Abigail's and Barbara's heads snapped in Willow's direction, their eyes wide in shock, “What did you just say?" They both gasped at the same time but beneath their surprise was excitement. They were just waiting for confirmation of what they'd just heard before they both would start rejoicing. Willow sighed. They just had to ask that and make her start thinking twice but she still went on to repeat herself, “I want to snatch Marshall from Rumi,"Abigail dropped her fork, used a napkin to wipe her mouth before she rubbed her palms together and prepared to give Willow her undivided attention, “I would rejoice but first, I need to know why you suddenly changed your mind?”Willow's eyes darted to Barbara and the woman was staring at her with an open gaze, also waiting expectantly for her answer but Willow suspected that Barbara already knew this it was because of what Rumi did and everything she said to her today. The woman just wanted to hear from her mouth directly. “I don't know” Wil
Barbara received a call in the car, and they had to drop her on the way where another vehicle was waiting to pick her up. Willow did not need anyone to tell her that Marshall was the one who called her. Willow had to go with Abigail. All the way down to where the party would be held, Willow's stomach was tight with anxiety and no matter how much she tried not to think about what might happen today at the party when Harrison saw her, her mind kept conjuring up different mad scenes. Each of them was worse than the last. She knew damn well that Harrison was going to blow hot when he saw her, but she did not care, or she did and was just trying to convince herself otherwise. Willow had told Abigail and Barbara that she would snatch Marshall, she would have to start working on that from today at the party. She could not waste any more time. One of Willow's sweaty hands strayed from her lap where she had them clasped together to the mating mark on her neck. She would have to reject Harr
Festivity was in the air and everyone was mingling when Abigail and Willow finally got into the place the event was being held. Everyone was dressed beautifully; men were in suits and women in beautiful and glittering dresses that could blind one's eyes. Willow took one glance around and thanked her stars that she allowed Barbara pick out good dresses for her. She had never been one to be out dressed at a party but she did not put her mind into dressing glamorously for this particular one.“Come on, let me introduce you," Abigail said to Willow as she took two glasses of champagne from a passing waiter and handed one over to her. “Okay” Willow received the glass of champagne, tipped her head back and emptied the whole thing. Her anxiety had disappeared after her discussion with Abigail in the car and the fact that she's finally made up her mind on what she wanted and set her goals, but she immediately became nervous once they got here. If Abigail had not been with her, she might have
Willow did not know why her first instinct was to run over to where Abigail was, but Willow decided to follow it. She believed that once Harrison saw her with Abigail, he would be too scared to do anything to her.She didn't understand why her whole body was vibrating with fear while the last time she saw Harrison, she could not feel any ounce of fear for him. In fact, she had wanted to kill him that day. Willow thought that it would remain like that forever, and she would be able to reject him easily but seems like she thought wrong. His alpha's dominance had returned with full force, she could feel her mating mark throbbing softly and also reacting to his presence. Willow hurried blindly across the room, brushing past and apologizing to people as she moved. She dropped her half-filled glass of champagne on a passing waiter’s tray before using her two hands to grab her gown up. Her mind told her to run and that's precisely what she was doing, except that… she bumped into someone, bu
Willow was past caring about where they were at the moment. She seemed to have forgotten that they were in the middle of a party and more than hundreds of alphas were there. If Harrison was going to go crazy, then they should do so together.Willow raised her chin higher, “You said you like my curves, that they are better than hers.” Willow's voice was loud, attracting a few frowns and glances. “Am I lying? Tell me you haven't told me before that my curves are better than hers?”Harrison's eyes turned red, and he lifted his hand to hit Willow, but someone bumped into her from behind, spilling his drink on her from shoulders downwards, and causing her to move forward and hit Harrison's chest.Willow gasped in shock as someone bumped into her from behind, and she felt something cold and wet wipe her neck exactly where her mating mark that had been covered with layers of makeup was. The person not only wiped that place with something but also spilled his drink on her. Willow stepped bac
Willow was thankful that no one else stooped her as she fled from the room. She found a quiet passage and a tall man standing in front. He was dressed in black clothes and looked like a security man, so she stopped to ask him for the bathroom’s direction.Willow stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom as she stared at her reflection. She still looked as beautiful as she was when she left the house, but her dress was ruined. Half of it was still off-white, while the rest was red. She was angry and at the same time she felt ashamed. Everyone now knows that she and Sophia were Harrison's mate. She would never be able to return to the party because she would be the center of attention.She wondered who sent that man and what they hoped to accomplish by exposing her as Harrison's mate. She did not know anyone here, so she was so sure that it was Harrison the person had been targeting, it just couldn't be her. Harrison must have offended someone who wanted revenge, and now she was cau
