Silence. Then Kim hesitantly spoke, breaking the awkwardness around the two of them, "She foresaw the explosion. I am fairly sure that she did."
Carter, who was staring point blankly at Thalia, finally turned to look at Kim. His demeanor was lazy as always, but it was a sharp contrast to the sharp glint in his eyes a few moments ago. "Foresaw? Wasn't her powers sealed, so how can she see the future?"
"I don't know. I'm just telling you what I saw. One second, Thalia was fine standing next to me, and then the next, her marks started to bleed. Not like they usually do, the blood was dark, almost black, like poison, and I think it was some sort of backlash because she can't use her powers. Her eyes turned glassy, and she was bleeding so much that she scared the shit out of me. I tried to call her, but she didn't respond and then -" Kim swallowed hard. "and then she turned to look at me like she had seen a ghost or something. Once
Thalia swallowed and looked away. "It was the right thing to do. I knew I could save him. If I left him alone, then it would have weighed on my conscience.""You didn't have to.""Would you have let me go if I didn't," said Thalia with a self-deprecating smile. "He is your head enforcer, and I'm nothing. If I let him die, who knows what you have done to me."Carter felt his lips twitch, and his temple suddenly throbbed. "Do you think of that as being unreasonable, darling? I wouldn't have punished you just because you chose to save yourself instead of someone else. People are selfish. I understand that."Thalia inhaled sharply and glared at him. "Do you have to be such an asshole? I just saved your friend! The least you can do is thank me, there is no need for your sharp jabs.""I'm sorry," said Carter, his eyes gleaming though this time they looked more playful than sadistic. "I
"You-" Thalia was done. She was done being played around like this. One second he was warm like a summer breeze, and the next second he would freeze her until she was chilled to the bone. She raised her hand to slap his hand away but then the door to the infirmary burst open, and the two of them came face to face with a flustered and sheepish-looking Shayne."It looks like I came in at the wrong time?" Muttered Shayne."Shayne," said Carter, not sounding embarrassed at all about being caught. He raised his head and smiled at Shayne, his eyes cold and threatening. "Make sure to run ten laps around the territory, alright?""What! Why?" spluttered Shayne, his eyes widening as he stared at Carter with a look of injustice on his face."For being an ass," said Carter smoothly. "A dominant shifter, because of his prejudices, ignored his Alpha's order. Instead of taking care of his duties skulk
Once they left the infirmary, Kim came running to see Thalia. She was obviously relieved upon seeing her alright. Kim rushed ahead and embraced her in a tight hug. "I'm so glad to see you doing alright! I was so scared when you fainted like that," with a smile, she pulled back to look over Thalia, "You look better already!"Thalia accepted her hug even though it stung against her skin. "I'm glad to see you safe too.""Kim," drawled Carter. He pulled Thalia back behind him as if realizing her discomfort from being touched while her curse marks were healing.Kim waved her hand at Carter and kept her eyes locked on Thalia. "I'm so sorry. I was so worried that I forgot about your curse marks. But can you stop with the growling Alpha, please? She saved my life. I would have literally been burned to a crisp if not for her. As far as I'm concerned, she walks on air like an angel, so stop hogging her like that!"
Thalia walked out of her bathroom after letting the hot shower clean away the blood on her body. She didn't know why but the smell of blood made her nauseated. It felt like she was missing something, an essential piece of the puzzle to her life, but every time she tried to catch a hold of that piece, it vanished into thin air. It was annoying and downright frustrating that she couldn't even remember that forgotten part of her life. How weird it was to live a life when half of your memories of the past are gone. She didn't remember her parents, the house where she grew up, and any childhood friends and family vacations. The only thing she could remember now was her past traumas. All the happy memories were gone.Dressed in grey sweatpants and a long hoodie, she stepped out only to see Carter still standing in her room. She wanted to tell him to leave, but then her gaze fell on his dark brown eyes. Those eyes of his seemed to have been chilled t
Thalia felt her pulse quicken upon hearing Carter's response. "Why?"Carter moved closer, and she could easily breathe his musky scent mingled with his spicy perfume. "As I told you, you are mine. Understandably, I am curious about you."Also, he wanted to know why she didn't remember him. It was such a freak accident that the nightmares haunted him even now, so how could she not remember it. He wanted to find out if she had really forgotten about him or was she trying to play dumb. Maybe she was playing dumb because he wasn't what she anticipated him to be these years later. If that was the case, Carter would have to go above and beyond to change her perception of him and let her know her place. But if it's the former, then he will burn into her mind the memory of him fucking her so hard that she would never forget to whom she belonged. There was no escape from him.Even if she died, she had to leave this world with his mark on her body.
