Tyler’s POV As soon as Lexie left the room, I lost all control and as I cleared my desk with one swipe of my hand. Organized papers and documents went flying across my office and I watched as they fluttered to the floor. “Shit.” I said to myself. My self-control around Lexie was starting to diminish and I was scared that I may hurt her. The look on her face and the fear that showed in her eyes as I grabbed her arm was unsettling and I hated myself knowing that I caused that fear. How the hell was this ever going to work having her so close to me all the time. The undying hunger within me began to throb and I knew I needed a fix soon before I lose all self-control with Lexie. Quickly I pulled my cell phone out and place the call. I left the other person on the other end of the line know I needed someone sent to my office stat, because this couldn’t wait till tonight. My body needed its fix now if I was ever going to be able to ride in an enclosed car with Lexie on the way home.
Lexie’s POV Sitting at my desk I began to prepare the documents that Connie had given to me for tomorrows in house meeting and I sent them over to the printer so that I can prepare the packets needed. Looking down at my arm I touched the spot where Tyler hand had grabbed my arm. It didn’t hurt but it felt like I could still feel his hand on me, and I thought that it had to be a figment of my imagination. Did I desire him that much that I was hallucinating that I could still feel his hand around my arm? The printer was done printing and I stood at my desk putting the packets together when my phone rang and I answered it, “Hello.” “Hey girlfriend. If you don’t care I’d like to pick you up after work and show you around the city.” Emily says on the other end of the line, and I know that Tyler had probably called her after the incident and didn’t want to drive me home. “You don’t have to.” I start to tell her, but she stops me and says, “I insist. Plus, I have been so wanting to check
Lexie’s POV “Chase.” I say in shock as he stands in front of me. What was the chances of this happening? “I see you haven’t forgotten my name which leads me to believe that you are here to see me.” He says with a big smile showing all his perfect white teeth. “Yes, I mean no. I’m here for an interview.” I tell him and he gets a confused look on his face. “I thought you were Tyler’s girl.” He now says and something in my breaks. “Not anymore.” I say without thinking because the hurt that I feel from what I just witnessed is killing me. “Well then you came to the right place. Let me escort you to your meeting.” Chase says as he walks back into the elevator and holds the door for me to enter. After I enter the elevator he asks, “Which floor did they tell you?” “Twenty second.” I tell him and he pushes the button. As the elevator went up, I took a moment to take a good look at Chase. He was beyond sexy looking in his suit and his hair was gelled back more today for a crisper look
Lexie’s POV After calling Emily and pulling myself together I returned to the room and Chase not wanting him to know anything was wrong with me. I needed the job he was offering me and I was going to put a smile on my face and endure this until Emily shows up to get me. I didn’t go into details with her on the phone but I gave her what information she needed to know. Chase stood as soon as I entered the room and pulled my chair out for me to sit. “Everything okay?” he asked as he pushed my chair in. Brushing my hair behind my ear with the tips of my fingers I say, “Yes, I just needed to freshen up.” “I was beginning to worry you left me to go after Tyler.” Chase confesses and I turn to look at him while he takes his seat. “No. He had his chance.” I tell Chase and I can see a slight grin forming at the corners of his lips. “I can only hope that you give me the same chance that you gave him. I will be sure not to make the same mistakes he did.” Chase says to me and I feel a smidge
Tyler’s POV Lexie was going to drive me mad. When she said she wanted to be that red head in my office today I wanted to bend her over that dining table and screw her in front of all my kind and have her scream my name for them all to hear as I took her virgin pussy. Then I would have marked her as mine so that there was no confusion on who she belonged to. But I couldn’t do it. Fuck, I want her so bad but there’s something inside of me that makes me want to protect her virtue. That something inside of me is going to be the death of me if I keep letting her get to me. And tonight, when she pointed her finger to my chest, I would have normally ripped that damn finger off anyone else’s hand but hers. Then the hunger hit me ten times worse than earlier today when she said, “Be with her.” She had verbally said she wanted me in not so many words. I had to leave at that moment or I was definitely not going to be able to contain myself from giving her what she wanted and so much more t
Lexie’s POV Why do I drink? I thought to myself as my head is pounding from all the wine I consumed last night. Between what I drank at the meeting at the restaurant and what Emily and I drank last night scheming a master plan to win me her brother, Tyler, was more than enough wine to do me a lifetime. Forcing myself to crawl out of bed I headed for the shower to wash the filth off me and to brush my teeth a hundred times trying to remove this taste out of my mouth. What the hell had I eaten to make my breath smell this bad? After I finished getting ready, I headed down the stairs to the smell of fresh coffee. Emily was bopping around the kitchen like she was not affected by last night’s drinking fest. How was this even possible? “Coffee?” Emily asked, holding the pot up in the air. “Yes, please.” I said as I crawled onto one of the bar stools at the island and I laid my head down onto the
