"What the fuck are YOU still doing here?!" Jace growls as soon as I step out. He's shirtless now and angry, so he looks fucking... he looks very good, actually. Just like Leo but with a mean, uglier face and big bulging muscles. I prefer Leo, of course, but I have to admit this guy is ripped. "My name is Jolene," I say, ignoring his snarling. He's not that scary now that I witnessed him get fucking dumped. He’s just as lame as the rest of us, "We have an enemy in common: Bea." "What? Bea is not my fucking enemy," he says, clasping his fists and starting to walk towards me. I move until I'm behind a couch, putting it in between us for safety in case he wants to jump and bite my head off, literally, "Get to fuck out of my house!" "Shh, shh, boy, down!" I order, because I'm clearly dealing with a rabid fucking dog. The way he looks at me... yeah, he wants to eat me, "Do you even have a brain? Can we have a civil conversation?" "Why the fuck would I want to have a civil conversati
Three people walk in on us before Jace can get away from me. But he doesn’t get away from me, he actually grabs me by the face and throws me way too hard, so I fall on the floor, directly over someone's feet. “Ouch,” I say, because that shit hurt. A lot. "Oh, my goodness, Jacinto," the woman gasps and she grabs my arms to pull me up like I weight nothing. I realize, this is Leo's mom, "Are you alright, girl?""No, he... he chocked me, punched my stomach and threatened me with torture," I lie, because why not? Fuck Jacinto, he's my number one enemy now. Bea can become my sister wife, I will kindly accept her if it means Jacinto will suffer, "I'm just a human, he's so much stronger than me. Ow, I think I need a doctor.""She's fucking lying! I just threw her to the floor,” Jace tries to defend himself, but Leo's mom rubs my arm protectively. That's when I notice the other two people. Archie and a beautiful girl, looking at Jace in disbelief. Something tells me that's Bea. Oh, no, she'
{ Leopoldo }My door hasn't stopped being knocked, for hours. I don't know if it's still Jolene or someone else, but they can't fucking leave me alone. I'm hiding under the blankets. I'm starving, but I don't care. I don't give a shit about my health anyway, I don't care to be strong or a good Alpha. No one in here deserves a good Alpha. Fuck all of them. At some point, my door starts rattling and when the door handle falls to the floor, I groan because I know someone managed to get to me. Fuck this place. Fuck my family. Fuck my fated mate. I hate everyone.I hate them. I hate them. "Hi, Birdie," says a voice I know perfectly. My mom, "We need to talk.""Tomorrow. I want to be alone," I growl, holding my blanket harder to stop her when she starts pulling on it, "Stop, mom. Give me a fucking minute, god! I want to be alone!""No. You've been alone for three months. It's time you face your problems instead of running away from them," she says and then yanks the blanket at once. I w
{ Jolene } I wait until there's not much movement going on in the house. It's around nine PM now, I've been hiding in Leo's Lambo for four fucking hours. I'm so fucking hungry, I've been rationing the chocolate bar wrapping. I lick a bit of the chocolate every hour. But it's fully gone now. I need to go out before I die of malnutrition. I don't think I've ever gone this long without eating before. "Here I go," I murmur to myself when I step out of the Lambo. I crouch down and run to the house, begging not to be found this time. I'm already this deep in, I won't accept anything less than victory. I will leave here with Leo or not at all. I'll live in their walls and haunt them until I get what I want, like an evil spirit. The front door is open, but I don't think it's wise to walk through there, so I round the house slowly and carefully, until I reach another door, it looks like a kitchen door. Oh, thank god. There's no one inside at the moment, so I open the door and I let m
"But even though I hate it, I have to do it," Leo continues, defeated and sad. He's not outwardly blaming me, but I know he does, "So you should leave, because I won't. I'll stay here to deal with it." "But, what about us?" I ask in a tiny voice, not even looking at him because I feel that ashamed. I'm a bitch, a cunt and a whore, just like Jace called me. The worst of the absolute worst, times two. A few seconds later, I finally let myself look at Leo because he's not saying anything. He just shrugs, "You said you love me, when we were in the car." "I do love you," he whispers, not looking at me still, "And you are my fated mate, do you even know what that is?" "I saw a documentary," I admit, he looks at me with a very weak smile. It’s such a sad smile, "I understand it's a big deal for your kind. It means that we have to be together forever, right? You told me so in the car too, you said we're in this for life." "Yeah, but it's not like a requirement. This isn't a jail sentence
"I love you with my whole entire soul, Jolene," he says in that voice... that serious, deep voice that comes out when he's horny. It makes me stop and look back at him. His eyes are dilated. The energy has become heavier, "Wolf and man, we both love you so much." "You're the wolf, right?" I ask, so fucking... fascinated. He nods and my stomach does a summersault, "You're the serious voice that comes out of him when we're fucking." He smiles and pulls me closer, and I let him do it. I have no way of stoping him. Not even physically, but… emotionally. I don’t want to get away from him. I feel like I should stay here forever, actually. In his arms. "I am," he says, looking down at me with so much love in his eyes, there's no way of doubting it or denying it, "I've always loved you. I recognized you as my mate since the first time, Jolene. You are meant to be mine." "Then why are you letting me leave?" I ask, pouting in disappointment, but he frowns as if he doesn’t get what I’m sayin
