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PROLOGUE
VIVIENNE
Istill couldn’t believe Zev said he would claim my baby as his own. My mind kept telling me to go back and see if he was lying or make sure he knew what he was doing. The repercussions if anyone found out would be terrifying.
I don’t know who would be more upset, my family or his. Death had become a real possibility; if my parents didn’t kill us, Zev’s dad would definitely kill me. My stomach twisted at the awful events I knew could happen if we got caught. Now, all throughout my pregnancy, I knew I’d be hoping that this baby looked just like me and not Thane. If the baby looked like him… I don’t know what would happen. I really hoped Zev’s plan worked for all our sakes.
The morning sun slowly lit up my room as my mind drifted to awful things that could happen if anyone found out; I had to visualize that everything was going to work out. My heart hurts for what I’m about to do. All I needed to do was talk to Thane, so I could get my story straight and wait for Zev to work things out on his end. I got dressed, still worried about talking to Thane.
I loved him, but if any of us were going to survive, I had to do this. The sad truth was that it didn’t matter what I wanted, I hadto think about our baby. I skipped breakfast and went to Thane’s house. I couldn’t wait any longer, everything was so different now that I didn’t even know if I should tell him I was pregnant. Maybe it was for the best that he knows nothing.
His house was just up the hill. The closer I walked to it the more I wanted to be a coward and not tell him anything. What if Thane decided to shame me and tell everyone? He knows I’m betrothed. He even said it didn’t matter to him, but he deserved to know the truth. I was doing this for us. Which us, was still up for interpretation.
His house looked unusually lifeless. His brothers had many kids that his mother watched, but it was excruciatingly quiet. Instantly something felt wrong, and it made me feel nervous. I knocked on the front door, and waited patiently for someone to approach. When no one answered, I turned away, but decided to knock once more.
The doors opened slowly, revealing Thane’s mother’s tear-stained face. Once she saw who was at the door, her sadness turned into anger.
“Get out of here!” she yelled, shocking me.
“I just need to speak to Thane,” I said, quickly stepping back.
“Are you here to rub salt in the wound?” she screeched.
“No, I just need to talk to… Thane,” I said, stepping back when she walked out the door.
“You Belladonnas are sick and twisted!” She jabbed her finger at me. “Do you think we have not suffered enough?”
“I…I don’t know what you are talking about.” I stepped back again.
“You made those wolves kill him! He loved you!” She threw herself at me, but someone intervened, catching her before she could get to me.
“You better leave Belladonna, you’ve done enough damage here.” Thane’s oldest brother looked down at me with disgust. “Ihope you and those abominations are happy, you deserve each other.”
I didn’t know what to say before turning around to leave. Tears filled my eyes as I made my way home. Zev just placated me so he could get me to leave, and he could kill Thane. He lied to me, he tricked me and used me like the stupid girl he always thought I was.
Determination settled in me. I wasn’t the little girl he thought he could manipulate. If Zev, Aeon and Lucien thought they could get away with killing Thane, then I’d show them how wrong they were. I’d make sure they would pay for their crime for years to come and take everything they loved away from them.
1
AEON
Katarina Belladonna was not what I had expected when she first stepped through those doors. What I thought was going to be a year of fighting, taunting and making her pay for her family’s sins, turned into something I never imagined. She gave me things I never thought I would be able to experience.
She gave me love without limits. Katarina gave me experiences that I had forgotten the feeling of, moments that I never thought I’d feel again. She gave me a piece of myself that I never expected to receive.
The moment my teeth sunk into her neck, a sense of right washed over me. Not only did I feel whole, but I felt that ache of loneliness finally ease away. I had resigned myself to being mated to a woman who I knew I wouldn’t love, and she wouldn’t love me. Feeling Katarina through our bond was euphoric. She deserved better than a man who was emotionally stunted, who carried the burden of seeing many possibilities of the future and who was cursed, living with a beast that they couldn’t control.
But I was selfish, and even if she deserved a better man, Katarina Belladonna was mine. She was mine to hold, to kiss, to fuck, to worship, and most of all, to love. Moving heaven andearth didn’t seem like an adequate task to describe what I would do for her. I would decimate the world for her, including heaven and hell as long as she was mine for the rest of our days. Nothing would keep us apart, not even death.
I stood outside of the door to our room, listening to Lucien talk with Katarina. He worried about her when we were getting ready in the room, and she didn’t even stir. I knew she had to be exhausted from last night, telling him to let her be, but Lucien always worried.
“She said she isn’t feeling well, like she is sick.” Lucien came out of the room, closing the door, looking worried.
“Sick? What do you mean sick?” I wondered what ailments she could get, since we never got sick or struck down from common sicknesses.
“She said it feels like her head is stuffy and her ears feel like she is underwater,” he said, going down the stairs as I followed him.
“That doesn’t make sense.” I had never heard of such a sickness, wondering if her mind was ok. “Do you think Caston might be hurting her mind?
