He stood by the bathroom door fighting the urge to break into the room and take Ivone. It was his wolf that he needed to keep at bay, he knew he would never do such - that was what he kept telling himself as he stood outside the door, but he knew all that was to remove the blame from himself, he could not deny the fact that he had never wanted Ivone more strongly than he was craving for her now.While he was fighting his demons of desire, Ivone opened the door and walked out. He knew what she had been doing in there but he had asked anyway and she had given him the most obvious answer."Having my bath?"He groaned as she walked past him and he could feel his wolf wanting to tear out of him. He knew he had to keep it together and not give in to his desires but this one was very ery difficult to ignore. Ivone was in her heat and his wolf could sense it all too well. He doubted that she knew what feeling she was in right now and he would not tell her or he feared he might just come off a
It had felt good in that moment, what he was doing, the pleasures he was experiencing, her hands on his body and him in her. It had felt so good and he thought she was or would share in his feelings because even though he had initiated the whole thing, she could not deny that she had enjoyed it too, yes she had wanted it so it was a mutual consumation. Until he heard her speak."What the hell have we done?"He remained on top of her with his face buried into the nape of her neck justtrying to catch his breath and regain his strength. It was not the first time he was having sex, but it was the first time he was having sex with his wolf all so very into it, and fuck! It had felt so good. But then after hearing Ivone's words, he could not help but feel the pang of guilt that washed over him. And he remembered Damaris' face.He groaned as he pulled himself up and hovered above her for a while just staring at her. She looked at him with her eyes wide and teary, and almost immediately, she
Xaren chuckled and nodded his head, then shrugged his shoulders and turned away from her, "Well if you are, he should be down for the meeting. Bye Ivone." "Wait!" she said and grabbed a hold of his arm, stopping him from walking away. Xaren turned to her with a confusing look on his face, he could see that she was distressed so he gave her his full attention. "Anything the matter, Ivone?" "The dungeon..." she swallowed and pulled on his arm a bit, "Where is it? Where is Maya being kept?" "Ahh..." he chuckled uncomfortably and shook his head, trying to pry his hand away from her hold, "You know I cannot do that Ivone." "Please!" she begged and tears began falling from her eyes, "Maya is my mate, if you are mated you should know how that is like. You should understand how I must be feeling right now Xaren, please, I'm begging you." Xaren hesitated as he was torn. He knew Alpha Ardon's words were the law in Elyria and he had said no one was allowed to visit Maya or go down to the du
"It has been confirmed that some foreigners came into Goral over the past two days," Jaxon spoke, addressing Triston and Revin who were in the room with him. None of them had any idea where Xaren had gone and they would not delay the meeting because of him, "What we cannot confirm is if they are Nyxorians or rogue Omegas that had come down from the forest on Reyes account.""Do they seem to pose any threats?" Triston asked and Jaxon shrugged his shoulders."Well, none so far, but given that we know Reyes wouuld be planning an attack on Goral, we cannot over look this."Triston let out a sigh, "And we will not."Revin took in a deep breath and let it out slowly, "And so it begins," he said."Do we know where exactly they are staying?" Triston asked and Jaxon nodded.He leaned closer to the table, resting one hand on it to support his weight while the other hand pointed a finger to the outskirt part of Goral, "Here, they are more concentrated on the outskirts and not a single one had ve
Ivone banged on the door repeatedly and hard with her hand in a fist. She was drunk on her emotions and had thrown all caution to the wind, all she had in mind was Maya and how she would rescue her, or at least be allowed to treat her."Alpha Ardon Valtor!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as she continued to bang on the door, "How could you be so cold and so cruel! She is a human being not an animal!""Miss Ivone, you really should not do that," one of the ladies in waiting came to her and tried to stop her but Ivone only pushed them away and continued banging on the door. She was crying hard and sobbing, screaming and banging, and when she felt exhausted she crumbled to the floor by the door, still sobbing."Alpha Ardon Valtor!"The door was suddenly thrown open and Ivone saw a pair of feet come to stand before her. She stopped screaming and looked up, right into the angry face of Alpha Ardon. She sniffed, wiped her tears and was quick to get up to her feet but before she could
"You're having second thoughts about leaving?" Jaxon asked Triston who was looking frustrated leaning over the table in the meeting room. They had followed Triston earlier when he had been told of Ivone causing a scene in front of Alpha Ardon's chambers and they had seen with their own eyes what had happened. They understood why Triston would be reconsidering leaving the castle, it was because of Ivone, he would not want a repeat of what had happened when he would not be around."If it is because you are worried about Ivone, I could stay back," Xaren said to Triston who let out a long sigh, "I could watch her to make sure she doesn't get in trouble."Yes, he was reconsidering because he was worried about Ivone but he knew that this mission they were to undertake was supposed to be considered even bigger than whatever troubles ailed Ivone. And perhaps she was right in what she had said to him, she should be left alone for a while.He had carried her away from his father's presence des
