“Why don't you want to be a part of this? It's just dinner and Luna is doing this out of honor for what you did, saying Alpha’s life. It's her way of being thankful when she can't find words enough to thank someone for what they did for her” Skye explained, trying to make me see the reason why I should stay for dinner after letting her know I didn't really want to be a part of it. “Come on, put a smile on that face, I don't know if anyone told you yet but tonight is about you, Kimberly. We are here to…” The entrance door being pushed open all of a sudden made Susan pause and we both stood, watching as Susan held Gordon by the arm and they were both walking into the hall. Skye told me when I got here earlier that I was looking hot, but I'm going to have to disagree with her because I'm staring at Susan right now and she's the absolute meaning of perfection. She's in a silver spaghetti strap gown and I couldn't take my eyes off of her until she got to where I was with Skye, who
Nothing felt more awkward to me right now than being alone with Gordon in the dining hall, waiting for the others to arrive. I feel awkward whenever I'm alone with Susan too, but this felt ten times worse and more difficult to take in. Then out of the blue Gordon had to make things worse, striking up a conversation. “You don't look quite comfortable to me in that dress” “It's a gown actually and I feel pretty good in it, thanks for your concern though” I lied, swiftly giving a response to Gordon who suddenly dropped a comment about my gown after Susan left, and it was just the two of us alone in the end hall. I didn't know he was still staring at me the whole time and even figured out that I wasn't feeling quite comfortable in the gown to comment about it. It must be the look on my face that showed I wasn't feeling comfortable in the gown. However, it wasn't the gown that was making me feel uncomfortable right now, but the fact that it was just the two of us alone in the dining
“I'm the reason why you don't feel comfortable here?” Gordon scoffed before a deep furrow appeared on his forehead with him looking a bit disappointed, after making him know he was the reason I didn't appear to be feeling comfortable here in the first place. “Do you hate me that much to no longer feel comfortable around me? I'm literally two seats away from you right now and I don't bite, Kimberly” He lifted his hands to show that he was harmless and I shook my head with a sigh. He had no idea where I was headed to. Now, how do I make him know that I know that his intentions are harmless and that I'm actually the one who should be confessing to let him know the real reason why I don't feel comfortable being with him? “Have you ever felt butterflies in your belly when you are with someone?” I asked, looking him straight in the eyes, having no idea where I summoned that courage and the insolent boldness to ask such a question. “Butterflies in my belly when I'm with someone?” I
Victoria could not go to the hospital. The moment she did so, her pregnancy would be exposed. It sounded laughable, but she did not want anyone else to know about the baby. She tried to protect the last remaining shreds of her dignity. She knew her pride was already gone when she agreed to fake a marriage with Alaric. Right now, before him and the woman he loved, what sort of dignity did she even have? Even so…Then, she glanced down but did not wish to disclose anything that would cause others to ridicule her.Alaric scowled when he heard that. The car abruptly turned and screeched to a stop by the side of the road.At that moment, Victoria thought he was telling her to exit his car, so she reached out to open the door.Clack! The doors were immediately locked.He was staring at her with a dark look through the rearview mirror. "Why don't you want to go to the hospital?" he asked.She had been acting strange since walking through the rain the evening before."I can visit a doctor mys
"Speak for yourself!" Victoria retorted, then pulled her hand back. Since she used too much force, her body fell backward onto the couch, and she couldn't get up. She was really too weak. Alaric stood there, looking at her with a complicated expression. So, he went to the restroom, filled a plastic basin with water, and returned with a towel. Afterward, he put them on the chair next to her.He soaked the new towel in cold water, wrung it out, and wiped her with it."What are you doing?"Seeing him approach her with the towel, she instinctively moved away.He grabbed her shoulder, and his handsome brows furrowed. "Don't move; I'm cooling you down."She wanted to say no, but when the towel touched her skin, a cold feeling rushed over her, and she couldn't refuse.Her body temperature was high, and it was better to cool down.After all, it was only physical cooling...Thinking this, Victoria let him do as he pleased.Alaric wiped away the sweat from her forehead, then wiped her cheeks. A
“I’m sorry, we did all that we could to fix him, but I deeply regret to inform you that he's never going to walk again. The accident didn't cause small damages, it paralysed him from waist down”These were the exact words of the doctor when I asked of Brian's condition after receiving a call from work hat he was hit by a car. I immediately lost all my sense of reasoning when I got the news and dropped all that I was doing to rush down here to the hospital only to find Mom, Dad and Taylor in grief.I couldn't stay in there with them, so I left, coming outside of the hospital building to sit on one of the benches that I found. But it wasn't long after I came out here to grief alone, when it suddenly began to rain and even though it was pouring heavily. I didn't mind the heavy downpour. Life can be so unfair but it has never been fair to me or my family for once. How am I ever going to be able to live with this? Brian doesn't even know yet, he's still unconscious from the accident and I
