ESMERAYHow do I stop the hammering in my chest or avoid meeting thousands of people especially when I know they were converging for my sake? Today is the introduction ceremony. I’ll be officially welcomed into the Lycaon place and introduced as the next Luna. The first for many years. I like to think I’m very much introverted. Not like I had many opportunities to attend parties while growing up, but I dread the excitement and pressure of meeting a lot of people for the first time. I have somehow lost the courage I had the first time when Draven made that announcement. I didn’t have to say much that day, but today will be different. I wish he didn’t have to rush it but after what happened, I understood his need to. This party wasn’t supposed to hold until the next two weeks and that would have given me time to prepare for it, but no matter how much time I was given, I knew I’d never be ready . The party was already underway, and I had spent the last minute giving myself a pep ta

This cell reminds me of the last one I’d been in at Silver Moon before Ailana helped me escape. It was cold and dark and without any form of ventilation. I wasn’t sure how many hours passed and if it was morning yet because it was hard to tell since the cell is always dark. I’d cried till there were no tears left and stayed awake all through the night, wondering what will become of me now. Many times, I wished for a miracle. For someone to come save me the same way Aila had saved me when I’d lost all hope at Silver Moon. But this isn’t Silver Moon and Ailana isn’t here. Even if she were, it’ll be impossible to break out of any cell in the Lycaon place. I cursed Zayden, and then I cursed myself too. How did I ever forget that I was the most ill-fated and luckless person on earth? How did I think I’ll pull this off without him finding out? I let myself get carried away by his beautiful face, the attraction I felt towards him, and the life of affluence that I started to believe this one

The sight of Zayden, still naked and seated on the bare floor of his cell had me feeling nauseous. He was in bad shape, his bloody face almost unrecognizable and his body covered in several injuries. His wolf could not heal him because the walls were lined with silver.He snapped his head up to face me as soon as I was close enough, and I was grateful Draven was standing behind me. Even in this state and locked up in a cell, I was scared he’ll try to attack me.He looked weak, but still had that viciousness in his eyes, a trait peculiar to Alphas. No matter the situation, they never easily give in to defeat. I had to scrunch my nose at the smell coming out from his cell and not once did I think a day will come when Zayden will be reduced to this. Where is his pride and strength now? He looked slimmer than the last time I’d seen him and I briefly recalled the many times I’d seen him naked and I felt my wolf whimper. All those times he’d bedded other women and given me a show while at

DRAVENI knocked the computer and a pile of work off my desk in annoyance, my beast growling as I did. I needed to go on a run, it’s been a minute since I let him loose. Every fucking thing annoyed me, and my beast was bloodthirsty, eager to end the life of the urchin in my cell. But I wasn’t going to hold on one minute longer. Tonight, he had to be slaughtered. But even the thought of killing him did not give my beast the satisfaction he wanted.How dare the son of a bitch disrupt my party, and how dare that little Omega lie to me? This whole thing could have been avoided if she had bloody told me she had a mate, but she fucking kept it to herself. I should punish her, lay her down and whip her till she was begging for mercy, but after seeing the scars on her back, I couldn’t bring myself to.I took one look at her with that bloody scumbag to know how much she hated him, and after hearing the things he did to her, I was angry, but still, that didn’t give her the right to keep the tru

DRAVEN“He’s dead,” Smythe informed me.“Good job,” I slammed the phone down and turned back to Duron.“Now that it’s settled, it’s time Esme starts participating in other duties as your Luna. Stop caging her,” he told me. I knew that quite alright and didn’t need a reminder from him. She’s had all the time to get used to the palace, now its time for work. But I knew she may not be in her best of moods at this time.She may hate her mate or wish him dead, but the fact remains they were mates and they share a special bond so she was going to feel the pain of loosing a mate. But I wasn’t going to give her time to grieve because time was something I didn’t have to spare. Now that the introduction ceremony is out of the way, she needs to put in more effort in the work around here, hopefully she doesn’t mess things up. And she needs to visit the palace Oracle.I frowned at the thought. The oracle is the only one that can decipher Esme isn’t really my mate. As an oracle of the goddess,