Karica's POV
(Three Years Later)Life couldn't have been more blissful as I gazed up at the well-lit ramp where model after model paraded along, displaying the winter collection by a famous designer.The confidence oozed from them as they took sturdy steps and walked along with ease. My eyes longed for someone and finally, he stepped on the ramp.Burgundy slim-fitting turtle neck hugged his body and toned out his steely chest and ribbed abs. A checkered muffler, black corduroy pants covered his infinite-toned legs and a pair of chinos completed his winter attire. His reddish blonde hair was neatly back-combed and his hands were in his pockets.With a defined jawline, an aristocratic nose and gazelle-shaped ocean-blue eyes, he stood at 6'1. A perfect model. No wonder he was one of the leading male models in the industry and not only the girls but also boys drooled over him.He confidently walked the ramp, his poker face staring ahead but his eyes slightly drifted and fell where I sat in the back watching him. Our gazes met for the briefest of seconds and I saw a subtle hint of a smile tug at the corners of his cupid-shaped lips.I nibbled at my lower lip as his sharp eyes took all of me in before turning at the end of the ramp and walking away. My heart turned into a drum, beating and creating its own music, music of contentment, music of the feral desires he ignited in me. The desire to gobble him up bubbled inside me.No no, I don't have cannibalistic urges, it's just that Adiyan is delicious.I waited for the event to be over and then slowly slipped away from the crowd and media, keeping a low profile. Making my way to the nearby hotel, where I had booked a room. Using my access card I made my way inside.The night had spread its darkened wings and the celestial body with silver hues didn't adorn the skies today as I stared out the window. I waited, must I say impatiently.The door finally opened and he emerged in all his glory. I could feel his presence behind me. Taking confident strides he closed the distance between us and grabbed me by my waist before turning me around to face him."Adiyan!" my breath hitched in my constricted throat. My hands landed on his ripped chest. One must think I would get used to his subtle handsomeness by now. We had been dating for a year now. But, I didn't. He had that effect on me and I did on him."My beautiful girl!" His gravelly voice had my body in tingles. He pressed his forehead with mine and closed his eyes. His cupid lips were inches away from me, his hot breath fanning against my cold skin.My hands instantly moved and clutched his hair and he slowly opened his eyes, those curved lashes made him even sexier. He was everything a girl could dream of, charming, loving, deeply caring, patient and sexy with a flawless body."Are you ready?" he slowly asked in a baritone. He had been extremely patient with me, we hadn't been sexually intimate with each other. I hadn't been with anyone, at the age of 23 I was still a virgin. Not that there was something wrong with me.I wanted time and he gave me all that I needed. But, tonight I yearned for him to claim me and make me his own. I was ready to take the next step with Adiyan."I am," my cheeks tinted the shade of his turtle neck and his head dipped before his lips claimed mine in a soft kiss as we moved back until I was pressed against the tinted glass window. My hands landed on his silky black hair and I tugged them.His lips had become ferocious, his tongue danced on the tip of my teeth, wanting access while his hand had slipped down inside my pants, and his deft fingers were playing with the ridges of my panties.He was setting me on fire, soon I would be reduced to ashes and my core had already started throbbing with anticipation as the tip of his index finger carefully pushed aside thin material of my panty and touched the tiny nerve bundle, making me shudder with pleasure he was igniting inside.His lips moved to my ears and he sultrily whispered:"I am going to make love to you, all night long. This first experience will be the one you will never forget because I am going to gobble up every figment of your being."My heart blatantly thudded and the tips of my ears began to scorch in answer to his naughty words. His lips had found the ridges of my neck and he was nipping, grazing, and leaving feathery kisses on it. He removed his hands from my core and began to fumble with my shirt buttons. Openinh them slowly, one by one as he revealed my skin below and traced it with the tip of his pinkish tongue.Adiyan removed my turquoise shirt and tossed it aside, leaving me in my lacy push-up bra. His lusty eyes landed on my heaving chest as they invited him, peeking out. Opening his mouth he devoured a substantial part of it in his mouth and sucked."Ahhh!" the sensation and small electric currents roamed the entirety of my being and my grip tightened on his hair, tugging him closer, my back arched, giving him more access to my skin.His skilful hands dropped down to my pants and he opened the button and pulled down my zipper. I stepped out of them as he kicked it further away from me and straightened up so he could stare into my eyes.His both hands on my cheeks as his luscious eyes