Kiss of a Star Artemis Lupine Read Online Free PDF

father, but I do not know my
mother’s name,” I said softly as I tried to hide my face from her.
Did she think I was ugly? Or was I just not good enough for her
son?
    “What do you mean you don’t know who your
mother is?” She demanded.
    “My mother left us when I was five. I never
knew her name and my father refused to speak of her to me.”
    “Then how did he explain your purple eyes?”
she demanded. She was angry with me about something, but I hadn’t
done anything, had I?
    Ares took my hand and pulled me so that I
was standing next to him again. “That, Mother, is something that I
have already discussed with King Darius. If you would like to hear
her tale, I’d prefer it be done in private.” He was angry too. What
had I done to upset them?
    The Queen smoothed down her dress and turned
her head. “Very well.” She walked past me to Matt and Koda.
“Matthew. Koda. My sons.”
    Ares released my hand to wrap his arm around
my waist. “She was just caught off guard by your eyes, Artemis.
It’s alright,” he whispered.
    I nodded my head numbly as he led me towards
a table at the front of the building. Two thirds of the women in
the building glared at me as I walked with Ares. It was starting
out to be a wonderful night. Darius clapped his hands. “Come now,
let’s eat.”
     
    ~~~
     

Chapter Three
     
    Ares pulled me down next to him on a wooden
bench and kissed my cheek. “It’s alright, Sunshine.”
    A woman a few rows back snickered softly,
but still loud enough for me to hear. “He used to call me
‘Sunshine’.”
    I growled softly and Ares whispered,
“They’re just trying to get a rise out of you. Ignore them.”
    Koda and Matt sat down at a table behind us
and women instantly surrounded them. The sight of the women
flirting with them set me on edge. Achilles sat down across from me
and frowned. “Why are you jealous?”
    His presence made me relax and look at him.
“What?”
    “You’re jealous of Koda and Matt, why?” He
asked.
    Ares looked at me curiously as I answered.
“It’s not jealousy. I just…I don’t want to add another person to
our pack yet. I just got here and I’m finally settling in. I don’t
want a female coming in and trying to fight me all of the
time.”
    Ares smiled. “You don’t have to worry,
Artemis. Koda and Matt aren’t allowed mates.”
    I blinked twice in confusion. “Why not?”
    “We travel around a lot and as my guards,
they need to be focused on me. If they both had a mate then their
attention would be focused on her, instead of me.”
    “That’s not fair,” I said to him.
    Ares shrugged. “They agreed to it. It’s not
like I just told them that’s how it was and they didn’t have a
choice.”
    Men in tuxedos started walking out of a back
door carrying large trays of meat. The men set the meat on each
table and then quickly retreated back to the door they had come
through. I inhaled and turned to Ares. “Humans? You have humans
working for you?”
    Ares nodded his head as he bit into a piece
of steak. “They work for us, get paid well and if they want to,
we’ll turn them.”
    Ares set a large steak on my plate. I looked
at it for a moment and then started eating. It was a little
overcooked for my taste, but it was still delicious. I took a drink
from the cup in front of me and nearly gagged. “What is this?” I
asked quietly.
    “It’s wine,” Achilles answered, “flown here
from the vampires’ winery in France.”
    I sniffed the drink. “I can’t get drunk off
of this, right?”
    Ares shook his head. “Not unless you drink
three or more bottles.”
    The girls around Matt and Koda were still
giggling loudly and starting to get on my nerves. “Ares, I need to
use the restroom,” I whispered to him. I needed to get away from
the women or I’d lose the control I had over my wolf.
    He turned around to face behind him.
“Koda.”
    Koda looked up from his plate and then
quickly hurried from his table to crouch behind us.