Chapter 102

Chapter 102
Chapter One Hundred And Two
Alpha Aiden’s POV

I watched Nina as she stroked the heads of our children, patient, loving, even though they both had been crying on and off for hours. She sang to them, whispered words of sweet nothings to them. She had left her studies for them so they would be safe, so they would get the life they deserved, the life they were destined for. I had seen the look in her eyes ,they lit up when she watched those medical dramas. Red had given up so much for our children.

Her body might look weaker than mine because it wasn't as harsh or cruel or fearless.But God she was strong.

When Alexander and Annabelle had finally fallen asleep, she straightened from where she’d been bent over their crib and when she noticed me, she tensed slightly but came toward me. She’d been oddly quiet today, and I knew something was bothering her, but I didn’t talk about emotions if I could help it.

Red stopped in the hallway. “You have been here for more than 2 months , but I still don’t know what we are.” She said biting her lips

I braced myself beside her shoulders, peering down at her. “You are an angel, and I’m your ruin.” My lips pulled into a wry smile.

She shook her head almost angrily. “What am I to you? Your lover? Your girlfriend? A nice change from your usual whores?”

My own anger spiked. “What do you want me to say?”

“Nothing,” she said quietly. “I want the truth. I need to know what to expect from you.”

“I love death. I love spilling blood and causing pain. I love to see terror in people’s eyes, and that won’t ever change,” I whispered harshly because it was true.

She looked up at me. “You are the cruelest man I know. You took everything from me.”

I nodded because that was true as well. “Few women can bear the darkness. I can’t ... I won’t force you to be with me. You are free.”

“Free to do as I please,” she murmured, warm and soft against me. Tantalizing. “Even take another man into my bed?”

A burst of rage filled me. I wanted her for myself, wanted to remain the only man who’d ever tasted those perfect lips, who’d ever claimed her, but more than that I wanted her to want it too. I swallowed my fury. “Even that,” I said then continued in a harsh whisper, “I won’t stop you. I won’t punish you for it.”

She smiled a knowing smile. “But you will kill anyone who touches me.”

I brought our lips close. “Not just kill them, obliterate them in the cruelest way possible for touching something they are unworthy of.”
Challenge flickered in her eyes. “Are you worthy?”

I claimed her mouth, hard and desperate, before pulling back. “Oh no, Angel. From the day I saw you, I knew I was the least worthy of them all.” I should have never laid a hand on her, but I was a fucking bastard and had taken everything she was willing to give.

She tilted her head up, regarding me. She opened my shirt slowly, one button after the other, and it gave way under those elegant fingers. She rested her palm against my chest, over my heart. “Is there something in there capable of love, not only love…what about commitment?”

My fucking chest constricted. “Whatever’s in there, it’s yours. Whatever love I’m capable of, it’s yours too.”

She cupped my face, her eyes fierce, almost brutal in their intensity. “You are beyond redemption, Aiden ,” she whispered, and I smiled bitterly because I knew it.

She shook her head. “But so am I because even free to do as I please, I choose you. I’m no angel. An angel wouldn’t love a man like you, but I do. I love you.” And she kissed me harshly, brutally, all rage and love, and I kissed her back with the same love, the same rage.

This woman had stolen my black heart. From the first moment I saw her, I wanted to own her. At first to destroy the Outfit and Dante then later because it became an irresistible need, a voracious longing. And in the end, Red was the one who owned me, black heart, condemned soul, scarred body.
Every fucking part of me was hers, and if she’d let me, I’d be hers till my last day.

“I love you Aiden with and without the mating bond and mark” she said when she came up to catch air, she was breathing into the sensitive part of my neck and I love how she smells.

“My vampire senses wants me to suck on your neck, you smell delicious “ she said wetting her lips with her tongue , it was an innocent action but man it’s making you think of a lot of things and actions and none of them is innocent.

My heart burned with emotions. Fiercely. Nina had declared her love for me. Something I’d never considered a possibility after everything that I have out her through, I don’t think I can do anything enough to ask for her forgiveness but she always seem to welcome me back and to show how awesome Nina is , she went ahead to give me amazing children and she showed me that I can actually be a father and if I try enough I might turn into a decent father, after believing that I am bit capable of loving anyone and raising children, Nina showed me a new view of life …a more beautiful and merry perception.

This woman wants and owns my cruel heart, and I didn’t want it any other way. The kiss we shared is violent, harsh. Then I pulled back.

“Marry me.”

She froze.

It had been an order. I am not a man who asked for anything. Nina leaned back against the wall slowly, searching my eyes.

I didn’t let her retreat. I kissed her again but gentler.

“Marry me,Red.”

It still wasn’t a question, but my voice wasn’t dominant anymore. It was soft, compelling, raw.

“Become a Vincenzo and the Luna Queen of Silvermoon Pack?” She murmured the question gainst my lips.

“Become my wife, Vincenzo,my best friend, the mother of my kids, my wrestling buddy ,my Luca Queen …all of it, be mine Nina.”

“Are you sure this is on impulse ?“ she asked gently and calmly

“I have never been sure of anything, this has occupied my thoughts since the moment you told me about our babies …fuck it Nina, you’re like a drug to me.I am addicted to you and I wasn’t so sure of your feelings for me , I don’t want to push and I wanted to give you time to clear your head and thoughts …you obviously needed that especially after the baby , my heart literally shattered into a million pieces of joy when you confessed your feelings to me for the second time and yes Nina to answer your questions, yes I want you to be my forever”

She smiled sweetly , her eyes tearing up at my words “I have been yours for a long time.”