Still, she did not question it too much and asked the Cadogans' family driver to send her to the country club."You may head back first," she said to the driver upon arrival."Do I not need to wait for you, Mrs. Cadogan?"She paused for a moment before shaking her head. "It's fine. I'll wait to head home with Alaric."Since she was here for him, she would head home with him.With that, Carter, the driver, soon drove off.The rain had started as a drizzle, but it was now a heavy storm.With the umbrella held over her head, she walked to the entrance of the country club.It was a luxuriously decorated golf club. She was stopped at the door."I'm sorry, miss, but please show me your member card," the employee said.She took a moment to think about her next action before finally messaging Alaric.'I'm here. When are you done with work? I'll be waiting for you downstairs.'Once she was done, she stood near the entrance with the umbrella. As she stared at the rain, she thought about the pre
Still, she did not question it too much and asked the Cadogans' family driver to send her to the country club."You may head back first," she said to the driver upon arrival."Do I not need to wait for you, Mrs. Cadogan?"She paused for a moment before shaking her head. "It's fine. I'll wait to head home with Alaric."Since she was here for him, she would head home with him.With that, Carter, the driver, soon drove off.The rain had started as a drizzle, but it was now a heavy storm.With the umbrella held over her head, she walked to the entrance of the country club.It was a luxuriously decorated golf club. She was stopped at the door."I'm sorry, miss, but please show me your member card," the employee said.She took a moment to think about her next action before finally messaging Alaric.'I'm here. When are you done with work? I'll be waiting for you downstairs.'Once she was done, she stood near the entrance with the umbrella. As she stared at the rain, she thought about the pre
Not what think he knows that I don't plan on coming back till evening to confirm if he was going to get his vision back. But I guess he's okay with ruining the day for me already, and call me dramatic but I really didn't nee someone to spoil the day for me like that, especially with bad news. He has no idea how worried I am over his health, and he just to had to blurt that out as if actually believing that he might not be able to see again when evening comes and his eyes doesn't clear up.“You are up” I walked a few feets away from Hunter's room only to suddenly hear a voice taking to me from behind. “I was starting to think that you guys were having sex in there” “Gordon” I mumbled under my breath, recognizing his voice immediate after he said such nonsense about me and Hunter having sex inside the room. I let out a deep breath of disappointment, reluctantly turning around to face him.“Fine morning to you too, Alpha” I greeted him with a regrettable smile which I forced on my fa
She did , you should tell me!” Hunter barked again and I shivered, scared at his angry tone.Then all of a sudden, Anita as stupid as she was stopped asking to be freed, but instead began laughing, leaving Hunter and I to be quite surprised and I just knew that she was never going to recover from her craziness for real.“You are going to have to kill me first” Anita smirked, getting Hunter pissed as hell and he did exactly what she wanted. “Your wish is my command” He grabbed her tightly by the neck and flunged bed aside against the wall. “Woah!...” I squeaked, taken by surprise, not have expected that. I was totally speechless to see Anita survive that hit. I could literally feel her bones breaking and I wasn't the one being beaten.“Are you going to talk now or we can go on with this all day” Hunter licked his lip, enjoying this. I think he has been waiting to beat the sh*t out of Anita all day since he was captured. Now, he got the chance, he's not missing it.“I swear I'm going
She couldn't say anything, shocked for a minute that Michelle was asking me for real to be her text subject for a poison project, where I think I'm likely going to be injected with the poison for her to able to confirm if it was the same kind of poison, which was hard on Gordon.“No” I said a big no to her, and could see directly through her glasses the disappointment in her eyes as I turned her down.Did she actually expect to walk in here and say that to my face and then expect me to be all yippee-yay that I'm going to be a test subject for a poison project? Just like Gordon probably expected me to do when he asked me to be his personal healer.What's starting to go wrong with the people here? Do they think ther I'm some kind of charity event and I couldn't say no to them? Only for them to act disappointed when I say no as if I did wrong for saying no?“I'm sorry, but I can't do that, it's too dangerous” “You are not going to die, Kimberly, I have the antidote right with me. I'm g
