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2024-10-29 19:42:56And ready, I was not.
My very busy schedule suddenly got a lot busier. Every other day I had to drive up to the coven. Most of it was sat in meditation for hours, only to get slapped with a staff when my mind wandered. One thing I could do was focus on my drawings for long periods of time but focusing on nothing was not in my wheelhouse. It turned out I was exceptionally bad at it. Leaving me some days recovering just from the amount of hits I got from the two of them.
“You’re wandering again!” Sophie hit me between the shoulders with the stick.
I knew better than to answer or even growl. That was breaking out of the concentration completely and usually ended up with some kind of magic being slung at me. Taking a deep breath, I focused inside. It wasn’t a natural thing to do. Pushing away the pack bond, even pushing Niru out of my head, was far more difficult than it seemed. I hadn’t been alone in my own head since I was a child. Th
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“You’re late.”Sky didn’t even turn around. Her arms were crossed as she watched my guys spar on the mats they dragged out. I put my hands up in resignation.“I apologize. I didn’t mean to be. It won’t happen again.”She looked at me over her shoulder and her eyes narrowed. Turning, she held out her hand. I looked at it, confused of what she was asking for. Finally, I just put my hand on top other open palm. Immediately, it started to sting as she slapped it.“Not that hand. The other one.”I cocked my head to the side and placed the still-tingling numb hand in hers. Her chest rose and fell before she sandwiched the top of my hand with her other one. Slowly, she pulled her hands until my hand was left hanging mid-air. My eyes widened as I had full feeling back in my hand. Looking up at her, Sky had already turned back to the guys.“Don’t do that again.” Her tone was cross.“I…how…you can just…?”Chuckling, Sky shook her head. “It’s my power, Ethan. You think I can’t just take it back?”
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“What? How?”Sky turned back to the door and I noticed her hand tighten around the make-shift weapon. “I don’t know. It’s like…a feeling. Like he’s come within a certain range and I can feel him. It’s rough though. I don’t know exactly where. Just…close.”“What do you want to do?”She snorted. “Murder him?”My lips pursed in a thin line. I stepped closer and rubbed her arm that wasn’t holding the crowbar. She leaned back a bit into my chest and Niru purred. Still, her muscles were coiled up and on alert.“We need to give him a chance.” I reached for her chin and tilted her head up so she could look at me. “He’s your mate too. He’s your chance of a future. You need both of us.”“But…”I smiled. “I know. Trust me, I know. But one step at a time.”“Like?”“Like maybe we should head out into the forest? Carl said he was feral, right? So he’ll be in wolf form. We don’t know how much of him is left.”She hummed but nodded. Setting out, I wish she’d let the crowbar go but she took it with he
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Justin looked up at me and whined.“Yes, well, you kind of deserved that. Maybe even a little more for what you did. You’re going to be lucky if Sky forgives you.” I sighed. “We’ll be lucky if she forgives you.”It took a little longer to reach her shop since I was slowing down for Justin but we did make it. He hopped over the barrier but I had to reach down and grab him before he fell. His legs weren’t ready to take the full brunt of a jump yet. Looking both ways, we walked across the road. I reached my truck and opened up the passenger door.“Climb in. I need to grab some stuff inside before we leave.”He stopped mid-climb.“No. You can’t go in. I don’t want her to smell you. The point is to let her cool off. Come at this more level-headed. Honestly, she was planning on killing you.”He whined back at me, giving me a sad puppy face.“No. Not gonna work. Sadly, you’re in a threesome with two Alphas. You got the short end of the stick. Now, sit tight and wait. I’ll bring you back to ho
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I tapped my pen on the desk. There were a bunch of different things I needed to tie up with the new buildings. Usually, I enjoyed paperwork. I could sink into it and not think about anything other than the words in front of me. The problem was I hadn’t seen Sky in a week. Niru was is a mood because of it and I really wasn’t much better.The reason for that was laying on the couch in my office, snoozing away. Justin was still in wolf form. We had tried a few different things but nothing was working. He didn’t even seem like had a human side, which worried me. Right now, he was the pack house pet who loved getting scratches and stole food from your plate if you weren’t looking.My lips thinned as I closed my eyes. Sky’s conversations over the phone were short and clipped when I talked to her. Normally, I would have gone to her but Justin was so attached to my side that even when I headed into the city without him, he would either jump in the back of the truck or just follow the Jeep. I h
