“ So what’s wrong, trouble in paradise already ?” Carter’s expression was grave as he strode past Alex who was waiting for him, obviously quite smug about getting under Thalia’s skin and his nerves, he was in no mood to play these games with his brother. Compared to the general population he disliked his brother a bit less but right now he would happily wring the latter’s neck. However, his silence did nothing of the sort to discourage Alex, instead, it only made him a lot more vociferous as the latter rushed after him “ If she is giving you this much stress then you should just dump her. I think that will save you a lot of worries, look at those strain lines”
The tip of Carter’s tongue prodded the inside of his cheek, as he licked his teeth that were itching to sink in someone’s throat and rip his windpipe out, pivoting around he faced Alex fully “ Listen carefully Alex, if you think that you will be able to g
Thalia walked past the dining table and took a seat on one of the stools in front of the kitchen counter. She loaded her plate with food and ignored the stunned glares that were directed her way, taking a bite of the extra salty eggs she turned to look at Kim who was darkly stabbing her own food, then she discreetly turned to look at the table. Taking no notice of the scowl that Carter that sent a shiver down her spine, she found what she was looking for Alex was seated on the table with a brat doll, Thalia didn’t know who that female was but she immediately took an instant dislike to her.She looked just as superficial and shallow as Scarlet and with her arms, shockingly locked around Alex even while eating and going by the contemptuous look she just shot her way, well they weren’t going to be best buds.“ Honestly, look at her” drawled Caroline from her chair looking at Carter with air very much similar to a mother in law “ She pla
Running from Carter was an impulsive decision but as Thalia ran past the meadow and the sparkling stream with Carter hot on her heels, she felt an edgy sensation rising in her body, and when she darted past the trees on the winding path that crisscrossed, she looked over her shoulder and what she saw made her to sprint even harder, she had been prepared for the dark glimmer that always flickered in his eyes but the expression on his face wasn’t exactly what Thalia could call bistered.Carter wasn’t in what she called his ‘zone’ whenever he was pissed but instead -she once again peeked over her shoulder, staring right at her with a blank expression that sent chills down her spine. A fear similar to prey being hunted crawled up and squeezed right in her heart because his eyes - they weren’t blank like his expression, no there was something in them that made told her that she shouldn’t get caught. Her wolf was growling in her head, discontent
Carter freed Thalia’s hands for a second but only to free one of his hands then he clasped her hands in one of his before collaring her throat with another “ done struggling , sugar?” When she struggled, he tightened his grip to which Thalia responded with a growl he reflexively released his own growl, rebelliously gripping her tighter as she pushed against him “If you are done, let's talk nicely”Thalia shoved him hard but he didn’t move, instead, he tightened his hold on her collar, not enough to cut off her air circulation but hard enough to relay the message that he was the one in authority right now. Her eyes flashed wolf as he unsheathed her claws and tried to reach whatever patch of skin she could to hurt him in retaliation “ You don’t want to talk Carter, you just want to mislead me by telling me your pretty lies.” She shook her head with a mocking sneer “ If you want to talk to me then tell me what&rsq
Thalia walked to the porch facing the pool where Brandon was sunbathing on a chair very much enjoying the warmth of the sun caressing his skin, seeing him so relaxed and at ease, Thalia felt a bit awkward about interrupting his rest but as if sensing a presence on his territory, Brandon’s eyes snapped open at first there was a fierce glint in his eyes like he was prepared to lunge at the trespasser who dared to invade his territory but when he saw that it was Thalia, his eyes warmed up and he beamed “ I was hoping you would come to see me, girl”Thalia smiled, veiling all her doubts and suspicions. She didn’t know if Brandon was playing a game with her but currently, he was the only one who could give her the answers that she needed, as she walked towards him, Brandon’s eyes crinkled even more like he was genuinely happy to see her “ I hope I didn’t disturb you?”Brandon shook his head “ Nah, you are fine. I was jus
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.”“ They w
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
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