ASHLEY
"I made sure to keep you busy for the month before school starts, so make the most of it before you bury yourself in computers, just like I know you will," Andrea says the last part pointedly. I don't even argue because she is right.That was how I wanted my school life to be, based on the school.She's the social sister while I'm the sister that is plainly known as the sister and I am happy with that. It seems my sister isn't; it doesn't surprise me, she is always finding ways to make me more social and telling me to live a little."If anything goes wrong, it's all on you." She makes a cross my heart sign before walking forward."I'll take the blame if anything goes wrong, which I know won't happen." I fight the urge to tell her she doesn't have control over the universe, but I save my words. She wouldn't listen.We walked through two more doors with one buff guard outside. He didn't give us a hard time, only opening doors for us before reaching where I assume is our final destination because Andrea stops after we walk through the third door.The room is painted in milk and shades of brown and gold, like the room we passed through first. It has booths too, but this looks like an actual club with multiple people standing by the stage.The lights are bright though, so you can make out your partner's face. I don't know if that is a good thing or not since I don't exactly want anyone to see me in here and recognize me later on in life, then I'll be viewed as someone that goes to BDSM and sex clubs when I'm not old enough to drink legally.I tell Andrea this, so she drops any idea of getting alcohol into my system. She only rolls her eyes and gives me an annoyed nod.Cheers ring out from everywhere in the room, and I look up to see what the cheers and screams are all about. My heart stops, in fear or thrill or shock or all combined, I don't know, but it takes a few seconds to recover and officially declare myself safe from cardiac arrest.The curtains open slowly, revealing a fully naked woman, I mean not even a G-string in sight or a bra or bikini or something like that.My mind gets runny and I'm taken by surprise or shock. I'm rendered speechless.The woman is tied to a pole or maybe I should call it a makeshift door like wall, her hands and legs are bound to the edges, there is a place attached to the wood that allows her hand to be out there, so she's spread wide, hiding nothing from view. To me it kind of looks like all those torture devices used in the stone age to pass out verdicts.Something wet trickles down her open legs but she doesn't seem to mind, her nipples are hard it's obvious even from here.Goddamn, what the fuck is happening?She is the one restrained but I'm the one feeling weak.A man walks on the stage, wearing nothing but his boxer briefs that hide nothing from people's view because even from here, I can make out every single part of his dick.My cheeks warm on their own and I have to admit, I'm quite embarrassed."Come let's find our seats," I follow Andrea wordlessly.That's all I seem to be doing, following after her like a loyal dog on a leash.I have many questions though, how do we have seats or even a reservation to this crazy place? Most importantly, how did Andrea know of this place?We both grew up together in Ramona and we did everything together, well almost everything since I have no idea she knows a place like this or even knows how to get tickets to a place like this.We're sitting now at one of the chairs outback, it gives a great view of what's happening on stage and we don't have to be within the reach of the people that are standing close it.The half-naked man on stage says something to the woman and she nods.My eyes drift to Andrea for a moment and she seems engrossed in whatever is happening up there.I don't exactly want to know which is why my eyes travel the length of the large hall, registering the faces of multiple strangers who are all paying attention just like my sister is, as though hypnotized.My eyes widen when they land on dark eyes from a far end of the club, I guess he is also not watching like everyone else. I quickly look away, not at all comfortable with the way he is looking at me.Oh shut up, he was probably looking elsewhere.I ignore my subconscious, he may be looking elsewhere but we made eye contact and from all the books and movies I've read and watched before, it never ends well, for me at least.I steal another glance and this time, I have a mini heart attack when I find his eyes still on me.I blink rapidly and if you're still wondering if he is or isn't looking at me, he is, and to confirm it is me he is looking at, he raises his eyebrow.I'm so dead, I'm so dead! I'M SO DEAD!!I snap my eyes back to the stage involuntarily wishing the ground would open up and swallow me but that doesn't happen.I'm still seated in this booth next to Andrea who didn't notice what just happened and in the presence of over a hundred people probably.There is nothing he can do, I assure myself. Assuming he is a serial killer that finds unsuspecting girls that have been dragged by their crazy sister to a BDSM club in the middle of the night.I'll not be his victim.Then maybe you should stop looking his way.Right, I look away when he catches me staring again.I swallow my saliva which feels thick, thickened by my nervousness."Oh my fucking God!" Andrea exclaims in awe.That makes me look up and a soft gasp leaves my lips when I find the woman from earlier crying out in ecstasy. A girl going down on her and the man from before has his dick out and he's forcing it down