“Responding to provocation? Saying that would be equivalent to brushing off the matter too lightly.“ Caroline sniffed.
“I don’t know what kind of sob story did she tell you to manipulate her into believing her. But mark my words there will come a day when you will rue protecting her. Your father surely did. I told him that the woman was just trying to manipulate him but he didn’t believe me and see what happened? He believed her and almost lost everything that he had including you, Alex and I.. even our position in the pack was endangered because of her. You are willing to make excuses for her but I can assure you that this is just the beginning. Today she hurt Scarlet until the poor girl passed out. She did a lot of damage to Scarlet you might not have a particular fondness for Scarlet but she was once with you when no one else was. There should be no doubt that the position of the Luna should be given to her instead of that girl.&ldq‘Knock, knock’ The monster from her childhood was knocking on the door. Thalia shut her eyes and covered her ears she couldn't hear it. If she doesn’t look then he won't be there -maybe it was all just a bad dream. This was all in her head the monster won't be here he wouldn't come here anymore. The knocking stopped and Thalia opened her eyes. Yes it was a dream. No one was there.Bang! The door burst open. Hanging by its hinges the monster stood right in front of her. It's hopeless, now the monster would come into her mother's eyes. He was finally here to get them blood roared in her ears and her heartbeat caught an irregular, wild rhythm... Those sick moans she will have to listen to them again. Those painful whimpers she didn't want to listen to - let go! The monster has to die. Let go the monster need to be chased away or else her mother would lose it all. She doesn't want her mo
Thalia didnt say anything for a long time she simply let Carter rock her back and forth in his lap, for a while neither of them said anything. Before Carter lifted her chin with one of his hands. “What’s wrong still not feeling good?”Some unshed tears rimmed in Thalia’s eyes as she shook her head. “It's not that, it's just….”“It's just what?” Asked Carter his gaze never once stopped searching hers. It was like he was still searching for something or more like someone. It didn’t sit well with her. She had probably done something that Carter wasn’t telling her about but her head was hurting while her marks were hurting like someone had run their nails through them. Thalia couldn’t wrap her mind around what she wanted to ask first. She hesitated before settling on the most important one. “Did I hurt Scarlet? Is she alright? Am I…Am I in troub
Thalia wanted to ask what he meant by that but then Carter continued as he spoke while rubbing her back in circular motion. “Take Caroline for example, on the surface she is a fantastic mother but underneath she is downright paranoid. She doesn’t handle changes well and it's in her nature to reject strangers. She also has a big problem trusting seers, which is something not very common.“Seers were rare especially those that had the powers to heal someone. Mostly the packs would rather go to war to keep them safe. Hence the seers were particularly treated with a rather great importance. “She isn’t in the wrong either her paranoia results from the insecurities that my father never worked hard enough to resolve.” “Your father?” “Yes, my father. He was the beta of his pack and took his job more seriously than he took his mate or his family. My mother on the other hand would tell you that he w
The man beside Caroline spoke” hello there, I am Brandon. Caroline is my sister and this is my son Frank.” patting on the shoulder of the burly youngster who was sitting next to him, Brandon continued” I just heard a lot of things from Caroline about you and I do have to say that you are nothing like as she told me.“Caroline whipped her head so fast to look at Brandon that Thalia was afraid that the poor woman was going to snap her neck with that amount of force she was applying on her old bones” are you serious Brandon? I just told you how much of a danger she is to our pack yet here you are, Don't tell me that she has you charmed too with that hocus Pocus of her.”Brandon guffawed, his booming laughter resonating in the kitchen as he choked on his coffee, splattering it all over the dining table. Frank who was sitting beside shot his father one of his disgruntled expressions before taking out a bunch of tissue from the tis
“ You see that? That's what he has become!” Before Thalia could answer Carter’s question, Caroline spat as she turned to Brandon, to which the latter only rolled his eyes, for whatever reason Caroline thought that Brandon's world stands by her side, then without waiting for Brandon to respond to her, Caroline rounded at Carter with an imperious air “ Your uncle is sitting right here but instead of greeting him, you just ignored him for that girl” Caroline was adamant on not using Thalia’s name as if by not using her name would help her in erasing some of Thalia’s presence in the pack.Taking some of the toast from the stack on the counter, Carter answered patiently munching his toast without looking the slightest bit angry “ I have seen him and I have already greeted him as you can see, I hardly think that Brandon would want me to come there and hug him as a greeting but if that's what you want-“ Carter placed hi
Thalia rubbed her arms she was standing in the middle of a living room. It was cold and dark. She looked around but the room was silent except the occasional whimpers.She turned around and sitting in the corner on a worn-down armchair was a girl wearing a pure white dress. Her hair scattered in a mess, holding a brand new teddy bear in her hand. She was snivelling and wiping her tears-A door creaked behind and then there was a deathly silence in the room. An abrupt chill spread all over her extremities as the girl’s head jerked up.The movement was full of fear and her stormy blue eyes were filled with terror that set Thalia’s nerves on edge. The hair was parted in between the face….it was her face
Thalia stayed inside the washroom for quite a long period of time. It took her more than just a few minutes to calm herself down. When she stepped out of the washroom she turned to return to the workroom when the blonde receptionist sitting on the front counter raised her hand and called her from behind. “Hey Thalia, someone came to meet you.”Thalia frowned as she turned around and walked towards the reception area she raised a brow questioningly at the receptionist. Who shrugged and casually pointed to the parking lot. “I asked him to wait for you in the lounge but he insisted on standing there. You can go and have a look by yourself.”Thalia wasn’t in the mood to look at anyone much less have a meeting that wasn’t supposed to happen at all.
“Keep it from Carter? “ Thalia repeated shooting him a dismayed look. She didn’t know why but the idea didn’t sit right with her. She looked their back and forth, everything in her life had been so serious before Carter and then he swept right in like a raging storm- swift, determined, and out of control. She didn’t like the idea of keeping something so important from him. It was like a small betrayal. Not to just her mate but also her Alpha.“Yeah.” Brandon took a deep breath as he put down his coffee mug. “Carter wouldn’t like me telling those things that he is bent on keeping from you. He is a stubborn little brat if he found out that I was the one who told you about your past then he will see it as treason. Carter doesn’t really react well with even the smallest act of betrayal. He is tough like that.”“Then why are you telling me? You can just keep it from me li
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