bore into mine and he spoke in that deep voice of his:"You know how much I love you and this means so much to me. You chose me to be your first, I can't explain how happy I am Karica. I promise I will never break your heart and will be there for you whenever, and wherever you will need me," his hands caressed my cheeks and I leaned into his touch."I know, that's why I chose you," I whispered back. My heart was content with this man, there are always small things which tell a woman if she had chosen the right man.When he cooks for you.When he opens the car door for you and helps you settle in first.When he makes you the centre of his attention.When he makes the time to call or text you even from his busy schedule.That's what Adiyan did for me. Elevated me to the point where he declared I was his queen and he treated me like one too."I love you, Adi," my words were from my heart but there was an impending fear with them. The fear of my past and I only hoped it would not catch up to me."I love you too. Now let me make sweet sweet love to you and eat you up like my favourite candy. Savouring every bit," his words made me deeply blush as his lips found mine yet again and I moaned in his mouth.My hands grabbed the ends of his turtleneck and were about to push it up when the door of our room was banged open with such force that it rattled on its hinges and flew to a few feet and landed with a loud thud.Before we could register the shock of what had happened, a strong pair of hands grabbed Adiyan from behind and flung him across the room as if he were a ragdoll and not a person. His body hit the opposite wall with so much force that a scream elicited my throat seeing the blood coming out of his mouth. Those beautiful eyes of his were registering the shock he had received and had widened to twice the size.My eyes roamed to the intruder as my hands flew to my open mouth. I found myself face-to-face with the tallest and largest man I had seen, he wasn't a man he was a beast with eyes so dense and ebony like a black hole, which had engulfed all my happiness. The icy glare had fiercely impaled me where I stood.His nostrils flared and his large hands balled at his sides making the veins pop out along his tanned skin, like blue streams. My heart was about to jump out of my chest at the dangerous aura he was emitting to make me submit. I was too transfixed by his gaze. When his plump lips moved and a single word wiggled out. A word that made my legs wobble and I almost slumped to the ground:"MATE."Karica's POVThe danger alarms began sounding in my brain and I knew exactly who he was, although I had never seen him before just heard about him. The fear of what he would do to me coursed through my veins like a river of pain and I tried to put some distance between us. His sturdy hand moved and grabbed my arm, the skin which came in contact with his sizzled and a tingling sensation began which travelled to my naval, making my whole body shudder. I knew what this meant, he was my 'mate' and he had found me after three years. I felt Laila stir in my head and my lips moved of their own accord as she struggled for control and announced loudly to him:"Mate!"The angry contortions of his face slightly softened at that mere declaration of the fact that our souls had been conjoined by a higher decree. But that softness vanished in a split second."Don't you fucking move," he spat out, his ebony orbs swirling with loathing and disgust for me. Two more men entered the room and his head w
Karica's POVHis voice echoed in the room loud and clear and the two men instantly halted and turned towards us. My eyes darted in their direction. The confusion marred their sharp features and eyes held questions but they dared not speak. Adiyan's mouth was bleeding unstoppable, the blood covered his chin and front of his turtleneck. My heart screamed in pain and I wanted to shred those butchers into pieces. I couldn't even blink seeing the horrified condition of the man I loved. "We are leaving. Get the cars ready and leave him here," the beast-type man echoed from behind me in that steely voice of his. "Just let me call someone, we can't leave him here like that, he will die. Please," every part of me that was human wanted to rush to Adiyan and take him in my arms but the wolf part of me was content with being held by my mate. This was so conflicting as if I was being painfully torn into two individuals, it was excruciating. "I don't care," he calmly added from behind me before
Karica's POVThe partition in the car was flipped aside and the blonde-haired man's voice filtered through:"We are reaching the airport." He simply nodded at him, his lips forming a thin line. The car stopped near a pure white private jet and opening the door he got out. Crossing over to my side, he opened my door and grabbed my arm before yanking me out with such force that my right foot almost twisted against the hard ground. 'Fu*king brilliant, just break my foot, Hercules,' I yelled in my head and sucked up the discomfort as he dragged me along towards the private jet. It was chilly outside and I was glad he had lent me his coat. We climbed the stairs and I noticed how neat and posh the interior of his jet was. Everything was almost white and too clean. He threw me onto a comfy-looking leather seat. My hips landed with a small 'thud'. "Fasten your seatbelt," he sternly instructed and I obeyed with a sigh. Squatting on the seat opposite me he did the same. The two men with h
