Thalia “What did you just say?” She asked after a few minutes of complete silence.“You heard me the first time, Lily, I had sex with him.” I repeated. She looked at me in disbelief. She pointed at me.“Pull over.” She ordered. I already expected her to ask me to do that. I slowed down and pulled out of the road.“Repeat what you just said.” “Lily.” I let out. Maybe I should have told her three weeks ago when it happened. She doesn’t really keep things away from me but I tend to not tell her everything. I am not so open with people.“You slept with him but you guys only met today, wait, you have met him before?” I nodded.“When? When did this happen and why am I just finding out? I tell you everything.” She let out. I suddenly felt bad for keeping it all a secret. “Three weeks ago.” “Three weeks? Three whole weeks? Lia? I tell you everything. You couldn’t even tell me that much? Do you even see me as your friend?” She was offended and I kind of understood her. I let out a s
Lucas“Why are you still following me? She already left, you should walk away,” I told the lunatic who thought it was a good idea to follow me back to my office. I don’t like him and I am not trying to hide it. It’s not just me. It goes both ways for us. We have known each other since we were little boys and we have never gotten along. That’s not about to change now.“I am following because clearly, we have something important to discuss. This isn’t the time to act out. I hate you just as much as you hate me but we have a situation at hand that requires us to talk.” I hated the fucker. Today didn’t turn out the way I wanted and seeing him made everything worse. I finally saw my mate again after three whole weeks of not being able to see her and now, not only does she have some dumb human boyfriend, but I also have to deal with the fucker who won’t leave me alone.“I don’t want to talk to you about anything. In case you haven’t noticed.” He didn’t stop following me. I tried to shut
Lucas“I don’t think I have the time you think I have. Why will I go so far just to get under your skin? You are forty, start acting your age and start thinking your age. We have a situation and I am trying to be the logical adult here. I told you not to go after her when she left but you did and made a scene. Do you even think or are you so caveman that you don’t think before you act?” He shot at me. I clenched my fist and growled at him.“Stop doing that.” He warned me. “I don’t listen to you or take orders from you.” I fired at him.“We both don’t take orders from anyone but again, we have a situation. Do you think I want this? No! I don’t want it. I finally found my mate after so many years of waiting and now I find out that she isn’t just my mate. Do you think I am okay? I am not fucking okay but you don’t see me acting all angry and going around creating a scene. We want to protect her from them, not expose her to them. Think!” He yelled at me and for the first time, I actu
CrossI watched him pace around. He was finally getting it. He was acting like he usually does acting before thinking. It’s one of the things I hated about him. In all, I couldn’t stand him and would very much not want to be in this situation right now but I couldn’t change things.If I could, I would go back to that night three weeks ago and make sure that Thalia knew she only belonged to me. That she couldn’t be with anyone else. I didn’t do it and now, I have to live with the consequences.“Why did it have to be him?” I wasn’t the only one pissed by the idea that my mate didn’t belong to me alone. My wolf was too and he has been going crazy inside me. I was in control so he had no choice but to foam inside.Everything happened so fast that it still felt like some weird dream to me even though I knew that it wasn’t a dream. I don’t dream about stuff like this. My dreams were what people call nightmares. This might as well be a nightmare. My mate isn’t just my mate. She’s mated to a
Cross“I can’t let that happen.”I whispered to myself.“Damn well, we can’t.”He heard it even though I said it in a very low voice. Wolves have really good hearing so it wasn’t a shocker that he heard me.“So, you do agree that we can’t let them get to her. That we have to protect her no matter what?”I asked him. He scowled at me but nodded in agreement. We are finally getting somewhere.“What do you want to do?”It funny how he was asking me my plans now when just a while ago, he went crazy because I asked him what he planned to do. Honestly, right now, I don’t have a plan. Yes, I had a plan before. That’s why I applied to lecture in her school, I wanted to be with her.My plan had been simple, find her, ask her out, and make sure she was never out of my sight. They will definitely know she has been mated if they find her and it’s my job to protect her from that. Of course, staying away from her might be the only right way but I can’t stay away from my mate.The three weeks it too
ThaliaI fidgeted, biting my finger, a habit I have and can’t stop especially when I am anxious. Right now, I was beyond nervous. I could practically feel my heart beating fast against my chest. We tried. We talked for hours but nothing seemed to work so now, we were calling her aunt and waiting for her to take her call.My heart skipped a beat when I heard her voice echo on the phone. Emily greeted her and told her that her friend had something she wanted to talk to her about. I have seen her aunt a lot in photos but I haven’t spoken to her before. Emily said it would be better if I talk to her directly.“Here, she wants to talk to you.”She said and handed the phone to me. I took it with shaking hands. I don’t know why I was shaking so much. Maybe because the reality of my situation finally dawned on me. I carried the marks of not one but two shifters and whether I liked it or not, my fate was pretty much sealed to theirs. I cleared my throat and tried to calm down as much as possib
