Cecilia POVI woke up with Alessandro’s body pushed up against my back, his body making me warm. The previous night’s events replayed in my mind, making me smile. For a second, I thought he just took me to his room to reject me, considering that Soraya was so convinced that he would. But it seemed to be another one of her schemes, just like when she made me believe that Alessandro was going to sell me to Viper. I had overheard Alessandro saying to Soraya that he didn’t want a mate, but the way he made love to me last night, I started to think that he only said it so that she wouldn’t get her hopes up. But there was still one thing that bothered me. Why didn’t he mark me if he was claiming me as his?Maybe he wanted to wait?Or was he bothered by Alpha Harald’s mark?I didn’t know how all of that worked actually, so I felt a little confused. If I was marked by Alpha Harald, how could I sense my mate?There were so many things that didn’t add up.Alessandro stirred and pulled me
Alessandro POVI felt bad. Really bad. As if I was going to be sick. My head and my heart were colliding so hard that I didn’t know what to do.I had already made up my mind years ago. I didn’t want a mate. I had a duty to get back to Italy and save my sister. The thought of Miabella made me feel even more guilty.Because when I finally met my mate, I didn’t want to reject her. Every fiber in my being was begging me to accept her, but I couldn’t.Still deep in thought, I took a shower and studied the scar from the night before in the mirror while I dried myself off. How did she do that?Based on her shocked expression, I didn’t think that she knew what happened either. After I got dressed, I groaned in frustration and rubbed my forehead. I had to go find Cecilia and finish the rejection. Walking out into the hallway, I started going down to the kitchen to see where Cecilia would have been stationed today. I ran into Judith in the dining room and she bowed to me. “What can I
Cecilia POVI was an idiot. Olivia had told Alessandro off outside of her bedroom door, and I had heard all of it. Alessandro had agreed not to reject me today, and to give me some time to come to terms with it. Olivia told me that she didn’t think that Alessandro actually wanted to reject me. He seemed to care about me and I shouldn’t take the rejection personally. There was something else going on.Since he had agreed not to reject me today, I figured that I should go talk to him and ask him about his reasons. If he rejected me anyway, I would just leave with Olivia the same night.The truth was that I desperately wanted to see him. My whole body wanted to be in his presence. So I left Olivia’s room and went to ask him about his reasons for wanting to reject me. I went to his office and knocked on the door, but my blood went cold when I heard Soraya’s voice inside. “Come in.”I opened the door with trembling hands and stopped right inside the door.Alessandro was sitting behi
Cecilia POV“Are you sure about this?” Olivia asked me. I wiped my tears and straightened my back.Looking at Olivia, I mustered up all the determination that I had. “I’m sure.” I said. “I want to give him another chance. But I can’t do that right now. We should go and try to find out what I am, and when I know, I can come back to him. I’ll probably need his help anyway if I’m ever going to be able to take back my pack.”“Then let’s go.” As soon as the sun went down, we started our little mission. There weren’t any Omega’s out, and Olivia said that she never really encountered anyone other than a few guards while working at night, so we could move around quite freely without having to sneak around too much.First thing’s first, we needed some way to defend ourselves. I could still get recognized and we were going to dangerous places, so we wanted to be prepared. So we snuck into Alessandro’s armory and stole a gun each. “How did you even know how to get in here?” I hissed as we
Alessandro POVI buried my face in my hands and sighed. She was gone.And I felt like I was suffocating.There were so many questions that were unanswered and the confusion infuriated me to no end. Where did they go?How did she create a rift in the ground that was on freaking fire?If she wanted to leave, why didn’t she accept my rejection first so that we could be free of each other?She must have had some kind of plan, but I couldn’t piece anything together. Harley walked in. “The fire has been taken care of.” He mumbled. “Any sign of them?” I asked. He shook his head and I looked up. “Start digging.” I said. “I need to know more about my mate. It feels like she has been lying to me this whole time and I need the truth.”Harley nodded. “I’m on it.” He said and left the room. I enjoyed the silence for a while, and even though a million questions still stirred in my mind, I took a deep breath and relished in the peace and quiet. “Alessandro.”I jerked at the high-pitched so
Linnea (Cecilia) POVOlivia and I looked at the terrifying building up and down. “So, how do we do this?” Olivia asked. My heart sank. “I have absolutely no clue.” I replied quietly. “Maybe they don’t even still have my mother’s earrings. Maybe they sold them or something. What are we supposed to do then?”Olivia shrugged. “Then I guess we’ll have to make do with what we’ve got.” She replied as if it was the simplest thing in the world. “We just have to find a nice dark place to wait out the daylight, and then we can go on.”We checked in on a hotel and I stared in surprise when Olivia pulled out a wad of cash to pay for the room.“Where did you get that?” I hissed as we walked to the elevator. Olivia squinted her eyes at me and hummed.“I might have stolen them from Alpha Alessandro.” She replied. I chuckled. “I hope it wasn’t someone’s drug money you managed to get your hands on or something.” I replied as Olivia opened the door and walked in. “Or he might just come after us
When the man went into the alley, we stalked behind him. We weren’t able to hide our footsteps or our scents for long, so when he noticed us and turned around, we had to act fast. I elongated my claws and pressed them against his neck while Olivia grabbed him by his collar and pushed him up against the wall pointing her gun at him.He raised his hands in surrender and smirked at us. “What can I do for you, ladies?” He asked. “You are going to let us in.” I growled. We led him to the door and he punched in a pass code, 2356, in the keypad and I opened the door and pushed us in. “Thanks for the help.” I whispered sweetly and punched him as hard as I could. The man fell to the floor unconscious and we dragged him to the nearest supply closet and dumped him there. “Night night.” Olivia chuckled before we started sneaking down the hallway. The place was eerily silent, and I could only hear my heart pounding in my ears. We reached a stairwell and went up. At the top of the stairs
Linnea POVThere were men coming from all sides and Olivia grabbed my arm. “If you fuckers think that you’re gonna sell us again, you’re dead wrong!” She shouted, making them laugh. “Let’s take them.” One of the men snickered. He pulled out a silver collar and my blood went cold. I felt my palms starting to heat up, so I pulled Olivia down with one hand while I held up the other towards the man coming at me. Balls of fire shot from my hand and set him ablaze. Within seconds, he was lying down in the ground screaming and convulsing in agony. The fire from the man spread to one of the chairs next to him and on the carpeted floor. “Shit.” I heard Olivia mutter as the men started to run out of there. I looked over my shoulder and gasped when I saw the fire spreading quickly. The men had basically forgotten about us and were struggling to put the fire out. “We should free the captives.” I said to Olivia. “If they can’t control the fire, the captives will all burn to death.”Olivi