropped against my ribcage as I heard the Alpha’s phone ring. He put the call on speaker, wanting me to hear what the man was saying.“Boss?” The man asked through the other line, it was his beta. The man was taunting me and he knew that, and seeing the gun’s muzzle through the camera as it moved to follow the man and woman didn’t make this any better. If anything, I couldn’t help but feel more frightened than I already was. “Shoot…”“Don’t.” I said, stopping him. He smirked and raised an eyebrow as the beta waited for what his Alpha would say. “Please, don’t…”The Alpha stayed quiet for a few seconds, clearly challenging me, waiting to see what I was going to do. But at this point, I was stuck, at his mercy, waiting for his response until I found a way out of this mess that I put myself in. “Hold,” the Alpha said and I bit my bottom lip. The last thing that I wanted was to cost innocent people their lives. Regardless of who I was, my war was with the Alpha, they h
Dean:I wrapped my arms around the woman, my mate, who I knew was now flustered with the need of me touching her, pulling her toward the bed.Her heart raced against her ribcage, and I knew that it was going to take me a lot more self control than I would want not to mark her. But feeding my wolf’s hunger should do the trick for now. To say the least, he wouldn’t be too curious about how it felt like to be with his mate. That didn’t mean that I was going to mark her just yet.Her eyes met mine as I leaned in before connecting my lips with hers. Her heart raced against my ribcage and mine did too. The idea of being inside her was more tempting than ever, and seeing as she didn’t pull away, I could tell that she wanted this as much as I did.I ran my fingers over her waist as she wrapped her arms around my neck, pulling me closer. And pulling away, Arianna bit my bottom lip, gently pulling on it before I pushed my tongue inside her mouth, exploring and dominating her. She whimpered at t
Arianna:I woke up in my mate’s arms, his chest rising and falling with each breath that he took as the two of us lay naked in one another’s arms. His neck somewhat bruised because of the love bite that I gave him last night, and knowing that I had a few around my body, I knew to cover them before I head home. The last thing that I needed was for my father to see them. I smiled for a second before my chest ached, forcing me to remind myself why I was doing this in the first place. I was not here to mate, and that was something that I knew for fact. The man was my mission, no one even knew that he was my mate. And I intended to keep it that way. The last thing that I needed was for my father to find out that his enemy was his daughter’s mate. I slowly unwrapped his arm from around my waist as I got up, knowing that he wouldn’t be waking up any time soon. The man was in the presence of his mate and his wolf felt somewhat content upon feeling me around him. Thankfully, the man chose
Dean:I smiled as I opened my eyes, my body and wolf satisfied, for now, that we got to feel our mate. And the fact that I have known her for a while now only made it better. To say the least, I didn’t have to wait for her to accept me. I was no stranger to her and she wasn’t to me. However, it wasn’t long before I frowned, noticing that she wasn’t on the bed beside me. Her scent filled the room, but considering the fact that she was with me throughout the whole night and that we marked most of the suite, I wouldn’t have expected otherwise. Her heartbeat wasn’t heard and frowning, I turned to the bedside table to pick up my phone only to notice that my necklace wasn’t there. I let out a low growl of annoyance and shook my head as I pinched the bridge of my nose.I picked up my phone and called Viktor, my chest aching as I knew that she not only failed the test that I put for her, but that she, my mate, turned out to be a liar. “Alpha?” Viktor asked, and I didn’t have to ask to kno
Arianna: I entered the pack’s grounds, my chest aching as I walked through, knowing that this might be the last time that I have been here. At least, for a long while. The fact that I escaped the Alpha is miraculous enough, me reaching the house was something that I was thankful for. “You slept out again,” my step mother, Mariana, said from behind me. I took a deep breath and turned around to face her, giving her the best smug sarcastic smile that I could muster. The last thing that I needed right now was to get in trouble with her. The woman was an ass alone, and that was something that I didn’t want to get involved in, at least, not for now. “Hello to you too, Mariana.” “Luna,” she said, correcting me. Her fake blonde hair was tied in a messy bun over her head and her sweaty face told me that she was training for the first time in months. The woman hasn’t been moving a muscle for ages now, and though I never really understood the reason, I never bothered to ask the reason. Plus,
Dean:“Aren’t we going to at least…?”“She is not worth it,” I said, glaring at the glass that was in front of me, stopping Viktor from asking what he wanted. “Whoever she was working for is skilled. Not only did they give her a fake identity, she may be going with her real name, I would put that as a one percent possibility, but they managed to breach through all the cameras until they were sure that we would be losing her.”The fact that she was my mate made me not want to harm her, and for that, I was choosing to leave without bothering to wait and find her. “She didn’t get what she wanted in the end, and I doubt that she would have the guts to appear in front of me even if she does find out that it wasn’t what she was looking for.Viktor nodded in understanding, and I ran my finger over the glass for a second before turning my attention to the man. “I want to find out who hired her though, but that can be done when we’re back home. Staying in this place is something that I no long
Arianna: I frowned as my sick stomach woke me up, causing me to run to the bathroom to empty it. I took a deep breath and gripped onto the sides of the toilet seat for a second, heaving in a few heavy breaths before rising to my feet and cleaning the mess before turning to the mirror. My heart raced and I shook my head as I ran my fingers through my hair before washing my face. The exhaustion of this sickness has been overwhelming me to an annoying point, and the thing was, I didn’t even understand what was making me sick. Hell, even the smell of normal herbs that I would normally use to cook were now starting to annoy me. I brushed my teeth and shook my head at myself before walking out of the bathroom, wanting to head down to the dining room. The last thing that I needed was to have Mariana on my head today. The woman has been on her heels to ensure finding something that would make dad kick me out of the pack. Thankfully, my father was busier than to do so, but I knew that if s