EKA: Tale of a Wounded Heart

Ivory De Russe Alwar Indeed!

Dantero had not expected this. He had thought that he will be rigorously grilled here. He expected a more serious talk.

"Do you know that if you have any ill intentions you won't be able to finish a bond with an Alwar," asked Cristian De Russe.

He did not and does not think it will matter!

"Also, know this that we don't care that you have turned rogue. Our Ivy's happiness is more important. As long as you protect him and keep him happy, we are good," said Vansh.

Viraat nodded.

"All the kids are treasures for us. You will not be able to hold us back if you ever put a toe out of the line," said Viraat. Zaleno and Hale nodded.

Ahem rolled his eyes.

"Now can you stop threatening the kid! Iker, Atrey help me here," said Ahem hitting on Ethan's head exasperated to stop him from threatening Dantero.

"Yeah, Ivy will kill us if we scare him away," said Atrey.

"I wouldn't put it past my son. He might just kill us all with his moping if the past week is anything to go by," said Iker. Avadh nodded.

Dantero just stared in horror at the family. They were not what he expected and he was not fooled. Atleast some of them were trying to ease him a bit into the dynamics.

"Come on, Ivy is already harrassing us," said Iker. Dantero saw no physical way possible for the harrassment to happen as far as he can see.

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Ivory looked at the closed door. He pulled at Samuel's hand.

"What do you think they are doing! Will they scare him away?" asked Ivory l, his grip tightening on Samuel's hand. Carles hid his face on Jeev's shoulder to stop his laughter from bubbling out.

"Don't work yourself up," said Samuel.

"Well, if they convince him to reject me or something, inadvertently, I am still going to ruin them and you Mantinis better help me," said Ivory.

"Ivy, you don't mean it!" said Antony ruffling his hair.

"Try me!" Ivory pouted leaning against Antony.

"But you will miss them," said Clement.

"I might," said Ivory.

Magnus and Kanwar looked at each other exasperated.

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Dantero saw almost 10 wolves standing in the hall while all others were in various couches.
Some of the men in the standoff, he knew. Samuel, Magnus, Clement, Jana, Antony and of course, Kanwar, the new King.

They all introduced themselves. As he had known, none of them were Ivory. But his mate was here. He could feel it.

"Ivy, stop stepping on my leg and come forward," said Magnus and Samuel snorted.

"I won't have any use for my left hand with all the pulling he has done," he said. And then a head peeked out from behind the two men.

Dantero couldn't look away. Ivory was beautiful. He was worrying his lips and his eyes were widened in surprise. Dantero knew a bigger man would have been able to control himself. But he was not. Dantero felt himself moving forward and taking Ivory's arm and then he had Ivory pressed against him. He was smelling his mate and god, was it intoxicating!

Dantero ran into the woods. He wanted to mate without delay. His mate was by his side. He only remembers getting hold of his mate.

Ivory submitted to his dominant.