Thalia“She must be some drama queen.”I bit out in an attempt to lighten my mood but that didn’t work. I still felt like crying. Still felt shitty and out of touch with reality. I don’t even know how to describe how I feel right now. I was angry, sad, confused, and most annoying of all, Horny. I was fucking horny and guess whose face crawled into my head. Lucas and Cross. I shook off my stupid train of thought and focused on what Aunt Rachael was saying.“You will get over that feeling very soon. I promise you. There’s always a solution.”I liked her positivity, and in any other situation, it would have worked on me, but not this one. There was no way out, no solution.“They are both professors at my University. Both are nearly two decades older than me. Both are off-limits because the school doesn’t allow students and professors to have intimate relationships.”I explained to her. She went silent on me again. Maybe she was thinking I might have done it to up my grade or something.“
Thalia“What the fuck are you both doing in my room?” I yelled at them when I finally got myself back enough to speak and quickly wrapped my towel around my body. I mean, my reaction was kind of hypocritical seeing as they have both seen me naked and have both been inside me but still, I didn’t invite them in. Heck, only a few minutes ago, they were downstairs looking at me and now, they were standing at my door and not even trying to leave.Normal people would wait for me downstairs. I am very sure they scared my friend so I can’t even blame her for not trying to stop them. Compared to her petite five foot three self, they were over six foot ten. They weren’t humans either so why did I even expect them to act normal?No human would have followed me home and even found their way into my bedroom. These men don’t follow any norms. They can very much decide to remove me from my house and take me wherever with them and I can’t even fight them. I swallowed as the reality of the whole sit
Thalia “I missed you,” He growled when he pulled away to allow us to breathe after the breathtaking kisses we shared. I liked my slightly swollen lips. I could say the same about him. I missed him so much. I was the one who kissed him again. I kissed him with everything inside me, showing him just how much I missed him with my mouth. When we stopped kissing again, we stared at each other longingly. “God, Cross! I missed you so much! It doesn’t feel like it has only been a few days. It feels like we have been apart for so long.” I told him sincerely. I wanted to kiss him more. I wanted to get naked with him already and get to know him again in the most intimate way. It has been weeks since I last felt him inside me and the memories of that night were starting to fade away. I needed a redo to remind me of just how good it had been between us. “I missed you too, my darling. So much. I can’t believe I wasted our week together. I was such a fool.” I couldn’t disagree. It w
Thalia “It’s really you?” I asked even as I held him, his arms wrapped around my waist. I talked his shoulder and he let me go. I put a small distance between us, wondering if I was really seeing him. “Baby?” He called out. It didn’t look like a dream. It clearly wasn’t a dream! “Cross!” I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was here. He was really here. I thought I was dreaming when I saw him for the first time. I walked in and busied myself taking off my shoes first so that I could get comfortable enough to look around for the surprise Lucas had talked about. I didn’t even notice him until he whispered something and I looked up to see him standing there, it felt like a dream. I thought I had fallen somewhere, lost consciousness, and started dreaming. He was really here. “Hey baby, you are finally here! Surprise!” He said again and spread his arms out. The first time he said it, it didn’t click that he was the surprise that Lucas had talked about. He said it again and s
Cross “What’s taking him so long? Did he ditch me?” I grumbled impatiently and checked the time again. It was almost eight pm and still no sight of my mate and the fucker who went to get her. It shouldn’t take so long to bring her to me. We had an agreement. “The fucker!” I complained. I hope I didn’t drive all the way down here and did nothing. I dropped a meeting that I was supposed to hold to come here. I missed my mate so much and wanted to see her so badly that I didn’t think twice about postponing the meeting after I got him to agree to let me come over. I drove miles and hours to get here. I put my beta in charge of the pack just to come spend the night with my mate. He better not fuck things up. I wanted to call her after I found out from him that he messed up and made her mad but he said it would ruin her surprise so I stayed put. Oh, I gave him a piss of my mind. No way I was going to let him off after he made our mate angry and sad. The other thing he did to
