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Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 11
Quinn Just when I started to relax and think I was safe, Troy pulled a new one on me, coming out of nowhere with a question so bizarre I had no idea how to answer him. His eyes turned from warm to cold in split second, and his body went rigid when he pushed away from me. I had to keep reminding myself that he wasn’t my friend or my lover. He was my owner, even if he claimed otherwise. He was just like Caroline. He wanted to use me for his own selfish needs. It would serve me well to remember that. I wasn’t living some happily ever after fairy tale here. He wanted to use me for whatever purpose I'd serve, and I used him so I wouldn’t have to spend another night out on the streets. Although, it didn't quite feel that way. Something else was happening between us, I just didn't know what that something was. “I don’t understand,” I said and folded my arms around my rapidly cooling body. “I’m human, just like you.” “Stop lying to me!” He violently slapped the surface of the lake with
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Quinn The ride into town with Tony was a lot more enjoyable than the two rides I’d shared with Troy so far. Without his boss present, Tony was a pleasant, chatty individual. “Why do you work for a man like Troy?” I asked on a whim when the conversation dried up a little. “He’s the best of the bosses. He gives us a bigger cut than anyone else.” "Why don't you just do a regular job?" Tony took his eyes off the road for a moment to look at me, then turned back to pay attention to his driving. "Not all of us are fortunate enough to have good opportunities. You should know that better than most." “Yes, but Troy...he’s so…so…” “Violent? They all are Miss, but Mister Bailey is fair. Strict, but fair, and...He doesn’t deal in humans and drugs like the others.” “That’s where you draw the line?” “Human trafficking is where a lot of us draw the line. I started out working for Lawson. My first assignment was loading little girls into containers to be shipped off for sex work overseas.” I
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Troy I felt pretty damn good about myself when I left Quinn’s room. I was bred to possess every wolf talent, but I rarely used my healing abilities - they tended to be slapdash at best, and if I wasn’t completely focused on the task, and a hundred percent committed to it, I could just as easily kill someone as heal them. True healers were rare and usually loyal only to their packs and their Alphas. Most wolves, especially rogues, had to rely on physicians like Doctor Jacobs. I had hoped that there was some kind of human operation that would help Quinn so I wouldn’t have to call in a favour to an Alpha with a pack healer. If she was right though, and it looked as if she was, human medicine couldn’t help her, and a good, true healer was her only chance. My wolf was once again quiet and under control. It took me the whole drive home and a very long shower to get the fucker back in his place. I feared that he’d surface again when I went to Quinn, but he was quiet the whole time, seemin
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Troy Sebastian handed me a thick folder along with Quinn’s new bankcard and documentation in a Manila envelope. “What’s this?” I asked, holding up the folder. My brother wandered over to the liquor cabinet and poured each of us a glass of whiskey. “Everything we could find about the Maree family," he said and placed one of the glasses next to the folder. "I found one article that mentioned her after the tragedy, but not by name. They just said that the oldest daughter disappeared from public life, but she was never reported as missing. The consensus is that Claude murdered her, and that was why he took out his wife and blew off his own head.” “They think he did it out of guilt?” “Uh-huh.” “He didn’t kill her.” “Yes, but by all accounts that man had a lot to feel guilty about. Do you know who his father was?” “No.” “Alpha Dexter Maree of the Moon Isle pack. Her mother, Laurel, is the daughter of Xander Shelby-” “Alpha of the Lightwood pack. Him I know. How is it that Quinn doe
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Quinn I swore I sensed Troy’s approach several seconds before he knocked on my door. I even looked up in anticipation, waiting for it to happen. As he did yesterday morning, he didn’t wait for an invitation before he entered. “You’re awake,” he overstated the obvious. I’d been awake for at least half an hour now. My foot was alive with agony again, and after the blissful release from pain last night, I wanted to cry when I woke to the familiar throbbing, burning sensation. It had been getting increasingly worse as time went on. It was almost as bad as the night my mother repeatedly drove the breadknife into my foot. I purposefully pushed the memory away and focused on my breathing, trying to distract myself from the pain. I gritted my teeth. I wouldn’t lose my shit in front of Troy again. “Good morning,” I said. “The healer is here,” he announced as if it was no big deal at all. “She wants to meet you before she starts to prepare for the healing.” I sighed and tried to hold on t
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Quinn Me and my big mouth. I did it again. I pushed Troy’s buttons simply because I could. I used to do the same thing to my mother. It was almost as if I got some kind of sick enjoyment from pissing her off. The slap Troy gave me didn’t hurt that much. It was the warning that I shouldn’t push him any further that closed my mouth for me. Troy deposited me on a sun lounger next to the pool and stripped off his t-shirt. I should really be quiet and not say anything, but if I were going to stay here, I needed to know what I was in for so I could prepare myself. “Do you…beat women?” I asked, my voice shaky. Troy bundled his t-shirt into a little ball and threw it on the lounger. “Beat? No.” “You hit me.” He laughed humourlessly. “I smacked you on the ass.” “To…silence me or to hurt me?” “Christ Almighty,” he murmured. “Neither…to stop you from squirming out of my arms. I was about to drop you down the stairs. If I truly wanted to hurt you, you would be on the floor bleeding.” My
