“It’s fine,” I said. “I got away before anything truly bad happened.” At his insistence, I then proceeded to explain exactly what Terry had done. “He tried to touch you,” Nicholas growled. “He did touch you.” “I left before anything could happen. I got myself out of that situation.” After clea

Susie, apparently thrilled with the distraction, leaned forward to eat her cheesecake. After the first bite, Terry stopped her by raising his napkin. “My dear, you have a touch of chocolate syrup right here…” He tabbed the napkin to the corner of her mouth. Susie went still as a statue. I moved,

Susie was naïve to believe that Terry would take her on this private tour and not try to fool around with her. And, knowing her, she would likely be too shy and meek to properly defend herself from him. I couldn’t let that happen. I couldn’t let her put herself in that position to start with. Te

Terry laughed again. “Piper, did you truly believe that once I brought you to this room, I would ever give you the chance to leave it?” “I can’t stay here.” He pressed himself against my back. I felt his growing hardness along my backside. In my ear, he whispered cruelly, “You don’t have a cho

Nicholas’s wolf eyes looked at me for only a moment, before turning to Terry. A growl erupted from the back of his throat. Then, all at once, he tore forward, pounced, and knocked Terry away from me and down onto the ground. Julian, in human form, burst into the room behind Nicholas. He rushed to

When we returned to the palace, Nicholas pulled the car into the garage. As he turned off the engine, he said, “I’ll walk you back to your room.” The words shot a volt of life through me. “No.” He looked at me. “No?” Fear in my eyes, I returned his gaze. “I can’t let Elva see me like this.”

Nicholas My mind would not let me rest at all that night. My body was at rest, finding comfort in knowing Piper was safe and within reach. But my thoughts constantly reminded me that soon, when the competition ended, Piper would be gone from my side. Soon, I wouldn’t be able to protect her. To

The King and Queen were sitting at their table, eating breakfast. “Nicholas?” the King said when he saw me. “You look like hell.” “I have reason.” I walked to him and showed him the footage on my phone. The King watched it all with a furrow in his brow. “Terry’s behavior last night was beyon

Waking up in bed alone, with Nicholas nowhere in sight, I felt rejected. I adamantly fought against the feeling, telling myself everything was fine, Nicholas was a very important and busy man. But the hurt was persistent, rooted deep within me. Worse, I was now also humiliated. It was early, but

I carried her back to her chair. Then I took the chair beside her. Tiffany and Veronica were sitting on the other side of the table. Tiffany gave me a soft, sad-looking smile. Veronica just flatly stared. I pulled a waffle from a stack at the center of the table onto my own plate. As I began to