Chapter 14

Fourteen

LYRA

M y heart pounded hard as my gaze locked with the beast before me. I'd never seen a werewolf that large in my life. I grew increasingly terrified, scared of what he would do.

In a split second, he lunged towards me, pinning me to the ground.

Slobber dripped from his fangs onto my chest. I quickly turned my face away, unable to look at the horror before me.

The Shadow Wolf howled, lifting his head to the roof of the cave. It sounded more like a war cry.

Something caught my eye on the wall. The word ‘Cursed' was scrawled messily on the wall of the cave in red letters that looked like blood.

He didn't look like any ordinary werewolf. From my guess, he was eight feet tall, with the body of a linebacker covered in hair.

"You wrote that?" I asked frantically.

The color in his eyes shifted for a moment from angry red to brown. He looked like he was taken aback by my question.

My hand trembled as I reached out to touch his gigantic paw lying next to my head. I swallowed, thinking about all the omegas he murdered in cold blood in this cave.

I could be next if I wasn't careful.

In a split second, his eyes shifted to red again, and he lowered his head, ripping my jacket apart with his fangs.

I screamed, and he began huffing wildly as if excited by my discomfort. His slobber spilled all over my leggings, a wide, toothy grin on his face. I screamed again when he ripped my shirt open, exposing my bra. He was growling and roaring.

Getting more and more frenzied.

I had to gain control of myself.

Taking a deep breath, I stopped screaming and touched his face instead. He stilled as I tried to project a sense of calm into him. It was no different with horses. His huffing began to cease, and his eyes began changing to a calm brown color again.

"You didn't become like this on your own," I whispered. "You were a powerful sigma."

His eyes gleamed with unshed tears. He lifted his head upward, and a long, sad howl emitted from him.

"Shh," I said, seeing his bloody ankles wrapped in chains. "Do you want me to free you of these chains?"

I sat up when he moved off of me.

I started working on the chains, unwrapping the long link around his ankles. He stood still as I untangled him. The chains were rusty and old, covered in years of blood. Or maybe it was just rust. His rank odor nearly killed me as I worked underneath him.

Maybe if I unchained him, he would leave me alone. And I could actually survive this. I didn't mind setting him on his own people. Because as soon as I unchained him, he would run.

After all, they did try to kill me.

Using a hairpin of mine, I was finally able to unlock his chains.

"Lyra! What the hell are you doing?"

I looked up, dropping the chains instantly upon seeing that it was Kodan. Luke was standing next to him, holding a small knife in his hand.

The Shadow Wolf crouched, dangerously free and ready to attack.

His eyes took on the fire-red color again, and he roared, charging toward Kodan and Luke. Everything happened in a split second as he knocked them both down on his way to freedom.

The Shadow Wolf sprinted off and away from the cave.

"Fuck," said Luke, groaning and rubbing the back of his head. "He's a strong bastard. And fast."

"How could you release him like that, Lyra?" asked Kodan, making his way toward me. He lifted me by the arm and inspected my body. "Are you hurt anywhere?"

"No, I'm fine," I said. "Just freezing to death in here."

"Why the hell did you unchain him?"

"He was going to kill me. I'd rather he kill the villagers and Voss, who, by the way, put me in here," I said indignantly.

Kodan sighed and sat on top of a boulder.

"The entire island of Howl's Edge is in danger," he said, covering his face with his hands, furious with me. "It's not only the villagers who will be under attack. It'll be anyone who gets in his path."

"Oh crap," I said, realizing what I had just done. My entire family was in danger, as well as innocent people.

"I'm going to hunt him down before anyone else gets to him first," he said, scratching his beard. "The Royal Pack will kill him on sight."

"Why do you care so much?"

"I care because he's my brother."

Kodan

Late that night, I scrubbed off the deer's blood from my chest in the shower.

I couldn't think straight after this hectic day. My little brother was running around rampant and out of his damn mind.

Lyra hadn't let anyone in the bedroom for several hours with the door locked. I could tell she felt bad about what she did.

But while she sulked away, I spent that time skinning the deer and hacking it to pieces.

I had to track my brother down first thing tomorrow, but I also needed to bring my wife to safety.

When I thought about Lyra, my balls tightened with arousal. I pictured her in my mind, lying in bed in her sheer pajamas.

My dick hardened in the hot shower, and I lowered my hand, squeezing it around my dick. Closing my eyes, I pictured her soft pink pussy trembling under my fingers. I stroked up and down. Faster and faster, thinking about how her lips made an ‘ O ' shape when she climaxed.

I roared my release, and a load spurted from my dick.

"Damn," I muttered, my knees buckling. I held onto the walls, trying to regain control. She had power over me even when she wasn't around. I was starting to get dangerously close to her. It was supposed to be a simple marriage of alliance, but it was turning into something more.

After finishing up my shower and collecting myself, I decided to check on my omega wife. Standing outside her door, I only wore a towel around my waist. I could hear her breathing hard in there. And then I heard a moan.

Was Luke fucking her again?

