Victor

Olivia….

“Victor.” The man in my presence smiled

My blood ran cold.

I froze for a moment when I felt his touch on mine.

He made my wolf feel scared.

I could feel her begging me to let go of her hand.

I did.

I smiled at him.

I felt naked under his gaze and it didn’t help with the way he stared at me.

“No wonder he keeps you locked away, he wants no one to  see you, you are beautiful Olivia.” Victor smiled.

I never introduced  myself

Who am I kidding?

I am married to the Alpha, everyone in the city has an idea of who I am, they know my name, even my family and I am sure they have heard of the atrocities that happened during the wedding.

“Nice to meet you, I should go in,” I whispered and he nodded softly.

The air thickened as I heard footsteps behind me; in a second, I felt a hand touch me.

My wolf melted into his touch.

Luca.

I didn’t dare turn around to look at him.

I could tell from the way his hand tightened against my waist that he was angry.

What have I done?

“Luca.”

“Victor.”

The words rolled off his lips.

“You should join the others so we can start Victor, I am sure you have better things to do than to gawk at my wife,” Luca spoke.

My pulse raced

His grip got tighter.

I didn’t wince in pain, I had to pretend I was fine.

Victor darted his eyes to mine and he licked his lips.

A shiver runs down my spine

As a wave of disgust washed over me.

“She is a keeper.” He smiled, and I felt tempted to roll my eyes at him.

“I was just going in,” I whispered with a smile on my face.

Luca instantly let go of me, I didn’t dare dart my eyes to his before I ran off into my room.

Last night Luca took care of me, in his own twisted way, after letting me almost choke and leaving me to experience a near-death feeling, I woke up in his room, I had thought it was a bad dream.

It made me wonder why he would bring me to his room?

Did he care enough to watch me?

Or he just wanted to be something twisted.

Those thoughts never left my mind, I had to cool off, after breakfast, I came to swim.

We have a perfect pool and I am convinced the Alpha will never use it to swim and now I think I messed up

I glanced at my reflection in the mirror, my pale skin now covered in red, especially the part Luca had his hand on, the marks of his fingertips were radiant.

Never go downstairs when the Alpha has a meeting.

Fuck.

My feet found their place packing across the room, every movement I heard outside sent chills down my spine, and I was terrified of what Luca would do.

“Luca,” I whispered when I heard the door crack open, just to turn and find Bridget standing by the door.

“Oh it’s you, what do you want?” I mumbled.

I didn’t mean to be rude.

I was on edge.

I just needed him to punish me, I can get it over with.

“I came to see how you were doing, oh dear, we need to apply some ointment on this,” she whispered, I looked away from my stomach.

It was just a bruise.

“Did he ask you to come here? I know you don’t care for me Bridget?”

“He didn’t.”

That’s new.

Why is she here?.

Maybe she can help me figure out just how mad Luca will be when he gets here.

“Why are you here then? Is it to truly help me? I think I messed up Bridget and I think the Alpha is not going to forgive me for this.”

Bridget’s eyes filled with a familiar emotion, the same one I saw when we had our last conversation.

“I know I can’t help you out of this, but maybe the least you need is a friend in all of this, someone you can speak to, you are right, I will never wish for my daughter to marry the Alpha, not because of of cruelty, because he is a hard man to care about, believe me, there is much to him than what he shows, he can be forgiving when he wants to”

When he wants to.

That’s reassuring.

It only made me scared.

I didn’t trust her. If Gabby were here, she would call her out for behaving like this, she never cared for me so why all of a sudden?

Right now it didn’t matter to me.

I needed to figure this out.

“What is he going to do to me?”

Bridget didn’t speak.

“You want to be my friend right, so don’t lie to me,” I whispered.

“Your first offense, walking out dressed like this, second, someone he hates saw you dressed in this manner, third, you spoke to this man, even let him touch your hand, the Alpha is not going to forget any of that, it’s bad enough they came in unannounced.”

“But it’s Luca, no one wants into his home without permission, why didn’t he yell or threaten to hurt them, why didn’t he even attempt to tell them to leave, he was calm, speaking to Victor yet I could feel the anger  radiating through his body.”

Who is Victor?

Alpha Luca didn’t need anyone, so why behave the way he did?

Thoughts scattered through my mind, I glanced at her again, waiting for her to speak.

What she will say will determine how bad this is going to be.

“Just, don’t ask him who Victor is and do what he says.” She whispered

That’s not helpful.