~ Cleo ~ Josie keeps trying to call me and for the first time since forever, I’m not answering. I need time to think, time to put a plan in place. Jaxon knows, my attempts to persuade him that the baby is human may have worked on my parents, but he could sense the child was related to him.
I’m also conscious of not being off pack grounds long enough for my absence to be picked up on. The services that were half way between us seemed like the obvious option, however, I can’t shake the feeling of being followed. It’s me, I’m hormonal and paranoid. Needing my secret to remain a secret.
“I’ll leave you to it.” He stands up, pulling the chair out and tucking it back in under the table only for Maya to walk over, eyeing him with suspicion. “Take care.” He offers out, a nod as he departs. “You too.” I call out after him as he walks away, Maya pulling the chair out and sitting down.
~ Cleo ~ I had straightened out the story with Maya. She understands what is at stake, and she promises to keep to the story of the bartender being the father. I may be growing tired from the drive but it was worth it, I was feeling more in control. Jaxon’s visit having left me slightly shak
“Look, here’s my card…” He places his hand back out towards me, a small business-shaped-card in his hands. I must seem very bizarre to him, not quite with it. Even now, my hands are running through my long blonde hair…trying to make sense of everything. To say I was in a state of inner turmoil
~ Cleo ~ The pregnancy is playing havoc with my senses because not only did I not pick up on him being close by, but I can’t even smell him. “Jace? What…what are you doing here. And what are you wearing?” My hand moves to my chest where I can feel my heart pounding. “Shh…I didn’t want to be r
“Protect from what?” “From you…from your family.” “I wouldn’t hurt the baby.” The colours runs off his face as if I had just slapped him. “No, I know that. But the baby will be the heir to the Clear Waters until you have a real baby with your mate..” “A real baby..” He chuckles out finding
“Together.” I repeat his words, that’s all I have ever wanted…to be together. “Together.” His hand raises up and cups the side of my cheek before it falls back down. I take a step forward, needing to touch him, to feel him. He was rigid, more muscular than the last time I saw him. He was still
“I love your optimism, don’t ever lose it.” He pulls me into his arms, before placing a lingering kiss upon my lips…one that he is hesitant to pull away from. So I do it for him. We needed to face the music. I open the front door, almost tripping over luggage left in the centre of the hallway
I am legally the luna of this pack, Alpha Than signed the deed himself. Alpha Jace, on defeating Than is now the Alpha of this pack. This is a new start, this is where you think carefully about the pack you want to live in, the pack you want for your children to grow up in.” I let my Luna aura rol
~ Cleo ~ Jace has called an emeregecy pack meeting this night. We had already gone one night without explaining what was happening to the pack, without sounding them out as a whole group to make them see that we meant no harm. That we will treat them as we would our family packs. This couldn’
She was mine, she is mine. She screams out, her orgasm hitting her at the same time that I sink my teeth into her neck. Pushing through skin and tissue until I hit against the bone. The metallic taste of her blood floods into my mouth as my teeth sink into bone, marking her…claim her finally as
~ Jace ~ I kiss her, kiss her with uncontrollable passion. I needed her to know what she does to me, how much I wanted this…how much I want her. My mouth crashes into hers, tasting her…my tongue needing to touch hers, to taste hers. She’s already pulling at my waistband, her fingers having r
“Everything alright?” “Not really no.” He grunts back as he moves me towards the car we arrived in to bring Freya to the hospital. I reach out to open the door myself but he is there before me, already opening the door for me…his hand stretching out to help me inside. I suppress the desire to r
~ Cleo ~ Freya needed help, she needed constant watching…something I can’t do for her. How could I settle her at the alpha house only to leave in a few day’s time, it wouldn’t be right by her. But that didn’t stop the guilt at watching her being admitted into the psych ward at the hospital.
“Understood.” With a deep inhale, he understands what I am asking of him. I don’t want the beta to take one step back on this pack lands…if he dies, then so be it. “Ozborne, before you go…Luna Cleo and I need to go off site in a few days time…any trouble makers within the pack? I don’t want to com
~ Jace ~ The black doors close with a harsh bang, the van’s engine firing back to live as it slowing moves away…taking my aunt on her last journey home. Everyone was to follow, except Cleo and myself. We would leave in a few day’s time when it was the funeral, I couldn’t leave the Amber Desert pac