Chapter 1 — Hallway of Lust and Chaos
Selene & Lucien POV
The world was spinning in a way that made Selene think she’d swallowed a star, which was trying to escape through her veins. The gala lights blurred into streaks of gold and red, and the perfume of fine men, expensive spirits, and blood-soaked power hit her like a punch she didn’t want but couldn’t stop savouring. Ecstasy or adrenaline? A little of both, she realized, her pupils stretched wide, body humming, every nerve screaming for sensation. She didn’t remember when she’d been pushed toward the grand staircase, or why her vision kept landing on him – a tall hunk of a wolf with a mouth that didn’t know when to stop smirking and eyes that bored into her chest like he could see her soul and didn’t care.
Fuck!. Her inner monologue hissed, vulgar and insistent. I’ll use him. I’ll fuck him senseless and kill him after if I have to. Keep my rep spotless. But damn… if he isn’t already making my blood thrum like a war drum.
The thing was… she didn’t even recognize him. She just knew he was hot, dangerous, and annoying as sin for some reason. And ecstasy whispered in her veins that maybe, just maybe, some things were meant to happen before thought got involved. She lunged, grabbing his arm. He stiffened, shock lacing his features.
“Whoa—what the hell?” he muttered, voice rough, low, and impossibly calm, sarcasm dripping even as his pupils flickered wide.
“Quiet,” she snapped, dragging him down the hall, her heel clicking like a gunshot against marble. “Unless you want a scene.”
The chase was chaotic. Velvet curtains, silver trays, and human limbs blurred past. Both of them were being hunted; she could sense it in the subtle movements of the gala crowd, the eyes that lingered too long, and the faint pulse of magic against her skin. Has he been drugged, too? and her own rival, an ambitious, petty vampire who thought ecstasy and blackmail could topple Selene Moreau. Let them try.
She rounded the corner into the hotel corridor, still pulling and dragging him as he stumbled, swore, and growled like a caged predator. “I don’t know who you are,” he said, but there was a heat in his voice that didn’t match fear but confusion, frustration, and desire he couldn’t name yet.
“I don’t care,” she shot back, voice rough and breathless. “You’re mine for the next… oh, I don’t know… fifteen minutes. Maybe longer. Don’t fuck it up.”
A laugh escaped him, low and sarcastic. “Fifteen minutes? Sweetheart, I am not that quick.” Touché.
The hallway narrowed. Her instincts, sharpened by years of vampire dominance, kicked in. She shoved him against a door and fumbled with the handle. Wrong room. Didn’t matter. She forced it open with magic and pulled him inside just as footsteps echoed down the hallway. He resisted, briefly, before ecstasy twisted his muscles and clouded his thoughts. His wolf became needy, low, and frustrated. He was trying to be in control, but Selene could see it in the way his hands clenched, the heat in his eyes, and the way his chest rose and fell faster than it should.
“Stop thinking,” she snapped, pressing her body to his. “Stop talking. Stop being and just…” She didn’t finish the sentence. He understood.
Their lips collided, messy, desperate, and perfectly chaotic. Her teeth grazed his bottom lip, eliciting a sharp growl that turned into a groan. His hands tangled in her hair, her clothes, her...everywhere she let them.
She laughed breathlessly, harsh and rough. “God, you’re heavy. And hot. And… ugh. For some reason, so annoying.”
“I could say the same,” he grunted, shoving her against the wall. And oh, God, He wanted her. Every fibre of her being screamed at her that this was wrong, dangerous, insane, and yet… delicious. The door clicked shut behind them and was reinforced with magic.
Selene shoved him down onto the bed, straddling him, grinding in a way that made both of them dizzy, both burning with a need that had nothing to do with reason. Her hands were everywhere, marking, claiming, tasting, biting, leaving traces on him she’d deny the next morning.
He growled against her neck, teeth grazing a pulse point. “You’re…fucking…insane,” he rasped, pulling her down with him, rolling them into a tangle of limbs, heat, and lust.
“What are you going to do about it?” she hissed, biting him.
Meanwhile, outside the room, vampire operatives searched systematically, moving from door to door, their frustration mounting. They could sense the magic and heat inside, the drugged chaos, and yet… they couldn’t break the reinforced door. Every tool, every spell, every knock bounced off the supernatural barrier Selene had unwittingly become the centre of.
Bodies tangled, hips grinding, teeth scraping, skin sliding. The drugged haze made every movement sharper, every sensation amplified. Selene’s vulgar laughter mixed with his low growls, creating a symphony of chaos, lust, and domination. Selene’s Ops had left, realizing their plan had failed. But then… The door handle rattled.
Then, a sharp, insistent pounding on the door made them both pause mid-thrust. “Lucien!” a woman’s voice called from the hallway. “I know you’re in there! Open the door.”
Her eyes flicked to his. Realization dawned in his expression – conflicted, startled, tense.
She smirked. “Oh? “Someone’s impatient,” she murmured, nipping at his neck.
“That’s… complicated,” he muttered. Selene froze, cocked an eyebrow, and smirk curled against his skin.
Lucien’s eyes narrowed. “That’s… probably Cassandra, my—” He trailed off, brain too muddled by ecstasy to process clearly. The pounding grew louder. “—Mate? I… don’t… I can’t even…”
The knock repeated, angrier now. “I’m not kidding! Open this door, now! Don’t ignore me, Lucien!”
