LOGINAs if he sensed her question, he looked at her with a small smile. “Don't worry. I will wait until he gets back before I kill him.”
“Right,” she responded drily, and he turned to leave.
“Come on.” Athena's gaze lingered on the powerful back walking down the hall, even as she urged Zaya on.
“This wasn't how this night was supposed to go,” she thought with a sigh.
Her body was a wreck with the sensations powering through her body the higher the moon climbed.
The powerful passion had been slightly tamped down beneath her fury earlier, but the fury was gone now.
It had taken all her willpower not to launch herself into Raymond's arms whe
“He is lying. He is lying,” Lorraine told herself, even as her feet wanted to automatically move away from him. He might be bluffing, but she was certain of one thing for sure. He was a very dangerous man.And if he was really here to finish the queen off, then she needed to make sure he got as far away as possible from her.“Stop calling me that,” she said in a soft voice.“Calling you what? Sweetheart? Darling?” He repeated deliberately, even as a faint V formed between his brows because of the sudden change in her tone.Lorraine forced her body to relax and hoped she came off as intended. She let her eyes drag slowly down his body, slightly biting her lip as her eyes rose to meet his again. “I know you probably can’t get much action in this sleepy suburb. But you are not so desperate that you are hung up on a pregnant woman, are you?”Something glinted in his eyes, thawing the coldness, as his smirk came back with vengeance. “Are you offering?” he drawled.“Well…”His hand shot
Just as she had suspected, it was the man from earlier.He stood with his hands in his pockets, legs wide apart and an arrogant smirk she wanted to punch off his smug face. His shirt fitted snugly against his well-sculpted body, and Lorraine knew those muscles were built more for strength than aesthetics.She briefly wondered if she could take him on and win, but she knew that for her queen, she would do anything to keep the bastard down.His face was just as sharply carved as his body. A chin as edged as a blade, and a shaggy brow over eyes that reminded her of a cunning cat.The tilt of his lips curved upward more as he detected her subtle once-over.Deciding not to waste her breath on long talks, her words rolled out frostily in question, “Who are you and what do you want?”“Wow,” he patted his chest as if he was hurt, even as his eyes hardened without moving from hers. “Things must be done so differently where you are from. I want to believe that is the only reason a mere gamma
Lorraine looked back at the house with guilt throbbing in her heart. The past few weeks had taken their toll on her. Not because she had turned into a caretaker for her queen. But because of the truths she could not dare to utter. Because of the lies, she had to back up with more. Because, in trying to protect Her Majesty, she had deceived her.As much as her wolf wanted to respond automatically in obedience to Athena, it was confused because of the sudden absence of the higher wolf, Morrigan. Lorraine had ensured they went as far as possible from the kingdom too. Anything to keep her queen safe until she regained her memory, or at least until Lorraine could get enough resources and backup to charge back to the kingdom and make things right.She still did not know who to trust. And it sure as hell still gutted her that she did not know the alpha consort’s number. She had managed to lose her phone too, missing any chance to connect with that pain-in-the-ass beta.She pulled her
“This place is no longer… Safe, Sonia. It's…it's just not right anymore. Let's leave here. We can go any other place you want. Up north? East? Anywhere. If you choose, I will agree with you.”Sonia's voice bristled when she responded, “And if I want to stay here?”“Sonia…”“I want to stay here,” she continued without waiting for the refusal she already heard in Kamara's tone. “I know I can't remember much, and I have no idea where we were coming from apart from what you told me. I don't know why I suddenly told you I had to leave Paree before we got into the accident. You believe I was afraid of something. Maybe even running from someone. But the fact remains that I can't remember any of that. I rely on you for memories I might never get back. And maybe that's why it hurts when I feel that there are things you are holding back from me. Important things.”“Sonia…”“You don't have to tell me until you want to. I am not forcing you to say it. So give me the same courtesy by not asking me
A low chuckle rumbled through the man's chest as he said lightly, “Really? You are commanding me now?”Kamara did not back down this time as she replied, “I will not repeat myself. Stay the fuck away from her!”The smile on the man's face was laced with something that made Sonia's pulse race. He was not flinching against the glare of light bathing him. His eyes did not move from Kamara, yet Sonia could feel his presence all around.She was beginning to think his laid-back posture was more dangerous than Kamara's aggressive stance.“Kamara,” Sonia called lightly, trying to take her attention away from the man. Though she felt the shift in Kamara's attention, her cousin did not take her eyes off the man.“I don't… I don't think he is a bad man. He stood up to a…creep earlier. He was just about to explain why he was following me when you arrived,” Sonia explained hurriedly, trying to inject anything that could diffuse the tension she did not understand.He smiled lazily as he raised a
“You shouldn't see me,” he whispered, with a hint of curiosity in his tone. Yet she could hear him clearly.“Uhn? What do you mean I shouldn't see you?” Sonia said as she placed her hand against her belly protectively. “You were acting all suspicious, following me like I owe you something,” she added testily, squinting when he walked past the flare of light and kept coming towards her as his face got swallowed up by the shadows again.She had the instinct of stepping back as he got closer, yet she straightened and stood up to him while wondering if her belly would allow her to give him a swift kick in the groin.“What is this about?” she asked as sternly as her breathy voice would allow.“You shouldn't hear me,” he said softly. A hint of steel underlay his tone, like that of a man used to command and domination.Sonia’s nose was filled with his musky scent. But there was something else underneath it. A scent. Something disturbing that made her lightheaded as it pulled hard at someth







