A week later...~NORMAN CITY, OKLAHOMA.~Naturiah's Agricultural And Livestock Company. NAALC.Ismena stood at the clearing of the huge familiar skyscraper of her workplace, staring at the abbreviation of the company, written in bold letters at the very top of it. A very famous and successful company that has branches scattered all over the world, Ismena can still remember feeling like the happiest woman in the world when NAALC accepted her job application seven years ago. It was a dream come true.She'd applied for it and several other lower agricultural companies, all her hope had been in the lower companies, but when the most successful agricultural company in the world accepted her job application and gave her an interview appointment with the company, she walked into the cloud all day long. All these years, she never regretted her job. Not even when it swallowed all her time, giving her little to no time for boys, fun, and relationships. Not even with her direct boss, Mr. Macdo
🌺NORMAN CITY, OKLAHOMA🌺It was late evening when Ismena got home with a wild smile on her face and threw herself on her sofa. She can still remember the look on Henry Macdonald's plump face when she'd called him an àsshole."You're fired, do you hear me, Cranes!? You are fired!" He'd shouted behind the door after she walked out.She'd opened the door, stuck her head back in, and shouted, "Doesn't make you any less of an àsshole, does it?" She'd accompanied her words with a sweet smile she knows he hated so much before she closed the door to his angry face and walked away.Now, she relaxed back on the sofa. Aah, what a sweet day. Her cell phone rang, and she picked it up. "Sandra!""Don't sound so excited, you wicked witch! So, you're back in Oklahoma but you didn't say anything to me!? Are we even friends at all!?" Sandra screamed in her ear.Ismena winced, "I'm sorry, so sorry, Sandy. I've been meaning to call you, seriously...""When!? I heard it's been a week, you witch!""Uhm, h
A blush crept to her cheeks like he just reminded her what she momentarily forgot. "Look, I really didn't mean to steal it. If you'll just turn a blind eye to it. You're a rich man and all that. Or, if you'll just let me go, just this once, I will—""You will do what?" The groan was to her ear. His upper body pressed her deeper into the wall. Suddenly, he needed more of her scent in his system. He inhaled deeply.He's sniffing her neck! "I'll most definitely not steal again, that I can assure you." She squeaked. Does he wanna eat her up!? Sure looks like he's playing with his meal. A shiver worked down her spine.Yet, she couldn't resist rubbing her aching breasts to his chest, seeking any kind of relief from this hunger that only increases."Stop that." He growled the command through gritted teeth.She stared up at him and blinked innocently, "Stop what?"A pause. A harder scowl. "Do you know what smells better than fear?"She has no idea what he means, but she managed to squeak, "W
The silence was heavy. Thick. She took a nervous step back."What did you just say?" The question was calm, but there was nothing calm about the way his eyes went greener. There's nothing calm about the way a shiver of dread worked itself through her bones."Your e-eyes, it's doing a c-c-color thing—"He glared at her. Big, GREEN, glare.She lifted her hand's palm out as if to ward off evil, "I'm really really sorry. I needed the money to buy my meds!" Shit, her tone is back to a squawk!He took a predatory step forward. She stepped back again and collided with a wall. The same wall he'd kissed her senseless on a few minutes ago. She can still taste him on her lips.With another step forward, he moved into her personal space, caging her to the wall again, but this time around she knows for sure it was not to kiss her senseless. More like to murder her.Ismena squeezed her eyes closed, "Please, please, please, have mercy! I didn't mean to p-pawn your ring but I needed the money! I know
The sun has gone down really well, the night sky was shiny with the twinkling stars and the yellow half-moon that dominated it. By the time they pulled up to the clearing of her apartment again. Ismena was well tired to her bones. It was a hard day, and she also missed her afternoon medications.But all that doesn't matter at all when compared to the problem at hand. The trouble she'd gotten herself into. The pawnbroker, Mr. Haggins, really did close down his store and left town. No one knows where he packed too. No one knows his destination. No one knows how to reach him. Not a phone number, not a relative, not an address. Nothing.She can feel him behind her as she stepped out of the limo. He hasn't said a word since their investigations. His silence terrified her more than his blank faces and eye-color changes. She walked sullenly to her apartment, unlocked it, and walked inside. He followed her.Ismena was done peeing her panties in fear. She turned and faced him bravely, "So,
He can understand that, but it doesn't change the fact that his precious ring is out there in the hands of NoOneKnows. The mountain lion prowled around in fury."You're doing that growling thing again." It sounds like he wants to eat her, no matter how irrational that might sound to her ear but it doesn't dismiss the feeling. The fear in her eyes was palatable. He hadn't been aware that he was growling, Wolfariane closed his eyes to get himself under control. Hunger for her has been crawling at him since he stepped onto her front pouch hours ago, he has been battling himself—and his wolf ever since. Everything about control is turning out to be harder than usual, especially in front of this woman. If the ring is really where he is beginning to think it is, then this woman is in more danger than her health can ever put her. While he does not care one bit about what happens to non-changelings, he does not want to be involved in the reason why 'his mate' died. Not when she is already
One minute, Degar stood between her and the door, the next minute, a huge six-foot tall cream-yellow leopard dominated three times the space the man occupied before, its beady blue eyes watching her pointedly.Ismena's head stopped sending and receiving signals. Infact, it went blank as she watched a man turn into a huge leopard right in front of her. W.H.A.T!?What happened next, she had no idea. All she knows is the walls of her bedroom were closing in on her. Why is the floor suddenly moving up to meet her face...? She was barely aware of her body hitting the floor.Wolfariane, on the other hand, watched the woman's eyes go very wide, then it rolled back into her head and she dropped on the floor like a heavy sack, out like a light.Degar in his leopard form turned towards him and grunted, pushing his head in the woman's direction."I did expect her to faint, Degar. Who wouldn't? She saw a man morph into a leop." He made no move to pull away from the wall, but his head was workin
Her voice was high and shrilly, "It was a f-figment of my imagination, right? That can't be p-possible, right? He didn't just turn into a big c-cat...right?" She asked hopefully, staring at him with wide eyes."He prefers to be called a leopard. And no, it is not a figment of your imagination," his tone hard, like he is angry at her. He turned and faced her, "Unless, you will like him to come and show you again in order to convince you otherwise—""No, no, no, no, don't worry, I g-get the idea now. I don't need a repeat, I a-assure you!" Her heart was thudding in her chest, the memory of Degar turning into a big cat—no, a leopard—repeated itself in her head over and over again. "Is this a dream...!?"She began feeling faint again..."Don't you dare faint on me again, female." He glared at her.Yep, that voice was enough to snap her right back to consciousness. For a man that just kissed her senseless a few moments again, and had her body on fire, he is sure looking so calm, cool, and