My world tilted on its axis.

Surely, she was lying.

I was told, by none other than my own wolf, that I would shift only when I needed my wolf and my PureBlood the most. That phenomenon was supposed to be a rare occurring and I was supposed to be an abnormal hybrid. Now that it already happened, I realized I wasn't there to witness my first shift.

I thought the day I would be shifting would be a life and death situation, but this was definitely not. I shifted because I saw my other mate and I was confused and angry.

Adrian knew about it, and probably that was why he was asking me how I was feeling. I should've realized this before - I should've tried to reach my inner girls. No wonder I couldn't feel them so much anymore and they were so quiet.

It felt bad, too, I didn't like how I was not suffering along with them - well, I was, but it was not the same.

Why didn't Adrian say anything about this? And first of all - why did I shift? What was so important about that time that I was forced to shift?

"Why...when?" I fumbled, "How...how did that happen?"

"You..." She looked at me with wide eyes, her face slowly losing the color it had suddenly gained, "I believe you saw your mate," she gulped, "your other mate."

"I guess..." I said and nodded at her.

"When we entered the MoonLine you were fast asleep, but then you suddenly started twitching and jerking in Alpha King's lap and we had to stop the car before you injured yourself." She took in a deep breath, "I have seen terrible things, Luna, but never have I been so terrified before. Alpha King immediately stepped out of the car with you in his arms. You were screaming, Luna Moon; the whole Wolf Kingdom could feel that you were in pain. Alpha Adrian looked helpless, and so much in pain." She shivered, as if the scene was still playing right in front of her eyes. "And then you shifted - your bones cracking and rearranging, the fur replacing your skin."

The way she was narrating the entire incident, it terrified me. I remember reading in stories that shifting was a scary process for the first time, but I never thought that my shifting would take place at such a time and affect so many people.

"Your wolf - I don't know what to call it - it was something I had never seen before. We were just grateful that you didn't shift before the Weres because no one else knows that you have a PureBlood in you. Luna Liana had started crying the moment you started screaming - we all had. You fainted moments after you shifted and shifted back to your human form. Then, we brought you here."

I don't know what reflected on my face then, "I...I don't remember any of that happening."

"It's alright," she gave me a small reassuring smile, "It happens to a lot of us when we shift for the first time. The pain is so excruciating that more often than not, we are not aware of what happened to us."

I scratched my head, "I'm sorry for the trouble. I was kind of looking forward to my first shift, you know; I wanted to know what I look like." It was disappointing how I couldn't see my own form.

"Beautiful," she grinned, "Even though I was terrified at first, your hybrid is extremely beautiful - definitely befitting a Luna Queen."

I smiled at her, pride rising inside me. I wish I could ask for more but I wanted to see my form on my own.

"So what are you really here for?"

She shrugged, "To check on you. You were, kind of, out of it for the last few hours and the Alpha King has probably burned the carpet in front of the room with his fast pacing. No one wanted to be around him at that time." She inhaled slowly, looking behind me as if she was remembering something. "He was very harsh to Delia - she was whining around him constantly and was asking for his attention. It ticked him off bad and we all had to dart away from the spot." She shuddered towards the end, "He was very concerned - and jealous and possessive about you."

"I am fine," I told her, "Just feeling a bit queasy because, you know, I have gotten used to feeling both of them inside me and now am not being able to feel a presence inside me."

"You had to be heavily sedated." She stated, "Even though you had shifted back on your own, you were still an unconscious quivering mess. It seems like both of them wanted to come out but couldn't because you didn't have the energy to shift. So we had to get those hormones down."

She paused thinking if she should be saying something or not, "You are also showing symptoms of heat. It's arriving soon."

I nodded.

"There's something I want to talk to you about. I think you already know, but as a friend, it's my duty to tell you."

I nodded again, listening to her intently, because any useful information was welcome.

"You will be extremely aroused during your heat. And nothing - absolutely nothing will be able to stop you from mating while you both are under the same roof, in the Were Kingdom. Hell, you can be two kingdoms away and he'll still hunt you down. According to what I have gathered from Luna Liana, your heat was waning the first time you met the Alpha King, that too on the other side of the MoonLine. I don't want to scare you or anything, but that was nothing compared to what will happen here. No herbs can help you mask yourself. So tell me one thing, are you ready for...it to happen or do you wish for me to ask to get you moved to your human -"

"I know you are the Pack Healer, " a voice, almost a growl, interrupted her, "and the Beta King's mate, but whatever you suggested to Celeste counts for treachery. You are preventing the Alpha King and the Luna Queen from being together."

I stiffened where I sat and Mercy immediately stood up, her head bowing.

"I'm sorry, Alpha." That was all she said; not a word in her defense.

Seriously?

"She was just looking out for me." I defended her.

He ignored me, "Whatever happens between her and I is purely our business. We don't need any intervention from you or anyone else, for that matter. You are dismissed."

