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
“I am afraid I don’t understand what you mean.“ said Thalia blinking in confusion. Though it seemed like what Brandon was telling her was simple but something told her that it was far worse than just making a choice. She looked at him hoping for him to explain what he meant by telling her this but she might as well have been waiting for a miracle to happen. Brandon didn’t clarify what he meant instead he wiped his mouth with a paper napkin before throwing it skillfully in the dustbin. “Like I said I cannot tell you everything right now but soon you will find out about that and when you do. I hope you will make the correct choice.”“A correct choice?”His jaw hardened as he nodded. “Yeah -the correct choice. I will not ask for anything more but I do hope that when the time comes you will be able to see past all the prejudices just like Carter.”Thalia looked at Brandon
“ The website isn’t as easy to track as you think it is, it only provides the list of the shifters's names that has a bounty on their heads “ explained Dan “ The hunters can simply take on the mission and then submit the proof that they have finished the mission to collect the bounty. From the beginning till the end there is no information provided about the person who set up the bounty you see? And if that alone isn’t enough to, the person who runs the site takes care of protecting the identities of the people who submit the requests, only the name and photograph of the person getting hunted is unadapted on the site. No one other than the one who is running the site can know who placed these requests and when ““ We gotta get hold of that person then,” said Shayne simply “ Excellent timing I have a bone to pick with these hunters.”Dan shook his head “ That’s not how it works, Shayne&rdquo
‘ you were once a member of the Venus pack ‘ It wasn’t like that Thalia hadn’t thought about the possibility, many times she had considered the option whether or not she had known Carter before she lost her memories. The only reason she thought that it was too far fetched was because the last thing she remembered after waking up - she was clearly in Arizona, so how did she reach there? Did her parents move or were they on a run? She wished Brandon had told her something more but the latter had left the conversation there saying that this much was enough for today .A brief flash of something flickered in her mind but before Thalia could grasp it, it vanished. She bit back a curse as she stumbled to the ground because of the pain that twinged her marks - Brandon wasn’t lying when he said that the curse will rebound if she tried to remember something that she shouldn’t, the pain was worse than before and she has never feint so
Thalia watched Carter pause, as he leaned forward and pinched her chin between his thumb and forefinger, as the pad of his thumb rubbed her very distended neck sensitive skin, Thalia winced trying to jerk her head away from his hold. He didn’t let her as if silently telling her just how weak she was “ So, Darling -what did you say? “It wasn’t the I didn’t hear you kind of question, it was you better think of an excuse while I am giving you a chance to - she glanced at his face, there wasn’t an ounce of anger that could be seen on that handsomely gorgeous face, the same smile, the same whisper-soft voice - not a crease in sight but Thalia knew him far better than this now .. she knew the angrier Carter was the better he hid his temper. Her fear told her to do what he had asked her to but the cur
“ Is that why you have covered up your mark? You don’t want the world to know that I have claimed you ?” Thalia stiffened underneath him as his eyes drifted down to her neck seeking to see the mark he had left there, and Carter felt his gut wrench when he saw that Thalia has covered his mark with concealer. His wolf uttered a slow rumble as he unsheathed his claws, and a deep growl rumbled in his chest, he has been trying to be understanding give her the time and space to accept him in her life, so that she was no longer as off-balance as she was when he claimed her before he made his next big move but Thalia just seem to have a way to piss him off- first, she defied him and now this, maybe his brother was right, mates were born to make life difficult for them like she was making him, never in his entire life, he had lost control of his emotions as he had when it came to dealing with Thalia.
Sitting in the coffeehouse, Thalia set down her half-empty mug .she nursed her temple as the constant chatter, clattering of dishes and the murmurs of voices together with the whirs of blenders, and the chiming of the bell hanging on top of the door registered. She wasn’t in her best form and all of this was thanks to Carter who had repeatedly ‘claimed her ‘ last night, Carter had woken her up to a countless number of times last night, there might little of what can be done that he might have not done to her body. Thalia was sure that now Carter might have a rather good idea about her body than her, he had staked his claim such that she might never dare to either forget or deny.He had continued to stake the said claim of his until this morning, after she had fallen unconscious, Thalia has expected that he might leave her alone. Oh boy, she was wrong, not only
“ Weird? In what sense?” Asked Thalia, feeling a little awkward and dubious, well it wasn’t every day someone told her that her mother was a weirdo.“ oh don’t take it in the wrong way,” said Brandon chugging the last bit of his coffee, putting down the empty mug he continued “ She like I told you, had a very bad habit of pleasing the one who was in power. She was sweet but she was a seer like you, she believed that she could be more than she was at that moment, she believed she could be the beta female. And with her powers as a seer and her dominant wolf, she was well suited for the job.”Thalia understood Brandon’s words, Seers especially dominant seers had a hard personality, they didn’t like to bow to anyone else if the latter wasn&rsqu
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