You are probably wondering why now. Well, Alec wasn’t there when she was born. So, even though the bond settled in him, it didn’t completely settle in Aspen. Let's just say that it was loose. That's the best term I can give it.They have been around each other but never really interacted until today
A freezing, wet, and hard surface is underneath me. This isn’t like the soft mattress I slept on a couple of hours ago. I want to continue sleeping for a little while, but it’s unbearable. I try to shift, hoping I will get comfortable, but it doesn’t work. Small, hard things press into my skin, incr
Alec Sadie’s scream has me freezing in my tracks, not sure what the fuck was going on. One minute she bumped into me, looking confused as hell, and the next she was clutching her head and screaming. She stops screaming her lungs out, and before she can hit the ground, I catch her. “Sadie?” I shak
“She’s beautiful, isn’t she?” Knox pops in my head, annoying me the fuck out.“Will you just shut the fuck up?” I growl, but it does nothing to avert his attention from Sadie.I’ve been here for the last forty or so minutes. My eyes barely moved from her face. It’s like, no matter what I do, I just
“What about the warrior? I know I charged Micah with them, but have they arrived?” I ask Jason as we walk side by side. I fist my hand in an attempt to suppress the pull of the bond. Every fiber of my being was against leaving Sadie. “No, but it won’t be much longer. An hour or so,” Jason answers
“Alec, is there really a need for Calvin to stay in the dungeon?” I sigh once again as Piper’s voice pulls me from my thoughts. “You know I can’t,” I reply, taking in a deep breath. “He plotted against me; that’s a crime that can’t go unpunished.” “B-but what he did led you to your true mate and
Never in my life have I felt the kind of fear I am feeling right now. I am Alec Ashford. The big bad alpha. Nothing terrifies me. Nothing shakes me. Well, except for the terrified scream of my daughter.“Is that Aspen?” Piper asks in confusion, her eyes now dry.She already knew that the night Sadie
Aspen nods her head. “She called me a bad word. She said, My mommy didn’t teach me manners, so she will do it.”The air turns chilly as both mine and Sadie’s fury fill the air. I could almost taste it. My eyes turn to the said bitch, and she takes a step back. Before I can do anything, the air aroun
“Sadie?” Raven's voice pulls me from my wandering mind. “Are you okay?”Am I okay? Definitely not.Alec managed to completely disarm me. Of course, I am not okay. What the hell am I supposed to do? I’d planned on how to deal with him because I knew how his mind worked, but now? Now, he changed the w
Alec and I look at each other, silently communicating. After a second or two, he pulls his eyes from mine and focuses on Aspen, who is holding on to him as if her life depends on it.I can see the struggle in his eyes. He doesn’t want to let go of her, but he also knows that questioning that hybrid
I stare at them, my mind racing at seeing them like this, the new discovery about Nyx temporarily forgotten. Aspen is chatting away like she’s known Alec her whole life. I can’t hear anything because my ears are ringing, but I can tell she’s probably entertaining him with stories of her adventure.A
“Who are the two girls?” I ask, fearing the answer she’ll give.“Me and my sister,” she whispers, brokenly.The air gets stuck in my throat as the words strike my already battered heart in a way I don’t understand. There is something just on the surface, but before I can fully grasp what it is, it d
I wake up a bit disoriented. My mind is a bit foggy and I can’t shake the tiredness that was weighing down my body.I hate it when this happens. You fall asleep finally, thinking that you’ll have the rest your body has been craving, only to wake up feeling more tired than you were the previous day.
I walked into my room and immediately went to the bathroom to take yet another shower. This one, unlike the previous one, was quick. I was hoping that I could wash away Alec’s burning stare and the dirt that came with dragging a hybrid through the forest. I managed to wash the dirt away, but not his
I drag the hybrid’s body, my mind full of unanswered questions. I couldn’t help thinking of the last two hybrids that attacked me and wondering whether these two incidents were somehow related.“What do you think?” I ask Nyx, not caring if the man I was dragging got hurt or not.He doesn’t really de
I don’t know how long it is when Nyx finally stops, collapsing on the cold, hard ground.“I need rest,” she says, panting.I don’t say anything, because what is there to say? I kept pushing her because I didn’t want to think, and I knew stopping would automatically bring me back to my depressing tho
I stare at Aspen, who is soundly asleep. She looks so beautiful. So, at peace. Her long lashes fan her cheeks, and her mouth is slightly open as she snores. Snoring should be annoying, but when it’s from Aspen, it’s absolutely cute.The day out that we had completely tired her out. She didn’t even f