Dimitri’s POV
Every word she said was true.
She was really scared of losing me. She really needed me. I felt everything through our bond and my heart almost gave out.
Like I would ever choose anything or anyone else over her. Like I would leave her. Like I would be so fucking stupid to give up the best thing that ever happened to me.
No. I was a lot of things, but I wasn’t insane.
I knew that I had to give her what she needed. I felt her desperation. I felt her need for reassurance. I felt her burning desire and passion. I felt her need to have me.
But I knew that I couldn’t fuck her here. Not because of the people who were waiting outside our office, but because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to stop myself. I already knew that we would have to lock our office and spend an entire day here if I just pushed the tip of my dick inside her. I was just as desperate to reassure her as she was to be reassured.
I knew that I had to remain in control so I found another way to give myself to her. It was still hot as fuck and I still wanted to lock those doors, bend her over the table, and fuck her. But I was definitely in more control than I would have been if my dick got a taste of that wetness and that pussy.
I kissed her temple and ran my fingers through her hair.
“Are you feeling a bit better, princess?” I asked her after a few minutes of hugging and caressing each other.
“Yes,” she mumbled quietly. “Thank you, Dimitri. I needed this.”
She looked up at me and smiled.
“And I can’t wait to get every other part of you tonight,” she added softly and a quiet groan escaped me.
“Oh, I can’t wait either, my love,” I mumbled as I kissed her softly.
I reached between us and buttoned her jeans. I looked back up at her and smiled.
“Can we call them back in?” I asked her. “The sooner we are done with them, the sooner we can go back to our room.”
She smiled and nodded.
Come back, Will. I mind-linked him immediately.
I placed another soft kiss on her lips just as the door opened. Will walked in followed by Oliver and Ellie.
“Are you okay, Maddie?” Ellie asked worriedly.
Maddie looked at her and nodded. “I am feeling a bit better. I am sorry. I was just a little bit shocked.”
“There is no need to apologize, Mads,” Will said as he sat down. “It’s understandable.”
Maddie looked at Oliver and took a deep breath.
“Could you be wrong?” she asked him.
Oliver sighed and furrowed his brows.
“I don’t think that I am, Maddie,” he said. “The kind of power you have could only be explained by you being a Lycan and a direct descendant of the Kingdom of Goldfangs.”
Maddie furrowed her brows a little.
“Kingdom of Goldfangs?” she mumbled.
Oliver nodded. “The legends say that the royals of the Kingdom of Goldfangs had powers. They ranged from controlling other people’s behavior to being able to see into the future.”
“Wow,” Will mumbled quietly.
“But I can’t do that,” Maddie mumbled.
Oliver gave her a small smile. “You have your own power, Maddie.”
She sighed and bit her lower lip.
“Did you talk to Skye?” Oliver asked her.
She looked at him and shook her head.
“Talk to her, Maddie,” Oliver said. “Try to get her to shift. We need to confirm it.”
‘Skol…,’ I called my wolf, but he interrupted me.
‘I am talking to her, Dimitri,’ he said. ‘Maddie is shutting her out. I think that she is afraid to know the truth.’
I gulped and tried to take a deep breath.
‘So it’s true?’ I asked. ‘She is a Lycan?’
Skol was silent for a moment.
‘Yes,’ he said, making my heart race. ‘That’s why Skye refused to shift. She was protecting her from everyone else knowing. She is in so much danger, Dimitri. If someone finds out who she is…’
Skol stopped talking because a wave of panic washed over him.
‘I know,’ I said. ‘I will protect her, Skol. We will protect her.’
“What do we do now?” Will mumbled, interrupting my conversation with my wolf.
I tightened my hold on Maddie.
“No one can know,” I said, using my Alpha order. “You are not allowed to tell anyone who she is and what she can do.”
The three of them bowed their heads immediately.
“Yes, Alpha,” they said at the same time.
Oliver wasn’t a part of my pack, but I was his King and my Alpha order worked on him as well. I barely knew him and I had to assure myself that he wouldn’t betray his King and Queen.
I trusted Will and Ellie with my life, but I needed to be sure that they wouldn’t tell. Being bound by the Alpha order was the best way to do it.
The pack doctor wasn’t going to tell anyone anything. He was already under my Alpha’s order not to tell anyone about her power. He didn’t know who she was and it was going to stay like that.
No one could know.
“I have to tell Mike,” Maddie mumbled, making me look at her.
She gulped and took a deep breath. She looked at me and I saw fear in her eyes.
“You don’t have to tell him, Maddie,” I said as I caressed her cheek. “He doesn’t need to know.”
I didn’t want him to know. Becoming a Lycan was his obsession for many years. He abandoned his family because of it. I wasn’t sure how he would react knowing that Maddie was a Lycan and he wasn’t.
“I have to, Dimitri,” Maddie said, shaking her head. “He can’t find out from someone else. I have to tell him.”
“He won’t find out, Mads,” Will said and she looked at him. “We are all under the Alpha order. We can’t tell anyone.”
Maddie shook her head.
“It will come out eventually,” she said. “We will have to tell the pack eventually. I don’t want him to find out like that.”
She was right. Eventually, everyone would find out who she was. Not before I made sure that she was safe, though. Not before we knew what it all meant.
She looked back at me and gulped.
“I want to tell him now,” she added.
I took a deep breath and released it slowly.
“Okay, princess,” I said and caressed her cheek. “We will tell him now.”