Lexie’s POV It took me a while before I was able to return to the table because of the high I was feeling from Tyler’s proximity to me and then the downhill spiral from the lack of his touch had me feeling emotions I never felt before. I wanted to scream to him, “If I am yours then touch me already.” The jealousy that was in the tone of his voice when he said about my lips on Chase’s made me want to defy him even more. To push him to his breaking point just to see if he would lose all that self-control that he has. If he truly wanted to play this game of cat and mouse with me, I was ready to go all in if that’s what it took to make him mine. My phone then went off giving me a notification that I had a text message. Opening the screen, I noticed an unfamiliar number but as soon as I read the text, I knew who it was from. It only took me a second to reply back and then I placed the phone back in my purse thinking this was perfect timing. Finally, I made my way back to the table, I m
Tyler’s POV I had called a meeting with Chase like I said I was going to and the asshole turned me down saying there was nothing I could do or say that would persuade him from taking what he wanted, which was Lexie. For some reason my brother was just as infatuated with her as I was but he had no reservations like I have and I knew then that I had to convince Emily to help me persuade Lexie to stay away from Chase at all costs. So when I messaged Emily about having lunch with Eric and me she was happy to oblige, bringing Lexie with her. What I didn’t expect when they showed at the restaurant was Lexie and her new look that sent the hunger in me for her over the edge and it was taking every ounce of willpower I had not to make her mine right then and there. When Lexie had gotten up to use the ladies’ room, I found myself drawn to follow her. When I entered the bathroom and locked the door behind me and I knew we were alone, something took over me and I wanted to make her mine. I
Lexie’s POV One could say I was a bit nervous as I was to say my vows once again. This time things were a bit different than the last time and this time I had my best friend by my side as I waited for the wedding to start. Xavier then entered the room I was waiting in with Emily and quickly moved to her, placing his hand on her now extremely large belly. “How are you feeling?” He asked her concerned that she was ready to pop at any moment. She swatted his hand away and said to him, “I am not having this baby until I see my best friend marry my brother.” Xavier chuckled at her and then gave her a kiss before he turned to me and said, “I am happy for you today and I know that my brother is happy to see you are happy once again too. Tyler and Samuel may not have seen eye to eye on a lot of things, but the one thing that the both of them agreed on was that you were the one for them.” I could feel tears starting to pool behind my lids and Emily says to Xavier, “Get out of here before
Lexie’s POV After my talk with Emily, I headed home to my empty house. Pulling into the driveway with only the motion senser light turning on to my arrival and then opening a locked door with no one waiting on the other side to greet me, made me realize how alone in this world I really was. Laying my purse on the counter I walked over and slumped onto my couch with a million things now running through my head. Maybe Emily shouldn’t have told me about Tyler’s situation, like he asked her not to. I had been fine before all of this. I was beginning to be able to function normally in this world on my own. I was on my way to recovering and now I am sitting here thinking about him, trying to convince myself that I am happy all in this world alone without him. Yes, the last couple months had been rough, but I made it through them without him. I didn’t need him in my life and I was perfectly happy without him in it, I kept telling myself, but my heart began to ache the more I thought ab
Lexie’s POV Today was a huge milestone as it has been two months now on my own without Derrick by my side and I have been taking baby steps daily towards my old lifestyle. Each day has been a challenge for me but I have been trying to be positive moving forward in my life. It has also been months since I have talked to Tyler and I had met up with Lena and Emily a few times for lunch, but Lena seemed a little bit standoffish towards me and I don’t blame her. I knew she and Tyler were trying to make their marriage work even though that is what she had run from in the first place, but I could tell that she had resentment towards me, and I had no clue why. I had stayed away from Tyler not wanting to interfere in their relationship and I thought I was doing the right thing by doing so. Lena was my sister, there was no doubt about that but the two of us had been raised so differently that we really didn’t have much in common, unlike her and Emily. I had been asked many times to go sho
