HELENA My blood ran cold, and Aaron was up instantly. "Stay back!" His growl could've broken the glass. I stood up abruptly and the chair I was sitting on, fell to the ground. Aaron's head snapped towards me but just as fast, he looked back at my father, who stood there in all of his flesh and bones. I was terrified to my own bones. I couldn't resist the shiver that ran through my body like a lightening bolt had struck me. The girl who served us our ice cream and the person I wanted to choke with my own bare hands, walked over to my father and looped her arm around his. "I did want you wanted me to do, Dad." My eyebrows knitted in confusion and even Aaron looked confused as ever. "Thank you, sweety." Dad bent down and pressed a kiss on her cheek. I felt a hand slip around mine and I looked up to Aaron staring at me with a small smile. He wiped away a tear and I didn't even know I had started to cry. "Don't cry, baby. He's not worth any of your tears." He squeezed my hand and m
HELENA "Don't fucking put your hands on her!" I heard a yell echo throughout the woods. Another scream that was so familiar made me snap my head up and scream myself. "Aaron, let her go!" I pulled myself up and grabbed his hands, prying them off her throat. "She fucking hit you! I won't let anyone hit my mate!" Aaron fierce growl terrified me to the bones. But one look at her face had me ripping his hands away. She fell on her knees, gasping for air. Aaron made a move yet again but I pushed him away. "What is wrong with you?" My glare burned through him, and his furious look was still aimed at the girl on the floor. "She fucking hit you!" He balled up his hands into fist but I grabbed them. "Calm down. Please!" I begged. I didn't want him to harm anyone else. "Who the hell is she anyway? Why are you trying to protect her?" I down at the girl and she was staring back at us. "S-She's Felix's ex-mate." And used to be my best friend. . . but I didn't voice that out. The words f
HELENA"I don't know if this is a good idea." I looked up to see Aaron, who looked highly uncomfortable."Don't worry. Just trust me." I smiled at him. He looked down but frowned."Stop frowning you, big baby!" I stuck out my tongue. A growl rumbled through his chest and he pulled me close to him."I'm not a big baby!" His eyes flashed and I smirked."Okay my, big baby." A much louder growl escaped his chest."Stop calling me that!" My smirk widened but I didn't respond. I just pulled myself away and kept walking."Helena, I'm being serious. What in the world are you thinking? I don't even know what you're thinking."I stopped and twirled around to face him."You need to stop questioning me and just trust me. I know what I'm doing." My patience was running low, and Aaron noticed that.He put his hands up and motioned for me to keep walking."Thank you." I mumbled, turning back and continued to walk."I am still not use to how big this place is." I mumbled when I crossed another hall.
HELENA"I wasn't expecting any visitors." Aaron looked between us and we all shrugged our shoulders."This visitor doesn't look very happy Alpha." Oscar's voice was urgent and I dragged my feet out the room.Everyone followed hot on my trail and nervous glances were thrown around.My heart leaped when I saw the person stood by the door."Mom? What are you doing here?" Felix spoke, stepping up in front of our mother."I could ask you the same thing." Our Mother bitterly replied. Felix quickly threw me a warned look, which basically told me to keep my mouth in control.Mentally rolling my eyes, I stepped up to speak but Felix yet again threw me a warning glance.In return, I threw a glare his way and challenged him to stop me from talking. He looked at Aaron n who took my hand and pulled me back softly to his side.I openly gaped at Aaron and he just shook his head.But my mouth had a mind of its own and I looked back at my mom."Oh, just cut the crap! What are you doing here?" I saw ev
"I want to watch Mean Girls!" Lezelle yelled out. "Oh, hell no! Mean Girls is so old! I'd rather watch the Jump Street movies." Daniel argued with his sister. Everyone nodded their heads, and agreed with him. "What do you think, Helena? Shouldn't we watch Mean Girls?" All pair of eyes looked at me, and I sunk deeper into Aaron's side. "You're going to hate me but I'd rather watch the Jump Street movies." Daniel let out a victory yell. "I can't believe you!" Lezelle screeched. I raised my hands up and smiled. Lezelle huffed and turned away from all of us. My brother walked over to her, and sat next to her, pulling her closer to him which made me smile. "You seem to surprise me all the time, baby." I looked up at Aaron and scrunched my eyebrows. "What do you mean?" I asked him, raising my brows. Aaron smiled at me. "I thought you would've chosen Mean Girls instead." I chuckled, and shrugged my shoulders. "Well Channing Tatum and Dave Franco are in these movies. They're amazi
AARON "What the hell is going on?" "What do you mean?" I asked him confused. "When I brought up the pack house, Mom stiffened. Why?" Christian asked in return. My blood boiled and my hands clenched into fists. "What happened now?" He asked concerned. "That son of a bitch..." I gritted my teeth in anger and clinched my fist. "That's what happened." Christian looked confused to I continued to talk. "Helena's mother had showed up to talk with my father. All in all, he chose her over Mom. So we all left." He shook his head. "Your dad's a bastard. Good thing that your mother left. She doesn't need that piece of shit." I nodded my head in agreement. "Yeah. I know...But Mom's going through so much and I can't even do anything about it." I put my head in my hands, and he patted my back. "Don't worry about it. She's a strong woman, we both know her. She'll get over it, man. Just don't pressure her into anything." I nodded my head and took a deep breath. Christian smiled and walke
