Chapter 26


    Seventy Three Letters


    “In your dreams!” Savannah hissed, trying to push him away. “Womanisers are not my cup of tea. So,


    go back to Sabrina, the teenage witch and…”


    He crushed his lips into hers, his warm tongue sliding into her mouth, trying to gain submission with t,


    greedy, devouring, dominant strokes. She relished this more than she cared to admit, but, her desires


    battled her will, she couldn’t lose. So, while Kai was enjoying himself, Savannah did the only thing that


    came to her mind and bit his lip, drawing blood from it. Kai growled into her mouth, but to her surprise,


    it wasn’t the angry growl she expected.


    He caught both her arms and pinned them above her head, staring at her with a smug smile and licking


    his lip, the metallic taste only exciting him more for some reason.


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    “Do that again, and I’ll choke you!” Savvy promised and saw the lycan leaning toward her lips.


    “I have to warn you, Savannah,” he whispered in a manner that created goosebumps all over her body.


    “It’s quite possible that I will enjoy that as well. So, do as you must.”


    He was about to im her lips when she turned away, forgetting that this only gave him ess to her


    neck.


    “Don’t tempt me, Savvy,” he snarled into her ear and started to trail a series of wet torturous kisses all


    over her neckline. “You have no idea how many times I have thought of marking you. But when I do it, I


    will do it right.”


    She froze in his arms, not believing her own ears. Was he really saying that? A mark? He can’t be


    serious!


    “Stop it, Kai!” she ordered, and to her surprise, he obeyed her at once, locking his blue eyes with hers.


    “Enough of these games! Let’s just go to the main hall. You can y with one of your other brides if you


    are in the mood for it! Just leave me alone.”


    She tried to walk away, but he caught her again.


    “Savvy, what’s wrong?” Now he was serious. He could tell that she was hurting, and his heart was


    aching for some reason,


    “Nothing!” She lied, to which of course he didn’t buy.


    “Savvy….” Kai caught her in his arms again and took her chin into his hands. “Savvy, you aren’t


    seriously thinking I was on a date with Salome, are you?”


    “What am I supposed to think?!” she snapped at him.


    “That I am crazy about you,” he interrupted. That you are all I can think of since the moment I saw you


    destroying that bush.”


    She paused, fingers digging into the fabric of his expensive ck suit.


    “That I am ready to send to hell all the traditions of my country for a chance to marry you.” He smiled.


    “If you will have me, that is.”


    She let out a breath she didn’t know she was holding when he pulled her closer. “But Salome…”


    “Salome will be leaving the Trials today.” Ka smirked. “You are not the only one who came here for an


    alliance, Savannah.”


    Her lips parted at the news. She couldn’t believe this was really happening and that the million


    scenarios of Kai marrying the witch she fabricated in her mind were not going toe true.


    “Why are you telling me all this?” she asked, arching her brow in sudden curiosity. “Isn’t this


    confidential information?”


    “It is,” he affirmed and nodded, tracing her lower lip with his thumb. “But, how else am I ever going to


    gain your trust?”


    She clenched her lips, knowing she would probably always have trust issues. How could anyone trust


    other people in this cruel world?


    “I’ve made so many mistakes already,” Kai confessed. “I am ready to do everything I can to prove to


    you I am worthy of your love. I want to earn your trust, I will do whatever it takes …”


    “I don’t think it’s possible given our circumstances,” she chuckled sadly. If he was venturing to be


    honest with her, she could a least meet him where he was at.


    “I agree,” Kai took her chin into hisrge palm and with a slight lift brought her face up to look at him.


    “This is why the Luna Trials are over the minute you say so. Be my real fiancee, Savvy. We don’t


    have to marry immediately, however, I do want everyone to know that you are the only one for me.”


    “No,” she shook her head in denial. “This is crazy. That’s impossible! Let’s just forget the whole thing.


    You and I … it was never going to work. You will find your mate, and this would be a disaster!


    Besides, we barely know each other … All this is just … I don’t know what this is.”


    She blubbered all that nonsense, and he watched her with a half-smile.


    “I don’t want a mate if she is not you,” he told her, cing his forehead on hers. “She can’t feel better


    than this.”


    “You have no idea what a mate bond is like.” Savannah sighed, and now he was the one struck with a


    fit of jealousy. “It will consume you within minutes, overwhelm you. You will forget about everyone else


    and only want that one person.”


