ADAIRA~I was terrified when I saw her in that state. I ran to her and got on my knees next to her so I could cradle her head on my leg.“Grandma, what’s wrong? What happened? Who did this to you?”She was strong just a few hours ago before I left to attend to Midi. Even though she was an elder, she was still hale and hearty. Someone must have harmed her in some way, and I would make them regret the day they were born for doing this to her.“No on h.harmed me, my s.sweet child.” Her voice was so weak, and I could barely hear her words as she spoke.I had to lean down and get closer in order to hear her, despite my advanced shifter hearing.“I need to get you to the pack doctor, right now.” I said as I tried to move her in a position that I could lift her up.She looked so frail all of a sudden, like she had aged a few centuries in the time it took for me to handle Midi’s tantrums and get here to meet her. If not for the damn female ordering me around and forcing me to stay there agai
ADAIRA ~ I was still staring in shock at my grandfather’s empty hands when he called my name. “Ady dear, what are you doing here?” He asked me with a smile. A smile? He was just crying and now he was smiling. Now he didn’t look like someone who just lost his mate. “Grandma, she… you…” I stuttered, still unable to comprehend what I just saw. “Oh Ady. You came here to mourn for her?” He asked as he came closer to me to stroke my hair. “Gardening was her favourite thing to do, you came here to be closer to her in some way, but I have to say, you’re not doing a very good job of it. If she was here, she would scold you with a cute frown on her face for killing these poor flowers.” He chuckled and that was when I noticed the wilted flowers all around where I was seated. The other flowers further into the garden were all alive and blooming, why did these ones die? My brain was being overloaded with too much strange information at once, and it was hard to process anything in a way that
ADAIRA~Gavrael and I were like flint and tinder, one strikes so the other would burn from the flames that arise. Right now, he was the flint, daring me, trying to force me to react, to explode with all the anger bottled up inside me. And I was the tinder, so pliable, and willing to ignite with flames that would burn us both so good we would never want to leave.“Tell me mate, what will you do?” He asked as he grabbed one of my thighs and lifted that leg up so he could put it around his waist.He rolled his hips forward, and in this position, I could feel all of him press into my core. I loathed the clothes between us, his sweatpants and my jeans. I wanted to tear off the fabrics separating us so badly, so I could feel him against my skin.“What will you do if I decide to fuck her or any other female in my pack?” He asked as he nuzzled my neck.The anger that had been slowly dissipating because of his touch, rose again and I shoved him away.“I will kill them all, and then I will kil
ADAIRA~Gavrael and I didn’t leave his room till we both passed out in the wee hours of the night. I was wrapped up in his arms like that was where I was meant to be, and we fit together like we were made for each other. But I didn’t let myself dwell on it, I was too tired to fight it, and cuddling with him felt good. The chaotic energy that was always present underneath his skin and his essence even felt calmer as we stayed in bed together. But just before dawn, I woke up and decided to leave. The first time, the second I moved, he tightened his grip on me and I had to stay still till he settled back to sleep. The second time, I got out of the bed carefully, and thankfully, he was so exhausted that he didn’t realise I was leaving the bed. Or so I thought.After realising that my shredded clothes were a lost cause, I tiptoed to his wardrobe to find something to wear. I could leave naked, but I didn’t want to. It was stupid and pathetic, but I wanted to take a piece of him with me whi
ADAIRA~It turned out that everyone else had also forgotten that my grandmother had been alive yesterday, it wasn’t just grandpa and Gaby like I had initially thought. Everyone I tried to ask if they had seen her yesterday just looked at me with sympathy like my grief of losing her was making me delusional. I tried to ask Midi, because she was the last rogue to have seen my grandmother as far as I knew, but she sneered at me before I even opened my mouth so I walked away from her. Like Gaby had said, Gavrael gave us instructions on all the things he wanted done for the day, and we divided the tasks among ourselves. He only specified that I must take more of the workload, and that I must do the most gruesome tasks. Since he seemed not to have noticed my grandmother’s absence, he too must have also forgotten about her existence which was really weird. I had expected him to at least remember because he was really powerful. Whatever caused their memory loss must be stronger than him, whi
ADAIRA ~I was able to get away from Midi and her little minions after they tried to mess with me. Gavrael still hadn’t shown up to torment me, or just annoy me with his presence, and I hated how much I missed having him close. I could still sense him, I knew he was close because of the bond we shared, though I couldn’t say exactly where unless I decided to follow the tug of the bond to his location. But pride made me not seek him out. If he wanted to ignore me all day, then so be it. Goddess forbid that I stoop so low as to seek out his company. But I had to leave the main pack house where we were because the compulsion to go to him was getting even stronger, and I was afraid that if I stayed in the house a little longer, I would give in and just go find him.I had nowhere to go because I was done with my duties for the day, and Midi wasn’t available to boss me around anymore. So I decided to do something I have been avoiding since we all came here, I went to see my parents. They we
ADAIRA~I raised my voice as they began to argue. My father was more at fault here than anyone else, but as usual, he shifted the blame to my mother. Some days, I wondered if they were fated mates or if they had just chosen each other. Fated mate bonds were stronger than chosen mate bonds, that’s why a lot of shifters preferred to wait for their fated mates, no matter how long it took. I had this doubt because I knew from experience how strong the fated mate bond is, there can only be this much animosity for a really strong reason like what Gavrael and I have. But the arguments I’ve seen my parents have over the years sometimes seem too extreme because it was mostly for petty reasons. The way my father glared at my mother and sneered at her with so much disdain because of me didn’t seem like the behaviour of a fated mate. Even though Gavrael and I were constantly at each other’s throats, our mate bond was still palpable when we were close to each other.I would have assumed that the
ADAIRA ~ “Quit the self righteous bullshit, Adaira.” Tyler said from his cell. “Do you really believe that you’re so important to him that your refusal to accept him is somehow holding him back? Open your eyes and stop being delusional. In case you haven’t noticed, he could have any one he wanted, the females in his pack would do anything to be in his bed. The females from my pack, and those from the pack you ran to may despise him, but his power draws them in like a moth to a flame. They may be afraid, but even through that fear, his aura is magnetic. Even the males feel it, even if not in a sexual way. Do you think a male like that who never lacks attention would care about one female’s rejection? You can’t even truly reject him anymore because he already marked you, so what makes you think you matter enough to influence him?” “Tyler, if you don’t shut that mouth of yours. I swear to the goddess that I will break those bones of yours even more.” I growled at him but he just chuck