“Where are you coming from?” Lucien asked with a scowl painting his face and his hands tightly crossed over his broad chest. My head fell from his face to look at my shoes as the waves of his anger threatened to bury me.“I went to see the Alpha.” He stood as I closed the door behind me and leaned against it as he stalked forward with unbridled anger in his eyes, his stance, even his aura radiated his displeasure but it couldn’t even be compared to the simple aura of the prince.Lucien came forward and pressed his hands into the wall beside my head, his body caging me to the wall as he breathed down on me. I looked to the side and cussed myself for not fleeing before he stood, before he had the chance to put me at a disadvantage but I knew Lucien. If I ran, he would give chase.“What is your relationship with him?” He snarled into my face, his teeth clench and hot breath warming my skin and kicking my heart to race faster.I had done nothing so why did he come down on me as if I did s

I slept in the prince’s bed that night. The same bed the pack reserved for distinguished alphas who were visiting for a short time. Alphas couldn’t stay in another’s pack for more than three days except on special occasions because the imbalance of power may trigger an unplanned fight between the visiting alpha and the ruling alpha, especially if the visiting alpha had more power than the ruling alpha.I couldn’t sleep that night as the bed was too soft, the room too warm and the presence of power too strong. He didn’t sleep beside me. In fact, he didn’t sleep. I stayed up all night in the penthouse room listening to him move about and it made me wonder if he too couldn’t sleep. If I disturbed his peace or if insomnia was a part of his curse.At early dawn, sleep took me by surprise and when I woke, I woke to panic in my guts. I was so afraid of the choking aura of power surrounding me and the fact that I woke up later than usual. Astrid would kill me. It was already past eight so I k

“Kiss me.” The command washed over me like a tide.I expected him to tell me to kneel or get out or for him to scold me but not that. My legs froze to the ground while my cheeks turned crimson. His words embarrassed me but when I dared to look at him, he looked nothing but serious.“I – Alpha –“ I swallowed down bile caused by nervousness.“Kiss me. I’m sure you know how to do that.” My skin felt too hot for my body, as if I was burning from the inside.“I –“ I’d never initiated a kiss in my life. In fact, I’d only ever kissed Lucien and I didn’t think he would want to know that.“You must have kissed someone before, am I right?” When I looked into his eyes, I had no choice but to nod because there was no point lying to him. He already knew about Lucien and me and he hated lies.Admitting turned out to be a grave mistake.He grabbed my nape with firm hands and hauled me to his chest in one move with his dead eyes alive with anger. The white around his eyes turned red and his lips pull

“I swear, it’s not what you’re thinking,” I said to Valens, running after him as he turned his back and led us to the pack house.“What am I thinking?” His cool voice asked. The cold in his voice made me numb and desperate. My wolf already formed a connection with him and she was desperate not to ruin it.‘I’ll die if he rejects us, Aysel. Appeal to him. Appeal to his wolf. He is our true mate!’ She kept yelling into my head as I ran after Valens who neither turned me slowed as his long legs strode into the pack house.We got into the elevator to take us to the penthouse – his place. I hustled into the elevator right as it was about to close because he didn’t hold it open for me.“You’re thinking that – that I’m cheating on you with him but I swear on my parent’s grave that it isn’t anything like that.” He didn’t answer me. He continued to look straight ahead at the cool silver walls of the elevator door as it took us up. “Please, alpha, I am not like that. I would never – I would nev

“Baby girl!” Celeste came flying at me once I stepped out of the elevator. “I’ve searched everywhere for you. Where did you disappear to?” The grin I'd been carrying with me since I mated with the prince vanished once I saw my best friend. She was the only person I expected to realize I’d moved out of the pack basement and I still hadn’t readied a reason to tell her if she asked why I wasn’t here anymore. As it turned out, I’d run out of time to come up with an excuse as she ambushed me that morning.“Hi, Celeste.” I hugged her back while my brain went into overdrive thinking of how to come up with a response to her question.“And you smell different too. What cologne are you wearing?” She pushed me to arm's length to look at me. “There is something different about you.” She mused and my heart fell into my stomach in fear. I didn’t want her to discover I had mated because if I told her, she would want to know with who and I couldn’t tell her I mated with Valens.He explicitly forbade