HELENAWhen Aaron had run off like that, Christian wanted to follow him.But then Katherine had slowly gotten up, and I was astonished at how quickly she had recovered. A minute ago, she was battered and bruised but now there were no bruises or scrapes anywhere."Katherine, how are you feeling?" The doctor helped her up, and I walked over to her side."How did you heal so quickly?" Lezelle asked, coming over to my side."Wolves heal quickly but I gave her an anecdote that I thought would speed up the process."A genuine smile was replaced on my lips."I never knew there was an anecdote like that out there but we really appreciate it."Christian stood up and shook his hand."Where's my son?"I reached for a glass of water, and placed it on her lips but she pushed it away. She struggled to get out of bed. Leslie and I pulled her up and out of bed."I think you should rest, Luna," Christian said but Katherine shook her head."Where's my son?" She asked again.We all looked towards the do
HELENA"What the hell is going on here?" The voice shrilled and my body shivered."What the hell are you doing here?"I stood up and walked in front of everyone."Let your mother go, Helena!" The growl was more furious then I had thought and I ran full speed, tackling one of my father's minions to the ground.I didn't want to exactly tackle my father because he was way more experienced than I was and would've killed without a blink.A long sniff brought me more aware of who I had just tackled."Y-You're a vampire?" My voice held disgust but pure terror."You guessed right honey." And with that I was pushed and thrown across the room."Helena!"Aaron had ran over to me but was pushed away."Don't come near her!"My head was pounding but my wolf was clawing its way out."Why the hell are you here?" I slowly stood up but one of the vampires pushed me back to the ground. "Don't touch me."My nose flared and my eyes glowed."What are you going to do little pup?"I was going to do something
"Lily!" A voice shouted, pulling me from my sleep and forcing me to wake up."What?" I mumbled, hoping the person would shut up or just go away."You have to get dressed, I was ordered to have you ready an hour ago!" The voice exclaimed, running around the room and knocking things over in the process."By who?" I asked, opening my eyes slowly and letting them adjust to the light.Once I could see clearly, I noticed Rowena frantically moving around to get stuff in order. She held clothes in her hands and a few baskets were on the dresser. I sat up straight, yawning and trying to get myself together for her sake."Alpha Denver will have my head if you aren't downstairs in twenty minutes," Rowena yelled, throwing the clothes at me. "Here, put these on now!" She ordered, her yellow eyes expressing how scared out of her mind she is.Before I could ask her anything or even get another word out, she rushed out of the room. I like Rowena and watching her as a nervous wreck doesn't sit well wi
I woke up wrapped in the arms of another, their heat radiating off their skin and onto mine. I could feel their hot breath against the back of my exposed neck, sending chills throughout my entire body. My body was pressed tightly to theirs and the light struggle I made to move away caused a low growl to vibrate through their chest. As weird as it was for that person to make that type of sound in reaction to me moving away, it also made me feel strangely safe and warm. I slowly lifted my eyelids to take in the room around me. Darkness consumed every corner of the room, giving away nothing as to what's hiding within it. I cocked my head to the side in attempt to see the sleeping person beside me. Although the darkness hid the room, it couldn't hide the one man I've come to know oh so well over the past few days-Denver; my mate. Seeing him laying there so calm and innocent made my heart swoon for him, but I know that's not even close to the feelings I should be having. He's the man who
I can't take this anymore. I'm cut off from everyone and everything. I haven't seen Leon, he hasn't come down since before. People I don't know have been giving me food, dirty looks, then proceed to walk away. How could Denver run a place like this? You're not treated as an equal and I couldn't imagine staying in this pack. I miss my old pack, at least you were treated with respect- well, except for me of course.Why do I always have to be the person who gets crap all the time? I hate everyone and everything in this place! I must sound really whiny and over dramatic, but it's genuinely how I feel.I've been hurt so much over these past few days down here. Denver gave notice to some people that I am not in fact his 'true mate'. A guy I noticed from the meeting before came down to feed me and when I asked him about all of this, his only reply was that I've been rejected. It hurt like hell to hear that, but I guess I saw that one coming all along.I cried out as I banged my back against
