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Nina’s pov- My chest was tight with the ache in my heart. It just seems so surreal to know that Ashton was really gone, to know that my mum was really gone. everything feels empty with the knowledge that yet another person I cared for was no longer here. if I text him, I now wouldn’t get a reply. if I needed my mother she wouldn’t be there to answer when I call. I gripped at Mavericks shirt, my forehead leaning against his chest. The touch of his palm soothing me in the sweetest way as he held me against his body. He smelt so good, the smell of his cologne a warmth to me. I was no longer crying but I couldn’t bring myself to let him go, I was afraid that if I did, I would break all over again. I was a girl who didn’t break, I didn’t want to break. but here I am, in the arms of a boy I had met only once. He was a stranger but, in this moment, he didn’t feel like one. In this moment he was much more, he was my anchor to the ground, my safety jacket that let me swim without drowning. H
Mavericks pov- I was tormenting myself as we were quickly approaching Nina’s driveway. I had thought about taking a couple of pointless turns to drag out my time with her but one look at her dripping wet hair and soaked through dress and I knew I had to get her home. It was a long walk but still not enough time to ease my wolf or please me. The walk was nice though, my brothers followed from a distance but still gave us the privacy we needed. It was good, to be close to her rather than having to stay away from her like I had to do all week. Now that I have had her company for more than a few minutes I now don’t think It would be possible for me to stay away, not because of my wolf but because I wanted to see her again, spend more time with her. Maybe tonight was proof that it is possible to be around her safely, I had managed to stay in control the entire night with no slip ups, my wolf not even attempting anything weird like marking her, fuck! If he did some shit like that then I wo
Well, my weekend was eventful to say the least. After my melt down at the grill on Saturday I had refused to leave the house for the rest of the weekend. I was embarrassed not only for my scene at the grill but my breakdown in front of Maverick. He had handled the situation really well and seemed genuinely concerned for me but that didn’t make the reality of how I had publicly behaved any less of an embarrassment. Uncle Jesse was up and out of the house early Sunday morning leaving me free to spend the whole of the morning to cry it out, only stopping when I was forced too with a knock on the door from Lucas in the late afternoon. He was sweet, he wanted to stop by and check on me and Arleen had sent him with a bag of food to make sure that I was eating and not skipping meals like I had been doing. I felt horrid for my behaviour towards her on Saturday evening, I made a mental note to apologise for knocking her over in the process of fleeing the grill, she didn’t deserve that, and I sp
I jumped in my seat at a harsh knocking against the outside of the windscreen, dragging me miserably back to the reality that was the school parking lot and with a hand to my now furiously beating heart caused by the fright I came face to face with Lucas with an unamused frown upon his face. He had managed to get out the car and everything while I had sat here in a complete daydream. Fuck was today going to be a long day for me. I took my seatbelt of and opened the car door before Lucas has another chance to knock the fear back into me. “What where you doing falling asleep in there?” he fired as quick as a nine mill. “Sorry, I know I’m a mess, I’m working on it” I eased an apology. “Yeah, Don’t I know it” he remarked, Ouch! I didn’t need and could have done without the confirmation that I was indeed a living, breathing cliche. “The bell is two seconds away from ringing, I won’t be able to walk you to class if you don’t hurry up” Lucas ranted. He was so grouchy today, maybe being ta
“So, Mav gets a greeting, but we don’t?” one of his brothers chimed in thankfully slicing through the intense staring contest I had unknowingly entered with Maverick. “Not at all, hi” I forced my eyes away from Mavericks to the boy standing beside him. “Axel” he held his hand out in a greeting gesture. “I remember, it’s nice to see you again Axel” I shook his outstretched hand “Hmm, it’s nice to see you too Jasmine” he smiled the brightest yet goofiest smile my way. “Erm my names Nina” I corrected him, awkwardly glancing to Maverick for some help but he was too distracted with something behind me to come to my rescue. I wonder if he’s, ok? He seems a little tense but then again everyone seems to be off today, Uncle Jesse was grouchy and then Lucas too, maybe it was one of those days for everyone. “Excuse my brother and his childish behaviour” Levi swatted Axel at the back of his head. “Hey, what? she smells like jasmine flowers” he whined turning back to face me “you smell like
Maverick’s pov- A sense of excitement run through me, it almost felt like a power surge. Nina was playful and my wolf pined to play along, to chase her and tease her like she did me. ‘Did one of you get that?’ I linked my brothers, my eyes following after Nina as she made her way back to Lucas. ‘I did’ Levi announced appearing at my side alone, his hand outstretched towards me with a small piece of paper between his two fingers. ‘thankyou’ I thanked, taking Nina’s number from him and stuffing it in my pocket. “he’s pissed” he remarked, and I hummed in agreement as we both watched Nina approach a far from happy Lucas. My wolf felt threatened, stupid I know because Lucas is human, he doesn’t have the connection of the mate bond that Nina and I do. It took me some strength to control my wolf when she was in our presence with Lucas projecting his anger and jealousy out for all wolves to smell. I can sense the jealousy he radiated from here like a bad smell. There is no doubt that he
