NEILLA'S POV
This is not good, I thought, dashing straight into the bathroom to throw up whatever I had left in my stomach. Mirald followed closely behind me, holding up my hair as I retched nothing but bile into the washing hand basin.When nothing more climbed up my throat, I sank back down on the cold tiles, leaning my back against the wall for strength. It felt like life was drained out of me at that moment. An invasion could be happening in the next room at that point, and I wouldn't even have the strength to bat an eyelid.I was that drained."What's up? Spill."I managed to look up at Mirald with a confused expression. "What do you mean spill?"She dropped down to her knees next to me. "I know you're pregnant, baby girl. Even if you choose to hide it from me. I'm a special wolf, dog. Don't miss out that important fun fact."Pregnant? How?I'm sure my face mirrored my inner turmoil as I turned to look at her slowly. I couldn't be pregnant. "I'm not pregnant. I really am not. We haven't done anything intimate since a couple of weeks ago. I'm not pregnant."I must've sounded like a broken record, trying desperately to convince myself than her. Her expression turned mocking. "Look at yourself, honey, you are with pup...or pups. Whichever the goddess grants us. Oh, I'm so happy for you."She pressed my weak frame into a big hug and I fought the urge to throw up against her hoodie. Don't get me wrong, she smelled wonderful but it wasn't the scent I needed. So, I gently pushed her away, starting to rise and smiled in appreciation when she reached out a helping hand."I'm fine and I'm not pregnant." I was trying my hardest not to snap at her stupid jolly mood as she did a little dance; one she usually did whenever she was in a great mood. Like now. I raised my nightgown to pull it over my head and toss it to her. She caught it fluidly."Wow. Your breasts are pretty." She commented, her eyes narrowed down to slits as she stared at me.I palmed my breasts in shock, my cheeks tingling as embarrassment filled me. "What the fuck, Mirald? You're molesting me! I am not fucking pregnant okay? You're only raising such speculations because I threw up in your presence. I am fine.""Well, tell that to your full and extra perky breasts." Her cheery voice rang out as she stared at my body like I was some lab animal laid on a slab for dissection."You're insane, Miraldina. Get the fuck out of here." I yelled, feeling more ashamed as I slammed the bathroom door shut against her face. I didn't like how naked she made me felt even when I was already without clothes. More like she was picking me apart, defining to me what emotion was which and exactly why I was feeling the way I was.I soon found myself drawing near to the bathroom mirror as I tried to observe my body. My breasts did feel full but it wasn't something unusual. My mind went back to the last time I and Rylan had sex. I'd broken my 'no sex till we are fully mated' vow because of how badly I wanted to be with him and prove that I didn't want anyone else as much as I did him.The image of the shiny foil wrapper which he produced from the back of his pocket that night, the gleam of his pearly whites as he ripped it open with his teeth and hand flashed in my head.Hence, my strong conviction that I wasn't with pup."You say you're not pregnant, right? Then, stop looking at the mirror for goddess sakes and wash up else I'll tear down this door to do it myself." Her voice boomed as she threatened.I stuck out a tongue childishly at the door even when I was certain she couldn't see me. I tuned out distracting thoughts as I turned on the water.You're not pregnant, Reneilla...."You're pregnant, Reneilla." Mirald and Mana Sylveon echoed in unison as I stared dumbfounded, my heartbeat ringing furiously in my head.Mirald had developed a red forehead with the imprint of her palm from constantly slapping it in exasperation. In her eyes were flying sparks of anger while Mana Sylveon only gave me a blank look.Mirald tried again. "On a scale of one to ten, how clueless are you?""None!" I yelled in response, unable to help myself. For the past hour we'd be going back and forth with them trying to force their pregnancy reveal on me.Mana Sylveon rolled her eyes, finally giving up on me. To her, I was probably a lost cause in this. She took another sip of her steaming ginger coffee from a blue mug. I fought the urge to cover my nose at the smell of ginger and throw up again but that would only give them the satisfaction.After an entire minute of point-blank staring at me, Mana Sylveon stopped sipping. "Ask your wolf. Have you tried that?"I releases a puff of breath. "She hasn't been of any help all morning. Hence my crappy mood.""She's absent?""Yes. For now. I don't know what crawled up her ass and died." I shrugged my shoulders, moving away from the strong smell of ginger before I broke my resolve.She turned to Mirald who was now sprawled up on the couch, her sneakers laying carelessly forgotten. "See if you can get to stir her wolf. That vicious thing sure knows