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I hadn’t practiced this enough. My work with Sky helped me know what it felt like to shift within her mind but actually doing it on my own was another story. Let alone feeling like I was running for my life. I closed my eyes and tried to picture slipping back. Getting the hell out of here while behind me the monster roared and screamed. It seemed like I had gotten out of its reach but the pull to it was back and that wasn’t helping.Squeezing my eyes tighter shut, I focused on the task of getting back to my own mind. I blocked out the chaos behind me. I blocked out the pull. I blocked out the fatigue I was feeling. I blocked everything until I felt myself weightless again. The air bent and shifted around me until I slammed into my own body.Falling forward onto my hands, I coughed and sucked in air. A hand was on my back and I looked up to see Kev, a worried look on his face. Shaking my head, I took gasping breaths to reign myself back in. My body felt lethargic and I wanted to collaps
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It had finally snowed. Overnight, the skies decided to dump a nice layer of snow over the entirety of the territory. Not having gone to sleep after the connection with Skylar, I ended up shoveling the driveway and the walkway into the house. There was a light dusting since then but it wasn’t bad enough to need to go over it again. I was leaning against the pillar of the deck as I looked out over the road. Sky texted me this morning that she would come by after having some coffee but never gave a specific time.‘I hate when she does that.’Niru chuckled. ‘I know you do. You’re brooding.’‘That’s not why I’m brooding.’He snickered. ‘Oh, I know.’ There was a pause before I could feel his excitement. ‘Were her lips soft? Or were you too stunned to even realize it?’Groaning, I tossed him and his snickering ass back. Niru hadn’t stopped making fun of me the entirety I was awake. Jabbing that I wasn’t in tune with my feelings and that I just let her take over. That I was Alpha but she woul
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None of us said anything. Sky was too shaken up. Her eyes flickered back to their normal color as she lost concentration. Taking her hands out from mine, she got up and started to pace the living room. I watched her as Raine and her had a conversation. Eventually, she put both hands on her head, trying to somehow make sense of what she was feeling.“Sky.” I called to her.She didn’t acknowledge that she heard me. Her heel turned as she paced back the way she walked.“Sky!” I called to her a little louder this time.Still nothing from her.“Skylar Cross!” I let my Alpha slip out slightly and she finally turned to me.What I wasn’t expecting was tears. They flowed down her cheeks as soon as she stopped pacing and I got up quickly. Pulling her to me, I wrapped my arms around her. She sobbed into my chest.“I’m holding him hostage. It’s my power that’s destroying him. Ethan, it’s my fault.”I shook my head and pressed my lips to the top of her head. “It’s not. You didn’t do this, did you?
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The next few days were exhausting but I felt like I wasn’t doing anything. Really, all three of us sat on the rug in the living with all the furniture pulled to the walls, and meditated. We were doing a lot more than that but it’s really what it looked like from the outside. Every day though, we went until I almost collapsed. Today I’d pushed myself further than I had and ended up being told to go to bed at six in the evening.Covering my eyes with my arm, I sighed. ‘I wish I was able to help more.’Niru hummed. ‘There is a reason why Justin is also our mate. You were never supposed to take on this burden alone, Ethan. You can’t discount all that you have done. Sky would have never been able to get this far and help him without you.’‘You’re surprisingly supportive today?’He flicked his tail. ‘Would you rather I make fun of you?’‘No.’‘Then take it and don’t question it.’I would have chuckled but honestly I felt too tired. At one point, I fell asleep but I woke up when the room was
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My lips crashed onto Sky’s and it was an entirely different feeling with the electricity of the mate bond. Niru was growling and howling incoherently in my head but at the same time, it all made sense. I wanted her, needed her. Needed everything that she would give me. The thing that surprised me the most was that I wanted to share her as well. Pulling away, I looked at Justin who was just about foaming at the mouth.“She tastes like orange citrus as well. Would you like to taste her lips?”Justin’s irises blew out and a shiver ran through his spine. He reached for her but it was a lot more gentle than I expected. He brushed her cheek and sucked a hair behind her ear before pressing his lips to hers. She molded up against his body and I stepped up behind her, brushing the hair out of her face.“Can you taste it? Taste the orange with the salt from the sea?”Justin hummed as he pulled back slowly taking her lip between his teeth for a moment before letting it go. I smirked, feeling how
