Vance's POV



It was dawn. I'm usually never up at such times. Nadia was obviously still pissed, so pissed she didn't even sneak into my room in the middle of the night to help herself to some blowjob.

It was her move at some point in time when even when I made her mad she'd sneak back in at night, and I'd either wake up to her blowing the hell out of me or kissing me profusely. We'd laugh about it and I'd apologize. It almost always ended like that, today was an ugly exception.

But I was also distracted by… her.


I went to bed feeling quite confident and here I am, a whole Alpha of Moonstone, nervous like it's my first rodeo with a woman.

She obviously does not know I'm the one who runs things here.


I kept trying to push it to the back of my mind and remember the itinerary Tarcy had prepared for me today.

As soon as she brought it to my room last night, I threw it on some table and instantly knew that it definitely would not affect my own set plan. It couldn't. No matter how serious.

'Hey Alex." I called my wolf.

I could feel he too wasn't settled. A little rogue wolf stirred all those emotions in Alex and I.

'She's not some ordinary wolf." Alex made me laugh. He was so head over heels. It felt good to know he was more fallen than I was even though we technically are one. It gave some validity to what I felt, unlike Nadia.

I had always seen Nadia as pretty, unfortunately, Alex never liked her, or her wolf. They never connected and it kinda rubbed off on me. When things became rough, I didn't see the need to fight so much for someone who my wolf couldn't even connect with.

At some point, after the whole thing with Talia's death and us marrying, I got bored. Even though the pack breathes the air I breathe, and would swallow anything I dish out, it just didn't make sense to me that I couldn't feel so much for my new bride.

She was my second chance mate, even though her first chance mate was still very much alive. But there was no other option in Moonstone, and I'm very much bound by the promise I made my father to only marry someone who was from Moonstone.

Landon irked me, most on those days when Nadia was pregnant with my baby, he still kept her in his house and was her lover. I was jealous, and not for the right reasons. Nadia would always pale in comparison to Talia, but I wanted her.

I only realized after marriage that I didn't need her for anything long term.

But I wasn't sorry for Landon. We were friends as kids, but I needed to clip his wings. He's grown too arrogant. Instances like when he screamed me down at discovering that Nadia was pregnant with my child. I still remember so vividly. Landon and Talia were beside each other here in my room.

Talia's face, that was so bubbly, cheery and full of life had become a shadow of its former self, spotting dark circles round her eyes, enhanced by the mascara that had washed down her lashes.

I felt insulted, but it took it because I had hurt both of them. In reality, I had no case.

Maybe if I had just waited a couple of months, fate would have sent this wolf sooner. I wouldn't be dealing with a lifetime of Nadia.

But that was a thoughtless thought, the irony.

Going out was definitely not the problem, falling for the new girl harder is. And maybe facing Nadia later.

'I need to find somewhere else to meet this girl." I said to Alex.

'Yeah, I'm not sure Talia would appreciate that you've made a meeting point out of her grave with a woman." Alex replied bluntly.

'Whatever man. For all I care, today might be the end of it." Alex knew better, I did too. It's been long since anyone sent this amount of electricity surging through my veins. It was definitely not going to be the last time.

I got out of bed immediately and spent an insane amount of time in the bathroom. For the first time in forever, I had an erection all through the night. The first time it happened, Talia was the center of my heart and thoughts.

I washed the slime it had created on my thighs away and let my body feel the warm water, before rubbing the mint body wash all over and sponging myself.

I felt chill, good. The day was starting well.

'You never use that body wash on normal occasions." That was Nadia's ‘good morning Babe' to me.

'Good morning to you too, Babe." I replied sarcastically after recovering from the shock of seeing her there.

'Isn't that a bit presumptuous? Let's see how it goes first." Nadia replied.

'Are you insinuating something?" I asked her.

'Definitely not." She replied instantly. 'I'm just saying what I see." She added.

'That's alright. I was about checking up on you. I'm sorry about yesterday." I wished I sounded more sincere. I didn't even believe in myself.

'Why are you getting dressed so early? Is there something happening? And why don't I go out as much with you again when you go on these duties that are outside the palace?" Nadia asked them all in one breath like something she had been rehearsing for years. Not breathing space, not for me, or for her.

'Nadia, you need to breathe." I consoled her. 'How are we going to make babies if you spend your time worrying about things as insignificant as those?" I asked her.

'Is that why you hide me? Because I'm not carrying a baby yet?" Nadia interrogated.

'Fuck no!" I screamed. 'What the hell?! I didn't even think of stupid shit like that."

'Forgive me for stating the obvious then." Nadia said and started walking out on me.

Her guts were what got to me.

I dragged her back, albeit gently and sat her in the position she was previously.

She didn't fight it. Nadia just sat and looked straight into my eyes.

'I don't like it when you think that way." I started. 'More than half the time you assume my intentions, you always get it wrong. Why not just ask?" I asked her. Her haughty eyes fell a bit. I raised her head back up to my eye level. 'Why do you keep thinking the worst of me?" I continued.

Her eyes had begun to water, and her lips were quaking at the sides. Nadia could no longer hold my gaze and her arms that were stubbornly tucked under her breasts were now lying on her laps.

I felt tears too, but it was for a different reason.