Carter took her around the territory, as his cousin lived in the innermost part of the pack with the rest of his pack guarding him. The whole time Thalia looked around the territory hoping that she would remember anything, but not surprisingly she didn’t remember anything, it was frustrating but also kind of relieving, because she was sure that she wouldn’t have been able to walk on these paths if the laughter of the past echoed in her ears. As they approached the innermost part of the pack, Carter pointed to a house that was located on the outskirts of the pack away from the rest of the scattered houses of the pack in the territory. “ That’s where your parents use to live.” Thalia didn’t know why he told her about it because she was sure that she would have been fine without knowing anything but despite the internal resistance she was feeling, she still looked in the direction where he was pointing as the urge to resist couldn’t win over her curiosity. The house wasn’t big unlike t
Thalia didn’t know why someone was calling her but she still went with the child who was asking her to follow him. If Carter was there he would have told her that she was a fool to try something like that but at that moment she didn’t think that she will be harmed with so many guests in the house. “ There,” said the child pointing to the small space next to the staircase. “ He is asking him to come there to meet him.”Thalia frowned a bit suspicious of this ‘him’ who was calling for her but didn’t bother to even tell his name, she sighed and walked to the staircase. She too wanted to know who this ‘him’ was and in case this man was the one she has been looking for so long then —- her eyes narrowed, there were a lot of questions that she had in her head that she needed answers for, why did the man chase after her mother and what did he wanted from her? Who killed her mother and many more questions —- but just as she reached the small space that was next to the staircase, she saw that
Thalia’s breath hitched as she looked at the little boy who was tied to the wall with chains as she walked close and stopped in front of him. “ Is your name mate?”He didn’t say anything and Thalia narrowed her eyes as she pouted at him. Though the basement was still dark and she couldn’t see anything clearly, she was still able to make out the beautiful features of the young boy. He was dressed in dirty clothes and his eyes were dark as that bitter dark chocolate that she didn’t like to eat but her wolf was eager to know about him and so was Thalia, so she walked closer and then took in another glimpse of the boy. This time he looked familiar, a bit more than before—- she blinked her eyes and took out a handkerchief from the pocket of her skirt before approaching the boy.He turned his face away and she furrowed her brows as she unhappily glared at the ungrateful boy. “ I am trying to clean your face you look dirty.” The boy stiffened and then she took her chance to clean his face, h
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