"Now that there are only smart people in the room," Olivia says once we’re alone and settles in better to face me, "Can you explain?"Here it goes. "I have an intimate relationship with Rio’s wolf, but not with Rio himself," I begin after taking a long breath. I have to get this right, make sure my story makes sense with Rio's but I also have to make sure I don’t sound like a scammer, I can’t take another person thinking that about me, "I was a little surprised at first when a random man suddenly came up to me growling about me being his mate and him being a wolf, but to be completely honest, I didn't take it as a regular human would because I'm not a regular human. I've always been different from the rest, I've always had this special ability that no one else seems to have, so I've always been sure that there’s… more out there. Something bigger, something better than just my normal boring life. When Alpha came along, it was just a confirmation of something I already imagined and was
{ Rio }"What the hell?" I spit, running down the stairs and looking everywhere for Lunanci but the house is empty. Laurent and I finally decided to sneak out of his room after fighting for a while to peek in on the conversation, but there isn't even a conversation happening because they aren't here. My heart goes crazy with worry... what if Olivia took her to my grandfather? To Uncle Daniel? That would be the end of everything. I pick up my phone and try to call Lunanci, but the call is immediately forwarded."This is my mom's fault," Laurie complains, "I knew this was a bad idea... we have to find them before my mom does something and everyone finds out about this shit."Laurent calls his mom about fifty times for almost twenty minutes until she finally answers."Where are you? Where did you take the human?""I'm at Isabelle's house. She is a real healer. I need you to get Rio here as soon as possible, Isabelle is going to check the veracity of his bond," my aunt says and we both s
"We both talked to your wolf," Isabelle continues speaking, "He really, deeply loves Lunanci. Although you don't have a fated bond, there IS a bond, but it's more... one sided. Alpha chose Lunanci as a mate even if she isn’t his by fate. Normally, that would create a chosen bond between the two of you, but Lunanci doesn't have a wolf to create that bond with. We believe there is a tiny chance that, over time, the bond could grow, but we're not sure."This is so confusing. "But what does that even mean? Alpha loves her but Lunanci doesn't love him back?” I ask, my head feels like a scrambled egg and I think I'm a little offended. A one sided bond? I've never in my life heard that before. Of course I’m the only unwanted loser with a one sided bond. "It's not that easy. Lunanci might love you with all of her heart, but human emotions have a limit, wolf emotions don't. He will love her forever... Lunanci might not."That sounds extremely unfair for my wolf. I try to meet Lunanci's eyes
The doors open as I'm thanking Aaron for his help and both boys get into the car, but I don't bother to get up."Hey, Healer," Laurie calls to me, surprising me, "I bought you a salad. You like that, right?"Even though I have no appetite at all, that little act of kindness surprises me so much that I sit down to grab the container he extends to me. I can't waste the fact that Laurent did something nice, maybe it will teach him not to be such a big asshole in the future."Yes, thank you," I reply. Laurie hands Rio a burger and he takes it, but does nothing to eat as Laurie starts driving again, eating at the same time. I force myself to take a couple of bites of the salad, but it's all I can take before I start to feel nauseous."Rio, at least try to take a little bite," Laurie mutters some time later, "Or I'll eat it myself.""Go ahead, I'm not hungry," Rio says, tossing the closed burger in Laurie's lap and turning toward the window. He stays that way the rest of the way until we re
"Wait," Rio says, raising a hand to stop me as I move to leave, "Of course you can't just leave by yourself like that. We still have to find a place for you to stay. We have to travel to Toronto."Does he seriously think we can travel more than ten hours in these conditions? He's crazy. And wrong. "No," I say, "I can leave by myself, don't worry about it.""How? Luna, you're being irrational again," he shakes his head, "There are no buses to take you out of the clan. I have to take you."No way. Because I'm not leaving. "I'll find my own way," I insist, ignoring his 'what the fuck’ face, "Listen, friend, you've been a great support to me, always willing to help me and I really appreciate it, but I'm not really helpless. I'm pretty good at surviving on my own.""I don't believe that for a damn second, Lunanci. You've been downright suicidal many, many times," he spits as if that's a bad thing. I actually consider it an advantage in life. Being ready to die means I’m not really that s
Knowing that Laurent is really on my side now gives me a glimmer of hope, but I won't let that make me delusional. I won’t be looking forward to everything magically coming together because that will make everything more difficult if Rio never decides to 'go for it' as Laurie put it. I'm just going to enjoy the fact that from now on I'm a real citizen of Tallahide. I'm going to enjoy that I'm now considered part wolf... I don't feel like a wolf at all, but I'm not going to admit that out loud ever, if these people think that, I'm just going to enjoy it. I take the money and keys Rio left me on the small table and get out of there. The first thing I do when I'm inside Rio's car is check the location Aaron sent me and head straight there. Surprisingly, it's much closer than I expected. All this time we've been fifteen minutes away from Alex and Rio has no idea. I don’t know what I’m going to say to him, I have no idea what he’s like, all I know about Alex so far is that he's being
{ Rio }It's been eight days since Luna left and so far, life sucks. She sent me a message the next day letting me know she was perfectly fine and that was it, she didn't even answer my following texts demanding more information. Ever since, my wolf has been literally trying to kill me from the inside because he's mad at me for sending her away. Things got so bad between us that I had to start taking inhibitors to put him to sleep. His incessant whining wouldn't let me sleep or even just exist, it was a constant pain. Since yesterday when I started taking the inhibitors I have been waiting for my sadness to start to go down or go away but it hasn't happened yet. I'm still sad and I think I miss her more today than I did yesterday, it's just so boring without her. I could say I don't remember what it was like to live before I was with her but I do remember, I used to spend all my time with some idiot named Alex. But now I don't have anyone. Laurent seems to think we’re back to norm
{ Lunanci }I’m currently driving back to Tallahide after spending two days in Fallonmore. And not only that, I just had a nice breakfast with some of Rio's family. I managed to meet two more of his aunts and an omega uncle. Rosie is the most adorable person I have ever met in my entire life, Andy is shy and calm, plus beautiful and perfect like all the omegas I have met. Mallory is Rosie's wife and Isabelle's daughter. And Olivia was also there of course, she’s just as cool as the last time I saw her. They all know about everything that has happened with me and Rio. They told me they are this cool exclusive group and that supposedly they’re perfect at keeping secrets... however, Andy told his husband about me, Olivia also told his husband about me. Their gossipy husbands told the other alphas and that's how everyone now knows that Rio 'has a girlfriend' including Rio's parents.Fortunately, no one talked about details about me, nothing about me not being a full wolf. Or even about