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
The next morning Carter had taken her again before he had left her to join his pack’s enforcers to discuss the countermeasures regarding Alex’s accident and the music box, according to Carter the two things had a connection between them. As such it wasn’t until Thalia arrived at the main lodge where the pack was sitting together around the dining table that she saw Carter again discussing something really serious with his pack mates. Alex was also sitting next to him, though he would grimace ever so slightly once in a while, he too was taking part in the discussion with all seriousness. Thalia made her way to the main lodge but she had literally taken three steps inside the lodge when Carter appeared right before her, his expression was strained and she was about to ask him what was wrong but then he placed his hands on her waist and started pushing her back—— he was literally urging her to turn around and leave. When she narrowed her eyes at him, he gave her a forced smile. “ I thin
An hour later, she walked inside the main room of the pack hall and as she entered, she saw that most of the pack was gathered around the dining table, all of them looked very grief-stricken. Especially, Caroline who was shaken up until her entire face turned pale—- just last night the woman almost lost her son and now she received the news that her sister was dead, it was understandable why her eyes were rimmed red and her face was all puffy and splotchy. Thalia wasn’t good with grieving people, since she never got the chance to grieve anyone. She didn’t even remember how her parents died much less whether she cried or grieved their loss, she shifted from foot to foot before she headed towards Carter who was standing in the corner of the room in a pitch-black suit. She intended to say something nice but then thought against it, she didn’t know his aunt and though she was grieving it was because the deceased was Carter’s aunt and nothing else—- she was intending to say the typical ‘