#Chapter45I crossed my arms over my chest, which didn't make me look even a little bit intimidating. "Why are you here? And who goes and taps on people's windows at night?"Aiden looked huge in my room, it wasn't that my room was small, it was just that he held an authoritative aura around him righ
#Chapter46'"Tell me about mates."'******Everything was ready. Harper was supposed to come to my house at 9, when Cody would be at school and my parents would be at work.We would have total privacy and that was exactly what we needed. Me and Harper needed to talk and I was pretty sure the word W
#Chapter47In fact, I didn't."So you mean to say, that you knew throughout this time, that there was a mate waiting for you and yet, you still slept around with every girl?" My voice raised at the end, every word dripping with venom. I didn't know where the sudden anger had come from, but it was ju
#Chapter48'The perks of having an alpha werewolf friend!'******"Friends hug each other, right?" Harper asked me before engulfing me in a bone crushing hug.I gasped for breath and put my arms around him, which made him relax a bit. He let me go after giving me a mischievous smile. He knew that I
#Chapter49I opened my mouth to speak something, anything but closed it. I wanted to tell him that after much deliberation and debating with myself, I had come to the decision that I would try being his girlfriend, but the words got stuck in my mouth. Instead, I just nodded dumbly.Harper leaned fo
#Chapter50'".....You're it for me and my wolf."'******"What?" My voice came out small and unsure and I looked at Harper to check if I had heard him correctly."Amanda found her mate in a hospital six months ago, battling cancer. He was already in the terminal stage and being a human, there was n
#Chapter51He started kissing slowly all the way to my jaw, my lips were tingling now, I just couldn't wait to taste his lips which were so skillfully giving me so much pleasure.With every kiss, I could hear my heart pound in my chest and heat flooding my body. I had stopped trying to control my mo
#Chapter52'"What about the woman in my dreams?" I asked Harper.'******After we made out in the classroom till we were panting like dogs, Harper suggested we skip the rest of school. And what did I say? I said why the hell not. Harper told me that he had it all covered and that my parents would
#Chapter254BONUS IIEverything turned chaotic the moment Zara left to be away from Harper, me, and all the rest of us who could possibly remind her of our betrayal. Did it count as a betrayal though when we hardly understood it ourselves? My heart hurt and my wolf whimpered at the possibility of n
#Chapter253BONUS IIWhen all the tests came back negative, I felt I was going mad or my brain was cooking up some insane story and I couldn't make head or tails about my life. I felt I was being crazy because there was no possible way that this was happening to me. If I was indeed pregnant with Ha
#Chapter252BONUS II'Natalie's POV'******I knew something was wrong when I didn't get my period for two months. I never had a smooth cycle so I wasn't really troubled when they didn't happen the first time but their absence in the second consecutive month got me worried. My body had undergone c
#Chapter251BONUS ISomething about her made my protective instincts stand on end. My wolf didn't understand what was happening but I found myself giving an evil eye to anyone who looked at her the wrong way. I could feel that she was attracted to me and it brought a sort of satisfaction to my ego
#Chapter250BONUS IMy father didn't want to see me go, I was his heir. I was supposed to succeed him and impart all the knowledge he had given me to my own son but he could see how darkly I grieved, how she feared I would choose to take my own life than choosing to live on without my mate. So, wit
#Chapter249BONUS I'Ethan's POV'******When you grow up as a werewolf, all you ever hear is the word 'mate', because people around you can't stop talking about them. Some elders talk about mates with a dazed but happy look in their eyes and you can easily tell how much they love their mates. Whe
#Chapter248EPILOGUE 6"God, I sure hope not," Zara whispered in my ear, and I caress her knee and she squeals and tries to get off me but I stop her by holding her tightly against me. She makes a show of it but settles again beside me. "When are Nat and Addison coming back?" Natalie and Addison h
#Chapter247EPILOGUE 5'HARPER'S POV (TEN YEARS LATER)'******It was three years ago when Mason was first teased by a fellow classmate about the unusual arrangement of his parents. I had always known that as he was growing up, he became especially attuned to the fact that the way his family lived
"Everything ok?" Harper's voice breaks my reverie my eyes snap up to look at him. In a daze, I show my healed palm to him and his eyes shine with pride as he recognizes what this means. As a human, seeing my palm heal so quickly is a stunning surprise in itself and I watch as Harper pulls my hand to