Eyes As Dark As A Night

14 Chapter ( Ball or Bloodbath)

My gaze dropped to my dress, the pristine white now marred by a disturbing mix of blood and wine. Each substance was no longer identifiable.

The screams, the terror, the chaos, and the people running to try to get out.

I found myself frozen for a moment, this was the chaos I was waiting for. I smirk to myself, standing in the middle of the very madness I created.

2 days ago

Well, this is....interesting. When King said family meeting I didn't think it would be a family reunion.

All 14 of us, around the dining table, sat, King's four brothers with their wives, the grandparents, the Alpha King, his wife, my mate, and myself.

I picked at the food that obviously took hours to prepare while I decided to take a different approach.

All these royal people were looking at me with curious eyes, wondering ones. Some skillfully scanning my frame, others in a judging one. And I would like to think the wives of the brothers are the ones with the judging eyes, but it was the brothers looking at me in distaste.

More like looking at King and me in distaste.

So my role in this is already the black sheep in the family? Thats great.

I blink and for the thousand time, I'm wishing my mate was remotely normal.

"-and I can't believe how much the girl looked like her father, she had her mother's eyes though."

Ms. Wifey or The stepmom was ranting to the Alpha King about well...something.

I cared nothing about what she was saying instead all of my attention was on King.

I couldn't take my eyes off him.

He looks so out of his element. His shoulders were hunched and he looked so spaced out, only looking at the stake on his plate, which was (cute), but he looked at it like it would bite back if he had it.

Still feeling curious eyes on me, I bring a hand on King's shoulder in an effort to smooth him.

His head snaps to me, his eyes no longer out of it but back to their pitch-black color.

He raises his eyebrows at me as if to ask me "What are you doing".

I signal to him using my eyes, I glance at his family quickly then look back at him.

In other words, "get your shit together".

I grin at him, now circling his back with my hand, patting his upper shoulder every now and then.

I tried not to focus on the warm heat radiating from his body or his racing heart beating extremely fast against my palm.

King still looking at me, grabs my hand, turns it over, and places his lips on my knuckles.

I hear a few quite gasps, and my eyes widen, but only for a second.

I then realized that he was helping me put on the show that I desperately was waiting for him to catch up on.

My lips make an even bigger grin and Kings sparking a fake smile makes an appearance once again.

And for the first time, I heard the grandma say, "Why, look at the new lovely couple." She shoots us a warm glance.

The alpha king, now joins the curious eyes of the others, looking at us.

"Son, why don't you formally introduce your mate to us"

King's eyes had a hit of defiance in them but nevertheless,

"Skylar meet family, family... you know who this is." He sighed boredly as he went back to picking at his stake.