ELORALucy and her brother were born slaves. Her mother had died trying to flee during the slave era and the reign of King Nathan. Lucy had explained how horrible his reign had been. She'd grown up under his reign and the only protection she'd had from evil nobles that tried to exploit slaves was her brother. She'd told me that she was a twin. Her mother hadn't known who their father was but Lucy said she had told them that a noble had slept with her. They knew they had Lycan blood but her mother had never told her who the noble was. All she'd done was arrange for her to get a job at the palace. And somehow, she'd been very well treated in the palace.Her brother had hated the palace job. He'd said he detested working under people who were the very oppressors. Lucy said she knew he had taken the job so he could protect her and watch over her.But years later her twin brother had run off to the South during Nathan's reign and she had not heard a word from him since. He had become a Bl

ELORA"Great, Your Majesty." I answered feeling my heart calm a bit but before the words were out of my mouth, his hands were on my neck, one hand cupping my jaw and tilting my head to the side as the other pushed my hair back to reveal the healing flesh. My breath was positively stolen as the firm grip he had on my jaw let me feel the rough callouses of his palm and I wondered how those hands might feel on other parts of my body.Wait…What?It took everything in me to step back from the tantalizing hold the king had on me but I did remembering I was only here to work and take care of my siblings.That thought put a damper on the trail of indecent thoughts my mind was going wild showing me. It didn’t help that he was still staring at me with eyes that blazed with…desire?My hands absent mindedly returned to the scar he was looking at and I felt the thinning raised edge of the now covered scar. My wolf must have been returning and I was healing quicker than I would have with her suppre

ROMEFrom behind the curtains, he could see the room already filled with members of the court and members of the royal family. He peered through the purple curtain and watched them talk to one another. The courtroom was a large oval hall with seats that ran all the way up like steps. A large room where meetings with delegates from all around the continent could meet. Right now, all the seats weren't filled, but the noise in the room overwhelmed him.He leaned against the wall, just beside the curtain, watching every person. In his few years as King, one of the things he had learnt quickly about people was that he could learn a lot about them by studying them.As he looked from behind the curtain at the back entrance, he could see everyone fairly well as he observed their countenance and guessed what they were discussing.Jace, Kate, and Henry – his half-siblings – children of the whore, as he preferred to call them, were seated beside their mother. Their Mother, Monica, was his fathe

ROMEAs the argument and quarreling ceased, Rome decided that he had had enough.Skye bent over and whispered, "Your Majesty, Let me throw the bitch out.""Let her stay. We will have our time." He turned to the members of the court. "Monica has stated the obvious. However, the law also allows that if the king chooses not to be given an arranged mistress or bride, he be given time to choose for himself." He paused and pointed. "Is this not so, Count Deliere?""It very well is, Your Majesty. It is indeed."He turned to the Baron of Estered."Baron?" The Baron, afraid and obviously already under Monica's spell, hesitated before replying. "It is so." The Baron began to reply, "But that's a slippery corner, Your Majesty." He cleared his throat as he spoke.Rome hadn't seen it before, but it was at this point that he realized that Monica must have turned the Baron to her side. She had deliberately planned to attack the king in this meeting and it looked like the Baron was in on it. She r

ELORA"Kain!" A masculine growl came, piercing through the fog of pain I was under.I recognized the king's voice without looking and as I lifted my head, I saw him march forward, his fiery red hair floating in the wind. He looked deathly handsome in the black robes he wore with a murderous glint in his azure blue eyes.Is he angry…on my behalf?The crowd that had gathered just outside the palace included staff of the palace, and nobles who had just come out of the meeting with the King.The sound of his voice made everyone in the jump, the rage he wore so well causing a few to take tentative steps backward. He approached the crowd, followed by a red-haired woman, Teriel, and members of the King's guard."How dare you?" He demanded, "Skye, grab him!" he said to the red-haired woman.I realized she was his sister, the one I had heard about.Kain was rooted in the position he had been in, his cane lifted about to give another lash.At the King’s command, Skye went ahead of him, pushing