Semua Bab My Mate Wanted Me To Yield to His Childhood Sweetheart: Bab 1 - Bab 9

I yanked the Moon Goddess pendant he'd given me off my neck.“I told you I want to sever the mate bond. Today.”Julian just took the pendant from my hand, careless about the whole thing.“Seraphina, nothing happened last night.”“We're bound to each other. Your own body would know better than anyone, wouldn't it?”“Why let some made-up accusation drive a wedge between us.”But he knew perfectly well that last night had been the full moon.Without him, the pain would have had me rolling on the floor.And I hadn't had the strength left to work out whether he'd actually cheated.“I'm not joking.”His face darkened for an instant. He leaned in, brought the chain around my neck, and tried to fasten the pendant back on, but no matter how he tried, the clasp wouldn't close.I pushed him away, yet my hands were already starting to lose their strength.Was the wolfsbane flaring up again?Julian threw the pendant to the ground in a rage. The little moon split clean into two halves, just like the

The hunt began. The pack circled a lone vampire, closing in slowly.The howling drove the vampire into a frenzy. It bared its fangs, searching for a way out.Out of the corner of my eye I saw Daisy behind me, and a flicker of unease ran through me.Then, all at once, a powerful force shoved me forward.“Ah…” Daisy's startled cry went up right along with it.I saw Julian lunge over and shield Daisy beneath him, while I rolled, out of control, straight to the vampire's feet.A bone-deep cold wound quickly around my limbs, and the vampire's pale, bluish hand clamped hard onto the back of my neck.Its fingertips broke through my flesh. The pain made me shake, and bright red blood dripped onto the snow.“Seraphina!” Julian swept Daisy behind him with one broad hand.The worry in his eyes as he looked at me couldn't have been faked.But somewhere along the way, when danger came, I was no longer the one he moved to protect.In the beginning, on hunts he would tuck me carefully behind him and

“Seraphina, you're home.”“You've gotten so thin. All these years, how much have you had to swallow?”The moment my mother saw me, she came flying across the room and pulled me into her arms.She squeezed my wrist, overcome with heartache and bursting into tears.My father stood behind her, starting to say something and holding it back.I hadn't come home once since the day he'd said those cruel things to me.“Father.” I was the one to speak first.To my surprise, his eyes reddened too.“You're home. That's all that matters. You're home.”The table was covered end to end, not a bit of seafood among it, every single dish one of my favorites.I stared blankly at the spread laid out just for me, my nose stinging, and without any warning the tears dropped onto the back of my hand.At the Vance dinner table, as long as Daisy was there, her favorite seafood was always laid out.Even though Julian knew I had a severe seafood allergy.“Seraphina, Daisy loves it. Be the bigger person.”“She's a

“The Alpha King has held her long enough. It's time you handed my wife back to me!”By the time Julian arrived, Lucian was steadying me at the edge of a steep drop.Lucian and I had shifted into wolves, running across the blinding white of the snow.As we leapt up the snowy mountain, the snow on a sheer slope suddenly gave way.My foot met nothing, and I dropped toward the fall below.Lucian caught me around the waist and locked me firmly into his arms.His pleasant, warm scent filled me all at once, and I could hear his heartbeat, clear as anything.Julian stared hard at Lucian's hand clamped around my waist, his eyes so jealous they looked ready to bleed.The pack wolves who had come with him were murmuring too.“Did Seraphina seduce the Alpha King? Why else would he hold her so tightly?”“That's Julian's woman!”“Haven't you heard? They already severed the bond.”“But even so, the Alpha King has never had eyes for a woman in his life. Why would he treasure some she-wolf like this?”

Another full moon. Lucian had his teeth at my neck, his weight pressing me down.“Sera, have you really made up your mind?”“I could use my own heart's blood to ease your pain instead.”“I'm afraid you'll regret it.”I was trembling all over with the pain, yet inside I had never been so certain.This past month he had stayed at my side every waking moment, treating me like something precious. The mighty Alpha King himself was even willing to roll up his sleeves and cook for me, and no matter how much tangled business the pack piled on him, he was back at the estate before sundown every single day, without fail.The old Julian had always wanted to break off my claws, to make me learn from Daisy how to be a meek, timid little accessory.But Lucian was nothing like that. He hunted at my side himself, and when I bared my fangs and tore into the kill, he would proudly heap the spoils at my feet.Wrapped in a love that deep, how could I ever regret it?I tipped my head back and, with trembli