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
Unknown: You’re joking, right?Me: Am I?Unknown: It’s me, King.I didn’t reply after that, I just finished up and went downstairs for breakfast. When I enter the kitchen, Penelope is already seated there ready for school in jeans, a yellow blouse and sandals with her hair in a neat bun, and Helena
“Rome, what the hell?!” I whisper yell, “My dad kicked you out, what are you doing sitting on my bed.”“I came to see you, he didn’t let me, so I had to come in another way.” I facepalm, he can’t be serious.“The point of kicking you out was so that you’ll stay out, not sneak in and stay in my room,
“What do you want?”“I need to see, River.”“Are you sure, River wants to see you?”“Why wouldn’t she?”“Because you’re the ass who left her this morning when she was expecting you to stay.”“I can’t always stay.”“Maybe you should work on that before trying to see her again, she deserves more than
“Remus?” I ask.It doesn’t make a move, and I find myself feeling unsure in its presence.“Remus, is that you?” It stands to its impressive seven-foot-something height and comes closer. I’m well aware that I should be running for the hills, screaming all the way, but I feel safe in its presence, so
“You are friends with the moon goddess.” He says, slowly enough that I fear the information has managed to break his brain somehow.“Yes.” I reply slowly, mimicking him, and when he realizes what I’m doing, he rolls his eyes in amusement.“It’s just really…it’s a lot, but I’m following as best as I
“But I’m sure he’s been with other women before he met me, and maybe even after.” Saying that leaves a sour taste in my mouth, but I voice it anyway. “he can’t say he’s sexually frustrated if he’s getting the sexual attention he needs.”Aria shakes her head at me.“I can assure you that the only att
“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