All Chapters of Nova: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Alex’s POVI was going out of my mind, and I was in real danger of wearing a hole into the carpet if I didn’t stop pacing soon. I cannot believe my fucking sister was missing again. I should never have let her go out with just one security guard. From now on she wasn’t going anywhere without a team and one of the three of us.Nova has come to me that morning. “I’m meeting a uni professor for a latte, what security do I really need?” she’d scoffed when I wanted to send a team with her. “No one knows who I am yet, just let me do this low key please?”I agreed because she was always so calm and logical. I couldn’t disagree with that she was saying. We haven’t announced Nova’s return and presented her to the people yet so she would probably stand out more with a team.“Okay” I conceded “Rolfe goes with you, but the second he senses something off you do what he says!”Nova gave me a very serious look and nodded her agreement but I still felt unsettled from the moment she left the house. I

Nova’s POVBreath Nova, breath I tell myself trying to stem the rising panic in my throat. Think about all the things you’ve survived so far. These people aren’t going to take you down.This has been my mantra for what I think has been about an hour since I was left alone in the room again. The sedative is completely worn off now and my mind is sharper. But rather than helping me think of escape scenarios, it’s decided to picture sacrificial alters and big shiny knives.This situation screams “we will kill you in a fancy sacrificial style”, not a gunshot to the head or anything more mundane. The door unlocks again, and the creepy sisters are back. They walk over and untie me from the chair but I my hands are still bound behind my back so I can’t take a swing at them. They force me to stand, which is harder than it sounds because It’s been so long since I stood I’ve lost a bit of feeling in my legs.They half drag me from the room and out of the building into a black SUV waiting outsi

Nova’s POVI could see the sun starting set. It was casting beautiful hues of orange, pink and gold, across the early evening sky. I didn’t know what was going to happen next, so I decided to take a moment to just taken in and absorb the beauty of nature. I had the ominous sensation if I didn’t figure out a way out of this, I wasn’t going to be seeing another sunset. When I stood at the window I wasn’t able to see anything happening on the farm land as there was a large barn like structure next to the house, blocking any view. But I can tell there is a lot of activity going on. I can hear a lot of voices and footsteps moving around. People shouting greetings to each other. The sound of laughter and excited talking drifts up to my window.It feels so wrong. I am waiting in this room to find out what fate awaits me and there are people all around acting like this is just a party. The evening has been described as involving my sacrifice but these people are acting like it s a street pa

Nova’s POVI am discovering the hard way that I don’t like a lot of people looking at me at once. I am also discovering I get stage fright. I'm currently stood in the middle of the Palace ball room on a makeshift stage, surrounded by my brothers, being presented to every member of the kingdom and beyond, who is rich enough to afford an outfit for this event.There are thousands of eyes on me, and I want to tunnel into the ground and never come out. But I don’t. Instead, I stand there like a good princess. I smile, as I turn slowly in a circle, doing the slow, effortless wave the etiquette psycho had me practicing all week. I mean, I got it after 5 minutes. Why she needed to do pop up drills all week is beyond me.At least I am doing it in style. My brothers got a whole team of people to get me ready for tonight. I’ve had my stylist Maisy, who has had a beautiful emerald, green silk dress made for me. A makeup team create a seriously sultry smoky eye and red lip combination, and my usu

Nova’s POV“Details, Princess, I need details” says a female voice far too chipper for this time of the morning. My eyes aren’t even open yet and I am already hating this morning. I may, MAY have regrets about the amount I drank last night. Wolves have a high tolerance for alcohol and I drank like everyone else forgetting I don’t have Atari to support my recovery.I crack open one eye and crouched down next to my bed is Leanna smoothing my hair and smiling at me. “Come on pretty girl. Time to get up and share the gossip” she tells meI just groan and roll over ignoring both her and her enthusiasm. “What the hell time is it?” I ask grumpily.“it’s 8 am and it’s not early so move your lazy backside because I want to know who tall, dark and dreamy was” Leanna says settling in bed next to me. “and why he looked at you like he wanted to eat you alive”I can really only respond with a growl. 8 am is too early and she knows it. So I decide to give her what she wants“His name is Viscount Rol