Adolph & Ruby

ADOLPH

"Who is she?" Adolph inquired, his hands pleated
behind his back, as he watched the pretty red haired lady Connor had bid farewell too from the castle's corridor, scamper away hurriedly but with a smile on her lips.

"Oh..." Connor trailed of walking towards him with a smile, "Ah... I see I have not told you about my girl. Well there you have it, the woman who seemed to have enraptured my heart. She is the love of my life, and my mate, Laura Hart.

A smile ghosting his lips, Adolph stood still not moving or saying anything for a while, as he watched his beta and second in command, Connor, go on and on about the beautiful lady in his life, his childhood sweetheart actually, and he felt more than happy for him.

From the way Connor spoke, his actions, the way his face lit up at the mention of that name Laura… Adolph didn’t need a soothsayer to tell him, that his second in command was utterly smitten, in love and enamored with this being.

He blinked twice, his heart tightening not in jealousy, but in pain because he was never going to experience or feel this way about another.

It was actually the other way round, he would actually love this lady, whoever she was, but she would hate him, despise him, loathe him or whatever the fucking curse had said about her, and he clenched his fists tightly.

Why him?

Why did he have to go through this?

What had he done, to deserve this at all? Absolutely nothing, but still he had been laid with a curse that had been placed, ever before his parents had even conceived him.

Fuck, the curse but he had a mate, Melissa… the lady who had caused a commotion some days back at the coronation grounds, yelling in pain, and clutching her stomach tightly.

The lady he had seen countless times in his dreams, but even after he finally saw her in reality, he felt absolutely nothing for her.

His wolf hadn’t roared in recognition of her being his mate, and he had felt nothing but pity for her.

On his orders, and trying to bring sanity to the crowd gathered, the watchful eyes of his people who had their gaze on her and him synonymously, his guards had dragged her inside the castle, and instructing them all that the celebration could continue, Adolph had turned his back on them, and the burning flesh of his dead father roasting in flames, and he had gone inside to rectify the situation of Melissa.

On his accord, his wolf in full support, with pity lurking in his eyes, and his close people present around, he had outrightly rejected her.

His words resonated in his head, even now…

> I, Adolph Caesar, head of the Keanu Clan, reject you as my mate and I free you from every bite of pain, and torment our wolf bond might have brought to you…’ <

His mother with tears in her eyes, had rushed at him, the confusion in her eyes evident, and he had explained to her too, that he felt nothing for this lady just like the other ladies, he had been with back in New York.

She had understood, the dawning realization of his situation falling down on her, and she had hugged him tightly, sobbing loudly while he controlled his tears too.

As for Melissa, she had looked torn, the pain in her eyes evident.

She had suffered for years, and every single time he had fucked his whores back at New York, she had felt every single thing, and he had made her live with such agony for years.

He had wanted blaming himself at that instant, but could he?

Even if he mated with her, forcing his heart and wolf to accept her just because he felt some kind of regret, how would things turn out to him?

For better or for worse? He had asked himself back then, countless times with no reasonable answer coming forth.

He could still remember the torn look in her eyes, and her screams of agony as she began to yell louder, her screams of pain echoing around the castle grounds, and hurt from the rejection but he had just stared at her, with regret, as his men had dragged her again away from him, from the castle and to God knows where.

Shaking his head, trying to discard the incident that day, he turned back to Connor, and he watched the satisfied smile and glint on his face, as he stared at the retreating steps of his woman.

He would never know what or how it felt, to be loved and cared by someone who wouldn’t be able to do without him.

The love his mother and father shared, the love Connor and his childhood sweetheart had, he would never be able to experience it at all.

On a normal circumstance he shouldn’t be affected, and with his composure he looked like someone who didn’t allow this kind of things to bother him, but then deep in him, he knew he craved love deeply.

He wanted to make babies, that would carry on the legacy Keanu Clan, and he wanted to do this with a woman he loved and who loved him too, not some complete stranger.

His head was still wandering about, Connor’s words already deaf in his ears, when his eyes caught sight of a figure walking towards them.

Who the heck was that? Parambling about in the dead of the night.

He was already becoming suspicious, and he didn’t like this feeling one bit.

He couldn’t see whoever it was, but then he saw the bright blonde hair that shone from afar, and just like some pull within him, his hands clasped behind his back, Adolph roared, almost startling Connor, “Stop there!”

…….

RUBY’S POV

“Stop there!”

A smile creeping in her lips, her hair bent so that it shielded her face, and holding the tray in her hands tightly, Ruby froze.

He had definitely seen her.

It didn’t take her longer, for her to hear their approaching footsteps.

The footsteps of Alpha Adolph and his companion.

She had been walking to her room, to rest for the night when she had spotted him, and another not so familiar man standing close to the castle’s exit ground, and instantly an idea had struck in her head.

It was not a coincidence that she just kept seeing him, in every line of her vision these past few days.