her throat.She gags around him the sound echoes in the large room, he lifts his hand and lands it on her breasts, the slap resonates around the room too.Murmurs of agreement ring out.I take my eyes off the explicit and sinister act and move them to the occupants of the room, making sure to keep my eyes away from the right side of the hall.Some men already have their dicks out and you can hear their loud grunts and growls of pleasure as they stroke themselves.Others that have women close by have then bent over the table and are carelessly pounding into them, under the gaze of anyone that cares to look. I look away, moving further left.Another gasp leaves my lips when I see two women feeling up each other's naked bodies in front of a huge man in an expensive suit, by his jerky moves you can tell he's also stroking himself.I move my eyes until they finally land on Andrea whose own eyes are widened in awe and her cheeks have a bit of color on them.It is time to roll my eyes.She has always loved things out of the traditional bubble as she likes to call it but I didn't think it was this....extreme? I don't know what else to call it.As though sensing my gaze she turned to me and smiled widely."Aren't you just glad you came?" I give her a blank look and she chuckles, that is not enough to discourage her."The night is still young." She turns but not before giving me a smirk. "Who knows? You might volunteer to do the next act."I almost laugh at that, knowing there is no way I would do that.A man dressed in a waiter's uniform stopped by our table and kept a bottle of champagne, expensive-looking champagne."I'm sorry, we didn't order this," Andrea says and I can read her panic.Ha! I'm sure it'll take dad's salary, Theo's and even mum's annual salary to pay for that bottle."Compliments from the gentleman over there." My heart sinks when he points to the direction I've been avoiding since that eyebrow-raising incident.Andrea nods her thanks while I face forward.I can feel his gaze on me, I don't know how but I just feel it and it is Hella uncomfortable, just like everything else she has forced me to go through tonight.The waiter drops a business card before turning on his heels."Damn, I like fancy people." Andrea states in awe picking up the card, her mouth hangs open and I get curious but I can still feel the intensity of his eyes on me so I don't make a move to take it from her."Have you heard of Tyson corporations?" She asks and I shake my head no hesitantly.It does sound familiar and the only thing I can relate with it right at this moment is that I have heard the name quite a lot, especially these past few days from Drea's friends."They own a chain of hotels right?" She nods and it finally clicks."Wait, wasn't it one of the brothers that got stood up at the altar?" She nods again and I huff a breath.I wonder if he's the one sitting there, then I don't blame her for doing what she did.That happened only like three weeks ago and he's already picking up girls in a sex club, that doesn't really make you want to feel bad for him.Oh my God! I don't even know if it's him but I'm jumping to conclusions."Those brothers are the definition of sex on legs, and I want that third leg." I roll my eyes at my sex-obsessed sister."Is that all you really want?" I ask, playing with the ring on my finger.It's still to stop me from looking right because every nerve on my body is calling to that side of the room.He is no longer looking at me because I don't feel the weight of his eyes on me but I'm traumatized."I mean, the money and luxury are all good too but I just want to be plunged by one of them. Or all of them, I'll take anything." A loud laugh leaves my lips and I bend over laughing uncontrollably."When can we go home?" I ask after a few minutes.More cheers and claps ring out in the room and she grunts and calls me a distraction saying I made her miss the best part of the show, I can't even pretend to be sorry."We just have one more thing to do. Come with me." I get to my feet and follow her like I've been doing since we left the hotel.I still want to ask her how she got an invite or a pass or whatever to this place, but I'll let her have her fun tonight.When school starts it'll be hard to visit home and seeing as she has basically imprisoned me here for a month I have nothing to do so I'd rather have fun with her or spend time with her. She will have fun and I will get tortured for a month. I'll probably be dead by the time she is done.At least I'll have memories to hold on to before we do something crazy and spontaneous like this again.ASHLEYWe walk out through a different door and I follow Drea’s lead like I’ve been doing all night. She could lead me to hell and I’ll eagerly follow but what can I say, I am the loyal sister.This walk is shorter and there are no buff men outside the door she pushes open. Thank God!She struts into the room like she owns the place and I try to keep and not look out of place, hoping I don’t look like I’m breaking a leg in these death trap heels.There are about ten or maybe fifteen women in the room, most of them dressed similar to us and those that aren’t dressed like that are wearing something more scanty, it made me want to ask why they even bothered but I keep my opinions to myselfß.“Come on,” Andrea says, already dragging me by the hand and I just let her lead, too tired of arguing. “Why are they—“she doesn’t let me finish before we move to the end of the room and join a line. Probably the line to hell but oh whelps.The line is a moving one and I think my body has shut down.