how to alienate herself from her host.""This might get me in a lot of trouble but sure thing." Mirald switched the position of her body as she sat up straight in the chair. "Look here bitch. You better admit the truth to this dumbo here that you're both carrying a bunch of mutts in your womb, okay?"I hissed at her, feeling insulted. "Stop talking to her like that."She ignored me, staring deep into my eyes as she continued, "We're about to perform a cleansing ritual on her now, ridding her of everything that's going to cause her unease. We don't want her puking in every space at the pups shelter and scaring them away. I give you a solid five. One...""Now I know you've gone bat shit--" She smacked my mouth out of nowhere. "What the fuck bitch!""No, you bitch! Do as I say. Two...""Don't be such an idiot. You won't get anything by provoking--" Another smack to my lips. "Ow! Do you mind?"She rolled her eyes. "Make this easy for us and shut the fuck up, lazy ass bitch. Three..."A low grumble sounded in my chest as I glared at her, promising to smack the shit out of her if she does as much as touch me again. I watched her eyes move behind me for a fleeting moment but before I could put two and two together, her hand came flying in my direction.I felt a sudden surge of anger, a fierce force of the instinct to protect swallowing me whole and that's when I discovered my wolf had pushed forward, throwing me behind her.She bared our canines at Mirald whose hand froze midair. "Come at me bitch and you won't like the consequences."Her voice was coarse and gruff unlike mine. Mirald raised her hands in mock surrender as she slowly lowered her head in submission, sliding away from our view. The chuckle of someone else in the room stole our attention. Mana Sylveon."My little wolf, how I've missed you."My wolf only growled at her in response. She didn't seem to be in the mood for pleasantries nor in the best of moods to behold our adoptive mother.However, Mana Sylveon didn't care so much for her rudeness. "You're pregnant, aren't you?"For the umpteenth time since Queen Elizabeth, we are not--"Yes." A gruff voice that wasn't mine spelt out. "Yes, we are."NEILLA'S POVI arrived at the orphanage feeling in a worse mood than I'd been, feeling betrayed and played for a fool. Ever since my wolf relayed the truth to me, nothing felt the same anymore. I refused to speak nor listen to her, blocking our communication line and ignoring Mirald all through our run on the way here. I was being a petty wolf but I needed somewhere to channel all of my anger. She didn't deserve to receive the cold shoulder for mistakes which my wolf made. If only she opened up early enough on being pregnant. Now I needed to think sanely without the urge to kill somebody getting in the way. "You good?" A cool voice brought me back from my reverie. Why on earth was I always zoning out?"Yes, I am. Thanks, Stella." I mustered up a pathetic excuse for a smile but even a blind person could tell through my façade. "You look extremely pale and very unlike your usual self." She commented again, placing it upon herself once more to lay a hand on my forehead to feel me up
RYLAN'S POVIt's been three days, three fucking days since we signed the treaty with the Bloodtrail pack. I've had no time to rest for three hours straight. Shuffling between meetings and whatnot, attempting to ease the increasing tension amongst the families around the borderlands. A lot of them were relocating while most had settled in the town's central for the time being. If that wasn't enough trouble for the first inhabitants, they now had to squabble for space, food amongst other things and I'd be a pathetic liar if I said I had this under wraps.I didn't. Hell, I couldn't even wrap me a present if I was handed a bow and some tape, talk more of the situation at hand.How did my father cope? I wondered as I kneaded my temple with both fingers, wincing at the gradual crescendo of the council's voice. Here they were again, arguing shamelessly and ignorant to the fact that their voices could be heard from miles away. Every now and then when we thought we'd dealt with an issue at h
RYLAN'S POV"I'm afraid it's not something we think we can handle. It's your mate, your majesty. It's Neilla." The guard hashed out as he struggled to gain composure over his stuttering. "She's here and she's fuming."Before I had a chance to respond to the guard or issue a command, the door to the conference room opened and out came the entire entourage of the hags. For no reason, my eyes sought out the head of the council only to find he already had a mutinous expression on his face. I gave him a hardened look that promised 'he'd soon have his head rolling down a river before he'd take that action of mutiny'. As though he read the murderous intent through the smoldering ember in my eyes, he looked away from me, replacing his comment with the a gentle head shake. He exited the large hallway before anyone of us did. The remaining council members stood there in place patiently waiting for my next line of action.Ignoring them, I turned to the guard. "Where is she now?"He stretched h
