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Angelina’s POVI wear a navy blue jogger pants and a grey fitting sweater then take a look at myself in the mirror.My face was paler than usual. I had some dark circles under my eyes that I never had before. I looked like shit, and it wasn’t surprising given everything that happened to me recently.My hair was damp but when I took a look around the bathroom and the room searching for a diffuser to dry it, I couldn’t find it.I headed out of my room, about to knock on April’s room to ask her for one when I ran directly into Lucas, just outside my door.He was standing in the middle of the hallway looking a little nervous.His eyes snapped to meet mine and I noticed him checking me out from head to toe before he went back to gazing at my face.I also couldn’t help myself as I took a general look at him too.He looked like he just stepped out of the shower himself. His hair was still damp, he was wearing black loose pants and a black hoodie.“Are you feeling better now?” he asked quietl
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Angelina’s POV I can see clearly that my question caught him off guard, and for the life of me, I didn’t know why it did. He wasn’t really expecting me to stay here forever right? It took him a while to answer but eventually he did, reluctantly “I can provide it for you” “How long will it take?” I asked in a small voice. “I don’t know I’ll have to talk to the guy and see how busy he is” he said firmly. Diana put her hand on my shoulder and I turned my head to look at her. She was looking at me with sadness “You still want to leave Snow?” Her sadness overwhelmed me, she was really affected that I wanted to leave here. “I can’t stay here, Diana. I had a life before all this happened, I had dreams, I had ambitions for myself that I need to chase. I just made it into my second year of fashion design through a fully paid scholarship by my mom’s employer, promising them that I will work for them once I graduate. And now that’s all gone. The freshman year I spent is gone, the scholars
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Lucas’s POVEvery time she mentions leaving, my heart constricts on its own and I don’t fucking know why.I don’t want her to leave.It was an admission that scared the shit out of me.It was dangerous. The feelings that I have started to develop for her. This growing obsession and constant fascination with her was like an infection. It was spreading instead of fading.Can only two days with her make me develop those impossible feelings for her?If I didn’t have a front raw seat to Alex and Jenny’s impossible love story, I wouldn’t believe it. But I did.She was affecting me in ways, no girl has ever done that to me before.Two freaking days! How the hell did I catch feelings for her this fast?Actually, if I’m being honest with myself, it only took that first look, and I was hooked.But if I opened my mouth to let her know how I’m feeling, she won’t wait for a fake ID, she’ll go running away right this second without looking back.She doesn’t see me the way I do her. It was clear as
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Angelina’s POV I’m staring at Lucas with so much confusion and overwhelming emotions. What the hell just happened? Did he just kiss me? Why in the hell would he do that? And why is he trying to convince me to stay? I thought he would be glad that he doesn’t have to look at me for much longer. That kiss….. If you can even call it that, awakened parts of me that I never felt before. Parts that were throbbing with….need to do that again, to press his lips against mine again and taste that kiss even more deeply. Is this what kissing feels like? Does it wreak havoc on the body like that? Or was that Lucas’s effect? “Why did you do that?” I asked slowly, trying to get out of my daze and focus. “Because I was wondering what kissing an angel would taste like” he said smoothly. Again with the angel metaphor and nickname. But somehow, it didn’t hurt a lot like it used to when he first used it a few hours ago. Somehow, the feelings of sadness and self hate lessened the more he insiste
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Lucas’s POVShe ran away inside the house without looking back.She freaked out.My kiss made her feel things she probably never felt before in her life, and it scared the crap out of her. That’s why she asked me to get her ID ready as fast as possible. Or that’s what I was trying to convince myself with as I watched her disappear inside the house.I saw her desire to go for a third kiss, and a fourth even. But she was fighting that urge just as fiercely as I was fighting mine.I was rock hard in my pants right now.If I thought touching her lips slightly tasted like heaven, ask me what the real kiss tasted like. It freaking pulled me up to heaven itself and left me there. In pure bliss. In ecstasy. In euphoria.I never wanted our lips to part. I never wanted that kiss to end. I never want her to leave.But I had to respect her decision and pray that my guy will take at least a month to get her papers ready.I can get her to stay and fall in love with me within a month, right?She is
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Angelina’s POVI went to sleep with a smile on my face for the first time in four days.I could still feel Lucas’s lips on mine, like he left some sort of permanent imprint there.I never thought that one kiss could turn my body upside down and make all those weird feelings take root inside my heart, but it totally did. Maybe I was too traumatized by the events that have been hitting me in succession that I’ve gone crazy, because that cannot be normal, right?One kiss cannot possibly do all that. Well it was two kisses if we’re counting the first one, which I totally am. Because all it took was that swift, tender touch to open up a floodgate of emotions I never felt before.For the first time in four days, I slept through the night and woke up without being haunted by any of my latest nightmares.I couldn’t help but connect it to that damn kiss.I had no idea what time it was but I could see the morning dim light seeping through the window. The sun seemed to always be covered in cloud
