Chapter 10: But why Now?Nikolai's POV"This is you. I'm just down the hall. The place is usually busy but everyone will be eating food right about now. Are you still hungry?" I ask her but she shakes her head and places a worn-out-looking backpack on the floor beside the bed. Most people would be thrilled about having a big room facing the woods, their own TV and fireplace and somewhere to sit and sleep but this woman looks as if she wants to cry."Are you okay?" I ask her, and she nods her head, but it isn't believable, even to me. She refuses to look at me, so I lead her through the room, the bathroom that connects to her room, and the big bath and shower in there as well. Maybe she will have a bath and feel a little better afterwards.I turn around to head back out of the bathroom when I catch a glimpse of the red on me.Shit. I never went into that boardroom to have her kiss me. I didn't even plan on it but old habits were there and she was there at the time but the moment her l
Chapter 8: Feel her pain. Nikolai's POVShe looked as if she were about to be sick before getting out of the car. Whatever is getting her down she's trying not to let it show but my natural instinct is to push with their pull. They pull away from me so I don't find out the truth but I rein them back in to stop them from getting out of reach. It's natural.Push until they fight back. She needs to fight back. Whatever juju shit they did to her, that stopped her from being open and happy it will affect her in the long run and I wonder what it is that she's afraid of. "Alpha. What is it with this woman that has you bringing her home?" Phillip asks. He's been in the family since I was even thought of. I was still a swimmer as my dad called me when they hired Phillip who was homeless. He met his mate, Reyna and started focusing on starting a family but it never happened so they adopted Jackie who is the same age as me and is like family to us which is why I don't snap his head off when
Chapter 7: Can we take a detourSierra's POVThere isn't anything worth my packing from here besides my scruffy clothes, worn-out shoes and photos of my memories from the past.I don't want to rush and make it seem like I can't wait to get out of here. Which, in all honesty, I can't wait to do but I also don't want to take my time and make Alpha Nikolai mad at me.The one thing I wish I could have done more of was visit my parents' graves. For years I wished I could go out of those gates and be set free. That I had the energy to outrun everyone here but I know different. I know that if I even tried to do anything of the sort that I would be hunted down and locked away forever or even worse...My thought's are interupted by the woman who has shown me nothing but kindness when no one else is over seeing us. She was my mothers friend when she was alive as I was told. She had several stories to tell me over the yeras about the mischief my Mom and Dad got into when they first started datin
Chapter 6: I'll take her.Nikolais POV"Alpha Nikolai, I am so sorry about one of my workers, last night. She was bang out of order to disturb you." Zade says. His acting is great, I'll give him that, but I didn't miss the way her body went rigid when his fingers dug into it. I didn't like the reaction my body seemed to have to his outburst either, which is new for me."No worries. Just another worker, huh?" I say, feigning indifference toward the woman who caught my attention in a simple meet-and-greet.Mate.The word tastes weird coming from Rex. The number of times over the last 10 hours that he's said that word is making me want to turn him off completely."She's a handful""Who is she?" I ask not bothering to speak about anything else. Work-related anyway. My mind isn't functioning today. Not the way it should be anyway because she has taken up a lot of my thoughts."Havoc. She causes numerous amounts of problems around the pack and doesn't listen. We all assume she's deaf and j
Chapter 5: Nikolai's POV“Don't move” and I don't. When an Alpha speaks to you, you respect them and you keep your inner thoughts and demons down along with your head until they ask you to speak.The only problem I'm having is that I don't speak so I'm screwed. “Who did this to you?” “Look at me,” he says as he towers over me. I try my best to keep my body firmly planted on the spot but it's hard when I have had men tower over me and abuse their power as a role of the pack members to humiliate me and terrorise me to the point of dreaded fear all for their own laughs and fun.His fingers coast so gently over my cheek that throbs with even the smallest of twitches and touches but it isn't that gentle nudge that's making me feel more nervous, it's the touch of a mate. I smelled him the moment I sat down in this room, I could feel his aura in here before I even opened my eyes but I didn't expect to find him in here on the biggest night of the year. I was expecting him to have company at
Chapter 4: Nikolai's POVI don't do Galas. I don't do fancy shit and I certainly don't give a shit about the women who want to plaster themselves to me all night long hoping they will be the lucky ones to take me away and to whisk my demons away.Fat chance of that happening.I came to this pack for one reason: I had to be here with my Gamma, Jack, and a few warriors who had yet to find their mates and yes, I am in with those men and some women but I would rather be elsewhere. Anywhere but in this territory.The HighClaws pack is not one where I would want to go to voluntarily so for me to be here, in Zades' presence when his brother is the reason my best friend never made it out of that warehouse all those years ago is a lot to handle.Even after everything happened, I refused their treaty until I knew it wouldn't be Nolan to get the Alpha crown and Thankfully it wasn't. It was his twin, more stable brother. Still a prick but better than the other half of himself. The room I am su