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Justin chuckled. “You mean Fast Orange? Yeah, I smell it. Of course that’s what she would smell like. She uses that shit almost every day.”I smiled and I realized he was beaming too. This time we did follow our noses. She had been here but she wasn’t here anymore. We followed it back up the stairs as she wove through the art tents and through the throng of people that had amassed. I pushed through first, following just my instinct, Niru almost fully taking over.Justin was right behind me, never once straying or getting stuck behind someone else. I followed the orange scent and it started getting stronger. Like I had just stuck my nose in the bucket of the stuff she kept in the shop bathroom. The beach was relatively quiet since it was getting cooler as the sun was going down.Near the edge of the waves, just where it was lapping up onto the sand, Sky stood alone. Her large-brimmed woven sunhat was pushed back on her head and sunglasses were set around the top of it. She was wearing a
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There was a read receipt but she wasn’t replying. Not that I blamed her. Sky probably saw right through my charade. Justin looked over my shoulder at my phone. “Yeah, because that’s not over the top.” I growled at him but continued to stare at the screen. Finally, I held my breath when the three little dots appeared. Justin was the opposite, breathing heavy as he started at my phone as well. S: Well, it’s nice to be remembered today. Both Justin and I winced. Oh yeah, she was mad. ‘Who can blame her? I sure can’t.’ Niru added his two cents. Shaking my head, I typed up another message. Mate #1: I’m sorry, baby. Really. Come on, let’s celebrate together, yeah? We can go to your favorite place in the city, have a nice dinner or whatever you want. Justin snorted. “Way to lay it on thick.” “What else do you want me to do? We fucked up. She knows it. We know it. I’m not about to lose the chance to be with her on her birthday because of it. Are you?” That shut him up as we both
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I sat on the stairs of the porch, looking out over the back yard of the pack house. Everything was so quiet here. It was nice to take a break from the chaos that was now my home. At least for a few minutes. The wind blew and I tucked a stray hair behind my ear. Looking down at my phone, I stared at the messages that were there. E: Hey Sky, I feeling a little better today. Sam made some kind of soup. It was completely inedible. She had to order pizza. It reminded me of when you tried to cook that pasta dish and you somehow managed to burn the pasta. E: I went shopping online today. Got some more clothes. Bernard came by and cut my hair for me. That was nice. It was getting in my eyes. They won’t talk about you though. It’s like you don’t exist anymore and I hate it. E: Today was a bad day. I don’t know why. I just woke up and I threw up until there was nothing left in me. Sam tried to help but I felt disgusting. I’m reminded of what I did. What I had done. It’s like it comes back
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We headed down the road in Ethan’s truck. I was squished between Ethan and Justin in the center seat of the bench. Still, it felt nice as I rested my head on Justin’s shoulder and my fingers laced with Ethan’s. I’d need them to handle this trip.“I gave one of the new homes to Sam. Her and Emmett have been staying together.”“So she didn’t reject him?”Ethan squeezed my hand. “She didn’t. She hasn’t marked him but when she heard what you did, I think she thought it only right for her to give him a chance as well.”My heart lightened just a little, knowing that something good may actually come from all this pain. Ethan turned down the road that was brand new and I could see the new homes that were being built. There were three blocks of them that were already finished and he pulled into the driveway of one that was a block down. I scooted out of the middle and Justin helped me down from the truck.“Whatever you do, pretend like I’m not here.”Both Ethan and Justin gave me confused look
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I woke up screaming and my eyes flung open. Everything was hazy and I didn’t know where I was. All I could remember was the all consuming feeling of the darkness. How sticky my hands were from Emmett’s blood. The last sound that came from Marrok as I killed him. My heart sped up as I started to hyperventilate, as my stomach started to roll.“Hey! Sky! It’s okay. You’re okay. You’re safe.”A hand brushed my cheek but I flinched away from in.“Shit. Hold on. I’m pulling over.”I felt bile start to come up but I just coughed, forcing myself to not throw up. I hadn’t realized we were moving until the motion stopped completely. It helped a bit for my stomach but I still felt like I couldn’t breathe. Hands slipped under my arms and pulled me up from my laying down position. My head fell heavily against Ethan’s shoulder and arms held me tight.“You’re okay. I’ve got you. I’m right here.”That broke the damn. I started to cry as I grabbed onto the front of his shirt, balling it up between my