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Lucas’s POVI was being a teasing asshole this morning to Angel.Her red, embarrassed face was enough to tell me that my teasing was working better than I expected.She didn’t even want to look me in the eyes as soon as she saw me enter the dining room. That’s why I tried to get under her skin. I didn’t want her to act like nothing happened, because it did happen, and I was so happy that it did, I had no regrets.But did she?Or was she acting this way because she thought it meant nothing to me and she was trying not to read too much into the kiss?After two days with her, I’d say I have a firm understanding of the way she thinks, but not enough to determine the answer to that question.Guess I’ll have to talk to her about it at some point.Let her know that it wasn’t just a game to me. I wasn’t just having fun with her while she’s here. I meant that kiss, I fucking kissed her like my life depended on it.“Lucas, I’d like for you and David to accompany April and Angelina to the town g
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Angelina’s POVHe’s being his asshole self again today. Pissing the hell out of me since this morning.And the annoying thing is, I keep falling for his trap every damn time.He’s got me exactly where he wanted me from the beginning. Standing against him, breathing fire, and ready to tear him a new one. And the most annoying thing above all else, the twisted bastard was enjoying the whole thing. Right down to getting his ass kicked. Which is even beyond my capacity to begin understanding how his complicated mind works.“April, do you mind practicing with David while I deal with your annoying brother?” I asked her firmly.She gave me a side smile and said excitedly “Not at all, go ahead”“It won’t take long” I told her as I looked straight at him confidently.He raised one eyebrow and said sarcastically “Wanna bet on it?”“I don’t place bets, Lucas. Not when I’m sure I’ll win anyway” I said cockily as I stood a few feet facing him and taking my stance.“Keep talking like that, Angel. Y
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On The Border Acknowledgement
My first thank you is always to you amazing readers. Your continuous support gives me so much encouragement to keep writing new books. I hope this book also reached your expectations and left a good impression in all of you. Like I always say, I really wrote the story right from the depth of my heart and put myself in all the characters’ places in order to convey the right feelings and words to reach you. I hope you were satisfied with how it ended, not just for Lucas and Angelina, but for the whole Snow family. Having said that, the end doesn’t always mean that there will be no story left to tell. Jacob Snow is as intriguing and complex as the rest of his brothers, if not more. It’s not certain for me yet, but I’m considering writing his story and starting it just before the events of the epilogue took place; specifically from the day he met, interviewed, and hired his personal assistant who’s secretly annoyed and exasperated with his stoic and harsh personality but is forced to pu
On The Border Epilogue
Five Years LaterLucas’s POVI wake up to the sound of my little munchkin Hope, sucking; or rather slurping, on her mother’s left nipple fervently while her deep blue eyes were gazing adorably at Angel.She takes breast feeding to a whole other level. This baby is as obsessed with her mother’s nipples almost as much as I am.At one year old, you’d think she would have started preferring real food over milk, but no. You don’t mess with her mother’s milk and keep her away from it or god help you, she will bite your head off, literally. I would know, she is my little girl after all. She has the same crazy genes all right. She keeps us on our toes all the freaking time, and she’s not even walking and talking yet.The same thing cannot be said about Isaac, Alex and Jenny’s son. He’s almost ten months old and you can already tell the chubby little bastard has his father’s tame and wise attitude. He’s an angel compared to my girl. But he also doesn’t take shit from anybody. You mess with him
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Three Weeks LaterLucas’s POV“Angelina, you’re the purest angel that god has sent my way during my darkest moments. You’re the light that shined through the black hole that was enveloping my heart, the missing piece of my heart I didn’t even know I was missing until I met you. I never thought I would ever fall in love someday. It wasn’t within my plans. Mostly because I knew and accepted who I am, and I was sure that no girl can ever put up with my crazy, screwed up head and stick with me long enough to even fall in love with me. My heart instantly recognized you from the moment I laid eyes on you. I tried to deny it, push it away, hell I even thought my head got completely fried and that I went full on crazy because you awakened feelings in me that I’ve never felt before. It scared the hell out of me. And after I accepted that I was falling head over heels for you, after I embraced it and welcomed it because nothing felt better than those feelings you ignited in me, I was scared as