Thalia “What’s the surprise? Tell me please,” I said, pouting my lips in an effort to make him spill the tea but he just laughed and shook his head. I wanted to know and now I wanted us to be at the hotel already so that I could see the surprise. “Patient baby. Good things happen to those who are patient.” He told me and hugged me again. He was right. If only I was patient enough to hear his own side of the story, I wouldn’t have almost ruined our relationship again. I need to learn to trust him and believe in what we have. The girls believed in him more than I did. I should thank them for talking me into coming to see him if not, I would have spent the night in misery all because of lies that Mariah made up. “I can’t believe I fell for her lies. I am so sorry, Lucas. I shouldn’t have doubted you.” I told Lucas sincerely. I can’t believe I almost ruined our relationship over a lie. Over some twisted narrative. Mariah might not know the harm she did by twisting what happ
Lucas “It wasn’t a date. I promise. She asked me to take her back to the resort because the bus left without her and she didn’t know her way around.” I explained the first part of what happened and why she even got in my car in the first place. I couldn’t leave her on her own. I genuinely thought that she was stranded and I didn’t want anything to happen to her. I got Thalia’s attention so I went on. “Halfway through the ride, she told me that she hadn’t eaten all day so I stopped at a restaurant and got her food. After that, she told me she got her period and didn’t have a pad with her so I drove to the mall and paid god the things she got. That’s it.” I explained to her. She didn’t look convinced at first but her expression started to change right before my eyes. I waited for her to process the things I told her first before I continued. She opened and closed her mouth multiple times without saying anything and still, I waited. “Did you hug her?” That happened too bu
Lucas “Lucas? Stop the car!” I looked at Thalia and ignored her. I had no intentions of stopping the car until we were out of the resort and somewhere I could park and y’all to her. I can’t believe she thought I went on a date with that Mariah girl. Yes, I did buy her lunch because she kept insisting and then she told me her period started and I had to follow her to the shop where she got pads and other things. I paid for the things ahead bought out of the goodness of my heart but I never thought of it as a date nor did I let her hug me. Thalia found out and got everything wrong. No. I would never take another woman out or think of being with another woman who wasn’t my mate. I hated that she even thought about me cheating on her. Cheating! I don’t cheat! Not even when I dated a lot. I always made sure that I wasn’t seeing two people at once. I have never two-timed or double dates in my whole life, why would I do it now with my mate? The crazy part of everything was th
Thalia “Don’t worry, the glasses are tinted, no one will see you from the outside.” Lucas pointed out. I didn’t look at him. “Don’t start the car.” I let out when he tried to. “Why not? We are leaving.” No, we are not. I am not going back to the hotel with him. not after what I found out about him from Mariah. I felt betrayed. I couldn’t imagine spending the night with him with all the doubts. Yes, he might not have spent the night with her since he was here but it could happen soon. He already took her out on a date. They already shared a hug. Soon, they might be sharing more than a hug. They might be sharing kisses and after that, they might be sharing a bed too. “We are not leaving. I am not spending the night with you.” I let out and spared him a look. He looked confused. “And why not? We spent the night together last night and it was amazing. Why can’t we do the same tonight? You are coming with me and that’s final.” The way he said the last part of his sentence pi
Thalia The thought that Lucas might do the things he did with me last night with Mariah nearly crippled me. If I wasn’t already seated, I might have actually lost my balance and collapsed to the ground. The image of Lucas’s cock buried deep in Mariah’s pussy made me sick. I couldn’t get the image off my head. Everything he said to me last night, the way he turned me around and had me in different positions. All the dirty things we have done together came to me in a flash but in my place, it was Mariah’s face. Mariah screaming and whimpering his name in pleasure. Mariah begging him to fuck her more. Mariah asking for him to come inside her. The image was so fucking clear that I had to force my eyes open or I would have gone crazy. “Lia,” Emily whispered my name. I looked at her and saw the worry in her eyes. I couldn’t even pretend. My eyes went to my phone again. The silence of it made everything worse. As the minute ticked by, I slowly started to lose myself a little more. “Wh
Thalia “Lia, don’t believe what she said. Lucas can’t do that. He loves you and only wants you.” I don’t know if she was trying to console me or trying to convince herself but it did no good. He sure doesn’t love me and as for want? That doesn’t seem to be the case since he was already accommodating someone else just a few hours after we clashed. He bought her lunch, took her shopping, and even hugged her. That sounded like a date. A fucking date yet he hasn’t taken me to a date once and I am supposed to be his ‘mate’ Was that something they made up to fuck women? I know men do anything to get what they want but going as far as making up some bond just to get me to bed was crazy to think about and yet, I was thinking it. “Elena is right, baby. Don’t let her get between you two.” I turned to the girls. “Get between us? Get between what? Why would she lie about a date? Huh? Tell me. Didn’t you see the things she got? Did she sound like she was making things up to you? It clearl