Traded To The Lycan King by MG Wattsons

Chapter 3

I can feel Leslie's heated stare as I blink at Merikh trying to keep my fear at bay. With his lighthearted teasing I had almostten who I mated myself too but I see his true nature in his eyes now. The feral Alpha of

II who commands respect wherever he goes. I understand his reaction to me looking at Grady. I am his Luna, as he keeps saying. Looking at another man longingly is a slap to his face.

"I understand Alpha," I bow my head to him, trying to figure out how to do this Luna thing.

"Alpha Merikh," a man says, stepping up and whispering in his ear. He is slightly shorter than Merikh and his red hair highlights his pale face and little freckles. He looks much friendlier than his alpha.

"Colette, excuse me for just a moment," Merikh whispers in a low voice, stepping a few feet away from me to have a heated conversation with the redhead.

It takes Leslie a whole two seconds before she swoops in for another verbal assault.

"I can't believe you would be such a backstabbing cunt," she hisses, while offering smiles to those who pass and offering congratulations to me.

"I did nothing wrong," I insist, finding a little inner strength when I catch Merikh looking in my direction with curiosity in my eyes.

"If I had known he wasn't an ugly disfigured alpha, I would never have slept around so much." She mutters to herself with an irritated groan. I furrow my brows, trying to process everything she is saying. "I thought you said you were only sleeping with Grady?" I ask, my voice breaking at the mention of his name. Leslie rolls her eyes and scoffs.

"That doesn't matter. What matters is, you stole what was mine the second you found out he was attractive."

"He chose me," I tell her, shocked. Her head falls back as she laughs loudly, her sardonic tune echoing back at us.

"No one would willingly choose you. Are you that idiotic? You are a weak, simpering sorry excuse for a werewolf. You have only successfully shifted like what? Twice in three

years?" She crosses her arms over her chest waiting for an answer and embarrassment stains my face.

Leslie is right. Merikh wouldn't have accepted me if he knew my wolf hardly ever comes forward when

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beckoned. But then again I tried to tell him, so did Alpha Bentley, but he insisted he wanted me.

"Why would you even want him now?" I ask "You are pregnant with Grady's pup. Is he not good enough now?"

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"Of course he isn't." She scoffs, throwing her hands up in exasperation. "I never wanted Grady. I just knew your wanted him, so I figured why not fuck him? It was enough knowing I was destroying your preciou choose someone more powerful? This is about you, Colette, always needing a reminder of where you belong. In the dirt, at my feet," she growls out as she lunges

at

t me.

Her hand tangles in my hair as I gasp and clutch her wrist, trying to keep her from tossing me around. She

grunts in pain, her b*dy going slack and her eyes growing wide as I look up to see Merikh with his hand squeezing her

throat.

"Release my Luna. Now." He whispers menacingly.

steps away from her

legs and kicks the back of her knees, sending her tumbling forward with

for forgiveness." He growls, squatting beside her, murder in his

hand coming to rest on my

the hall has emptied, everyone

spine. "I was patient. I afforded you more slanderous words than you

filling with fear as she looks up at me. "Tell them Cole...I call her names all the

it will be like living with him.

and volatile the

you going to do with her?" I ask him,

offended you too many times

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personally and our pack. Where we are

from my face as I swallow the dryness. Death? He wants to kill her? Leslie sobs, her

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squeak. My mind

the unborn pup of my best friend that is growing inside Leslie's womb. I shake my head, pleading, and he seems to frown. "She is pregnant," I whisper, and

child?" He asks Leslie, his foot pushing her hands away

a

the possibility of Grady being the father and she isn't even sure. I feel my world spin and a hand wraps around me, steadying me at my lower

him

keep her and Grady away from

silence as Merikh spins me to face him. He searches my face

you a few moments to feel sorry for your loss, Colette. This will be the one and only time I will allow you to mourn the loss of

broken mate bond gives me a month," I whisper to his chest,

and find your second chance mate, yes. But

very different, yet set in stone. If you wish to cry, do so now or where

understand?"

as his gaze finds mine and it feels like the air is

is devastatingly handsome, even without being fated to him. My insides feel like jelly. Merikh's fingers tickle the line of my jaw and little sparks blossom on my skin, making me shiver.

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drunk and dance while others eat their fill and I sit next to Merikh,

every time someone asks him to dance with me. After what feels like forever, Merikh stands and takes my

like to thank you all for coming to celebrate this union and our new treaty, but my new Luna and I are eager for some time alone. Please, stay and party

as my cheeks, once again, grow red with the implications behind his words. He pulls me up as a chant breaks through

is there as their glazed eyes watch us with merry

My

at his friend and sighs heavily. I feel sick, like I

its axis as he brushes the hair gently from my face, his

his soft lips to mine. My hands find

I get lost in the k*ss, my b*dy responding in ways it only ever has f Just as quickly as this k*ss came on, he is tearing away from me and raising his arm, cheering like a wild man. I look for his eyes to find me again, trying to find a comfort there that maybe this was more than s as

as he sits, all the while his eyes stay trained on me. My mouth goes dry when he undoes the top button, and I clench

I gulp, the mate bond we created drawing me towards him.

and feel those sparks we were

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