로그인~Draven~I leave Seren’s room with a level of irritation I have never experienced in years. I slam the door behind me, and it echoes through the corridor.My mind is still in that room…it’s still on her. My cock is still as hard as rock and my mind travels back to the way she straddled me. Such a Dirty Mate. I’m surprised she was so experienced at this because most people they usually hire for maids were virgins who had no understanding of seduction. But Seren….she knew exactly what she did to me and the way she looked at me when she realized what she had done—as if she regretted it and was annoyed. I clench my jaw. What was she thinking? What was I thinking? Bruno answers before I can finish thinking. “Mate!” “Be quiet!” I mutter under my breath. He growls inside my head, offended by my tone. I continue walking, my hand curling into a fist as I try to force my thoughts towards the attack, the rogues, the surviving prisoners…everything but Seren. It does not work. I still remem
~Seren~ Draven opens his mouth to speak, and I know with perfect certainty that whatever comes out of his mouth would unravel me and ruin this perfectly-stupid plan of mine. So before I can think better of it, I move and cross the small distance between us and settle on his lap, my hand resting lightly on his shoulder. I feel his entire body go rigid and I expect him to chase me out or push me away but he doesn’t. I feel his groin harden under my thigh as if I had struck him without ever raising my hand. I let out a small smirk. “How about,” I murmur, lifting my chin so my eyes can meet his, “I shut your inquisitive question with a kiss?” Oh…Goddess. The ruthless, merciless Alpha I read about, my greatest nemesis and so-called mate was mute. As if he had gone unconscious. He does not move at all. His gaze drops to my mouth then returns to my eyes. His eyes were dark and lustful If I may guess…devouring deep into my soul. Shit! When will all this be over? I felt my
~Seren~My fingers stop halfway through pulling the dress over myself, and I stare at the man standing in my doorway.Draven.His eyes move over me before immediately settling on my face, but the surprise in his expression is enough to make my anger flare.I quickly pull the fabric up properly, covering myself before glaring at him. “Alpha, what are you doing here?”My voice comes out sharper than I intended, but after everything that has happened tonight, I have no patience left for his sudden appearance.Draven does not answer immediately. Instead, he closes the door behind him and walks farther into the room. He reaches my bed and sits down. Then he cocks his head. “It is my quarters, after all.”My eyes narrow. “I know but you should at least knock.”“I have control of this place, Seren. I can decide where I want to stay.”I snort softly. “Then I will happily go back to the maid quarters.” I turn toward the wardrobe.“Come and sit.”I stop. There is something in his voice that ma
~Seren~The explosion tears me out of sleep.I jolt upright, my heart hammering violently against my ribs as the sound rolls through the castle, followed by desperate shouting and screaming.I stare into the darkness of my room, trying to understand what has happened.Then another crash shakes the windows. My eyes widen.I throw the blanket aside and stumble out of bed, barely registering the fact that my hair is still loose around my shoulders and that I am wearing the plain sleeping clothes I changed into after returning from the ceremony.My eyes are heavy with sleep, but fear wipes away whatever exhaustion remains and I run out.Something is happening outside and if the pack has been attacked, Ivie could be in danger.I rush through the corridor, my bare feet striking against the cold floor as voices grow louder the closer I get to the western grounds.Guards are running in the opposite direction, servants are hurrying toward safer areas and someone shouts that the gates need to b
~Draven~I should be listening to the elder announcing the final blessing. Instead, I am thinking about Seren.Again.I look across the hall. The ceremony is almost over, yet I can barely remember half of what has been said since Drake arrived.My attention keeps returning to the same moment. Drake looking at Seren. Seren freezing and the fear in her eyes.I have seen fear before, but Seren is not the type of woman who scares easily. She challenged me the first time we met. She argued with me in my own quarters. She walked away from me after I ordered her to follow me, and she had the audacity to tell me that being assigned to my quarters did not make her my possession.Yet the moment Drake looked at her, she became completely different. Why?I glance toward the servants’ entrance. She is no longer there. She disappeared before the ceremony even began.My jaw tightens. She has been disappearing far too often.First, she vanished from my quarters without telling anyone. Then Marcel cou
~Seren~My body goes numb. I forget how to breathe, how to move, even how to hold the tray in my hands as the man standing before me looks at me with a faint crease between his brows.“I believe we’ve met before.” The words struck me hard.Alpha.That is what everyone calls him now. Alpha Drake. The man who helped orchestrate the destruction of my family.The man whose name had once been spoken in my home as an ally, a powerful leader, someone my parents trusted enough to welcome through our gates, and my husband. Now, he stands before me wearing the crest of the pack that once belonged to my family— and everyone bows to him.Everyone respects him. Everyone calls him Alpha.The pain that spreads through my chest is so sudden that I nearly lose my balance. I force myself to breathe. If Drake recognizes me, everything Seraphina did will have been for nothing.I took every precaution because there was one person I could never afford to meet like this. Drake.I lower my head immediatel
~Seren~ I didn’t understand what was happening to my body. That was the first honest thought that cut through the storm inside my head as Alpha Draven’s hand stayed wrapped around my wrist. He was holding me in place against the wall of his private chamber. His eyes did not leave mine…not even
~Seren~“Keep your head down, speak only when spoken to, and do not—under any circumstances draw attention to yourself.”Gwen’s voice was sharp and completely uninterested in whether I lived or died in this pack.I adjusted the sleeve of the maid uniform that swallowed my arms like it had been stit
~Seren~ ( 3 months ago)“I'm sorry, Mrs Seren…your parents did not survive the attack on the eastern ridge.”The doctors words didn't feel right when they first entered my ears, almost as if he had spoken in another language my heart refused to translate. I stared at him from the chair I hadn't re
~Draven~I had faced wars, rogue packs, and council uprising, but nothing tested the restraint of my temper like the moment my mother said her name.“Lyra, your betrothed wife.” My mother said with the brightest smile. I straightened slowly from my seat, my claws threatening to surface beneath my







