All Chapters of My Arch Nemesis in my Bed: Chapter 161 - Chapter 168

I stood there for a second feeling humiliated and angry and scared, and then I went to the window because at least I could look outside. The room overlooked a courtyard where pack members were walking around and talking in groups, and as I watched one of them pointed up at my window. The others turned to look with expressions that ranged from suspicious to outright hostile. I stepped back from the window and let the curtain fall closed, I let the curtain fall closed and stepped back from the window, feeling suddenly very alone in a building full of people who apparently thought I was the worst thing that had ever happened to them. I sat down on the bed and pulled my knees up to my chest, making myself as small as possible, and tried to reach through the bond to let Luca know I was awake and needed him. I sat there in the locked room with spilled water soaking into carpet and food I couldn’t eat getting cold on the tray, and I waited for someone to decide what was going to happe

Cain drove back toward pack territory with his hands gripping the steering wheel hard enough to make the leather squeak, his mind wouldn’t stop replaying the look on Naomi’s face when Jonathan told her what he has been hiding from her. When he told her what he was. He can’t get the look of fear and betrayal in her eyes when she’d realized he’d been lying to her about everything, that he was a werewolf and everyone she trusted had been keeping secrets.His wolf was going absolutely feral in his head, throwing itself against his control and howling loud enough to give him a splitting headache. “MATE. GO BACK. PROTECT MATE,” it kept screaming, over and over until Cain wanted to pull over and shift just to let run it out.But he couldn’t go back, not yet at least because deep down he knows he is not strong enough to fight Jonathan and his coven , not until he figured out what the hell he was going to do about Jonathan’s ultimatum. Bring Lily to the vampires within forty-eight hours or Nao

Luca sat behind the desk that still didn’t feel like his and tried to focus on the document in front of him even though the words kept blurring together. He’d managed maybe four hours of sleep total for the past few days and his body was making it very clear that it didn’t appreciate being pushed this hard.The passing ceremony was scheduled for tomorrow and had to happen on schedule or the pack would see it as disrespectful to his father’s memory, which would just add fuel to the political fires already burning.His mother was still locked in the holding cells and half the pack thought he was being too harsh on her while the other half thought he should have exiled her entirely. Maya’s father kept making pointed comments about his missing daughter and how concerning it was that the new alpha couldn’t keep track of people, though Luca was fairly certain Samuel knew exactly where Maya was hiding.He had eighteen hours to finalize ceremony arrangements, deal with political challenges an

I found her sitting at one of the reading tables with Luca, both of them looking serious enough that my stomach immediately dropped to somewhere around my feet.“Hey,” I try to sound casual. “What are you doing here?”Luca looked up at me and his jaw was clenched in that specific way it got when he was trying very hard not to lose his temper. “Where were you just now?”“I went to get some water,” I said, which was technically true since I’d passed a water fountain on my way back from talking to Cain. “Why?”“You’re lying to me. Try again,” Luca said, and his eyes had shifted to that alpha gold that meant he wasn’t buying my excuse at all.I opened my mouth to come up with something better but he cut me off. “I just saw you with Cain in the east hallway, so I’ll ask one more time. Where were you?”“Okay fine, I was talking to Cain. He wanted to apologize for what happened last time.”“And?” Luca prompted.“And he told me about his plan to rescue Naomi and the others,” I admitted, beca