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2024-10-29 19:42:56[Valerie]
The beige cashmere dress Layla borrowed me hugged my belly like a second skin. I hated showing off my growing pregnancy, not because I was ashamed of my child, but because I didn’t have the answers to the questions about who or where its father was. In the few days I resumed college, I noticed the stares every time I took my coat off, and didn’t appreciate the whispers that drifted to my ears. Even those who were rather friendlier with me now grew suspicious when I didn’t have the answers to their questions, so I was hesitant to go to this party they were throwing in my honor.“You are beautiful, Valerie,” Layla peeped out from the bathroom, steam from the shower she just had seeping out from behind her.“Hm, I’m not sure,” I mumbled as I turned before the full-length mirror, “I mean, don’t you think it’s a bit too tight?”“Nonsense!” she shot, padding into the room withRelated chapters
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[Alexander]We hit a breakthrough, at last. It was just as Mother Selene had said - the witch, Camilla, would lead me towards a way I could protect Valerie and our child.My phone was buzzing on my lap, and for the umpteenth time that week, I ignored the call. It was my father. I wasn’t sure if I could trust him with the information that my mate had once been his target - a hybrid child. For all he knew, she was lost in the fire, just as he had planned. And until I was sure that the spell in the journal - a spell that had not been tested yet - could work, and most importantly, if Valerie would be willing to try it out, I had little desire to speak to dad.I had clearly seen the fear in Valerie’s eyes - fear not for me, but for my father, who was responsible for the death of her parents. In all honesty, it ate me up with guilt, knowing I’d have been old enough to understand if only I had known. Perhaps there was a way I could have stopped my father. B
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[Valerie]I woke up to the sound of bleep-bleeping, my ears and mind waking up before my eyes did. I blinked frantically, adjusting my eyes to the unfamiliar brightness of some room I was in.A sharp pain seized my temples, and when I shut my eyes again only to regain some semblance of stability, I opened them again to find that I was laying down on what seemed to be a hospital bed. I confirmed it when I tried to shuffle into a seated position, and the restraints of a thin tube that disappeared into the top of my hand made it difficult. I followed the pipe with my eyes to where it was hooked up to a drip stand and realized I was in a hospital.The clothes on my back were not my own. All around the shirt were little blue circles bearing the hospital name, and I lifted a piece up to my eyes to read what that name was. San Ramon Medical Cen. I was in Danville.Groaning, I sat up on my elbows, feeling the way my throat was dry. On the bedside table was a sealed bottl
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[Alexander]“Well, congratulations, Alexander. Your mate is expecting twins.”Dr. Singh’s revelation played in my mind over and over again as I paced the hall. I wondered what was taking Amelia so long in there, and if everything was fine. By the look of pure joy on Dr. Singh’s face, I knew that Val was okay, but still, I worried.Layla had left the waiting room to take a call. On any given day, I would have wondered who was calling her this time of the night and would even have grown suspicious. But I had learned that the witches weren’t really our enemies and warmed up to the idea that she and I could be friends. After all, we both had Valerie’s best interests at heart.Adam must have been able to leave Pleasant Hill to go home. He’d given the journal to Amelia, who had passed it on to me before she went in to check up on Valerie. I had to admit, I felt as if I needed some checking up on myself from the way my cheek tin
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[Valerie]As soon as I learned that Alice was carrying twins, I felt a spark of hope. Not because soon after her story ended in tragedy, but because the journal didn’t end in empty pages. There was hope.Our stories were hauntingly familiar, so the thought of ours ending the way theirs had, did scare me. I had just finished the last bit of her entries tonight and turned to Alexander to question him about what happened next.He was where he’d been most of the day - sitting on that chair next to the hospital bed. Sometimes he’d drift off into the deepest, soundest sleep, and I’d get to watch him, just as I did now. If there was no threat of us being found out - or me being found out - I would have chosen to spend the rest of my life watching him sleep like this, his face becoming near-angelic, his lips parted ever-so-slightly, and his thick, dark lashes fanning his cheeks. He must have sensed that I was watching him, and his lips curled into a sm
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[Alexander]“You’re taking me back home?” Valerie sounded disappointed, even though her voice was much firmer than before. I wanted today to be a surprise, and despite the forlorn look she’d given the sign that indicated we were fifteen miles from Pleasant Hill, she was trying very hard not to give it away in her voice.“Technically, we’re just passing through.”“Passing through? Then where are we going?”“You’ll see,” I was quite chuffed with myself, having been able to keep this particular secret from her, even though it had been on my mind for so long, kept me up at night ever since Amelia helped me pick out the perfect style. I’d been planning this for quite some time, and today seemed like the perfect moment. But first, there was something I needed to do.“Where are we going?” Val asked as I headed towards Pleasant Hill Cemetery. I cleared my throat, trying not to
