~Nyla~
"Will you shut the fuck up and sob somewhere in the hallways? Some of us have an early morning shift!" Sadie yelled at me the first night we shared the room.
"Wake up, princess. Would you like some breakfast in your bed?" She threw the leftover water from her water bottle on my sleepy face when I felt tired and slept in.
I was counting down days to the next full moon. Life as a maid sucked, but I wouldn't have minded it so much if they told me where my baby was. My biggest complaint wasn't even the baby.
It was the longing I felt for my nemesis. He never bothered me after strapping me to my seat in the chopper. It was as if he was avoiding me.
I should be glad while perfecting my plan. What was I doing instead? I was thinking about him.
My nights were mostly filled with tears, thinking about my little girl and wondering if she was okay. While my new mate successfully ignored me for days, something about him told me she was being taken care of. If only he told me where she was.
Instead of thinking just about my baby, I was actually thinking about him too, wondering if he was fucking his chosen mate or some other woman.
Damn this stupid mate bond!
All the feelings of attraction and lust I felt for Wyatt were now for this enemy. The only things I still felt for my dead husband were love and pain.
I wanted to see Kian. Working solely in the kitchens had put me in dark about the happenings in the rest of the place. I observed the warriors get trained from afar, saw beautifully dressed women of the pack attend some events, come back at night, also watched some lustful man come and grab a woman, and drag her with him to his room as if they had a dearth of sex slaves.
No man ever bothered me. I guess my mate made sure of that by giving me such dull, loose-fitting clothes that hid my curves. I cut my long wavy hair when I was mourning Wyatt. Covered in sweat and dish soap, I probably looked filthy and undesirable to any man who laid his eyes on me.
Olivia and I became friends, and she often told me stories about her life before as a gamma's wife and before that when she was looking for her mate. I also shared my story with her but replaced Wyatt's name with Vance's everywhere. I think I found myself a new Kylee.
Sadie was a different case. No matter how unnoticeable I looked, she couldn't stand my presence in the shared room or the kitchen. She was mean with her lame sense of humor and was always looking for a way to bully me.
I wasn't used to such back-breaking work and wanted to catch a break now and then. But it was always her or the housekeeper who pushed me back to doing the dishes or mopping the floors.
Olivia came to my rescue, and I remained quiet most of the time, looking as weak and helpless as possible without ever getting into any arguments. Maintaining a low profile was necessary.
With such a big estate and so many chores in the kitchens, I should pass out the minute I hit the bed. But it was no bed. A thin mattress that shifted under my weight. And the exhaustion didn't bring sleep; it brought back memories of good days with loved ones... lost ones.
I missed the home that Wyatt gave me. I missed the home that Maya went back to. But I couldn't leave without getting hold of my baby and testing if she could survive in my world. More importantly, I needed my revenge to sleep peacefully at night.
One morning, Sadie came to me with a smile plastered on her face. I should know she was up to no good but when she said she saw a wet nurse with a baby that looked only weeks old, my heartbeat spiked up and I threw caution to the air.
"Where? Please take me there." I washed my hands and dried them against my baggy pants and followed her.
"Your eyes glow golden when in the sun. They are beautiful." Was this really Sadie? Giving me compliments? Someone must have hit her with a saucepan.
"Thank you. I love your eyes too, especially the subtle blue ring." She did have beautiful greyish blue eyes which tilted upwards in the corner.
I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw her leading me into the forest. She could kill me, and no one would know what happened in the woods.
"I'll get Olivia," I told her and turned back while we were still close to the warriors who were training in the grounds nearby.
"The shack you see in the clearing is her place. Don't blame me if she leaves."
The wood house she pointed to was quite close and I could hear some cries, but they didn't seem like the cries of a baby. There were people in there, so what harm in peeping in and checking if there was indeed a wet nurse with a baby.
I took one look back at the warriors to see if my mate was anywhere around. If he was, he could smell me, but I couldn't.
"Stop ogling at them shirtless men! Where are your priorities, jeez!" Sadie sniggered while I came back to my senses.
What the hell was I doing? Looking for Kian when my baby could be only a few feet away. I followed Sadie and the minute we reached the small wooden structure, she opened the door without knocking and pushed me in.
"Will this one do?" She asked in a mocking tone and shut the door.
I froze at what I saw. A werewolf in heat. Wyatt had told me: regardless of if werewolves had a mate or not, they all go into heat from time to time. It could be once every few months or never for some.