NEILLA'S POV His eyes closed briefly for a second and we charged in for the kill. My hand swung high in the air...a sharp slap to his handsome face as the end result. Another beautiful chorus of gasps filled the air again to my satisfaction."Outrageous!" A miserly looking old man dressed in a pretty expensive attire shot out.I watched his eyes fly open with resentment, blazing a deep orange that bordered on red. If that was the color of his other side, it meant that the ancient Alpha was withering away faster than we all thought. One look in those terrifying eyes was enough to have me shaking in my boots but I didn't want to back down like a coward.After all, I didn't ruffle up the guards for no reason.I looked at his raised hand that stopped midair as he fully settled his eyes on me. He closed his eyes again for a brief second, battling to control the demon he had for a wolf. When he opened them for the second time, they were back to his usual opal green irises. "How dare you,
RYLAN'S POVAs soon as the hallway became void of people, I found lust fogging my brain and propelling me forward. All rational thoughts in my brain out the window. From the point she stormed into the palace looking like an aggravated tiger, all the blood in my body rushed to my dick. I'd never seen her in such a state before; murderous brown eyes filled with malicious intent to draw blood.Call me a sick psychopath but the sight of her perky breasts heaving up and down in anger while in the cocoon of the purple hoodie was a massive turn on. Between the goddess and man, I struggled not to look like a crazed person even as I approached her. I was on the brink of near insanity and the only cure for my madness was to be in close proximity to the one who somehow was able to stir my blood in the most exciting yet scary way ever.Been around her always brought forth the need to cater for her and that was not because she was an orphan. I itched to cradle her head in my arms, kiss her until
NEILLA'S POVTwo hours after, I got back to the shelter to pick work up from where I'd left off. Mirald was nowhere in sight but soon showed up in the room I was. Someone must have informed her of my arrival. She dashed in breathing hard like she'd just taken a marathon race in ten seconds. In a heartbeat, she was right behind me, breathing down my neck for reasons best known to her. If I took a quick guess, I could bet on my bottom dollar that she was on a self-imposed mission to find out the reason why I'd spent too long at the palace. "Bitch, you were away for almost the whole day. Did something happen?" I rolled my eyes at her exaggeration. We both knew I was only out for a couple of hours. It was barely midday. "If I wasn't your friend, I'd say you make mountains out of puny little molehills."She delivered a sharp slap to my arm. "Do not avoid my question. What was so important that Rylan sent a guard to you?""Ow!" I winced at the pain that spread throughout the area she str
NEILLA'S POVBefore she gave a reply, a very flustered looking Stella stormed in. She was vibrating from the tips of her hair down to her brown heeled boots. Her action had us springing up from our seats in shock. One look in her eyes and I concluded that all was not well."Neilla! You should see this."Without thinking, I made my way with haste out of the room, Mirald on my heels. A small circle had gathered in the centre of one of the rooms. That's when I noticed how quiet this part of the building had gone. Like a shush fell over the room.Even the younger pups had fear in their eyes, evident in the glossy shimmer on their lower eyelids. They were terrified of whatever had befallen the victim. I pushed myself into the middle of the circle to witness for myself.True to my fear, it was one of the pups I'd grown to develop a mother-son relationship with and loved to death. It was Ethel. I flew into panic mode, my heart nearly having a heart attack when I realized he was no longer br
RYLAN'S POVI walked out of yet another unsuccessful meeting with the council members whose disagreeable nature had began to tick me off in the wrong way. This time, it was just me in attendance which ended in a total flop. As always, I lost my temper, there by losing my control and the beast within snatched the chance of my slipup to grab one of the elderly men by his neck.It resulted in a query from them. Old suckers!Whoever brought up the notion that elders were the epitome of wisdom had to have been blind drunk and stark stupid at the time to suggest that.The thudding sounds of my combat boot bounced off the walls of the long hallway in a resounding echo. I took a fleeting look at the spot where Neilla and I had shared that fleeting intimate moment which lasted at barely two minutes. All that came to mind was the feel of her body pressed into mine, nothing but proof that her rightful place was in my arms."And right beside you to rule as Luna." My wolf interjected. Ever since t