By the time it registers in my head that what’s happening, Archer has already pried the seam of my lips open with his tongue. As he licks the inside of my mouth, my instincts kick into gear. I thread my hands into his curls and pull. The action makes his actions more fervent. His hands dig into th
“What the fuck?” I whisper to myself. I take Mia back to our room and set her down for her nap. While she sleeps, I stare at the ceiling in complete confusion. I thought Archer hated me. Every single time he’d scream at me or claim he owned me. It made no sense that he would throw me against a wal
Angela isn’t as hopeless as Beau makes he seem. She actually gets a few jabs at me before I grapple her by the collar and throw her over my shoulder. She lands on the gym mat with an “oof.” Her hand goes to her stomach as she heaves breaths. “I think breakfast may come up,” she grunts. I laugh
At the end of the week, Angela pings me to tell me to meet her in the dining room at the pyramid. It’s a room I haven’t been to yet, wedged between the kitchen and the service entrance to the pyramid. I walk in tentatively and I’m almost scared for what I am walking into. The room is ornate with g
I knock lightly on Steven’s door. He calls me in. Mia is sitting on his lap, watching something on the projector he has put up against the wall of his lab. I see a pink pig and smile. “Peppa?” I say. Steven nods. “Her favorite,” he says. “I don’t know if there’s any education to be learned from
Archer POV Archer swirls the amber liquid in the bottom of his cup. They’ve been at the club for under an hour and he’s already bored. Beau’s got a whole flock of women at his side, pressing their long nails into his shirt. A few tried to come speak to Archer but were deterred by Wyatt’s aggress
It’s a random Wednesday about a month after the homecoming dance when Neil slaps an envelope down on the kitchen table. Mia and I are eating lunch and are confused. I’m more confused when the envelope has my name on it. “What’s this?” I ask. “Stipend,” Neil says. He’s very blasé and continues to
Thursdays, Archer watches Mia while I’m in class. Every time I’ve gone to pick her up, there’s been some altercation. From him screaming at me about combat club to our secret kiss in the library, pick-ups from Archer are never easy. I don’t know why I expected today to be any different. I knock
I’m happy because I have four hearts beating alongside mine.“Do you feel it, too?” I ask. “My connection to each of you?”I blink my eyes open once more. I want to see their faces, their reactions.Neil has his hand over his own heart. “It’s strange. It’s like part of you is inside of me.”“Me, too
In the darkness of my mind, I floated, surrounded by the comforting embrace of love. Distantly, I could feel another presence, one that grew stronger and stronger, the more I focused on it: my wolf.As I thought of her, she appeared before me as if I willed her into being. Maybe I did. We are in my
Damn alpha wolves and their heightened senses.“I’ve already made my choice,” I say. “Honestly, I think I made it a long, long time ago.”Archer relaxes marginally. Steven starts to smile.Neil turns to me, worry still on his face. “You say that now, Chloe. But the pull could be strong…”“I don’t ca
The eve of my birthday, I rest in bed and stare at my ceiling. It’s late, near midnight, but I still have my bedside light on.With my feelings shared and grown with Neil, Archer, and Steven, I didn’t expect to spend any night alone, especially the one right before the day that could change everythi
I awake to a sharp knock on my bedroom door. Neil’s arm is still draped over me but some distance had inched between our hot bodies in the night. I’m able to slink out from under his arm without him waking.Naked, I quickly stop by the bathroom to throw on my fluffy bathrobe. Then, after glancing ba
They.Beau glances at me and see my incredulous look. “What do I need to go out every night? Can’t a man just enjoy staying home for a change?”“You can do whatever the hell you want,” I say.“Good, then.” Beau slumps down on the couch. He stretches out, lifting his feet up and into my lap. “Now tel
For the rest of the morning, I desperately try not to think about Neil. Whoever he’s in love with, I won’t be offended by it. The hurt I feel has nothing to do with this new person. She must be great for her to have won Neil’s affections.The hurt is my own loss, my own problem. I let my feelings fo
After Steven and I have cleaned ourselves up with a quick shower, we fall back into bed together, giggling and laughing all the way. My now, Steven has discovered a few of my tickle zones, which he is exploiting. As revenge, I touch the places I now know make him shiver.For a while, nothing seems l
His hands fumbled with the buttons of his own shirt. Such usually steady hands are rendered useless by his nervousness.“Allow me,” I tell him. I lightly bat his hands out of the way before replacing them with mine on his shirt buttons. My times with Neil have served me well. I’m able to undo all th