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.

he steps away from her and

lycan sidles up behind her as he lifts his legs and kicks the back of her

forgiveness." He growls, squatting beside her, murder

hand coming to rest on my

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

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 between our packs, but now...now you are bordering

looks up at me. "Tell them Cole...I call her

my shoulder at my new mate, pondering what it will be like living with him.

and volatile

do with her?" I ask him, and he

has offended you too many times and in doing

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and our pack. Where we are from, that

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

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mind swirls,

I shake my head, pleading, and he seems to frown. "She is pregnant," I whisper, and he

the father of the unborn child?" He asks Leslie, his

a whimper, a sob breaking from her.

the father and she isn't even

him as

keep her and

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

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

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

can move on and find your second chance

yet set in stone. If you wish to cry, do

understand?"

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

tickle the line of my jaw and little sparks blossom on my skin, making me shiver. I must

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get drunk and dance while others

dance with me. After what feels like forever, Merikh stands and takes my hand in

celebrate this union and our new treaty, but my new

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

the word, but the meaning is there as their glazed

k*ss from my. lips. My first k*ss. My eyes nearly pop from my

his friend and sighs heavily. I feel sick, like

he brushes the hair gently from my face,

he cups my cheek and, ever so tenderly, he presses his soft lips to mine. My hands find his chest, pressing gently

opens, I follow his lead and his tongue traces over my lips before closing 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 is tearing away from me

saunters over to the 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 I clench my fingers into a fist. I'm his certain expectations. The kind I have never experienced before. I glance away, my cheeks burning

down his button-up shirt. I gulp, the mate bond we created drawing

and feel those sparks we were

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