LUCADamien did a great job with this place but it is not somewhere I would want to spend my weekend. I'm always busy with the company and pack work, the last thing I would want is to see people having sex in public.Who knew orgies were still a thing but I guess his whole big business idea is recreating something these filthy old men would like as much as the much younger guys looking for a mindless fuck, take Elliott, my second brother for example. He has a new woman with him every other morning.He hasn't found his mate, none of my three brothers have and I guess we are all living our perfect bachelor lives. While the others try to keep their affairs low, Arthur at least, Ivan doesn't care for it, Elliott likes bragging about his wayward life.Having a mate is the best thing that can happen to any werewolf, and for us pure blood wolves with direct linkage to lycans, we get to live longer than normal wolves. And in all the three centuries I've lived, I never had the luck of finding
ASHLEYI’m shocked by what I just did and I'm sure the man can see it on my face.Not that I feel guilty, he is the one going around and kissing strangers. That is called harassment.My eyes narrowed into slits as I moved back. The fear in mine mirrors the shock in his.The shock dissolves into something that looks so much like anger but I don’t wait to see what it Is because I've already run down the halls pushing over people. I’ve never run faster with heels in my life, I didn't even know I could run with heels. Fear is a great motivator.My lungs are burning desperate for air but I don’t stop, somewhere in my scared mind, I feel like the second I stop I’ll see him standing in front of me like in horror movies so I push my body harder, breaking my limits. I can feel my heart pumping in my ears but that only pushes me to run faster.I don’t stop until I’m outside and even then I hide behind two large garbage cans to save myself from that man.The adrenaline is still pumping in my s
LUCAI can see my mate fairly well and with my eyesight, thanks to my wolf side.The man I sent to her, one of the warrior wolves from the pack.He is walking on eggshells near her knowing I’m watching him and her position to me, seeing how she looks out of place makes me feel better.The possessive side of me and my wolf want nothing more than to mark her and make her ours but I’ve waited my whole life for this, I can wait a few more days.Arthur takes off his jacket and puts it over her, I know he is definitely just helping but that doesn’t stop my wolf from stirring and I can feel him trying to break out, I pull my mental barriers up, cutting him off mid growl.'Fucking take it off her,' my words are a growl through our mindlink. It allows us to communicate with each other and our pack.He pauses before rolling his eyes and smiling at her, she was looking at him weirdly.'I’m not playing with you,' I don’t want his scent on her, she is my mate and she should only have my scent on.
ASHLEYI am the worst person to tell your secret to. I’m sure Andrea is regretting ever taking me out. I’ve been jumpy all morning and looking over my shoulder, thinking that man would appear out of nowhere, and I don't even know.He looked like he was p[art of the mafia. What have I gotten myself into?“Ashley, is everything okay with you?” Theo asks me.I jump before calming down and turning to face him. I notice Andrea shaking her head from beside me.“Yeah, why do you ask?” I chuckle, hoping it doesn't give off just how nervous I am.Andrea mutters something under her breath.“I know what’s wrong,” mum says and my eyes widened.“You do?” it comes out as a squeak.I turn to Drea, who looks cool and I want to punch her. She put me in this situation, how is she not panicking?“Yes,” mum chuckles, reaching out to squeeze my cold hands. “You’re cared of leaving home, it is a normal reaction.”I don’t know when I sigh. She looks at me weirdly.“Yeah, yeah you’re right.” I said quickly.