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[Valerie]I guess you could say I was more excited about Layla coming over than I was looking forward to Alexander’s visit tonight.It wasn’t because I wasn’t excited to see him again. In fact, we’d just seen each other the night before, when he urged me to read my mother’s part in the book.---We’d been sneaking around for almost a week. Between classes and when my day ended, we saw each other. We could barely keep our hands off each other, but the best part? We couldn’t keep our eyes off one another. It was those endless gazes, those silent moments, those featherlight grazes of our fingers on each other’s skin, that curled my toes and left butterflies in my tummy. With every day that passed since the day he asked me to marry him, we were finding it harder to stay apart.It wasn’t until last night when he promised to come over to see my parents, that he urged me to finally get around to reading the rest
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[Alexander]I hadn’t slept a wink last night. I have been doing well over this past week in terms of sleep, work and life in general. But tonight, I was just a nervous wreck.Valerie and I had agreed that I would do things the way any normal couple wanting to get married would; by asking permission from her parents. But that wasn’t exactly something I was looking forward to. And it wasn’t because I wasn’t determined to make her mine forever, with our loved ones as witnesses, but because if I closed my eyes, I was still able to feel my cheek stinging from the punch I’d received from her father.I had to admit, it warmed my heart knowing they cared so much for her. But it worried me that they cared enough that they wouldn’t see me as a fit husband for her. It was as if the fact that I was the father of her kids didn’t matter to them. They knew who I was, who my father was and what he had done to her family, and that made
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[Valerie]I couldn’t control myself. I ran towards my father and fell at his feet with tears rolling down my cheeks uncontrollably. I had never realized, until this very moment, how much he truly cared for and loved me.I felt like I had failed as a child. I had often looked at them with anger, hurt, thinking that I wasn’t loved the way others were loved by their parents, and when I found out that I wasn’t actually theirs, I was consumed with a disappointment that now held no weight at all.I had been stupid all along. Suddenly, I was being surrounded by the type of love I had always dreamed of, and even then I had shoved those dreams far into the back of my mind, believing that I was never destined for a grand love. But now things were seemingly coming in full-circle, but one problem still remained.Arthur Young.My nemesis - the man who was responsible for stealing my parents away too soon. And the cherry on top? He was my fated mate&rsqu
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[Valerie]If I thought I was full of nerves before, I really had no idea what I was in for the afternoon before my wedding.Everything around me was moving fast, and the women who’d seemingly taken up residence in our small, two-bedroom house were moving faster.“Where are the dresses?!”“Where are Valerie’s shoes?!”“Did anyone call the makeup artist?!”Questions like these were flying around, the air thick with the agitation I was sure everyone was feeling. But all the preparations seemed to overshadow me, and in some ways, I was thankful for that. I didn’t quite like being the center of attention, and with only a few hours left before that became inevitable, I sneaked into my room, quietly locked my door, and laid down on my bed.My belly was huge by now, and if I looked up while laying down, it was as if I was staring at a mountain. Watching my babies grow day by day made me miss my mate eve
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[Alexander]I had promised Adam one last hunt before the wedding. I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it, but after all, it was only a few more days until I’d get to wake up next to Valerie every morning for the rest of my life.Over the past couple of days, I’d been packing away some of the clothes I had in my closet, making space for Valerie’s things. The small, abandoned town in Walnut Creek wasn’t exactly ready to be lived in, and I had contracted some builders to redo the dilapidated walls and tile the floors. I’d told them to leave the walls unpainted because it sounded like a good idea to do it myself.I’d been spending most of the day organizing some work files that I was planning to give to Adam while he stood in my place at Young Industries. It was only temporary, while Valerie and I would spend our honeymoon in Greece.Valerie didn’t know about our trip. I’d managed to keep it a secret, and thought
