Alpha Zane King has nothing left to live for. After losing his mate and queen, he’s a husk of the man he once was. He only lives to raise his son so that he one day can take over the kingdom. His methods are harsh, cold, and cruel. He’ll never tolerate any weakness. Never again, will anyone in his kingdom suffer as he has… But his life gets thrown a curveball, when he accidentally stumbles upon Arella; a human female ranger who lives alone deep in the woods, overseeing the huge national forest right next to his borders. She doesn’t cower before him, she doesn’t put up with his shit and most importantly, she makes him feel things again. Things he long since thought were dead… But everything might come to a crashing end when Arella is shot by poachers. Now, Zane is faced with a difficult choice: risk changing her and turning her into a werewolf – or lose her forever…
View MoreZane's POVDespite lying on a hospital bed, she looked like a goddess. Her unruly black curls lay around her like a halo, framing her beautiful round face. Her eyes looked like black diamonds with streaks of gold and brown, giving them an ethereal warmth that seemed to seep straight into your very soul. And her scent of spring was only getting richer and fuller with her wolf about to come out. Breathing it in felt like Viagra shot straight to my cock, making it throb in the confines of my jeans.“Now imagine if I’d let bullets ruin those fine glutes,” she teased, and just to really drive home the awkward boner I now was sporting, she winked. “I would go to hell for it for sure.”“Stop making me want to laugh!” I tried to yell at her again, but--- fuck, I couldn’t stop laughing. That attitude and that smile---! Shit! All I wanted to do was to rip the dress the rest of the way down,
Zane’s POV“Then how would it be any different?”She asked as if it was an actual legitimate question! Just the thought of her in danger sent my wolf spiraling into an enraged frenzy. He’d failed to protect her and now she was telling us she would do something like that again if she felt she had to? How much blood had she lost? Because it had to be some trauma that had her speaking like that, right? She had to have hit her head and it knocked a couple of screws loose or something.Or did this woman just NOT have a survival instinct AT ALL?!Her track record said no, since she acted and talked to me as some would have done to a misbehaving pup. Which required some brass balls and then some. And I knew her job as a ranger could be dangerous, but---Jumping in front of a bullet?The woman HAD to be crazy!“Because---!”I bellowed the word, about to make her und
Arella's POVAnd while I loved to tell his sexist and “mightier than thou”-ass off, I bit back the retort – for now! I didn’t know what it was, but that pressure in my head was back, and while it was uncomfortable, it wasn’t pain. It felt more like a stroke to my nerves, telling me he needed this.He needed to feel in some sort of control…I was in a hospital bed and I guessed, I hadn’t gotten here by magic. Which meant that it had been Zane that got me here. And judging from his outbursts, I had a feeling that he was more freaked out than anything. I had no idea what kind of memories this brought back for him and, with the small bit I did know about him, I bet he blamed himself more than anyone for what happened.Just like he blamed himself for his wife’s murder…So, I was going to give some leeway for that one – for now! I could be a bitch, but I wasn’t heartless
WARNING: the stereotypes are supposed to be funny! I promise, if you laugh--- you might go to hell, but you’ll be laughing when you get there…Arella’s POV“What crawled up his ass and died?” I asked, gesturing to the retreating form of his brother.“It’s complicated,” Zane growled, still glaring at the door. There was a slight cracking sound and I realized that the metal of the rail was about to give way to the big log’s fury. On instinct, I reached out and placed my hand over his, surprised at how warm his hands felt. And at the strange buzzing sensation that felt like electricity where our skin touched.As if sensing this too, Zane’s attention snapped from the door to our joined hands. The murderous aura that had been suffocating the room dissipated within a second. He didn’t waste a second to interlace our fingers and I could see his body finally relax. The death grip on the bed eased and he closed his eyes, a look of
