LYCAN KING'S REVENGEFUL BRIDE

---AVALON POV---

My eyes darted to his lips, they look rich and luscious.

Those lips that have tasted mine, I don't know why, but I feel the urge to kiss then again.

He must have read my mind, because he glances at me and smirks.

Damn, his signature smirk, it does things unknown to me.

Shaking my head, I remember what came to my mind while I was making this food, I wanted to add too much pepperoni, because Penelope already warned me about his allergies. And pepperoni is one of his allergies.

I smile to myself, imagining how his face would look like when I add his allergies to his food. Ah! I wou so much enjoy the look.

"You make me glad, Avalon". Ares whispers in my ear.

"You make me sick,Ares".

I wanted to retort. But I knew better, so I responded with a grim smile.

After the meals, the maids cleared the dinning and I follow Ares back to our chamber, instead of the chambers assigned to me.

I just felt the need to be near to him.

"I never knew you could cook that much". Ares started.

"Yeah, actually I can't, I had a lot of help from Penelope." I said, truthfully.

"Then you should keep her by your side, both of you seem to get along very well,".

"Yeah?. She is a very good maid. Though I see her as my friend, she has always been there to alert me on any trouble coming my way".I answered, pulling the pin from my hair and letting my ebony hair dangle on my waist.

I could see his adam able bulp at my simple gesture.

Oh these LYCAN, he is such a sucker for my beauty.

"You know how you make me feel whenever you do those to me. I can't contain the beast in me. I will be long dead if you keep your act of innocence".

I looked away, he was been flirty. So much for been a cold blooded monster.

I chuckled to my self.

"You and both know I can read your mind Love". Suddenly he is at my back, how did he do that?.

Oh yeah his super powers. Lycan's speed are not to be questioned.

That is one thing to be noted about him.

So what if he is a Lycan? I am a witch to, I am not just allowed to utilize my powers.

"A day shall come, and I shall not be able to hold myself back form your beguiling."

Turnes out the Beguiler as been beguiled.

I laughed.

"What's so funny?."

His voice comes out rough and velvety as always.

I wanted to sass him. But what was the use?. So I changed my intention.

"Well, why did you choose me as your bride?". One question I have wanted to know the answer since I entered the palace. Ok me question that could set me free if these mess.

One question that makes me want to awaking a closed wond.

The room fell silent for what felt like eons.

Only his breath by the crook if my neck that is making me feel weird things.

And my own shaky breaths, that was a result of his assault on my neck, the way his teeth gripped my sweet spot.

That was certainly not what I bargained for. But who was I kidding?.

Ares is definitely going to avoid my question, and these, he is doing to me is definitely working.

A soft moan slipped my lips when his cold hand snake though my hair gently, while the other around my tiny waist.

Making my back hit his chest. His scent fogged my brain,and I am not thinking correctly.

He can do whatever he wants to me. And I would allow him.

All he has to do is start and my body that are already reacting to his touch is a proof of my life been layed to him.

Like a platter of gold.

"Do you know how much I have wanted you to make that sound for me?." He asks in his own cocky manner.

"Um-" what was I going to say again?.

Lost in my own speech, I did not know when he slins me around , so that I am now facing him, so that only a inch of space is between both of us.

"Well, to say you are not completely flushed by a simple gesture of mine, that makes me want to go back on my own word, that is to never take you when you don't want me to. Is a torture. You feel different. That is the answer to your question".

He says, leaving a feathery kiss on my hair that he had previously breathed in, he reluctantly disentangles then from his fingers.

"I want to show you something Avalon". He says, his orbs trained on mine.

I only nod as a response.

With a snap of his finger, I am experiencing a new surroundings.

We are in the woods.

What are we ri do in the woods?.

"Walk with me" he takes my hand, after sometines if watching me survey my surroundings.

One thing I vmhavr take mental normte on is that, Ares hates to stare at someth else whenever I am around just at me.

Like am some newly won price.

"Sort of like a newly wedded bride". He corrects my thoughts.

I glarw at him for invading my thoughts without my permission.

And he raises his both hands in surrender.

It was funny.

Because he was the one who is always behind every sexual feelings I get.

I also tend to love his scent more than any thing else in these world.

Which is not proper.

I remember, when my father told me about the feeling of foreign desires.

It felt so bizarre because it was my father who was teaching me the basics, things my mother or my sister are ought to teach me if they were not dead.