    “Is this … how you feel about your mate?” His grip on her became tighter, and he wasn’t sure if he


    really wanted to know the answer. What if her feelings for him were nothing inparison? Was that


    why she kept pushing him away?


    “Not any more,” she breathed out, and he felt the heavy constriction gripping his heart lift off his chest.


    “Then my mate wouldn’t be a problem either,” he said, gently nibbling her lips. “Just say yes to me,


    Savvy.”


    “No,” she responded at once, and he let out a chuckle. Kai gave her a challenging look, unbuttoning his


    zer and throwing it to the ground. She stared at him with her brows furrowed. Next, she watched him


    roll up his sleeves and lower himself to the ground in front of her.


    “I knew you would require more persuasion, the king’s hand glided over her hip, moving the fabric of


    her skirt aside and sending pleasant shivers all over her body.


    “Wh-what are you doing?” she stuttered hesitantly. Yet she did not push him away.


    “Kneeling before my future Queen.” he sneered and hooked her thigh, gaining a gasp out of


    her.


    “Kai!” she btedly attempted to scold him, but he was already peppering her skin with small sizzling


    kisses. “We can’t! Not here!”


    “I love how you went from ‘we can’t’ to ‘not here’ in less than a second.” He wickedly winked in


    approval. “That’s my girl.”


    “Someone could see us!” She squeaked as his fingers reached for her silk underwear. This wasn’t how


    she expected to spend this evening.


    “Isn’t this the best part?” He smirked and ced her thigh on his broad shoulder, dipping his head


    between her thighs.


    She could feel his hot tongue making its first stroke against her core, only a mere piece of fabric


    separating them now. To her surprise, he immediately withdrew from her, his eyes intensely shining


    gold.


    “Now, Savannah, this is the part where I need you to tell me you want this,” he looked at her with such


    vivid passion that she felt utterly devoured by him. Her breath hitched.


    “No way.” She swallowed and shook her head. One of them had to be the sane one. “Let’s just go to


    the hall and ….”


    “Yeah, no!” Kai refused with augh. “Not interested in that option. Not without tasting you first.”


    “ckmail is not a way to ask for consent!” she hissed as he drew his fingers in circles over her inner


    thigh.


    “I am not ckmailing you!” He ced his hand on his heart as if she had stabbed it and his voice


    sounded offended. “I am’ begging on my knees. There is a difference!”


    She had difficulty breathing at a steady pace. His closeness caused her mind to willingly wander to


    sinful ces. She knew quite well he could already scent her response to his question, he could


    glimpse it on her ruined underwear. He was too close to not notice. Yet, he needed to hear it.


    “We could stay like this all night,” he added and grazed his canines over her sensitive skin. “I really


    don’t mind. In fact, if your legs are wrapped around my shoulders, I could stay like that my whole life.”


    Another electric touch, and she closed her eyes in willing defeat.


    “Yes! Okay?!” Her voice emitting anger and desperation simultaneously. “Yes! To hell with you, Kai


    Fion…”


    She didn’t get to finish as he ripped thecy piece of fabric off her faster than she could utter hisst


    name, opening her thighs wider for him.


    Kai drew his hot tongue from the very bottom of her core to the delicate bud at the top of her pink


    glistening folds in one luxurious glide, finally tasting her for the first time.


    Savvy threw her head back, thankful there was a wall behind her. He held her tight. Cupping her


    bottom to help her bnce and enjoying how it couldn’t fit in hisrge palm, he flickered his tongue


    over and over, swearing under his breath a few times because he didn’t know if he could


    control himselt.


    “Goddess!” Savannah screamed, immediately covering her own mouth. Thest thing she wanted now


    was witnesses. Although, the thought that they might get caught excited her more than she was willing


    to admit.


    Fenrir would be jealous of me,” Kai chuckled before he plunged his tongue inside, probing her, teasing.


    Her core clenched around him, and he swore again. She knew that he was cursing, but the words were


    unfamiliar.


    “What… you.. saying,” she tried to ask the question, but her mind was clouded with every sensation he


    was now giving her. She moaned thatst word, and he stopped everything, tearing away from her


    pulsating core to look at her.


    Her cheeks were flushed, causing a smug smile to stretch across his handsome face.