“Is that a yes?” I asked, my hand sliding over my outer thigh, stroking because the lip biting thing she is doing is distracting me.

“Yes,” She whispered.

“Nina Vincenzo,” I murmured.

“I like the sound of it.” She whispers as our lips collide in the most intense and passionate kiss ever.

Is this love? Is this madness? I didn’t care. It is my present , my future and perfection either way.



I held Nina in my arms after sex, my chest pressed up to her back, my nose buried in her soft hair, relishing in her sweet scent. She traced the scars on my palm and face. She did it often. In the beginning it had bothered me because it was a part of me I didn’t share with anyone except for Scarllet who witnessed most of it.

“I was nine,” I began then stopped because even with Scarlett I’d never discussed what truly had happened. Words had always seemed lacking to convey our shared horrors. The smell of blood filled my nose as it always did when I remembered that day. Soon the stench of burning fabric and skin joined the metallic tang.
Nina ’s fingers on my palm had stilled.

“I love you no matter what. I’ve heard of every horror you committed, and I’m still here.”
She was. I could imagine what kinds of stories were whispered about how much of a monster I am and they were all true. And Nina had experienced a small part of our nature when I’d captured her, when I’d cut her. Looking at the faded white scar, I still felt a fucking twinge in my chest. I brushed aside her hair and kissed the nape of her neck.

That she found it in her heart to love me despite it all, that she trusted me with our children, it seemed impossible.

“I know what I am. But my father, he was monstrous in a different way. He enjoyed torturing the people he was meant to protect, just as much as he did his enemies, maybe even more. My mother loved and feared him equally, and she allowed him to humiliate and torture her because of it. Allowed him to do the same to us. Love made her weak.”

Nina gave a small shake of her head. “Real love doesn’t make you weak. Love how it’s meant to be makes you stronger. But there’s no room for fear where there’s love.”

I tightened my hold around her. “Don’t you fear me?”

“I used to, but not anymore and never again.”
I rested my forehead against her hair. Very few people didn’t fear me.

My sister Scarlett and my Pack…the Silvermoon Pack, and that was what I wanted, what I worked for. “Eventually she hated my father more than she loved him, and she decided to punish him in the only way she thought she could.”
I closed my eyes, remembering that day when my mother tried to hurt my father back , it was the moment …those evil people and werewolves came to kill her thinking that she was the one who would cause their doom as prophesied, my father watched the whole thing and he didn’t protect her. She was the sweetest woman I have ever known and then you came to my life , you remind me so much of my father. I was so pissed at my father for doing nothing. He was found dead in his room some few months after my mothers death , I became the AlphaKing and vowed to avenge my mothers death and it to ever be weak or fall in love and that turned me into a monster”

Nina was quiet when I finished. She swallowed. “How can a father do that to their children? I’d die for Annabelle and Alexander. I’d never hurt them. And if you ever hurt them,AIden, I’ll kill you. That’s a promise.”

“I hope you will because if I hurt them, I deserve nothing less than a knife to the fucking heart.”
Nina turned around in my arms, her blue eyes fierce and trusting.

“But you won’t ever hurt them. I know you won’t and you protect the people you love.”

I nodded. “I won’t and nobody else will either.” I’d fucking destroy anyone who tried.

She traced the scar over my eyebrow. “I know it’s wrong but I wish your father experienced a more painful death for what he did to you and your mother .”

My chest tightened. I didn’t tell her that my mother was still very much alive. I brought Nina ’s hand up to my face and kissed her palm then the scar I had created. “I won’t allow you to be dragged down into my darkness.”

“I have avenged my mothers death but I’m still not at peace , you’re my peace but I feel like there are some loose ends I need to fix …my intuition don’t lie”

“That’s not your choice alone. I rule over hundreds of men. I can be very convincing if I try.”

She smiled a slow, fierce smile. “Believe me, I know. You convinced me to fall in love with my captor. But I can be very stubborn.”

I pulled her closer. “That’s true. You almost brought me to my knees.” She raised one perfect blond eyebrow. “Almost?”

“You had me lying in my own blood at your feet, isn’t that enough?” I asked in a low voice.

“Don’t do that ever again.”

“I won’t. The next blood I’ll bathe in won’t be my own.” Realization flickered in her eyes. She sighed then kissed me

. “You swore not to kill anymore ”

“Angel, I swore not to kill or harm our kids . I will do anything to make sure you are safe. And I don’t care how many I’ll have to kill to guarantee your fucking safety. I will kill everyone who threatens the people under my protection especially you,my children and my sister.” I touched her throat, stroking the soft skin there.

“You can’t have it all, this is what I do as an Alpha King in this wicked world.You have to make a choice.” I needed Nina to know me , the wicked , the bad and the dirts in my life. She needs to know the kind of man she is marrying and I will respect her choice if she doesn’t want me again even though I’m sure it will hurt like hell.

She shook her head. “I made my choice,Aiden. I chose you and I’ll choose you over and over again.”

Fuck. I didn’t deserve this woman.