Once Thalia’s breathing smoothed, Carter got off his bed and walked out of the lodge, he was heading to his office, since the matter of infiltration was yet to deal with. He was just about to enter the office when the heavy discussion inside the office seized and everyone went silent. He raised a brow as he sauntered inside. “ By all means please continue,”
Jake sighed as he begrudgingly looked away from Dan and walked back to his designated place that was right beside him, as Carter took his seat, Jake sidled next to him with a heavy disappointed sigh. “Dan here thinks that we missed checking the security measures but I can assure you that we did not- I am the one who is responsible for taking care of them and I will never make that mistake.”
Dan snorted from the recliner he was sitting on, arms crossed in front, he stared at Jake with a suspicious glint in his eyes. “ Everyone here knows how it went the last time, so I don’t
Her foot caught on something again and Thalia almost let out a string of curses as she nearly tumbled on her butt. If not for Carter who was holding her arm and kept her upright, she would have almost fallen to the ground. She hissed, as she straightened up. “ Can you at least take this blindfold off and let me walk on my own, I am so over this.”“ We are almost there, sugar.” Carter assured her but his assurance meant jackass to her when all she could do was ‘ black’. She hated black or anything that had to do with the dark.“ You said the same thing half an hour-ouch” as she stepped into a small hole, Thalia let out a wince. She inhaled sharply and gritted out, “ Half an hour ago.”“ Darling, I can assure you that we have only been walking for ten minutes.”She snapped her teeth at him but she knew he wouldn’t even notice it, since she had no idea where the hell his face was,
Thalia couldn’t put how grateful she was feeling at the moment. Her heart was full of warmth and fuzziness, the last time she celebrated her birthday like this was when she was with the pick pocketer group. A bunch of silly kids had shoplifted a dry fruit cupcake from a department store and picked a half-burnt candle from the trash can to stick it on her little cupcake. There was nothing memorable about that birthday but she was grateful to the group of kids who thought of her back then and she was just as grateful to Carter for this surprise. “ I don’t know how to tell you but I feel like my heart is soaking in honey, it's all sweet and fuzzy.” Like she has drunk quite a lot of sweet fruit wine. “ you are the man, you know that Carter Atherton?”He just laughed, really pleased to see her happy. Even his wolf was feeling a little smug about being the cause of her happiness. See, they were not that bad everyone made them. “ Why n
Thalia dropped the music box to the ground, and clamped her hands on her ears as she shook her head and screamed, “Shut it down! Shut it down!”Her reaction was volatile and extreme causing Carter to immediately reach out and pick up the music box and shut it down. The haunting music came to a stop at once, once the music stopped, Carter placed the music box aside and turned his attention to the shivering Thalia who was trying her best to shrink in his arms. She looked like a child that was hiding under the bed from a monster that was chasing her, he locked his arms around her and drew circles on her back trying to smoothen out her nerves that were taut and tensed because of the appearance of this music box. “ Hey, sugar. You are okay everything is fine, don’t worry alright? I am here. Right by your side. I will protect you, so calm down.”Thalia scrunched up her nose as she tried to stop the tears from falling. This ..this tune she
Carter rushed to the infirmary with Alex in his arms, just as she saw in her vision, Alex was badly hurt. His calves seemed to be crushed under the impact and so did the side of his ribs. He looked like a broken mess and Thalia didn’t blame Caroline to gasp out loud as she started crying. “Oh, Oh..my Alex.” Caroline took a step towards Carter but then stopped herself, seemingly torn between getting close to her son and checking what was wrong with him and letting him have the necessary treatment as quick as possible. In the end, she chose the latter with some hesitation, suppressing her maternal instinct.Carter brushed past everyone, closely followed by Alice who was carrying a medical kit in hand. Thalia winced through a shifter’s ability to heal themselves was great, these threads and needles weren’t going to help Alex much, she stood up from her seat and walked towards the infirmary but a muscular arm stopped her as soon as she tried to enter
“ Do you think he was speaking the truth?” said Shayne as all of them walked out of the room where they kept intruders and interrogated them.Carter nodded. “ Whoever is behind all of this they want to remain anonymous but at the same time, they want us to know that they are targeting us, it's like a psychological mind f*ck. We don’t know who this person is but it seems to be that they know us very well and might as well keep guard on what we are doing, yet the identity of this person remains a mystery—— which is surprising because as far as I know Dan and Nico can find anything but they still can’t get hold of them. It's an ugly tactic, one that can destroy a pack from the inside.”“ Well at least we know that it's not Caroline or Scarlet.” said Jake from behind Carter, with an ‘ I told you so’ look on his face. “Neither of them would hurt Alex, Caroline for obvious reasons and Scarlet&mdash
Jake sighed, he looked at Carter with an amused glint as he said, “ Brace yourself, everyone.”Carter rolled his eyes and strode forward to stand next to Thalia, he protectively took a stance next to Thalia and the female next to him snorted as she turned her attention to Scarlet whose face was now morphed into a snarl that seemed to have been fixed on her face. The other wolves of the pack all turned their attention to the two of them, Kim looked frustrated while the enforcers seemed to be having the time of their lives. Especially, Dan who was smiling at the catfight that was taking place.Scarlet huffed as she flicked her hair back. “ This was your plan wasn't it?” She asked with a mocking sneer. Her entire image was full of hostility, sourness and indignation as she glared at Thalia, causing Thalia to purse her lips and curl her lips in a distasteful sneer.“ are you out of your mind every day or today is just special? Because I a
“I already told you this Caroline,” said Carter his brows pinched together as he stared down at her.“ If you are talking about your passive-aggressive acceptance of her, then I don’t think that it would have been much of help.” Caroline straightened up as she smoothed the worry lines on her face. “ Does Thalia knows that she is your mate?” Caroline asked the question in a casual tone but Carter could sense that she was hoping it was a ‘no’.Carter nodded his head. “ I don’t see why I need to bother hiding this from her.” She was his, to begin with, does it even matter if he told her that she was his mate? What was he going to do by hiding this particular information from her?“ I always hoped that you were lying to me, I never wanted her to be your mate, Carter.”Carter’s brows furrowed even more. “ She said Alex’s life, Caroline. Are you still going to act against her?”Caroline flicked the tipped her tongue over her bottom lip. “ I was and I am but since she helped my son keep his
Thalia suddenly felt suffocated and so did her wolf as she went shock still, if she was being honest being with Carter was fun. He was not as much of an asshole as she thought and he treated her well enough but—— she licked her lips and looked down at her hands. “ I am not ready Carter, and nor is my wolf she is still accepting you,” she looked at the brown irises that have dimmed and felt a pang of guilt surfacing in her heart. “ But I am not leaving, I have every intention of being with you just not yet. I am sorry.”Carter nipped her lower lip. “ you don’t need to apologise to me, I can wait for the claiming to happen if that's what you want.” Though his expression was full of reluctance he didn’t push her again. Secretly, Thalia heaved a sigh of relief, she didn’t want to be claimed when she was still unaware about half of the things that happened between her and Carter. She knew that she was being selfish but there was nothing else she could do, her wolf was slowly accepting Car
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