The door of the en-suite bathroom was open yet there was no light flickering through the gap. Carter frowned as he slowly made his way towards the sobbing sound that was coming through the tiny gap and pushed the door further open, the sound of water and the smell of blood and tears jolted his mind awake. Startled he switched on the light and there she was, sitting in the bathtub with blood seeping out of her curse marks, her face buried in her knees and her shoulders trembling with an ache that was burning in his skin with just one glimpse.As he moved towards her, Thalia didn’t even flinch or move. It's like she wasn’t even aware that she was sitting in water that was too cold with darkness cascading upon her shoulders, she was crying while scrubbing the curse marks on her legs like she was trying to punish herself for something that she has done, seen, felt —— Shit.“ Darling?” He called out to her as he sat next to the bathtub and raised her head, her expression dead and cold. Jus
He wasn’t lying when he said that, she was indeed different to him than her mother, to him Thalia was just Thalia… with her stubbornness and untainted naiveness. “You are the worst liar, I know,” said Thalia as she closed her eyes and leaned against him. “ I am a carbon copy of her, if you were to take my curse marks off and take a look at my face, you will realise just how much I look like her.” She then struggled to get away from him and then walked back to the bathroom, he didn’t get a chance to stop her, no matter how many times he tried to stop her, she walked away and then climbed up inside the bathtub before she picked up the loofa and started scrubbing her skin once again. “ I am just like her, how can you even want someone like me and why? Just because I am your mate? You could have chosen anyone, any woman out there who will not cause you the same pain as me.” Her skin became red as the curse marks on her skin started to bleed red, which meant that she was hurting but sh
Finished wrapping her hands Carter looked at Thalia who was still huddled on the bed, still as shaky as ever. He pushed her down so that she could lay down on the bed, “ You need to sleep, darling.” Her electric blue eyes darted to his face as she reached out her wrapped-up hand and clutched his shirt, “ Don’t leave.” Her whisper was so damn broken just like the light in her eyes. “ I am so..sorry, I am so sorry.” He held her hands and sat next to her. “ I am not leaving, sugar, I am here.” Wiping the tears that she was starting to shed again, Carter whispered, “ You have nothing to apologise for, if anything I am the one who is sorry..” He shouldn’t have let her father take her away from him, nor should he have started this war between them that led her to be this insecure about him, about them. When he knew that it was one of those wars that he was going to lose.“ I am sorry, I forgot you,” she murmured clenching his hand in her, her lips wobbled as she turned to look away from
Thalia didn’t remember how it happened and when she even got in Carter’s arms, all she knew was that one second she was on the bed reeling in the realisation that he was her mate and the next second she was in his lap, fingers entangled in his hair as he kissed her —— so hard that he sucked the breath out of her lungs. Eager to claim him as hers, she clawed off his clothes … Carter wasn’t too behind either, he growled against her mouth and scraped off the hoodie off her body but even though he was on the verge of losing control, he wasn’t hard on her, even though his primal urge was of claiming her was riding his senses, he still didn’t lose control. A mate like him, how could she not claim? She pushed him on the bed and slid down until she was on a level with his cock, she needed his cock in her mouth, wanted to feel her mouth around his cock. Thalia wasn’t someone who would be alright about taking the lead but tonight it was about them and she was going to celebrate it in her own
The pain slowly turned from a full-blown smack in the head with a baseball bat to a smooth throbbing sensation, as the pain smoothed down, the mating bond between the two started to pulsate. Carter felt a distinct amount of emotions slam into him with the fading of the throbbing sensation —- relied, wonder, fear and satisfaction. Every single one of these emotions zapped into the very corner of his existence, he knew that once the mating bond was settled his existence would be pretty much complete, given that she was the other half of his soul but this —— this was something that he has never experienced before. It made him wonder just how much power brimmed within a mating bond. Before this, he never found any meaning in his life but now he did —— her presence anchored him in the present, giving him a sense of belonging like he has found the safe haven that he has been looking for all along, a feeling that he has never felt before not even when he established this pack. He rolled of
“ Oh Brad, why are you here?” asked Kim as she turned her head to look at the new arrival. “ Were you not with Caroline? What happened all of a sudden that you came here?” “It’s nothing, Carter called you,” answered Brandon as he looked at the canvas and took in the figure that was almost finished, something glittered in his eyes as he turned to look at Thalia and was then back to his usual self. “ And I thought I should congratulate my dear new Luna as well, you have suffered a lot sweetheart. I am glad that happiness is coming your way now.” “ Thank you,” feeling a bit uncomfortable because of his scent that was overwhelming her, Thalia nodded. “ I don’t think I deserve it but I am grateful for everything.” ‘“ What are you talking about?” said Brandon as he smiled at her before taking a seat in one of the empty chairs and it took everything in Thalia not to groan, it looked like Brandon was going to stay for a while and her wolf wasn’t happy about it. And if she was being honest,
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
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