ClarissaI giggled and asked the same question to her in return.“What do you want for your birthday from me?”Talia took a sip of water from the bottle and wiped off the sweat on her forehead.“I want you to be happy. You seem lost ever since we came back from Jundra. You are trying so hard to forget Dacre but it looks like that ugly ass left a mark on you.”She said and my wide smile disappeared. She had been right.I was focussing on training and Jake thought my thoughts kept slipping to Dacre occasionally. I had to get over him.“I will be happy, I am happy. Being home feels nice and tomorrow when we awaken our wolves, we will be even happier.”I answered in a much more confident voice and Talia patted my back“That is like my little sister.”Then she lowered her voice and added, “you still don't want to tell mom anything? Today was the first time she opened up about the demon. I think you should tell her about your dreams.”Talia said and I shook my head.“Not now. She took so mu
ClarissaThe room was quiet except for the sound of our moans and labored breathing as his hand began roaming all over my body.He was being so sweet and careful that I had to stop kissing and add,“I am not a glass vase to break that you are being so careful”Jake furrowed his eyebrows and I was about to kiss him back again but he stopped me.“What is wrong, Clary?”He asked and I tried to not snap at him.However, my face did a poor job of hiding my frustration.“Nothing is wrong. We are kissing each other, that’s it.”I said and leaned in towards him again, my hand reaching for his belt buckle but he stopped me. Again.“Clary, this is not you. I have known you all my life. Can you please tell me what is going on?”He asked.I searched his face for a hint of sarcasm but he was genuinely curious.“I would have answered you, but I don't know that myself.”I spoke in all honesty.Jake’s hand left my ass and he gently lowered me to the ground.He then adjusted my hair and smoothed it do
ClarissaThe night of the day before my birthday passed in a blur. If the demon who haunted my dreams had visited me and said something, I did not recall it.I only remembered being dragged to bed and then being woken up by a group of people who just stormed into our room singing ‘Happy Birthday'Sleepy eyed, I nodded as my pack members, and my family greeted us both. I noticed that though everybody else was present, Jake was absent.I bit my lip nervously and decided to look for him.Talia and everybody else was busy talking so I just slinked out of the room, pretending that I needed to get fresh air.It was early morning so the first thing I did was walk toward the training ground but Jake was not there. I asked a few trainees who were doing some exercises, but they had not seen Jake either.Feeling confused, I decided to give him a call while roaming all around the territory, thinking of the places I could find him.His phone was ringing but he did not pick up either. A certain gui
ClarissaThis was getting very dark and we both felt increasingly nervous.“Your dad had been killed by the demon and his dark energy so his soul and his body were tainted. Though the Goddess purified it to the best of her ability, she could not completely rid him of the mark.”I looked at my father, the soft-hearted man I had known all my life.I could just not believe that he had been touched by a demon, killed, and was living with us all our life with that burden.“So?”I asked in a dreadful voice.“So, we are not sure but we fear that the negative and dark energy might have been passed on to either of you. And that it might affect you in some way or another.”“Wait a second.”I said as I tried to process the information.“So, you mean that our wolves would be bad or that we might awaken a devil or I don’t know we might start killing people?”I was horrified by either of the thoughts.“No, that is not what we fear.” Dad tried to calm us down as he got down on his knees and sat befo
DacreI completed his thought and Silas nodded his head.But why attack our people when they did nothing? We are neither demon worshippers nor our people in any way involved in the missions.“Where was Alpha Thaddeus again? He had gone to some meeting with an alpha here in the south, right?”Silas asked and I decided to give my father a call. I very rarely gave him a call and those times were only for work. But this incident had to be put on his ears. Hence, I gave him a call and to my horror, I felt the ring nearby.That could not be. My father was with a group of close confidants and he was traveling somewhere south.As we both ran in the direction of the sound, we saw that it was coming from the guesthouse which we had built to let esteemed guests stay comfortably at the night.Silas and I exchanged a look and we slowly approached the guesthouse. As we climbed the small flight of stairs, I felt that something was off.I gave a call again but I heard a recording saying that the pho
I said, casting a sideway glance at dad. He had planned a big bash for us and our Awakening that I was not sure if was going to happen at all.Talia who had been silent all this time asked,“So does that mean I won't find my prince charming today?”Uncle Garold chuckled as he answered, “What is the rush? You can just see all handsome men throw themselves at your feet while you casually turn them down.”“Sounds fun” Talia replied and the tension in the room dispersed. We all walked away from the office as Talia dragged me to our room to get ready.“Now where is that dress you bought for yourself?”She asked as she rummaged through our bags and found the dress she was looking for.“Oh what a beauty.”Talia said as she took the dress in her hand.“You saw me wear that in the store”I rolled my eyes but she only shooed me away.“Go wash your face and let us get ready.”I reluctantly went and turned on the water. I let the cool water splash on my skin and attempted to drown the discussion
ClarissaMy heart skipped a beat when I saw a handsome young man walk in through the crowd.He was wearing a black tux and his eyes were glued to me.For a second, it felt as if there was nobody in this world, except him and I.All the other voices, sounds, and exciting chattering died down as his eyes locked on me. He was walking in and the crowd automatically stepped aside to give way to him.His eyes raked me, devoured me and I tried not to shiver. He was looking at me with his eyes on fire as if he was going to eat me then and there.They held so much passion and so much desire that I thought I should run away and disappear from the face of the earth. The temperature seemed to suddenly shoot up as I started to sweat.I saw the way his eyes roamed over me, lazying over the curves and stopping at my breasts and cleavage longer than necessary before his gaze started traveling up.It settled on my lips and he met my eyes just for a fleeting second before dipping back to my lips.I fel
ClarissaI turned around and saw Jake looking at us with a raised eyebrow.The boy who was holding my hand promptly let go of me as he tried to speak to me again.“So as I was saying, would you like to visit our pack sometime? We have a nice spot to hang out”I gave him an awkward smile and replied, “I am quite happy here, no thanks”He wanted to try talking to me again but Jake intervened.“If the girl wants to be left alone, I advise you to do that”Jake’s face was contorted in fury which I am not sure was directed at me or elsewhere.The boy stopped trying to talk to me and left as the girl tailed him, probably to complete whatever they had started.An awkward silence surrounded us so I tried to small talk.“You were not there at the cake cutting?”I asked and waited for him to reply. He was looking anywhere but at me.I felt that he would not even answer for a while but then he did.“I had to take patrol duty as we have a lot of guests. I did not want any rogue attacks while peopl