Had Tyler experienced the same thing as I had? Had I had some kind of seizure or a waking dream or something equally strange?“What just happened?” Tyler asked, his eyes wide with confusion as my chest heaved for breath.His question confirmed it had been real, that we had experienced it together. Or maybe it had been some kind of shared hallucination?“How did you do that?” he went on, taking a tentative step towards me.I wiped my lips with the back of my hand and rounded on him. “I didn’t do that!” I exclaimed defiantly. “That was you! It was your memory, right?!”Tyler seemed bewildered as he contemplated my response.We heard a few angry shushes coming from the clearing as our conversation grew heated.It made me feel self-conscious, so I lowered my voice as I continued. “I didn’t do that,” I reaffirmed with certainty. “Maybe it’s some weird Alpha shit,” I suggested, grasping at straws for an explanation.“Weird Alpha shit?” Tyler scoffed. “I think I would have known by now if I
The rest of the night was a blur to me. All I could recall were tiny snippets of Tyler's concerned face, feeling so hot I thought I was going to burst into flame, and having a huge headache that seemed to radiate from the top of my skull down and into my shoulders.When I woke up in the morning, Tyler filled me in on the details. He said that at some point I had fallen into a fitful sleep. I was burning up, but then I started trembling like I was cold at the same time. He didn't know what to do and had been so concerned that he covered me in a blanket and decided that he would wait five more minutes to see if that would help before calling Dr Kelly. Fortunately, a couple of minutes later, the shaking stopped and I seemed to be a little better, although still very hot.He'd had a miserable night, wide awake to check on me for most of it, and I couldn't help but feel guilty about it.Now, in the morning, my temperature seemed to have returned to normal, and I felt fine. None of the ailm
When we headed upstairs, Alpha David was in his office, working away on his laptop. Tyler asked if it was okay if we checked some of the books, mentioning that he had a question from his studies and wanted to show me. Alpha David agreed offhandedly, continuing to type away with an expression of deep concentration.Tyler and I read the spines of the books and when something sounded interesting, we would page through the book to see whether it might possibly contain any valuable information.I noticed that the room had suddenly gone very quiet, realizing that Alpha David had stopped typing. "Katelyn, are you feeling any better today?" He asked with mild concern."I'm okay, thanks," I replied. "I'm not sure what was wrong, but whatever it was, it seems to have passed now, at least.""That's good to hear," Alpha David said with a nod. "By the way, you did a fantastic job with your speech last night. The engagement with the pack was overwhelmingly positive.""Thank you," I said, feeling a
After the second 'vision,' Tyler and I decided I would go to the library the next day to see if I could find anything that might help us with an explanation. Tyler had classes, so he wouldn't be able to join me, but I didn't mind. It gave me an excuse to get out of the house and away from Ryder.In the morning, Tyler dropped me off at the library before heading to his lessons. The library had come to feel like a sort of refuge for me, and I took comfort in the familiarity I felt inside its walls.I spent the entire day poring over books, trying to find any mention of werewolves and visions. The closest I came was an outdated book on werewolf lore, where visions were mentioned as some kind of superpower. But it also mentioned that werewolves only shifted at full moon, which made the whole thing feel like a bunch of crap.By the time Tyler came to pick me up, my eyes were red and tired from reading all day. He looked at me with concern as I got into the car."Any luck?" he asked hopeful
As I walked past him, heading back to my room, he insisted, "Nothing happened with Bailey."I rounded on him furiously. "I don't trust you!" I blurted out, my voice shaking with anger and pain.He began to apologize, to assure me once again that nothing had happened, but I interrupted him. "I'm talking now!" I asserted, my voice hard. "I know why you did it, Ryder. You wanted to hurt me, and congratulations, you succeeded."I could see the shock in his eyes, but I pressed on, unable to stop the words that spewed out of me like a volcanic eruption now. "I never tried to hurt you. You accepted that I had two mates, but then you wanted to pretend that I was only yours. And when that wasn't the case, you turned on me, like I had betrayed you or something. You planned and orchestrated the whole thing with Bailey. It was malicious and vindictive, and your entire aim was to hurt me. How could you do that to me? How am I supposed to believe anything you say now when it's clear that you are so
(Ryder's POV)I was in my studio, editing a track, when the faint sound of urgent knocking rang through the room. I took my headphones off, uncertain as to whether I was maybe imagining things when Katelyn walked in.Her eyes looked wide and panicked and even from across the room I could see that she had been crying."Kate?" I said, my concern for her apparent despite the tumultuous state of our relationship. "Are you okay?"She ignored my question, her red eyes avoiding my gaze. "Listen, I know things between us are a mess," she began, her voice trembling slightly. "and I'm sorry for yelling at you yesterday, but would you be able to give me a ride?"I looked at her, puzzled. Katelyn asking me for a favor was definitely unexpected. I wondered if this wasn't maybe her way of extending an olive branch."Sure," I replied a little apprehensively. "Where do you need to go?"She let out a breath she had been holding and nodded, but ignored my question. "Thank you. I'll meet you at the fron
(Katelyn's POV)The day had started off well enough. I kissed Tyler goodbye as he headed out for his classes, hoping today would be better after a miserable week. My intention was to relax and take it easy, allowing myself a break from all the research and the lingering guilt after blowing up at Ryder the day before.I showered and got dressed for the day when a thought suddenly occurred to me. My period was due. I checked the app on my phone that I used to track my cycle and was horrified to see that I was two days late. I vaguely remembered getting a notification about it, but I had been in the library and shrugged it off, completely preoccupied at the time and then I had subsequently forgotten all about it.Panic gripped me. How could this have happened? I couldn't be pregnant! I was only eighteen! I was basically a kid myself, I couldn't handle the responsibility of being a mother now! Tyler had always used protection... but then it dawned on me. That first time, in the forest. I
As I finished taking the tests, I headed out of the bathroom, carefully setting them all out on the bed as Ryder watched me. I tried not to look at the results just yet, not wanting to get myself into a state when I knew there was a possibility that what they reflected now may not be the actual result. I needed to exercise patience and allow them the necessary time to provide the most accurate results possible, which, under the circumstances, was no easy feat."We have to wait a few minutes," I said, glancing up at Ryder.My heart was pounding so furiously that I worried I might have a heart attack. Ryder watched me with concern as I paced back and forth in the room, my anxiety reaching its peak. This was it. My answers were sitting right there on the bed. All I had to do was wait a few more seconds, then I would allow myself to look and then I could deal with whatever the results were.The alarm I had set on my phone went off, jolting me out of my anxious reverie.I hurried back ove