NAYA'S P.O.V.
Letting out a deep breath as I heard his voice, though I felt Zach's gaze on me I didn't bother sparing him a glance. Goodness knows what the hell he is up to.
"Ok!" I yelled directly into Zach's ears, but made it look like it was completely unintentional. I walked past him and wanted to open the door, but then his voice stopped me.
"Are you really going to meet my father in a towel?" He asked with an arched brow. I looked down to see that I was actually still in the towel. I'd totally forgotten but I wasn’t about to give him the benefit so I just rolled my eyes.
"You're the cause of that." I fired back, and he looked at me with a deep frown on his face like he wanted to say something, but he chose to reserve his comment and just turned back to the papers he had torn into pieces.
Completely ignoring him, I picked my bag and walked into the closet. At this point, I was really glad that it was a walk-in closet and not a wardrobe.
Zach is so filled with pride and so much arrogance, and to tell you the truth I was indeed looking forward to scattering them both, but firstly I needed to find my escape route.
After putting on a yellow sun dress, I headed out, and I saw him sitting on the bed with his shoes and his legs crossed, which made my jaws automatically drop.
"Ok, I'm going to accept the fact that I got married to you, and I am now your wife according to document but boy you are not going to have your fucking shoe on my bed, and I'll be at peace within the dept of my heart." he looked at me narrowly and then took his eyes away as though I was not being serious few minutes ago.
Ok, that does it...
I walked to him and grabbed a few strands of his hair which he didn't see coming and I pulled him so hard and some hair strands were left in my hand, but he was definitely on the ground.
"How..."
"Oh, don't you dare say a single word. You own this house and everything I get, but I doubt if any of our parents thought about it before pairing us together. You have your own room, stop messing around in mine. I'm not your legal wife anyway, I'm just your wife by a freaking church wedding!" I snapped, and I could clearly see the shock on his face, but it was immediately replaced by my frown and look of anger.
Though he was talking, I paid deaf ears to him and headed towards the door with a smile on my face. If he thought he had gotten a calm, nice lady for a wife, then boy did he hit his head on a wall before getting to the wedding hall.
I skipped out of the room, still with the afterglow of the fight I’d won. It isn't the war yet but winking battles also counts to me. A win is a win, no matter how small.
Me. Montgomery stood outside the door, his face as hard as his son’s. They soften though as he watches me approach.
"I am so sorry I took a long time, shall we?" I said in a sickly sweet voice. He turned around to look at me with a beaming smile on his face, and at this point I became suspicious.
"Certainly! For a girl I barely know, you seem nice" he said in a thick voice which reminded me of his wretched son and I wish I could tell him how cruel I am.
"That's too straight forward I believe, but that certainly doesn't matter. We will get to know each other along the way..." We both let out a laugh and I could clearly feel the tension beginning to build up. "... So, what did you want to talk about?"
"Well I don't know if your father had informed me but Zach is the ruler of this place now, I had stepped down when your alliance was fixed. I know you're a new bride, but you have a lot of catching up to do, and you will get to see new things all the time as we rule a lot more differently than most places...."
"And why is that?" Regardless of the fact that he was my husband's father doesn't mean I won't question him.
"There are rules set by our ancestors that we can't break..."
"Or else what will happen?" He gave me a look that clearly stated that cutting him off was making him lose patience, which I would gladly love to see.
"Naya this is completely above your status, and we have absolutely no rights to temper with what the ancestors have already made up."
"That's the problem with you all. Now we all due respect I have no idea what your parents taught you about the rules on how this place was built or guarded or whatever prophecy or tradition comes with it, but you need to understand that time doesn't stay still and if they live in houses made out of clay in a beautiful way because they are royalty I see no reason why you choose to live in a house like this." My mouth just kept going.
Good lordNaya, you don’t know when to fucking stop, do you? I of course, ignore the voice in my head.
"Time changes." Mr Montgomery said simply.
"And so do the rules! I certainly do hope Zach doesn't rule like you... What am I even saying? A marriage within the span of two years won't do any good."
"Five..."
"You and my father decided to make the decision of pairing two people who can't even stand each other's presence for five minutes. How sure are you that within the span of six months we won't kill one another..."
"Naya!" I jumped from the sound of my name behind him. "How dare you speak to my father in that manner?!" He snapped angrily as he grabbed my upper arm so tight that I could literally feel my blood stopping, but I was not going to let that show on my face.
"I remember talking to him, not you, and he knows damn well that I'm right, so how about..." I trailed off when I felt a bit dizzy and my vision began to blur.
Though I could hear voices, I couldn't make out anything they were saying. Just before I could force a word out of my mouth, I felt my body weaken and everything went blank.
Zach'S P.O.V.
