“Why would you?” I screamed. “You know the lives we have over here! You shouldn’t have done this! You guys take too many risks. What would happen to mom and dad if something happened to any of you? What would happen to Lucy and Eden … What would happen to me? We care about you … You idiots! We care about you! We love you!”
I leaned against the cell and felt more tears fall from my eyes. “I can’t live with you.”
Their voices hitched at my break down.
“We’re sorry Isabella … We weren’t thinking.” Luthais whispered. “We will not put our lives at risk like that again.”
“You promise?” I asked them. My brothers always did risky things, I couldn’t imagine them actually owning up to those words.
My brothers looked at each other before giving me a broken smile.
“We promise … Right after we kill Hunter for putting you into this mess.”
I gasped. “nO!”
Their eyes widened at my outburst. I couldn’t stop it. The thought of Hunter in danger only doubled my fear. I loved him more than I loved anyone else, that was the complete truth.
“We will be careful …”
“Y-you don’t u-understand.” I stuttered. “I … I love … Him.”
There was complete silence at my confession and my brothers looked like they’d just been slapped in the face.
“You love him?” Thane growled.
“That man is a monster!” Marcus hissed.
“He let you go as soon as his wife returned. Why would you love someone like that?”
Their words pierced my heart and made it hard to breathe.
“EnOUGH!” Ermanno shouted, shutting all of them up. “Leave her alone. Let her rest.”
I was surprised that Ermanno had taken my side. I knew that even he disliked Hunter to a great degree.
I didn’t wait for any of my brothers to say anything again; I rushed up the stairs and straight into my room.
I suddenly felt sick to my stomach and stormed into the bathroom.
I barely opened the door when I puked all over the bathroom floor. I stayed like that for a few minutes before I fell back against the wall.
What was wrong with me? I felt sick … So sick. It’s possible that it was from seeing my brothers in that state then hearing them threaten to hurt Hunter.
A small sigh left my mouth as I picked myself off the ground and went to my bed. I needed to rest before I completely lost my mind. Things were about to get even crazier in my life and I needed to prepare myself for it.
***ISABELLA***
It was now two days away from the wedding and I was finding it hard to wrap my mind around the fact that it wasn’t Hunter that I was about to be married off to.
I was trying to be strong, I understood what was at stake here and I wasn’t the only one involved in this alliance. Seeing my brothers bleeding in the dungeons with deep cuts and bruises all over their body was the little push that I needed to go ahead with the marriage without complaining.
I tied my hair into a bun and looked at the dark circles under my eyes in the mirror. I looked like someone who had little left to live for, someone who had been taking drugs for months now and didn’t know how to escape it.
I slowly glided my hands over my body and imagined it to be Hunter’s big warm hands. I shuddered at just the thought of it being him. I missed the rush of b***d all over my body whenever he touched me.
I touched my lips and imagined his mouth on mine. I loved being kissed by him; I loved the ability to feel like I was in another world. A world that didn’t have pain like this one did.
I stopped moving as a familiar emotion rushed through my body. My eyes snapped opened and I started to look around my room frantically.
Surely …
It couldn’t be. Hunter wouldn’t come here. He wouldn’t come for me. My mind had to be playing tricks on me.
I was clearly losing my mind after imagining him touching me. I shouldn’t be surprised by that reaction. Even thoughts about him had strong effects on me and my body. I sighed and made a move to enter my bathroom to throw some water over my face.
I paused midway as his scent hit me hard. My body instantly felt alive, like it had a reason to move again. A second passed then another and another and before I knew it I was bolting through the council’s palace, my body moving before I could even tell it to do so.
I couldn’t remember ever running through these corridors like this before. It was like I was desperate to find the source to the feelings awakening inside of me. I already knew who it was; only one person could ever make me feel this way. Images of him flashed before my mind and my heart raced just as fast as my feet did. They were both running to him, happy that he was here. I was moving so quickly that my hair untangled itself and flowed over my shoulders in a loud whoosh.
My feet came to an abrupt stop as his scent hit me harder than before. He was definitely closer now and around here somewhere. He was so close that I could almost taste him. I turned to the left and walked into an art room. At first there wasn’t anything unusual in here until I saw something move from near the curtains.
And then I saw him. Standing a little distance away from me. It was magical … Seeing Hunter again. There were no words as good as that one word to describe what it felt like to see the man of my dreams in person again.
He was dressed in a white shirt and black pants. My eyes drank him in like water in a desert. Just like me, his eyes were dark and baggy. It made me wonder if he’d been just as miserable as I had been. Even his hair was in a mess but to me it still looked beautiful.
He took a step forward but then paused again as his gaze scanned me from head to toe.
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