“I was never in love with you, Adonai. You were nothing but a means to an end. Therefore, I, Aria Blackwood, reject you, Adonai King as mate,” I said defiantly. Those seafoam eyes remained icy, his face betraying no form of pain. “Are you done?” The indifference in his voice startled me. “Get on the bed, little flower and spread those legs for me. I don't need a mate bond to completely own you.” Mated to a cursed Alpha, Aria believed that the only way to escape humiliation and torture she was constantly subjected to at the Moonbeam pack was to give her mate, Asher, a child and break the curse. But just as she broke the curse, Asher turned against her and had both Aria and her new born thrown into a furnace. The goddess grants her a second chance where she returns as Jasmine Green, a woman who committed suicide on her wedding day. Inorder to execute her revenge, she must completely surrender herself to Adonai King, the ruthless Lycan King and make him fall head over heels for her. What happens when Jasmine's world is a lot more complicated than Aria? When she finds herself drowning in Adonai's darkness and seduction? With a secret lover, a bitter twin and scheming mistresses, will Aria be able to navigate through the web of conspiracies to win Adonai's heart and get her revenge or will she be caught in the crossfire and suffer a second death?
View More-Dante-Now that Jasmine had done what she did, she had made me see reasons to get rid of her for good. She did not hesitate to report me to the council even when she was not certain of what she suspected me of and without any evidence. That fascinated me a lot and made me wonder why she desperately wanted to bring me down.It might be because of the way her relationship with Adonai was going. She must have thought she was better than everyone and wanted to please him more. It was true that he thought highly of her after she had exposed Asher.She did not know that she would have to pass my approval before Adonai had anything to do with her. When her mother had brought the proposal for the first time for Adonai to marry her, I had been the one who convinced him to go ahead with it.By that time, I was already engaged to Ariel and was secretly seeing Jasmine. I had all my plans drafted out and the next phase was getting her to marry him. It was easy for me to agree with the proposal. B
-Crystal-I sneaked out of the palace when it was dark, covered my face with a black veil so I would not be noticed and walked to Derick’s house. He was up when I got there, I could tell because his house was still lightened and I could hear movements within the room.I knocked on the door quietly, looking around. He opened almost immediately as if he had been expecting me.“What are you doing here by this time of the night?” he asked with a grimace and I frowned at him.“Don’t ask me that as if you were not expecting me,” I scowled, pushing him out of the way. I walked into the room while he closed it and I took off the veil.“I do not expect you would come here by this time of the night,” he said and I rolled my eyes.“You expect that I come here in the day when everyone can see me and wonder what the Luna is doing at your house?”“Easy, you don’t have to be so impatient with me,” he shook his head at me.“Why are you acting so calm?” I looked at him and folded my hands across my ch
-Aria-I walked into my room and Prisca was there waiting for me. She could not follow me to the council meeting because she was a commoner.“What happened?” she asked with concern on her face. I walked to the bed and sat down heavily. “Why are you looking this way? What happened at the meeting?”I had not told her about my suspicions about Dante and that I was going to report him to the council. She knew that I had gone to the council, but did not know the reason why. Since I had been allowed to sit with them, she must have thought it was just a normal meeting.I looked at her face which was a mixture of worry and concern and wondered if I should tell her what had happened or not. I decided to tell her, there was no point keeping it from her anyway, rumors flew more than witches here and she would eventually find out and be mad at me for not telling her.So I narrated all that happened and by the time I was done there was a look of horror on her face which I was very sure was exagger
-Aria-At that point, I knew had gotten myself into some serious mess but I was more worried and concerned about what Adonai would think of me now. The disappointment on his face was enough punishment to break me.“We all make mistakes and assumptions,” his first statement was surprisingly calm and I could I was not the only one it had taken aback. The entire room was looking in his direction with surprise. “And that is why we all must always be certain of whatever information we bring to the council.”He paused, and the silence was such that a pin could be heard if dropped. Maybe they heard my chest thumping because I could hear it playing loudly like a drum. Adonai adjusted on the chair and continued.“I would sadly agree that I was hasty with the decision of allowing her in the council which you all can testify that she did a great job before I had that consideration, but Jasmine,” he turned to address me and my heart stopped beating for a second or two. “I do not appreciate that y
