Vasilios POV I wrapped my hand around my whiskey glass, staring at the ice as it slowly melted. I had made a mistake - and I wasn’t used to making mistakes. I had been certain that Cassandra had been intimate with other men, so certain that I would have even staked my life on my assumption. But I was wrong… terribly wrong. And the woman who had tormented me for almost a decade had won. My dreams were now filled with her, and every fibre of my being ached to have her in my arms. If there had been even a sliver of doubt that the woman was my mate, it was completely gone now. Only one thing remained - the need to have her by my side. I pulled out my phone and stared down at it, wondering which of the Castello brothers would be the best option to call and bounce my ideas off of. With a sigh, I selected Enzo’s name. “Vasi! You’re still alive? I was pretty sure Cassie would have you hung up by your ballsack after the apartment flooding,” he chuckled in greeting. “You’re not so far
Cassie POVAvoiding Vasilios had been hard, but trying to stop myself from reliving our intimate moment over and over again in my mind had been harder. I'm ashamed to say that I actually had rather sensual dreams every night since then, and they all revolved around the man I was avoiding. And the worst thing about it all, was that I wasn't sure where Eliana stood in terms of me and Vasilios. Her forcing me to go to dinner with him had confused me a bit about what her endgame actually was. I'd called Yvonne instead and had explained to her what had happened. She pulled out her lawyer training and responded with, “well, you've consummated that marriage, and until you know whether or not you have Vasilios's pup growing inside you, you can't petition the elders for a divorce.”Great help she was. Amy had been a little bit more helpful and I was grateful that she'd dragged me from the hotel so that we could have a real conversation. “So, you slept with him. Is that the worst thing?” A
Cassie POV“Hey Cassie, where are you?” Greg's frustrated voice came through the speaker of my phone as I was carefully putting clothes into my suitcase. “What do you mean?” I asked, somewhat confused. “A water pipe burst at my place so I'm in a hotel. I thought you knew.”He huffed through the phone and I could hear laughter in the background. “No, I mean why aren't you here at the theatre?” “Shit! I forgot, give me like half an hour and I'll be there,” I scrambled, tipping out the clothes I'd just packed in search of something appropriate for Broadway. “Don't bother, it's about to start. I'll see you tomorrow at work,” he grumbled and put the phone down before I could tell him that I wasn't going to be at work the next day… or for the next few months. I sighed loudly and looked at the mess of clothing which I now had to repack into my suitcase. With a groan, I picked up the first piece of clothing and began folding it. “Alright, my guys will fetch your furnishings from your a
Cassie POVI slowly exhaled as the plane taxied into its storage hanger. It was the first time I'd been on Greek soil in almost three years, and it hit me hard. “Are you alright?” Vasilios asked as he looked over me from his luxurious white leather seat. Flying in a private plane certainly had its perks. “Yeah, I'm just a bit nervous to see my dad.”And that was putting it mildly. The last few months before I'd tucked my tail between my legs and ran away to America, things had been rocky between my dad and myself. “I can't say he's been happy with the way you ran away without even telling him where you were going,” Vasilios raised a condescending eyebrow. I crossed my arms and looked out the window at the activities in the hanger. “It's not as if he'd be magically happy with me if I did tell him where I was going. You forget that he was still pissed at me for the Laryssa debacle.”“So, you made it clear that you didn't like his girlfriend and she decided to break up with him. They
Cassie POVJurgen stayed close to me for the rest of the ferry ride, and every time Stacey came within sight, he would step between myself and her. I'm not sure when it clicked in my mind that he was acting as my bodyguard, but it somewhat irritated me. I didn't need a bodyguard! I was tough enough to look after myself. “Come, let's get off this vessel before we get stuck behind the rest of the tourists,” I heard Vasilios's voice break through my brooding. I followed him meekly, trying to hold my tongue until we were alone. As we got to a shiny black Range Rover, Jurgen passed Vasilios a set of keys before he turned and disappeared into the crowd without another word. I found myself staring after him, a bit dumbfounded at his actions. Vasilios opened the passenger side door for me and I climbed in, still darting glances at where the other man had disappeared like a spectre of my imagination. “Vasilios, what is Jurgen?” I heard myself ask as Vasilios drove through the streets of P
Cassie POV“Cassandra.”I heard my father's whispered words as if they had been shouted. He stood as still as a statue for a moment before he shook his head and walked away, not bothering to look back. I'm not sure what I expected him to do, but it certainly wasn't that. I stared after him, completely dumbstruck. “Vasilios, you have returned with your runaway mate. Am I to assume that you are going to compete against Viktor for the title?” Alpha Dimitri's rough voice echoed in the entrance hall. “I have come to claim my title, Father. Viktor's blood link to the position is so distant that he shouldn't even be a consideration for this position,” Vasilios tensed beside me as he spat out his cousin's name. A muscle in the alpha's cheek twitched, but other than that he showed no emotion. “Your cousin has a letter from the council which has said that, as he is still a descendant of the original Alpha of Poros, he cannot- and will not - be excluded from the proceedings as our Poros cust
Vasilios POVI clenched my hands into tight fists before relaxing them again for what seemed like the hundredth time since I made the slow procession down to Beta Georgio's office. He was the only person who could possibly give me an advantage over my so-called cousin. But standing outside his office, I was questioning if this was a good idea after all. “He might not support me because I let his daughter get away,” I told Titan, the grumpy wolf irritated with my indecision. “Or he could be grateful that you brought his rebellious daughter home. Stop being such a kitten, Vasilios. We are alpha, for fuck sakes.”I knew he was right. Clenching my fists one last time, I knocked firmly on the beta's door. “Enter!” he called out seconds before I pushed his door open. The man looked even older than he had before I had left; his salt and pepper hair now mostly grey and the wrinkles around his eyes were more defined. “Ah, Vasilios. Welcome home!” he smiled warmly at me as he stood up fro
Cassie POVI stood in front of the mirror and tugged at my cocktail dress, wishing it were just a little bit longer. Formal dinners had never been my thing - having to make smalltalk and pretend to like people who would willingly stab you in the back at the first opportunity. But there I was, preparing in the same way I imagined warriors preparing for war. “You ready?” I heard Vasilios ask from behind me, and I spun around in fright. “Yeah, I guess so,” I scrunched up my nose as I looked Vasilios up and down. “Although I look like an escort girl next to you.”Dressed in a navy suit, the top two buttons of his crisp white shirt left undone, and his shoes shiny enough to see your reflection in, he looked delectable. In contrast, my little black number seemed a bit too revealing and lacked the suave sense of class that he portrayed. “You look fine, babe. Just keep your head held high and tell the critics that your bag with your formal attire was accidentally left at the airport,” Vas