ASHLEYI’m smart enough to understand his perfectly delivered threat isn't just that, it is a warning.“Now since we’re going to have a little chat, why don’t you call your sister and tell her you have a headache?”I almost smirk, ready to tell him I don’t have my phone, he clicks his tongue. He has been watching me too.My instincts didn't fail me. I knew someone was watching me. I just didn't know it was two people.“In your room, love. Come on.” I release a heavy breath and get ready to follow him. My feet don't move and my back makes a sound that has me yelping in pain.He is quick to hold me and his face twists in concern which for a moment makes me think he is actually a good person, then I remember he is making me follow him against my will.I’m swept off my feet, literally, as he carries me bridal style and starts walking up the flight of stairs, we reach our room and he tells me to hand him the keys.He puts in the key and then pushes the door open with his feet before closin
LUCAThe next time I wake up I find myself in my bedroom with multiple my comforters over me.I wait for the onslaught of headache and it doesn't disappoint, this has been going on for about six months of course I know what happens after.The worst part of this is not only the time it would take to regain feeling and senses in other parts of my body, fatigue isn't that bad compared to me remembering everything that happened.It's not like I wasn't there, I was there just with no power and control of my body.It took a lot of wolfsbane to keep me down and I have broken one of the chains they tried to use to restrict me, or the monster that I've become did all of that.I am not yet used to referring to my wolf as a different entity from me.Werewolves are a lot stronger than humans with sharper senses like vision, speed, and hearing. And for an alpha I'm a lot stronger, faster, and more resilient than the warrior wolf, the second strongest is the beta who happens to be Arthur, most of t
LUCA"Luca," I look up, my eyes widening when I realize she has been speaking to me."Yes, mother." Even though she has stepped down from her Luna position after our father retired and I became alpha, she still has that commanding aura of a leader and she doesn't fail to use it.I don't answer to her but she is still my mother and that gives her some type of leverage."You have been ignoring the council's calls." It wasn't a question and she damn well knows the answer to that."I don't remember, I've been ignoring a lot of calls from a lot of people," I'm not even trying to be smart with her.Having and keeping two very busy identities isn't easy, and also with having to deal with the damn press that won't simply fucking leave me alone."Luca," I turned my head back, staring at her head on.I normally don't use my alpha dominance on my mother but I trust myself to do that when I want to get out of conversations.Like the council of ancient wolves that want to tell me how to live my li
ASHLEYAndrea and I share a look mostly because we didn't see anyone when we came in and all, some people are already back but not most of them."Open it?" She asks and I shrug, having half the mind to shake my head.With the weird things that have been happening to me, I don't want any more horror movie shit."We'll be fine," Drea mutters and gets up to open the door. We find a girl standing with a wide smile on her face."Hi, I'm Mila. I'm in the next room." We share another discreet look before I muster a small smile."Can I come in?" She points to the inside laughing a little at how Drea is holding the door.She throws me a look over her shoulder and I nod before she lets her in. She finds a place to sit and literally starts chattering and telling us all about her. One thing I can tell is she is pretty jovial and seems nice.She is a sophomore and told us a few dos and don'ts, most especially the guys to avoid."If he wears a leather jacket, don't." She says counting the items off
ASHLEYSince we've already filled our information online we didn't have to go through all that hassle of finding our room or registrations, we only had to go to the admin and get our key then sign that we've moved in.Plus, since most students have not resumed we have a lot of time on our plate and space.Drea and I are sharing a room, nothing new there since we've been doing that basically our whole lives."This is amazing," Mum says, running her hand over my unmade bed.Theo, Dad, and even Sam helped in bringing our things inside, but not much really. Just my books, Drea's posters and things she likes then our clothes boxes."Oh, I'm going to miss my girls," I let her wrap her arms around me, letting her warmth envelop me.Drea joins in on the hug and the familiarity of it almost made me cry, especially when I remember she wouldn't be in the kitchen or backyard when I get home from school every day."We'll miss you too mum,""So much," Drea adds, and after a few seconds like that we
ASHLEYI don’t forget to pray for good luck seeing how yesterday ended for me and I wouldn’t want a repeat, there is something in my mind but I can’t pinpoint what it is. It must not be important.I put on a band t-shirt and pair it with skinny jeans, the weather is warm so I don't bother with any jacket and after staring at the mirror for more than five minutes I finally decide to put my hair up in a ponytail.Waiting for Andrea would be fruitless because she takes very long in the shower. I find the table they are sitting at in the small restaurant in the hotel."Morning mum, dad." I peck both of them on the cheeks before sitting in between Sam and Theo.The former sits up and smooches his mouth as though expecting a kiss, I roll my eyes then push the garlic bread I reached for into his mouth, he spits it out immediately making a gagging sound which gains our parent's attention."Sam!" Mun exclaims, giving him the look mothers give when you're doing something wrong in public and the
