Brandon glanced at the photo “ No, it's not me, it's Cruz. He was a friend of your father so you can take it as he was indeed a bit close to your parents.” He flipped the album and pointed at a photo where Chris was laughing with Cruz, with a wine glass in the hand “they were good friends, who would meet up once in a while. Your father trusted my brother a lot”
Thalia couldn’t help but smile as she looked at Cruz’s infectious smile. As she looked through the photos of her parents she noticed Cruz and Caroline glaring at each other, they didn’t look as close as Caroline made them out to be “ They seem to be arguing quite fiercely”
“ Yeah they did, my brother had a weird temper,” said Brandon “ He would rather give his time to his friends and the pack than allocate some to Caroline, I sometimes used to wonder why he even mated with her when she wasn’t what he liked.”
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After talking with Brandon Thalia decided to go on a run because she had too much on her mind that it was making both her and her wolf restless and at unease. The more she tried to get closer to her past the more it became a mystery to her, it was perplexing at the same time, to her Lydia was a woman of great intelligence and a good mother, the brief glimpses that she got after coming here clearly showed her that Lydia was not such an arrogant and vengeful woman who would harm others for no reason at all but - she shook her head, no, she wouldn’t delve on it anymore.She broke into a sprint and let the cool air whistle past her, her wolf uttered a low whine inside her, she wanted to run too. Feel the crunch of the grass under her paws and the soft caresses of the cold winds but she couldn’t - her playful and sweet wolf was trapped inside her and would stay the status quo unless the curse breaks - if it breaks, a twinge of guilt and heartache greeted her, she
Thalia’s eyes snapped open, cold sweat beaded her back. She had no goddamn fucking idea what her mother meant but Thalia was sure of one thing whatever her mother had planned, didn’t work because even years later she wasn’t free - they weren’t free. No wonder Carter had brought her back here, let his entire pack bully her before giving her a little taste of sweetness maybe this was his own f*cked up plan to let lure her in before making her fall and crush her apart.And he succeeded, he slowly but surely crumbled every wall that she had around her heart.. well that wasn’t entirely right either because she never had a choice about letting him in or not, no... Carter had swaggered right in her life, sledgehammered the walls she built around her heart to keep her fragile little heart safe before carving a comfy place in there that solely belonged to him.Now the very thought that he might have done it to see her crushed left a bit
Runaway? Yeah right. Thalia kicked the front of the car out of frustration. Because Carter had hardly driven this SUV, it wasn’t sent for servicing like the hummer which was why Thalia was stranded in the middle of nowhere after the stupid car broke down. Thalia looked left and right, she was pretty much the only pedestrian on the road which was good given that she had hunters on her neck and Carter on her back.Thalia shuffled through her duffle bag and she only had twenty dollars and some clothes, these twenty dollars will get her nowhere. She leaned against the car that was parked on the street and tried to steady her breath that was getting out of frenzy as she realized what she had done.She was an idiot, a fucking idiot.Why did she have to choose a car that was hardly used and why in the world did she leave the credit card Carter had given her? Apparently, her stupid pride to take the high road will only push her to her death even
Carter was here.“ So now what? Want me to open the door?” Dominic asked looking quite relaxed as if it wasn’t his door that was being banged like he hadn’t paid his rent for months. He continued to stretch out his hand, taking a handful of chips before popping them all in his mouth “ you better think it through girl, because if that hulk breaks my door I will be wanting compensation for it”Yup, a total gentleman his priorities were f*cking straight.“Open the door sugar, I know you are in there” chuckled Carter contrary to his silky, smooth tone that carried a hint of humourless laughter, the banging on the door was like a beast was standing outside yearning for their blood. It was a voice that chilled her to her bones, Thalia closed her eyes, breathing hard. And when she closed them, she saw could feel the anger that was radiating off Carter through the pack link, it was brutally filled with such truculenc
Thalia expected Carter to begin yelling the second they were out of Dominic’s door but he didn’t instead he kept dragging her. He remained silent throughout the entire journey to the parking lot, his silence was worse than his rage and as his grip on her hand tightened when she tried to yank it away from his grip, she knew that she was in a whole lot of trouble.“ you are hurting me” she snapped, the silence was biting. She wanted him to scream, raze anything that will show what was going on in his f*cked up head but he was too silent …a bit too silent and that scared her, in her entire plan being caught up by Carter wasn’t in and now Thalia had no idea how to this situation in her favour.In the parking lot, she could see three SUVs parked on the curb, from the many silhouettes that she saw through the windows let her know that Carter didn’t just come to look for her. No, he came hunting for her.. he actually mobilized every
Thalia tensed every muscle in her body locked up, she pushed against him trying to get away from him. She needed space but it was just her bad luck that Carter didn’t want to play the niche guy anymore, he didn’t let her go. Her mind was blank ..and she couldn’t think straight, he had gotta be kidding right? He had to be. Only he didn’t look like he was, that determined glint in his eyes clearly told her that he was serious, but she couldn’t believe it, there was no way the moon Goddess would make such a cruel joke right? She shook her head in denial “ No, it ..it can’t be. There is no way.,.. you can’t be”Carter laughed hard, but his grip on her arms was so harsh that he almost crumbled her bones, he jerked her straight and pulled her close until she was looking at him, nor past him or anywhere else for the matter. Her vision was full of Carter and Carter alone “ Sucks doesn’t it? Having a savag
“ Carter, wait” Thalia’s spine stiffened when Carter pushed her down on the bed, startled she looked at him but couldn’t hold that gaze for any longer. There was so much anger in those eyes that it burned her skin, she had done not a thing wrong .. that was what she believed all along and that was her only straw, her only belief that held her together against everything and everyone. The marks on her body were enough to make her look like a sinner and those who saw her, knew her believed it.. but Thalia always had a firm belief, that she never wronged anyone, the curse that she got was simply unethical and she didn’t deserve to suffer like this yet now all her credence and faith was being blown up into smithereens.Carter, of course, didn’t wait, instead, he loomed over her covering her body with his“ Do you know how hard it was for me? Hmm, sugar?” He repositioned her head so that she was looking at his face again, right
The loud snap of the whip on his back and the chains abrading his wrists, red hot pain roaring in his head as the claws dug in his scalp. The familiar rage and hatred pumped in his veins, a haunting voice murmured in his ears, the chilling taunts and the cold arctic blue eyes glaring down at him. The smell of blood and anger clogging the air - Carter sat upright in his bed, breathing heavily. The hatred and anger that was pent up in his heart clouded his mind. His wolf, paced back and forth releasing his own enraging growl, just as it lunged at the surface.Carter didn’t have these nightmares often, it was only when something or someone triggered the memories of his last that he would be like this- he closed his eyes to even out his breath just as his wolf realised that it was nothing more but a nightmare and settled in his pacing. He turned to look at the empty space beside him and released a frustrated snarl, he really couldn’t understand women, espe