Their Hidden Princess Chapter 105

Kissing Kairos felt like licking fire.

Everything about the way that his lips pressed into mine was like a match being lit up. The way he wrapped his hands around my wrists, the way his hips were pressing into mine. It all lit me up.

So, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that I burst into flames. Yet it shocked me, and the man holding me. He jerked back as if I’d scorched him and stared at me as the flames licked my chin. Just as fast as they came on, they were out. Kairos’s eyes searching mine frantically. I could tell he was trying to figure out if the fire that burst out of my skin was defensive or excitement.

Instead of asking, he kissed me again.

I couldn’t help but moan into his mouth. He tasted like smoke and pine and I felt like I was driven mad with it. Another tuft of flames came from my hands and scorched the shirt on his back. Kairos didn’t seem to care. He ripped it off and went back to claiming my mouth.

The feeling of his bare chest against mine almost brought the fire back for the third time. I wriggled my own shirt up so our skins could press together. I whimpered with desire.

Kairos’s hands cupped the underside of my ass then I was airborne. He whirled me around, our lips not parting for a second, and pinned me to the locker. The clattering of my back against the metal of the lockers only made me groan more. Kairos took the opportunity to work his tongue into my open mouth.

I nipped and sucked at it as his hands kneaded into the backs of my thighs. His hips pressed into me, a hardness growing between his legs that felt like heaven when he ground it into my core. I moaned again, our lips slipping apart but never leaving each other. Kairos licked and sucked down the side of my neck as my hands clawed into his back. The lust and fire coursing through me was maddening.

Kissing Kairos felt like hellfire.

Wait.

I was kissing Kairos.

Kairos.

“Stop,” I squeaked, barely above a whisper. Kairos continued to assault my neck with his mouth. His reached my collar bone and stuck his tongue into the divet of it, causing my hips to buck against his.

Bond with him, Mona cooed in the back of my mind. Allow yourself to be whole.

But it was Kairos under me, not Maximus. Not Valentin. Something felt… wrong.

“Stop,” I tried again.

Kairos lifted his head with a hum. His eyes were hooded and dark, caked in the same lust I felt deep within my stomach. I shoved his shoulders gently. He didn’t move.

“Stop!” I cried.

Instantly, he dropped me. I landed on the bench under the lockers with a thud. I yelped as I landed. Kairos threw his back against the set of lockers across from me. We stared at each other, chests heaving and eyes dark. I watched his chest rise and fall, feeling the want burn up and through my throat again. I had to get away from him, before I did something stupid.

I swallowed my breath before getting up and darting out of the locker room. I briefly heard Kairos calling my name but ignored the tugging in my chest to go back and see him. I burst out of the locker room. A crowd was beginning to form as the students tumbled out of the gym from the fight. I ignored their cheers and kept running. The cold winter air bit through my bare skin and chilled any fire still in me.

Kairos Moonraiser and I had made out.

Furthermore, Kairos Moonraiser was one of my fated mates. That made the four candidates that my mother had picked for me last summer, my four mates. Anger coursed through me again. Did she know?

“Fuck,” I hissed as I kept running. My destination was set in my mind. As the giant Admissions building came into view, I pushed my legs harder to my destination. She knew.

She fucking knew.

I darted up the stairs and to the office I had become so familiar with. I didn’t even bother with knocking. Luckily, the only person in the office was it’s owner, Valentin. He startled as I slammed his door against the wall then slammed it back shut again.

“Zora? What’s wrong?” His eyes searched mine then dropped to my body. “Did someone set you on fire?”

“Call her,” I snapped. “Call my mother, now.”

Valentin slowly picked up the phone on his desk. He didn’t dial at all before holding it up his ear. His eyes were still roaming over my body, presumably at the tatters of cloth that used to be my training outfit.

“Victoria,” he said into the phone. He looked down then back up at me. “Zora’s here.”

Then, he wordlessly handed me the phone. I yanked it to me and stood in front of Valentin’s desk. Immediately, Victoria’s words were fluttering through my ears.

“Zora? What’s wrong?”

“You knew,” I snapped.

A beat. “What?”

“You knew all four of the sons of High Alphas were my fated mated, didn’t you?”

Victoria sighed. “I had a hunch. It wasn’t confirmed—”

“So, you allowed me to come to this school, to pretend like I wouldn’t be married off anyways,” I snapped. I sputtered as my anger flustered my words. “To some – some assholes that my body has decided I’m enamored with!”

“Zora,” Victoria said, calm. “That’s not how fated mates work. It isn’t your body. It’s the fates. You’d fall for them regardless of a bond—”

“Its bullshit!” I snapped. Valentin tensed across the desk from me. I wish I cared. “You knew, didn’t you?”

Victoria paused again. The anger within me was so big that my heart hammered against my chest. Then, my mother sighed and all my anger exploded.

“How dare you not tell me!”

“I didn’t have confirmation—”

“This is bullshit! I’m just your puppet, aren’t I?”

“Zora—”

“You’re using me for me power!”

“ENOUGH!”

My mother’s voice roared through the phone. Both Valentin and I shrunk in ourselves. It wasn’t just my mother speaking. It was the Alpha Queen Luna demanding us to step down. I huffed a breath of air out of my nose. I heard Victoria sigh over the line. Somehow, I felt like I won by riling her up.

“There is another part of the prophecy,” she murmured.

“You told me the prophecy,” I snapped. “I saw it.”

“You saw it as I wanted you to see it,” my mother murmured. “Lines were missing.”

“What lines?” My heart hammered out of my chest.

“Born of royalty, bound to five, the collison of dark and light,” My mother recited.

“I know that,” I grit out. “What are the new lines?”

“The day that the circle is complete, the bestoyer of new feats,” My mother finally said.

I knit my eyebrows together. “What does that mean?” I snapped.

“Your bonds,” Victoria said slowly. “You must consummate them to gain the powers you need to defeat the vampires.”

“Consummate,”

I blinked then turned to look at Valentin. He was as white as a ghost, his jaw clenched hard enough I could hear his teeth grinding. He slowly sat back in his chair, attempting to relax but looking as tense as ever. I let the word roll around in my head for a moment, trying to grasp what had been revealed to me.

I believe the humans use the word ‘fuck’, Came Mona from the bowels of my mind.

I felt all the blood rush from my face. I had to sleep with each of my fated mated. I had to engage in some sort of wicked, wolf polyamory or else we’d be subject to being brought back to slaves.

“Fuck,” I breathed into the phone.

“Exactly,” my mother sighed. “You have to fuck.”