Page 4 of Alpha Queen
Titan's gut squeezed. "No."
"Is it a cellphone so I can call my mates to bring me home?"
Titan growled, and his wolf snarled. "This is your home."
"No," she said. "It's your home. It'll never be my home."
"Well then, if you are so set on going back, when I take the throne, we'll move back."
Her upper lip curled, and the fire in her eyes made a shiver run through him.
"Take the throne, don't take the throne, I don't care. All I care about is getting back to my family."
Titan clenched his fists as a string of curse words flew through his mind. He wanted to make her submit. Force her to her knees and have her obey him. But he couldn't, not with River. She would never do that. He needed to show her that their connection was real, not force her into it.
Without a word, Titan strode from the room.
He leaned on it and gulped down a breath. He'd never known pain like he had since finding and then being rejected by River. And every word she spoke was a further rejection. He wasn't sure how much more he could take.
Watching from afar for four and a half agonizing years. Seeing but never touching. Never tasting. Never having her with him. It had been what had started his desire to gather the rogues. To unite them under his rule. To have something to offer her. To give her. To make her want to stay.
Then Ares had found her, and Titan's heart had shattered all over again. She'd shown Ares her work. Had gone with him to his hotel. Had smiled and dressed up to go to the Opera with him.
Things she should have done with him. Not Ares. Him.
And then Apollo…
"How did it go?"
Titan's head whipped up. Vanessa watched him from the stairwell.
Titan growled and locked River's door before he strode up the stairs past her.
"What do you want?"
She shrugged. "Honestly? I want to know what it is about her that has all you Wolvenguard boys so happy and mushy. She doesn't seem to be anything special. If anything, I think she's rather-"
Titan pinned Vanessa to the wall by the throat.
His wolf sneered, and Titan's nails lengthened.
"If you want to keep breathing, I suggest you not finish that sentence."
Fear flashed in Vanessa's eyes, and then she smiled. "I simply meant to suggest that you seem to deserve a mate… better suited to your needs and status."
She went to touch him, but he swatted her hand away.
"She is everything I want as well as need, and as such, she is very much of my status. I am the first-born son of the Lycan king, and she is an Omega. Together we were meant to rule."
"She doesn't want you."
"Not yet. But given time, she will forget about Ares and Apollo and the bond that I began will supersede anything she feels for them."
"She rejected you-"
"I will make her accept me. Now tell me, why did you come to find me? I told you to stay out of this area. Surely it can't be because of petty jealousy alone. You can't be that stupid."
Something crossed her face that told him it was jealousy that had sent her.