"Let go of her arm, son!" Dad snapped as she fell into my arms, and that's when I realized what had made her pass out in the first place. "... What the hell were you thinking?!" He questioned as I carried her in my arms.
"I was angry, it was intentional." I could clearly still feel the sense of anger within the depth of my heart, and he knew he was the reason for all this mess. "... I understand that you want to follow the tradition and so does everyone, but we've gotten ourselves in huge trouble by bringing her here!" I snapped.
"How am I meant to know that, you guys were meant to know each other, and you were meant to decide."
"Yeah right! A courtship of few minutes and then boom I'm going to know who she is, she's freaking human, and you know too well how much I dread them, she might be my wife in some kinda way but this bond you all think is going to keep us together will just end up breaking at the peak of dawn." I turned around and headed towards her room.
As much as I hate to disrespect my father, he had gladly taken a decision that would change my life forever and the fact that she isn't submissive makes me want to snap her head off.
I've always hated humans, and the fact that he actually considered me marrying one just made me so mad. I understand that my first encounter with humans was an unfortunate one and now that I'm married to one I doubt if she'll still be alive after two years.
Dropping her on the bed, I headed out and immediately saw Ethan standing at a corner staring at me like he was about to have my head and I knew what he was aiming at.
"What do you want?" I questioned completely uninterested in what he was about to say even if I knew what he was about to say.
"Well, that is absolutely no way to tell me how the wedding was and damn! What has gotten stuck in your pants, I heard you yelling at him because of her." Ethan was the typical example of a gossip master, just that he wasn't feminine.
"Will you ever stop?"
"Gossiping about our horrible lives? Oh! hell no..." We both let out a laugh knowing how right he was, then he cleared his throat. "... So real, what's wrong? You normally don't act like this, tell me." he looked at me with concern as we walked down the hallway and towards my room.
"I'm married to a human." He stopped walking to take a good look at me, which made me laugh. "... I'm being serious, and I certainly didn't have a say in the marriage."
"I need all the details, ASAP." He snapped his fingers and walked towards my room imitating my girlfriend_ Brittany, which made me laugh.
Ethan made it his sole aim to imitate Brittany's voice and movement each day whenever she wasn't around, and to tell you the truth I would be a lost soul without Ethan.
I opened the door to the room and saw him sitting on the bed waiting for me patiently as he looked at the ring that was exchanged at the wedding, which I had removed a few moments ago.
"Is she that bad?" He asked as he looked at the ring closely.
"I thought my first encounter with humans will be the last, and I'll just find my mate and this whole thing with humans will just be the end for it's my reign not Dad's and then Naya gets into the story. A selfish, spoiled brat!" Even the mere thought of her annoyed me.
"Calm down man, come on, I'm sure she isn't that bad, and you can use your cold ways to keep her under control."
"I wish I could! I told Dad I didn't want this and now that we are married… you know come to think about this is just the beginning of destruction. Ethan, I am this close to ripping her head off…" I trailed off when I heard a bloody scream and the sound of shattering glass that followed right after.
Naya…
NAYA'S P.O.V.I felt the familiar sting of tears as Zade pulled the last piece of glass from my arm. I was too shocked to say anything sassy to him, he was also helping me so that was a point in for him. I guess maybe he wasn't that bad. I tried to suck in a breath through my nose, but my lungs felt constricted. It all happened so fast, one moment I was sitting, the next something was breaking and tearing my skin. I didn't know who he was or what he wanted, but there was a man. I could barely see his face because he had a cloth covering his face like an assassin."What the hell made you think you could freaking break a window for no reason?!" Zade snapped as I stayed silent."Zade you need to calm down and let..." he cut the elderly doctor off, and moved from me like I burned him. Can’t say I was disappointed."Calm down? She hasn't even been here for less than a few hours, and she's already causing a lot of trouble. Damn it! I should have done it when I had the chance to!" His voice
Naya's POVI wanted to back away from whoever was in front of me, but I couldn't, even though I badly wanted to.I really wanted to, I promise.A few seconds passed, and the lips on mine started moving. The lips were soft, a bit bigger than mine and...thicker.God, I could literally feel my insides quivering.The person in the dark moved closer to me, and Zach's scent blocked my nose.Subconsciously, I opened my lips to ask him to leave me alone, but the moment my lips parted away, his tongue gained entry into my mouth like it's been waiting for that.A small moan escaped from my mouth, and I didn't know when my hands flew to his warm neck.I was a bit worried that I'd make a mistake because of the fact that I'm not really good at kissing, but the constant moaning from him was making me feel confident.My lips started moving in sync with his, and it felt like the whole world came to a halt.I could feel my heart stopping, but I didn't want to stop. At all.My grip on his neck tightene