Karica's POVI tried to wriggle out of his iron hold, my eyes taking in how close his heaving chest was to me. His scent filled my nostrils, making it difficult to push him away and I almost wanted to give in and lean forward, to bury my nose in his chest and take a deep breath. His hand tightened and now it was hurting me. "L…let go," I breathed out with difficulty. "You better stop fantasising about him or I will return and finish what I started," he snapped, jerking my head away, his anger blazing like an uncontrollable inferno. Those pools of darkness radiated an untamed ferocity, like uncoiled black mambas ready to strike me. Instilling terror in my rapidly beating heart but my tongue couldn't hold itself. "At least he never hurt me in the time we spent together. On the contrary, the man who is supposed to be my mate has already done that countless times in the past few hours," I burst out, unable to control my anger at his demeaning behaviour. He was still hovering over me a
Karica's POVHis need to berate me every time he opened his mouth was beginning to drive me nuts. I stayed quiet so he could get this over with. "Rule no.1: You will show utmost respect to my family members and anyone I will ask you to. Rule no. 2: You will stay in your allocated room and will only leave it with my permission. You are not allowed to roam around freely.Rule no. 3: You will not try to tempt any more men. This is not the outside world where you can sleep around.Rule no. 4: Don't ever talk about any of the men you have been with, in front of me or anyone else for that matter.Rule no. 5: You will do exactly as I ask you to.Failing to follow any of these rules and I will punish you severely." The anger rose inside me like molten lava and I felt like a fu*king volcano, ready to burst open. Who the hell did he think I was? A cheap slut who wanted to sleep around. "I am not a whore," I spat back at him, the bitterness rising inside me with every second, leaving a bad t
Xynathius's POVI stood there, outside her door after closing it. My legs wouldn't shift even when I wanted to walk away, they seemed to have been glued to the floor. Her sobs echoed from inside the room and I knew the bold front she was trying to maintain finally shattered. The fucking bond pulled me towards her, to take her in my arms and provide solace and comfort as a mate should. But the way I had found her still made my blood boil, almost nude and in another man's arms. It had taken every ounce of willpower I possessed to not kill the f*cker. How could she abandon and disregard the mate bond and get sexually involved with a human? I didn't even know how many men she had been with. I clearly remembered the day three years ago when I received the call that I had found my potential mate. The sense of elation and satisfaction I experienced at the news was beyond explainable. Not only was she alpha born but her stats were off the charts. She broke the record with her results. No
Karica's POVI gathered my broken self and finally mustered the courage to leave the floor. Wiping away the tears that trickled down my cheeks. Crying was for the weak, I wouldn't cry anymore, especially for this pathetic excuse of an Alpha. Kicking away my heels, I rubbed my feet and then slowly took off his fur coat. A chill ran through my semi-naked body as his warmth left me and I stood there holding his coat for a while. Looking around, I found a wooden closet in the corner. It had been painted violet just like the other furniture and walls in the room and had silver vines adorning its frame. Walking over to it I threw open the doors and found a few hangers, casual dresses, and nightshirts, nothing fancy. I took out a hanger and hung his coat on it before placing it back on the rod. Then I began shuffling through the dresses, all of them were oversized but at that point, I didn't care. Grabbing the front one I took it off the hanger, it was a plain flannel night dress in navy
Karica's POVThe next morning I was woken up by someone shaking me awake. Groggily opening my eyes I found it was Tacy. "You have to get up now. Alpha is waiting for you at the breakfast table, he doesn't appreciate tardiness. Get dressed and come downstairs quickly."Tacy sternly added as if it was not my first day here and I was accustomed to all their rules and routines. She could have informed me yesterday night, but of course, they had to do it in the nick of time. I rubbed my eyes before throwing away the duvet covering me, although all I wanted to do was stay bundled up underneath it. Scrambling to my feet I was about to make my way to the bathroom when Tacy handed me a black uniform, similar to what she was donning. It was a knee-length loose-fitting dress, made from high-quality black fabric. The design featured clean lines and minimal embellishments, reflecting a professional and sophisticated style.The dress had a slightly A-line silhouette, with pleats. The neckline w