Chapter 179
VARKAS’S POV
The halls resounded with my footsteps as I walked through the corridors with Stephan. He was a few steps behind me, careful not to get too close as I was boiling over.
“My Lord—Alpha,” He stammered, careful not to get close. “Kindly control your anger. If anyone senses your aura—” I spun to face him, making him stop abruptly. His eyes paled in horror at my sight.
“I—I—forgive me, Alpha,” He bowed slightly, careful not to meet my gaze.
“That damn Declan!” I hissed, sending a punch right through the wall until my knuckles paled, smeared with blood.
“Alpha, you know Alpha Declan has always been rash and was never one to be patient. You have to stay calm. At least you have given him and the others a drop of the blood of the Aethera. That should keep them in check for a while,” He bowed slightly.
“It is now more than ever that I should be worried. Now that they have a taste of her blood, they will soon be wanting more. We do not just need the Aethera alive; we need to breed her for more of her kind. They only see the now, but I see the greater picture. A world with a supply of the source of immortality right with us—never ending.” My eyes glowed as my desire sparked as I envisaged the picture of the world I had in mind.
“But what about her mate, the Alpha King?” Stephan’s voice drew me out of my reverie.
I turned to continue my journey to my chambers. “Fetch me that omega maid.”
Shortly after, a curvy she-wolf with long, wavy ginger hair and very fair skin hurried into my room with her head bowed.
“I have a task for you, Sophie.” My gaze trailed the curve of her neck, to her perfectly round breasts, and her tiny waist. She was a comely sight, with oval shaped face and full, lush lips. She had a desirable figure and was a stunner.
Her gaze swept from the ground to my face, and she stood to her full height, her proud breasts pointing straight at me.
“You will seduce the Alpha King. Use whatever means necessary. Make sure the princess Lyra gets a whiff of your scent on him or, better still, catches both of you together.” I ordered with narrowed eyes. There was a pause, then her eyes narrowed as a slow smile crossed her lips.
“The Alpha King is a challenge. I accept Varkas,” She smiled, sashaying towards me in her usual playfulness. When she got to where I stood, she placed her palm across my chest and trailed her tiny fingers down to my abdomen, stopping just above my belt. A slow smile curved my lips before gripping her hand.
“No games, Sophie. The Alpha King is not like those other Alphas, and you are not allowed to fail.”
Her eyes shone dangerously. “Fine,” She muttered. “May I be excused?”
As soon as she stepped out of my room, Stephan came from the adjoining room. “Alpha, your rut will be coming soon. Why didn’t you allow Sophie to take care of you in the meantime so the effect of your rut won’t come down hard on the she-wolf you use later?”
“I have my eyes set on someone else. None of them appeals to me as she does.” A slow smile curved my lips.
“But isn’t she just a specimen you have decided to have under the Vivarium’s custody?”
My eyes flared, shutting him up instantly. His face and he whimpered slowly as sweat beaded his forehead.
“I—I’m sorry, Lord Varkas—Alpha,”
“Get lost,” I hissed. He scurried out of the room, leaving me to my thoughts. Slowly, I picked up a cigarette and lit it, blowing out a few smokes before strolling over to the balcony. Just below, on the ground floor, on the pack grounds, I saw Lyra. The object of my desire these past months. She was now an obsession I couldn’t get over. It was so crazy that I had activated the cameras in her room remotely on my personal computer, watching every one of her moves. Her sleeping, her eating, her brooding, her waking up, her nakedness.
My favorite moments were when she went to have her bath. I was envious of the soap lather on her soft, milky skin. It had more body contact with her than I ever could. There were nights I stayed awake, gripping my throbbing cock in my hand so bad, crying her name until I cummed. The release—the feeling, was on a whole different level entirely.
I loved her in these billowy gowns and robes. They were almost transparent, it could picture the slender curve of her back, long, hot legs, and the curve of her backside. My eyes glazed with hot desire as I undressed her with my eyes from where she stood, as the wind kissed her cheeks and played with her long mane of gold hair. She was a vision to behold, and even as I stood, I could feel the violent stir in my pants.
Suddenly, I felt like I was being watched. The feeling came with hostility and anger, and it didn’t take me long to figure out whose aura was giving off the energy.
Slowly, I turned my gaze towards the direction of the intensity from which I felt the glare coming from and met a pair of black eyes. A slow smile curved my lips.
It was Alpha King Ryker. Her mate.
He was livid. His anger rolled off in waves with a deathly glare of his wolf’s eyes enough to bring any wolf and even Alphas to their knees, but I was no ordinary Alpha. I was a very old one at that, whereas he was just a boy.
Lyra must have sensed the animosity brewing between us; she suddenly looked up and met my gaze.
A slow smile curved my lips the moment our eyes met, but it was short-lived as Ryker took her hand and walked away with her from my line of vision.
“Very soon, Lyra, you will be mine,” I vowed, blowing the last of my smoke before placing the cigarette in the ashtray.