LOGINThey would be back to being enemies in the morning.That was what Valerick and Zezi had agreed upon but up till this moment, they shared the same bed.They avoided anything that would lead to them having that conversation like a plague, and pretended that all was well between them.If they pretended well enough, maybe they would be the happy mates they were trying to be. The King and Queen of Lavida with a flawless union.If they just kept cuddling and kissing like this, maybe everything would be alright with the world... their world.But the illusion they had created for themselves could only last so long.There had been an almost quiet knock on the door and Valerick had to answer it. He came back in after a while and went straight to his laptop. He flipped it open and typed in some things, a deep frown etched into his face. He mumbled some words to himself, then looked up from the laptop, his face meetin
"Delice--" Laura reached out to her. Delice tried to escape her grip but she wasn't fast enough, neither was she stronger than Laura.In no time, Laura had her hand around Delice's neck, pinning her against the wall."You will listen to me.""I only ever listen to you.""And you will listen again.""Fuck!" That was Oliver, still at the mercy of the sex toy and the bondage Laura had put him in."What did you do to him?" Delice asked with polite disgust."He is fine, just on some sexual enhancement herbs I made.""I am so sorry, you are putting that to waste at the moment. Permit me to excuse you." As gentle and polite as Delice's words sounded, the anger in them was not hidden."You will stay and you will listen.""What other thing have you lied to me about? The extract? Is it Volakys'? Your brother was right, wasn't he? I am so stupid, I let my trust in y
The shovel hit the dark loose soil concealing the dead beneath, ripping the earth apart under the pouring, angry rain that declared its presence with thunder and lightning.Their robes stuck to their bodies, absolutely drenched but they didn't care.Delice's focus was on the grave, whatever she would find in the coffin was about to define everything.Finally, Akeem dragged the box out and he threw it open on her command.Oliver's scent sipped into the air, along with that of rotting flesh. She at first thought that it was strange that Laura hadn't taken measures to embalm his body but given the circumstances, that couldn't have been possible.Delice took a step back, already feeling terrible that she had defiled the grave of her best friend's mate because of some alcoholic delusional. Her eyes misted with tears and she blinked her tears away.Frozen, she watched."Should I seal the coffin back
"What? Did you just say--""Yes. Oliver is right---" When she turned back, there was only an empty space where Oliver had been. "---there.""Delice, are you alright?"That question almost drove her insane."I am alright. I just saw Oliver and I heard his voice right now. He was right there." The doubt in Laura's eyes made her itch in a way she couldn't describe. She rushed over to where she had seen Oliver, trying to find out if there was a secret passage around here, but she found none.She had seen him.She had seen him!"He was right here."Or was she seen a ghost? That was... impossible."What are you doing?" Laura's eyebrows sharpened with anger. "Are you trying to dig harder into my grief?"Something in Delice dropped and her shoulders slumped, as she took some steps closer to her broken friend."No, Laura I would never--"
The Meeting Ground was very scanty, only a selected few had been invited to this.The first thing Delice noticed when she got there was the fact that Zezi had not been invited."She is tightly occupied with her assigned duty." Laura had said when Delice had asked why she had been ousted from the meeting. "I find myself lucky. Honestly, to be rid of the presence of that dog gives me the utmost relief. I'm so glad her stench isn't sticking up the place." She had ended with a giggle as she clicked her claws against the bangles around her wrist.Laura didn't seem offended that they had not been spending a lot of time together as they used to, and neither did she seem like she was grieving her mate, Oliver, like she had seemed to be doing during the few times Delice had ran into her in the Castle.She must be handling his death really well.Poor, Laura. She wished to do more for her."Also, about the poison, we
The taste of Ka'ik's blood was a mix of forbidden pleasure.The second Delice was able to snap out of the temptation, she pulled away, her lips completely smeared with the evidence of her mistake. Ka'ik's red eyes were dazed and he slumped to the floor as soon as she stopped rendering him her support. She sprinted out of the bar room and when she heard him call her name like a faint whisper carried to her by the dry, suffocating air of a graveyard, she didn't look back.An ache drummed in her head, and the speed at which she ran to her room didn't help. Different images flashed in her mind, voices that she was sure didn't reside, and a song, -no different voices singing along to some loud music, different heartbeats colliding, the smell of strong lust in the air, the rushing of blood through different veins and arteries and the taste- that taste. She could almost remember it. In fact, it felt like she was tasting it right now, but she couldn't be certain; T
Zezi had been taken aback by her outburst as much as Valerick had been shocked by it.Although their feelings had been for different reasons. Zezi had been shocked and confused that she had verbally claimed him and Valerick had been surprised and happy that she had done that. Although, he managed to
"Where have you been?"The question definitely did not pass through her brain for proper processing and thinking before she blurted it right out of her mouth.It felt too embarrassing to acknowledge that she had indeed said that without thinking, so she refuse to turn and look at him, scared that she
One side of her heart, wanted her to believe it was a lover but the other side had trashed away the option so quickly, it had gone right of out the windows of her thoughts.What did it matter if it was another woman?Well, that might put an obstacle in her plans. As he might pay more attention to the
One by one, they welcomed her as they introduced themselves. But all that wasn't important to Zezi, in fact, she wished they would just tell her what they had planned already so that they can tell her the role to play. Soon enough, the welcoming was over and a tiny bottle was handed to her. "Feed it







