Longing without Reason
ARIA
I gasped silently when I finally looked in his eyes. Even without the lights on, I could see embers flying through me from his gaze and for a split of a second, I wanted to run away from here when my knees trembled.
The aura of the alpha prince is unlike anything that I have ever sensed before. And what puzzled me the most is I am not at all scared of him. In fact, I felt like I wanted to touch him to ease this longing that I didn’t know I could feel for someone other than my own mate.
“Come here,” he drawled, his eyes roaming around my body that is barely covered by the silk dress.
I moved one step at the bed and stopped right in front of him with my face burning with shame.
“Interesting,” he whispered as he stared at me. “Now, show me what you’ve got. Take your clothes off.”
I jerked when he said that and clenched my hands as tears began to drench my eyes.
Aria, you have to do this! For the sake of your pack! You have to do this to get justice!
Still with shaking hands, I pulled down the strap of the dress and then the other. I know he is waiting for him to let go of the thin strings but I just can’t do it and so I could only shut my eyes and breathe in.
“Coy, are we?” He laughed insultingly afterwards and pulled my hand towards him, pushed me down to the bed, and positioned himself on top of me so that I could only do nothing but stifle a cry.
Who knows what he’s going to do with me if I show him that I am rejecting his advances? What he knew is I am a prostitute, an expert at giving pleasures to men.
He rubbed his hardness against my thigh while gazing down at me in awe. I stared back at his beautifully sculpted face. No wonder all of the girls in the village secretly liked him despite him being our sworn enemies.
“Stella said I am your first customer. Show me how good you are, woman.”
He rolled on top of me and spread his thighs before me. “Start with your tongue.”
That’s when I realized that he was naked all along and the hardness that he kept on pressing on me is his thing itself.
Nasty alpha prince! I yelled in my head.
He has no manners and morals living up to the rumors that surrounded him.
Fighting off the urge to run, I looked at his membrane and then back to his grinning face.
I know I haven’t had engaged in anything sexual with Zuleik as my body kept on rejecting him but with the alpha prince, it felt like my body is on fire like it wanted to be wrecked by him.
That is also a nasty thought because I haven’t felt like this to my mate.
“What are you still doing? Come on. Do it now!”
I nodded and took in a long breath before I moved my hand to touch his thing but before I could do that, he caught my arms and sniffed me hard.
His face changed while I felt relief washed over me at the contact of his stubbles against my sensitive skin.
He continued smelling me, even nibbling my skin there when I finally realized what was happening. The second I tried to push him away to flee, he had already pinned me back to the bed, his hands on my neck strangling me, and his eyes throwing flames at me.
“You are a lycan, aren’t you?! How dare a lycan trick me like this?!”
My tears fell as I tapped his strong hands to free me but his grip on my neck just went tighter and tighter.
“How dare a fucking low lycan like you try to seduce me?! Who ordered you?! I said who ordered you?!”
I shook my head at him as my tears continued to fall begging for him to let me speak. Seeing how I wanted to answer him, he loosened his grip but his hands still remained around my neck.
“Now, speak! Answer me truthfully! Who ordered you to be here? Are you an assassin?! Tell me!”
“No, alpha prince! I didn’t mean to be here with you! I was just forced to do this because I had no other choice.” I bowed before him and bit my lower lip. “I am an orphan. I have no pack. I am alone in this world and this is the only thing for me to survive. Please, don’t kill me, alpha prince. I want to live! I want to live!”
And I still need to kill you!
He yanked my chin up and stared at my neck again. “And you have a mate.” He started laughing like crazy when he saw Zuleik’s mark on my neck. “You have a mate!”
“And he abandoned me too because I have nothing.”
That made him pause for a while.
“And do you expect me to believe you?” He pinched my cheek which turned into a gentle caress. “And that he didn’t reject you right away?”
“He does not have the time to do so, alpha prince. I ran away from him because he was so abusive.”
The glow of fire in his eyes intensified like he did not like what he heard.
A knock was heard in the door before a voice followed.
“Alpha prince.”
“What is it, Lucas?” he asked, still staring at me.
My brows moved. Lucas? That name is so familiar too, just like the scent of the alpha prince.
“The alpha king called for you. We need to head back to the palace.”
He nodded even though he couldn't see him. “Prepare the soldiers then.”
“Yes, alpha prince.”
He got up from the bed and put on his clothes right in front of me while I kept my eyes down and left without saying anything to me.
I stood up too to leave but was stopped by the voices outside the window.
“Keep your gift fresh for me, Stella. I don’t want anyone to make their spoils on her. You understand me?”
“Yes, alpha prince.”
I closed my eyes as I finally let go of the sigh that I have been holding.