Kayla’s POV
“Let’s go to the Alpha office. It is soundproof,” Uncle Xavier said.
I nodded at him in response before motioning Zane to follow us. I paused when Jared started to follow us, and I turned to Uncle Xavier with raised brows. Jared didn’t know my secret, and I wasn’t ready to disclose it to him yet, if ever. Hell, I wouldn’t even have ever revealed it to Zane if it was up to me. Uncle Xavier frowned at Jared before clearing his throat.
“Where do you think you are going?”
“My office?” Jared asked with a puzzled look.
“Did I invite you? I asked Kayla and Zane to join me. Not you.”
“Huh? But it is my office. I am the Alpha if you forgot.”
“You maybe the Alpha, but I am still your dad. I am going to use your office to have a private discussion with Kayla and Zane. You are going to stay and take care
Kayla’s POVI looked at Zane and took a deep breath before delving into my troubled past.“After Uncle Xavier recognised me as a Feral wolf, I was so rattled by the information that I was in a constant state of worry and distraction. I got pissed off for even the smallest of things and I convinced myself that I will go insane any day, leaving me unable to fulfil any of my missions in life,” I sighed. “Exactly one month after the rogues attacked my pack, I faced the challenges for my Alpha position. With my Feral strength, I easily handled the challenges, and that was when I decided that I needed to start searching for the rogue who had escaped the night of the rogue attack.”“I had heard of how there were fifty challengers for your position and how you fought ten of them and even killed one. I always thought it was just an exaggerated tale, but I guess not…” Zane muttered.
Kayla’s POVI looked at Zane as he sat there with a blank expression on his face. His characteristic smirk was absent from his face, which meant he was thinking hard about something. As the moments passed and I got no reply from Zane, it was as if a heavyweight was placed on my chest, making it hard for me to breathe. I had pleaded to him to forget about me and stay away from the mess that was my life. I really didn’t want him to get involved with me when there was a high chance that I would go insane any day or get hunted down by the council. I didn’t want him to suffer because of me, and I should have been happy when he was deciding I wasn’t worth the trouble. I really should have been. But I wasn’t…I guess I was too selfish to let him go without feeling abandoned. I tried... I tried really hard to stay away from him. I told myself that we weren’t meant to be. Still, I ended up falling f
Kayla’s POVZane leaned towards me and bit his lip in concentration, making my gaze lock onto his lips, which looked a little swollen from our kiss. Already I was thinking of pulling him back to me and kissing him again. Who knew kissing could be this addictive? I had always thought that kissing would be awkward and sloppy. How wrong I was!When Zane gently touched my face, sending tingles spread over my entire face, I was snapped out of my not so innocent thoughts. As he wiped off the tears from my face, I started unblinkingly into his eyes, which were filled with so much tenderness that I felt like crying again. What was wrong with me? Why was I feeling like crying at the simplest of things? I had bottled up my emotions for so long and now that they were freed from their cage, was I going to be a teary, snotty mess all the time? The thought was enough to sober me up as I cringed at imagining me crying at the drop of a hat. N
Kayla’s POV“So, do you think you are ready to face your Uncle Xavier yet or do you need more time?”I looked at Zane, whose eyes were twinkling with mirth as he saw my nervousness. I narrowed my eyes at him in response. Didn’t he just claim to love me? Then how would he enjoy seeing me in trouble?“I already told you, he didn’t see you kiss me. And even if he did, he will only be happy for you. Don’t you think he would like to see you enjoy a good life with your mate?”Well, I guess he was right about that. Even though Uncle Xavier himself was a serious man with no nonsense attitude, he has always said it was different. He would always complain that it was his actual nature, whereas mine wasn’t because he remembered me as a cheerful girl until my family’s death. I had always disregarded his concerns and claimed that my life experiences had shaped me to become
Kayla’s POV“So, what are you going to tell the council now?” I asked, after making sure that the soundproof partition between the driver’s seat and the passenger seat was pulled up.Zane looked at me with a calm expression and I wondered how he could be calm about something like this.“What is there to tell?”My jaw fell open in disbelief, and I stared at him with wide eyes. What is there to tell? The Council ordered him to hunt me and he was asking, ‘what is there to tell’?Seeing my shocked gaze, Zane rolled his eyes.“It is not as if they are going to find anything about you when they haven’t been able to do that all these years. Especially considering you wouldn’t be out hunting anymore now that you had found the rogue you were searching for. I don’t think they would ever find the bodies of the rogues in the Dark Ench
Zane’s POVI smirked at Kayla, as I thought of the impending hunt for the dark mage Gregory. I was supposed to hunt for the Feral Assassin, but now; I was hunting along with her. Who would have thought, right?Kayla smiled back and her blue-grey eyes glowed for a moment with a predatory glint. I knew it was the Feral wolf in her that was getting excited at the prospect of hunting the enemy, but it didn’t make me nervous like I ought to be if it had been anyone else but Kayla. Instead, seeing her like that thrilled me and made me even more excited at the thought of hunting along with her. Even imagining it got my heart racing, and I wondered when we could set off to the Dark Enchanted Forest.Then I saw her eyes move to the door through which Ethan had gone moments ago, and the excitement dimmed from her eyes to be replaced by worry and guilt. I sighed, knowing how she was worried about him and felt a weird mix of
Kayla’s POVI watched the predatory expression on Zane’s face and a shudder passed through my frame at the fierceness emanating from him. I, the Feral Assassin who had killed wild rogues for years, found him intimidating despite knowing that he wouldn’t ever hurt me. I couldn’t help but pity those who were going to be in his path when he was in his war mood because Alpha Zane Black was a force to be reckoned with and once he hone in on you as his target, you better pray for a fast death.I hadn’t seen him in action other than when he faced the rogues in the forest, and I knew that he was holding himself back from being violent in front of his fragile mate, aka me. But from the violence that was radiating off his frame now, I knew that he meant business and he will bring death in his path when he finally gets into action. I could only hope that he would leave that mage, Gregory, to me. He was mine
Zane’s POVI raised my brows at my dufus of a best friend as he stared at me with wide eyes. He bit his lip and turned his head to left and then with a frown, turned his head to the right. This was going on from the moment I walked into the pack house a few minutes ago, and his silent perusal was getting to me by now.“What?” I asked exasperatedly.“Something is different with you.”I rolled my eyes as he walked closer to me and leaned in to scrutinize my face.“I know I am gorgeous, but do you have to look at my face this closely to enjoy my beauty?”“Eww man! You know I wasn’t looking at your dumb face! And you know I bat for the other team; my mate will attest to that!”“Uh huh. Then why were you looking at me like that for the past ten minutes or so?”Ethan narrowed his eyes and looked at me again.“As I