LOGINMara's POV“You mean he said that?!” Lilith asked for the fifth time today. She couldn't believe her ears after I had narrated everything that conspired between Aldrich and me. “He told you not to cum and kicked you out of his room.”“Yes, he said that,” I affirmed again, wondering why she was so surprised. I had always known he was an asshole who would never be attracted to me if he didn’t want to be. “Not like he kicked me out of the room — his words did.”“Fuck,” she cursed under her breath, her hands gripping the bedsheet until her knuckles turned white. “My brother is such an idiot. How could he miss out on such a beautiful and sexy woman like you?” She ran her hands through her hair and seemed more frustrated and angry than I was.She grabbed my hand again. “I'm sorry about my brother, Mara. I'm so very sorry. You don't deserve to go through all that.” Her voice was thick with guilt and her expression was sad.I managed a smile at her. “I'm okay, Lilith. You don't have to feel s
Evander’s POVI stepped into the room and held her hands. She tried to break free, but I held her there.“Babe…” I began, my voice low and strained. “I’m sorry.”“For what?” she snapped, her nose flaring. “Be specific, man. You’ve done a lot of things to me in the past four years that we’ve been together, and if you want to apologize, then do it properly, Evander.”“I’m sorry about everything that I’ve done to you. About the fact that I haven’t been a really good mate to you. I’m sorry about the fact that I called you an item, and Goddess knows that I did not mean it that way. I’m sorry about the fact that I did not get in touch with you in the past one week. I have been busy with a lot.”She scoffed and then removed her hand from mine. “So you knew you’ve never been a good mate to me?” She turned away and kicked off her shoes. “I have heard you, Evander. Can you please leave now? I really need to get some rest.”I stepped closer and wrapped my arms around her waist, my lips pressing
Evander’s POVLilith would never understand the reason why I don’t want to get married to her—at least not now. At least not until I was sure that my best friend wasn’t going to die in a year’s time, because if he did… then there would be no need for me to live too.The late Luna gave me one task; please protect my son. And since that day, that has been the most important task to me—in fact, I have given up my life for the mission to keep Aldrich safe, and that was why… I considered every other thing a distraction.If I married Lilith now, I might not be able to fulfill my duties, and that scared me more than anything else, which was the more reason why I held on from marriage.But Lilith thought that I did not love her, when I did with every fibre of me. She thought that she was not my entire world, when she was the second most important person to me after her brother. She thought that she was just an option, when she was the only choice.Yeah… she seduced me, but the truth was, I ha
We dug into our food, and I almost finished my serving. I could say this was the only proper meal I had eaten in a week now. I had been picking at my meals since everything happened. Even Mara tried to force me to eat, but all to no avail.It was a good thing that I came out.The ambience, the fresh air, the conversation, and the feeling of knowing that there was actually someone who had loved me for four years and still does made me feel better.The waitress came again to pack up the used plates.Then Lucien poured us a glass of wine each. “Cheers to reconnecting,” he said smoothly, holding the wine glass up.I beamed and clinked mine against his. “Cheers.”We both took a sip.The silence that fell between us was tense and suffocating. He wouldn’t stop staring at me like I was the only thing that had made so much sense to him in a long time.I threw my head to the side, staring at the city lights that sprawled below, but still, I could feel his gaze burning into me.Suddenly, I felt
Lilith’s POVIt’s been a week since I last saw Evander. Three days since I sent him out of my room—and he never turned back. He left, and for three days that I did not see him, he did not bother to check up on me.I checked my phone more than a million times for his text messages, but they never came. At intervals, I checked the door, waiting for it to open and for him to walk in, but no… it remained locked. My eyes darted around the pack house, thinking I’d catch a glimpse of him anywhere, but it was like he disappeared entirely from the surface of the earth.I wouldn’t lie that it was difficult staying without him. In fact, the longest I have stayed without him was three hours. Anytime I remembered his words, my chest tightened with an immense pain that I have never experienced before in my entire life.He called me an item on an auction. Fuck… Even when I try to push it off my mind, the pain won’t subside no matter what I do. His words kept echoing like bad music on display, threat
Aldrich’s POV“I’m about to cuuuummmmmmmm,” Mara screamed, and in that moment, it felt like I suddenly regained my memories. Her voice dragged me out of my pleasurable haze, and when I looked at her, I realized what I had done.I shouldn’t have touched her.Fine, she seduced me, and I couldn’t resist her. Not with her sharp breasts that looked like they would slice through that silk dress. Not with her well-shaved pussy where I could see every slick fold. Not when my wolf had lost all sense of reasoning the moment she walked into the room earlier, and I was barely forcing him to stay under control.No, I couldn’t resist her.And now, I regretted it.I should have pushed her away the moment she said she felt hot. I should have told her I wasn’t going to fuck her when she said she wanted me to be the man who would claim her.Of course, her cunt was the sweetest, tightest thing I had ever tasted, and the scent of her arousal drove me insane. As the tip of my tongue dove in and out of her







