(AHVI'S POINT OF VIEW)“You look gorgeous,” That's the first thing Miss Katherina says as soon as I arrive at the venue and gets out of the car as she waits for me outside the building.I'm wearing a red ankle length dress with a slit at the front that reaches my thigh and a pair of black heels. My hair is done neatly and my face is touched with makeup.I smile at the compliment. “Thank you, Miss Katherina, you look beautiful too,” She offers me a hand. “Ready?”I look at the massive building. Inside determines my future for the Olympics and how many sponsors I get. I look back at Miss Katherina and take her hand. “Let's party,” I voice and she escorts us inside the building.The inside is one hell of a luxury. The floors are shining and the ceiling is just as gleaming with beautiful chandeliers, there are few tables here and there and it's filled with people of different occupations. This is an event that comes every three years where every skater from all organizations in Chicago
(AHVI'S POINT OF VIEW)I've always hated being threatened. I glare at her. “That photo is taken without consent and I can sue you for that,”She laughs out loud. “Oh please, Ahvi. You can go ahead and sue me, between us, we both know who's going to lose our careers,” she stares at me mockingly and shakes her head in fake pity. “Tsk, tsk, tsk. Poor thing. Ten years of hard work is going down the drain,” I grip hard on the side of my dress. She's crazy and I know she's going to do everything to ruin me. “What do you want?”“Bingo!” She snaps her fingers in thrill, eyes glittering with a wicked hint. “It's easy. I want you to go out there and announce to everyone that you are nothing but a shameless whore who bangs her sponsors and stepbrother, how about that?” she stalks towards me, her jaw clenching. “I've hated you right from the day Miss Xenia introduced you to us. I saw the way she looked at you like a rare gem, I saw the way everyone looked at you, you stole the spotlight from me
(RAVEN'S POINT OF VIEW)I walk into the kitchen to find Damien cooking over the oven with his back turned to me. I lean against the door wall and shamelessly scan my eyes over him.He's dressed in a pair of gray lounge pants and a henley shirt with the sleeves folded up to his elbows. He looked homely and comfy and he looks mine—a wide grins occupies my lips as the thought crosses my mind.“I know you're standing there,” The suddenness of his voice makes me jerk in a bit startle and I push myself off the kitchen wall and slowly approach him and he turns to me. “Hi,” I shyly tucks a strand of hair behind my ear. “Hi,” he says back with a smile, then passes me to the kitchen aisle where different types of Ingredients are laid.“What are you making?” I stand beside him as he takes a place of one pound large bowl of shrimp, peeled and deveined.“Shrimp and vegetable skewers with peanut sauce. The kids are coming over,” The kids, he meant Zach, Dean, Henry and Scar, they are barely the
(RAVEN'S POINT OF VIEW)Graduation is near and I am jumping in excitement knowing I'm finally going to leave that hell hole called school, gosh its like going through torture over and over again. I hate it.“Slow down, princess,” Damien says, trying to keep up with my pace as I drag along in a shopping mall. It took a lot of pleading for him to escort me. I have a hand hooked under his arm like a claim—he looks good like this—I don't like the glances he's getting. “Ahvi is already there, I don't want to keep her waiting for long and I get to introduce you two,” I says.“I believe I've met your friend before. There's no need for further introductions,”I roll my eyes. “You were a doctor treating your patient and now you are my boyfriend, that doesn't count.” We take the unit to the top floor of the shopping mall. Ahvi and I had booked a private suite to try on as many dresses as we could. Reaching there, there's a sales person standing at the door.“Miss Raven, you are finally here
(RAVEN'S POINT OF VIEW)I sigh for the nth time from where I sits on the couch of the livingroom, my mom sitting across me, browsing through her phone while stealing glances at me anytime a sigh leaves me and once again, I exhales a enervate and fagged sigh and that does for it for her as she slams her phone down on the space beside her and shoots me a glare. “Can you stop it, I'm trying to concentrate here! If you are so fucking bored, go race or something. Don't you have exams, go study. Don't distract me!” She snarls and I roll my eyes.I wish I could go racing or something but I can't. The stadium is being renovated and the guys are with their jobs, I can't be a nuisance and then, I haven't seen Damien in a week—I freaking miss him and I've had enough studying, Ahvi is probably with Vance so that leaves me here, feeling bored out of my mind. I suppress a grunt of anguish.Just then, Dad comes down the stairs in a suit. Instantly, a switch goes on in my head and I reach him as soo
(RAVEN'S POINT OF VIEW)You know there's a saying—if you want something to happen, you make it happen yourself and that's what I had in mind as I amble out of the elevator to the top floor of Damien's company building two days later. I beam as I stroll towards his office, waving at his secretary behind her desk who looks like she wants to say something but thinks otherwise and shuts her mouth; she better.God! I miss Damien! I can feel my skin crawl with each passing day without seeing him or getting his kisses. It's like I live for those kisses and I'm here to get some.Getting to the door, I find it slightly open but it's the voice coming from the other side that makes me pause and listen.“When are you going to settle down? It's high time someone else bare your name and share your burdens,” It's a woman's voice and her words make me scowl. Why does everyone want him to settle down so badly? “You don't have much time you know,” she continued, making me listen closely.“Miss Raven, I
(RAVEN'S POINT OF VIEW)I sit on the sofa while Damien's so-called fiance made herself comfortable on the couch in front of me, her legs crossed and arms spread like she owned the place.Nothing has been said since she introduced herself; talking will only get me irked, so I decided to keep my thoughts to myself and just wait for Damien who is probably on his way home.“Damien can afford something much more luxurious than this,” she tsks, then shakes her head as she scans the living room with her eyes. “But it's going to be fine now that I'm here, I'm going to change everything to my liking, we can get a house instead, the kids can't play around here you know, I'm planning on having more than five, sex with Damien is going to be great,” she throws her head back as if in ecstasy.She wishes! The audacity of this old bitch!I keep the thoughts to myself and time ticks by.Twenty torturous minutes passed, Damein is finally pushing his way in through the door. I get up but she's faster as
(RAVEN'S POINT OF VIEW)“So, what are you planning to do after graduation?” Ahvi leans forward with her forearms on the table of the coffee shop we are in.I shrug, taking a sip of my ice Americano. “I don't know yet but I'm going to keep racing till I'm 27, then find a job and settles down at 30 or 35,”Ahvi sports a thoughtful look. “Won't Damein be forty six or fifty one by then?” she says, then laughs at her untold joke.“Haha, very funny but I don't care if he's sixty by the time I'm ready to tie the knot. I'll still going to marry him,”“You are so whipped, aren't you?”“Just like you are for Vance's dick,” I retort and a blush instantly occupied her face. She clears her throat and sits properly. “I have something to tell you.” Her face has gone from playful to serious. “Werewolves exist, does that mean other creatures like witches also exist?”Where is that question coming from? I take a quick look at the coffee shop to find everyone minding their business. “Likely,” I shrug.