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 and moving behind me. The

sidles up behind her as he lifts his legs and kicks the back of her knees, sending her tumbling forward with a crack of

forgiveness." He growls, squatting beside

his hand coming to rest

someone to save her but the hall has emptied, everyone rushing to

chest rumbles, sending a shockwave down my spine. "I was patient. I afforded you more slanderous words than you deserved because of the treaty that was just established

her eyes filling with fear as she looks up at me. "Tell them Cole...I call her names all the time. It's our

pondering what it will be

volatile

do with her?" I ask him, and he

has offended you too

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we are from, that is punishable by

the dryness. Death? He wants to kill her? Leslie sobs, her hands reaching out for my ankles,

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mind swirls, the

my head, pleading, and he seems to frown. "She is

of the unborn child?" He asks Leslie, his foot pushing her

whimper, a sob

the possibility of Grady being the father and she isn't even

to him as

keep her and Grady away from

quiet sobbing grow to silence as Merikh spins me to face him. He searches my face with

feel sorry for your loss, Colette. This will be the one and only time I will allow you

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

second chance mate, yes. But

rules are very different, yet set in stone. If you wish to cry, do so now or where I will never hear of it.

understand?"

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

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. I must make a sound a "See, the bond

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while others eat their fill and I

looks uncomfortable every time someone asks him to dance with me. After what

thank you all for coming to celebrate this union and our new treaty, but my new Luna and I are eager for some

red with the implications behind his words. He pulls me

word, but the meaning is there as their glazed eyes watch us with

as he swoops down and steals a chaste k*ss from my. lips. My first k*ss. My eyes nearly pop from my face in shock

his friend and sighs heavily. I feel sick, like I am some cheap party trick,

as he brushes the hair gently from my

his soft lips to mine. My

and coming back more. forcefully. I hear nothing as 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

edge of the bed, loosening his tie as he sits, all the while his eyes stay trained on me. My mouth goes dry when he undoes the top button, and

standing, his fingers move deftly down his button-up shirt. I gulp, the mate

feel those sparks we were

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