“Our marriage is never going to be a real one,” Irina said, looking at the Rogue who was betrothed to her. “As long as you fulfill your part of the deal, it doesn’t have to be.” Alpha Kai said, his eyes hardening as he took a step back. “I’ll see you walking down the aisle. Until then, I suggest that you think wisely of your choices…” *********************************** Forced to marry a rogue at the ripe age of twenty, Irina finds herself stuck between two choices. Either give the Rogue Alpha a child and be loyal to him or her save her family from the wrath of the Medici who was more than willing to get his revenge from her father over a debt of years.
View MoreIrina:“Hey,” Anastasia said, putting a drink on the table in front of me.I looked at it for a moment then at her, and she smiled. “It is not poisoned, I promise.”“The fact that you would think that I would be concerned about it being poisoned amazes me. But then again, you lived your life dealing with Cosimo. I doubt that you would be living in any less worry or concern.” I said, and she smiled. I took a sip of the drink, wincing when I felt it burn my throat. It was vodka.“Are you okay?”“Would a person in my shoes be okay?” I asked, and she sighed. “I need to think straight, and no matter how much I want to, I really can’t find myself doing so. And to make matters worse, I know that nothing that they are going to tell me is going to make this any better. I am going to need to try and understand things my way, and it is going to be a lot harder as time goes.”“Well, if it makes you feel any better, I am exiled from both my brother and mother. Neither one of them is going to want
Kai:“Irina…?” I frowned, seeing that she wasn’t by my side.I got up from bed, and walked out of the room, frowning when I heard the fuss that was going on. The idea of her not being here was something that I didn’t like. I didn’t want her to be alone, especially when I knew that she was holding a lot more than she was supposed to inside her.“What is going on?” I frowned, seeing that mom was walking with her robe. She was wearing a white one, and the idea of seeing her awake at this time was one that I wasn’t used to.“Irina’s mom woke up.” Mom said, making my eyes widen in surprise. “Rustem saw her first, and Irina is there now.”Anastasia, who was here, looked at me. Her eyes met mine and I nodded at her, but the woman looked down at her feet. I knew that she was thrown in tough situation, but I wasn’t going to leave her alone. Not after everything that she went through.I put my hand on mom’s shoulder, gently squeezing it, before turning to the infirmary.I looked at Irina who wa
Irina:I woke up, careful not to wake Kai up, as I got out of the bed.The man had barely slept, and the last thing that I needed or wanted for him was to end up exhausting himself more than necessary. He needed the break, and I wasn’t going to deprive him from it.I walked out of the room, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to go back to sleep anytime soon, and to the dressing room to freshen up. Washing my face in the suite’s bathroom could end up waking him, and I wasn’t going to take that risk.My heart ached with each step that I took, and it wasn’t long before I found myself in the garden, walking around, knowing that I would be finding most of the pack members asleep. Some were walking around, others patrolling, but it was almost empty.We have been here a week, and I still couldn’t find myself accepting what happened. And with my mother still being asleep, I knew that I couldn’t help but find myself falling deeper into the cocoon that I was in. Kai was the one reason that I was a
Kai:“Are you okay?” Irina asked, looking at me as I entered the room.I nodded, knowing that she could see through my lies, but I knew not to bother her with this. She was tired enough as it was, and putting her through this wasn’t something that I wanted. She didn’t need to go through it to begin with.“Do you really expect me to believe that lie, Kai?” She asked, and I sighed. I took her hand in mine and gently ran my finger over hers. She looked at me, waiting for me to talk. But I didn’t have it in me to do so. I didn’t even know how I was able to tell my mother that the man who ruined us was in love with her. He was, and I knew that I owed it to her for her to know. It just hurt like a bitch, and now…“Talk to me, Kai.” Irina said, her voice softening. I didn’t say a word. Instead, I chose to wrap my arms around her, and hug her tightly.“The two of us, I don’t want us to be like anyone that we’ve seen.” I said, lowering my voice to above a whisper. My words were for her ears to
