Hayden POV"O my gosh," Kathrina heaved a deep sigh as I fell down next to her on the bed. We both were breathing damn hard, contented after the hours of unending tandem pleasure which we had resumed around 3am in the morning."You're tired?" She asked me, teasingly as she nipped my earlobe making me chuckle."Kind of," I shrugged."Well I'm not," I heard her muttering as she wrapped herself with the sheet, a smile of satisfaction on her face."I'll freshen up. Give me a minute," she whispered and blew me a kiss before disappearing into the bathroom. It's been quite a lot of fun with her the past ten months. We met at school, chatted in silly manners and ended up in my bedroom most weekends, eating each other to our satisfaction. This was something I never imagined would happen.Though I'm not happy to admit it, Kathrina changed a lot ever since the accident she had. She's just been a totally different person since she returned from an unknown place after disappearing for two months
Rylan POVI drove into the town after seeing through a complicated issue with my pack. Though Xander had asked me not to bother about it for he was going to resolve it but I couldn't just lay low and be calm. I'm the alpha and I've got to see to the issues bothering my pack or pack members.Taking a left, I started driving down the main road then I slowly halted when I saw Lita waving. A smile parted my lips as I saw how worked up she looked, clutching onto three shopping bags. "Are you trekking from the mall after spending your transport fare on new lipsticks at the mall?" I asked, teasingly as I winded down the front seat mirror.She heaved a sigh and shook her head."Hey, what do you take me for?" She leaned on the door and tipped her head."I actually trekked down from the mall to this place because I only realized that I had forgotten my purse at home.""Then that?" I motioned at the bags she had dropped on the ground. "How did you purchase those?""It's not my stuff. It's for m
Kathrina POV"Hey, I've really missed you, Kath!" I heard Caroline squeal the moment I answered the video call and her face popped up on my laptop screen."Hello, I missed you too," I said, waving at her as she grinned from ear to ear. "You haven't thought of paying me a visit, hm?" She asked, a frown pulling up on her face. "We didn't relocate to somewhere really far. We're living in Oklahoma. I've told you our address countless times. Mrs fox bought a nice house in the Blue Dome district," I refuted."You're indirectly telling me to come visit, I see.""Yeah. It's just about two hours away from Seminole city. You can come check up on me. You are not under any restrictions to do that.""Okay. I really wish I could. But, you know…" her voice slowly died and my lips parted knowing the reason for her sudden silence."It's fine. I know you have Hodophobia. You really need to get over it, Caroline.""It's not like I am okay with being Hodophobic, you know," she said I've tried getting o
Zoey POV "Hey, dear, Kathrina you passed! You're going to Gray Wood college," Madlyn cried the minute I got downstairs after waking up and taking my bath.Stopping at the second step down the stairs, a hand wrapped around my neck and the other on the banister, I stared at the faces of hers, Mr Salvador and Morley's and Monna's which had a bitter smile on their faces.I couldn't decipher what they were expecting me to say or react but I cared less and walked into the living room. Madlyn pulled me into a hug and patted my cheeks, making me cringe. Though I've lived with them for over a year, but to be candid, I wasn't still used to the family affection. How could I ? I'm actually Zoey, the vampire who's been living under the cover of their loving kathrina, thanks to the face and body I've been living in all this while. "You don't look excited, dear. What's wrong?" Mr Salvador asked."Well,do I really have to go to college?" I asked and deranged my nose as I walked past them and slump
Kathrina POV My life has been quite peaceful here in the Blue Dome district. The past one year, I'm a bit surprised how I managed to live as a vampire without being caught; not even Mrs Fox seems to kind of suspect me. You'd want to know the hell of a life I lived for a year now. Mrs Fox enrolled me in a good highschool. She'd do her best to just give me the best too. Selflessness is just in her blood. Sometimes I wondered how close she was to her actual daughter, but then I got to know how things really went between them. I read Mrs Fox's diary one certain day. I got to know that only till last year, she's been feeling depressed by her daughter. Lexie was actually the spontaneous, cheeky and intolerable daughter and Mrs Fox found it hard to tolerate her but actually did tolerate her all the time. Her husband had died in a plane crash and she had only Lexie. For her, Lexie wasn't just her daughter- she was more of a seemingly unlikeable companion she could die for without thinkin
Kathrina POV My breathing stopped immediately when I heard the words about my previous house. The place I knew, the place I grew up in. The place my family lived. My fast heartbeat seemed to have come to a shocking halt, and my blood was running cold upon just hearing that we would be moving to Laketown. Hope she wasn't in any way serious. "La- Laketown?" I asked, stuttering, as I hung up immediately on Caroline. It would have been a mess if she heard Caroline's voice of what we just spoke about earlier. It was double trouble. "Yes dear," she said, with a lit up face. The worry in her eyes earlier seemed to have disappeared in a flash, and she walked up to me, breaching the distance between us. "W-hy Laketown? Where's Laketown?" I asked, acting oblivious to where it actually was, not knowing I was a pro who could identify the houses and places there even when blindfolded. It would definitely be an uneasy thing going there. Being around my family and not being able to even t