Lexie’s POV I watched as the real Lena walked directly to Tyler wrapping her arms around him and I could see the happiness in her eyes from being with him. It was a happiness that I used to have long ago when the two of us were together. “Lena, I want to introduce your twin sister to you, Lexie.” Tyler said to her and she turned my way like she hadn’t noticed me when she walked up to Tyler. “Wow, Tyler wasn’t kidding when he said we looked identical. I’m sorry where are my manners, it’s a pleasure to finally meet you. You will have to forgive my hesitation to embrace you, after what I have been through with our family. I hope that we can get to know one another, and I can find it in me to trust you. Tyler told me what happened to all of you on the island and I am sorry for your loss.” I knew exactly what she meant by having to find it in her to trust me because I also had the same feeling inside of me after what I had been through. “Don’t feel sorry for the way you feel, I hav
Lexie’s POV It’s now been a month since we returned from Boracay and still no word from Tyler and I am beginning to worry that something has happened to him too. The walls of the packhouse are starting to feel like a prison and I don’t know how much longer I can stay here. The only time I have left the pack lands is when Emily takes me to see a psychiatrist. After one of my breakdowns, Emily decided it would be a good idea to seek help for me with everything I had been through. Of course, the psychiatrist was a wolf and I could talk freely with her about what really happened. At first, we focused on the deaths of the twins and Samuel but then moved on to my fear of people shapeshifting, which seemed to be my biggest fear. Unfortunately, the treatments weren’t working so well and it was due to the amount of trauma I had been through in such a short period of time. I had no clue if I would ever live a normal life after everything I had seen. Derrick was once again assigned to me
Lexie’s POV Today was the second hardest day of my life laying Samuel to rest between his twin brother and our twins. Sophia didn’t blame me for her son’s death but welcomed me with open arms to their family. Even though Samuel’s family held no ill will against me for his death, I still felt the guilt on my shoulders. As Samuel’s celebration of life gathering happens, I sit in the corner of the room with my head down not knowing exactly if I belonged here. Yes, we were celebrating the life he lived and I was certainly a part of that life, but I felt out of place now among the wolves without him by my side. It had been a full week that I have been here at the packhouse and Emily has done her best to be by my side, but I feel so lost being here in Samuel’s room alone. Each day that passes I ask Emily if she has heard anything from Tyler and each day it is the same response of no. I had promised Tyler before I left the island that I would stay at the packhouse for my safety, but th
Lexie’s POV When Tyler and Xavier emerged from the packhouse I thought it was all over with but I was so wrong, by the look on their faces. Quickly, I stood up from the step I was sitting on as they walked towards me. I knew I had to look like a hot mess after all the crying I have been doing but I could care less. “What is it?” I asked them, wanting to know why they had the look on their faces that they had. Tyler shook his head, not able to say what needed to be said, which left Xavier to tell me, “It’s about Lena.” “What about Lena?” I asked him, confused as I looked up at the door to the house like she was going to walk out of it. “That wasn’t Lena I just killed in the house.” Xavier tells me and I furrow my eyebrows at him confused at what he is telling me. “Then who was it?” I asked him wanting to know who it could have possibly had been if it wasn’t Lena. “We don’t know who she was but we know it wasn’t Lena.” Xavier says and I start shaking my head not understand
Lexie’s POV “Derrick, is everyone okay?” I asked him as I looked at the gate to the packhouse. “Lexie, you shouldn’t be here, its not fully secured yet.” Derrick tells me and I begin to worry what is happening behind that broken down gate. “Have they found Xavier?” I asked him, hoping he would at least know that to tell me. “Yes, he was being held in one of the cabins on the property. He is with Tyler and they are securing the area as we speak.” Derrick told me and I felt a bit of relief wash over me but there was still the fact that I hadn’t heard from Samuel yet. “What about Samuel and my family?” I asked him and I noticed a change in his posture when I mentioned Samuel. “Lexie, I think it would be best if Xavier talks to you.” Derrick says to me and the pain that was there last night overtook me and I knew in my heart that it had to do with Samuel. “I want to speak with Xavier now.” I told Derrick and he began to shake his head no to me. Before he could say a word, I
Lexie’s POV It wasn’t quite morning when I heard Tyler’s voice talking to someone and as I listened, I realized that his men had arrived. Rolling over in the bed I watched him as he was giving the man on the other end of the line orders. He was in his element and he was used to people listening to him, unlike myself. Tyler looked over at the bed and he saw my eyes on him and he quickly finished the call as he walked over to the bed to me. With a groggy morning voice, I asked him, “What time is it?” “It’s almost four am. Why don’t you go back to sleep and I will wake you later.” Tyler said to me as he sat on the edge of the bed and ran his fingers through my hair and I closed my eyes relishing his gentle touch. I knew it was wrong of me to love the feel of it but my body was craving him and what he was doing was innocent or at least that was what I was telling myself. “Will you hold me in your arms again till I fall back to sleep.” I asked him as I curled up in the blanket. Tyl