It was infuriatingly annoying that Thalia was so unruffled by the sexual tension that zapped between them. Carter was like a moment away from being suffocated. Both he and his wolf felt frustrated by the sexual energy in the air. His wolf was totally on edge, clawing at his gut with a ferocious intensity, upset at Carter for not taking what belonged to them. It was a simple matter to his beast - he liked, he fucked, he owned. End of the story.As for any strings attached to it, he would leave them to his human counterpart to clear them up. Selfish bastard.Though the two had different opinions for Thalia, Carter and his beast were on the same wavelength. Utterly pissed at her calm as a cucumber expression like she couldn't wait to kick him out, he knew he affected her, but unlike him, she reined in her desires better.Not much of a surprise there."You are not used to me being around you?" Carter asked, wanting to test her mettle one last
Wariness settled deep into Thalia's bones. Just a minute ago, it was as if Carter was about to explode like he was ticking like a time bomb, and now he was asking her to go with him? "Where?""Don't look at me like that. I just want to show you something I think you will like.""And what's that?""Stop being so suspicious of me. If I wanted to lock you up in the dungeons, I would have done that without taking you to the infirmary. Come with me. What's so good about being cooped in your room all day? I am trying to be nice here and show you something you will like. What is the harm in going with me? Unless you are chicken?" There was a dare in Carter's eyes that Thalia didn't understand. It made her body stiffen for a moment. She knew Carter would not bring her anywhere, with no reason behind his actions. If she didn't go with him, she would have to admit that his offer scared and unsettled her. Thalia would be damned if she showed any weakness in fro
Thalia felt her face burn in embarrassment. She would be very grateful if the ground could open up and swallow her whole. She tried to look away, but Carter's hold on her chin was too strong. She couldn't even tilt her head, much less move it.Carter saw her flustered expression and grinned, rubbing her swollen lips with his thumb. Knowing that the reason her lips were swollen was from his kiss gave him a truly gratified feeling. "You can pretend all you want, sugar. Act like you don't want to give in to me. Resist what your instincts are telling you is the right course of action. But you will give in to me, and it will happen eventually. It might frighten you, this feeling you get when I'm around you. There will come a time when these feelings captivate you, leaving you drunk from the rush of giving in to your desires, supple and wanting. You will learn to embrace it soon. Thalia, you just need to stop fighting it. You are not a coward, so stop acting like one
A loud echo of bullet shot echoed in the clearing as Carter pulled Thalia away but it turned out that his actions were useless because even though Cruz seemed to have aimed for Thalia the bullet didn’t hit her but instead hit him. “ No! Carter!” Thalia shrieked as she held Carter’s body that went limp against hers, as she looked at the painfully twisted face of her mate, Thalia was able to feel the echo of her mate’s pain through their mating bond and that was how she found out that the bullet wasn’t just an ordinary bullet it was specially made for putting down shifters with just one shot. Silver bullet dipped in wolfsbane and moulded with together with the holy water, her stomach churned as she felt the acidic sensation Carter was feeling while shaking her head as she cupped his face and crouched down with his head in her lap. “ No, No … No... No.. she tried to use her blood on his wound but it was of no use, she couldn’t heal him no matter how much blood she poured into the wound.
Thalia waited for Cruz to turn around, once she was sure that he was engrossed with her mother’s corpse and the stupid pentagram thingy, she flicked the pocket knife in her hand. Her gut was burning like someone has doused sulphuric acid on her skin and lit her up on fire, it was a pain like she has never felt before and because Cruz has stabbed her with a silver knife her healing was painfully slow and she was sure that she was going to pass out. He hasn’t just stabbed her for collecting her blood, he has left her to die…blood soaked her hoodie and dripped onto the concrete floor below her. As she moved her hand trying her best to slice the belt off her body, she could feel her wound throbbing with every move until it started to hurt with every breath that she took. Tears filled her eyes but she didn’t stop, it was hurtful but she knew that it will liberate her somehow. One strap down. Two straps down. Once her hand was free, she pulled the straps of the metal table that was tyi
With a great leap, Carter felt his wolf lunge against his surface as he growled, “ Renard!” Before springing and shifting mid-air as he rushed towards the wolves behind whom Renard was hiding. Every bite and slash of his was filled with anger and vigour, he didn’t care about the blood that was matting his fur or the corpses he was leaving behind, his eyes were on the prize and that prize was none other than Renard’s head. While he rushed towards Renard, the latter’s wolves tried their best to slow him down, they bit and clawed greatly affecting his movements but Carter was like an impending doom that was coming after Renard, nothing stopped him. He didn’t care about the bite on his neck, the claw mark on his hank and nor did he care about the blood that was dripping down his muzzle, all he cared about was reaching Thalia as soon as he could. Pain and blood loss was slowing him down but Carter couldn’t care about that, not when his mate was in danger. Especially, not when this f*cker