Mercy scurried out of the room, leaving me and Adrian alone, again.

"That was rude." I stated, crossing my arms.

"She was intruding in our business," he crossed his arms, too, staying right where he was.

"She knows me better than you do. She was trying to look after me." I retorted.

"That was not necessary. I am here for that. She was suggesting taking you away from me." He came closer towards me.

"Like I said; she cares, and she knows that I don't want to be anywhere around you right now." I huffed. I was lying; I actually wanted us to be all over each other, but I wasn't going to tell him that.

His lips tilted up into a smirk, "Why? Can't keep your hands off me?"

I made a face at him, "Isn't that the problem? You, my darling, loving, handsome mate, are so irresistible that you make it difficult for me to keep my hands off your neck." I rolled my eyes.

"And you, my beautiful, gorgeous queen, are going to stay right by my side for the rest of our lives." He gave me a devilish grin.

I looked at him with a straight face, "That would have sounded incredibly romantic had it not been for your -"

He was right in front of me in the next moment, with his finger silencing my lips.

"Let's not talk about that, alright? I'm here to discuss about us. Let's start with what happened in the car." He sat down on the bed in front of me, right where Mercy had been sitting.

"You really want to know about that?" I raised a brow.

He nodded, looking grim. I felt the dread curling in my chest, the dread that he was feeling.

"I saw my mate, my PureBlood's mate."

He stiffened as if he didn't know what I was about to say. A low growl rumbled in his chest, and his midnight black eyes were turning into a different shade.

I remembered the last time he was mad at me; it was because I had mentioned something about his pup dying if he didn't stay away from me. He was damn furious then, I was so fucking scared then. But now? This was something different. I knew he wasn't mad at me, particularly; he was much more infuriated than he ever was before.

"So you have two mates." He concluded, gritting his teeth.

"Technically one, since you are already mated." I retorted.

He growled, louder this time. I didn't even flinch or back away from him - this was something he had no right to be mad about.

"You still are mine and I am yours." His voice was rough, a little gravelly, as if it was his wolf speaking now.

"That's technically cheating on your mate, Adrian. That poor one is pregnant with your child. You had dumped me the day we first met at that meeting. I am not yours and you are not mine." I said calmly, trying to reign in the mocking tone in my words.

He pounced on me, "Do you even know, your mate is a Vampire?" He spat, pinning my hands to my side, his body hard on mine.

I froze under him.

A Vampire?

A freaking Vamp? What the fuck was Moon Goddess thinking?

Something clicked in my mind and I grinned at him, "Not all Vampires are like Lazarus. Some of them might be the nice ones, too, like the Cullens. He might be -"

"I didn't expect you to be so dumb to bring in that shit movie's fake characters." He gritted, "Not every vampire is Edward Cullen and not every wolf is like Jacob Black. The real world is much more complicated than that. This is the same Vampire whose Kingdom is responsible for the massacre of your entire species."

"First of all, get the fuck off me," I pushed him, and rolled, hard enough to topple him off the bed.

He was on his feet before I could blink. I said, "You are the one who complicated things. You simply cannot mate a random woman, make her your Luna and then expect your real mate to choose you when she can be happy with someone else."

"You don't even know the man - you have not even seen his face properly!" He argued, "How can you be so sure that -"

"I know you." I cut him off, "Tell me; how is it making a difference? I desperately want to be away from you!" I yelled back at him.

He clenched his jaw, and stood still for a while. Then he stiffly turned and walked out of the room.

My heart clenched in my chest - a part of me regretted what I said to him. I fell back on the bed and curled up my knees to my chest.

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I woke up in what felt like the middle of the night, full of sweat and my body aching. It was not the kind of ache that had come that day when Adrian had been fucking Delia.

This was so different.

I could feel Celeste purring within me, and now, I was feeling the effects of my heat for the very first time. What Mercy had warned me about didn't give me a single clue that it would be so powerful.

Every inch of my body was burning, blood pumping through my heart at an abnormally fast pace. I was quivering where I was lying, a needy groan escaping my lips. I was extremely aroused, my core throbbing and a desperate groan of need escaped my mouth. My nipples were hard; every inch of me was begging to be touched by my mate.

I could smell him everywhere - and it was too overpowering. I could feel his presence near me - he was somewhere around but it seemed like he had decided to torture me. Whimpers escaped my mouth, and at the rate the sparks were skyrocketing in my body, I knew I was either going to start sobbing or I was going to hunt my mate down and fuck like rabbits.

Sometime through the entire ordeal, I opened my eyes, and found Adrian standing there, right across the bed, Some of the ache calmed down, but the fire inside me only burned brighter. The scent of our arousal combined, permeated through the air, and I moaned at the thought of him plunging deep inside me and marking me.

His fists were clenched at his sides, and he looked like he was in desperate need of self control. He was doing well so far; but then all I had to do was call his name and he was in shambles.