Arella's POVThe thought of some alien Illuminati secret organization fleetingly passed my mind, as more and more pieces of our conversation flickered across my mind. And denial right on its tail!There was no way that---!Right?“What if they send trackers?” the brother – Noah, apparently – persisted and leaned towards his brother, resting his hands on the rail on the other side of the bed. “If I know you the way I do, you didn’t make it look like some kind of animal attack or even covered it up.”Covered it up?!Suddenly, a whole host of other possibilities popped into my mind. Why Zane was alone in the woods. Why he seemed so familiar with my guns. Why he didn’t say anything about who he was or where he came from. What if he had been escaping something – or someone – himself?What if---?“I’ll. Fix. It
Arella’s POV“I don’t sense any magic coming from her,” a strange voice said somewhere far away. “Are we sure she’s human?”Magic?!Are we sure she’s human?What kind of questions were those? And goodness gracious, what was that smell? It smelled like a hospital only a million times more potent. If I could, I would have scrunched my nose. But I couldn’t because, for some reason, my body was completely unresponsive.Why couldn’t I move?Mild panic started to sliver into my chest and I found it hard to breathe. I tried to think of a reason, but my mind came up blank. I remembered arguing with Zane that morning – which wasn’t really that out of the ordinary. I swear, sometimes that man lives to make me old. No one had ever tested my patience the way Zane did.The stubborn, insurable, arrogant---Speaking of…
Zane's POVTrue that I’d broken the law – first by killing “innocent” humans and then by turning Arella without her consent – and by law, they could, or more accurately, should arrest me and have me thrown in a cell. But my family hadn’t turned on me so far and they wouldn’t turn on me now.So--- innocent by default?“The law states that you need the king’s permission before turning a human,” I growled, letting him go and watching him barely catching himself as he stumbled to the floor. “I gave myself permission.”“But she doesn’t know,” Noah growled, pushing me away from our parents and getting between us, facing me. “And she’s not a mate---” He abruptly cut himself off, as if suddenly realizing something, and gave me a stunned glance.“Is she?”The seconds of tension and hopeful glances I got wer
Zane's POV“Zane?” My father asked, the worry in his tone making my human half have some compassion towards the man. He was just worried about me, his son. Before me, he’d been the King of the Werewolves, and everything I knew about the kingdom, he’d taught me. He was a great father – strict but caring and kind to his pups. And I used to always listen to him and take his advice when I had tough decisions to make.Lately, that hadn’t been the case.I fought with him all the time, since he and Noah were the only ones who still could get away (and live) with that shit. They couldn’t take me in a physical fight and the few times we became physical, I remind them of that. Not that I actually wanted to hurt my family, but I’d been afraid that if I didn’t keep them at a distance, I would end up killing them…“They-they say you had human blood on you,” he continued, as my brother came up next to him, as if ready to intervene if my wolf t
Zane’s POVI sat there, staring at her in the hospital bed. A whirlwind of emotions had washed through me the last couple of hours and, honestly, I felt exhausted.I felt guilty.I’d failed her…She’d almost died protecting me because she didn’t know that--- My wolf growled low, wishing he could kill those asshole humans again. But in a way, I also wanted to thank them. NOT for shooting my little angel, but--- if they hadn’t, then…I know I should feel like a bastard!I know I should feel bad for taking away her choice. That I’d turned her, without her even knowing what I was.Yet a part of me couldn’t be sorry.I’d already decided to show her what I was. After she caught me returning from the castle, I knew I wouldn’t be able to weasel my way out of it anymore. And while there would be consequences for my ac
Zane’s POV“Weak,” I snorted at my son as he sprawled on the ground, struggling to get up after the harder-than-necessary blow I’d just delivered.“I-I’m sorry, father,” Cain whined, tears in his eyes. My wolf let out a snarl, and clawed my insides, making pain coil inside of me. Because a part of me did feel bad for doing this. A part of me wanted to reach out and comfort him. To tell him that he did well. That I could see the improvements and the efforts of his hard work---But then I remembered the price of those emotions. How they had made me weak. And who, in the end, paid the ultimate price…My Luna Queen…My mate!Her blood was on my hands because of that weakness…So I took those useless emotions and stuck them someplace where the sun didn’t shine. I didn’t show any weakness. I wouldn’t. Not in front of my pack and not in front of my children. I refused to let them suffer because of my weakness.Not anymore…“Don’t be sorry,” I snarled, spinning on my heels and heading back to...
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