"Who are you to question me?" He howled angrily, his face red with rage and his fists clenched tightly. "Because I am your wife and you are to treat my family with respect," I yelled at his face, his face went pale and I saw the corner of his lips curved in a deadly grin. "Wife you said! Since when have you been bearing that title?" he asked with a little bit of amusement in his tone. "I have become your wife, right from the moment you have my father signed those documents and you are not to go against your words, only if you wish to break your own rules," I smirked back at him, his mouth clamped shut for a second, and I thought he had given in to my tricks. "Now, dear wife," The Lycan King stood up from the wooden chair and cup my cheeks in his hands. "I'm letting it slide this time because you're my wife-to-be and you're yet to learn the basic principles of the Royal." he ran his fingers on my face and my stomach churned in disgust. I wished he would realise how disgusted I felt by having his fingers on my face. I couldn't say anything, I let him do as he pleased and he stopped when he realised I wasn't going to bicker with him. "Take her to my room, I shall teach her a lesson never to go against her husband." All my life, I had always thought I would be getting married to a prince charming. What happened when the man I was getting married to was no prince charming? And worse? He was the evil Lycan King that I had hated all my life. The rule was simple. Marry the Lycan King in my sister's place, or have my family and the entire pack burn to ashes.
Nova's pov
There has never been a time in my life where I felt like the ground should open up and swallow me than now. My eyes burnt with tears and my hands balled into a fist in anger and pain. Just a week ago, I was just a carefree young lady, living life like a normal young adult would, and today, here I was getting dressed in a fine signature wedding dress from the Lycan pack.
A wedding dress that wasn't meant for me, but it was my fate to wear it.
Every lady's dream was to get married to that one person they loved dearly but in my case, it wasn't a thing. I dreaded the thought of getting married to that bloodthirsty beast, and the thought of mating with him brought tears to my eyes.
"Should I fix your makeup now, Princess?" Shayna, my maid asked for the second time and I moved my face to meet with her gaze. As I had thought, she had a faint smile on her face and I couldn't believe it.
It seemed like I was the only one who wasn't happy about the whole thing.
"Does it looks like I could wear makeup like this?" I asked in disbelief, pointing at the stream of tears that wouldn't stop rolling down my eyes.
Shayna must have understood what I meant because the faint smile disappeared from her face, almost immediately. She sighed and dropped the brush on the table. She exhaled before moving her hand to my face.
"Princess, I know how hard it was for you and your family, but I want you to believe in the plan and everything will be fine." balls of tears rolled down her eyes as she said those words, and she cupped my cheeks in her palms, brushing away my tears with her thumbs while she let hers fell freely.
"Everything will be fine?" I scoffed and nodded as if there was anything that four words could do.
"Aren't you people tired of saying those words, when it's obvious it wasn't doing anything to make me feel better?" I arched my brows which made Shayna clamp her mouth shut.
"I'm sorry, Princess," Shayna mumbled and I felt guilty for raising my voice at her when she didn't do me any wrong.
I didn't mean to shut her up because I enjoyed hearing her voice, her voice soothed me a little but I couldn't just keep up with those words.
"Shayna. Can you just..."
"Princess, Alpha and Luna are here. I shall open the door for them." came from the guard that was guarding my door.
I exchanged a knowing look with Shayna and she wiped off her tears.
"If that will be all, please excuse me." she closed the makeup kit, bowed and rushed out of my room.
"Greetings, Alpha. Greetings, Luna." I heard the faint voice of my maid greeting my parents, followed by the opening and closing of the door.
I sighed sadly when I heard the approaching footsteps of my parents.
"Novalie dear,"
"Princess,"
"Mom. Dad. Please I don't want to do this." I busted into tears and Mom rushed up to my side.
I did not know what that was for. Was it because I suddenly want to back out of the plan or because I was crying? Because of this whole thing, I wasn't able to read my parents' emotions anymore and it was frustrating.
"Novelie..." Mom sighed, she crouched beside me and took my hand in hers. She shut her lid and let out a sigh. "I also wish I could stop you from going. But you know better than anyone else, we don't have any power to go against him." she let out and I forcefully withdrew my hands from hers.