I sat in the cell crying for hours. No one came around; no one checked on me. I was left all alone to sit there, crying over a man who I thought was supposed to love me. I hate to admit Timothy is right, but he is. He warned me this would happen, but I didn't listen. I hope he can forgive me, I want nothing more than to just go home.Sadly, my mate turned out to be crap. Denver thinks he can make me act and talk exactly how he wants. He thinks he controls me and that keeping me down here will give him more power. The truth is, it does. The longer I'm down here, the more broken I feel. I can't believe that my own mate played me. He talks down to me and has no care in the world for how I feel.This wasn't supposed to be like this, it was supposed to be magical. I was supposed to have a mate who would sweep me off my feet, love me no matter what and always take care of me. I guess you can't always get what you want and right now I'm not even sure I even know what I need.I just want to l
"Lily, is it true then? Did Alpha Denver leave Miss Winter for you; his mate?" Rowena questioned me with confused, grey eyes."Miss Winter?" I retorted, not at all recognizing the name."Winter, Alpha Denver fiance... The girl you just told off?" She asked, looking at me with a puzzled stare."Oh, that's her name? Well I've only ever heard of her, but I guess it makes sense..." I trailed off."Makes sense?" Rowena pressed, not liking my vague attitude.I shrugged my shoulders, not really liking the idea of going into details with her. "I don't know, it's just that with her kind of personality it's more than obvious why your Alpha left her."I know that Denver and I aren't in the best of places, but that chick is crazy! She got all worked up over the fact her Alpha found his mate. I know some people treasure power and all that, but to me it seems like a complete waste of time.Rowena's mouth dropped open at my words. Her eyes flickered to a pale shade of white, practically bugging out
LILYI stayed put in the room, afraid to go anywhere else and encounter strange and unfriendly people. I can't believe Denver just left like that, did I do something wrong? He's been gone for so long and I don't know if I should go search for him, or just hang out in here until he comes looking for me.It took me some time to calm down after everything that happened between us. I can't help but feel guilty; almost like it was all my fault he reacted that way. I'm just not ready to go that far with someone; mate or not. Denver's voice keeps replaying in my mind. Every time I shut my eyes, he's there in my head. All I see are his beautiful blue eyes gazing lovingly into mine, then switching back and forth to something entirely different. I need to see him, I need him to come back for me! I can't sit here and wait any longer. I can't just wait to see if he hates me or not; it's eating at me too much!"I'm sorry Madam, I didn't see you," A voice called from the other side of the room.I j
LILYTorin walked down many hallways with me hanging over his shoulder. Lots of people stopped to take a look at me- mostly guys. Whenever a girl would stop I would get a dirty look, but when a guy would stop, eyes of lust were directed my way. I bent around to see that my shorts had ridden up to exposed the bottom half of my ass.There it was, half of it hanging out in all its glory for everyone to see. On top of that, my white cotton shirt keeps going up from me being hung upside down. No wonder guys keep looking at me like that; I'm practically half exposed! I just hope Torin walks quicker so I can just see my brother, apologize and get the hell out of here."In here please," A voice guided Torin into a room, stepping in with me over his shoulder still. "The Alpha will be here momentarily," And like that, a pair of doors shut and left us alone.I bit my lip nervously at the thought of how this is going to go. Timothy will hopefully see me exposed, kill Torin and then proceed to loc
LILYLetting go of the tree to face the voice. A tall man stood near the trees, his long black hair shining under the moonlight. I scanned his body up and down and decided I have no chance with taking this strong, scary man on. His black eyes bore into mine and I felt frozen with fear just looking at the man."What's your name?" His question came out more like a demand with his cold, deep voice.I took a gulp, trying to get my thoughts together and open my mouth, but I couldn't. I stood there dumbfounded by him and my mind couldn't pull anything out to say. I just stared at him with wide eyes and a shaky body.He smiled at the sight of my fear and I cringed as he took a few steps forwards. "You're far from your pack Lily Shaw," He spoke, inching closer and closer to me.My mouth dropped in shock. "H-how do you know w-who I am?" I asked with a shaky, breathless voice. My body still recovering from all the uncommon exercise I forced on it.Stopping only inches away from my body, he lean
LILY"Lily!" Mabel squealed through my mind link."Ugh, what?" I asked her, more than annoyed from being confined in this tiny room that seems to grow smaller with each passing day.I've been stuck in this room for four days, ten hours and 8 minutes and I've completely lost it. I do nothing all day, but sit here and play with make up or something. I have no television, cell phone; not even a laptop or computer. Timothy thinks I'll look into something or get ideas, but I honestly think he wants me to go crazy."You found your mate?!" Mabel questioned, her voice filled with joy and excitement."I don't wanna talk about it," I mumbled back to her, hoping that's good enough for her to back off."No! Lando told me what happened, but where have you been?" She asked with worry."Look Mabel, I'm done. Love, mates, everything like that is just out the window... I give up," I sighed, losing my last bit of pride left as I explained to my best friend how weak I truly am.Mabel was silent for awhi