ADDISONMy head snapped quickly to a towering male figure by the cell entrance, the movement was so quick I was afraid I had a whiplash.What could he be possibly doing down here? Don't tell me he was secretly involved with Carly.The pause amongst the girls was comical. Ophelia's left hand was in Carly's hair, her right hand was balled into a visibly tight fist in the air as she stood gaping at a furious Beta Ian. Paula's leg was hanging in the air ready to kick into Carly's back but stopped at the thundering male voice. Carly on the other side, was sitting on the floor, blood dripping on the floor, her hands extended to block out any assault from my girls.The silence dragged out for another one to three minutes, before Ian shattered the stillness with his booming Beta voice."I ask again, what is going on here?""Nothing much, we only stopped by to ask Carly here a few questions Ian, but she-" Ian cuts Ophelia off as she fumbles around for what to say. "What I need to know is what
I swear my eyes are shimmering with stars, as various alternative means to avenge the omega girl shuffled through my head. "You want her to suffer that much?" I was too busy glowing at the opportunity of dishing out Carly's punishment to notice the edge in Jace's voice not the suspicion on his face. "What can I say, my hate for that omega girl knows no bounds. As long as she's carrying your seed and putting our mating ceremony on hold? I'm licensed to hate her." "You do realize you're ridiculous?" Jace murmured, giving me the 'Are you serious' look. "If anything, you owe that little omega for saving you from living the horror of a mother losing her child." I scoffed crossing my hands under my boobs, effectively pushing it up his face. "Does it look like I fucking care? That girl lived with you when you expressly declared I couldn't until the mating ceremony. Then the omega rolls in because of the abominable child she carries." I snap leaning into his heavy mahogany table. Jace
CARLY WOODS "Do Omegas moan when they're having sex?" Addison Cobbler, aka 'Pack Slut' burst forth in laughter almost spilling her mouthful of Bourbon. I trained my gaze on the task of pouring bourbon neat into the glasses by the bar not daring to look in their direction. "How about Nate answer the question?" Ophelia, her super bitchy best friend giggled swatting Nate's bulged arm. Gamma Nate and I were fated mates but he rejected me on the spot a few months ago. He was embarrassed of me and his squad didn't hesitate to tease him over it. Hating my life, I took the drinks from the bar closer to the most powerful squad in the Brookside Pack in the private club where they hung out once in a blue moon. "How about Alpha Jace clear this doubt?" Alpha Jace's caramel blond head snapped from his phone at Addison, his girlfriend's smirking face. "It's a dare sweetheart," the drunk girl chuckled, "I'm allowing you one night of liberty before our wedding. This lowly runt is all y
ALPHA JACE Despite my best efforts to ignore this Omega she did things to heighten the burn in my loins. A chuckle almost left me as I watched her shrivel under the duvet pulling it above her head. Fighting the sting in my chest, I propped up on one arm to watch her still body, pretending to be asleep yet, her heart thundered in my ears. "What is your name?" I tugged the duvet from her flushed face. Her big brown eyes fluttered open, met mine, and instantly averted hers to beddings before she sat up causing the duvet to drop to her waist. "Carly." I'd never seen such luscious lips, skin that begged my hands to touch. Tits molded to scramble a lesser man's brain. Honey brown eyes cluelessly searching my face. This omega was such a sexual fantasy yet Nate chose to look the other way. I had studied her the entire night as she served, her innocence gave her an air of being off limits—to bastards like me. "Don't do that again." I sounded harsher and louder than intended.