"Dad?" I raised my eyebrows at Dad who hasn't said a word since they got here, he seemed taken aback at the mention of his name and he coughed slightly.
"I'm sorry, Princess. No one has ever gone against him before." Dad facepalm as he said those uncourageous words to me.
I turned away from them and rested my head on the furniture.
"Get out!" I didn't know why I was getting mad at my parents when they weren't the cause of the problem, but I had to take out my anger on them because they were the leaders of the pack and their species were the ones who committed a crime I was going to pay for.
"Leave! The both of you should get the hell away from my room!" I picked up a wine glass from the table and threw it in their direction.
Mom jumped in fright when the glass fell on her toes, she jumped and fell into Dad's arms.
"Why is this happening to me? Why?" I yelled at my reflection in the mirror. I gripped my sleeve and went down on my knees.
"What have I done wrong to deserve this?" I cried out, the tears were just too heavy for me to keep in so I let them out.
I heard muffled cries beside me and then I felt a pair of hands on my shoulders. Pulling me for a hug.
••• A WEEK EARLIER •••
I watched my father from the dining room as he sat across the Royal messenger in our living room. There seemed to be a warning notice from the Lycan King and my father was signing some documents with a shaky hand. He glanced over at my sister, Tamsyn, and shook his head before handing over the documents back to the Royal messenger.
"Since you've agreed to the conditions I shall take my leave." said the aged man, he stood up from the settee and marched out without waiting for my father's response.
Mom scurried out of the dining room to my father who was staring into space. She got to him and sat on the edge of the settee Dad was sitting on.
"Darling, what was the letter about? What did the Lycan King say?" Mom asked, running her thumbs on the back of Dad's palms in the hope of calming him down.
"There's no point in watching from here, let's go to them, let's hear what happened," Tamsyn suggested, she grabbed my arm and pulled me up from the seat.
"Nothing good ever comes from the Lycan King. Everything about that beast screams 'horror'," Tamsyn mumbled to herself and of course, I heard it.
"Why are you not saying anything?" Balls of sweat has started to form on Dad's forehead by the time we got to the living room.
Upon seeing us approaching them, he stood up to his feet and pulled Tamsyn to his side, he pulled her in for a hug and broke down in tears.
"I'm so sorry, Tam, I'm so sorry that I agreed to his condition," Dad said amidst his cries which made me pull a sceptical look at him.
"Can you please calm down, Randale?" Mom moved closer to Dad and freed Tamsyn from his grip. "If you continue to be like this, how do you expect us to know what happened and how to address the issue?" fear was written on her face as she spoke, she took Dad's hand and escorted him back to the settee.
I pulled Tamsyn by her sleeve and we sat on the settee across from our parents, where the Royal messenger was sitting, a while ago.
"Just take a deep breath and tell us what happened." Mom kept on nudging him to tell us what the Lycan King said.
"Um," Dad looked over at us, and when his gaze met with Tamsyn, he looked away in guilt. "The Lycan King found out about the treason our species caused and he..."
"He did what?" mom couldn't bear with the tension anymore, she tugged at his arms and made him looked at her. "I don't care about how he got to know about the treason that was committed in our pack. Tell me, what does he want?"
"As you know, the leaders are the ones he usually punished for the crime committed in the pack." Dad gulped, he shrugged his shoulders, freeing himself from Mom's grip. "He decided to punish this household by having Tamsyn..."
"Tamsyn for what?" Mom howled, standing up to her feet to have a clear view of Dad.
"As his... Wife!"
"What!" Mom gasped in shock.
Tamsyn ran out of the living room before we knew it. I ran after my sister just in case she tried to do anything stupid to herself, there, I met her in her room, her face buried in the toilet sink, puking out her lungs.
"Tam, please calm down." I rushed up to her and sat down beside her on the cold floor.
"How can I calm down?" She shrieked and I moved away from her while still sitting on the floor. "How can I calm down when the ruthless Lycan King want me?" she broke down and sobbed like a child.
"Ahh,"
"You wouldn't understand, Novalie, you aren't in my shoe so you wouldn't understand me." she sniffed and rubbed her stomach through her thin clothes.