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Troy As I dove into the pool, a voice I hadn’t heard in many years spoke inside my head. “Troy.” My insides contracted, and I inhaled sharply, almost fucking drowning myself in the process. I was over three-hundred-years old. I was one of the strongest Lycans ever created, and whenever my father spoke to me, I instantly turned into a frightened, lost little pup. “What do you want?” I asked when I came up for air. I felt Quinn’s eyes on me as I turned around and swam back to the other end of the pool. “I hear you found your fated mate. The one from the prophecy.” Well, he was bound to find out sooner or later. I was rather hoping for later though. “Who told you?” “It doesn’t matter.” I didn’t say anything. It was pointless. My fear now was for Quinn. My father understood the prophecy, understood what I was, and he knew what finding her meant for him. The only way he could stop me was if Quinn died or I didn’t mark her. “What are you going to do about it?” he asked. “I don’t k
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Troy I walked into my mansion, embracing the peace that settled over me as soon as I did. Coming from the Lakelands, nature calmed me, and I tried to bring as much nature as I could into my home. Water wolves liked to be near water all the time, as desert wolves craved the dry, warm climate, and forest wolves the woods. Glover waited for me in the foyer to inform me that Serenity was already upstairs with Quinn. “How long have they been busy?” I asked. “About ten minutes now, Sir.” When we moved to the human world, we discarded all wolf terms that could identify us, including the use of our Goddess’s name. I quickly learned that if we didn’t think like humans, we’d slip up and expose ourselves, as Serenity exposed us to Quinn this morning when she called us by our formal titles. Glover wrinkled his nose when he took my jacket. “I think you should have enough time for a quick shower,” he commented cheekily. “That bad, huh?” “It’s…noticeable.” They never tell you, before you star
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Hello my dearest readers! Phew. Another one done and dusted. Finally! This is the time where I thank all of you for sticking around to read this epic tale. I did not intend for it to be this long, but Troy and Quinn had quite the story to tell. Thank you, as always, for the comments, the reviews, the gems, the encouragement and love you've shown me along the way. I truly appreciate you so much, and your support is why I keep on writing even when I sometimes feel like saying, "fuck it all," before I go back to bed. I could not do this without you, I truly mean that. There will be more stories soon. So if you feel like it, stick around for the next one. I'd love to take you along for the ride. Much love, Celice
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 121
TroyI lifted Quinn into the warm tub, soaped up a flannel, and gently started to wash her. She was frozen down to the bone, and for the first time since it all started, she complained about being cold. “I killed the witch?” she asked for the hundredth time.“Yes.”“And Sebastian is okay?”“Yes.” I checked on him before I came to bed.My brother was exhausted, mentally, emotionally, and physically he was shattered, but he was alive. That was the only thing that mattered to me now.“I reached out to your aunt’s witch, Gretchen,” I said. “Do you know her?”“No.”“Well, she’ll be here in a few days. She’ll teach you how to develop and control your powers.”Quinn pulled her legs up and rested her chin on her knees. She looked small, vulnerable, like the little rabbit I brought home with me almost six months ago. “Now it’s over,” she said.“I think so.”“We can live our lives?”God I hoped so.I groaned and dropped the flannel in the water. I leaned over to kiss my mate. Her lips were like
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 120
Troy As I expected, the winter was exceptionally cold, and towards the end of the year, the whole city came to a grinding halt. Businesses couldn’t open, school doors remained shut, water pipes froze over and burst all over the country, reports came in thick and fast about the poor and homeless dying by the dozen.It was absolute mayhem.On the day of Quinn’s birthday, we had the worst snowstorm in recorded history. Doom prophets talked about the end of the world, and newscasters predicted our catastrophic end if we didn’t stop carbon emissions right away.They didn’t know what we knew. They didn’t know that it was a half-Goddess woman’s powers manifesting. Quinn didn’t know she was doing it, but I felt her magic. She called on nature, begged it to help her so she wouldn’t have to kill Sebastian, and the snow was their answer.I did not want to burden her with the knowledge that she caused the severe weather. It was pointless and wouldn't change a damn thing. My brother was already h
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 119