The mark was a hickey, a deep red one, and it looks like whoever left it there had too much fun playing with that part of her neck.Willow saw red as a picture of Marshall's head buried in Rumi's neck the way it had been in between her legs appeared in her head, and she felt like grabbing Rumi's head and bashing it against the wall until the wall turned bloody red.It was only a little more push she could take before she finally lost it and had someone killed, and that person might just be Rumi who has been pushing her buttons since they first met. Willow pushed herself away from where she was leaning against the toilet sink and marched over to Rumi. She grabbed her strongly by the elbow and began to drag her out of the bathroom.“What the fuck are you doing?” Rumi spluttered in rage as she struggled to be free from Willow's hold, but it only tightened, “Leave me the fuck alone!”“You better leave here, Rumi, because I swear to the moon goddess, I might just end up killing you and fl
“Oh honey,” Abigail's voice was sad, “I understand that you are hurt but if you have decided that you want to return home, I will help you.”“Thank you, Abigail. I don't know what I would have done without you,” Willow knew she owed Abigail big time. If not for this woman and Marshall, who took her away from Harrison on the day she attacked him, she might be in Harrison's pack's prison by now. Adele would never have spared her if anything had happened to Harrison, and Harrison wouldn't have spared her either if he had survived her attack. She was going to repay the woman back someday.“So what's the next step now?” Barbara asked as she bounced on the balls of her feet.Willow clasped her hands together in front of her, “I'm going to walk back in there and reject him in front of everyone. I'm the victim here, not him. I'm tired of hiding while he walks around freely with Sophia hanging on his arm. I should be the one with him, not her, but unfortunately, it can never be me. His dominan
Dear wonderful readers of mine,If you are seeing this that only means you read this book until the end. I just want to tell you how great you are for reading my story and how much I appreciate it. So many things happened while creating this story and I never thought I would complete it, but I did and it was only possible because I knew you were following my story and waiting for it next chapter.My new story has been made available by my editor recently, Chasing His Contracted Wife. Real updates would start next month while I also try to complete my ongoing books. Looking forward to seeing you read my next books.I hope you loved Scarlett and Liam's story and also, Willow and Marshall's story. Thanks for coming this far with me.Thank you so much.
There was no going back now. It's been six years since she agreed to drop all of her past behind and focus on her future which happened to be Marshall. Six fucking years since she let Scarlett convince her to follow her heart and be with Marshall and Marshall had never done anything to make her regret it.It was really funny how she was the one they convinced and pushed Scarlett to return back to Liam and years later, Scarlett did that same thing for her. She learned one lesson from this: it was wonderful to have good friends around that would push you to keep going when you wanted to give up. It was great to also be a good friend.Her life with Marshall has been filled with laughter, love, joy and different adventures. That night she had taken the bold step to first mark Marshall as hers was the first and not the last wonderful night she's had. The both of them had turned off their phones and spent the next three days just being together and getting to know more of each other. Ther
“You smelt and tracked me down? But I was with Harrison back then and second chances mates can never identify or smell each other while they are still with their first mate except after rejection or the other dies. If you really smelt me, why didn't I do the same?” A tiny frown creased Willow's brows as she thought back to the day Marshall first walked up to her in the garden. He had said that she was “Her”. She had thought he was referring to her being Harrison's mate, she thought wrong.This time, Willow let go of her fork, ignoring Marshall's disapproving look as she folded her hands across her chest.Marshall's eyes darted from her face to the fork, “You should eat.”“I need answers. I will eat when I've gotten them.” how did he know back then and she didn't?Marshall looked ready to argue but he thought better about it. “Fine. I'm not a regular werewolf like you and…”Willow interrupted him and asked the question that had been on her mind for the longest time, “What are you?” “