Carter groaned as he banged his fists on the steering wheel of the car he was driving. He tried to stop the ringing and pounding of blood in his ears but then again no wolf would take any obstruction including the one he was facing when he was in a hurry to get to his mate, he could feel the slow churn in his stomach, the pain pounding in his veins like little hammers drumming down on his head, stomach and every freakin pore of his body and here he was staring at Renard and his wolf as they surrounded him and his pack mates. Jake peered out of the windshield as he counted the wolves that were standing outside. “ One, two, three…damn that f*cker brought at least fifteen wolves to take us on, maybe he wants to bury us in an early grave.” “ Like he will get a chance to do that,” grunted Shayne from behind while looking out of the window as well. “ Fifteen, I think I can take them, we have been in a worse situation before haven’t we?”“ We have been,” rasped Dan as he rubbed the back of
Thalia saw his madness, that crazy glint in his eyes as he fervently drew the pentagram on the floor with her blood that he has collected, an angry flush crept on her face as she glared at him. “ You can stop with that bullshit of yours you see? Disrespecting my mother, causing her life to become a mess because of you and then digging her body out of the grave, none of these actions says that you loved her. You are the reason, she is dead, all right? You rejected her, when she wanted you to claim her, you didn’t do it and yet you didn’t let her go. You framed her for being crazy and a kidnapper who went mad because you refused her, till the end you painted a totally different picture, all because you wanted to hide the hideous things that you have done, so what are you doing all this for?”Cruz’s head snapped up, as he straightened up and twirled the knife in his hands, eyes hard as he predatorily moved towards her. “ You don’t understand, I never wanted her to die you see? I wouldn’
“Did you find her?” asked Carter as he rushed out of his lodge that was at the centre of the pack and rushed to meet with Shayne who shook his head. “ I have checked the kitchen, the pantry, even the small shack where she used to stay, I can’t find her.” “ This is ridiculous, where did he take her?” said Carter as he tugged on the locks of his hair with his hands. “ No one saw him leave the territory, his car is parked in the garage so how can he take her away in such a short period of time?” An hour ago, he did not send Brandon to call for Kim, there was no way he was going to send Brandon to call for Kim leaving Thalia alone with him when he was still suspicious of Brandon, so when Kim came back and told him that it was Brandon who sent her to see him, Carter knew that something was wrong with Thalia at once and he rushed to the lodge to see what was going on but there was nothing as if she wasn’t even there at the first place.“ I can’t find Brandon,” Jake whom Carter sent to see
Thalia’s wolf arched her back as she prepared herself to lunge at Cruz but Thalia knew that it was going to be of no use, so she hurriedly said, “ You killed your brother right? You sacrificed him for my mother?” In her memories, she remembered a brown wolf lunging at her mother to protect Carter when her mother tried to claw Carter’s heart out, if that wolf wasn’t Cruz then surely it was —— Brandon.Cruz jutted his chin out Ashe nodded, “ That’s right, should have kept his nose out of my business. He said he loved Lydia but he crushed her throat right in front of me, he was even going to go after your father and end his misery so that he will not suffer much from the loss of his mate but I got there first, I took care of your father first and then took care of my dear brother, I left him half alive and left another wolf with his face clawed so badly that no one would be able to recognise him. Everyone thought that the body belonged to me and I died while taking care of your father, a
Have you ever tried to stuff your brain until you can no longer stuff anything in it? Well, that was what Thalia was going through right now, she didn’t know whether Cruz was saying the truth or not but she felt her brain sort of freeze as she shuffled back and said, “ This is a joke right? This has to be a joke.” “ You can deny it all you want, sweetie but you know it in your heart that it's the truth,” Cruz smirked as he kicked back on his chair. “ You remember it all but you just don’t want to accept it, I know I get that feeling too… I felt the same way when I found out that my mate mated with a f*cking submissive, she could have done so much better than that gutless submissive wolf but she just had to do something to piss me off.” “ Or maybe she genuinely liked him,” said Thalia before she took another look at the basement, she knew that Cruz would not just capture her for no reason, there must be something more to this, now Thalia hoped that Carter would be able to sense her
Thalia’s eyes snapped open as she took in the surroundings around her. The place wherever she was, it was just sad —— the windows were boarded up and there were also panes of wood that were hanging off the doors and if that wasn’t enough, crude insults were sprayed all over the walls. She didn’t have to think about where she was anymore, with just another glimpse of the surrounding she knew where she was —- she was home. The one where everything went downhill. And she wasn’t in the living room, no she was in that one place she hated with all her core, it was the basement. The exact same one where Carter was locked up by her mother, she sucked in a breath and somehow pushed herself to sit up straight, her feet weren’t chained but they were bounded by something, when she looked down, she realised that it was shifter resistant ropes. She muttered a curse inwardly but her curse stuck in her head mid-way as her gaze fell on something much more hideous that was sitting in the corner. Ori