I’m rummaging through my locker moments later when there’s a hand on my shoulder. I yelp and spin round to find King standing behind me, features clouded in anger. My brows furrow in confusion. I don’t know why he’ll be angry with me, because we were fine last night, and I haven’t met him today to d
King walks me to my class after I get the calculator and we manage to stop flirting by his locker long enough to move, then we start again. When we get to the entrance of the class though, we stop at the sight of Penelope standing at the door of the class, and it’s not seeing her that stops us, no.
“Do you even know what a slut is, Penelope?” I ask, “Because you keep calling me a slut, and a whore, and whatever, and yet only one of us has a hymen, and it’s not the one without a mate.” There’s a collective gasp in the cafeteria, then there’s laughter as Penelope’s face heats. Yet she doesn’t ba
“Never, touch me again. Stay away from me, and stay away from my mate, because the next time you so much as cross paths with me, Penelope, I swear to God, wolf or not, I will tear you to shreds before the alpha has a chance to kill me.” She must read the seriousness in my tone because she nods aggre
“Oh, shut up!” I snap at him and hastily reach out for the pack that Ansel hands me. When I open it, I almost die from how delicious the beef burger looks, and the aroma...when I finally take a bite,“I think I just died and went to food heaven.” I moan. “Thank you, Ansel.”“Don’t thank me, thank Ki
“Okay, so I’ll do the talking unless he asks you to say something. And if he asks you to say something, don’t...”“Just blurt the first thing that comes to mind, think it through.” I drawl, continuing King’s preparatory speech. A speech he has given at least twenty times in the ten-minute drive to h
I keep my thoughts to myself as we leave, because there’s no way I can explain what happened in there to King. He believes his father has let this go and I am safe, but I know better, and I know Alpha Richmond is coming for me, one way or the other, he’ll make sure I die.There’s a lot of yelling wh
“You do...” I cough violently when I try to use my voice, and he immediately rushes over and gets me water which I gulp down before speaking again. “You do know I was at fault, right? I did hit Penelope.”“Right after she hit you.” He gave me a pointed look, telling me he knew exactly what happened
“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