QuinnBlack blood oozed out of the kings’ necks and flowed over their sons’ hands, down their chests, and into the earth. The ground bubbled and boiled like a tar pit and stinking steam rose up in the air. The kings were so corrupted, that nature itself tried to reject their blood.Sparks exploded behind my eyes and a sharp pain shot through my own neck. I gasped and gagged, trying to breath past the unknown thing stuck in my throat, and instinctively reached up to feel for a wound, but Ida and Nell, dear sweet Nell that was always so gentle and shy, held my arms down. “Don’t,” Nell hissed. “It is not real.”The woods started to float in and out of existence, and a loud drone like millions of buzzing flies filled every space in my head. Something tore my soul from my chest, and the real world simply ceased to exist.I looked out over a vast wasteland. There was nothing here but parched, cracked earth as far as the eye could see. In the distance, the skeleton of a lone tree tried to ca
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 118
QuinnI looked around the place that used to be our campground. The sigh was one straight out of a horror movie. Corpses and torn tents lay scattered across the clearing, giving it a desolate, post-apocalyptic feel.At some point, Salome took control and I shifted. I blacked out and when I came back, Troy was standing over me, commanding me to shift.His commands didn’t work on me, but they worked on Salome. She couldn’t resist an order from Troy. “What happened?” I asked, completely confused.“Look,” Troy said and held out his hand to help me up.A body lay next to me on the ground. A she-wolf with her throat torn out. “Did I do that?”“Yes,” he said. “She was a fully-trained warrior, and you…you fought bravely and you won, but she did almost kill you.”I looked down at my blood-soaked. I was a little achy, but I didn't feel injured or near death. “I'm okay.”“I healed you as much as I could, and the shift fixed the rest.”“I don’t remember any of it.”“I know.”I was suddenly very a
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 117
TroyQuinn and I ran for the campgrounds. We had to tie up the other princes and their mates to make it appear as if I held them prisoner. As we rushed up the path, I mind liked with Casper to tell him what was going on. “Find the princes. Get the chains ready.”The chains we prepared for them wasn’t pure silver. They contained just enough of the precious metal to fool the Lycans for a moment, but not so much that it would weaken the princes to such a degree that they couldn’t break free when the time came.“Gag my father,” I reminded the guard.Morella did not give us much time to prepare. Thirty minutes. That was how long it would take her to break Eleanor’s spell, and that was all the time she gave us.We broke through the treeline just in time to see my warriors wrap the chains around the princes wrists and ankles. Casper grinned maniacally as he shoved a ball gag into my father’s mouth and wrapped a cloth dipped in liquid silver over it to keep it in place.“You like this a littl
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 116
Troy“Does this change anything?” Joel asked.After the Lycans submitted, I summoned the princes to the lake so we could talk about what had happened. I did not expect them bend the knee to me – it was too much to ask, yet they did it, the least I could do in return was stay true to them.“Not as far as I can see,” Gadrial said and lazily plucked a dead leaf hanging right in front of his face.God, he could be an insufferable blowhole sometimes, but he was not wrong. “Gadrial is right. It changes nothing.”Joel did not look convinced. “If she is attracting wolves who naturally want to submit to both of you...I don’t....Why must we have to kill our fathers?”“Because if we don’t, they’ll kill her,” Eduard said. “Eventually, they’ll find a way, and we’ll be right back where we started.”“I don’t expect you to kill for my mate,” I said.“That’s just it, isn’t it?” Gadrial replied, his voice bitter with resentment. “We are all bound to her, as we are to her fucking mother.”“She’s your mo
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 115
QuinnUnlike the last few weeks, the warriors didn’t head off into the woods to train. For the first time since we arrived, everyone gathered around the fires to enjoy the day together before the full moon forced us into the woods to shift.I looked up at the muted moon hanging in the clear blue sky. With each passing month, I could feel the moon’s effects more intensely. The closer I came to my twenty-first birthday, the stronger it became. It was like the ocean's tide rose inside me, and I was terrified of what would happen when the wave broke upon the shore.The moon was almost like a living being to me. I could feel her pulsating heart, and hear her sigh as she moved along her way.I cocked my head at the blue-white globe, fully expecting her to start speaking at any moment, and was completely unaware that the group sharing our fire stopped eating to watch me.It wasn’t until I tore my eyes from the moon that I noticed all of them had put their plates down and folded their hands i
Maybe Wrong, Maybe Right Chapter 114
Quinn It was so cold that my tears froze on my face. Troy shuddered as gusts of wind whipped through the trees, but he did not let me go. He had to be uncomfortable, sitting naked on the icy rock, but he simply held on to me while I tried my best to stop crying. If Fionn was no longer in the painting, it had to mean that the princes would win. They would kill their fathers and these wolves that I loved so much would finally know peace. Perhaps, Sebastian would change his mind too, and then Troy could live the life he wanted. I didn’t know if the life as a gang leader was any more peaceful than life as a Lycan king, but it had to be if that was what my mate dreamed of these days. The war did not affect me, not yet, but I could see what it did to those around me. They talked about the end of the war non-stop, about their dreams for a peaceful future, and what they’d do when it was all over. Nell was especially vulnerable, and she often cried about lost brothers and sisters, or worri