CARLY WOODS "You don't look good, are you sick?"Mia, my best friend, observed as she loaded the dishwasher. I yawned, shook my head, and wearily rubbed my eyes. My mind became the worst place to be in. The previous night haunted my mind with guilt and fear. I should've been warned about the guilt that accompanied a reckless night. He marked me. Alpha Jace marked me. It happened in the heat of our recklessness. He never would want me. I knew the Alpha didn't want me yet I chose to act shamelessly. The handsome Alpha was getting married in the next full moon and I only wanted to sate my sexual curiosity. I did and it felt way better than I'd imagined it would be. Why couldn't things feel as easy as this?I heaved a sigh and worked on plucking the bird for lunch. "Did Mr. Harold yell at you?" Mia prodded. Mr. Harold was the head of the Omegas around here and the least of my problems at the moment. Jace being much sober that noon would never entertain rumors flying around the pa
CARLY WOODS"I need the test results this second." Jace's hardened face and eyes were solid on the doctor's face. I sat ramrod straight in the vast office, staring blankly at the stout doctor who walked in from the lab with the test results in hand. "It's positive, right?" Jace looked more eager to know the result—too eager to get a positive than I ever could be. But why?He made it clear he didn't want anything to ruin his big day but why this attitude?"Congratulations," the doctor gave a brisk smile that didn't meet his eyes. The congratulations wasn't directed at me but to the grim-faced Alpha which made him seem to relax for the first time that evening. "That can't be!" I countered springing to my feet. "I can't be pregnant!" A teenage and an unwed Mom was so out of the equation. "That's impossible, run the tests again." My tone faltered with my empty gaze on the papers handed to me by Dr. Walters."We'll be on our way now."Jace snatched the results from my quivering hand
CARLY WOODS The home office door swung open and I stood gaping with my gaze locked on Alpha Jace's smoldering green eyes. He didn't look quite pleased to have me by the door considering the confidential meeting he had with Beta Ian. "What the fuck are you doing here?" "My apologies, I—I," I gulped, remaining silent, my tongue trapped to the roof of my tongue, unable to mentally sum up why I came here at first. Jace had a secret up his sleeve, the glint in his eyes suggested I was only floating on the surface. There was more to things. I needed to know more about this even though I could get in a whole lot of trouble if Jace knew I just eavesdropped on him. My features were expressive, instantly, I bucked up, and offered him a sweet smile that seemed to soften the rocks in his features. "I'd love to grab a few things..." He grabbed my arm in an unexpected move, tugged me away from his home office to the living area. His rapidly softening hold on my arms made it ap
ALPHA JACE "You're not listening, Addie." Ian tried to get Addison to look at things from our perspective. "What the hell do you mean she's pregnant? Game or not you've actually gotten another wolf, a runt pregnant!" Her accusing voice filled the home office. "Could you at least shut the hell up and listen more?" I matched her tone already irritated from everything that had happened in the last few hours. Everything felt good, went smoothly when planned but actually living out the plan felt more hazy, laced with headache and rage. Addison found it hard to recover from the shock, her face flushed from exertion, plumped-out lips hanging open with her gaze solely on me. "We're not getting married?" Her tone became instantly soft, fear momentarily crossing her blue eyes. This stabbed straight into my heart, I loved Addison. "That's not true, babe," I left where I stood by the window to take her hands, squeezing them reassuringly. "I love you and it's why we're doing this. I
I swear my eyes are shimmering with stars, as various alternative means to avenge the omega girl shuffled through my head. "You want her to suffer that much?" I was too busy glowing at the opportunity of dishing out Carly's punishment to notice the edge in Jace's voice not the suspicion on his face. "What can I say, my hate for that omega girl knows no bounds. As long as she's carrying your seed and putting our mating ceremony on hold? I'm licensed to hate her." "You do realize you're ridiculous?" Jace murmured, giving me the 'Are you serious' look. "If anything, you owe that little omega for saving you from living the horror of a mother losing her child." I scoffed crossing my hands under my boobs, effectively pushing it up his face. "Does it look like I fucking care? That girl lived with you when you expressly declared I couldn't until the mating ceremony. Then the omega rolls in because of the abominable child she carries." I snap leaning into his heavy mahogany table. Jace
ADDISONMy head snapped quickly to a towering male figure by the cell entrance, the movement was so quick I was afraid I had a whiplash.What could he be possibly doing down here? Don't tell me he was secretly involved with Carly.The pause amongst the girls was comical. Ophelia's left hand was in Carly's hair, her right hand was balled into a visibly tight fist in the air as she stood gaping at a furious Beta Ian. Paula's leg was hanging in the air ready to kick into Carly's back but stopped at the thundering male voice. Carly on the other side, was sitting on the floor, blood dripping on the floor, her hands extended to block out any assault from my girls.The silence dragged out for another one to three minutes, before Ian shattered the stillness with his booming Beta voice."I ask again, what is going on here?""Nothing much, we only stopped by to ask Carly here a few questions Ian, but she-" Ian cuts Ophelia off as she fumbles around for what to say. "What I need to know is what
ADDISON POVThe girls and I had our day all figured out. After the whole 'Carly stole my necklace display', the girls and I proceeded to Ophelia and Nate's room to put some plans on the ground.I couldn't risk going to my room cause Jace could easily find me there. He rarely goes to Ian's room much more to Nate's.Jace was easy to track down with his boring routine life, if he wasn't in his office working his ass off, he'd be in a meeting in his conference room or another pack for some alpha meetings or conference. Or he is in his mansion or training. Carly was yet to see what I'm made of. If she thinks she can walk into my perfect life and ruin everything I'd worked so hard to get, then she better be ready for the consequences.Pregnant or not I couldn't give a flying pink pig about that. After all that thing she was carrying was doomed the moment it was shot into her.It was pitiful seeing her try to protect that thing.My displeasure for omegas couldn't be imagined by any but the
