The Alpha’s Dark Revenge

Liyah’s POV

Nikolai was avoiding me. He wasn’t exactly the most discreet person, so it was quite easy to tell. I had been surprised when I arrived at the training ground this morning only to see Annalise instead of him. Later on I learned that he had asked her to take on today’s session as he had some things to finish up. Training with Annalise was unexpected but quite fun and I would love to do it again, but my mind continued to drift to Nikolai. If he had other things to do, why didn’t he just tell me? That’s when I began to wonder if he was avoiding me. But I waved it off.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

When it became clear that he was avoiding me was during the kitchen incident. I had come into the kitchen to prepare a concoction for one of the omegas who had gotten injured. He quickly left through the backdoor when I stepped in, acting like he had not seen me. I couldn’t help but feel a little hurt after that.

As I strolled through the house, my mind wandered to the other night. The kiss. I felt a shiver run down my spine at the memory. It was weird but, I had wanted him to. The disappointment I felt when he pulled away washed over me once more. But the funny thing was, the fact that he had pulled away warmed my insides. I couldn’t help but smile at the thought. I knew he didn’t want to start anything of that sort. He was considering my feelings and trying not to do anything to remind me of the past. And that spoke volumes.

“Hey.” A voice brought me out of my thoughts.

“Elyan?” I smiled as I looked up at his grinning face. “Hey.” I didn’t remember the last time I saw him.

“You look… nice,” He complimented, looking me over. “I never apologized for…”

I laughed, shaking my head. “It’s okay. You were acting on orders. I hold nothing against you.”

He smiled brightly, and soon enough we were deep in conversation. He smiled when I told him I was taking self-defence classes.

“That’s cool. If you want, I could help out once in a while, teach you a few things.”

As I began to reject his offer, I saw Nikolai’s figure standing at the rail of the staircase from the corner of my eyes. It was obvious that he was watching us. All of a sudden, I felt a little vindictive. I would give him something to watch.

Facing Elyan again, I placed a hand on his shoulder, making sure it lingered for a while. “Yes that would be nice,” I replied, loud enough for Nikolai to hear. I knew I didn’t need to try too hard. His senses were powerful enough to catch them even if I whispered.

Elyan looked surprised. “Oh, wow. Okay then, that would be nice. Would you like to, um, maybe have dinner sometime?” He asked, scratching the back of his head.

Oh no.

I didn’t mean to give him the green light. What was I supposed to do now? My eyes caught Nikolai approaching us and I straightened up. “I’ll think abou-”

“What are you doing?” I heard Nikolai’s cold voice directed to Elyan. I hid my smile. Right on time.

Elyan looked up in shock, moving away and bowing quickly. “Alpha.”

“Get back to work,” He hissed, making Elyan bow and practically scurry away.

I faced him. “Hey, I was having a conversation.”

In response, he grabbed my hand dragging me towards the common room and shutting the door when we got in.

I turned to him. “What was that?” I demanded. “First you avoid me all day, you don’t even inform me that you won’t be able to make it to our session today. You just hand it over to Annalise. Then you avoid me in the kitchen as well. Don’t think I didn’t see that as well. Now I’m trying to have a conversation and you…”

My eyes narrowed. “Are you perhaps, jealous?” I asked, repeating his words from the other night. When he didn’t respond, I shook my head, turning away. “I have to-”

Before I could get the words out, he grabbed my arm, pulling me to him just like the other night. As I braced myself for another disappointment, he placed a warm hand on my neck, tilting my head, and crushing his lips hungrily on mine.

My surprise slowly melted into desire and I let out a soft moan when his lips trailed down my neck, then back to my lips. I felt my body heat up as our lips moved in rhythm.

My heart was thumping so hard I thought it would explode. But I didn’t want him to stop.

Suddenly, he pulled away, surprise filling his eyes as though he had just remembered what he was doing. “I-I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to-”

He never got to complete the rest of the sentence because I pulled him forward by the collar and pressed my lips to his.

I wouldn’t be able to handle another rejection.

He quickly recovered from the shock because soon he had turned me over, pushing me so my back was against the wall.

A different kind of sensation filled me when he flicked his fingers over my hardened nipples, nearly causing me to scream out in pleasure. Heat filling me, I raked my fingers through his hair. And it was even softer than I imagined it would be.

As he started to trail little kisses down my neck and to my chest, the door suddenly swung open.

We quickly jumped apart, trying and failing to smoothen ourselves out as we faced Margaret. My face was so hot that I imagined I might as well die from the embarrassment. It was obvious that she had seen us.

She smirked in our direction. “Don’t mind me. I’m just here to drop these off.” When she dropped the tiny medicine bottles she held in a drawer, she turned back to the door. “Carry on,” She said, laughing to herself as she exited, shutting the door quietly behind her.

“Uh, I have something I need to…”

“Same here,” He coughed, rubbing the back of his neck.

I bumped into a chair on my way out.

Of course. Why did I think I could walk out with my dignity intact?

My face still burning, I fled.