Nola ReynoldsThe woman with the glossy brown hair that fell in waves to her back adjusted the tiara that was perched like a fly on her head before she stopped in front of the stone archway of a wooden door.The one I guessed opened to my quarters. It did not escape my notice that I was going to be the only one on this end of the castle, the other girls rooming cohesive on the opposite corridor that broke out from the brightly lit florescent shining over the pebbled hallway.I did not doubt in my mind that Sarah had something to do with my social ostracism. The blue-eyed Bambi must have batted the shedding thickets of her golden eyelashes at Merida, spewing rubbish about not feeling safe around people of volatile temperaments, people like me.I’d seen them whispering in hushed tones in one of the ornately designed reading rooms after the woman chief guard excused herself for a minute too long. I had wondered what atrocity it was the village maiden was filling the woman’s ears with, an

HECTOR“Alone, your highness,” Sarah whispered airily, tilting her head to the side The woman at the door was still looking at me, expecting an answer. Nola folded her hands over her buxom chest and I sighed, unable to believe it had come to this so soon. I’d caught the brunette watching me from across the stone castle, ducking behind the thick fold of curtains just as my gaze fastened on her doe-eyed expression.This close, I’d come this close to kissing the green-eyed imp from the wolf village. The very attractive green-eyed imp.I could smell the musk of her feminine heat from down the passageway going to her room. That was how down bad I was apparently.What the hell is wrong with you Hector? I was behaving like a bull in heat, charging up to the maiden's room to claim her like that.I just couldn't seem to get that scene with me and Nola on that pale horse out of my head! The feel of her nipples on my back, and the heat that had traveled through my hardened shaft.I didn't want

NOLA REYNOLDS“Very well then, I release you from your promise.”It was the last thing the silver-haired man had said to me before he strode out of my wood-walled quarters of the stone castle.Why the hell had I spoken to the Lycan King of the mountains like that?Ugh! What was wrong with me?There were women- Sarah, Layla, the mountain city wives, - who would have killed to have his attention like that!I lowered myself to the lavender-netted canopy bed with a heavy sigh, calming the soft velvet duvet slowly.Should I apologize? But what would i be apologizing for?“Mr. Lycan sir, my apologies for bruising your ego?” I tried to mimic Sarah’s throaty high-pitched voice and gagged on the self-cringe.It didn't make sense! I couldn't deny regretting some of the things I’d said in the heat of the moment. The way he’d been looking at me was hardly his fault, but it made it difficult to think.Not that the reasoning came easily to you in the first place Nola.I squeezed my eyes shut, groan

HECTOR BAYES”Miss Oliver? What are you doing here?” I sighed, watching as Sarah bowed a small courtesy before entering the statue-lined envelope of the stone castle garden.The granite of some of the dead-eyed sculptures had become run over with yellow-petaled moss, giving the garden all the feels of a resting jungle.”I’ve looked everywhere for you your highness! Its a miracle I found you when i did.” The woman gushed and i felt the air in my chest rise till i was walking toward her with raised shoulders, my back standing a tad bit straighter with all the air of self-importance her words had given me.“I-I uh, I just wanted to say thank you, for, for Mary.” Sarah breathed, a hiccup suddenly rising from her lips as the most of tears clouded her eyes for a moment before her ocean-blue eyes flickered away from me.A cowl formed on my forehead as I squeezed my eyebrows together, remembering that I had ordered for the unfortunately deceased maiden to be kept in the heavily guarded Castle

NOLA REYNOLDSThe Samoan woman was looking at me like she just won the national lottery and I was the big fat check the officials handed her.“My, what an impression you are going to make on the guests, my, an impression indeed!” Yolanda whispered cryptically, her eyes bulging as she eyed me up and down before I rolled my eyes, tired of shifting from foot to foot awkwardly.”Yolanda, yoo-hoo, eyes up here!” I groaned and the woman snapped her eyes up to me, before flashing me an amused smile, as if to say my impatience was cute but that she was still going to take her sweet, darling time.I watched exasperated as the buxom woman made odd gurgling noises in her throat as she circled me, tucking taffeta purple lace in and plucking it out in some places before her large hands settled on the exposed top of my breasts and I stifled the back-handing that had straightened my palm.“What the hell Yolanda?” I screeched, struggling to shimmy away from the u smiling woman until she snapped up he