A body suddenly shoves into me from the side and a heavy arm is thrown over my shoulders, and I’m brought to the here and now to find Andy by my side.“Wanna go for a swim with the sharks, Luna?” I shrug his arm off me and take a step away. This guy is a crazy asshole, and the next thing I know, he’
By the time my mind clears up and comes back to me, I hear rapping against my window and sit up straight wondering who would be at my window this late in the night. I hear the rapping again and move towards the window. When I open the window, I find King holding on to the branches in a t-shirt and s
“Okay, okay calm down. This is a lot, and I’m trying to follow you without panicking, so calm down.” He pauses and I nod before he continues. “You are saying that you saw your mom and she was holding you and all. Now, I don’t doubt that, and I’m sure it’s a gut feeling or something, but how sure are
“Mars!”“Mars, wake up!” I’m shaken awake by King, his voice panicked. I’m drenched in sweat and shaking from a horrible dream that I don’t even remember. But that’s not even the worst of it, the worst is that I’m in pain. It’s as though my hand is on fire like I’ve been branded. I’m clutching my ha
“I bet you were a bully in school.”“Only the biggest and baddest.”“You sound too damn proud of yourself saying that, and last time I checked, bullying isn’t something to be proud of.” He just shrugs.“Not my problem, especially at this moment when I want to talk to you about what happened.”“Awful
I know for a fact that this hasn’t always been there, not even yesterday, not even last night, so...I blanch.My dream, the burning on my hand.Shit!I turn to the mirror to...I shriek and step back farther into the shower. I could have sworn there was someone’s reflection in the mirror. I’m not ev
King: If you ever show it to him, I will kill you and make it look like a suicide.Me: And how do you plan on doing that?King: I’ll tell you if you meet me outside in ten minutes.Me: What?King: What?Me: KingKing: Yes, Martian?Me: Why do you want to see me?King: To tell you how I plan on killi
“You are?”“Yes, I am.”“Don’t let that ever leave your lips again, it’s a disturbing abomination.”“So dramatic.” I laugh and he rolls his eyes. We make small talk and banter back and forth as we make our way to the movies.“What are we watching?”“They are having a nineties throwback today, so we’
“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