    “The ancient northernnguage,” he responded without taking his eyes off her, his fingers making


    circr motions around her sensitive bundle of nerves. “You know, we had a beautiful alphabet system.


    Seventy-three letters of intricate squiggles.”


    “Impressive,” she panted and flinched when she saw a feral smirk forming on his lips. He had


    something on his mind, and she knew it


    “Why don’t I show you?” The lycan returned his gaze to her centre and this time added a finger to his


    divine torture of her core, thrusting it in and out, driving her crazy as he traced the ancient letters,


    making her moan.


    The pressure was building up quickly inside her, and she tugged on his hair to help him catch the right


    rhythm.


    “Kai, please!” she began to beg, not knowing what she really needed from him. She lost it as he


    snarled into her, creating extra vibrations and adding two more fingers.


    His body was quivering with restraint as he let out a painful moan when he tipped her over the edge. It


    took all of his willpower not to im her fully here and now, but Savanah deserved more than a hasty


    encounter in a dark passage. He knew that this would be it for today, and when she screamed as her


    rel*ase ripped through her body, Kai helped her ride her pleasure, catching a glimpse of their future


    together.


    He distanced himself away from her core after showering her inner thighs with a trail of kisses when


    she ceased shaking from her intense climax. He knew it was too early to let go of her, as she could


    barely stand straight.


    He stood up slowly, locking her in his arms and letting her lean over his chest. She tried to move away


    from him, but he held her in ce.


    “Not now,” he said, burying his face in her hair. “What are you …” She wanted to question him but he


    shushed her.


    “Give me a minute, Savannah. I am looking at the portrait of my one-hundred-year-old grandfather to


    calm myself down.”


    She giggled, realising that she was the only one to receive a rele se tonight.


    “We can fix that,” she whispered into his ear, and a low, pained sound emerged from his chest.


    “I am afraid we have no time,” he informed her as his lips found her skin again. “We need to


    go to that hall, after all.” |


    “We can’t go in there now!” Savvy whispered, afraid to look at him for some reason. “Why?” he snorted


    as he caressed her bare back. “Because now we smell like each other. It’s too obvious what we‘ve


    been doing!”


    “How terrible!” he let out a chuckle. “But isn’t that the whole point? We are going to finish the Trials


    now. For good.”


    “How are you going to do this without offending everyone?” She raised her chin to look at him and


    really hoped he had a solution.


    “By offering them what they really want instead,” he nted a small kiss on her nose. “It’s okay, Savvy.


    We are going to figure everything out eventually. Let’s go. I don’t want to wait a moment longer!”


    They ran together, holding hands andughing at the craziness of what they were about to do. –


    Savannah couldn’t believe it was happening, but Athena howled inside in approval and in the


    heat of the moment, all this felt so right. Kai felt right. She felt as if he was hers


    The doors were opened before them, and the intense light of the main hall hit the happy couple in the


    face. It took them some time to adjust, but to their surprise, they mostly saw the backs of all the guests.


    No one was paying them much attention.


    Naya walked toward them in a beautiful azure gown with a tense face. Something was off.


    “Turn away and leave, Savannah,” she whispered as she passed the couple, and Savvy froze on the


    spot.


    The spacious ballroom was overcrowded, and there was this unpleasant atmosphere of distress


    looming over. The space was filled with the buzzing noises of conversations and gasps.


    Some servant girl slipped a small envelope into Savvy’s hand, startling her, and left quickly before the


    Lycan Princess could ask her anything.


    “What is going on?” Kai growled, and Elene was the first one to react, squeezing herself out from the


    main crowd.


    “Oh, good that you are here! One of the Alphas in the guest delegation is not feeling well!” she said


    with a concerned face and then went stiff, eyes travelling over her brother and Savannah, lingering on


    their fingersced together. “Come,” Elene took her brother’s arm and started pulling him away. “We


    can’t let him die on our watch! It’s going to be a scandal!”


    “Go,” Savvy whispered to him as he shot a worried nce at her. This was clearly not the right time for


    any kind of announcement.


    “Sorry,” he mouthed to her and rushed into the heart of the crowd, leaving her alone. She could feel


    that something ominous was looming over her.


    Exhaling heavily, Savannah opened the envelope and gasped when she read the words on the little


    note as she smelled a strong scent of mint.


    Thope you like my present.