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Lucas’s POVI sit by her bed side for hours without moving. Holding her hand tightly, not willing to let her out of my sight. She slept the entire time, not moving by an inch. The doctor did say it will take a few hours for her to regain consciousness, but still, I worried.Each member of my family came inside briefly to check on us. My mom tried to get me to take some rest, go drink something warm, or eat something then come back. But I adamantly refused to move from my place.Eventually I made them all return to Snow. They were already tired and it was a very long day… for everyone.I promised them that I will call as soon as she wakes up to let them know.“Come on baby, don’t torture me further. Please… show me those magical blue eyes and that heart throbbing smile. Let me hear that angelic voice and extinguish the fire burning me alive” I whispered softly, in a pleading tone.I kissed her hand softly, over and over again, relishing in the warmth of her skin. I let my other hand pl
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Lucas’s POV“Lucas!” Alex was gripping me tightly, trying to calm me down, and prevent me from damaging my hands which were pretty banged up already, but I couldn’t be controlled, not right now. I was a raging beast, ready to rip apart anything within my reach.“Take him outside. He can’t stay here. I’ll call you if any updates arrive” I heard mom tell Alex emotionally.“Come on, Lucas. Let’s go buddy” Alex said soothingly as he lifted me up with David supporting me from the other side.My voice got hoarse from all the screaming and growling and it became just raspy, low-pitched, whimpers full of pain, internal suffering, and heartbreak.I let them drag me without paying attention to where they were taking me.They sat me down on a wide bench outside the hospital and sat on either sides of me.“She’s the bravest girl I’ve ever met” said Alex sincerely next to me. I tore my gaze from the ground and looked sideways to see him staring at me intensely.“And because of that braveness, you
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Lucas’s POVI felt it right away.Her body relaxed completely, her head rested against my chest, and her breathing got cut off in the middle of my kiss.“No, no, NO!” I began panicking, my heart threatening to explode with unbearable pain.“ANGEL!” I screamed out, touching her face with my shaky hand, unable to believe that she was gone, ripped away from my arms.The car screeched to a halt abruptly and the man driving our car got out quickly and sprinted inside the ER to alert some doctors.I looked at my mom in shock and saw her tears falling down in a heavy flow.“Mom….” I whispered in agony.She shook her head and said emotionally “Stay strong Lucas. She’s not gone yet, they’re going to bring her back. She’s tough and she’s going to fight like hell to come back to us, to you. Don’t you give up yet, you hear me?”My side of the door opened and in a matter of seconds, she was taken away from my arms onto a stretcher and hauled inside into one of the ER rooms.Alex took Jenny into an
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Lucas’s POVIt didn’t take very long for Alex to distract the man with words enough to let me sneak behind him without raising his awareness, twist the hand he was threatening my mother’s life with, and shoot him in the head with a clean shot all at the same time. He died before he even hit the ground.Had it been a few months ago, I would have never killed him so easily just like that. No, I would have spent hours making him pay viciously for the thirty minutes of terror he caused my family to go through, for laying his filthy hands on any of them, for hurting my angel. I would have made him beg me to kill him and I would have eventually granted him that wish in the most painful way possible.But I didn’t have time to do any of that now. And frankly, for the first time, ever, my mind was at rest about that. The mind that craved pain, screams, and blood of all those who dared to cross my path in the wrong way, was urging me to let things go and save the only person that matters more t
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Lucas’s POVAfter about ten minutes of driving in the same direction, Alex said intensely “Hurry up, they drifted off the main road. Ten minutes from here. It looks like they’re headed to Tok”“Tok? They kidnapped them so they could take them to a town thirty minutes from Snow? How dumb are these people?” I asked incredulously.“Actually the exact opposite” said David tightly from behind.“How is that?” I scoffed.“They made sure they couldn’t be traced, they must have switched cars, threw away all the phones, without counting Jenny’s smart move, by the time we started worrying why they haven’t arrived home yet, would it ever occur to you to search for them right under our noses, in the nearby towns? Or would you just assume they took them as far away as they could? Whoever is behind this wants to make a joke out of us. When he finally makes himself known to us and contacts us, he’ll brag about how he fooled us and did this right in our territory without us knowing anything about it”
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Lucas’s POV*Forty Five Minutes Earlier*“Any honeymoon destination suggestions?” I asked Alex and David, looking for a little help planning my honeymoon with Angelina after our wedding.She had one week of vacation from college and it couldn’t have come up at a better time.We were all gathered around in the warehouse office waiting for a new shipment to arrive through the border. Mathew and the other men were out there ready to receive it.We had some time to spare and I tried to ask for their opinions.“If she hasn’t been anywhere other than Seattle, you can take her anywhere and she will love it no matter where it is, as long as she has you by her side, the destination isn’t that essential” said Alex softly.He looked to be speaking from experience and I decided to take his word for it.When Alex and Jenny spent a month and a half away from home, I noticed how they came back even more in love with each other than before. And they were extremely madly in love even before they left,
