Owned by the Alpha by Laxmi Hariharan

Author:Laxmi Hariharan [Hariharan, Laxmi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 13 Suns
Published: 2019-09-08T05:00:00+00:00

18

Zeus

I pace the floor in the war room, looking out of the window. A cold wind blows in from the open panes, and I let it flow over my skin, taking away some of the heat that seems to burn through my veins. Well, I only had myself to blame. I’ve been avoiding her. It's been weeks since I last saw her. Twenty-one days, eight hours and six minutes since I last saw her, but who's counting? Me, the pussy-whipped motherfucker who's hiding from her, is who.

I can’t face her after what I’ve put her through.

This should be the time that I spend every second with her, protecting her, cherishing her. Fact is, even now I am tuned in to her thanks to the mating cord.

The barrier between us is still in place, but that doesn’t mean I can't keep an eye on her. I twist my lips. Okay so I am stalking her. I am all but physically in the same space as her, and alert for any signs that she may be in discomfort; otherwise I am leaving her alone. I have to.

I was the reason she’d almost died a second time. This time, it’s not just her but the fate of our children at risk. Children… I roll the word over my tongue.

Father? Am I ready to become one? I’ll be a better one than the loser, Golan, ever was, of course. I set my jaw. I'd mated her hoping for precisely this, and now, faced with the reality of what is to come, a warmth fills my chest. My throat closes and my pulse begins to race.

Ethan ambles up to stand next to me. “Interesting view?”

“Huh?”

“Whatever you are looking at.”

“The fuck, Second?” I growl and rub the back of my neck. There’s no reason to snap at the man. He’s doing his duty, or whatever it is that seconds-in-command are meant to do.

Not that I would know.

I never could be second in anything. “It must be agonizing to live as a beta when everything inside you insists that you are an alpha.”

Ethan’s muscles coil with tension; he reels away from me as if I’ve struck him a physical blow. “Fuck, Zeus, do you need to continuously throw that in my face?”

“Hold on there.” I turn on him, hands raised in front of me in an appeasing gesture. I’ll never get used to this either… Me? Actually being conciliatory toward him? “I just meant to empathize, that it must be tough for you to be constantly at war with yourself?”

“Do me a favor Zeus?” He growls low in his throat.

I frown.

“Next time, don’t try to make polite conversation. It has just the opposite effect.” He swings around, then raises his fist and slams it into the wall next to the window.

A crack blooms up the wall, traveling up to where the light fixtures are. One of them shakes loose then crashes to the table below.

“Did I interrupt something?” Solomon stands at the entrance to the room. He looks from the light that’s collapsed on the table, to me.

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