-Aria-I glanced at Dante and saw that he was looking at me and I wanted to believe that I had mistaken the look on his face to be a grin filled with mockery.He shouldn’t be looking that way in this situation right? But there was something about his confidence that worried me. He had responded to the elders as if he did not have any idea what they were talking about and he had not done anything wrong.“I cannot believe this council had called me to query me about how I walked out of a building that belonged to me,” he shook his head. “Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds? You all are gathered here. You want to question me on why I had left the empire because someone said she saw me leave suspiciously. Shouldn’t you have asked the young lady further questions before calling for this meeting because I don’t want to believe this is all you are based on?”There was silence for a while and it seemed the elders were pondering on the point Dante just made. I did not want to think it, b
-Dante-I dragged her arms and pulled her close.“What the hell are you talking about?” I asked fiercely.“Let go of me Dante,” she said with a hard look on her face too. “I said let go, you would have to explain to anyone watching us right now, why you are holding me like this, and believe me I would not hesitate to say what I know.”I let go of her, but not because of the threat. I would never allow a woman like her to think she could scare me with her threats.“You do not know anything Jasmine,” I said. “So you had better get that off your little brain.”“Oh really?” she replied sarcastically. “If you are so sure, why are you looking scared?”I took a deep breath to steady myself.“Listen,” I pointed a finger to her face. “It is bad already that you have decided to put everything we had together in the trash. I am trying to move on and live my life, I do not want you all over me.”“Oh please,” she was not shaken. “Do not try to change the topic. I have always known you to have a d
-Dante-I had not noticed Jasmine walking towards me until I saw a shadow standing beside me and turned round. She was looking at me with a smile on her face, a very pretentious one.“Hi brother-in-law,” she greeted pleasantly and I scoffed.“You must be mistaken,” I shook my head at her. “I am no brother-in-law of yours.”“Oh, but you are,” she maintained, the smile not leaving her face.“I am forced to believe that it is because you are having a good time with my brother now that you are so pathetic to think yourself in such a position. Well, I am not sorry to break it to you that you will be so disappointed.”“On the contrary my darling, I do not think because I am having a good time with your brother that I call you my brother-in-law. That is a possibility I can tell you both of us do not know about, but while we are at it, you are my sister’s fiancé and for that reason, is my brother-in-law. Either way, you are related to me in one way or the other.”I chortled lowly.“What do yo
-Crystal-I sat on my bed, playing with my fingers but was too restless to remain seated. I stood up and began pacing around.Damn it! I hit my fist on my palm lightly. How did Asher get to find out about the fake pregnancy? But I knew how. Asher was a stubborn man who did not mind finding his ways even to the extent of going to the seer.I thought he had gone to find out the course of the misfortune befallen the pack, I had no idea it was going to get me exposed. If only I had known, I would have found the seer beforehand and paid him a huge amount to keep his mouth shut.I hissed and sat down back on the bed. It was too late to cry now that he had found out about it. I looked towards the door.I had sent for one of my closest friends, Monalisa and I did not know what was taking her so long to get here. I needed to talk to her. She knew how to make me better at situations like this and she was the person I needed to hear from.Just then while I thought of her, the door opened and she
-Prisca-The morning was almost over and Jasmine was still nowhere to be found. Adonai had taken her to his room yesterday instead of bringing her here but I was in no position to question that. After all, she was his mistress.But I was her best friend and he deprived me of her. I had to sleep all by myself in her room. I was sure she felt much better this morning so why had she decided to remain in his room? I crossed my legs comfortably on the large bed and had a large bite of the bread I was eating. I had the room all to myself so I could do whatever I wanted.The dinner last night might have ended uneventfully but I had observed certain things I had to myself to ponder on.Dante and Jasmine had acted as if they were total strangers. I had not thought of how serious Jasmine was when she said she was ending the relationship, well not until at the dinner. However, Dante had addressed his glares to me and they had not come unnoticed by Ariel. Jasmine might not have noticed, but I wou
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