"I'm happy you're the man I get to spend my whole life with," I whisper, "I couldn't imagine myself with anyone else.""That’s good, because you can't have anyone else. No other homeless man," he mutters, making me frown. "I mean, I know that's your type.""Shut up," I growl and punch his arm. "You're not homeless, Mr. Alpha Prince. This place is huge.""Hey, I didn't lie about that. I told you my family was rich," he defends himself, "But I really didn't have a home in Dharma, so technically I was homeless.""Whatever. Now you're a prince, and that's all that matters," I say and move closer to hug him. We stay like that for a long time, just in silence, "God, I need to sleep for a million hours. Today was so stressful.""Tell me about it," he mutters into my hair, hugging me back, "Jolene, just one last time because I have to make sure... are you really, actually sure you want this? Staying here with me, being my fated mate, my Luna, and living among werewolves for a long period of t
"Can you let your wolf out just for a second so I can yell at him? why the fuck would he do this?!" "On our defense, you were begging for more," Leo murmurs, giving me a sheepish look, "Also, I didn't know you stopped taking the pills. You're probably pregnant already then." I have to close my eyes and focus on my breathing. Is that why I was so hungry today? I ate four slices of pizza down in his kitchen. I don't know if days of pregnancy get you that severely hungry, but I was. Strangely, I don't hate the thought of being pregnant. I'm kind of freaking out, but not like I thought I would. I mean, I never actually considered the reality of having a kid, but I don't hate the idea that much. Slowly, Leo's weird dick starts going down and I finally feel a little normal again. He pulls out of me and I close my legs as soon as I’m free of him. "We're not having sex again, not until my pussy can recover," I say as he sits down next to me, grabbing his head as if he's also freaking
The next morning I stay in my room not knowing how to proceed going forward. Should I continue with my plan of invading every little aspect and area of Jace’s life until he can’t think about anything but me? Or do I save my pride and do my best to disappear from his life altogether?Right now, honestly, I want to preserve my pride. So I call an employee and ask for a driver so I can just waste my time somewhere else, not in this house. I take myself on a breakfast date and then I go on a walk, enjoying the fresh scent of nature. Being in that house where Jace’s scent is all around me has been hard, so I let myself enjoy this open space that doesn't smell like Jace in the slightest.Little by little, I start to feel better and less humiliated. Fuck Jace for embarrassing me yesterday, calling me a weird stalker and a bitch. But, mark my words, I'll show him some embarrassment one day. I don't know how or when, but I swear I'll make him feel like this. I sit on an empty bench and then
What? I just look at Beatrice for around half a minute, trying to understand if she's being serious or not. She just crosses her arms and looks at me with her big blue eyes, waiting for an answer. If we are being serious, the truth is that even I don't have that answer for myself. I don't know why she generates so many feelings in me, so much rejection… But I don't want to be serious with her. Why? I simply don’t feel like it. So I’ll give her the simplified, assholish answer. "Because you're weird," I say, opening my arms in surrender. I can tell she wasn't expecting that because she takes a literal step back, "You're very weird, and you're practically harassing me right now. I don't like being forced to do anything, but you looked me in the face and took a stance against me that first day we met, when you told me I would marry you even if I didn’t want it. In my opinion, that was a declaration of war. I don't like you because you're a fucking princess who has no business bein
{ Jacinto } Beatrice Cathalos is nothing more than a spoiled little princess who is used to getting everything she wants. And I don’t know what the hell is it about her, but she pushes every single one of my buttons without having to even do anything. Just her existing is enough for my system to go haywire. I don’t know why. But I hate it. I don’t like feeling all over the place, all out of control. I like my life simple and easy, and she’s neither of those. Of course, she felt hurt when she heard I didn't want to marry her, so she's been a little bitch to me since then, giving me disdainful looks every time I appear in front of her. The only good thing about Leo stealing my place as Alpha is that he'll be the one who has to marry Princess Beatrice instead of me. For the next two days, I don't have to face Beatrice at all because I'm searching for Birdie in Ramada Valley, but then I have to return home. And as soon as I come back, Archie takes my place searching... a
Jace didn't come back to the table after that final statement from moi, but Archie did. We drafted a contract as planned and I signed it. Archie promised me he would get Jace to sign it as well, so I left with my head held high. "What happened there?" My father asked on the way back home, "I know something did." "I had a conversation with the guys on my way back from the bathroom... the Garibaldi family is a very intriguing bunch, daddy. King Archibaldo is very smart and capable and Alpha Jacinto is just as intriguing as he is strong. I'm very excited to marry into this family," I admitted, looking out the window, trying not to focus on Jace's rejection too much. But only because of that comment I made on the way back, my father never gave up on the Garibaldi Pack. Not even when everything changed. When the omega Garibaldi brother turned out to be a True Alpha at the most random age, in the most random way. That only got my dad even more excited to marry me into that family.
