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.

she does, he steps away from her

back of her knees, sending her tumbling

squatting

heat, his hand coming to

the hall has emptied, everyone rushing to the dining area for the promised

spine. "I was patient. I afforded you more slanderous words than you deserved because of the treaty that was just established between our packs, but now...now you are

with her," Leslie stutters, her eyes filling with fear as she looks up at me. "Tell them

pondering what it will be like living

volatile the

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

us to do with her? She has offended you too many times and in doing so,

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our pack. Where we are from, that is punishable by

my feet, blood leaching from my face as I swallow the dryness. Death? He wants to kill her? Leslie sobs, her hands reaching out for

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mind

unborn pup of my best friend that is growing inside Leslie's womb. I shake my head,

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

she says on a whimper, a sob breaking from her.

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

to him as he

ass out of here and keep her and Grady away from

hear Leslie's quiet sobbing grow to silence as Merikh spins me to face him. He searches

Colette. This will be the one and only time

I whisper to his chest, my eyes slowly lifting

and you can move on and find your second chance

If you wish to cry,

understand?"

and it feels like the air

and little sparks blossom on my skin, making me

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wolves get drunk and dance while others eat their fill and I sit

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

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

cheeks, once again, grow red with the implications behind his words.

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

to face me, his hands sliding around my waist 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 and he looks satisfied. "Come on Alpha

like I

world seems to spin on its axis as he brushes the hair

and, ever so tenderly, he presses his soft lips to mine.

get lost in the k*ss, my b*dy responding in ways it only ever has f Just as quickly as this

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 I

wrong?" he asks, standing, his fingers move deftly down his button-up shirt. I gulp, the

and feel those sparks we

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