Ares led me to beau clearing. The soroundings green and beautiful. Just like his eyes.

It was a sight to feed the eyes.

Of all my year spent in the forest, hunting, I have never encountered a place so beautiful and large and green, for my eyes are been fed with beautiful nature for once in my life.

"Oh by the blue moon, Ares, what is these place?. A river too?". I jump happily. I have wanted to leave the palace and find a fun place to visit. But I know no where here in these kingdom. Especially now that I am queen, I am not allowed out of the palace without a Palace guard.

"These place?. It is my first time bringing someone here. Whenever I feel like been alone. I come here, not so often though. I am always here alone. I bought it for my self. No one has ever been here in almost a century now. Look, it's closest to the palace's gazebo. Can see the palace from here. But can't see this place form the palace. The greens shield them. I already casted some spells on it. A ward spell, it wards a away every unwantwd beings from it".

Wow, so he can speak this much. I stare at him dumfounded.

"What!. I can speak much if I want to, and I choose to keep quiet if I don't want to." I says, pulling off his garment. What is going on?.

"Want to swim with me?" He asks happily. His voice funny. Making it feel new to me.

This is the first time I am seeing these side of his.

"No, I can't smim much. I only learnt how to dip"

"And who thought you how to do that?".

He asks after pulling his attire, leaving him in his pants alone.

Oh no, this is too much. I quickly look away.

My own dress was damaged with his splash when he jumped in the water.

With a snap of his finger, I am striped, leaving me in my gold tunnic and a soft pink inner gown.

I am in the water next to him.

"Who told you i wanted to swim. You didn't even ask for my permission" I scream angrily. Fighting my ways through the water.

He grabs my hand so I am leveled with him.

"So, you think I'd I had asked nicely, you would have granted me the permission?". He says, his signature smirk has returned.

He is such a tease. My cheeks are suddenly hot.

"Well, yeah". It is true, I would not have granted him.

That was why he is showing off his magic, because he could and I could not.

"So you are not only a Lycan king. You are also a wizard too?". I asked out of curiosity, but as usual he passed the attention to me. Not wanting to answer my question.

"I asked first though. So you answer me first. Who thought you how to dip".?He is good at these things, avoiding my questions. If he was not keeping something for me . Then why else is he avoiding nmy questions?.

"My sister, Sawyer...."

The one you killed. I wanted to add. But I did not.

It was not his secret to know.

Of he is keeping up his walls, then so the moon help me, we both in these together.

"Tell me about your life in the country side...I mean before you became my queen And I will answer sincerely, one question of yours".

He bargains. Beautiful, just one question and he must answer honestly.

Then I am in.

Swimming backwards, I could feel my hair heavy because of how much water it has absorbed.

I started.

"Life in the country side with my father was not a sweet one to tell.

I always love to tell the tales of my life when both my love ones was still alive.

Yes I love my father, but not in the way possible.

It was odd, because every lady of my age was well treated and always speaks well of their fathers every soirees that happens in the chief minister's hall.

I have always been the only one without a good story to tell, because there was nothing good to tell. I love to read new books, series by the legendary queen Bagrah, but one thing I was good at was hunting. I spent most of my live in the woods. I don't think I am ready to tell you about my dead mother and sister. I wouldn't want to destroy the atmosphere with a dirge". I completed, eyeing him.

He looked like he was lost in thoughts. Before he immersed.

I watch carefully as he does this.

"Well, you have to emerge, I don't want to think you are dead". I tease and he obliged.

"Want to try?. Then I will answer your one question". He promised and I nod.

"Your breathe first" he says, and I obey by taking my nose in my fingers as we both immersed ourselves in the water.

After sometimes, we both emerged. And with a bright s.ike on my face, it has been a while since I enjoyed these feeling.

And it warms my heart to finally feel it again. The feeling of warmth.

The feeling that makes you feel out of this world. That makes you feel you are the only one in your own world. But with Ares, it feels like we are both in the same world.

"What's your question?". He cuts off my thoughts.

I think, before I begin.

"Well, who do you love most in this world". I ask carefully, not wanting to make him feel any other way, than he is currently feeling.

"No one. Non other than myself". He replied, and I know it was true, he was not lying. I mean what else was I expecting?.

Men like him loves themselves more than anything else.

Why was I feeling sad for him?.