Returning to the beach shore, Brian lifted an eyebrow. "You took a while. What happened?" "It's nothing. I just received a spam call." I tried to smile, but it came out forced. "Are you sure?" "Yeah, it's nothing." Nothing like being threatened by your ex's girl. "Okay, if you insist." Rising to feet, he stretched his arm to me. "Let's go to the store to get new clothes. I have a surprise for you.""You do?" That immediately filled me with a bubbly energy and I took his hand, rising to my feet. "What's the surprise?" "It wouldn't be one if I tell you.""A hint?" "No!" "Please…" I tried to look cute by pouting, but he just shook his head at me. Scoffing, I gave up and we both went in for a change of clothes. My brain calculated every possible definition of a surprise from Brian, but nothing could match it. Then, my eyes widened as a thought crossed my mind: 'was he going to officially ask me to be his girlfriend?' I internally squealed. I understood our relationship was going
~ RAINA ~I shifted in the pool of my bathtub. It wasn't surprising that I had soaked myself for forty minutes in my dorm bathtub, during Thanksgiving break. My parents had traveled out of the country for Thanksgiving break, without me. Being an only child sucks. Lyric was gone, so having the room to myself was equivalent to being at home since I'd be alone. Once I was done in the tub, I turned off the rap, hoping she had received my text for the shower to be fixed Wrapping a small towel around my frame, I headed out and walked to my wardrobe to select something to wear. I saw a human-like frame move from my peripheral vision. My body froze, my head slowly turning till I saw a man sitting on Lyric's bed, headphones over his head. He and his bag of chips had frozen when his gaze matched mine. A loud scream escaped my throat and I started throwing items after him from my wardrobe. "Calm down, please calm down." He shielded his face from my attack. "Help, thief!" I screamed. "Hol
After almost an hour of Brian convincing me to run, I gave in and decided to run in my wolf form. Running felt so new. I could feel my paws dig into the sand and grass like never before, so soft and gentle. Maya (muy wolf) wanted to scream in the language of freedom because she was finally on a non–emergency run. I only ever ran in my wolf form when I was running from danger or embarrassment, but here I was, running leisurely with my mate. Brian's wolf was a huge, gray wolf with brown patches around him; his eyes were still a pair of gray eyes that shone even brighter. Not to mention he was double my size and looked like he could trample my wolf with his huge paws. Bigger wolves had always intimidated me, but with Brian, I felt safer than safe. His wolf caught up with mine and he gently knocked me down. "Hey," I barked and ran to jump on his wolf's neck, forcing him down while I bit through the furriness of his skin. He pushed me off and jumped right on me, trapping my paws in
I hid under the heaviness of the blanket, yet my body still quivered incessantly. Weakness had overtaken me to my bones. My skin was hot; however, chills ran within me. Sneezing, my eyes watered and I had to reach for the last piece of tissue on the bedside table to wipe snort off my nose, tossing it into the trash can piled with already-used tissue. Sniffling, I watched the clock ahead of me. "It's 2pm." Brian still hadn't arrived. After ten minutes, I heard a knock. Glancing over, I realized it was locked. He just had to leave without a key? Grunting, I spent longer than usual to stand up, every part of my body aching as I staggered to the door. All the words I was going to yell at Brian were rehearsed in my head. Opening it, there was a package in front of the porch, no Brian.It took the remaining strength I had left for me to lift the box, take it in, and open it. It was filled with pictures of me and Brian from the helicopter ride and just random pictures from that day, some
It was the last day of the trip. Brian, however, had been on his laptop since forever, claiming to be working. I stepped out and took a walk along the shore of the beach, reflecting on my moments with Brian. It was a week, but it felt like two months: I was more comfortable around him and yearned to be with him every minute. Just the thought of Brian made my heart flutter. I had thought I would never have feelings for anyone after Roger, but here I was, back to square one. A stupid thought popped into my head: ‘what if he leaves you too?’Be quiet. I shook it off my head. The thought kept poking my mind, and I needed a distraction. Thankfully, my phone rang. I answered it without checking the caller ID.“Hey, sugar.” Blade’s voice sounded through my airpod.“Hey,” I stopped myself from wincing. "How are you?" "Great. Honestly, I miss seeing you on campus. I don’t know how I survived without seeing you for a week. I thought I was going to die," He joked.I only chuckled. "You'll be
They both flinched away, Raina jumping off the bed. “Y-You’re back?!” She exclaimed, glancing around the room with widened eyes.Walking in, I glanced between both of them and though Tone was trying to play cool, I could read and see his blue-ish green eyes bobbing around his eye socket. “I thought you left when I had called. Why are you still here?” I glared.“I found an apartment a few streets away, but I can’t move in until two days from now.” He explained.“I don’t care. I don’t want you bothering me and my roommate. Why the hell are you even in Dentville?” My reddened cheeks were starting to heat up with fury. “Raina, I’m so sorry he bothered you. It’ll never happen again.”“I–” I cut him off. “ I don’t care what you have to say. I don’t want you in my dorm without permission.” “I let him stay,” She cut me off, pursing her lips. “He explained his situation, and it would’ve been selfish to just kick him out, so after careful consideration, I let him stay here.”My mouth fell ag
Emily couldn’t be serious, right? If I remembered correctly, Emily used to make a lot of empty threats in high school just to bully me and other girls. I frowned, suddenly remembering a time I had complained about Emily bullying me to Roger and he had called me a weak wolf.“You better get that stinky attitude off your face if you don’t want me to cut off your paycheck,” Josh complained, pulling me out of my pool of thoughts. “I’m sorry.” “You better be. Took an entire week off and now you want to chase all my customers away.” he huffed. “Act all flirty and do what you’ve got to do.” he gave his last shot of glare before strutting away with 250-pounds of meat dancing at every step.My shift took forever till I finally clocked out and took the bus home. Still, my thoughts fell back to Emily. It had been over twenty four hours since the text, yet it wouldn’t leave me. Who could she hurt that was close to me?‘Hopefully, Tone.’ My wolf joked and I rolled my eyes. ‘I wouldn’t mind th
What the heck was going on? Was Blade drunk on something?I glanced over at Tone whose eyes were squinted like a detective seeking answers. He had his doubts, clearly, and I had to break that doubt. Swallowing hard, I said and feigned a smile. "Yes, I'll be your girlfriend.". "Really?" His grin widened and he rose to his feet, pulling me into a tight hug. "I can't believe this." Once again, his skin contact burned my body. It made me feel like hot lava was on me. I couldn't push him away, so I hugged him back, my toes curling up to try to suck in the heat. This was so wrong and I knew it. I tried to convince myself that it was better than Tone finding out about Brian, but the pang in my heart reminded me that it wasn’t right.Raina squealed, clapping her hands."This is so cute!" I heard clicking sounds like she took a picture and I sent a mental note to myself to delete the picture from her phone. "Something doesn’t seem right." Tone said as Blade pulled away. What again? "Was s