ALPHA JULIAN After the meeting with the Alphas, I went back to the gym, where I sparred with the sparring robot. I fought and fought for hours till I was tired. The robot wasn’t, though; it didn’t have flesh and blood like me. Too much was on my mind; I would never think of giving up on my throne, nor do I want to give up on finding my fated mate. And it was only a matter of time before James got an heir, which would make his claim for the throne stronger according to our customs in the realm. “What would you do if you were me, Robot?” I asked the skinless robot holding a wooden sword with one hand and a clenched fist on the other.“Black?” I asked my wolf, who had been grumpy since the meeting. “I don’t know, Kay, I don’t.” “Then, let’s go for a run, shall we?” “Sure,” he replied, and I walked out of the gym into the pack’s forest. Aside from my heightened sense of sight as the Alpha King, the moon’s bright lights made me feel better tonight. I had no idea night had fallen al
ROSELLA I had a dream. I dreamt for the first time since I became Alpha James's punching bag and a rag doll. All I have ever had were nightmares––horrible ones that wake me up from my sleep with a bloodcurdling cry and sweats of perspiration and anguish gathering all over my forehead. My nightmares had only one monster ––Alpha James–– and if he isn't slashing me with a whip in one, he's slicing my skin off my body in the other. But for the first time, I slept peacefully, and the peaceful sleep bore a beautiful dream filled with bright full moons glazing over grass fields at night and beautiful night stars and my red hair flowing freely with the night breeze in it and a particular blue-eyed creature serving as the cherry on top of my dream. Try as I may deny it, his blue eyes have been the subject of my dreams.Little wonder, my eyes almost popped out of their sockets when I opened my eyes lazily only to find that familiar deep shade of blue looking down at me and sitting beside the
LPHA JULIANMy brain. My mind. Fuck! Even my heart was silent. Black, my wolf, also said nothing as if the shock rocked us both out of the world we built for ourselves. I was still suffering from the shock of seeing the face of the woman I saved, who turned out to be my mate, plastered on a paper with the word "MISSING" in bold letters underneath her picture and a considerable amount of money for anyone who finds her. I was still going crazy from the thought of another Alpha messing up my mate so bad that she wanted to die. My wolf snarled and raged like a crazed fire as if he would tear whoever did it from limb to limb. The motherfucker that made her this way still had the fucking audacity to put a bounty on her head even when the moon goddess broke the bond. But this shock is more incredible. And the motherfucker turned out to be my greedy half-brother, Alpha of the green pack, and my number one threat to the throne, Alpha James. I should have known him suddenly having a luna mea
ALPHA JULIANThe constant ringing of my cell phone dragged me out of the short nap. I had heard it ring a couple of times, if not a dozen and more times, but I chose to ignore it. Holding my mate in my arms felt so good I could barely snatch myself away from her. Her scent was so strong and feminine that it tingled my senses. She felt so soft wrapped around my rigid muscles. I felt like one little touch from me would break her more than she was already broken, and so I tried hard not to move as she slept peacefully until I fell asleep myself while holding her in my arms.When I could no longer take the annoying ringing of my cell phone, I slowly untangled my mate from my arms, letting her fall ever so gently onto the bed. Her soft snores tugged at my heartstrings. She was fucking adorable. The dried-up tears on her face were a reminder of the horrible things she told me moments ago, and it makes me want to deliver a hard punch to the wall while imagining it is a particular Alpha's fac
ROSELLAI don't know for how long I slept, but the man who saved me was no longer beside me when I woke up. I don't know how to describe the feeling that settled inside of me in his absence, but I sure as hell didn't like it. The last thing I remember is crying in his arms after I told him everything I went through in the hands of Alpha James. When he pulled me to him, I let him, surprised that my body didn't make a perverse reaction to him holding me so close to him. A single touch from Alpha James repelled me, but this man's touch didn't. If anything, it made me snuggle closer into him as if I could enter into him.His big muscled arms enveloped me, and I've never felt so safe in someone's arms like I felt with him. His masculine scent intoxicated me, and his cologne was so good it tingled my senses. I know I shouldn't trust him. I know I shouldn't trust anyone even when they give you all the food you've dreamt of eating, let you rest, watch over you like a baby and hold you in the
I had always heard about alpha Julian but I never got the chance to meet him personally. I used to think he would be a very bad person with the way Alpha James was always talking about him. But this man here beat all my expectations. He was magical. Okay! I was officially confused right now. I don't get a thing he is saying. What mate bond trial? "Mate bond trial? What for?" I asked in confusion and I saw him sigh. I wanted him to explain to me properly. "It is to see if the bond between you and Alpha James is broken. I know it is. But I definitely have no choice but to give proof of it. The council of elders needs proof that the bond is broken and a mate trial is what we usually do to prove it." He explained further and I got confused the more. "But he mated me!" "That doesn't make you his mate! You're my mate, and the mate bond trial will prove it. The elders will decide on the date for it." This was definitely too much for me to register. He's hell-bent on proving that I'm h
JAMESI still can’t believe I’m doing this, but well, I am. I need to do it—anything at all, to get my Rosella back. When I woke up this morning, the first thing that came to my mind was thoughts on how to get Rosella back. I didn’t know how everything got to this point and I could have been stricter with that stupid human. I shouldn't have let her have the freedom of leaving the house; now I’m stuck with headaches on how to find the bitch. I mean, I couldn’t sleep, as it eluded me, and ran away as all I could think of, everything in my mind was centered on how I could get that bitch back. The stupid mate is with my half-brother, the Alpha King, right now. I can’t believe Julian outsmarted me again, talk about being lucky. The son of a bitch had always been lucky from birth, he gets the throne and our father’s attention, but James is the black sheep, the one that doesn’t deserve to stay with the elites. Well, that is what I am doing now. I am at my brother’s home, and I have just on
“Julian, don’t push me…” I tell him slowly but he just smirks and then says, “And if I do what are you going to do. You might as well go to hell for all I care, that’s none of my business.” He spits out.“Do you know that she’s pregnant?” I ask him slowly, and for some time I get no response. Silence descends for a while, and no matter how hard I try to know what the fuck he’s thinking, I just can’t.“Do you know she’s carrying my child?” I ask again, louder and clearer this time because I want him to hear every single thing I’m saying. I don’t even know why I’m being this calm, which is so unlike me.“She’s with your child, that’s none of my business. That girl is battered, bruised, and pregnant, and lest I forget she doesn’t need you. The mate hold between you both is broken and she can feel our mate bond now. You don’t feel connected to her again spiritually, It’s just greed left. I think you need to have that in mind, as you leave this place because I’m done with this conversatio