“Thank you.” That’s all I can seem to say, and she acknowledges it with another warm smile. As I step back, I get pulled into Richfield’s arms, he has a shoulder around me as Luna Daisy turns to Penelope, and no one needs to tell me there’s fire blazing in her eyes. “I loved you like a daughter, mo
“Okay, so after King made her and everyone else leave, I had to change, but my clothes were ruined and I smelt like pineapple juice and I needed to shower, and so he took me out of school, but he was taking me to his house because he said his wolf wanted me near and all, and so we went, but Luna Dai
The following weeks after the Penelope incident are fast-paced. Time is still running out, and King, Ansel and I still haven’t found a way to make me shift. We have a week more to the claiming ceremony, and I’m more nervous than ever...maybe even scared. I don’t want to die. So far, my life is going
He notices my hesitance and leans forward. “Don’t be scared snow white, I don’t bite...at least not too hard.” The little smirk he adds at the end does absolutely nothing to help. If anything, it just makes me step back more. “Don’t make me drag you here, Mars, because that will hurt a lot, and I do
“Did something happen in school? Did someone do something to you? Penelope, someone else?” I shake my head quickly. Not trusting my voice with how out of control and jittery I feel. I make a move to step a back, but suddenly King’s arm circles my waist and pulls me close to him until I’m flush again
“You can’t be serious King, you’re really behaving like a man whore now.” “Penelope just stop it, we’re tired of this, just let go.” The guy honestly sounds tired at this point, and I can’t help but understand, because Penelope is beginning to sound like an irritating broken record. No one wants to
“Save it, Mr. Wright.” Richfield stands up from the bed with a straight gait and his hands clasped behind his back. His low voice and words fear inducing. “Now, you listen and you listen good young man, you’ve already caused one of my daughters enough heart break to last her a life time. So, you bet
I stare at King incredulously, because what he just said can’t be right. “What do you mean, you think you know how you can save me, King, I still haven’t shifted, can’t shift. Have you forgotten?” “Oh no, I haven’t. However, you’ve changed, Mars, just like a shifter would. Your senses are sharper
“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