Katerina:I stood outside in my balcony, running my finger over the pendant, the one present that I couldn’t get rid of from him. Kai was my blessing, and I knew that though he was his son, he was my blessing. But this one, it was what I believed to be love from him.I couldn’t get rid of it no matter how hard I tried, and it was times like this when I found myself running my finger over it, staring into space where I remembered the time when I was young, happy, and in love. The fact that it was always with me was something beyond me, but now, after thirty years, it was a small part of me that I couldn’t let go of. Just like he once was.“You’ve been quiet for a longer while than necessary, Katerina.” Rustem said, breaking my train of thoughts as he walked out toward me. He put his hand on my shoulder, gently squeezing it, and I took a deep breath as I turned to face him.“You know when you are deeply in love with someone and you know that they don’t love you back, and then to matters
Claudia:My eyes were fixed on the girl, my daughter, for a few moments as I allowed myself to process that she was alive, in front of me, sitting up, taking a breath after I saw her slaughter herself.Cosimo took her away from me, but she was right here, in front of me. The man didn’t take her from me. She didn’t die.“Mama,” she repeated again, the word coming out like music to my ears. Music that I couldn’t understand the lyrics to, but music nevertheless.She stood, nearly losing her balance only to be taken by surprise when Ezra wrapped his arm around her, steadying her. Her mate was standing by her side, and the pain that I saw in his eyes told me that he wasn’t going to want to lose her.He allowed her to walk toward me, making sure that she wasn’t going to fall. I hesitated for a moment, but extended my hand, daring to touch her face. Her standing in front of me was far too surreal for me to believe it.She wasn’t here. I doubted that this was true. It was a dream. But if it w
Irina:If anyone would have told me that I would be standing in a sept of peace, wondering what it meant to be in peace, I would have called them foolish. But here I was, I was standing in the one place where others would be more than willing to be in my place. A place that I know, that even the woman that called herself my sister wanted to be in.“What is peace?” I asked, shaking my head in question. “Because as far as I am concerned, we neither surrounded by it, nor do we know what it is.”“It is the place where you are going to find yourself questioning. But the questions would have their answers.” She said, the lady in gold. Kai looked at me, and for a moment, I doubted what she said. This wasn’t my ideal picture of peace. This place, I knew that it wasn’t. and I knew for fact that I was not fit to be ‘queen’. Whatever that was and whatever she meant, I knew that it wasn’t me.“I am supposed to believe that what you are telling me is true, right? Is that what you expect of me?” I
Kai:“What is…?”“This is what we’ve been looking for.” Mario said, choosing to stop me as he responded. “This is the sept that we were looking for. The one would separate us good from those who are…”“You and Irina have been chosen to be the ones to enter. You were the ones who were chosen to unlock the door.” Claudia said, looking at me. Her eyes were filled with pain and though I saw her anger in her eyes, she was curious about what was going on, but I knew that this was something that she wanted to see. If this was something that they were looking for, I knew that they would want to see what it was, no matter the pain.“What?” I asked, wrapping my arm around Irina, who just like me, was trying to understand what was going on. The idea of this being a reality wasn’t one that I wanted to think of. Not when I knew that everything was just turning against us.“Go, Kai.” Mom said, looking at me. Her eyes held a sense of pride that I didn’t understand, but I knew that it was one to valu
Irina:I stood on a cloud. At least, that is what it felt like.Kai’s eyes were fixed on mine for a moment, and I shook my head in question, trying to understand how things got to where they were or what even happened in the first place. Either way, I had no answer to give, and I knew that neither did he.“Are you okay?” He asked, and I nodded, taking a deep breath, processing what we saw.The colosseum walls were stable, and the ground was back to normal. There were no sandmen, and we stood, calm and collected. However, it wasn’t until we heard sobs that we snapped out of what was supposedly the reality of what we had lived.Anastasia or Katerina, whatever her name was for that matter, lay dead on the floor with her mother looking at her. The fact that Cosimo had been cold enough to hide a daughter from her mother for all this time. To be cruel enough to not even tell her where the girl was told me a lot about him.“You’re bleeding.” I said, looking at Kai. His left eyebrow had blood
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