The Lycan's Acquisition

Rose’s POV To say I was shocked to see the woman reclining on a couch was an understatement. She sat up on seeing me and patted her updo as if drawing attention to it. I lowered my gaze. For all I knew this was his Luna. There was no mate bond between us, as I already knew. “It’s about time,” she said. But she wasn’t talking to me. “What’s your name, girl?” the Alpha asked. “Rosalie Harper,” I told him. It was the name on my birth certificate. “Ripe for the plucking, I’d say.” Though her words were hurtful, making me blush, I received no sense they were said with malice. This was what I had been expecting – and dreading – from the outset. Wasn’t she jealous? Maybe she was going to watch? “Don’t tease her, Simone,” he said. By now I was more confused than ever and vexed at my own thoughts. “I’ll leave you to it, Lew. Shopping awaits.” That was when I saw the designer handbag which she soon snatched up from the carpet and placed over her arm. “Just thought you’d want to hear

Rose’s POVA bell rang somewhere and that was when I found out who was here by choice and who wasn’t. Thinking about it, I didn’t really fall into either camp.“Good luck keeping that gown intact, Red,” someone hissed. I saw it was my attacker, the would-be thief. “I’m telling you now, you won’t be allowed to keep it.”“So why did you want it so badly?” I asked.She didn’t bother to answer, just gave a snort of contempt and waltzed off.We were put into groups of six at random. Ours was going on stage second and I realised I was the only redhead among them. It was hard not to overhear the slaps and shrill cries of our predecessors, coupled with the raucous tone of the vendor, yet the crowd seemed strangely silent. Until …“Not up to your usual standard, Perkins,” someone called.“Maybe they should strip and dance for us.”“Next!”Just that one word managed to make my spine tingle with fear and something else akin to anticipation.We were hustled onto the stage and I forced myself to s

Rose’s POV I obeyed on shaky legs only to find, “There’s no underwear, master.” “Get used to it. I’d only tear it off.” “In the dining room, master?” “Anywhere and everywhere. You’ll learn, Rose, that what I want I get. I have done ever since I took over as Lycan King.” Had I known he was royalty? That would explain a lot. Nobody else would get away with treating hotel employees like servants. I was trying to remember, but everything was fuzzy in my head. Especially when he started to roll down my stockings using a combination of teeth and fingers which traced my bare skin lustfully, setting me on fire. I’d never felt like this in my whole life. Was it the mate bond? Were the sparks and tingles a result of that or did every couple feel like this? We weren’t mated in the proper sense and I knew he would never claim me with honour. Yet I could dream, couldn’t I? That might just make all this bearable. The long velvet gown was the more modest of the two. Even so it had a slit at e

Rose’s POVI woke the next morning to find I had barely an inch of space in that huge bed. A muscled arm was lying across my naked body, but the monster was still asleep. I didn’t dare to move, though I needed to pee, and the soreness between my thighs brought everything flooding back.A bird tweeted somewhere outside. I cringed, assuming he would stir. He didn’t. The deep breathing remained the same.He’d taken me brutally, there was no denying that. But there was pleasure, too, and far less humiliation than when he’d forced me to parade in front of his friends. Like a walk of shame before the event.I replayed the scene in my head. Could I go through that again – and more? How long before Alpha Lewis pulled me out?A sudden stabbing pain made me hiss.Lycan Adam groaned and opened his eyes. I shut mine, expecting further cruelty. But he just rolled over, freeing me from his grasp.“Shower,” he said.I took it as a signal I was to leave the bed. Once it was steaming, I put my head ar

Rose’s POVI felt the pain radiate everywhere from the region of my chest for the third time this week. Sometimes, Lycan Adam made me watch as he serviced another. More often than not it came as a surprise, waking me from sleep and just about destroying my wolf.The clock was ticking and, as usual, I had little to report.On a positive note, the Lycan King had no plans to make a move on Alpha Lewis’ territory until he had secured sovereignty over all the clans in his county. I doubted the Alpha would be interested to know he was intending to strip a rival pack of their monopoly on the growing of beets, yet I had to pad my meagre information out somehow.My lack of real progress was worrying. I didn’t want Willow suffering a fate worse than death. That bargain between the Alpha and me, could I count on him holding up his end even if I delivered? I was trying not to think like that. Yet it would hardly be good to provoke Lycan Adam into raiding the only county in the district which cou