Cassie POV“I still don't understand why you couldn't have just gone and helped Anna turn the water off,” I moaned, sounding like a moody teenager.I was ankle deep in water as I sloshed around, trying to pack a bag for the hotel I was being forced to live at until the flooding issue was over, while Vasilios sat with his feet up on my coffee table as if he were lazing on an exotic beach. He shrugged and said casually, “I didn't want to fuel your wrongly placed suspicions that I was sleeping with your neighbour.”I snorted and threw a few more things into my bag, swearing internally. “And how about when the water started flowing under my door?”He shrugged again, a twinkle in his eye, “I thought a plumber would be best suited to the job. I didn't expect her to shove a cork in the pipe and cause more pipes to burst instead of actually calling a professional.” Grabbing my makeup from the bathroom, I threw the case into my bag and zipped it up. “I'm done, we can get out of here,” I sig

Cassie POV Vasilios caught my hair in his fist, pulling on it so that he could deepen the kiss, his tongue sweeping inside of mine. I felt my arms gradually snake around his neck, clinging to him as if he were a lifeline. His tongue rubbed seductively against mine, drawing me into an erotic dance fueled by years of forbidden passion. I nibbled his lower lip, sucking it into my mouth as he pulled me closer to him. In one swift motion, he cupped my backside and lifted me up against him, my legs wrapping around his waist as he lowered me onto the bed. I could feel the hardness of his dick pressed at the junction of my thighs, the towel no longer offering any protection. Slowly, Vasilios moved his lips from my mouth and trailed kisses across my cheek and down my neck, nibbling the spot where his mark should be. I gasped as the waves of pleasure rushed through me, the blood in my veins turning to liquid fire. His lips peppered kisses across my collarbone, and lower until they reached

Cassie POVAvoiding Vasilios had been hard, but trying to stop myself from reliving our intimate moment over and over again in my mind had been harder. I'm ashamed to say that I actually had rather sensual dreams every night since then, and they all revolved around the man I was avoiding. And the worst thing about it all, was that I wasn't sure where Eliana stood in terms of me and Vasilios. Her forcing me to go to dinner with him had confused me a bit about what her endgame actually was. I'd called Yvonne instead and had explained to her what had happened. She pulled out her lawyer training and responded with, “well, you've consummated that marriage, and until you know whether or not you have Vasilios's pup growing inside you, you can't petition the elders for a divorce.”Great help she was. Amy had been a little bit more helpful and I was grateful that she'd dragged me from the hotel so that we could have a real conversation. “So, you slept with him. Is that the worst thing?” A

Cassie POVI slowly exhaled as the plane taxied into its storage hanger. It was the first time I'd been on Greek soil in almost three years, and it hit me hard. “Are you alright?” Vasilios asked as he looked over me from his luxurious white leather seat. Flying in a private plane certainly had its perks. “Yeah, I'm just a bit nervous to see my dad.”And that was putting it mildly. The last few months before I'd tucked my tail between my legs and ran away to America, things had been rocky between my dad and myself. “I can't say he's been happy with the way you ran away without even telling him where you were going,” Vasilios raised a condescending eyebrow. I crossed my arms and looked out the window at the activities in the hanger. “It's not as if he'd be magically happy with me if I did tell him where I was going. You forget that he was still pissed at me for the Laryssa debacle.”“So, you made it clear that you didn't like his girlfriend and she decided to break up with him. They

Cassie POV“Cassandra.”I heard my father's whispered words as if they had been shouted. He stood as still as a statue for a moment before he shook his head and walked away, not bothering to look back. I'm not sure what I expected him to do, but it certainly wasn't that. I stared after him, completely dumbstruck. “Vasilios, you have returned with your runaway mate. Am I to assume that you are going to compete against Viktor for the title?” Alpha Dimitri's rough voice echoed in the entrance hall. “I have come to claim my title, Father. Viktor's blood link to the position is so distant that he shouldn't even be a consideration for this position,” Vasilios tensed beside me as he spat out his cousin's name. A muscle in the alpha's cheek twitched, but other than that he showed no emotion. “Your cousin has a letter from the council which has said that, as he is still a descendant of the original Alpha of Poros, he cannot- and will not - be excluded from the proceedings as our Poros cust