Nina’s pov- This morning I had woke way too early for my liking. I kept having this dream, A dream that I couldn’t remember a single thing about once my eyes had opened. It was the type of dream that woke me with a startle, every single hour throughout the entirety of the night until I had finally made the decision to forget the futile attempts at sleeping and figuring it will be best that I just get up and start the weekend at five in the morning. Uncle Jesse on the other hand got a lie in for the first time since I had arrived in his home, he didn’t wake up until just after nine o’clock when usually he would be up and out of the front door by nine. It was now eleven o’clock and I was currently sat on the sofa flicking through the tv channels, I wasn’t one for watching television usually I would stick to books or watch the odd series that caught my attention. But I needed to do something, I was trying everything I can to distract myself. I had called Natalie this morning but today w
Maverick’s pov- I have searched book after book, news article after news article, hell I have pried through the entire web and still I can’t find an explanation that would explain Levi’s worries and concerns. I was losing hope, losing patience with every passing second. For the past few days, I have done nothing but pry into every myth that I can find in order to get some answers that can explain Nina, a human mate. A human mate with a scent that intrigues other shifters. My wolf was far from at ease with the knowledge that our mate unknowingly has a scent that grabs the attention of the males around her. Since Monday in the parking lot, I have kept my distance from Nina, for no reason other than for the sake of myself because in all honesty I didn’t trust my wolf with how intensely displeased he is with how close she is with Lucas, and that statement of my brothers on how Nina’s scent calls to their wolves. Yeah, he wanted nothing more than to smother her in our scent to ward off w
I entered the kitchen with a drag in my steps. Couldn’t Maverick understand where I was coming from? Couldn’t he understand that I was processing everything as best that I can, and I can’t skirt around certain topics because he simply doesn’t want to hear it.“He will be fine once he’s cooled off sweetheart” Levi grabbed my attention, he was sat in the same spot only instead of shovelling a sandwich into his mouth he was happily crunching away on an apple. “I promise I tried not to listen in, but it was kind of hard with the hearing that I have” he chuckled, his light amusement was his way of trying to lighten the dampness that Mav and I’s drama had caused.“Am I wrong?” I found myself asking as I dragged my feet across the kitchen in order to plug my phone and charger into a socket.“There is no right and wrong, this is new to both of you.” he answered, and I turned to face him.“Do you agree with Maverick? That what I said was bullshit?” I shot another question his way, I don’t know
My breathe evened out as I slowly but surely recovered from the past ten minutes, no not even just the past ten minutes but the entirety of this morning with Maverick. I was totally turning into one of those girls that was boy crazy. Not just any boy but a certain boy that not only gets under my skin but can at the same time turn those beautiful sparks to flames. Yeah, boys where something that had been a thing to cross my mind, of course it was. I was seventeen years old and haven’t been shy to experiment. But Maverick was something new, the way he captures my attention is beyond anything I have ever experienced. Nobody had ever brought such captivation out of me. He oozed everything manly from the way he dressed to the way he smelled. He was thrilling, dangerous even and dare I say it as hot as hell fire.Glancing around Levi’s room I took in the dark theme, much like Maverick’s room the colour theme was a mixture of dark oaks and black, grey shades. Everything was neat, his bed was
Nina’s Pov- I stood at the top of the stairs unsure of what room would be Levi’s. I know the room opposite the bathroom was Mavericks his overpowering scent was literally drawing me to it. I took a deep breath and sniffed the air, God I felt ridiculous doing it, but I caught the familiar scent that I was looking for, his scent was faint and overpowered by that sweet yet manly scent that was so intriguingly Maverick. I followed the light scent of what I could only place as spring and a touch of sweetness like berries of some sort. I followed Levi’s scent towards the room one door down form Maverick’s, I didn’t know why but I found myself pausing outside his door, like the room had some magical entities that invited me in. my fingertips reached out wrapping around the doorknob and I groaned out loud maybe if I peaked in to the room then the need to enter would dimmish a little. Oh god I was physically fighting with myself in order to avoid embarrassing myself again by doing somethings a