CARLY WOODS POVIt was the early hours of the next day when Jace returned to do goddess knows what.After the fight with Jace, I was tired out so I fell asleep on him.In a way, his presence had eased the anxiety, and agitation I felt when I was first cast down here. The cozy robe he draped over my shoulder was warm and comforting, and I found myself snuggling into its warmth and taking a not-so-subtle whiff of his manly essence.We settled side by side on the hard concrete floor. Jace didn't seem to mind the unkempt state of the prison floor, if anything, he was calm, way too calm.I was still pissed at him for what he did but there was a sliver of amusement in my eyes when he tried defending himself.The fight started as a benign argument that swiftly escalated into a harsh confrontation that had me breathing hard like I was in a race.The ache in those leafy eyes when I accused him of having a part in Addison's ploy almost had me pulling back but I was too irritated to stop, too st
CARLY WOODS POV Darkness. Thick gross darkness. That was all I saw as I sat by the wall on the cold prison floor. The darkness played different kinds of tricks on my narrowed eyes. It was even worse that the only available light bulb kept flickering on and off after every ten minutes which made my heart race rapidly. It was moments like this that I wished I was a full wolf with all the necessary benefits Fear gripped my heart as I saw zombie-like creatures wobble their way to me. I was either hallucinating or I was slowly losing it, but I couldn't stop myself from being afraid in the pitch darkness. It didn't take me long to realize that begging and pleading wasn't going to take me anywhere, Addison had made she backed me in the worst corner ever. The waterworks had ceased about an hour or two ago and I was left a snuffing and hiccupping mess. The swelling around my eyes was enough evidence of how hard and long I cried. I was positive my tear duct had been wrung out well.
JACE BALDWIN POV The prison guard hurriedly clicked the heavy padlock that kept the barred door in place before flicking it open with a loud clattering noise as the door slammed into the brick prison wall.A whimper reached my ear and my heart constricted when Carly's curled form shifted into the wall as if trying to hide herself from intruders.Maybe to protect herself from further harm.She lay on her side, her knees pulled up to her chest, her head dropped down such that her chin rested on her knee, her right hand served as a pillow while her left hand tightened around her folded legs.Carly made no further move, she was shivering as her flimsy pale blue tank top and denim cut-offs did nothing to protect her from the cold hard floor she lay on.With a silent nod, the prison guard trotted off somewhere.Silently, I placed the small plate of peanut butter and jelly sandwich I brought along on the floor.I scanned around the tiny space that reeked of blood, sweat, cigarettes, and sal
JACE BALDWIN POV I spent the remainder of the day doing my Alpha duties as if nothing happened. I buried my nose in the pile of work I had on my desk, meeting with those who had appointments with me.I was only trying but failing to push Carly out of my head. It was frustrating when the only thing I saw was her broken face as those dark eyes begged and pleaded to be heard.The day she asked what it felt like to shift was when I realized she was a broken soul. More broken than she lets on.Living as half-human in the werewolf community without your wolf must be hard for her. The agony and vulnerability she tried to hide cut deep into the depths of my heart. She was alone trying to push her way through then I stumbled in and made it more complicated.When she ran away after a tear slipped through, I wanted to go after her but my butt was glued to the theater seat and I knew she needed time to recollect herself.It was amusing to make her think she could easily sneak in after spending
JACE BALDWIN POVI was in my office in the pack house with my Beta, Ian Diaz, and Gamma, Nate Moore, after a stressful day of lengthy meetings and driving about to and from the Crescent Hill pack to form allies should Darren, the leader of the Outlanders- the rouge group, decide to launch an attack when Lykos and I are weakened from the Gaia curse.In my office, there was a tall walnut bookshelf lining the entire right-hand wall, a comfortable sleek black leather couch, double seats, and single seats arranged in a square shape for small office meetings. There's a fireplace at the far wall that is flanked by two dominating bookshelves by the side, on the other side was a mahogany table with stacks of papers, files, a pencil holder, a MacBook computer, and a glass of whiskey I dropped a minute ago. Behind the table was a black swirl leather chair. There was a file cabinet by the wall beside my work table. On the left was a wide floor-to-ceiling window that overlooked the gates. There wa
CARLY WOODS POVSteady streaks of tears cascaded down my face, soaking deep into my pale tank top causing it to cling onto my skin.Addison had carefully thought this through, whatever was intended was quickly unveiled and I'd rather be anywhere but at the receiving end of this conniving bitch ploy.My cries fell on the deaf ears of the small crowd that rapidly formed in the room and doorway, Mia had squeezed her way into the room and was silently observing in the corner like everyone else, but unlike the rest of the people who had disgust and contempt in their eyes, Mia was anxious and apprehensive of what will happen when Jace got here.I wasn't afraid of Jace's reaction to this, I was sure as hell that Jace would believe me. He did believe me the day Addison came on me in the kitchen.Would he even for a second doubt my character? My chest constricted at the thought of his accusing eyes."Mia, please tell her I didn't do it," I begged in desperation but the fear in her wide doe br