"Adrian..." It was a soft murmur. In the heat of the moment, I wasn't ashamed to admit that it was a plea.

Nonetheless, it worked. His control shattered and he was on top of me with a dangerous growl.

"Celeste, my Luna."

I moaned shamelessly, wrapping my legs around his waist and my arms around his shoulders. His mouth came down hard on mine, our teeth clashing and tongues fighting for dominance. We kept grinding against each other, feeling his hard bulge between my legs. The inferno inside me was still raging, yet I wanted more and more of him.

"Adrian, please..."

"Yes, my Luna, tell me what you want." He groaned against my mouth, making Celeste purr inside me. She had taken over me completely and now I knew there was no stopping me, or her.

"I want you, Adrian, please..."

The sound of our ripping clothes was the most satisfying sound I had heard at that time. Adrian's mouth was ravishing mine, his hands roving and exploring my entire body, his touch burning my skin everywhere. His hands found my breasts, and he cupped them, gently at first and then slowly gripping on harder, kneading them just the way I loved. His mouth soon followed his hands, and for those moments I knew I was in heaven.

"Adrian," I moaned when his mouth closed over the tip of my breast and he sucked, hard. Soon, my legs were shaking more than they had before and my back arched off the bed. His skin was on mine, and everything felt so perfect in that moment. We were already sweating, and the air held the scent of our sweat and our arousal mixed together.

"I love you, Celeste," his murmur pushed me over the edge, and an overwhelming wave washed over me. I was writhing, naked in Adrian's arms and he mercilessly continued to kiss me everywhere without giving the chance to take in a single breath.

I grabbed his hair and brought him up to me, meeting his eyes boldly. Foreplay and everything was fine, but we could do all of that later.

"Adrian, take me, please."

He grinned at me slowly, "Your wish is my command, my Queen."

Without further ado, he plunged inside me, making me scream out loud. He groaned at the same time, and stilled, our breaths ragged and our hearts beating fast, in sync with each other.

"You feel so good, Celeste. You don't know how much I love you." He murmured.

"I love you, too, Adrian, I love you so much," I moaned back; the emotions curling in my chest were too overpowering for me to hold in. I moved my hips, signaling him to move.

He drew all of himself out, making me feel suddenly empty. And then he thrust into me again. This time, without the pain, I could really feel how perfect he fit inside me. I could feel all of him, every inch of him, rubbing against my walls, giving me the pleasure I never knew could exist. I moaned with his every move, my fingers digging into his back and my legs wrapped around his waist. His one hand was pawing my breasts and his mouth was peppering kisses along my collarbone to the crook of my neck.

I came, again.

I was still quivering through the aftershocks of my orgasm when he suddenly flipped me over and took me behind. My moans were garbled through the mattress, my screams muffled by the pillow and my hands held to my sides by Adrian. While taking me, he started peppering kisses along my spine, and then he reached my neck.

And then his teeth sunk into the crook of my neck.

My eyes widened at the pleasure that coursed through my blood, with his teeth deep in my neck and his cock deep in my guts. Tears sprang to my eyes and I kept whimpering, riding through another orgasm at the same time.

Something flashed in me and in the next moment I had flipped both of us so that it was Adrian now lying back on the bed and me straddling him, on top of him.

Our breaths were ragged, our moans weren't stopping and my mouth was watering. My teeth were aching.

And then it was me marking Adrian, his moans sounding like wonderful music to my ear. He gripped my ass and hair hard, keeping my hair and core in place.

Something changed in the air around us. I could feel myself be more in-tune with him, my senses syncing with his in every way. If the sex was bomb now, I didn't have words for what the sex suddenly felt like.

Each movement of my body against his sent me to heaven. There was nothing that could stop us from reuniting again and again, not even our stamina.

This went on and on till the end of the next four days; our appetites only demanded the taste of our mate, and we barely stopped for a break. We hadn't spared a single space of Adrian's entire room - he had roughly taken me against the wall, he had bent my over the desk in his room, the vanity mirror had broken with how hard it had banged against the wall, the bed-sheets were all torn, and we had even fucked in the balcony. The heat was nothing as compared to what I had felt for the first day when I met him.

We declared our love for each other again and again, and each day, my heart expanded for him when I found him right next to me whenever I woke up. That, right then, was the kind of love I had always dreamed about with my mate.

But then, a part of me feared that this heat would soon fade away and things would go back to the way they were before.

Or perhaps not.

All I knew was that my life was never going to be the same after this point. If it came to it, I wouldn't be able to push my feelings away for him. The bond was different, the love was stronger, and I felt that I wouldn't be able to live without him.

I didn't want to go back to living without him, I wanted to live with him, be with him, be his Queen and I wanted to be happy with him. I wanted to bear his babies and I wanted to spend my eternity with him.

Only Goddess knew if I would be able to be with Adrian the way I wanted to.