They can produce pups only with their mates; it can be true mates, second chance mates, or chosen mates. But when in heat, many men slept around with several she-wolves until they were satiated.
I remembered Wyatt's words as if he spoke them just yesterday. "It was very difficult when I was looking for you and getting hopeless. Going into heat was terrible then. I killed rogues and trespassers with no control over my temper. It helped me calm down because I wanted to save myself for you."
The important thing he stressed was that I should run when I saw any male wolf in heat. This naked man in front of me had three women, but his eyes clouded with more lust when he saw me. Pushing the girl between his legs away, he got off the bed as I unlocked the door to escape.
He was too fast for me and caged me against the double oak door and touched my nape with a menacing smile on his face. I punched him in the face and kneed him at the same time to buy a few seconds to unlock the door.
He pushed me to the floor and climbed on me, tearing my loose T-shirt and running his filthy hand over my collarbone to push my shirt down. I screamed for help and bit the back of his hand really hard, but he didn't flinch.
Wrapping his palm around my throat while pinning my arms over my head with his other hand, he lowered his face to kiss me.
"KIAN!"
He was taken aback by surprise while the other women gasped. Yes, I called their stupid alpha by his name. That's what came out of my mouth, and I didn't think twice about what they would assume. They should carry on with their sex party without me, but this disgusting man won't let me move.
Thinking that I took their alpha's name just to scare him, he pushed me down again when I tried to sit up. A loud growl erupted from outside the shack. I thought we were experiencing an earthquake before the door went down.
A giant wolf with metallic black fur pounced on the man on top of me and ripped his throat off the next moment. I should be scared of the violence and blood that splashed on my face, but instead, I was mesmerized by the blue hue on that beautiful black fur that appeared when the wolf moved.
The naked she-wolves got up screaming while Kian's wolf seemed mad at me. His eyes were fixated on my torn shirt.
"It's not my fault. I didn't ask him to rip it." I was feeling equally mad at him for showing up only now when I was yearning to see him all these days. And he shows up in his wolf form.
There was something terribly wrong with me. I wanted to stroke his beautiful fur and wrap my arms around him. I'll be damned if he could sense my thoughts.
A few men from the training grounds appeared when they heard the commotion, but they stood back because of my mate's fierce growl. I wasn't naked or something that he was going so crazy with his possessive ass.
As if they all got a mind link from him to scram, they cleared the scene, leaving us alone. I was still sitting on the floor as his wolf strode towards me.
My throat went dry when he came close.
He is my enemy. He killed Wyatt. He has to die.
He is my enemy...
~Nyla~ My breath hitched, and I closed my eyes, not wanting to get affected by his proximity. Electricity surged through my body when I felt his wolf's rough tongue lick my neck. So he was mad about the finger marks left by that lusty man. My eyes remained shut, enjoying the feel of his fur against my thighs and the soothing way he ran his tongue over my skin. I thought I could feel him apologize to me for not coming to my rescue any earlier. He stopped suddenly when he realized I could sense his thoughts. If I was a human, I obviously shouldn't know what my mate was thinking. But I knew everything Wyatt was thinking when he touched me. My kind mostly lived in their own world and we didn't have this mate concept. Occasionally, the Moon Goddess blesses us with a mate. In my case, two mates. When we are chosen to spend our life as a werewolf's mate, we get to keep a moonstone that lets us remain in human form. I have to rejuvenate the pendant's
~Nyla~ "What do you want?" He almost snapped at me even before looking at me. Seriously? Does he expect me to think that big black wolf was some stray? His wolf probably isn't an arrogant ass like him. Where the hell was he going? He put on a jacket and was now strapping a watch on. How could someone look so sinfully sexy? He oozed such dominance in that perfectly tailored suit and a concrete jaw under a dark grainy stubble. No one should be allowed to look so hot! An earthy scent swirled around him as I moved closer. The mate bond was playing tricks on my mind again. My presence and scent should affect him, and being the human he thinks I am, I should be clueless. But here he was, standing with his back facing me, so indifferent while looking into the mirror and working up flawlessly coiffed hair. "I want my baby." "I told you she will live." "Why can't I have her? She's mine after all." "Didn't you