"What is there to not understand?" I sighed, and moved closer to her, I moved my palm to her back and rubbed her back gently. "The beast everyone in the nation feared the most want to have you as his wife, I clearly understand how you feel." I never knew I was at the brink of tears until I felt water fell on my lap.
Tamsyn sighed and dropped her face in her palms. "As I have said, you can't understand." she insisted that I didn't understand when I clearly understood her hatred for the Lycan King.
"Is it about your best friend that the Lycan King slaughtered because she impeded his practice?" I asked to be sure I wasn't a novice to the Lycan King's malfeasance.
Tamsyn chuckled weirdly and I stared at her in shock, nothing was funny and I wondered why she was laughing.
"My mate has marked me and I'm with his child!" she shrieked and I held my chest in shock.
••• Present •••
"Please you have to be strong for us, else he's going to kill us all." Dad caressed my hair as I had my head buried in his chest.
Mom wouldn't stopped crying and I couldn't stop my tears from falling, either.
"Please you have to be strong for your sister." mom sniffled back her tears.
"Everything will be fine." Dad kept caressing my hair which did nothing to help me with the pain I was feeling.
Just when I thought we were the only ones in the world, there came a honking of car horns from outside, indicating the arrival of the Lycan King's men.
"It's time for you to leave, Princess." Dad notified me and I clutched tight at his shirt.
"Please, Dad I don't want to go. Please command those bastards to go back to their pack." I cried heavily and I felt Dad's hard grip on my shoulder, pulling me away from him.
"Please do this for your sister." He said without sparring me a glance. He pulled me by my wrist and began to drag me out of my room.
"Dad. Mom please tell Dad to stop this madness." I yelled over to Mom who wouldn't raise her face to look at us.
"Dad!" I kept hitting his arm but my fist had nothing on his strong arm. "Dad please don't take me to them, I want to stay here with you and Mom." I cried bitterly as he wouldn't stop dragging me with him.
His grip on my wrist was so strong that it began to hurt me. "Dad?" I cried out for him to know that he was hurting me.
"I'm sorry, Princess." He turned around and pulled me to his chest, there I felt his hot tears fell on my arm.
When your mate cheated the night before your wedding with your best friend, and your father insisted you go on with the wedding because you're nothing but an asset. Under the influence of your anger, you had a one night stand with a stranger in rut who marked you as his without a second thought. Next day, your mate showed up and called the man you spent the night with, "Lycan King..." Lycan King? The same vicious Lycan King that was about to rain war on your pack?
"Is it considered betrayal to develop feelings for your best friend's boyfriend? What about when fate intervenes, and he turns out to be your destined mate? You might think it's luck and thank the moon goddess for such a twist of fate. That's what I believed until the love of my life uttered those dreaded words: 'I want a divorce!' As I stared at the pregnancy test in my hands, I realized it was better to keep my secret to myself. My name is Violet, and this is my story."
"Ahh!" She was in a moaning mess. She did not want to feel anything for this man. She hated him. His hands began to move all over her body. She gasped when he pulled down the back chain of her dress. The chain stopped at her lower waist, so when he zipped it off, her upper back and waist were exposed. "D-Don't touch m-ummm!" His fingers rolled around her bare back, and she pressed her head against the pillow. His touches were giving her goosebumps all over her body. With a deep angry voice, he whispered in her ear, "I am going to make you forget his touches, kisses, and everything. Every time you touch another man, you will only think of me." - - - Ava Adler was a nerdy omega. People bullied her because they thought she was ugly and unattractive. But Ava secretly loved the bad boy, Ian Dawson. He was the future Alpha of the Mystic Shadow Pack. However, he doesn't give a damn about rules and laws, as he only likes to play around with girls. Ava was unaware of Ian's arrogance until her fate intertwined with his. He neglected her and hurt her deeply. What would happen when Ava turned out to be a beautiful girl who could win over any boy, and Ian looked back and regretted his decisions? What if she had a secret identity that she had yet to discover? What if the tables turned and Ian begged her not to leave him?