ASHLEY“What?” my mouth could as well be reaching my ear and Andrea has to swat my thighs to get me to quiet down.“Don’t scream it to the whole world.” She hisses lowly.“What do you want me to do? Andrea, you can’t marry someone you met two months ago!”“Three months,”“What is the difference?” I swing the pillow at her but she catches it before it connects with her face.“Will you listen to me?” she whisper-yells and I nod, promising her I’ll be quiet.“I told him no of course, at least not yet but I love him, Ash. I know I do.”I’m looking at the crazy doe eyed girl sitting in front of me and trying to relate her to my sister that didn’t care for men that way. I know she believed in prince charming but she doesn’t like love at first sight and this sounds an awful lot like it.“But how can he ask you to marry him? Is he crazy?” I whisper-yell in return, okay more like yell, the whisper part seems to have been lost in my throat.“Shut up!” I nod, putting my hand over my mouth to sil
LUCAElliott is the first person I see when I reach the pack house, unlike some other packs where the alpha and every other notable member of the pack live in the pack house, it is more of a sorority or fraternity house however you choose to look at it for warriors and those in training.It is not mandatory because some of the pack warriors live in houses around the pack with their families or mates, while those that would rather not have to deal with it just live in the pack house where everything is taken care of.“What did the prickly old bastards say tonight?” I grunt inaudibly.“Same usual shit, now I have to deal with the fact that the rogues are holding sketchy meetings,” his mouth hangs open for a few seconds before he shakes his head and falls in step with me.I considered staying back in my office in the pack house and seeing all that has been going on. I know I haven’t paid all that attention to the pack in the past two days.“That doesn’t sound good,” he states the obvious
LUCA“Do you have anything else to say?” My voice comes out calm, the anger that is making my blood boil can only be told from my posture.“No alpha,” I don’t spare him a glance even when he gets back in his seat.It is taking a lot of self-restraint for me to not lunge at him. I can feel my wolf fighting, clawing in my head trying to get out but I fight it. No need to give them more reason to pass rumors around, all I need right now is my mate, and knowing I can’t have her close makes me more angry.“The rogues had another meeting, I was told by the spies sent from the council,” the cold atmosphere in the room dissipates and I run my hand over my face.“Let him in,” I give the permission to let the man that was sent to see them in to relay the news.“Good evening alpha, elders.” He bows at me and then the others in the room respectively before moving to the middle of the room.Like most werewolf council meeting rooms, my seat being the alpha is in the middle with the others all aroun
LUCAArthur is still laughing at what I said. So I reached out and punched him in the arm.Never make fun of a frustrated man, especially if it is sexual frustration. They tend to be violent, I already see him limping with broken arms. He would heal fast of course but I just want to inflict pain on him.“That is completely different,”I roll my eyes taking note of the car stopping, the bright lights from the pack house are reflecting the inside of the car, we don’t seem bothered or even ready to step out.“How different?”“We decided to wait, you have no choice.” He points at me.“No wolf would want to wait months after meeting his mate, keep telling yourself that.” I don’t wait for him to think of a retort before I step out and start my walk to the front door.I hear his voice in my head annoying the hell out of me more.‘When you are on talking and not growling on a daily basis with your mate, I’ll take your word for it but I’ll have you know my mate would be long screaming my name
LUCA“Fuck you,”The statement keeps repeating itself in my head and as much as I wanted her to do just that, I needed to get out of there before I changed my mind and go through with it.Really though, I had been seconds away from stepping out of the car and doing just that but my wolf kept clawing in my head, that and my mother’s endless messages.Speaking of which, the phone starts ringing again almost immediately.“It is the Luna sir,” my most trusted aide says from the front. I consider just leaving her to it since I’m already on my way home but she would not stop calling until I pick up.“Put her through,”“Yes alpha,” he says before connecting the call to my personal cell.“Mother,” I called at the same time the divider between me and the driver went up.“Oh, you actually picked this time.” her tone is flat eliciting an eye roll from me.“What else do you need?” I can picture her giving me her most unimpressed look.“Don’t try to play coy with me, you made me look stupid this m
ASHLEYI turn on my heels and walk through the open door, not bothering to wait and see his reaction.I really hope his eyes are narrowed and stupefied so he looks really stupid like he deserves to look for making me so weak in his presence.He would see who will be ready by seven tomorrow, it may be every other girl in this world but not me.Mum and dad have gone to bed when I reach our floor because it was extremely quiet and the lobby was almost empty with just a few people lingering.The receptionist, who always seems to have a smile on her face, acknowledges me with a nod.I don’t bother checking with Theo, I’m not really in the mood to answer the truckload of questions I’m sure he has. I might just burst into tears.I lift my shaky hands to my lips, not surprised to find them swollen. Again, I curse at him wishing I was some old witch in a vampire novel that can make his dick shrink and his hand break when he annoys me, sadly those things don’t exist and I’m just a normal teenag