Thalia thought she knew fear, she was wrong. She was so damn wrong, being locked up in a dungeon with a greedy Taryn was loads better than being together with a demon with the warmest eyes that she has ever seen. As she stared at Carter's impassive face, she realised once again that she knew nothing about fear.
Or even if she did, she seemed to have forgotten about it all.
This time no matter how much she screams for help, no one was going to come for her. She was helpless, just as helpless as she was when she was locked in the dungeon by Marcus and Taryn.
She was just as helpless when she was left behind by her parents. Who left her alone, and died - how? She didn't know, because she couldn't remember an ounce of what happened before she got these curse marks. Her memory was hazy and the only thing she remembered was running for her life while someone shouted at her from behind to run and escape whatever monster that was chasing her. Them.
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He wasn't even bothering himself to hide his sadistic pleasure anymore, as his fingers trailed over her skin, he watched her with a gaze that didn't match his poker expression, his fingers lazily traced the curve of her bosom. Stopping right where the curse marks vanished underneath the cloth.It seemed Carter was going his all out for making her uncomfortable.And it was working. Like hot dang, it was working.He tugged on her bra once again and Thalia couldn't stop herself anymore, as she seethed " fine, you want an apology? I will give that to you? Are you happy now?"It wasn't that she was willing to back out but there was just something about the hard lines of his face, the direct gaze and predatory posture and the way he was holding himself against her - it was unnerving. It was as if he could stampede all over her and stomp her to her death without even changing that maniacal smile of his. Letting him have his way with her was like made
Thalia's chest heaved up and down, as she stared at him. Carter wasn't even looking at her, all his attention was focused on her marks, he wasn't even breaking his eye contact from them, as if those cursed marks were his favourite toy, of which he couldn't get enough of it.Then all of a sudden as if sensing her gaze, he looked up languidly. His gaze was intent and filled with such an intensified suffocating interest that she couldn't help but feel that he was seeing more than just her, past her barriers and all the walls she built to safeguard herself. And honestly, that made her feel more exposed than just standing half-naked in front of him.His warm eyes trailed down her marks before he tilted his head and looked at her, it was a threatening move on his part." say it" he repeated, with a tone that completely negates his warm eyes and the tormenting pressure he was building with his thumb as he pinched and flicked her hardened nipple " Call me, Sir"
" that's a terrible lie and you know that, don't you? You are scared of me, the darkness - everything that bounds you down, say the truth, Thalia, I can practically smell your fear off you" said Carter letting go of her nipple but before she could sag in relief, he planted his palm against her stomach, trailing the dark inscription that covered her abdomen " you can't lie, at least if you are going to lie, make it fucking believable"He was right, Thalia was more afraid of him than Marcus. Which made no sense, he wasn't the one who made her the blood bank of his pack and has her chained in the corner of his basement, he wasn't like Marcus whose eyes were filled with avarice that made her skin crawl. He was more controlled .... And patient, but something about him set off her fears." I don't know why you are asking when you are so sure about it" answered Thalia, she wasn't one to accept her fear, her wolf though chained had her pride as a dominant wolf but Carter just
"You promised to let me go," said Thalia her breathing getting hard as she tried to rein in both her rising heat and her frantic wolf. Carter was pushing, her wolf to hysterics and she wasn't sure if she liked all the fight her wolf was putting up." I never promised you anything,"How was she supposed to get past him when he wasn't going to play fair with her? Or maybe this was what he was waiting for, maybe he knew the effect he has on her, won't be difficult with how her body started pulsating with need every time he got closer to her. Just a whiff of her arousal was enough - so maybe he was waiting for her to throw herself at him, then pushing her away, sounds like a fascinating, cruel and dark idea. Just like him. Fascinating but Dark.So she changed her tactic, instead of focusing all her attention on fighting him, she softened her tone much similar to that of Scarlett " what do you want, Carter"His hold on wrists tightened, and something like irri
Running always helped, demons chasing you? Run.Don't want to face your reality? Run.And Thalia did the same, she ran and ran and kept running once Carter left the dungeon. When she arrived at the artificial man-made lake near the packhouse, she could feel her clothes sticking to her skin. Her shoes were splattered with mud and leaves, her calves burning with sweet pain.Her hair was scattered all over her forehead, running erratically as sweat dripped down her temple, she could feel her face flushing with each heave of her breathe that escaped her body.She stood near the bank, pressing her palms against her knee cap trying to catch her breath. She was shaky and trembling as she took one long breath and heaved, her back slouching because of the impact. Once. And twice. Once her breathing eased, she walked closer to the lake and splashed cold water on her face, trying to get soothe the burning heat in her body. The cramps in her stomach d
Of course, she knew, Carter and his packmates had made no efforts to hide their hostility towards her. She knew that if she was ever attacked, the pack would never make an effort to save her, much less bother about sending a search party to hunt her down. If she died, she couldn't even expect a proper burial.She knew it all along, but it didn't hurt her any less having someone rub it in her face. What was the matter with Carter and his brother anyways? Sure they hate her kind, but was it necessary to pull down every seer just because of that? The more she thought about it, first Carter. Then this knucklehead, Thalia, couldn't help but grind her teeth when the memory of Carter brushing his fingers over her marks flashed in her head.
Thalia plopped down on her bed the second she returned to the packhouse and went back to her room. After the little quarrel with Alex, what she needed the most was sleep but the thing was sleep wouldn't just come to her. No matter how much she tried to sleep, all she could think about was what Alex said to her. At first, she thought he was just saying it to screw her up but then again he looked so serious when he said it.Did she really do something to Carter? If so when?God. What was she doing? Thalia sat up straight, clutching her hair as she tried to comb her mind for anything that might help her case but then again nothing came up. As far as she knew when she got cursed she was somewhere in Arizona, far away from here. If she ever stayed or lived around here then maybe the chances of ever crossing paths with Carter would have been possible but she was quite sure she never lived in California.Even the reason why she could come this far was
" would you look at that? I mean you should totally take a look at your face, it's priceless. If I only I had a camera with me right now, I would have just captured it... No wait, I do have a camera" said Carter pulling out his smartphone from his pocket and that was when Thalia jerked her face away from him.She didn't like taking photos, much less when anyone catches her off-guard and clicked a picture of her. Was there any need for another brutal reminder of her beast-like appearance? Not at all, in fact, if possible she would like to have no reminder whether alive or not, that served as a reminder of her cursed marks." Are you scared again?"Thalia stared at him, she didn't know what exactly was going on in that head of his. Sometimes she wished she could rip his head apart and see for herself, how exactly his mind worked. One second he was holding her against her will in a dark dungeon and then the other day, he was acting all chummy- a big leap, don
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