Kathrina POVZoom, we started the drive. It was easy for a start, and then, after just five minutes, I was feeling so exhausted. Literally, we just began the drive. I took a bottle of water that lay beside me and gulped in down hard. Helping myself with some music, I tried to cool down and divert my attention from the horrible things that wanted to crawl in. Let there not be an accident, I prayed. The way the vision occurred back then, it seemed like it had warned me not only of going to Laketown, but maybe the things that might be associated with going to Laketown. After all, we were on a drive, and anything horrible could happen. Still, it was good if we had an accident. I must be sounding like a broken record, right? But it was true. If we did, then it would have at least stopped us from going. It wasn't because I wasn't afraid to die, as not an accident could kill me in that way, or that Mrs Fox would die, but, it just meant the better. Wouldn't we be stranded, I thought. T
Rylan POV The mystic aura that emerged from the person standing in front of me made me aware that something was not right. For some reason, I knew that I had found her. I knew that she was the one. The girl that I bumped into before. That weird girl. "S-sorry, excuse me," she exhaled, trying to go quickly away. I swiftly grabbed her arm and pulled her back to me. "You're the one, right?" I asked her, as the aura she possessed didn't seem to dwindle away, rather was becoming stronger, more inebriating. Something was definitely off. My wolf became unsettled. Maybe she was a kind of creature that opposed to wolves, and that was why Red was trying to protect me. But somehow, I still felt attracted and didn't want to go from her. I didn't want to leave her. Her scent was simply too strong, tok addicting, that I couldn't let go. "H-hey, leave me," she said, letting out a soft hiccuping sob. "You, I think something is there about you," I told her, sniffing in the air the magnificenc
Writer's POV Some days later, the Salvador family was having lunch at the dining room with Rylan seated next to his girlfriend, Kathrina and Caroline and Zita. Madlyn had invited them to come over to have lunch with them. They made jokes and chatted while having lunch round the table and Kathrina felt really happy. After dinner, Kathrina walked out with Rylan, his hand locked with hers, both walking behind Caroline and Zita."Guys, I'm leaving tonight," Zita said when they stepped on the lawn and they gave her a shocking expression."Why?" Kathrina asked."Hey, we never spoke about that," Caroline said, feigning annoyance. "Well, it's because…I've got no reason to stay back anymore. I could return to where I came from and carry on living my normal life.""You want to leave, for real?" Rylan asked in disbelief. "I remember you changing your mind a couple of times before.""I'm serious this time, Rylan. I'm leaving…""You're not leaving," a familiar voice said and they turned to see
Kathrina POVEverything has been peaceful since Zoey's death. My life had changed. I live a good life with my family. I've got my best friend, Lita, back and I have gotten new friends I'll keep forever, they are Caroline and Zita. I just wish Zita gets to spend more time with us.On a sunny morning, Rylan and I followed Mrs Fox's car behind then stopped at the town's entrance gate. She was leaving Laketown for good. I had no idea that she stayed back for two months after she got to know who I really was and about the demise of her daughter Lexie. I had got a call from her yesterday which made me so happy and I had told Rylan to follow me so we helped her pack her things and see her off at the entrance gate.When Rylan pulled over by the road behind her car, we got out and walked up to her leaning on her car."You know, I am happy I stayed for sometime. I was able to experience inner peace and happiness more than I had expected. Kathrina, I'm happy I got to know you and you made me be
Zita POVAfter Kathrina left that morning, I saw a big disappointment on Hayden's face. I don't know why but I felt pity for him. I couldn't help it but followed him to his place a few days later when I went to see Kathrina in their college.He happened to catch me and invited me into his house for a cup of tea."I wasn't expecting you'd follow me to my place. You're Zita, right?" He asked, u nodded as I took the cup of tea from him."Are you okay?""If you think I'm not, then you're right. I'm not going to act tough after I was rejected by my mate. It hurts. It's all my fault though.""I thought you wouldn't give up on her?""I was thinking about that too. Actually I had no intention of giving up on her before even when I knew she had hated me. But that day, when she rejected me, I saw the firmness in her gaze and knew she really had no feelings for me again. And when she took Rylan's hand and left with him, I knew I've lost her, forever.""So, what's your plans now?""Giving up. Sto
