“Someone’s phone is vibrating.” I held my breath and my gaze traveled to the man's pocket beside me where a flashing phone screen lit up and non-stop vibrating was heard. Tyler didn’t move but I could hear his sudden heavy breathing, a chair movement, and a girl coming down carefully made my adrenaline rush, I quickly peek in front, and the fear to push Tyler aside and fish his phone from his pocket consumed me like a fire. I would never do that! That's beyond my imagination!But alas, Lukas was already coming to us and he caught us from the cabinet with my arm pushing Tyler to the side and my other one in his pocket while he resisted and was trying to bite my arm. “You saw us?” It was the question that would haunt me and probably would give me nightmares for days. I closed my eyes and swallowed hard, collecting myself and looking down. “We’re sorry.” “What?” Neneuis breathed, she wore her bottoms and her top was covering her voluptuous front. “We’re sorry,” I repeated, but my
It didn't take a while for Aether to notice my silent scream. "You're Artha's daughter? Wow. How big you've become.""I'm seventeen now." I took pride in myself for growing this way and finally witnessed how my life has unfolded. So this was my life, huh? "Wow," Aether took a sloppy walk and held my cheeks in his hand, "last time I saw you I was holding you up in the air!" He smiled and I gave a sweet giggle.This was it, finally, the time has come. I met my biological father. I touched my father's hand with nervousness and I feel the sudden jolt that could only be felt when it's family. Azi and Lea were smiling on my side, and though still filled with awkwardness, Neneuis and Lukas' eyes were smiling. "I'm glad you grew up so well and find Neneuis and Tyler," Aether said, now on my side in the kitchen sipping a chamomile tea. I smiled at him because I still couldn't digest what was happening and words ran out of my mind. I'm supposed to be talkative, tell stories, and hug him,
I stared blankly at the night sky and realized there were no twinkling stars after a minute. The sky's empty and sad. I sighed and tried to step onto Tyler’s balcony, I was upset, adrift, and crushed all at once. I thought I’m claiming happiness for a second, I forgot happiness was not for me. “Your mother, Artha, and I only stayed together for a while. Back then, you were already born and I help your mother raise you for a few months until it was bearable for her to raise you alone.” Each word that Aether says felt like a stab wound to my chest, my eyes welled up and I’m sure I was going to cry in front of him. Mom already had me? Then who’s my father?“I didn’t ask for your mother’s back story but she told me your father died before she even know she was pregnant, so she ran away to the forest and build a house here to avoid people’s judging eyes.” I hummed my nervousness and settled by looking down at my lap, my hair’s blocking my face so it was easy for me to let the tears out
Everyone around me was having fun. It should've been fun, there’s colorful lights, gifts, and winter cold night. But I stood silent until they all agreed to go to bed. Finally. "Is something wrong?" I put down the magazine I'm pretending I was reading and face Tyler. His face was in it's natural color now, he doesn't look too pale or red like a tomato from being drunk. I shook my head no. "I'm just reading." I flipped through the pages of a fashion magazine I bet Tiffany bought for reference. "Then why didn't you join Neneuis and others having fun and getting wasted." Tyler sat in front of me with his leg crossed and his elbows on the arm rest while his other arm was holding a teacup and the other was holding a black crocheted coaster I bet Tiffany made. She has so many marks in this house, it should be called Tyler and Blake's mansion from the start and not just the legendary wolf's. I was about to turn to another page but my finger stopped flipping when I saw a familiar fa
-Something's burning inside me. I took my luggage out of the house and saw Richard and Genevieve getting out of the car with happy faces. But I'm not convinced, their car was just a second-hand light blue bronco, and I bet Richard was blaming himself for his stranger-stepdaughter who burned his Mercedes out of spite. "Harriet dear, you're back!" Genevieve saw me and her face double lit up as if she was so happy she saw me, and I hate myself for thinking it was genuine. ".... where are you going?" Richard roared, spotting the large bag I was carrying. "I'm going back home," I said blankly and continued to hop on trying to get my heavy bag in balance. "What do you mean?" Richard pulled me and I almost bite his hand for touching me. "This is your home, Harriet!" I put down my bag, Genevieve's watching on the side, with a satisfactory smirk like it was her plan all the time to see Me and Richard strangle each other’s throats. She got what she wanted.“What are you talking about? T
What will you say to me? I watched as Lukas tried to pinned the wolf which was obviously larger and scarier than him. They were in their canine, Lukas was on all fours, laying on his stomach and baring his fangs, trying to bite his attacker, there’s one thing that was obvious though, he has no tail. Tyler managed to pin down Lukas successfully, his black fur, large canine teeth, golden fiery eyes that almost crimson red and his scowled face says it all, now I get why he was going to be the next alpha, also why it didn't happened. “Lukas! Stop whatever you’re thinking! Don’t fight the beta, you’re just hurting yourself,” Neneuis cried and for once I saw tears shimmering in her beautiful eyes. Was this really that serious? I turned to Blake, then to the others before going back to Tyler and Lukas, it was my first time seeing Tyler so mad that he transformed into his bestial form, maybe this was really bad. But what did Lukas do? What does he want to tell me? "Lukas, we feel the sam
“He can’t see us.”I glance at Blake with a horrified look as he watched Arnold writhe in pain while still holding his side stomach, out of breath, he bend and tried to walk to the lot beside us, I want to hold him and somehow do something to ease his pain but the only problem was… He can’t see us. “Seems like David change our location again,” Blake muttered and put his hand in his pocket. Blood traveled on Arnold’s arm as he lay down on his back and struggled to lift his shirt. His face crumpled and his eyes turned so red, a jarring blast of realization hit me and by looking at him, I could feel his pain, my mind started to feel dizzy like I just drank a bottle of alcohol, I rubbed my aching shoulder as a heavy load suddenly attack my skin. “What the hell? Who did that to him?” I’m hysterical, I pulled my hair in distress, and I don’t know if snot or tears mixed in my face, but it’s just because I want to help him, I want to help someone in pain. Blake looked at me with dejected
I never expected he works on a tall, large, and modern building like the one I usually saw only once a year; on postcards, or overseas trips. It was made of concrete and steel with a glass façade, my neck will surely get sore if I don’t stop amusing the building. I put the map back on my shoulder bag that Tiffany drew for me and passed through the entrance revolving door. The long desk of the information team greets me, the lady in a dark blue uniform and A-line skirt with red lips and a perfect smile made me rethink my choices to go here where I could just stay in bed and let Tiffany nursed me, I’m wearing a long skirt that drops to my white sneakers and a white tucked in shirt with cute frills as sleeves. “Hi, I wish to apply on the HR department here, where can I go?” The information lady eyed me, she gave me a head to toe look as if scrutinizing my fashion sense and telling on the spot that I wouldn’t enter the job. Definitely I won’t, I muster a sly smile from forming, I am st