{ Beatrice } I can't complain about my life, at all. I've never even had the need to complain. Everything I want, I easily get. I have a very close family that loves and cares for me and I have amazing friends. I have a good life in general. A little boring, sure, but I guess everyone gets bored sometimes. The only thing I want and haven't been able to get, is a man: Jace Garibaldi. But he's not just any man. He's an Alpha, a very strong and sexy one. He became an Alpha as soon as he came of age. He fought against a thirty-year-old man and won, at just eighteen years old. I was in Garibaldi with my parents for that Alpha Challenge and they allowed me to watch it. I guess you could say I developed a crush on Jace right then and there. I was just fifteen, but I knew he had to be mine one day. He just HAD to be, I felt it in my bones. So, when the opportunity of having him came up three years later, I took it. My father talked to me as he always does, in a completely
This is awful, I never, ever want to see it again. But everyone else around us is absolutely loving it, those fucking barbarians are cheering for their favorite like this is just a sport or something. I decide to keep my eyes shut for around ten more minutes, and then there's a huge collective gasp of horror. I open my eyes then and I see Jace shifting back to human -fully naked- to grab Leo's wolf form... his lifeless wolf form. "Jolene, what is-?" that's the last thing I hear. I feel everything going dark. When I wake up, there's chaos around me, my face is wet and Magda in my face. "She's okay now, let's go," she says and grabs me, basically carrying me away. I passed out I guess, "They're taking Leo to an ambulance, he's alive." "Everything is fine, Jolene, relax. It was all for show," Archie whispers in my ear and that brings a little life back to me. Right. Of course it was all for show, that was the whole point of it. I guess I just freaked out at the worst moment
Leo has been so busy lately, we haven't even talked about our baby or our future. We haven't fucking talked that much at all. So now I just cuddle against his body, taking advantage of the moment. "Be honest, do you think I'm actually pregnant?" I ask, hoping the answer is yes. And Leo starts nodding immediately, without even questioning it, "Good, that's good. Then yeah, we have to speed this up so we can have some vacations before we become parents." "You want to know the best part about this plan, Jolie?" he asks, smiling big and lifting a hand to brush my hair back, "We're going to be living on vacations, forever. There's absolutely no reason for either of us to work ever again. I mean, you are a millionaire, right? And, just between us, so am I." "Oh, really?" I ask in a stupid voice and I roll my eyes. "Yeah, but also... we're going to get a lot of free stuff here and there," he warns, as if I don't fucking miss it a lot, "Just because it's fun." "It really is fun," I
For the next stop, I have to ask around for my mom since she's not in her room as she should at this hour. So, I have to get out of the house and run into the greenhouse my mom adores, with all her little flowers. As soon as she sees me coming in, she smiles. "Hi, mommy," I say. Instantly, her smile drops and she squints her eyes at me, "Yeah, I want something." "What is it, Birdie?" she sighs, putting her flower scissors down to give me her uninterrupted attention without me even having to ask for it like I did with my brothers. "I have a plan that can make all three Garibaldi boys very happy. All of us," I say, she crosses her arms and says nothing as I try to let the words out. It takes me while because I'm nervous, but I tell her anyway. Starting with the fake death, ending with the annual family trip, "There's so many human places you'd love, mom, I want you to see them." "If I wanted to, I would've already," she says, but she stays quiet about the other part, "I don't lik
Lion throws a few pieces of clothing at my head, so I get up to put them on, too. As soon as we're both decent, we sprint out of the room and we go downstairs to the second floor. Leo leads me to a door, almost making me eat dirt a few times, then he starts pounding on the incessantly, as if it’s not fucking midnight. This man is on a rampage. "What?!" Bea asks as she opens the door, looking annoyed. She’s wearing cute pajamas and I have to fight the desire to roll my eyes, "Oh, hi, Leo... hi, Jolene. What's up?" "We need to talk to you. It's something very important," Leo says frantically, stepping into her room like a maniac. I just follow him, "Listen to me and do it carefully, would you like to marry Jace? Yes or no. No thinking, just say it." "Yes?" she says, but then she starts thinking it through, "But I can't..." "Shush," Leo says, Bea shuts up immediately looking up at him with wide, confused eyes, "You want to, that’s what you said. So, let's say he becomes the Alpha to