DNLL 20Donavon's POV I plopped to the bed, staring at the body of the woman sprawled on my bed. "What else do you need, my Lord?" She asked, and I shook my head. "Nothing, get out," I ordered, and she stared, in surprise at me. "Yes?" "I said get out!" I barked, and she scrambled off, wobbling her naked body to the door. Not only was I angry at myself, I felt disgusted at myself. There was that maid, Zuri, and of all the people in my pack, she was the only person that I referred to. "Fuckkk!" I groaned. This wasn't how I was supposed to feel about her. I hated Zuri, she was the goddamn daughter of a murderer, and by extension, she was a murderer. I stood up from the bed, walked into the bathroom, and turned the shower over my body. It still did nothing to get rid of the hatred I felt for myself and that goddamn princess. I stepped out of the bathroom and changed into a new set of clothes. "Not again," I groaned to myself as I stepped out of the door to the throne room,
DNLL 21Lirien's point of view I stared at Donavon, that goddamn alpha, straight in the eye. And I knew he saw that too. There has to be something else about his uncanny hatred for me. "Take her back into her room," he said, and the guard moved towards me. I shrugged his hands from my body, if that would warrant death, that would be better. It had been a month. Since the hotel incident had happened, I could only thank my stars. I wasn't pregnant, for this goddamn alpha. I walked back to my room, and the reason it did not hurt as much as I expected was something I needed to rethink. And Hart, it's been days since I last saw him. I stepped away from my room, to the guard's quarters, and thanks to that alpha Volkov, I looked more like a real person. No guard stopped me from going in search of him, at every point that they normally did, and I just walked majestically away from them. "Hart," I called upon sighting him from the distance, and he turned to look at where the voice c
DNLL 22Zuri's POV "Yes, I did, my Lord," the guard replied, proudly, feeling happy that he was about to be commended by me for brutalising a maid. "I wanted to whip the man she was talking about when she ran in front of him," he explained, and I looked back and forth at Zuri and him. "And the second tear?" I asked. "That whip was intentional, my Lord, she was being stubborn, so I had to teach her some lessons," the guard said again as I darted another look at Zuri's wounds. "Hand me the whip," I said, watching his face beam up with a smile of satisfaction. Hot shame beamed on my face at his mocking words, and the eyes of the men in the room settled on me. I felt exposed and humiliated.I watched Donavon hold the whip around his hands, and I closed my eyes in anticipation of the whip, on my body.And I heard the chuckles of the men in front of me, ridiculing, until the whip landed—but not on my body.... I heard the sound of a whip, and I opened my eyes to see the guard twirling
DNLL 23Zuri's POV I plopped back to the bed and opened the first pages of the book. I could swear that Hart chose an interesting book with a lot of pages just to keep me entertained for however long the book could last. I squinted my eyes and flipped to the first page of the book in my hands, and the enthusiasm I'd hoped to get was the polar opposite of how fast I fell asleep with the book in my hands....Next morning I woke up to the scrunched pages of the book under my jaws. I'd slept on it, and its pages had become torn like how my face was when Donavon tore a sword through my father's neck.I stood up from the bed and took a bath, changing into a neat gown, and before I grabbed the pail and the mop to clean, Donavon woke up for the day.The ominous air and the tiny whispers from the maids got me on my nerves."Hey, have you heard it?" a maid whispered behind me, and I stepped closer, as close as I could, to listen in to what she had to say."I heard from one of the elders,
DNLL 24Kier's point of view Zuri's words stilled in her mouth, and whatever it was that she wanted to say... got stuck in her mouth.. She had been too happy these days, from Volkov to herself, she deserved none of that happiness. "My apologies, Alpha Donavon; I've forgotten that you're an alpha who doesn't see beyond himself, a self-conceited bastard," she cussed in my face. "Kill me, Donavon; you'll get the peace you've always wanted, is it not, or you get your peace by making sure the daughter of your murderer goes through the same hell as you do," Zuri said, further riling me up. "Shut your mouth, Zuri," I said, and she shook her head. "Kill me, Donavon, kill me; if I'm that princess whose father killed yours kill me and prove yourself a man, maybe I'll finally get to meet my father where he is," she said, throwing her papa's sword on the bed and sitting in front of me as she pushed herself into the sword. "Do you remember how you did it?" the goddamn princess asked, looki
DNLL 25Zuri's POV My head spun when I heard what they were talking about, not that it did any good or bad to me, I had no business with it. Or maybe it even did me more good than bad. There was no risk that I'd be pregnant, and it meant that my late period was a result of hormonal changes. I smiled at their words before my reaction changed into a frown and back into a smile. He'd be taken away from the position of the alpha, and I'd be free to go away from this evil man. The thought of me telling Donavon that he wasn't my Alpha sent me chills, and I realised that I could have died at that moment. He held that sword to my neck.However, the news hadn't spread yet, and it didn't seem like it was true because while all those were going, Donavon stood confused as to what was happening. Someone was either spreading fake news on purpose, or Donavon was really impotent. .I walked back to my room with the pail and towel that I'd used to clean Donavon's room.I plopped to bed and slep
Donavon's lost LunaChapter 1Zuri "What makes you think I killed your father, Donavon?" My father's voice resounded from his office."Because I've got all the evidence with me, Lycus," the opposing voice replied."There's no evidence that you can hold, Don; I'm not and never will be the cause of your misfortune," my father replied.The sound of swords clanking was what I heard next, which made me hurry to see what and who it was."I'm telling you, Donavon, I did not kill your parents," he yelled amidst the sword fight."Zuri, princess, go back in," my father said, turning his attention towards me as I opened the door to his office. My eyes darted to the man whose voice I'd been hearing from the distance, and I had barely seen his face when my father's gasped, and I watched in horror as blood oozed from his slit throat."Father!" I screamed and bent to the floor in terror as I scrambled to meet him, seeing his blood drop from the edge of Donavon."Papa!" I yelled, shaking his body
Donavon's lost LunaChapter 2Alpha Donavon walked towards me, satisfied with the gory sight of the battered wounds on my body.Send them to the maids' room and have them assigned to their various duties, except for her," Alpha Donovan said, and I raised my face to look at him. "Have her thrown in the dungeon; treat her the way every person thrown there is being treated and nothing less," he ordered and turned away, leaving me in the hands of the guards."Zuri," my best friend Hart called, but I couldn't afford to get him into the bane of Alpha Donavon.I turned towards his voice and nodded without saying anything. My steps faltered, and it earned me yet another slap behind my head. The coppery liquid metal dripped from my nose, and I was being met with the nonchalance of the guards, who cared less if I died or lived. Behind the cold metals of the dungeon that I was being thrown to, away from the light of the blue moon pack, to the dark, shadowy hell of a place, I felt life slippi