But at least he wasn't planning on murdering her like Voss was doing. Ah, Voss…

I was going to find him and kill him as soon as I got the chance. I hadn't been able to track him after the fiasco in the cave. He enlisted the help of some of his followers to go into hiding.

I turned the doorknob and walked in.

Lyra was alone on the giant bed. She was lying on top of the blankets, with her bare knees up and her hand in the middle of her clenched thighs.

"What are you doing here?" she breathed, her eyes glazed over in desire. She had clearly been touching herself.

"Continue," I said, lowering myself onto the mattress opposite her. As I peeked between her legs, I noticed she wasn't wearing any underwear, her pink glistening pussy lips puffy and aroused. "I'm sorry for disturbing you, but continue."

"Aren't you going to leave?" she asked, biting her lip.

I lay on my side, propping myself on my elbow.

"No," I said. "I want to watch your slick seep down to your bottom. I want to watch your little pussy trembling as you finger yourself."

The princess slowly spread her knees apart, and I watched her delicious pussy lips open up before me. Her sweet scent was heavy in the back of my throat.

Arousing me. Calling to me .

She slid her finger hesitantly between her pussy lips, rubbing her clitoris in circles. Oh, how I wanted to lap up every inch of her delicious cunt. Instead, I patiently watched as she rubbed herself, taking her body to new heights. I wanted to learn what she liked. Her bare, luscious breasts bounced up and down. My cock hardened as I watched her masturbate in front of me. She writhed as she pressed her clit harder, her legs jerking open wider. She kept glancing over at me and licking her lips.

"I want your knot," she gasped, sticking her middle finger deep inside her pussy.

I wanted to give it to her. To put it inside her until I was balls deep. But I stayed quiet, watching as she finished herself. Then she sucked her fingers off in ecstasy, watching me with hooded eyes.

God, she was perfect.

Her lithe body was open and vulnerable before me. Ripe for the taking.

I dove between her thighs, brushing my tongue against her sweet cunt. The taste of her sweet honey made me unbearably hard. A moan slipped past her lips as I lapped up every inch of her pussy and her swollen bud.

"You taste so good," I growled, licking and sucking like she was my last meal. She moaned, arching her back. Her hands gripped my hair wildly as her body trembled with another orgasm as I pressed against her pussy harder.

"Lick me," she begged.

I happily obliged, sucking every drop and swirling my tongue around her nub with added pressure. "Come for me again, baby."

"Please, I can't," she begged, trying to push my face away. Instead, I added more pressure with my tongue, tasting every inch.

"Just one more. Give me that sweet honey," I said.

As I swiped my tongue up and down and around in circles, I watched as her eyes rolled back in pleasure, giving in to my demands.

Her thighs tightened on either side of my head, and my tongue slipped inside her heated hole.

"Oh my god, Kodan," she screamed. Her legs spasmed, and her pussy released an abundance of slick, which I desperately lapped up.

Lyra

I couldn't believe that just happened.

I lay there spent and gasping on the mattress while Kodan lay next to me, his hand roaming my breasts.

"You're quiet," I said to Kodan.

We hadn't talked much on the way home today.

After we arrived home, I beelined for the shower to wash off the drool of the Shadow Wolf. Then, I locked myself in this room to process everything. Poor Luke was in his room, probably upset with me. I wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone after the incident.

"I don't want you to feel bad about the cave incident," he said, turning on his side and not at all furious with me anymore. "You did it to save your life. And to be honest, I don't know what I would've done if I lost you."

"Oh," I said, looking at him in a new light. He was being vulnerable and nothing like the mountain brute I had met on our wedding day.

A warmth entered my heart that he cared.

No man had spoken to me like that before. And to be honest, it felt kind of good. A cheesy smile crossed my face.

"Why are you smiling?" he asked, his lips also turning up in a small smile. "Did I accidentally say something funny?"

"No, I just think it's cute," I said. "But what's not cute is that you stole my pills."

He sighed heavily, his hand pausing on my belly from the lazy circles he was drawing.

"I understand now that the pills are important to you," he said after a while. "I will return them to you. But I also have something to say."

Worry leaped in my heart. His face had taken a serious expression that I couldn't read.

"Yes?"

"If you believe in your heart that you are not meant for me," he began. "Tomorrow, I'm taking you to your parents' home. I should never have brought you into all my mess, and I need to set things right. Once I settle things here, you can either choose to stay with me or leave."

"But are you going to murder everyone in Howl's Edge if I decide to leave you?"

There had to be a catch somewhere. He was offering me freedom.

"No," he said. "I vow not to touch a single soul as long as the kingdom doesn't keep massacring the Wild Wolfmen. Or come after my brother."

"So you're not trying to trick me or anything?" I said. I couldn't believe he was doing this. He was actually being nice and letting me go.

"I would never. When have I ever tricked you into anything?" he said. "I'm not looking for an answer right now. Take all the time you need."

"I don't know what to say right now," I said, confused. I was starting to feel something toward him, but at the same time, I hated living here.

"It's okay," he said, kissing me on the lips and looking at me with a sad gaze. "I will give you some space now to think of what you want. Have a good night."

Then he got up and left the room, leaving me in the dark and alone with my thoughts.