(Katniss)“I’M DISAPPOINTED. We came there expecting a battle, but all they did was bark. They are wolves, but they acted like puppies. Those bastards could only open their mouths, they could not even bite.”“On second thought, we ought to be glad, Drake. His Grace could only spare a few minutes of his time and energy in that place. His body is still recovering. He had already exhausted too much of his energy when he went there himself. Had he stayed longer, the enemies would have known that he is currently not in his best form. They would use it against him.”“Well, you have a point there, Khal. What amazed me though was the crown princess and her fiancé. Did you smell them? They went out like that; their bodies smell of after-sex as if they were advertising it to the whole kingdom. She had the guts to touch His Grace with those hands. It looks like they tried to finish it off even after we barged in. And they call her a ‘princess?’”I woke up when I heard those voices. The one calle

“I WAS told that I’d find you here, your grace. Did I disturb you?” I asked Blade after I stood beside him in the bar counter. He was drinking alone.“Can you hold your liquor, little wolf?” he asked instead as he motioned me to sit.“I don’t know,” I answered after sitting beside him. “I guess I will find out tonight.”The corners of his mouth lifted into a smile. “You haven’t had a drink before?”“I tried it once when I turned eighteen; I didn’t enjoy it. I had never taken a sip since then. But I think I’d enjoy it tonight. Can I have some, your grace?”Blade rose from his seat and took a shot glass. He spooned some ice cubes from the bucket before filling the glass with whiskey and then he handed it to me. I grimaced after one sip and he chuckled. It still tasted awful to me. It burned in my throat.He looked into my eyes and said, “You will get used to it.”Why do I feel like he wasn’t only referring to the whiskey?I shrugged. I had always liked anything sweet, but even the pastr

I WOKE up when I felt something hot and thick between my thighs. When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying on the bed… with the devil on top of me. He was in his naked glory and so was I.Still dazed, I stared at his majestic body. He was holding my legs up until his shoulders and he was thrusting himself between my thighs. It didn’t hurt, but it gave an electrifying pleasure which shot into my core and spread up until my breasts until I felt them tingle.When the devil’s dark, smoldering eyes landed onto me, a seductive smile formed in his lips. “You have starved me long enough, little wolf. I could not wait for breakfast anymore and so I started eating.”“Yeah, I can see that very well,” I replied, surprised by the instant heat that surged in my body. The touch of his shaft was stimulating all of my senses. “And good morning to you too, your grace.”The sun was yet to rise. It was still too early for breakfast.But then again, when it came to this man’s hunger, there didn’t seem t

Three months later…“NO!” Alpha King Titus’ voice echoed all over the streets as he watched his precious laboratory burn, unable to save anything. He was about to rush inside along with his men when the laboratory exploded for the second time. Tears glazed his eyes, probably at the thought of losing kuntar, his money tree.“Damn you, Fredrick! I will make you pay for this! Wherever you are hiding, I swear I will find you and I will kill you!”I watched all that happen from the rooftop of the building my family once owned. Most of the Council members divided our properties among themselves. The building was just right in front of the laboratory.“Your majesty, I have an urgent thing to report,” one of his subordinates said. His face was pale.“What the fuck is it this time?!” Titus snarled; his eyes were still fixated in his lab.The man looked uneasy and when he didn’t respond right away, Titus finally looked at his direction and in an anxious voice, he added, “You dumbass! Just fucki

“I HEARD the news.”I held my breath when I felt Blade’s hands on my shoulders down to the tips of my breasts. I opened my eyes and caught him staring at me as he sat beside the bathtub. These days, Blade would constantly disappear during daytime that we only get to see each other when the sun comes down.I wanted to ask what he was doing and where he was going, but I didn’t know if I had the right. I did try asking the knights, though. And all of them had the same response.‘We lived with his grace for a century, but up until this very day, it’s still difficult for us to ascertain what he truly thinks.’Blade would often leave on his own and none of the knights knew what he was up to. But they seemed used to it. They were just waiting for their king to give a command and so far, they hadn’t heard a word from him yet.As years went by, I realized what a rumor could do to a person. It could either make or break a life. The rumors surrounding Blade were the ones that truly chained him.