~Nyla~I wanted to run back to my room as soon as possible, feeling stupid for making myself so obvious to him. Where did the feelings of anger and hatred for him go? They were there all right, but I only felt pain and a sense of betrayal right now.Wiping my tears, I was about to turn around the corner when Kian wrapped his arms around me from behind. I grabbed on his hands, trying to free myself, but he lifted me up like I weighed nothing and carried me to his room."Let me go! Don't touch me, you asshole! I hate you."He ignored my screams and walked into his room with me hanging to the side, kicking him and holding onto the walls near the doorway. The woman he was going to fuck was still there, looking confused as he threw her floral top at her."Out! Shut the door."He slammed me into the mattress and firmly pressed his body against me. A wave of heat flushed through my body as I felt his erection graze against my stomach. My nerv
~Kian~I heard Nyla shut the door and secure the deadbolt as I walked back to my room.She has been locking her room pretty secure ever since the night I sneaked in after 2 AM to lie down next to her. I expected her to be tired and passed out completely, but she seemed to know about my intrusion that night. So glad she never confronted me about it.I'm doing a lot of stupid things these days and hoping no one notices the change in me. My wolf is completely out of control since the day I met her. I forgot how to fucking think when I first saw her. It has been a while that my heart beats so fast for someone.Seeing her cry twisted my stomach. I'm very well aware of the pain that comes when the mate bond breaks and the fact that I was the one to cause all that pain made me loathe my existence.When she asked me to spare her friend, I obeyed her without thinking. She is trouble for sure.My beta won't stop asking why I let her friend go wh
~Kian~ The scent of rain and raspberries filled my senses as soon as I turned the corner to reach Nyla's room. I was sure I heard her lock the door last night, but it was ajar right now. She might have woken up a few times to feed the baby. Why leave the door open? I pushed it further open, feeling slightly anxious about her going missing, even when her scent was strong. Seeing her safe and asleep so peacefully, a sudden sense of euphoric bliss washed over me. She had her dainty arms wrapped around her baby in a protective grip as the baby latched onto her breast and sucked happily. She must be exhausted to have fallen asleep in the middle of feeding, with the door open like that. I walked closer to get a better look at her face. Unless I was kissing her senseless, her crescent-shaped eyebrows were always scrunched whenever she saw me. With sweeping eyelashes, a cute button nose, and puffy heart-shaped lips, her sleeping face was urging me to ra
~Nyla~I rubbed my eyes wearily when I heard Ren knock on the door to bring some breakfast for me. Why doesn't this Kian let me sleep in or leave me alone?I got no time to rejuvenate my pendant's energy because the full moon didn't rise until a little before five in the morning. Sadie was a petty creature who didn't deserve my energy to be wasted on, but her meddlesome attitude turned out to be a pain when I tried to get Adalyn to step outdoors. I had no intentions to take her down, but I had to.Add Ren to the mix, and I thought I almost lost my chance this month. Not wanting to kill Ren, I had to muddle her memories. Sadie hated me and wouldn't trust me at all, so it was not possible to confuse her.I already expected Adalyn to put up a tough fight because she seemed to be as strong as Maya. Maya was unmatchable on full moon nights, of course, while these she-wolves didn't have any such extra special powers.What came as a nasty surprise t
~Nyla~ I literally had to push Kian out of the door before getting some decent rest. Not sure where he got this idea that the best way to protect me was by staying stuck to me all day. I slept almost all day after kicking him out; long naps before and after lunch to recover from the over-exhaustion. Ari was my alarm clock, and we both slept once she was fed. After stepping out under the full moon and feeling alive for a little bit in the morning, staying in bed all day was suffocating now. I unlocked the door to step into the balcony and have some coffee before getting dressed for the stupid ceremony. The moment I opened the door, I ran straight into the muscled back of some burly man dressed in all black. I was short by no means, but this guy made me feel like a Tyrion. He turned around to glare at me with a hardened face while I rubbed my nose. His gaze and frown morphed into something less scary once he saw me. I heard another deep vo
~Nyla~"Werewolf ceremonies are a beautiful thing, isn't it? I get goosebumps all the time no matter how many I have attended already." I heard a familiar voice and was delighted to see Olivia."Livi! I have missed you! Especially our conversations over coffee." I didn't even get a chance to say bye to her when moving to Kian's floor."Oh, wow! You look stunning. But why in the world do you need sunglasses when it's already dark out here?"I have pink eye. Didn't want to give it to you all.""Oh no! I hope you are keeping well. I miss you every day. With Sadie gone, I feel quite alone in the room. Is he treating you okay?"My cheeks turned red as if I have been shacking up with Kian day and night. It was only then that I noticed the pool of moisture between my legs.It definitely turned me on watching him and hearing him talk. No idea what he said as part of his swearing-in because my brain fogged up imagining things I wanted to do to