~ Jace ~ “Cleo?” Without thinking I call out after her as she bolts from the dining table towards the downstairs bathroom. “Is she quite alright?” Luna Louise gasps out, looking towards Cleo’s parents who both move to chase after her. “I’ll go.” Jaxon moves past them, hurrying into the direction
If I sneak out now, nobody will notice. I know I shouldn’t, that I should stay well clear but I can’t. It goes against my very nature knowing she is somewere alone in pain…pain that unbeknown to her, I am causing. I don’t need help tracing her movements, her sweet scent still lingers in the cool
~ Cleo ~ He is not mine, he is not mine. I need to repeat it to myself internally as his coconut scent cocoons itself around me, something invisible to the naked eye…yet I feel it, it can’t just be me. I can’t be imagining the power he holds over me. I finally have him alone, I need to tel
too, that he wants me…. Until…he blinks, snapping out of the desire he has for me only to remind himself that I am not her. I watch it, slowly. Watch the way his eyes search mine before moving down to my lips, watch the change in his eyes…he doesn’t need to say the words, I can see it play
~ Jace ~ “Eh…what the fuck was that?” Josie’s growl echoes through her own cabin, bouncing off the wooden built walls. What was that, what have I just done. I lost myself in her, in the need to touch her…to be near her. I’ve potentially just ruined everything. “Josie, can you give us a minute?
“Does she even know?” “No…or at least I don’t think so.” “Why can’t you be together?” “Because I can’t lose her.” “Lose her to what?” “Being a mate of the Varon family comes with threats..” “But you can lose me?” She raises an eyebrow at me. “No…you’re twisting it…” I seethe out, the bitter
~ Cleo ~ I’m not home twenty minutes before I hear my parent’s car pulling up outside. I’m pacing the floor of my bedroom, the toxic mixture of both guilt and anger threatening to erupt out of me. She caught us, his own mate caught us together. My lips could still taste his on me, even n
Just tell them Cleo, tell them who the real father of the baby is… “You’re acting Mum as if my baby is an issue, you said yourself that the entire pack was behind me…that you didn’t care about the baby’s father.” “Human or not, you are still having a baby without a mate…” Her words are like a hu
“No Cleo, they live for you and Ares.” “Perhaps, I also didn’t want Ares’ alpha title to be affected.” I sigh out, truths were being spoken that should have been said a long time ago. Death creating a time to ponder on the past, on the mistakes made. “Is that what you think of us, that we would
~ Cleo ~ Mum was just tired and for some reason being here wasn’t good for her. Just like she would sometimes struggle when we returned to the Dark Phantom pack..or when Dad wasn’t with her. Yes it was her family pack…where she grew up but even then it was like a darkness took over her. The sa
This isn’t the first time Rosa has lost control of her wolf and Cleo has had to pick up the pieces, had to protect Ares even as a child. We were all grieving, we were all exhausted…but we don’t let our wolves take on full control and block out the human side. I let my aura roll off me and direct
I was never meant to have the Clear Waters, I was always meant to take on Dad’s original legacy…the Amber Desert. With Cleo by my side. We would be close to her family pack, which is important to Cleo…she is extremely close to her Dad and brother, and she would want to support Ares in the years
~ Jace ~ It was vitally important that we plan out our next steps. I couldn’t afford to make a mistake. We were all gathered in the living area, it can’t be past 3am. We were all still awake, Mum refusing to leave Alora’s side…it won’t be long before cars from Clear Waters arrive to take her home
~ Cleo ~ I move his hands off my face…I can’t look him in the eyes. My mind was spiralling and I couldn’t stop it. Freya. Borders. Alora…. Supplies. My mind was making lists of things that need sorting…things that would keep me going right now. If I stopped for a second I fear I would crumble
I know exactly what she is thinking, how she is blaming herself for everything that has transpired just now. She is blaming herself for Alora’s death, for his death, for me being the new Alpha. “Cleo…” “I should go inside…” “No…” I grunt out, only for her to turn to look directly at Knox. “Ca
~Jace~ “You all need to go back into your homes. I’m setting a curfew until tomorrow at 10am. My warriors will patrol the grounds tonight. There will be no training at dawn, nothing until I say so. Anybody…and I mean anynbody caught out will be imprisoned …do I make myself clear?” I open the pac
Jace I’m toying with him, I could have killed him by now. But that would be too easy, he deserves a slow…painful death. A death that has come from him losing…from being defeated. I want him to bleed each drop of blood before I take his life. He dared to think he could have what was mine, to ta