Kathrina POVThe next day, I went to Caroline's house and she said Zita was in the backyard at the river bank. I went there and saw her holding a small steel silver pot.I walked up to her and faked a cough, causing her to glance at me. "Hey, are you okay?" I asked her.She nodded and smiled. "It's still warm in here." I stared at the pot then it dawned to me what was in there. I looked up at her and she shook her head."That's Zoey's ashes?""Yeah. I was reluctant to throw it into the water. I'm happy you're here. I've gotten the strength to do what I want now."I chuckled. She opened the pot,dipped her hand into it and took a handful of ashes then threw them into the water. She did so till the pot was empty and dropped the pot in the water. We both watched the pot as it flowed on the water surface. "You know, Zoey was the only family member I had in the entire world," she said after a while. "Our parents are dead. We both left the vampire world because we didn't want to be bound t
Kathrina POV "Let's meet up tonight. Come alone and I'll spare your mother. You can send a message when you're done thinking about it. Your life in exchange for your mom's, sweetheart," Zoey said and hung up before I could say a word and I stared at them. "I'm going to meet her," I said to Caroline and quickly sent a message to Zoey, stating my agreement to her request. "Kathrina, going alone ti see Zoey is freaking risky," Caroline said. I shrugged. "I don't care…" "I'm coming with you," I heard Rylan said, almost yelling as he barged into the house. "No, Rylan. My mom's life is risk here. Zoey wants only me to come." "I knew this would happen someday. I won't let anything bad happen to either you or your mother, Kathrina." "Wait, how did you know that Kathrina had a problem?" Zita asked. "They are mates and their bond have grew stronger since something happened one certain night," I heard Caroline said to Zita in a whisper. "I felt you were in trouble, Kathrina," Rylan said
Kathrina POVSome days later, I returned home from school and while trying to make something to have for lunch, my mom got a call and I watched her go far away and answered the call. Since then, she started acting strange. Morley talked to me one day about it and he had observed that she's been getting a couple of strange calls from an unknown number. When I tried to talk to her about it, she said it's nothing.A week later, we were chatting and telling jokes in her Cafe when her mood changed to a gloom after her phone beeped and she glanced at the phone screen."Mom, are you okay?" I asked."Um, yeah. Why ask that?""You've been acting a little bit weird these days. Is there a problem?""Nah. It's just the little stress I face sometimes. You know handling the Cafe alone on some days when it's filled is not really easy peasy. But I do appreciate it when you guys do help out on the weekends, especially you, sweetheart.""Hm. But I've told you to get a sales girl. It would relieve you
Hayden POV I watched as my mate left, not wanting to accept me. I didn't know why she was so much acquainted with Rylan recently, but then, I knew that it wasn't going to be for long. It wasn't going to be for a long time before she came back to me. I knew that she wasn't going to be for long, and she was going to be mine once again. I was definitely sure of it. Kathrina's words, however, bore deep into my soul. While the fear gyrating around my core had me in place thinking for a moment that I would lose Kathy forever, I tried to shrug it off. It was like a hot dagger slicing through my skin, killing the morale and courage about the future of me and my mate, and it wouldn't stop tormenting me. He was having fun with her. My enemy. "I've told you Hayden , Kathy doesn't belong to you. She's mine, and mine alone," he said, with some vile smirk on his face. Oh how I wish Kathy could see this, then she'd know what kind of person she was looking forward to. "And what claims do you
Kathrina POVI opened my eyes a while ago, not knowing that some hours had passed. Caroline was in front of me. I looked beside me and saw Zoey. She was no longer in my body but looked just like Zita. I touched my face and Caroline walked up to me with a mirror."Congratulations," she said as I stared in awe at my face in the mirror. At last, I've gotten my face back. I'm now the real me. Kathrina. I turned to Zita after I stood up. She smiled at me. I glanced at Zoey. "What's going on with her?""She's unconscious. And she'll remain so till some time in the morning," Zita said."Thanks so much, Zita. I do appreciate what you've done for me," I said and pulled her into a hug. Then it dawned on me. I slowly turned to see Mrs Fox in front of the car. She walked up to me. "I saw it all…Kathrina," she said. She darted her eyes elsewhere and stared at her daughter's body. She walks to the body and wraps her arm around the body as she bursts into tears. I went to console her. I told her
Kathrina POVI stared blankly at him as he leaned forward to me. I was about to utter a word, to retaliate to his sudden action but I felt him pressed a button and my seat slightly went back. He did it again and chuckled when I gasped. I pulled up an irritated expression and he grabbed a bag from the back seat and placed it on my lap."What's this?""Check it out and change into it. I got some clothes ready which you could easily change into. I'm sure you've not added weight for over a year. You seemed to be on a diet when I saw you then.""Why should I change my clothes?""I'm taking you to your home. Your fake Mom might probably want to question you when she sees you in black clothes. I'm sure she has no idea that you attended your actual Dad's funeral.""She doesn't even know I've been lying and fooling her all this while." I sighed."You can simply tell her today. I know you're tired of lying to her," he said, peering into my eyes. I wondered how he could tell what I was feeling.