Willow squirmed in her seat and her hand shook as she carried food to her mouth. After the deep toe curling kiss Marshall gave her at the door after convincing her to stay with him in the beach house for the next three days, they moved to the patio at the back of the beach house where their dinner was waiting for them. According to Marshall, there was an older woman in the house who prepared the food and set out the table. She left the moment he notified her that they were close to give them their privacy.Since they sat down to eat, Marshall had not taken his eyes off her. Not even when he was eating or reaching for his glass of wine. At first, she thought he would take his eyes off her but after eating a little of his food and emptying his glass of wine, he did not move to pour out more for himself. Instead, he set the glass and his fork down and placed his full attention on her, causing her to be uncomfortable.When Willow couldn't take it anymore and felt like he was purposely doin
“We are here."By the time they got to their destination, Marshall had made her come twice. Her body was shaking in pleasure and her mind was lost in ecstasy, he had to repeat himself.“We are here,” his voice was firmer, dragging her out of the haze she was in.Willow stiffened and her eyes that were closed in pleasure snapped open and she brought down her head that had been titled back to look out of the window as she tried to hard her red cheeks. She was surprised at the fact that he was speaking so calmly after making her come twice in a roll. He did all this while driving them to wherever it was that he was taking her to dinner. The man deserved a round of applause. She could feel her wolf just below the surface, fighting to be let out but Willow shoved her back down. Her wolf was super excited, she might push Willow to jump Marshall inside the car and it would just be so shameful when her wolf retreats later and leaves her alone. It wouldn't be so bad, they were mates after al
Willow halted in her steps as she came out of the pack house and found Marshall leaning against the hood of his car right outside the building. He has his hands shoved inside his pants pocket and his eyes that have been staring at the floor immediately looked up at her as if he smelt her and knew that she was standing there — maybe he did.“Why did you stop?” Scarlett who was beside her whispered.Willow cleared her throat but did not take her eyes off Marshall to look at her friend who she knew must be wearing a teasing expression right now, “Nothing,” she began to move after that. Taking the stairs one after the order, all her attention focused on putting one leg in front of the order and now dropping to the ground in a puddle because of the way Marshall was staring at her as she walked up to him.“Enjoy yourself and don't come back. Make babies, I'm old enough to be an aunty.” Scarlett who has stopped walking with Willow raised her voice and said just before Willow heard her recedi
Willow grumbled under her breath as she dragged herself up from the bed and walked to the door to throw it open. After Scarlett left, she spent a few minutes or hours just staring at the ceiling with her kind roaming here and there, just thinking until she fell asleep. Now, she was woken up by loud knocks on her door. If she was not in the pack house, she would have known that it was one of the maids in the house, she just hoped that it was not about work. She risked a glance at the wall clock and saw that it was evening already. In an hour or two, it would be dark outside.Willow ran her hands through her hair to arrange it. She did it subconsciously and caught herself immediately. Why had she done that? It was just one of the workers knocking or even Scarlett so why would she try to arrange her appearance? No, she was not hoping that it was Marshall.“Oh, yes you are.” Her wolf taunted.“No, I'm not.” Willow snapped as she reached for the door knob.“I won't judge.” Her wolf snicker
Willow frowned, “Then what would you say?”“Well,” Scarlett gave a little shrug of her shoulder as she looked away, “He wanted to see you so he is here.”“And I would say you are lying, Scarlett.” Willow said as she shot Scarlett a hard glare.Scarlett looked at her then, “Does it really matter how he got here, Willow? What matters is that he is here and he is your second chance mate. Even if I was not expecting it, it's a bonus point. This is your opportunity, Willow. Your opportunity to find happiness. Let go of your past and embrace your future.”“He has a fucking chosen mate, Scarlett. Like Harrison, he already has a mate so there is no embracing of the future here.” Willow's voice shook at the end and she felt pressure at the back of her eyes.Scarlett frowned at her, “What mate are we talking about here?”“Don't act like you don't know the mate I'm talking about. Rumi!” Willow snapped, her heart twisting with pain.“So you were really serious when you said you were going to be s
Willow's heartbeat immediately picked up speed and began to beat wild and fast against her ribcage. Her heart was threatening to burst and spill out of her chest. Willow has only felt like this once in her life and that was the day she met Harrison and found out that he was her mate and the person she was destined to love and be with for the rest of her life. She was feeling like that again because of one person and it was this unknown alpha who was sitting with his back to her and talking to Liam.Willow had the urge to run up to him and curl up into his arms, sniff his scent and claim him as hers but she squeezed her hands into fists and held herself back. No way in hell was she going to be taking in a second chance mate, not after everything that happened between her and Harrison. She was going to move on with her life like she was already doing without looking back. Who knows if this alpha already have a mate too? Wolf forced her wolf down and warned her to behave.Willow knew th