The Fall
ELARA POV
Chains bit into my wrists the moment the Wolf King claimed me.
I stood in the burning courtyard of Silverfang Palace. Flames roared up the stone walls like hungry beasts. Thick black smoke clawed at my throat and stung my eyes.
My thin nightgown hung in rags from my shoulders. One hour ago, I had been a princess. Now I was nothing but spoils of war.
"Go!" I shoved Mira with all my strength toward the hidden gate. "Take the children and run! Do not look back!"
My maid looked at me with wide, terrified eyes, but finally obeyed. She disappeared into the smoke. I turned to face the surrounding nightmare.
My father’s warning rang loud in my head. Never use your magic, Elara. The same words my mother had gasped with her last breath eight years ago while blood soaked the birthing bed. I kept the spark locked deep inside me. I would not let it out. Not even now.
A soldier seized my arm and dragged me across the hot stones. My bare feet scraped and bled. He backhanded me hard. Blood flooded my mouth.
"Stop fighting, you feisty bitch."
I spat the red mess at his boots.
He laughed and yanked me toward the prisoner wagons.
Cold night wind whipped my torn gown against my skin. My head felt heavy again. The medicine Mira gave me every morning always did this. It dulled my senses and left me hollow, exactly as Ravyn promised it would. I took it without complaint. A princess had to be strong.
Hooves thundered. A massive black horse burst through the broken gates. Darius Blackthorn sat atop it like the devil made flesh. His golden-brown eyes found me through the smoke. Something inside my chest flared white-hot.
The hidden spark lunged toward him. My stomach twisted with pure hatred even as my body leaned forward, drawn like a moth to flame.
He swung down. His boots slammed the ground. He loomed over me, his six-foot-five frame blocking out the sky. Every line of his face told a story of a man who lived only for the kill. A long white scar ran from his ribs to his collarbone.
"Bring her," he ordered.
It dawned on me I was more than a prize; I was a target. Even now, I felt the eyes of other soldiers upon me—not as a captive, but as a liability they couldn't wait to be rid of.
Two soldiers hauled me forward. Darius grabbed my arm. The second our skin touched, the constant ache that lived in my bones eased. Sweet relief flooded me. I hated myself for how good it felt. I jerked away violently.
"Do not touch me," I snarled.
He smiled, cold and cruel. "You do not give orders anymore, princess."
He dragged me through the smoke to a large leather tent. I fought every step. My heels dug trenches in the dirt. My chains rattled loudly. He was too strong. Inside, thick grey wolf furs covered the floor. He shoved me to the center and began circling me like a predator sizing up prey.
"Your father took everything from me," he said, voice low and deadly. "Tonight I start taking it back. You are my slave. My property. My revenge."
I lifted my chin even though my legs shook. "Then do your worst. I will not beg."
He laughed once, dark and rough. "You will. Before this night ends, you will beg me for more."
He caught the front of my nightgown and ripped it open with one brutal yank. Cool air hit my bare breasts. My n*****s tightened instantly. He cupped one heavy mound and rolled the stiff peak between his thumb and index finger, pinching harder until pain and unwanted pleasure warred together.
"These are mine now," he growled.
I spat directly into his face.
His hand cracked across my cheek. My head snapped sideways. Fire bloomed on my skin. Before I could recover, he threw me down onto the furs and forced my thighs wide apart.
His thick middle finger pushed inside me without warning. I gasped sharply. My p***y clamped tight around the thick intrusion.
"You are tight," he said, voice thick with dark satisfaction. "Virgin tight."
I glared up at him through the tears gathering in my eyes. "Did you think my father raised a w***e for his soldiers?"
He added his ring finger and scissored both deep, stretching me open. Creamy wetness coated his hand. I cried out. My hips rocked up against his fingers even as shame burned my face. The betrayal of my own body made me want to scream.
"Look how wet your cunt is getting," he taunted. "Dripping for the man who destroyed your home."
He pulled his fingers free, brought them to his mouth, and licked them clean with deliberate slowness. Then he shoved his trousers down. His c**k sprang free. Thick, heavy, veined. The fat head already leaked precum. He rubbed it up and down my slick folds, teasing my swollen c**t until I whimpered and my hips jerked.
"Please..." The word slipped out before I could stop it.
He smirked. "Already begging?"
He pushed forward.
I screamed as he tore through my virginity. The thick girth stretched me mercilessly. Pain exploded through my core. Blood mixed with my juices. He sank to the hilt and held still, letting my walls flutter and adjust around his massive length.
"So f*****g tight," he groaned. "So clean and untouched. This p***y was made for me."
He started to move. Long, punishing strokes that drove me across the furs. Each powerful thrust made my breasts bounce. He bent down and took one stiff n****e into his mouth, sucking hard while his teeth grazed the sensitive flesh. The wet slap of his heavy balls against my ass filled the tent.
"Take it," he growled against my skin. "Take every inch of your King’s c**k like a good little slave."
My legs wrapped around his waist despite myself. My hips rose to meet his brutal thrusts. My p***y squeezed him greedily, milking his thick shaft.
"f**k—it's too deep," I gasped. "You’re hitting the neck of my cunt. I can’t... I can’t take it."
"You will take it," he snarled. He rubbed my swollen c**t with his thumb in tight, relentless circles. "Come for me, princess. Come on the c**k that owns you now."
Pleasure crashed over me like a wave. I shattered with a broken cry. My inner walls clamped down hard, pulsing around him. He roared and slammed deep one final time. Thick ropes of hot c*m flooded my womb in heavy, endless spurts.
We stayed locked together, chests heaving, sweat slicking our skin.
He looked down at my flushed, tear-streaked face and smiled with dark satisfaction.
"This is only the first night. I am nowhere near done with you."
Shouts erupted outside the tent. Steel clashed violently.
"Alpha! Get out here now! The rear guard is under attack!" Thorne roared.
The tent flap ripped open. Cold smoke poured in. Darius cursed and pulled out of me. His thick c**k slid free with a wet, obscene sound. c*m and blood dripped down my thighs onto the grey furs.
He yanked up his trousers and buckled his sword with quick, angry movements. His golden-brown eyes never left mine.
"Do not run, princess."
I pushed myself up on trembling arms, chains rattling. "And if I do?"
He laughed low and cruel. "I will hunt you through the snow and through your dreams. And when I catch you, I will tear you open until I find the magic you are hiding from me."
He stepped out into the chaos. The flap fell shut behind him.
I scrambled to the edge of the tent, chains dragging, and pressed my ear to the leather wall. Thorne’s voice rose above the fighting.
"They aren’t here for the princess! They’re calling for Lord Ravyn! They’ve come to break him out!"
My blood turned to ice.
Ravyn. The man who stood beside my father. The man who watched my mother bleed out barely eight years ago.
I was naked, leaking the Wolf King’s seed, body still trembling from the forced pleasure, and trapped between two monsters who both wanted me for their own dark purposes.