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“What do you want to talk to me about? Do you realize that you can’t be seen with me outside of school?” I asked him. Lucas scoffed. I turned to him and glared at him. I couldn’t even hold his gaze for up to ten seconds. My whole body heated up and I felt tingles all over. How could I still be attracted to him when I was so mad at him? What’s even wrong with me at this point?“It’s the damn mark, isn’t it?” I let out, they both looked at me in confusion.“That’s why I keep getting drawn to you guys. It’s the mark. You did something to me and now I can’t get over my attraction t—.” I pressed my lips together when I realized I had said too much.“You can’t undo what’s done.” “Yeah? My life would have still been normal if you just fucked me without marking me.” I replied to Lucas who shook his head.“That’s not how it works. You will still be mated to us either way.” Us? Did he just say, us? As in both of them? Of course, that’s what he meant.“So, it isn’t like a glitch?”
Thalia“What the fuck are you even talking about, right now? Are you trying to scare me? Is that what all these are about? You are trying to scare me into doing what you want, right?” I yelled at them. Cross hasn’t said anything to make me angry but Lucas was pushing it with the way he was talking to me as if I am a child who can’t comprehend and making it seem as if I wasn’t capable of caring for myself.“That’s not what I am trying to do. Why will I scare you? I can get you where I want without using fear. You belong to me.” How can I hate someone and desire him at the same time? Why can’t I just hate him and throw him out of my house and life? He was fucking annoying. Fucking possessive. “I don’t belong to you and you are trying to scare me into doing what you want. Why else would you lie that I am in some kind of danger?” I fired at him. He turned away from me, dragged his fingers through his hair, and yelled at no one in particular before turning back to me.“I am not trying
Thalia “Will you really kill him?” I questioned. Maybe I should just tell them to truth, I don’t want Steve to get hurt because of me.“I never said I will.” “You said you will make him disappear forever.”I reminded him.“Yes, there are many ways to dispose of a human.” “I can’t believe him.” I told Cross.“Baby, don’t worry, I won’t leave you alone with him.” Cross promised.“You better not.” I warned him.“Does that mean that you have decided to listen to us?” Lucas asked me. “Shouldn’t you be trying to be on my good side? Why are you so arrogant? I might be the only woman for you but you are not the only man for me. Right now, I have a boyfriend and I can call him over and fuck him in front of you!” I blurted out. Not just Lucas but Cross also reacted to my words. They both growled in disapproval. I won’t do Cross like that but Lucas? Definitely. He walked towards me even when I put my hands out to stop him. He crowded my personal space and grabbed me by the waist when
Cross“Can you just shut up for once?”I fired at Lucas, glaring daggers at him. I made a mistake by agreeing to let him do the talking. We spent hours in his office discussing a possible way out of our current situation but in the end, we both decided that it would be best to carry Thalia along as she is a major part of everything.I did suggest that we leave her alone for a while, but Lucas rightfully pointed out that that would be dangerous for her. It was best to get her on what was going on. We both agreed to tell her about the danger that she might be in without scaring her, but the jealous freak has been acting out since we arrived at the apartment where she lived.He wasn’t the only jealous one, the thought of my mate with some human boy makes me want to do something crazy but I know damn well that commanding or forcing her to break up with him won’t do a thing and jealousy won’t solve the problem either so I kept my jealousy in check but the fucker with me doesn’t know how to
Cross“That’s not up for discussion right now, your safety is more important!” Lucas let out before I could form the words to answer her question. I glared at him. Did he not know when to fucking shut up? He hasn’t helped at all since we got here. He has only succeeded in making her angry. She doesn’t trust us enough right now and the damn idiot was making it all worse with his loud unfiltered mouth.Just one day with him and I already realized again why I can’t stand him at all. I can’t be seen with such a loser like him. If the moon goddess hadn’t decided to play tricks on us, there’s no way we would have crossed paths or even spent so much time together.I never thought I would have a common goal with Lucas of all people. I still kind of wish I was dreaming and none of this was real but I am too grown to not know when something was real.“The only you are still here is, because of him. I don’t give a fuck if you are my professor or not. You don’t even act like one so why should I
