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
" what do you want Carter?" even to herself Thalia sounded like she was on the verge of snapping. He was driving her crazy and going by that overly pleased smirk of his, he knew it too.His answer was simple " I don't accept answers that I don't like, Darling. I thought by now you should have learned that"Smiling, faintly Thalia looked at him " well that's too bad, isn't it? If anything this sounds a bit unrealistic to me. Everyone has to listen to answers that they don't like, sometimes. That's what we call life"" for some people that might be applicable to," said Carter matter of factly, like what his stubborn ' I owe the world' pace was totally justifiable.And maybe in his world, it was."That's where you are wrong, it's for everyone. No one can win all the time"Carter studied her for a while and when he spoke again there was something like subtle fondness in his voice " I'm giving you chance to put a stop to everything Thalia,
"How did you -?" Thalia studied his features trying to get some inkling about how exactly he found about her passion for painting or anything of the sort but Carter gave away nothing. It was said that eyes were the windows of one's soul, well that saying definitely cannot be applied on those warm brown eyes that seemed to glitter with sadistic emotions, other than that it was hard to detect any other emotions in those eyes.Carter was so tightly controlled that even Thalia had a hard time reading him, and she was supposed to be a seer who could see the future of a person - with her powers bound because of her curse, she couldn't do that but at least her seer senses came in handy when she wanted to read someone's emotions. But when it came to Carter she couldn't tap in anything that would help her explain what exactly went inside his head.But since she couldn't ask her Alpha outright whether or not he was stalking her, she could only go about in a roundabout way
Carter lifted a brow as he snatched the business card from her and tapped it with his forefinger " look, did I ask you to suck me off? Sleep with me or did I ever once mention in our entire chat that I wanted to do something to you? I think I haven't so your question of whether or not there is a catch, really doesn't make sense. " he pointed out " I am just trying to do something nice to you as your Alpha, I am giving you a decent paying job so that you are not stuck with just dirty laundries and picking up used condoms from the floor. That's all, so relax" Carter threw back the business card in her lap as if he was done explaining whatever he wanted to, it did make sense in a way. As her Alpha, he should be giving her his protection but it was weird as hell when he wasn't so inclined to do so, in the past. Thalia narrowed her eyes " you don't do anything without a motive Carter, so I call this bullshit" She was right. He wasn't the type of man who doe
the Previous chapter was mistakenly updated and I modified it to the original one but it will take 24 hours to show the real chapter, sorry for inconvenience.Thalia shouldn't be here, she knew that if she acted on impulse she might be a total idiot. But the temptation was all too much, after Carter gave her permission to leave the pack territory and do a proper job, Thalia had returned to her room in a daze and searched everything up she could about Jonathan Newman. She searched away for an entire night and the more she found out about Jonathan Newman the more she realised that he was a total beast.Not literally but in the field of art. His works were not only displayed in art galleries but he also had a very established reputation in the circle. Much like Carter who was notorious in the business field even though he didn't resemble a serious nine to five worker.If not for the tempting allure of that Jonathan Newman's name brought her Thalia would
" that's spooky" rubbing his forearms, Jonathan said, " But I like it, it really brings out the essence of this one, but to name it like this - you must be having an extremely creepy nightmare, so much that you want to bound them."Thalia did have nightmares when she was young, but just like all her memories, she could only remember flashes of them now. She remembered the screams, the nerve-rattling snarls, fire and scary shadows. Every time she would wake up from her dreams sweating like a bucket but those dreams were like clipped movies, always the same but never making any sense. She couldn't put those dreams together to make a complete picture." so did I get the job?" asked Thalia, not wanting to answer that particular question, that made terror seize her." You did" affirmed Jonathan as he tapped on his wristwatch " every morning at ten, I will see you tomorrow then, now goodbye."-" Seriously, you got a job? At Jonathan Newman's studio?" sa
Thalia dropped the boxes she was holding in her hands, she could see the raw need in Carter's eyes but she was sure that was as harmless as it seemed. She could feel stiffness all over her body as she stared at him like he was some monster that seemed to have barges right inside her world and was determined to conquer it. And Thalia had a sick suspicion that he would and could do that. " Jesus, just look at your expression" chuckled Carter with a touch of lazy hum in his voice like he just didn't say something that might flip their upside down and change everything about them " I didn't ask you to give birth to my firstborn"Thalia narrowed her eyes as she eyed him wryly " I'm pretty sure that's this is worst, giving birth has a limit to it but becoming yours, seems like a tough job without a determined timeline but you are not serious are you?"His mouth flattened and Thalia could see his nostrils flare but she really had to hand it to him, his expressio