was supposed to talk her out of attempting to do something stupid like that. I mean if she rips her heart out of her chest and dies, then it was of no use coming here because we wouldn't get to find out who paid her to poison Gordon.“Okay, why don't we all calm down and take things slowly here everyone, hmm? Nice and slow” I came in between them, not wasting time before Anita actually rips her heart out of her chest. Though, I doubt that she's really going to do that. But who knows? We got a lot of crazy people living among us, don't we?“You don't have to get yourself involved, Kimberly, she's not going to do it” Hunter said to me with his eyes not moving away from Anita, who herself was smiling like some clown. “I don't think she's okay in the head, Hunter, you really shouldn't be daring her to do something like that right now. She's literally going to kill herself to prove you wrong” I whispered to Hunter, looking away from the clown-looking Anita. “If I don't dare her to do it
“Here, we are almost there, now take it easy, come on, one more step, yeah, we are good” I took Hunter's arm, which he wrapped around my shoulder off, carefully putting him down to lie on the bed. It was a tough job getting him to his room by myself as he weighed quite a ton, but I'm glad that the mission was successful. “Phew” I sighed with relief, wiping the little heat which formed at the top of my face after getting him to lie on his back on the bed. It was a nightmare getting him here, he depended on my weight entirely to be able to walk, being unable to see sh*t and was scared that he was going to fall with every single minute that passed.It would have been easier if I had carried him on my back again, but it was still healing from the previous piggyback ride that I gave him. Also, he refused to get on my back, claiming now that it was kind of embarrassing being carried around like that.But he didn't seem to remember that it wasn't embarrassing when Anita threw him the powde
Sometimes, it did, but he's okay now, we were able to get to him on time and he was saved” I explained to Skye, who clutched her chest, letting out a deep breath of relief and calming herself down after worrying over Gordon for no reason. I think she probably even assumed that he must have died or haven't recovered from the poisoning yet.“Oh my god, thank goodness he's safe now, it was such a terrible news to hear. I mean Luna literally broke down when the news reached her and her father was sick at the same time too, she was quite devastated” “Ohh, I didn't know that” My hands went up to my mouth, dramatically covering it while feeling bad for Susan after hearing from Skye, how she felt when she got the news of Gordon being poisoned.I wonder how she got to cope with that and with a sick father too.“But we are back now and she went to see him immediately as soon as we got here, so she should be fine. She has been dying to meet him, that's why we came back today. We were going to
not question it too much and asked the Cadogans' family driver to send her to the country club."You may head back first," she said to the driver upon arrival."Do I not need to wait for you, Mrs. Cadogan?"She paused for a moment before shaking her head. "It's fine. I'll wait to head home with Alaric."Since she was here for him, she would head home with him.With that, Carter, the driver, soon drove off.The rain had started as a drizzle, but it was now a heavy storm.With the umbrella held over her head, she walked to the entrance of the country club.It was a luxuriously decorated golf club. She was stopped at the door."I'm sorry, miss, but please show me your member card," the employee said.She took a moment to think about her next action before finally messaging Alaric.'I'm here. When are you done with work? I'll be waiting for you downstairs.'Once she was done, she stood near the entrance with the umbrella. As she stared at the rain, she thought about the pregnancy report.
easy for Kimberly to have so much faith and belief that I'll be regaining my sight in the evening, when she's not the one in my shoes right now to feel the heat that I was feeling. I felt it in my soul after Gordon left, when he was done scolding and reprimanding me for the harsh action that I took, trying to force the truth out of Anita. Now, I cannot stop blaming myself for it, even though I only what I did with the assurance that I was going to get something out of her. I literally promised him that I was going to get who poisoned him, and I did, only to carelessly loss the person in the end after I did. What a shame.“Ugh, f**k all this anyway” I cursed, rubbing the top of my face with the feeling of disappointment. I couldn't help but feel disturbed thinking of how I failed Gordon. Still drowning in thoughts, I suddenly heard the door open and was startled, but I was calm the moment I heard.“Hunter?...” A voice called, and it sounded quite familiar to me, so I got up and ou
Gordon kept staring at me with this unexplainable look on his face, but I could tell he was curious and was desperate to hear me explain to him why I made such statement. However, the entrance door was pushed open all of a sudden and Susan came back into the hall.I quickly adjused to sit in more comfortably on the chair, watching Susan walk into the hall with a big bottle of champagne in her hand so she doesn't suspect that something happened between me and Gordon.It's not like anything actually happened between us. I just don't trust that Gordon didn't likely found my question to be weird, especially, the part where I asked of him having butterflies in his belly when he already has a mate and someone who he appeared to be madly in love with.“Sorry for keeping you guys waiting, I'm back” Susan announced with a smile and excitement on her face, carefully dropping the champagne on the table and then looked around to ask about Hunter and Susan. “Wait, Skye and Hunter aren't here yet?