Cross“Council? Who are these people and what can they do to me? Why do I have to hide from them?” She questioned.“You don’t have to hide from them. You just have to stay safe and out of their way until i---“ I stopped. I didn’t want to tell her more. She might freak out if she finds out what would finally make her safe from the council. It will take about five to six months or the earlier four months for it to happen and just until then, we have to protect her. We have to be with her, especially in public places.“If I don’t need to hide from them then why do you think that I am in danger because of them? And who the fuck are they?” This is why I didn’t want us to tell her about the council. Those fuckers are just a bunch of lunatics with a common goal. Destroy the shifter words. They want us to fade into oblivion. That’s their plan and that’s why they don’t want humans to mate with shifters.They were nothing without the power that the government gave them. Not just that but our
Thalia“You haven’t particularly given me a reason to fucking want to spend my time with you. Cross respects me and if I want to do this then it will be him. You? No way. You remind me too much of my parents. I hate it.” I blurted out. I wasn’t even kidding. He reminds me so much of my parents. Always treating me like I can’t make my own decisions. We never get along and I know if I move in with Lucas, we will never get along. He was just too controlling for me.Cross on the other hand listens to me and lets me speak. I can’t believe that I really agree to move in with Cross. It was obvious that they weren’t lying about me being in danger and Cross said it isn’t forever like Lucas had made me believe.One year, he said. Just one year and my life will be back to normal. I don’t really know yet if I will ever go back to normal. I still have a lot of questions but I can just ask him. I could feel Lucas holding back. I could tell that he was about to say something mean to me again.“That
Lucas “Lia? Are you there? Did you hear what I said? Turn your car around and meet me at the house.” I instructed her and removed my phone from my ear to make sure she was still on the phone but she already hung up. I dialed her number again but she didn’t pick up. I called her for a third before deciding that it would be better to go pick her up before it was too late. “Damn!” I let out and rushed back into the meeting room. Everyone turned in my direction when I walked in again after stepping out to take a call that I wasn’t supposed to take during a very important pack meeting. Fuck my life. I made the rule of no phone calls during pack meetings but I was the one to break the rule and now I am about to break another rule. Leaving the pack meeting before time wasn’t allowed but I couldn’t stay in the meeting while knowing that my mate was about to leave the pack even though I told her not to. There’s only so much the guys at the gate can do. If she persists and insists
Thalia “Because we said so.” I stared open-mouthed at Lucas. Just when I thought he got better, he just had to go spoil things between us. What? Because they said so? Like I will listen just because they said so. Men and audacity. “Can you just listen to us?” Cross added. I glared at him. “So? You expect me to say yes sir and do everything you two want? It doesn’t work that way.” I told them firmly. It was just clubbing with my friend. Nothing too huge. I could have gone without telling them but I chose to be a good girl and look where that got me. “You can’t go around unguarded. We don’t want anything to happen to you.” Lucas said in that voice that made him sound like he was talking to a child. “I have been okay all my life. Why do I have to be watching my back like some fugitive? I am twenty-two. I can’t spend my nights curled up in bed in my twenties. I will do that in my thirties or forties. I am going out and that’s final. I just thought to let you guys know. You c
Thalia “And I thought my life here would be better. What a letdown.” I grumbled. It was only my first night here so I shouldn’t be disappointed but I was. How could he leave me alone in the house on my first night? I spent all day anticipating only to be left disappointed. “Shit!” I complained and got out of bed again. I was bored out of my mind. Alone in the house on my first night. I could do a house tour but I wasn’t the type to go snooping around without approval. In the end, I decided to chat with my friends. “What’s the use of having two lovers when I can’t even get any of them like I want?” I sent the chat to the group and both girls started typing immediately. “Holy, what?” I rolled my eyes at Emily’s question. Both of them didn’t believe me when I told them that I wasn’t getting any. “I am not kidding, not to mention, I am home alone right now. That fucker dropped me off and went away talking about some pack meeting.” I texted. “Oh, pack meetings are very impor
Thalia “Is she okay?” I nodded. “Alright, let’s go?” I nodded and grabbed my stuff from the chair I had kept them earlier. He took the bag from me. “It’s just school stuff that I need for the new week.” I told him when he looked at me with questioning eyes. “Let’s go.” I walked ahead of him and saw his car. I excitedly strolled there but as I got in the car, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad. Cross might have done some crazy shit but he had been a good host so yeah, I miss him already. “You will be back next week. Don’t miss him so much. In fact, forget about him for now. You belong to me.” Lucas told me. He dropped my bag in the back seat and got into the car. “I don’t belong to you or anyone. I only belong to myself.” I let out. He smirked and started the car. I sent a text to Cross that I already left and thanked him for having me. Don’t ask me why I thought of thanking him after how yesterday night turned out to be. “We have arrived already?” I let