COALESCENCE OF THE FIVE SERIES BOOK ONE: THE 5-TIME REJECTED GAMMA & THE LYCAN KING BOOK TWO: THE ROGUES WHO WENT ROGUE BOOK THREE: THE INDOMITABLE HUNTRESS & THE HARDENED DUKE *** BOOK ONE: After being rejected by 5 mates, Gamma Lucianne pleaded with the Moon Goddess to spare her from any further mate-bonds. To her dismay, she is being bonded for the sixth time. What’s worse is that her sixth-chance mate is the most powerful creature ruling over all werewolves and Lycans - the Lycan King himself. She is certain, dead certain, that a rejection would come sooner or later, though she hopes for it to be sooner. King Alexandar was ecstatic to meet his bonded mate, and couldn’t thank their Goddess enough for gifting him someone so perfect. However, he soon realizes that this gift is reluctant to accept him, and more than willing to sever their bond. He tries to connect with her but she seems so far away. He is desperate to get intimate with her but she seems reluctant to open up to him. He tries to tell her that he is willing to commit to her for the rest of his life but she doesn’t seem to believe him. He is pleading for a chance: a chance to get to know her; a chance to show her that he’s different; and a chance to love her. But when not-so-subtle crushes, jealous suitors, self-entitled Queen-wannabes, an old flame, a silent protector and a past wedding engagement threaten to jeopardize their relationship, will Lucianne and Xandar still choose to be together? Is their love strong enough to overcome everything and everyone? Or will Lucianne resort to enduring a sixth rejection from the one person she thought she could entrust her heart with?
Rose looked at the reports in her hand and was in shock... The reports said that she was one month pregnant, however, how can she get pregnant when she didn't have any man in her life... "Was it because of that dream? Could I get pregnant because I have sex in my dream?" She thought... She didn't have any mental problems, however, except for this she can't able to think about anything... However, she still didn't get out of her surprise when she met the man in her dream... Kevin Davis looked at the reports in her hand and asked, "Is this child mine?" However, Rose didn't answer but asked... "Was that night not a dream?" Kevin was angry because it was his first time and she thinks it was a dream... Kevin forced her to marry him however, Rose didn't want it... She wanted to abort the child but he didn't let her... In the end... Rose agreed to marry him... She looked at Kevin's blue eyes and said, "I will marry you, however, I had two conditions..." "First, after marriage, you can't control my freedom, I still had the right to do whatever I want. Don't worry I won't harm the child." "Second, if I ever found out that you had cheated behind my back then I will leave with my child and you can't stop me..." Both of them got married... However, after she falls in love with him... She found there are hidden secrets in his past...
Lindsey's fiancé was the devil's first son. Not only did he lie to her but he also slept with her stepmother, conspired to take away her family fortune, and then set her up to have sex with a total stranger. To get her lick back, Lindsey decided to find a man to disrupt her engagement party and humiliate the cheating bastard. Never did she imagine that she would bump into a strikingly handsome stranger who was all that she was currently looking for. At the engagement party, he boldly declared that she was his woman. Lindsey thought he was just a broke man who wanted to leech off her. But once they began their fake relationship, she realized that good luck kept coming her way. She thought they would part ways after the engagement party, but this man kept to her side. "We gotta stick together, Lindsey. Remember, I'm now your fiancé. " "Domenic, you're with me because of my money, aren't you?" Lindsey asked, narrowing her eyes at him. Domenic was taken aback by that accusation. How could he, the heir of the Walsh family and CEO of Vitality Group, be with her for money? He controlled more than half of the city's economy. Money wasn't a problem for him! The two got closer and closer. One day, Lindsey finally realized that Domenic was actually the stranger she had slept with months ago. Would this realization change things between them? For the better or worse?
Bailey seems to be never destined to fit in, a little geeky, but under it all, a hidden beauty that so many seem to miss, but still not what her pack Alpha is looking for in a fated mate... so he is determined to reject her and make her life hell. Bailey, knowing her life will likely never be the same focuses on what she can control, her future, and heads off to study; becoming a teacher. Asher is the Beta of Autumn Valley Pack, a neighbouring pack. A broken man having suffered the loss of his mate after a rogue attack, Asher is slowly crumbling. Falling to pieces. A shadow of his former self, and not a man that anyone wants to be around anymore... Until, Autumn Valley Pack require a new teacher, and Bailey finds herself there and pushed together with the Beta. Is there a connection building or is that in their imaginations? And what will happen when Bailey's mate comes back to claim what is his?