Alpha Ardon was quick to get changed into his battle clothes and rush out of his chambers heading for the stable as soon as the report had come to him that Goral was currently under attack. As he made his way out of the main building towards the front entrance where his horse had already been prepared and was waiting for him, he was then reminded of what Triston had disclosed to him before about the threats Alpha Prince Reyes Thorold of Nyxoria had issued against Goral and it cause him to fume.He took the reins of the horse and got on top of it, then looked back down at the man who had come to make the report to him, "Where is Triston?"The man hesitated because he did not know where Alpha Prince Triston might be, but before he could answer that, another came up to Alpha Ardon to give reply to his question."He was seen leaving the castle about half an hour ago, Alpha," the man said and Alpha Ardon frowned.At first, he tried to think of every reason why Triston would leave the castl
She sat on the bed in her room with her legs folded and her knees up to her chin, thinking back to all the things she had said to Triston, she hugged her legs tighter and buried her face as she cried. Half of what she had said to him she had not meant it but one thing remained that she could not help the guilt she felt, owning to the fact that she too had wanted it and she had gotten pleasure from it, but still, it was a betrayal and she was just trying to avoid taking the blame."It is not my fault," she whispered to herself and sniffed, wishing that the tears would stop but they didn't. They couldn't, "It is not my fault," she said again.She was momentarily distracted by the noice coming from outside in the courtyard. She stopped sobbing and went quiet, listening to pick up any sounds she could. She heard the neighing of horses and men shoudting out orders to another and she quickly jumped off the bed, wiped her eyes and ran to the balcony just in time to see Alpha Ardon walking ou
It was dark out when her step mother came back again to the basement, this time she was bringing with her another set of food. Ivone groaned at the sound of her footsteps on the stairs, she still sat on the floor with her back against the wall for support because it was difficult staying upright on her own."It would seem Zina has allowed you to grown on her," she said as she got closer with a frown on her face, "And she even went on to tell you everything we should have kept away from you, do you know what that means?"Ivone heaved. She was feeling so weak that even breathing was taking up more strength than normal as she had to actively choose to breathe. She fixed a stern gaze on her step mother as she placed the tray of food on the floor in front of her and then she gave reply to her earlier question."It means you both are sick people..." she managed to speak with difficulty."No, not quite," Her step mother chuckled and then sat on the chair facing Ivone. She shook her head and
Ivone woke up still dizzy and her head felt very heavy like she was carrying a weight on it, she had slept off quite easily after having the meal her step mother had served her, she knew that the meals she was served mostly at night was obviously drugged to knock her out and keep her too weak to even contemplate an escape, but she could not refuse the meal because she did not want to starve and her step mother purposely gave her very little portions each time.It was daytime when she opened her eyes, the sun light filtering in from outside was not all that bright and she could not tell if the sun was just rising or about to set. She groaned and sat up, a meal had been kept in the usual place, on the floor by a corner and although her stomach grumbled in hunger, she knew she should not be eating that. She had lost count of how long she had been kept here and she knew she could not continue staying here because her step mother and step sister were determined to keep her here forever, i
Triston stood in front of the decaying horse, the earth around it had been thoroughly soaked in blood and the smell of death was heavy in the area. He could pick up two distinct scents from the blood, one belonging to the horse and the other belonging to a human, Maya's, he presumed."That was a stable horse from the castle," Xaren pointed out, drawing Triston's and the others attention. He had gotten down to a squat position at the head of the horse and was holding up a brown leather patch he had taken from the horse, pressed into the leather was the Elyrian royal crest. He stretched it over to Triston.Triston reached over and took the atch of brown leather and studied the crest on it, it was definitely the Elyrian royal crest so this was a horse taken from the stable, one that Maya had ridden that night no doubt. He looked down to the ground where he stood, in the middle of the soaked up earth, Maya must have been killed right here, at this very spot."Focus Xaren, the dead horse i