Thalia By afternoon, I was all set to leave the house and so fucking exciting for my week with Lucas because I know it will be very spicy. I cleaned up really well. There was no need to pack my bag as Lucas already had stuff I could use over at his house. I only carried my school materials that I would need for the week and my gadgets. I went over to Elena’s house and had lunch with her and her brother’s pregnant wife. Contrary to what I thought, she was actually a sweet woman, just that her hormones were all over the place because of the pregnancy. “You look super excited to leave our pack.” Elena commented as we both made our way back to Cross’s house. I smiled. I couldn’t even deny the fact that I was excited. “I am but don’t worry, I will be back soon.” I assured her. “Can you actually keep doing the back and forth? Won’t you get tired?” I smiled. I have thought of it too but right now, I don’t feel tired yet. Maybe later I will but for now, I am just not going to
Thalia “Lia, I saw your calls. Are you okay? Where are you?” He asked with concern for me, lacing his voice. He sounded out of breath which made me wonder what he has been up to. I called him and waited for him for hours. “I don’t need you anymore Lucas. You didn’t answer when I called.” I let out. He sighed. “I am sorry, I was busy. I didn’t notice my phone was ringing because it was on silent.” He explained. Busy? What was he so busy doing that he was so out of breath? Fucking some random woman? The thought found its way into my head and I couldn’t let it out. “What were you doing,” I asked and swallowed the lump that formed in my throat. What the fuck was my problem? The man doesn’t owe me any loyalty and why did I even have that kind of thought to begin with? “I was far from my phone. I just got back. What did you want me to do? Are you okay?” He asked me. “I am fine. Where were you?” I let out. Was I really trying to find out where he was so that I could deci
Thalia “This place is expensive.” I whispered. “I know.” “And yet you brought me here just because I said I wanted to eat? I am not particularly dressed for dinner tonight.” I let out. I wore a runaway outfit and not a date night party. Why would he pick a place that most people only visit on very important occasions and dates? Maybe it’s a werewolf thing. “It doesn’t matter. No one will see you.” Good for him to say. He was dressed properly. I wondered how he was able to suit up before coming to find me. “Did you look through your wardrobe and find the most expensive suit, wear the nicest perfume, and pick out the nicest shoes before coming to look for me?” I questioned him. “I always dress this way.” “Huh? Do you always wear a suit? Don’t you have casual clothes like jeans and T-shirts?” I asked him as my mind went over the times I had spent with him. I realized that I had never seen him dressed in anything other than suits. Wow. Even in the house, I have only see
Thalia“Did I say something wrong?”I asked Cross when he went silent after I jokingly called him ancient, he looked at me and looked away. Okay, maybe he didn’t get the joke. I was just kidding why did he have to take it so seriously? It’s not like he was really ancient.“Cross? I was just joking.”I whispered to him. He didn’t look at me, and I decided to give it up. I realized what he was doing. He didn’t want to answer my question about the number of women he had been with, so he was acting all offended.It’s not like I wanted to continue that talk anyway, I already told him that he doesn’t need to answer. A man like him would surely have had his share of lovers in the past. I am not the kind of girl who gave a fuck about things like that.“If it’s because I asked about your past lovers, don’t worry about it. I am really open-minded. I don’t care.”I assured him.“I care.”I whipped my head in his direction to make sure he was being for real. He was. Which was crazy. Why would he
Cross "Are you going to ignore me forever?" Thalia questioned in a whole whisper. I looked at her and looked away, choosing to concentrate on driving instead of her question or the many thoughts that were running through my mind. I almost lost my mind while I searched everywhere for her. I didn't know where she was and that drove me fucking crazy. I called her plenty of times but she didn't take my calls. I tried to call that bastard but he didn't take my calls either and that made me so scared. I drove around looking for her car. I even went to her old house and found the door locked. I asked around and found out that her friend went home for the weekend which meant Thalia couldn't have been with her. It had been the scariest three hours of my life. I kept blaming myself which I should. It was all my fault. I was the reason she had left the pack. If I had just—fuck! I don't even want to think about that right now. When she finally took my call after I decided to call her