Selene laughed, low, vulgar, and completely unhinged. “Oh, this is perfect. She’s angry. I like it. Makes me want to ride you even harder.” and she slapped him on the cheek.
Lucien groaned, twisting under her, realizing something terrifying about himself: I… I am actually turned on by this? She’s dominating me. She’s… driving me insane… and I can’t stop wanting it. A hot flush of disbelief burned through him. I’m… a masochist for her.
The knocking grew angrier. “Open this door!”
She leaned closer to his ear. “Relax. She can wait.”
Both high, both raw, both completely naked, vulnerable, and entangled. Selene’s eyes met his, pupils blown, hearts racing.
Oh, this was going to be fun.
Selene’s head buzzed in perfect, disorienting rhythm with her heart. Every touch from him, the rough scrape of his palm across her inner thigh, the hard press of his hip against hers, sent sparks she didn’t know were legal in human law, let alone vampire logic, straight into her veins.
‘Goddamn,’ she thought, biting her lip until it bled just a little. He’s… massive, ridiculously, annoyingly, perfectly massive. Her hand skimmed over the line of muscle along his chest, then downward, her fingers brushing the impossible length of his dick, already thick, throbbing, and pressing insistently against her abdomen. The way it felt… like it was made for her, it cursed and infuriated her all at once. She shivered violently, a sharp laugh escaping her throat. I should hate this. I do hate this. But fuck me, it’s exquisite.
Lucien’s hands were everywhere too, unrestrained, and he didn’t have to be. Every curve, every ridge of her body was a map of temptation he couldn’t resist. His fingers skimmed under the curve of her breasts, pinching hard enough to leave a mark, then sliding down her stomach to the apex of her core. Her scent – strong, intoxicating, powerful- hit him like a drug he didn’t need because he was already high. Every nerve screamed. She’s lethal, he thought. And I’d die for five more seconds of this.
They moved together, writhing atop the wrong hotel bed, groaning, cursing, and laughing through the haze. Selene’s teeth grazed his shoulder, making him hiss. His hands gripped her ass with a possessive force that made her gasp. She pressed back, riding him, grinding like a predator on a mark that fought, tried to resist, and yet gave in just enough to drive her wild.
She couldn’t stop noticing him, couldn’t stop analyzing every hard ridge, every bulge that pressed impossibly against her. That is… absurd. How is that even… Her hands roamed down the length of his dick again, feeling it pulse, slick against her fingers, the drug haze making every sensation sharper, hotter. It’s wrong, it’s so fucking wrong, and it feels like it’s made for me.
Lucien’s thoughts were chaotic but precise in the way only a werewolf with half a century of survival could focus: She’s perfect. Wrong, lethal, untouchable… and amazing. His tongue brushed over her neck, sucking at the same pulse point she’d bitten on him minutes before. He traced a line down her collarbone with the flat of his hand, across the soft dip at the top of her chest, and finally pressed against her nipple, rolling it between thumb and finger. She moaned so loudly he could feel the vibration through his fingers.
“Fuck me”, he muttered, gripping her hips, feeling her press down hard against his cock, teasing him mercilessly, she’s going to be the death of me.
The hallucinatory haze made time irrelevant. Every thrust, every bite, every grind was magnified to a painful, exquisite edge. She thought about how his dick felt sliding into her wet pussy, hot, impossibly tight, making her ache in ways she hadn’t known were possible. I could ride him all night and still want more, she thought, hand cupping him, feeling him swell further with need.
“Jesus… you’re—” he groaned, hands on her ass, lifting her slightly to thrust fully into her, “ridiculous. Fucking… insane.”
“Damn right,” she purred, grinding harder, feeling the way he stretched her, filled her, made her own ecstasy loop endlessly in her mind. “And you… are… so big..and fucking good.”
Their bodies moved as one, uncontrollable and reckless. Every slap of skin, every slick glide, it felt like a war with only one side winning, and somehow, both were losing.
Selene’s teeth grazed his jawline, leaving a light trail of puncture marks, drawing a hiss from him that made her clench harder around him. Yes. Yes, resist. Fight. I want to break you just enough that you beg for it. You think you’re in control? I’m making you feel like this, and you’re loving it.
He groaned against her neck, thrusting upward hard, feeling the slick tightness of her dripping vagina pulsating around him. I should stop. I can’t. I’ll lose it if I stop. Fucking vampire… why does she have to be this perfect?
Both of them barely noticed, but faint threads of red fated strings coiled between them, pulsing faintly, glowing softly, entwining like living tendrils that screamed of destiny, but the ecstasy, the haze, the lust… it dulled their awareness. This caused every sensation to be doubled, multiplied, magnified. Teeth, lips, hands, hips, pain, and pleasure fused into one ecstasy-laden chaos. They didn’t care about the door, the hall, the footsteps. The drugs and their primal urges made the world shrink to just them, writhing, biting, grinding, and claiming in the wrong hotel room.
Selene - sweaty, flushed, pinned to Lucien, her cocked eyebrow teasing him even as she whispered, “Looks like our audience isn’t backing down anytime soon, wolf-boy.”
He smirked, breathless, his cock still hard, body trembling. “Then we’ll just have to… make the most… of this moment. They can’t get in anyway.”
Their eyes locked, pupils blown, ecstasy still burning in their veins, and the world outside the door suddenly didn’t matter again.