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