Chase’s POV“What?”She got up and began to pace. A distant, less worried part of my brain thought of Ron's pacing habit. The more worried part wanted to find who had lied to us and strangle them.“The owner of this arrow is whoever I sold it to—whoever shot it, not me.”“Ah, I see.” That's what she meant.“Yes. So it will probably serve you better to tender your questions to the one you got this from.”“Believe me, I would not have gone through the hassle of finding you if it was that easy. We were unable to catch the shooter of this arrow, it was as though they disappeared into thin air.”I had a feeling that the shooter was the Shadow from the café. It would explain how he was able to vanish so quickly. All I needed Orion to do was confirm this suspicion of mine and point us towards him.“Look Alpha, you aren't the first to come to me with such enquiries but in my line of work, clients expect their identity to remain confidential.”The muscle in my jaw popped as I stared meaningful
Maya’s POV“Rise and shine!”The sound of my curtains being drawn open followed Genny’s voice breaking through my pitiable sleep.“Good morning.”“There’s nothing good about this morning.” I grumbled and dug deeper into my duvet. She was too loud, the sun was too bright and worse, Chase had not come home last night. I knew because I laid on my side of the bed till sunrise, waiting for the door to open and his weight to dip next to me but it never did.Maybe that was why I was in such a sour mood. Despite the friction between us, he had always come home. Last night changed that.“Come on, Maya, you promised to come with us to the pet shop.”“I've changed my mind, I don’t feel like interacting with any living thing today.” So that if my mate returned, I could unalive him for making me such an overthinking mess.Clinging on to my anger was all I could do to keep from breaking down and I didn’t want to do that first thing in the morning in front of Genny again.The spot next to me dipped
Maya's POV“Mum, what of her? Isn't he cute?”Genny sniffed and looked away. “No. The shade of his fur looks too much like your dad's hair.”Faith's shoulders drooped and she returned the adorable ginger kitten to the attendant who gave Genny a sting eye and led Faith away to meet other furry friends.We've been at this for half an hour now. Dami and Ashton had escaped after a few minutes of watching Genny rain on Faith's parade but if chosen to stay. Save to say my left I is now twitching and I'm wishing I left with those lucky bastards.Any cat Faith picked wasn't okay by Genny. They were either too fat, too small, too loud, not furry enough or like the last one, had too much of a resemblance with her mate? You can understand why my eye keeps twitching now, right?“The shade of his fur looks too much like Christian's hair? Really Genny? You aren’t even bothering to come up with reasonable excuses now?” I asked incredulously with my arms on my hips.The female had the guts to look i
Maya’s POV“Chase is going to kill me,” Henry wailed. “And you. Chase is going to kill us both! Didn’t you know pets aren’t allowed in the house?!”I rolled my eyes at his hysterics.“You’re being dramatic. And no, no one told me pets that weren’t allowed in the pack house.”That was a bald-faced lie. Faith and Genny had told me about the not-pet rule yesterday— “Imagine if everyone got to keep any pet they wanted in the house, the whole place would be chaos.” Genny had said while trying to persuade me to return Cocoa. Needless to say, I had not been persuaded.Now, however, as I glared around at the wreckage before me, I inwardly grimaced. I could see why there was a no-pet rule. We stood together in the living room— or rather what was left of the living room.The couch and throw pillows had been bitten into and white fluff lay strewn everywhere. The lamps and flower vases were knocked over and the curtain had a suspicious smiley bite at the corner. I grimaced outwardly at the sight
Maya's POVI was angrily shoving on my sneakers when my room door was pushed open to reveal none other than my mate.“Hey.” Chase greeted as he hesitantly stepped into the room.“Hi.” I breathed. I had no idea what emotions were displayed on my face but he remained standing on the other side of the room, studying me with as much caution as I did him.In my head, my wolf urged me to go to him. We missed his touch, his scent, everything about him. I missed him so much that I wanted to bury myself in his very essence and not come back up.I remained where I was though. Thoughts of his absence and the party warred with my desire to be held.Still, my mouth went ahead of my brain and spilt words before I could call them back.“I missed you last night.”The smile that slowly broke across his face was wide and breathtaking. Ethereal. Was it possible that he got more handsome from when I saw him last?My heart beat loudly in my ears as he made his way towards me with a glint in his eyes, only
Maya’s POVI had a score to settle.On my way out of the pack house, I bumped into Ron and he let it slip that one other person was aware of this date change, as well as Chase’s desire to keep me in the dark about it.Guess who it was?“Genevieve fucking Tyuv!” Ashton lazily opened the front door before I could knock and I stormed into their living room with righteous anger.My target looked up from the rug where she was scrubbing at a damp spot. “I’ll assume you’re cursing because you can’t remember my middle name.”“No, I’m cursing because you knew about the Blood Moon Party and didn’t tell me!”“Oh,” She winced and dropped her rag. “That.”“Yes. That.” I snapped. “How could you? We were together yesterday and you didn’t think to bring up the fact that the party was in a day— which is today! Or the part where my headstrong mate decided Drakor won’t be present!”“The headstrong mate that you missed.” She muttered.“Genny!” I huffed in annoyance.“Fine! It was because Chase said not t
Chase’s POVWhen Maya had walked out on me earlier, I had no idea she had left to go shopping. And worse, she was with another male.When Gen told me that Maya was with Ashton, it had rubbed me the wrong way. I didn’t like how close they seemed to have gotten, and neither did I like the way the Shadow looked at her.On entering the boutique, I was directed to a dressing room where I found Ashton lounging crossed-legged on a sofa with a glass of wine in hand. I looked from him to the closed curtain which I knew my mate was probably currently mostly naked behind as she tried on clothes.My jaw clenched as I saw the mini walkway. The scene made my blood boil, maybe because he was getting to see the side of Maya which I was currently deprived of.I knew that he had sensed the second I walked into this room but he took his sweet time turning to acknowledge me.“Glad you could make it.” He greeted without festivity.“Yeah, so am I.” The muscle in my jaw popped. “Thanks for keeping Maya comp
Maya's POVReaching for my phone on the bedside table, my gaze fell on the bed and heat crept up my cheeks as images of Chase and me from earlier flashed in my mind. Moments ago, we were there being all wild and dirty but now, as we got ready, silence enveloped the room as we stayed stuck in our thought bubbles.I was glad that Chase was coming with me because despite my insistence on attending the party, now that the minutes to show time were counting down, my bravado was gone and all that I felt was dread.Failing to conceal my anxiety, I drew in a shaky breath and Chase’s eyes instantly snapped my way, meeting my gaze in the mirror.“Are you okay?” Worry laced his question.“Mhmm.” No, I think I might vomit.“I heard that.” He smiled wryly and came up behind me.“Oh.” Redness bloomed on my cheeks and neck. “I forgot I had gotten rid of the wall between us.”Chase laid a feather-light kiss on my exposed shoulder. “I’m glad you did.”“So am I.” I smiled, leaning into him.“Feeling be