“You’re gonna have to get used to it, Mars. It’s not that hard. Just be comfortable in your skin, and know that nobody cares about your nudity because it’s normal.” I think about it for a moment and nod at him. “Yeah, you’re right. I’ll never do that.” I state and his mouth parts in surprise, not
Penelope just stares at as for sometime, as we all seem to freeze in the moment. I’m still on King’s back and he’s still in wolf form. We stand like that as tears continue to stream down her face. It’s like she suddenly can’t talk, and I find myself feeling bad about it. I know she loves King. They’
“Stop this, okay? We need to talk about this, and I’d rather we did that civilly, without insults and fists. Do you understand, both of you?” I agree, but she doesn’t. “Penelope!” “Yes, fine!” then she wrenches herself out of his arms and stands glaring at both of us. “I love you, Penelope, but I
I don’t think it’s possible to talk with the lump in my throat, so I just stand and stare, I just stand there with him as he says words that I’d dreamt of hearing ever since I came here but never did and eventually stopped dreaming of, and now that they are here, I... I don’t know what to do or say.
“I don’t know how, but just do. Just trust me because it’s all for you, everything I’m doing, it’s for you.” “Aria...” I’m interrupted by a knock on the door. “Mars, are you okay in there? I’m coming in.” Richfield calls and I panic and stare wide eyed at Aria who just mouths “later” at me, and th
I wake up very early in the morning, pull on some leggings, a t-shirt and sneakers, tie my hair up in a ponytail, then head out and go for a run to clear my head and prepare myself for the day. I run along the fields, parks, and even bypass the training grounds before coming back to the house to get
Even though I didn’t get any presents on my birthday after that, Richfield always made sure to give me a fifty percent increment of my allowance for the month, and he always gave it to me on my birthday. I never really use the money, but I appreciate the gesture. I uncover the box to sate my curios
“You won’t win, Mars. Whatever you do, I will make sure that King chooses me, always me.” I turn to her. “This is beginning to sound less like you doing all this because you love King, and more like you’re doing this because you want to win against me. So, which is it, Penelope? Maybe you should th
“Mars…”“I’m going to the kitchen, have a nice shower!” I say and sprint to the kitchen like my life depends on it, limp momentarily forgotten.“Oh, why does he always catch me.” I groan and bury my face in my hands as I stew in embarrassment for a while, and then I begin to get everything ready for
“I’m gonna shower,” Richfield says when we get to the house. “I stink.”“Agreed.” I say with a smirk as he helps me off Remy.“I’ll heat up some of the leftovers from last night and go shower too, but I think I’ll go out today, some fresh air would do me good.”“Are you hanging out with King, then?”
“You better not be developing a crush on him, he is our father, F-A-T-H-E-R, father…and we have a mate.”“Yeah, a mate you want to strangle right now.” I glare at him.“Don’t encourage her.”“A father is supposed to encourage his daughter.”“Unbelievable you two, simply unbelievable.” They laugh as
I wake up to the sound of knocking on my door, and turn to wake Rome up, but when I stretch my hand to touch him, I find the space beside me empty and cold. I jolt awake, and surely enough, King is nowhere in sight. My heart clenches painfully. The knocking persists and I throw the covers off my bod
Oh, and a Ham and Swiss Omelette sounds lovely, by the way. Enjoy your shower. “Get the fuck out of here before I strangle you or something.” He laughs as he leaves.The fact that I’m joined to him for life is a fucking nightmare that I’m not sure how I survive.As I head into the shower, however,
ROMULUSSometimes, humans want things they can’t have. They have desires that are just impossible to obtain, they don’t know or acknowledge their limits, so they desire for things way beyond them, and it burns them out because most of them never achieve these things, and the little who do cut down t
“So good, fuck, you smell so good.” He breathed in deeply, licked his lips, a movement my eyes tracked with the precision of a killer, and then he came closer and brushed his lips against mine again, setting fire to more than just my skin.“Yes, mine.” He whispered against my lips right before licki
True to his word, Rome stayed the night.After dinner, complete with a strawberry and chocolate cake for dessert, we cleaned up, said our goodnights and goodbyes, and King and Luna Daisy left. I was still in Rome’s shirt, and he was still shirtless. And as distracting and arduous as it was, I had to
“That’s some messed up shit.” Richfield says.“I guess, but I’m used to it. I have an extremely high pain tolerance, so it’s nothing. It just hurt so much then, because it was my first one. Anyway, the mark was something like a beacon, leading me straight to her. It was the night she was born, but b