"It has been six days since Ivone left the castle Triston, are you not even a little bit worried about her? Where she could be and if she is doing alright?"Jaxon had come to the stables with Triston who seemed relaxed most times, and then out of it the other times, and he was sure that this Alpha Prince was worried about Ivone but was it his pride that was keeping him from actually showing concern? He suspected that they might have had a fall out but how big of a fall out would they have had that would have been enough to make Ivone leave the castle and probably leave the kingdom as well and Triston would not do nor say anything about it.Triston remained quite, standing beside his horse and stroking the animal's neck. He was worried about Ivone but he had refused to show it because he had been angry at her, for the words she had said to him and her behaviour towards him, he had been so angry at her. He had not noticed her absence on the first day and even on the second day until Jax
"What are you talking about?" Reyes asked him with a frown and Kasier's head came up, his gaze rested on Reyes. "If you are going to have me killed or imprisoned for life, I am requesting that you allow me see my family one more time before yoou carry out your judgement on me." "I'm not going to have you killed, Kasier Archon," he said with a relatively calm voice and a weight lifted off of Kasier's heart, imprisonment may be better than death, he thought, but Reyes continued, "And I am not going to have you imprisoned either." Kasier Archon was perplexed and it showed in his facial expression, if the young alpha was not going to do either, then what was it that he had in mind to do to him? Surely, letting him go was not part of what he had in mind. It could not be. Not for Reyes Thorold at least. Reyes observed the confusion in Kasier's facial expression and in his eyes, and somewhere lurking behind that confusion he could still see the fear. He grinned. "I am going to reinstate
He had only been Alpha for a couple of days now but he felt he had been carrying the title for much longer than that, one of the main reason he had wanted to become Alpha was so that he could have the free will to rain down attacks and war on Elyria, but for some strange and unknown reason even to him, he had delayed all that and instead had been dwelling on the kingdom's affairs, affairs that could easily be dealt with even in his absence.He sat on the throne in the throne room, a place where he had been for hours attending to one problem presented to him to another. Frankly, all these seemed boring to him and it was easy to tell because he had been yawning more frequently now like someone that had been deprived of days of sleep. Dathan stood beside him facing forward, with Reyes rise from Alpha Prince to Alpha, his own rank too had increased and now he was the second moost powerful person in the whole of Nyxoria."When will this all end Dathan?" Reyes asked him as he sat lazily on
She opened her eyes slowly but her vision was still a blur and somewhere in the back of her head ached. She blinked severally until her vision was cleared and she looked around the place she had come to find herself in. Last thing she remembered, she had been in the forest surrounded by three men and had been knocked out by a drug of some sort, and now she had woken up in a place that seemed like it was a basement in a house. Her head still ached and she tried to lift her hand up to her head, only then did she realize she had been tied up. Her eyes widened as she looked at the ropes binding her by the wrists to the arm of the chair she sat in and her feet were hels in chains. She suddenly began to hyperventilate and struggle against the ropes but it was of no use as they had been tied tightly. If this kidnap had been orchestrated by Reyes, then she needed to do everything possible to get out of here or her life would be in danger. She cursed as she looked around the place for anythi
She was back in the forest, back to the exact same spot where Maya had been murdered by Alpha Ardon of Elyria, the air still carried her scent and the strong smell of both her blood and that of the mutilated horse. She tried to imagine how Maya must have felt in that moment, if she had been here scared of dying alone, if she had felt the cold, how much pain she must have been in, and the feat that must have invaded her heart knowing that she could not escape death. She went down on the ground and squatted, then placed the flat side of her hand on the patch of earth that had drank Maya's blood and she cried. "I'm sorry," she sobbed and buried her face in her knees. She hated how she was feeling now, so very guilty and so very unworthy, like she should have been the one to die in Maya's stead. Maya would never come to learn of her betrayal and she would never get to apologize for that. She lifted her head up and took in a deep breath, trying to stop herself from sheding any more tear
"Did you find her?" Triston had asked her calmly but she didn't give an answer to his question immediately. He watched her from behind as her shoulders heaved and she brought her hand up to her face before crossing them. He guessed she had wiped a tear and then he heard her sniff before she responded to his question. "No," her voice was choked, "There was blood though, I saw that, enough to soak up the forest, there was also a bloody tree branch and a dead mutilated horse." Triston took in a deep breath and let it out, he wanted to console her so he took a step towards her but then Ivone spun to face him, she was crying hard and he could see clearly the pain and anger in her eyes. "Did he have to kill her in that manner?" she asked Triston, "The same way Damaris was killed, using a tree branch?" He didn't know what to say to her, he was not sure how he should reply her but he so badly wanted to console her, he just didn't know how, "Ivone... I..." "And where is her body, Tristo