SCARLETTSaturdays were designated for family lunches, and this Saturday, we had a return guest. Ashley, the woman who’d tamed a beast like Logan and let him put a ring on it.During lunch, mom talked off the poor girl’s ears with wedding plans despite being constantly reminded by Logan that there was no set wedding date yet. Mom claimed that there can never be enough time to plan the type of wedding she’d envisioned, so they just let her go on and on about her plans.Before dessert, Alpha Hawthorne got a phone call and excused himself to answer it and then returned to whisk mom away for a high class event that she didn't give me a single detail about.“Uh, since they're no longer here, who’d prefer a proper baked dessert other than those sad looking shrimp rolls?” Ashley’s tone was sweet and playful as she asked loudly.“Heck yeah, count me in sister-in-law,” Blake being the loveliest of the three answered eagerly to encourage her.“Amazing, any others?” she looked around the table a
SCARLETTAll the sass I’d pumped into that last impulsive response floated into thin air and I was suddenly trembling under his grasp.From the murderous look in his eyes, I could tell that he was raging with anger and that sent bouts of fright through me because I knew he was capable of ending my life in a fit of rage. In fact, the grip on my neck that seemed to tighten every two seconds was enough proof.Logan was nothing if not a psychopathic unhinged hybrid.I’d come to that conclusion from the inhumane way he was worsening my suffering by the second while looking completely unmoved by my pain. His gaze was locked with mine as he continued to restrict my airflow and all I could do was struggle to pathetically breath through my mouth.“You will never be anything but a conniving, poverty stricken bitch to me and it disgusts me to think that you’ve grown a shred of audacity to address me as you please because you’ve clawed your way into my home,” he growled angrily in my face.I coul
SCARLETTI could already imagine a heated and extremely messy confrontation ongoing while I struggled to get to the indoor pool area where I knew they’d be at. My head was banging and my breathing was still unusually heavy from being treated like dirt by Logan, but I practically ignored it and hurled myself into the pool area. By the time I walked in, Blake had just reached Logan and shoved him so hard that he almost tumbled into the pool. Both Ashley and Alex who were seated at opposite ends of a beach bench looked up in confusion at the scene that’d started to unfold. “What the fuck was that about? Have you lost your damn mind, Blake!?” Logan’s eyes were blazing with anger when he finally gained his composure. But the anger in his eyes were no match for the fiery rage Blake seemed to be shouldering as they locked gazes. “I’ve had enough!” Blake yelled, “enough of you treating Scarlett like she’s insignificant despite showing no remorse when you uprooted her means of livelihood a
LOGANFrom the way Ashley was angrily pacing up the stairs, I knew a hurricane was seconds from being blown up in my face. I’d seen Ashley this way a couple of times, but this was the first time that explosive anger of hers was directed at me in all the years we’d known each other.I didn’t know what to expect and it rattled me completely. What I did know was that I’d do anything to put her mind at ease, anything.“What was all that drama about? I demand an explanation,” Ashley’s eyes narrowed at me the second I shut my room’s door behind us.At first, I decided to play it cool, to make it seem like Blake had over-exaggerated things back there.“It’s nothing to worry about, really,” I ran a hand through my hair sluggishly, “Scarlett just pissed me off and I lost my temper with her.”She didn’t look convinced so I reached out and rubbed her shoulder softly.“But that’s all over now, so can we cuddle and watch a movie or something? who knows when next we’ll have a day off to spend toget
LOGANFor a moment, I was transfixed to a spot, in utter shock from the turnout of my confession.Ashley had never bolted away from me that way after an argument, in fact, we’d never left without hashing out an issue and ending up in each other’s arms afterward.But now, we’d suffered the first major rift between us and I couldn’t help but direct all my anger at Scarlett. She was the reason for all these bullshit and my hatred for her had intensified by a thousand folds as I realized it.Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to track her and make her suffer because I needed to go after Ashley.In a matter of seconds I was storming out of the main door and I felt a dreadful chill grip me when I noticed that Ashley’s car was no longer in the space where she’d parked. I’d assumed that she would just find some place downstairs to blow off steam, but she was so enraged that she’d driven off.I didn’t even care about the scorching sun as I hurried in to grab my car keys and marched towards
LOGANThe first thing I heard that signaled I’d regained consciousness was the faint jazz playing in the background.Slowly, I opened my eyes and the first sight I was greeted with was the portrait of Ashley and I from when she’d forced me into a photo booth on Valentine’s Day, so I immediately knew that I’d awoken in her room.Just as I started to struggle to get myself into a sitting position, the door opened and Ashley walked in holding a glass of blood. Despite my weakness, I could smell it easily.“Logan, please don’t do that, you need your rest,” she hurried to my side and used her free hand to nudge me back into a lying position.I fought back the grunt that tried to escape when my back hit the bed so as to not worry her.“I’m so relieved that you’re awake,” she reached for my face and rubbed my jawline softly, “I was seconds away from calling Alex to send your family physician over.”When a smile spread across her face, I felt my entire body scatter with lightning bolts. It’d
ALEXShe means nothing to me, nothing.The only worthy title to ascribe to her would be that of a cumslut, but I couldn’t comprehend why she was stirring these foreign emotions within me of late.This afternoon, when I heard Logan yell all that crap about her, the intensity of the anger that overwhelmed me almost made me crack my facade. As an alpha, it wasn’t a big deal to conceal my appearance even though inwardly I was fighting a battle I didn’t understand, but today it was much harder to hold that mask in place.When I saw the marks on her neck where she stood, I was completely furious. I’d felt like replicating those marks on his neck in a way they’d never heal and it scared me that I’d wanted to protect a good for nothing whore so fiercely.In fact, as the argument grew more intense, I was fighting off the urge to march over to them and yank Logan’s head right off his body, or drown him in the pool along with his flimsy reasons for laying a finger on her.I had to keep reminding
SCARLETTI had the evening off for the day because I didn’t have a shift at the cafe so I was currently scrolling through Netflix to find the next poor Kdrama I’d binge watch and obsess about.However, my hopes of relaxation were thrown out of the window completely when mom barged into my room with a mischievous smile on her face.Before she even opened her mouth to speak, I knew she was bound to ruin my evening.“Good news, honey! I’ve asked Michael to join us for a family dinner next week and I can’t wait to immerse him into our lovely family!” she spread her hands in the air triumphantly as she dropped a literal grenade on me.I angrily slammed my laptop shut and faced her head on.“Really mom!? Why would you go around throwing invitations around to a man I’m barely dating? And worst of all, you didn’t think to involve me, a fully grown woman, in the decision to do so!?” I was absolutely irritated at her guts.Mom waved a hand and rolled her eyes playfully like she didn’t grasp how