تسجيل الدخولCatriona’s POVA scream rips from my throat and then the world tilts- up is down and I’m rolling until my head hits something hard and I black out.When I wake up, I’m disoriented for a second but the entire world has gone to shit. Something hit our carriage at full force and we have been rammed off the road. I’m on my back, a little disoriented and the afternoon sun is on my face. “Hela?” I call and she stirs beside me. “What the fuck was that?” She asks and glances at me then her eyes widen. “Oh goddess, you’re bleeding.”“What?” I ask and pull myself up to a sitting position and that’s when I see my leg. A sharp metal is now lodged in my thigh and my blood is everywhere. My vision swoops and I’m suddenly swamped with pain.“Fuck.” I grit out. “It’s okay.” She says hurriedly. “You’ll be fine, I’ve got you.”Peony stirs from inside the carriage while Hela carries me off the floor. “Oh goddess, is she fine?” Peony asks which is a rhetorical question but I give her a smile anyway.
Catriona’s POV“You really don’t have to.” Peony says for the umpteenth time. “Oh shush, I’m coming with you and that’s final.” I reply. “I’ve been cooped up for way too long.”“Well, what does that have to do with me?” Hela grumbles dourly. “You know I hate going to the market.”“Well, you need alot of things for starters. Change of clothes, change of shoes, a perfume won’t be bad either. The change of environment will be good for you.”“Did you just casually put it out there that I reek?” Hela asks. “Well, not reek particularly.” I reply. “But a softer scent won’t be a bad look on you at all.” I correct. “You impertinent rascal.” She tries to punch my arm and I dance away from her reach thanks to years of practice. A casual punch from Hela can take my arm out for days. “Get back here.” She snarls and chases after me and I grab Peony, shoving her between us as we run circles around her. “Girls, decorum.” She calls and I hide behind her. “Tell her that. She’s the one chasing me
Catriona’s POV“Catriona!” Alpha Kael’s voice pierces through the sound of our screams and we both freeze. “What are you doing?”I release Nyra’s hair and have to take a moment to untangle my fingers from them. She scrambles up as soon as she is free, looking disheveled as hell as she runs to stand beside him. “She has gone mad!” Nyra accuses. “She just attacked me. Kael! She’s trying to fucking kill me!” She says and I laugh. “If you’re going to lie, at least make it believable.” I say, climbing to my feet. “I’m wolfless and you’re not. Which of us has the capacity to kill the other?”“Catriona, you know she’s sick.” Alpha Kael’s growls, his hand on her elbow as he pulls her closer as if to shield her with his body. “She’s still recovering. How could you?”The sight of his hand on her elbow and his words send me into such a rage that my vision darkens. “She is sick?” I ask. “So what? I’m automatically at fault because I’m the trouble maker? Are you just going to take her side wit
Catriona's POV“We cannot allow this to go unanswered.” Irona, one of the Council women says passionately, practically vibrating with anger. “We must retaliate and we must do it now.”“I agree with Irona.” Fenix, another council member says. “This is a test of our strength and we have showed them that we are not invincible.”“I heard the traitor has not mentioned accomplices. What are the odds that he is the only man that that wretched alpha somehow recruited to working for him?” Irons asks. “No doubt there are many more.” The others mutter. It has been like this for the most part of the hour-long meeting, each person taking time to express their displeasure over the recent happenings. Alpha Kael sits at the head of the table with Lucian beside him as usual, and he listens quietly as everyone takes turns dropping their hot-takes. “He has gotten too bold.” Council-man Walder agrees. “If we don’t relaliate, then they will do something like this again. They were here in the keep for
Catriona's POVThe touch of his lips on mine is what I imagine it will feel like if another world crashes into ours. It is chaos, unbridled energy that snatches my senses out of me and throws it into the wind. I sink my nails into his corded shoulders and kiss him back like he's water and I'm a whole fucking desert. His lips are shockingly soft, his tongue a velvet stroke that coaxes a yawning hunger wide in the pit of my stomach. As suddenly as he started, he pulls back and I cry out in protest. He takes a step back like I may have burned him. "Kael." I whisper, needing his taste and his touch back but he shakes his head to clear it and looks around. "We must head back." He says. "I'll send a crew to clean this up."He's pulling back, I can feel it. It's like there is a tall fucking wall he has shoved between us once again, and that rare ungraded moment between us is being buried under tons of denial. "I didn’t imagine it right?" I ask and he glances at me. "I'm your mate, your
Catriona’s POVI don’t even scrram as I go down, I feel like it was just too shocking though I should have expected it. I crash down and scramble to my knees then freeze as I come eye to eye with the rogue. I dare not look away from it, not as I slowly try to reach a dagger with the most minuscule movements. There’s trees and branches and the warmth of a dead werewolf underneath me, the bodies of several more around me but I keep my eyes on the only threat. There’s satisfaction in its canine eyes and the lips peel back from ridiculously sharp teeth and it snarls. When it springs forward, I grab the first thing that gets to my hand- a branch and swing with all my strength while scrambling out of its path. “Kael!” I yell, scrambling to put the broken tree between us. My branch hit its eye and it shakes off the effects and zeroes in on me again and it feels I’m only delaying my inevitable end. I flick my wrist and grab a dagger coated with wolfsbane and let it fly. It thunks into its