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[Valerie]With less than two weeks to go before the big day, I didn’t have much time left. I’d been putting off going to see Camilla in Oakridge for far too long, and decided that if I didn’t do it today, it would never get done.I wasn’t planning on visiting her alone. I was expecting Layla to accompany me, but she was taking longer than expected to come out of her dorm room. It was only when she finally emerged that I realized what was holding her up.Selena’s cheeks reddened the moment she saw me standing outside. I hadn’t seen her in a while, since I wasn’t allowed to hunt, and was too busy with wedding preparations to meet with her. I was guessing that Layla finally found the courage to speak to her, and it didn’t bother me at all. However, Selena looked like a bear caught in a trap.“Hi, Selena.” I waved from the corridor. “How’s everyone doing?”Selena seemed taken aback by
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[Alexander]I couldn’t wait to get back from work and visit Valerie that evening. It was as if the moment we were given the green light to go ahead and get married; it had become increasingly difficult to stay away from each other.I was just about to pack my things away and leave the office when I saw Adam making his way towards the door. Putting my phone in my pocket, I stood up and picked up my suit jacket from behind my chair.“Hey man!” Adam grinned as he entered the office.The rest of the building had cleared out, with Melissa giving me a curt nod before she left. News about my marriage had spread through the town, and once Melissa heard about it, she’d given in her resignation. For the most part, I was glad. That one very awkward and meaningless kiss we shared on impulse wasn’t exactly a fond memory, and even while I suspected she was leaving because any hope she ever had before had been stripped by the news that I was gettin
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[Valerie]** Two Weeks Later **The day we planned on saying our vows to each other and sealing our souls together into forever was near. I highly doubted that it was nerves for the big day that had me throwing up that morning, or the fact that we were going out shopping for dresses.We’d picked the date - fourth November, the birth of a new moon, as well as the birth of our unification. With just a little less than three weeks to go, planning for the big day was well underway. Everyone seemed to accept that we wanted to do this as quickly as possible, but the only trouble seemed to come from Alexander’s mom, who refused to settle on some private affair. I supposed she had big dreams for her son’s big day - after all, he was the eldest of her children.All the planning didn’t matter much to me. The color of the drapes, the length of the aisle, the style of the dress - seemed insignificant when I was doing the most important thing of all; I
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[Alexander]I didn’t want to leave Valerie alone with my father, but she seemed much braver than I was. In fact, I didn’t know why I felt as afraid as I did when I knew that there was no way he could harm her. Besides, he didn’t know the truth yet, and even if he did, he wouldn’t hurt her here, anyway.I couldn’t hear them speaking behind the thick oak door sealing my father’s office, as much as I strained my ears and tried to listen. I wondered why dad needed to speak to her alone, and I could only hope that they weren’t fighting, or dad wasn’t saying anything to upset her.From the kitchen, mom called out to me and reluctantly, I stopped pacing the hall and went to the kitchen. Amelia was helping mom, while Layla played with my niece in her arms. If you asked me, it was possible for our kind to live in harmony with witches. But as the days passed, Layla was becoming less like a witch, and more like a human. But her tho
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[Valerie]I couldn’t control myself. I ran towards my father and fell at his feet with tears rolling down my cheeks uncontrollably. I had never realized, until this very moment, how much he truly cared for and loved me.I felt like I had failed as a child. I had often looked at them with anger, hurt, thinking that I wasn’t loved the way others were loved by their parents, and when I found out that I wasn’t actually theirs, I was consumed with a disappointment that now held no weight at all.I had been stupid all along. Suddenly, I was being surrounded by the type of love I had always dreamed of, and even then I had shoved those dreams far into the back of my mind, believing that I was never destined for a grand love. But now things were seemingly coming in full-circle, but one problem still remained.Arthur Young.My nemesis - the man who was responsible for stealing my parents away too soon. And the cherry on top? He was my fated mate&rsqu
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[Alexander]I hadn’t slept a wink last night. I have been doing well over this past week in terms of sleep, work and life in general. But tonight, I was just a nervous wreck.Valerie and I had agreed that I would do things the way any normal couple wanting to get married would; by asking permission from her parents. But that wasn’t exactly something I was looking forward to. And it wasn’t because I wasn’t determined to make her mine forever, with our loved ones as witnesses, but because if I closed my eyes, I was still able to feel my cheek stinging from the punch I’d received from her father.I had to admit, it warmed my heart knowing they cared so much for her. But it worried me that they cared enough that they wouldn’t see me as a fit husband for her. It was as if the fact that I was the father of her kids didn’t matter to them. They knew who I was, who my father was and what he had done to her family, and that made
