Vance's POV



'I don't think I want to." I replied to her after she tried avoiding the question.

'It's just an innocent question." She said,

While it didn't seem like she was lying, it definitely caught me off guard. I feel that's the one question whose answer, I owe Nadia.


'Who are you here for?" I asked her. She definitely wasn't from Moonstone.

'Stumbled into. I know no one here." She replied. I wanted to look at her, maybe something in her looks would betray the truth, but I took her answer as she gave it.


'It's no fun place." I said. 'Are you sure you don't want to keep looking elsewhere?" I asked her.

'Never said I was a funseeker." This person definitely doesn't know who I am. And I didn't know if it was a good or bad thing.

To be honest, she had a really beautiful voice.

'That's alright." I replied.

I was done with Talia. Not like if I wasn't, there was nothing more I could do. It'd probably frighten the young woman behind me away. And that's the last thing I want to do.

'Where do you stay?" I asked her

'Tryna fix an appointment?" She replied. I don't know if that was what I was trying to do, or just to know if she stayed in Moonstone, but both worked.

'I'd leave that to you." I said. The back and forth was cute and charged.

'How sure are you that I want to see you again. Besides, you're the only one I've met, there must be someone I'd like better." Isla replied. It's the first time she said something beyond one sentence.

I felt challenged. Who does she think she is? And who the fuck is it she'd like better?

I took a breath before replying. Besides, I'm the Alpha. It really doesn't get better than that. But she obviously doesn't know.

'Here. Two pm tomorrow." I said.

She turned and left, her footsteps retreating. I turned back at that moment to see the prettiest hair I'd ever seen since Talia. She sauntered off proudly.

I gave it a minute before following her, to see what direction she took. As soon as I got out of the graveyard, she was nowhere in sight.

I didn't know what to make of it. If I wasn't outside, I'd have questioned ever meeting her.

I walked to where I parked my vehicle and zoomed back to the palace.

It felt like something was going to happen. What it was, I don't know, but it really does feel like something was going to happen.

How I got home in one piece that day still beats me. My thoughts were all over the place.

Who could she be? Why so much guts? I felt insulted without really being insulted.

'Hey." Nadia broke into my thoughts.

I then remembered that I might have promised her a ‘nice time' before going out that morning. Hence the see through lingerie she had on. It looked sexy and would probably get me aroused on a normal day.

She threw her legs around and started kissing my neck.

I wished so fervently for an erection. Nadia was like any other woman who would sense that something was off, and I wasn't gonna be entertaining that type of confrontation right now.

'How are you?" I asked her, trying to get myself into the mood.

'Before you came? Not so good." Nadia spoke really close to my ear. My hair was supposed to stand in excitement, but there was nothing.

The more I kept thinking of how I should've been responding ideally, the worse it became. I didn't feel like it.

Something about the rude, hot stranger pricked my soul. I really wished we never met.

Now, she's just stuck in my head. Worse still, she made it sound like I'm average. Whatever the fuck did she mean by 'someone I'd like better"?!

I needed to see her again. Just one more time. I'm the fucking alpha in my pack. Too big to be treated like she did me.

'Don't you like it?" Nadia's voice intruded my thoughts.

I kept hearing the swoosh sounds of her kissing my neck and it was nothing short of irritating. I was irritated and Nadia was highly turned on.

'Baby, I think I want to use the bathroom first. I feel dirty." I said to her, Hopefully, she buys the excuse.

She stopped abruptly. Nadia wasn't dumb, she probably knew something was up. 'Alright the. I'll be waiting."

I got up immediately and went to my bathroom. I turned the shower on and basked under the warm water for a freakishly long while, all the time contemplating how best to tell Nadia to use her room because I was too busy undressing that stranger in my head.

The water didn't help much, but it definitely slowed down how fast my heart was pumping. I was cooler but not less occupied in my head. Something about her was…

Her whole aura and what she said. I really hoped she would take up my invitation for the next day.

That also meant I had to be in the cemetery. I only went there for Talia. She's making me bend over. No one was ever so special, I never went there for anyone, not even my mother when she passed, albeit a shameful one.

Was I going mad? How could I have consented to such? Worse still, suggested it? Something was definitely broken in me.

Maybe she could fix it…

It's the most peaceful life I've had with Nadia since forever. There was a decent chance my heir was on the way with the amount of sex we had been having. And here I was, throwing it all away for some ‘Isla'.

I kept calling my name in my head, but it still didn't change anything. I knew for a fact that I wasn't going to be in the palace by two pm the next day.

Nadia had been waiting for a little over an hour.