Se connecter“Continue.”“The Q-queen came into our lesson,” Zeke stammered, “And Instructor I-Ivan was not happy with her. She apologized, but he recognized her as h-human.” Zeke continued to recount the entire event one stutter at a time. He didn’t leave out a single detail either from the way the instructor had made fun of humans for being useless to every moment of the actual fight.Has Zeke not been shaking in his boots throughout the entire explanation, I might’ve been annoyed at him for ratting me out. However, I knew he was just doing what his King had ordered him to.Even if it gets his teacher killed.When he was done, Evander turned to the instructor, growling lowly. “You’ve been a worthy warrior and a good teacher to these children, Ivan. But I cannot allow you to disrespect my mate and live.”Evander moved in a flash, gripping the instructor’s throat until he sputtered. I gasped when I saw he wasn’t just choking him ~ his claws were out, digging into the flesh of the instructor’s n*e
Evander moved too fast for my eyes to follow his movement. One moment, he was standing near the door, seething.The next, he’d positioned himself in front of me, growling deep and low in his throat. My heart caught in my throat – I’d heard that growl before. It was the growl I’d heard the day I met him, just momentsbefore his father’s head rolled on the floor. It was the growl of a wolf protecting his mate.Every wolf in the room seemed to cower beneath Evander’s raw power — the instructor included. He’d stumbled to the edge of the mat with wide eyes, his hands thrown up in surrender.“What the hell is going on here?” Evander’s voice boomed across the room. He looked ready to pounce on the instructor.“What were you doing to my mate?”The instructor looked like he’d just stumbled into a den of vipers. “M- mate?” His eyes flickered over to me, where I was still flat on the mat. If his jaw could’ve dropped to the floor, I had a feeling it would have. As soon as he looked over at me, E
I could only stare at the instructor in surprise. His proposition had thrown me off guard – I hadn’t expected him to actually challenge me to a fight.“Come on, little human,” he goaded me, a smug smile on his face, “You want to prove you’re not useless. I’ve got myentire class here. You can teach me a lesson in front of them.” He’s just trying to get a reaction out of you, Scarlett.He’s a werewolf and a trained fighter. There’s no way you’d stand a chance sparring against him.“Or perhaps you already know that it’d be pointless,” he continued, “There’s no need to embarrass yourself after all.”Although I knew he was prodding for a weak spot, his words were still hitting the mark. If I backed off now, I wouldn’tjust be admitting that he was right. I’d be setting an example for all the young boys watching us with eager eyes. They’dgrow up thinking the same thing that so many werewolves already did ~ that humans were useless. You could wipe that smile off his face in another way.S
After passing through two separate hallways, I’d finally begun to relax. The hallways were almost completely empty, save for the occasional servant or guard. Some of the servants would ask me if I needed something as I passed by, but most of the guards just eyed me warily.Even in casual clothes that hid my claiming bite from sight, most of them seemed to recognize me immediately. I wasn’t sure if that had to do with the red hair or their wolf-y senses picking up on the fact that I was human. And they all knew who the only human in the castle was. Still, none of the guards came to take me back to the room so I counted that as a win. It meant that none of them were mind linking Evander about my presence in the castle.As I rounded another corner of the castle, commotion reached my ears. It sounded like urgent voices and scuffling, and it bounced off the wide, large walls of the stone hallways.I debated turning back for a moment, but curiosity won out.I could tell the noise was com
The next three days passed in the same mindless blur.Evander would leave early in the mornings to handle some sort of kingly business and I’d occupy myself around thebedroom. Sometimes with one of the books already in the room or with a movie on the big, flatscreen in Evander’s suite.Some servant who couldn’t make eye contact with me would bring me breakfast and lunch. .Then, once evening came around, Mary or another castle girl would come to help me get dressed for dinner.I’d dine with Evander for dinner, usually in one of the many lavish dining rooms throughout the castle.After dinner, Evander would return to more of his kingly duties. It wasn’t until late at night that he’d sl*p back into the room with me, cradling me close in b*d. I was usually still awake when he wandered in, so there’d be enough time for touching or making out but that was about as far as it went. I had a feeling he was just too tired from his long days to go much farther.I never thought living in a cast
Wait, the bite!My fingers reached up to feel the spot where Evander had marked me. There was no soreness in my n*eck and it didn’t feel like an open wound. Although my limbs felt a little stiff from sleeping for so long, I managed to drag myself out of b*d and into the lavish bathroom.I turned the light on and gasped when I caught sight of the claiming bite. It was completely healed and it looked nothing like I’d expected.I've seen plenty of claiming bites in my life. They were all visible but most of them weren’t obvious. If you weren’t looking for the scarred indent of someone’s teeth marks, you’d probably miss them. Some of them were barely visible at all, but others, like Luna Grace’s mark, seemed more obvious.She’d told me that was because my dad was an Alpha. The higher a wolf’s position in the pack, the more obvious the bite.It wasn’t intentional, but a more powerful wolf meant more powerful magic seeping into the bite.hadn't thought much of it, but now, I could see the







