All Chapters of The Bastard Wolf: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

* Dorina *The news quickly arrives in the Palace when Alpha Fredrick sends a distress signal asking for the Alpha King to help them at the Green Meadows pack.I went to the war room because Father made me sit through another border report. The boring maps, and the warriors arguing about the crossings. Then a messenger came to seek an audience with my Father.“Your majesty there is an important message that you need to read.” His voice was trembling when he knelt in front of my father.“Rise and hand me the letter.”He followed him and handed the scroll to my father, my father opened it without delay. Then he read it out loud.“Your Majesty, my pack is under attack from a group of rogues. Please send us your aid to help fight them, many of my warriors have already fallen. I hope through our alliance you can save us.Respectfully, Alpha Fredrick Alpha Frederick has a young boy I hope they can survive. Then I realized that Ivan will be there. Most of the employees at his beerhouse com

* Ivan *The warrior looked at me and furrowed his brows."Did you mean Princess Dorina?"I nodded. He looked behind him, as if sensing something and I followed his gaze. Then we both waited for a couple of seconds, it seemed like the best thing to do at that moment.When the sound of the bike from a distance echoed. "Oh, she is here. We'd better get going now."The warrior moved past me, I was curious to see who he meant until she came along.The rain makes it hard to see at first but using my wolf sight I can see clear enough. Just a single headlight is cutting through the dark on the Eastern Road, bouncing hard over the ruts. It's running fast. It doesn't seem like a Palace warrior from the way she rides in a vehicle.Then the wind shifts past me. It smelled of lilies and sweet roses. Winter musk and rain with that clean, sharp scent underneath it that has lived in my chest for months that we shared.My wolf, who had gone silent, fucking roars back to life inside my head. She came

* Ivan * I have never slept beside any woman that I had sex with in the past. It doesn't matter how many rounds we had done it but I always sleep separately, I got used to it. However, it was different with Dorina, because I stayed beside her. Holding her close to me while she was sound asleep felt like the safest and most comfortable way to rest. I slowly placed a soft kiss on her forehead before closing my own eyes and surrendering into the darkness. I shouldn't have slept so well given we had just finished a war. Before sunrise, my eyes flew open. I woke up before she did. The divorce papers are still on the table. None of us signed them. I felt the warmth of her leg that is thrown over mine. My hand is on her waist. Her guard jacket and my wet shirt are in a heap by the bedroom door where we left them. The apartment still smells like rain, mixed with her sweet scent. I don't want to move or disturb her sleep. There is something about being this close to her that makes my

* Ivan *Despite how I felt about the Alpha King, I had to set it all aside. Thinking about the future of the Green Meadows pack and my wife Princess Dorina is what helped me accept becoming an allied force of the Royal pack. That is what I thought was best for everyone. When we came back to town and settled in our apartment, I was disturbed by a nightmare one evening."Ivan..run, run as fast as you could don't let the hound get you. Live! And never look back!"My small feet are still weak from seeing my family killed one by one. But I have to live! My mother told me to live! The hounds are chasing me into the deep forest.Real hounds and they are chasing me if it now I would have fought back, but in my dream I was a six-year-old boy. I’m too scared and I am chased by monsters. The kind the old packs used to fear in their life. They were trained on wolf blood so they don't fear the shift. They were barking, and the men were shouting, and my father was shouting my name, and then my f

* Ivan *I told her I would let it slide that I won't let a single reason come and hinder my love for her. But still, there are nights when I dream about it. And then wake up to the cold. Every time I seek comfort beside her without telling her what I had dreamt.The ghost that hunts me is the deaths of my family, their death without justice. When I was still a Palace assassin I couldn't find a clue on how or who killed my parents. But now as an Alpha of the Green Meadows, perhaps I have a chance.When I woke up that morning before her. I tried to act as if the dream never happened. Dorina was still asleep on my chest, her hair everywhere, her new ring catching the first grey light from our small window. The moss agate. I couldn't stop looking at it on her hand. My mark on her neck was pink and well-kissed from last night.The stew pot was still on the stove. We never had a chance to eat it.I was still lying in bed when the patrol horn blew. It was a low sound but long. Not like an e