LOGINScarlett’s POV “What the fuck, it’s been such a weird day, honestly.” I said it to the bathroom ceiling, to nobody, to the general situation of my entire life, I ran my hands through my hair as the water ran hot into the tub in front of me. This was so weird. This was genuinely, objectively, completely weird and I needed a moment to think. I stood there and just looked around. The bathroom alone was bigger than the entire lab I had spent three years of my life in. Everything was marble and glass and soft gold fittings and the kind of lighting that made you feel like you were being filmed for something. A towel rack that was clearly heated. A mirror that ran the entire length of one wall without a single seam. A small shelf beside the door before you even stepped fully inside, holding two chilled bottles of champagne sitting in a little ice bucket like this was a five star hotel and not a man’s private bathroom. I looked at the champagne for a long moment, then looked at the bath
Dominic’s POV I pulled back from her slowly. My shirt was slightly wrinkled where her hands had been. I didn’t look down at myself, I already knew. I stood there for a second, cleared my throat and fixed my collar. Then my shirt. I noticed another situation a little further south, lower down in my trousers. I dipped my hand inside my pants and adjusted the mini me down there and took a long quiet breath. “Get it together. You are a king and not a teenager and this is not the time.” I said to myself. I opened the door. The girl standing in the corridor was one of my house staff, assigned to the main wing. Young, maybe nineteen or twenty at most. She was clutching a small notepad flat against her chest with both hands and the moment my eyes landed on her she dropped into a bow so fast and so deep I almost felt something close to pity. “King Dominic,” she said, her voice coming out slightly strangled. “Speak.” She lifted her head but didn’t fully straighten. Her eyes found a s
Dominic’s POV I do not plan to take her back to mine. My hands just turn the wheel at the junction and my brain catches up a few seconds later and by then we are already heading in that direction and I decide not to fight it. She needs somewhere close and quiet and safe and every other option requires more time than she has right now. That is what I told myself and kept repeating it while I stuck to the plan. She is in the passenger seat with her head tipped back and her eyes shut and I can hear her breathing from here, shallow and uneven, her chest rising too fast. The drug is settling in properly now that the adrenaline has worn off. Every few seconds her thighs press together and her jaw tightens and I look back at the road. I pull into my private entrance and cut the engine. She opens her eyes and looks around. “Where are we?” “My place.” “I did not agree to—” “I know.” I am already out of the car and around to her side before she finishes the sentence. I open the door and
Scarlett’s POV My skin was on fire, I mean not physically set on fire but literally. A heat that started low in my stomach and spread outward my thighs in waves, sitting under my skin and building every time I tried to ignore it. I pressed my thighs together as I walked and felt the vibration underneath and had to focus very hard on putting one foot in front of the other and not letting my face show any of what was happening to my body. Mira was beside me, her strapped leg slowing her down, her eyes sliding to me every few seconds with surprise written all over her face. I did not have the energy to address it right now. “The way I feel, it feels like I was giving an aphrodisiac for induced arousal.” I said quietly. “I know that’s what this is.” “I know something is going on but you need to tell me how bad it is,” Mira said, just as quietly. “Don’t worry, I’m fine.” “Scarlett.” “I am managing,” I said. “Keep walking.” The car park felt three times further than it had on the
Dominic’s POV“So you have finally found your mate!” My mother was practically glowing from across the sitting room, her hands clasped together, leaning forward in her chair like she had been waiting to say this for years. “Who is she? Tell me everything. Is she beautiful? Of course she is beautiful, the Moon Goddess would not give my son anything less.”“Mum.”“Is it Amelia? Please tell me it is Amelia, that girl has been in love with you since you were twelve years old and she is absolutely....”“It is not Amelia,” I said.My mother’s face fell slightly. Then rearranged itself into something more determined. “Ohh, then who? You have to introduce her to us Dominic, we are your parents, we deserve to know the woman our son has chosen to marry.”“Here we go again,” I said under my breath.“Sorry, what was that?”“Nothing.” I looked at my father. “Dad. You have nothing to say?”My father, who had been sitting in his armchair with a cup of tea and the satisfaction on his face tells me th
Scarlett’s POV The person who walked through the door was James, the Alpha of the pack. “Ohh finally, you’re here.” I said and let out a heavy sigh. He looked at me against the wall, at Ryan standing two feet away with his chest still heaving, at Mira on the floor cradling her leg, I could see the moment his face and brain was trying to calculate what was happening, but after some seconds and he still wasn’t getting a reasonable answer, he finally asked. “What is going on here?” Ryan straightened up immediately. “Nothing Alpha James,” he said smoothly. “She lost her balance and I was helping her up. The other one fell trying to….” “What the hell, I looked at him, that is a lie.” My voice came out very sharp. “This man has sexually assaulted me. He had both hands on me, he pinned my wrists against the wall and he tried to kiss me by force. Mira tried to defend me and he threw her into the table and dislocated her leg.” Ryan turned to James with his palms open. “Alpha
Scarlett’s PovMurmurs started to spread fast as the wolves in the audience frowned and turned to each other the moment the screen stayed blank. The media were on their feet almost immediately, all cameras out with their blinding lights, reporters pushing forward from the press section, their quest
Scarlett’s Pov I straightened my jacket in the car window’s reflection and took a breath.My phone rang and when I checked it was Helena’s name on the screen, which was not something I had ever expected to see.I picked it up.“Scarlett.” Her voice was tight and clipped, every word costing her som
Killian’s Pov I stood outside the lab door for a full minute after it closed in my face, still trying to process what just happened. Locked out of my own lab by my own Luna. The security panel had been switched to her credentials and the handle did not move when I tried it. I tried it twice more
Scarlett’s PovI was in the bath when Killian's call came in.The water was warm, my hair was pinned up, my favorite playlist was running low from my phone on the shelf and I had a glass of champagne on the edge of the tub. I had gotten the data I needed, secured it safely and came home in an excel







