Sabrina’s POVWhen did he get here?“W-were you watching me?” I asked, turning away from him.“Mm. I was right over there,” he pointed to a balcony behind me.“Oh,” I exclaimed softly, and an awkward silence settled between us.“Do you need anything, Beta Ian?”He kept mute for a while and finally said, “Damon…”My body stilled the moment I heard his name.“…what do you think of him?”“I-I don’t understand.”Ian looked at me. “Shall we walk?”Did I have a choice? If I did, then no. I didn’t want the Alpha and Beta duo coming to me all the time.“Of course.”I returned all the gardening tools and joined Ian for a walk.“I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but I heard your conversation with Urmi. Why did you do that?” he said after a while on our walk.My heart dropped. I felt my cheeks heat up from embarrassment. That’s a question I would like to ask myself. Why the hell would I do that?“I don’t know.”“Don’t try to fool me, Sabrina. You know why you did that.”I looked at him, faltering in m
Sabrina’s POVI groggily stood up from bed, my head banging from the lack of sleep. Alpha Damon raided my dreams, waking me up countless times during the night.After a cold shower, I felt better.I got to the kitchen and was getting ready for my duties when one girl, Uriel, quickly blocked my path.I looked at her, confused.“Nanny Tessa has ordered that you do not set foot in the kitchen today. She gave you a day off.”“Huh?”“I’m just following orders,” Uriel said, pushing me out of the kitchen.I turned around, heading to the other kitchen to tell Nanny I was alright, but I halted in my tracks, deciding against it.I still felt sleepy and decided that I didn’t want to pass up the chance.I went back to my room and returned to sleep. This time Alpha Damon didn’t plague my dreams.I woke up again around noon, my body feeling better than it had in weeks.I got out of bed, not bothering to change out of my kitchen uniform since I was heading there anyway.Unfortunately, I met Urmi on
Author’s POVAmaria had cursed him.It wasn’t an act of rage. It was a final move from a heart rotted by rejection and obsession.She’d bound Damon to a fate worse than death. A curse steeped so deep in black magic that even the most seasoned witches wouldn’t dare to speak of it.Every full moon, his wolf would take control. Not just in the way it did for every other werewolf. Damon’s transformation was complete. Consuming. His consciousness would recede into nothing, and his beast would emerge…bloodthirsty, wild, deranged.An immortal prisoner inside his own body.The curse came with a ticking clock. By the thousandth year, the wolf wouldn’t just take over once a month…it would devour Damon entirely. Mind, body, soul. There would be no trace of the Crown Prince. Only a feral rogue left to ravage and kill anything that crossed his path. A force of destruction, with no pack, no loyalty, no mercy.And no death.If caught, he wouldn’t be killed. He couldn’t be. The curse ensured he was i
ORIGIN (Author’s POV)***Amaria was furious.Her scream tore through the chamber, high and guttural, laced with a pain that had long passed the threshold of sanity. With a violent sweep of her arm, she sent the entire table crashing to the floor. Glass shattered. Candles toppled, spilling wax. Dried herbs scattered like ash, their scent lost under the fire of her rage.The coven members stood back, terrified, their gazes lowered, bodies trembling. No one dared to come nearer or stop her.Amaria’s chest heaved up and down, the fumes of her rage nowhere near dying down. After all these years, he still didn’t choose her? The pain of rejection was unbearable. She screamed till the birds outside her residence flew away.She then sank to her knees, wheezing as it became unbearable to breathe. “How could he?” She kept on repeating, tears falling down her face. Her subordinates grimaced at her. They too were over it at this point. How can their leader be this distraught over a man? A werew
Damon’s POVI slammed the door to my room shut, leaning on it as I tried to calm my restless wolf.Hell.I almost lost control in her room. Her soft skin, the dip of her back, the way her body molded against mine as if the gods carved her just for me… it haunted me. I could still smell her intoxicating scent on my clothes, on my hand… my nose itched, wanting to get another whiff.My fangs throbbed with the need to mark her. I was so close to doing that. It was the most primal urge. Every part of me screamed for her. My wolf was on edge, pacing beneath the surface, snarling at my restraint.But I couldn’t.Amaria. That damned snake of a woman had the gall to steal Sabrina’s face. It shouldn’t have surprised me. She had done it once.I ran a hand through my hair, forcing a breath out. The room was dark, lit only by the faint moonlight bleeding through the curtains. I took a few steps forward, but a sudden presence made me halt in my tracks.Someone else was here.My senses snapped into
Sabrina’s POVI sat stiffly on Alpha Damon’s lap, my entire body tense with awareness. His arm was wrapped snugly around my waist, holding me in place like I belonged there.I unintentionally held his thigh for balance. The position was so intimate, I didn’t know what to make of it.Whenever our bare skin touched, I felt a tingling sensation travel down my veins, almost making me release a shaky breath.He smelled so good. Like sandalwood and earth. I was drunk on the musky scent, trying my best to sniff in more without making it look obvious.He leaned over and picked up the box he came in with. It was filled with first-aid medicines and ointments.“Stay still,” he said, his voice low as he put ointment on a Q-tip.“Ow,” I flinched when the ointment came in contact with the open cut on my cheek.“Does it hurt?” he asked, his voice not quite the same this time.I couldn’t trust my voice to hold steady. “A little,” I murmured, my voice barely audible even to myself.It wasn’t a lie. Th