MasukVICTORIALorenzo wouldn’t be riding with me. The inhibitors were barely taking the edge off.Before the door shut, Dr. Pietro said goodbye to me."I’ll be coming to your city to study the Luna Nera drug in the Greco labs, and I’ll be personally involved in your case. I hope to see you doing much better very soon," he said, squeezing my hand through the open car window.Honestly, I was really grateful to him, despite the strange way we’d met."I’m counting on you to get me back on my feet so I can hit every bar in the city," I told him, half joking, trying to lighten the mood."With that kind of incentive, I think I’m even more motivated to cure you," he replied with a wink that made me smile.A private little joke that would stay with us forever.The car pulled away, and at last I was leaving the capital behind, a city I’d come to for everything except a fun, party-filled vacation.I didn’t even know how the King had taken it that we missed his glorious birthday."So Lorenzo, the good
VICTORIALorenzo’s low, rough voice told her to leave while I just stood there, nervous, not knowing what to do or say.With a sigh, Stephanie headed out."Remember what the doctor said..." I heard her murmur under her breath, but I still caught it.Was I worse than they’d told me?Lorenzo shut the door with a calm that felt too controlled, almost cold."My love..." I couldn’t hold back another second. I ran to him and threw my arms around him as hard as I could before he even had the chance to react.I felt the rigid tension in his muscles. His hands hung there for a second, not returning the embrace.His bourbon scent felt dimmer, and even though the discomfort in my body came back and the pain in the mark flared harder, at least it was more bearable than the first time."Do you feel sick? Can you handle my pheromones?""Yes, I can... please don’t push me away..." Tears started spilling down my cheeks.I thought he was going to pull away again. I thought he was about to tell me some
VICTORIAI’m pregnant... something I’d dreamed about so many times and had never been able to make real... until now.I keep stroking my belly. It feels so surreal. I’m so happy and at the same time... sad and worried.Where is Lorenzo?I haven’t seen him since the day Dr. Pietro gave us the news.I regret telling Dr. Pietro what I was really feeling... he probably ran straight to Lorenzo with it.But now I wasn’t only thinking about myself. I was thinking about my baby too. I wasn’t rejecting him.I couldn’t help it, and the mark on my neck burned, sometimes so badly I could barely stand it.I’ve been stuck in this same hospital bed for two days now, still on bed rest... I want to go home.My gaze drifts to the huge window beside me.I’d asked Stephanie to have the bed moved over here. I spent all day staring down like an idiot, hoping I’d catch sight of him.I missed him so much that, half asleep, I could’ve sworn I’d seen him at my bedside, gently stroking me, but they kept pumping
LORENZOVictoria and I looked at each other with the exact same shocked expression.If she was pregnant, it had to be recent as hell, and of course it didn’t surprise me that one of the most specialized fertility hospitals had picked it up.“It’s barely detectable, but the pheromone tests confirm it,” Dr. Pietro explained.“And the heat can happen too. With Mrs. Greco’s medical history, the hormonal imbalance and the treatment she was taking could’ve triggered something very close to heat. It’s the body’s way of pulling in more male pheromones...”“Why was she bleeding? Why was she in that much pain? Is either of them at risk?” I asked, scared out of my mind.“She’s been under a lot of stress. We need to keep running tests, and she has to stay on absolute bed rest to protect the baby.”He looked at her again, but Victoria seemed far away, touching her stomach like she still couldn’t believe it.I’d reviewed her medical file.She’d been through too many failed treatments trying to get
LORENZO"Let go of me, Patriarch Lorenzo. I’m not accusing you of anything, but I need the whole truth so I don’t make the wrong diagnosis." Dr. Pietro’s gaze turned sharp while I still had him by the lapel of his lab coat.I let him go at once and started pacing his office like a caged wolf."I suspected we were mates too, but my wolf was recovering, and then he showed up... he still says no... or rather... it’s confusing. What the fuck is happening?!"I looked at him like he had all the answers, and all he did was frown harder.He walked back to his chair and sat down."Her body is reacting badly to your mark. The pheromones you forced into her system through that failed bond are turning into poison for Victoria." He looked back down at the report in his hand."Is something wrong with me? I had a partner before, but she died. She never had any problem with the mark...""I’m going to keep looking into it. In the meantime, I’m giving her stabilizers. But it’s obvious she’s lying. Your
LORENZOA breath of relief slipped out of my chest, like I could finally breathe clean air again.I frowned at Dr. Pietro, but I wasn’t exactly in the mood to feel embarrassed now over the thong stunt at the bar and his peeping fetish."She just woke up," Lorenzo told him, and he came over right away to examine me.He asked the usual questions and shined that little light straight into my eyes.I took the chance to catch a little of his scent mixed with the hospital disinfectant that should’ve made me want to puke even more... but it didn’t."I can’t feel my wolf," I said, looking into his dark eyes under that condescending look of his. "Just tell me what I have.""It’s a very unusual case, but everything points to a forced or incomplete mark... the process severely injured your wolf.""But he didn’t force me, I wanted it!" I blurted out right away. Lorenzo hadn’t marked me by force. I’d wanted him to."Calm down, Mrs. Greco. I’m only saying those are the symptoms, but the whole clini
LORENZO“Talk?” One brow lifted on that gorgeous, seductive face.“I thought, with the hour, and what you told me the first day... we could consummate tonight. I took my pills. An heir isn’t going to make itself, so...”I moved so fast she didn’t even have time to dodge.My fingers grabbed her chee
VICTORIAMy mind felt off. Confused. Foggy.I opened my eyes slowly. Everything around me was dim, drowned in shadow. A comfortable warmth covered my body, and a delicious scent slid into me, easing my tension little by little.“I’m safe,” my instincts told me.My wolf was curled up, cozy, satisfi
VICTORIAThrough the fog in my head, I felt hands on me, and the last few hours came rushing back.Instinct snapped me awake, and I bolted upright, fighting a man who was bent over me. I hit his glasses hard enough to make him stumble back.“Easy, Mrs. Greco. You’re safe. I’m the Brona family’s doc
VICTORIATwo maids were changing the sheets.One of them turned on the TV on a piece of furniture across from the bed, and a news segment made me crack the bathroom door open slowly so I could watch through the gap.On the screen, I saw that blonde woman, Stephanie, his so-called Alpha partner. The