“Are you ok?” Maverick asked, his lips brushing ever so gently over mine with the movement caused by his question. My cheeks flushed, I had or more so my beast had just licked him like a dog. Not only does she appear unannounced and unwelcomed she leaves me with the mortification of her actions.“That’s a blush I don’t mind seeing” he said softly taking my chin between his finger and thumb and with the smallest of tilts he brought our lips together. My eyes closed all on their own with the gentle touching of our lips. So soft, so tingly and then nothing. I opened my eyes at the loss of contact, his thumb still held me in place as he watched me as if waiting for my reaction.“No fight?” he asked, his lips tugging into a gentle smile as he waited for a reply but I wasn’t going to give him one formed with words instead I caught his bottom lip between my teeth and tugged gently. The action completely new to me but definitely all me. He groaned, encasing my head between the palms of his ha
“Mav” I began to panic as I turned in his hold, his eyes where golden so brightly lit by his wolf as they staired back at me. I raced through my clouded mind. It felt odd, like there was fog surrounding my entire brain and forcing me out. I sifted through the memory of the past minute trying to figure out the reason for the drastic change in not only me and my surroundings but of Maverick’s sudden stone like behaviour. And then it hit me, the growl I had heard moments ago whilst I was consumed in everything that was Maverick wasn’t one that I had grown accustomed too. I franticly glanced around us seeing that we were alone, no Levi and no intruder.“That wasn’t you who growled was it?” I asked and he shook his head. He looked tense, concentrated even. Concentrated on what? I don’t know.“Me?” I asked and he nodded the thick bob of his throat visible as he gulped in the weird tension that now settled between us. I found myself staring intensely at every detail in the action as he swall
I glanced to Kat and her fearful expression as the toxicity and tension between the males the we so happen to have in our company had the air so thick it was almost chocking. The information Lucas had just forced upon us had left me with nothing less of a whiplash effect. Everything in this damn town comes out of nowhere. Everything is so sudden and unexpected I have no time to consume and adjust to the newness of everything before I’m thrown against another wall of craziness. “You have five seconds to leave my territory” Maverick demanded the attention of everyone with his thick authoritative tone. “one” he began to intimidatingly count. “We aren’t here to cause any trouble” Katarina scrambled to pick up the chain on the floor in front of Lucas, I watched as she shoved it into his chest with a burning gaze and he reluctantly nodded his head as she proceeded to place the chain back around his neck, his blazing fiery orange eyes dulled until the they faded back leaving the eyes of a
“Mav” I called after him, I was itching to move and follow but at the same time I wanted to truly try to keep from starting another argument with him less than twenty minutes after calling a truce with him. “Where the fuck is she” Lucas’s livid tone cut me from my calm resolve, Forcing me to break out of the spot I was stood in and into a run. the attempt at staying put was futile as I rounded the side of the house and in to the front yard only to come face to face with two hostile and ready to throw down boys. “I’m only going to tell you once more, leave before I throw you in the damn boot of your car and drive you off my land myself” Maverick threatened his entire body so visibly tense. “what’s going on” I cut through the thick hostility in the air, hoping in someway my presence might break the ice between the two boys and there show of dominance between each other. “Nina” Katarina let out as she climbed out of the passenger side of Lucas’s car and with her words Lucas sighed wit
Silence was everywhere. The tension Levi had left behind was thick in the air. Not only that but I was worried about him, the feeling of concern flowing in my chest as I watched the door swing shut with his leave. “Is he going to be, ok?” I asked unsure but certain that something was playing with Levi’s emotions. He was so… how do I put it? passionate and adamant that Maverick an I have something. “He’s just going through some things. He will be fine” Maverick reassured as I turned to face him. “you know he’s right, all we do is fight. Fighting with you is exhausting” I admitted and I wasn’t even afraid to admit it because it was the truth. I was drained of fighting everything that crosses me and lately there isn’t a day that goes by where I am not arguing with or crying over someone. “I can agree with that darling” he let out a scoff of a chuckle. “I” I began but closed my lips. I didn’t know what to say or if I should even say something because I was for sure still so angry with
Maverick stepped through the thresh hold of the door, his eyes instantly finding mine. All that anger from last night had vanished because all I felt right now was thankfulness that he had been there for me through that pain and although he physically didn’t hold me last night somehow I knew he was there, easing the pain from the outside of the barn. He took his eyes from me to the twins, his jaw clenching before returning his stormy gaze back on me and without a word he walked straight past me. I swivelled on my heels to face his retreating form, confusion hitting me head on. “Mav?” I called after him, a pang of pain hit my chest at the lack of acknowledgement. He was angry and that was evident with each silent stomping stride away from me, I know last night our drama was heated but I thought that after he had been there to help me through the pain that followed our drama that we could attempt to communicate on a civil and grown-up level. Although I didn’t want to do that last nigh