"Holy shit! He's so hot it's difficult to hate him." I almost felt my heart jump out of my body, colour flooding my cheeks in embarrassment at being caught drooling over the vampire King. But apparently I wasn't the only one who found him attractive since Leila who had just whispered in my ears and even Jane were unable to keep their eyes off him. The thought of their eyes feasting on him had emotions of anger crawling inside me. Only we had the right to gush over him that way. I curtailed myself and tilted my head more upward than required, returning Leila's words with a whisper of my own. "You've found your mate, young lady." And the good princess cousin of mine winked at me. "Which is the only reason I'm not pouncing on him right now." Now that didn't seat well by us. Well, luckily my grandfather whose pride was being wounded by Xavier for the umpeetenth time stepped in at that moment, halting the shenanigans of drooling over the vampire whom I just noticed was surroun

What the fuck? My lips hung open, my eyes blinking like a pair of blinding lights had been flashed into them. But goddess knew that was exactly how I felt. I swallowed hard, hating that smirk in the corner of his lips as he walked past me and...laid his hand on the horse I'd nurtured for years like my own child. The proud selective horse who had thrown every other person off its back except me. But was currently neighing in a somewhat excited manner when he fucking mounted her. How many of what belonged to me did this bastard want to take? Then he turned to me and motioned towards the doors. "Open the door and take good care of this babe for me while I'm here, and perhaps I could pitch in a word to your King. Say, you can work at the castle then." And the idiot who had taken me for a stable girl fucking winked, and motioned for the door with a crook of his finger as though I were his slave. What the hell? Why was I standing there in the middle of the stall seething in si

"But grandfather...""It does not matter whether you were infuriated by his words, you went through royal school for four years to learn how to control your emotions! You think I don't want to rip the bastard's head off his body and feed him to our rogues in jail? You should have controlled your emotions better! That's why you're not some commoner, Artemis. But a lycan!"I stood before my grandfather, everything capable of having feelings in me inducing emotions of anger and resentment.I wanted to kill the fucking bastard.I sucked in a deep breath, palms clasped together as I stood with my noble chin raised upwards. It wasn't enough to console me, but at least my grandfather had waited till evening after his office hours before calling me to his courtroom. "He is a royal guest, Artemis, and as much as even I hate to have him, the laws dictate that based on how he penetrated his way into our territory, we are to be hospitable towards him. Besides, I do not need any war with vampire