Zach's POV"Don't. Zach, even if you're the last man on earth and I needed to be saved, I'd rather die than let you touch me." Naya's words continued ringing in my head, as I quietly got off her.Normally, something like that wouldn't have hurt me at all, but I didn't know why that particular sentence of hers was hurting me so much.I didn't show the hurt that I was feeling on my face, I only let out a small sigh before leaving her alone with her thoughts in my room.The next few months in my life are going to be the longest months of my life, I can already feel it.When I left the room, I started walking slowly to the dinner room. I wasn't interested in having dinner at all, because I knew that things were going to be awkward between Naya and I.She is one of the weirdest women I have ever met. It's weird.I started walking really fast, and I was in the dining room in no time.My father was already seated there, and with the way he was scanning everywhere with his eyes, I didn't thin
Naya's POVGod, my heart was beating really fast. I couldn't even raise my head to look at my brothers. I was sure that they were going to be so angry at me, at what I did.I should've really told them that I was married to Zach. When they asked me why I was in his house, I told them that I was there for a business and not to get married to the son of the family."Naya?" Ryker called, snapping me out of my thoughts. I took a deep breath in, before raising my head to meet his accusing eyes.He looked so betrayed and...angry? I wasn't sure. All I knew was that he didn't look happy, at all.I uncomfortably cleared my throat and I turned my head to look at Raiden. He didn't even try to hide the fact that he was angry, I could see it on his face. It was red and a bit sweaty. I could see that he was trying to hold his anger in, but it wasn't working."I'm sorry, I have to go," I said, and pushed my chair backwards. If I continued staying in that dining room, then I was sure that I would def
Zach's POVFather really shouldn't have asked that question, not because of Naya, but because of me!I was sure that he definitely knew that I had no plans whatsoever with Naya, and I wasn't planning to have one, but even with that, he still went on to ask the irrelevant question.The moment the words left his mouth, I noticed that the aura in the room changed, and the atmosphere became...thicker. It was so weird and awkward, and I wondered what was wrong.I moved my eyes towards Naya, and I could see how scared she looked. Her brothers too looked angry. I guessed it could have been that she didn't tell them about her marriage, or something deeper than that.I knew that it was a family problem, when she excused herself from the table. I wanted to follow her, but when I saw that her brothers followed her almost immediately, I just knew that it was something serious.
Zach's POVNaya backed away from me, and crossed her hands against her chest. I didn't know what was suddenly wrong, because just a few seconds ago, she was bugging me, asking me why I was staying outside, bare chested."What? Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked Naya, and looked away from her. I had thought that coming outside would make me feel better, and forget about everything, but I guessed I was wrong. Naya's presence was making me feel weird, and I didn't like it. I started thinking of ways to get rid of her...quickly!"Why are you warm?" She asked me, with a corked brow.Warm? Oh shit! Of course, I'd be warm to her, considering the fact that she isn't used to staying around werewolves.I started thinking about the perfect explanation to give her, something that would make her stop looking at me in a weird way.I racked my head , and I couldn't think of anything. No possible explanation was available, to explain why I was warm when it was freezing outside."I guess I'
Naya's POVIt was as if the whole world came to a pause, with the way Zach and I were staring at each other. We weren't saying anything, yet so much was being communicated between us.I wanted to look away from him, I really did, but I couldn't. It was so hard to look away from him, it kept on looking as if something kept on drawing me to him, telling me to move close to him, and just...stay with him."You're drooling." Zach suddenly said, and I snapped out of my weird thoughts. I threw a scornful look at him, and he shrugged.What was I doing? I asked myself, and subconsciously moved my fingers to the side of my lips, to see if I was really drooling, even though I knew that he was just playing around with me.I wasn't drooling."You were staring too," I said and scoffed at him. I don't why he said that I was drooling, when I wasn't. I just hoped he didn't think that I was attracted to his face, his well sculpted muscles and his chest?"Ugh!" I said to myself, and slapped myself out o
Naya's POV"What?" Zach said, and a small shiver ran down my back. I didn't know if it was my eyes, or if his eyes really turned pitch black, because the moment I looked again, trying to see if they really turned black, his eyes were normal."The contract? We're not supposed to do this, Zach," I slowly said, and without saying a word, he got off me and grabbed the wet towel like his tongue wasn't down my throat a few seconds ago.I could feel the atmosphere in the room changing, and I knew that it was my fault, or at least, the fault of the contract that we signed.We had agreed to never have sex, and left to me, that was fine, because I wasn't interested in having sex with him.At the beginning, I had thought that I actually wanted to have sex with him, but now, I was sure that I had no interest in having sex with him, because he didn't deserve it.Things were awkward in the room, with the both of us trying to avoid each other. At first, it was a bit hard, considering the fact that w