Maybe the gods were trying to tell her something, and they were urging her on to move on with her plan.

Hurriedly retracing her steps, she had gone back to the kitchen, and grabbing an empty tray she had walked closer to where the men were standing, and faked an exit, and now she had been caught.

She had no idea what she would say or do, when he asked her what she was doing here, which he probably would, but then the shivers down her thigh, and the way the hair in her arms raised up with every approach he made, Ruby could tell that his presence duly affected her.

She was doing all this for Daciana…

She was making herself known to him, so he would take a liking to her and then she would ask him for his help, in getting her sister here, that was the reason why she was doing all this she kept telling herself, but deep in her, she knew otherwise.

Ruby knew that she was enraptured by this brute handsome man.

Something more like a forbidden thing, as she was just a maid, and he was the Alpha of the most powerful clan in all of Alaska, but still yet she was not deterred.

It was just two days, since she had set her eyes on him, and marked out his appearance, but she couldn’t deny the fact that she was already falling in love with this man who undoubtedly wouldn’t reciprocate her feelings, but she still had to try.

If it meant seducing him, with her witch potions or spells and making him a lovesick puppy, just for her then she would do it.

He didn’t even have a mate, as he had rejected the poor lady who was fated to him, and the gossip that had travelled far and wide in the castle some days ago, had not seemed so trivial or important to her back then, but now… she basked in it.

Now he was going to be free and…

“Where are you coming from woman? Look up!”

Normally his tone would have sounded harsh, or rude mayhaps, but to her it sounded so husky and sexy and…

“Can’t you talk?” The other man said to her, and she trembled slightly, sorely affected yet again.

She was afraid to look up at them, for fear of being degraded in their presence, but summoning up the whole courage on her, she did a dramatic sweep of her hair from her face, and then she raised her hair up, and stared straight at him.

At first it had felt electric to her, staring into his deep blue ocean eyes that shone even in the dark, and Ruby swallowed down a huge lump of saliva.

Fuck it! But she was in love.

She couldn’t even deny it anymore, and her chest tightened in pain as something blossomed within her.

“You…”

A flash of recognition crossed his eyes, one she saw and a spark lit up in her.

He remembered her, as the lady he had picked by the roadside.

“You are the lady, the witch I rescued right?”
He asked again, and she shakily nodded her head, a small smile appearing in her lips.

“You are now a maid. I see that Fenris did settle you in well right?” Adolph asked her again, and this time she responded by saying curtly, “Yes he has.”

“Hmmnnn…” She heard him say, and just when he was about to say something again to her, the man standing besides him, leaned in his ears and whispered something she couldn’t hear at all, in his ears.

His expression didn’t change at all, as they were fixated on her and she squirmed.

He said something back to the man, and then bowing to him, he left the corridor, leaving just the two of them in the open space.

The cool night breeze wheezing across, did nothing in calming her hormones tonight, and now that they were alone Ruby felt joke she had just won some kind of trophy as she stared at him.

He had this dark look on, one that actually melted her insides, and she just couldn’t wait to be done with him, and go to her room.

She would dream of him tonight, that was for sure, and maybe she could skip her hands in her panties and pleasure herself with the illicit images of him she already had in her head.

You are doing this for Daciana, stop being selfish… her self conscious barked at her, but she ignored the voice.

“There are some things you said that day… I have always wanted to talk to you. Inquire about you, and know more about where you came from. You mentioned something about being an orphan right?”

Yes! Yes! This was exactly what she wanted.

This conversation, and she could see his face frown in curiosity.

“Yes mis… lor… Alp…” Ruby stammered knowingly, she had no idea what to call him, and she had actually done this on purpose, but it did pay out well for her, because the next thing he said blew her mind away.

“Call me Adolph.”

“Okay… okay…” She forced out a stammer.

“What are you doing out here, by this time of the night?” He questioned yet again, and Ruby inwardly hissed at the diversion, but then forcing another smile on her face she blurted out a well thought lie, “I… I… was actually coming from the kitchen and going to my room.”

“Go on then. Tomorrow, or next I’ll send for you. I didn’t interview you, and I’m supposed to. We need to talk yeah…” He said and Ruby’s eyes widened almost immediately.

Everything was happening so fast, and she just couldn’t believe it.

“Okay Adolph.” She said with a bow, and a genuine smile lighting up her face.

She stole a glance at him again, almost immediately but he was no more standing in front of her.

She turned around, only to see him strutting away, with his robe and his feets clattering the tiled floor.

“Yes!” Ruby fist bumped herself, laughing almost giddily as she stared at his retreating figure.

She looked around to see if anyone had seen her, but the corridor was eerily empty, with no guards standing around too.

The light from the stars, and the fire torches hung on the wall around, were the only things gleaming around, and shining brightly.

Running back to the kitchen to drop the tray, that had effectively served no purpose, Ruby went straight to her room uk the maid quarters.

It was going to be a long, wet night!