On the way I felt an odd sensation like I was being watched. I turned to scan the room until I locked eyes with Alex, who was standing in a shadowy corner at the other end of the room with his friends.I couldn’t make out his expression in the darkness, but the hairs at the nape of my neck rising di
“Well, the night is still young.” His eyes gleamed with sincerity and invitation. “Stick around for a bit. It’d be a shame if you wasted all that prettiness.”A weighted pause followed this comment, and when I could no longer hold it in I let out a snort of laughter. Connor winced.“That bad, huh?”
Layla’s POVAs soon as our eyes made contact I felt my stomach drop, roiling as I tried and failed to get up from the bed.The room around me spun, and each of my limbs felt as if they were made of cement. I tried to focus my thoughts to keep the fear from taking over, but Alex’s malicious smirk as
My brain rattled as soon as the blow connected, and he cut off my scream with another resounding slap, warning me to keep my mouth shut if I wanted him to go easy on me.I didn’t believe him, but I was in survival mode and I gulped down my breaths to stay quiet even as silent tears leaked out of the
Layla’s POVI ran without stopping, almost ripping the door out of its hinges on my way out, and I made it as far as the hallway outside before a pair of callused hands wrapped around my biceps, stopping me in my tracks. They wrenched me back so violently that it felt like my arms were being pulled
I hadn’t noticed her growing quiet inside me up until that moment, but as I turned to look at my wolf I was surprised to find that her usually green eyes (which were identical to mine) were shot through with burst blood vessels and flecked with glints of gold that seemed to glow. She was also sligh
Layla’s POVI landed with a thud, and the initial jolt messed with my focus, making me lose my grasp on my connection with Hector. But the little I had done would have to be enough.A grunt escaped me as I quickly got up to my feet and looked up to find the men all glaring down at me. Alex cursed,
Hector’s POVThe sound of leaves crunching alerted me to the new arrival right before he burst out of the thicket of trees into the clearing. I tensed as I looked up and immediately pinned down his identity: Grayson Rockmountain.At the same time Layla fell limp in my arms. She had lost consciousnes