Lucy checked her reflection in the mirror one more time and nodded in satisfaction as she spritzed her pulse points with her favorite perfume.“Was it really necessary to go to all this effort?” Maia sniggered.“Abso-fucking-lutely,” Lucy grinned as she reached for the crimson lipstick, neatened the edges on her mouth and popped it into her clutch bag.“I thought you might say that.” Maia retorted matter of factly, “So, it’s a definite yes with Theo then?”Lucy frowned as she fluffed her hair up and slipped her shoes on, trying to ignore the butterflies that had suddenly appeared in her stomach as she waited for Theo to arrive.“We’ll see. I mean, I definitely like him, which is weird because I don’t remember our feelings ever progressing to this stage, he was like my brother more than anything.”“Well, perhaps it really is the Goddess’s way of giving us another option,” Maia mused, before her eyes twinkled with a mischievous light, “Besides, I can almost guarantee that Noah is going
Lucy glowered furiously at Noah after he had spoken and Maia’s anger at his audacity only infuriated her further.“Does this fucker not ever take a hint?! How dare he!?” she raged inside her head, “Let me out! Let us shift and I’ll put him in his bastard place!”“There’s nothing more going on between us than there always has been. We’ve been friends since childhood, why the fuck are you so paranoid?” Theo snapped as Noah’s whirling irises turned to focus on him.“I shouldn’t need to talk to you about this again Theo. I warned you last time, and I’m warning you now, Lucy is off limits, and if you had any respect for me as your Alpha…”“You’re not my fucking Alpha, Noah, and you never will be,” Theo spat, “You’ve always had an overinflated sense of self-importance and honestly, I’m sick to death of hearing you talk this way. Lucy is her own person and she can make her own decisions.”Lucy watched Cassandra’s reactions closely as Theo and Noah bickered, and that look that she now recogni
Caspian and Lucy made their way through the throng of people and up the stairs, looking for somewhere that was unoccupied and out of the way to minimize the risk of Cassandra finding them and overhearing their conversation.They checked room after room on the third floor until finally, Lucy poked her head into a room and she turned to Caspian with excitement.“I think we should be ok in here, and as a plus point, there’s a bar, so we can grab a drink in here,” She grinned.They shut the door behind them, admiring the decor as they turned the lights on and took a seat at the bar.“This all feels very high class, you know,” Caspian laughed nervously.“Well, we’re high class people now then I guess, ” she grinned back.“Let me make you a drink.” Caspian offered, “I’m not much of a bartender but I did take a short course in mixology just to try to impress an ex-girlfriend.”“Did it impress her?”“Probably not enough, honestly…she’s an ex for a reason.” He grimaced as he moved behind the b
Cassandra had slipped away from Theo while he was busy chatting to a group of his classmates as he grabbed their drinks.She had explicitly told Theo to take Lucy upstairs somewhere quieter and to look for a room with a bar. Once he had her inside, she had told him that she would make sure that he had the opportunity to seduce her.He had resisted heavily at first, but reminding him of the position he was in with a few pictures of his sister and the men she had left her with was enough to convince him that if he didn’t go through with this, his sister would be on the receiving end of what she had planned for Lucy.Even when he had asked her how she planned to do that, she had refused to answer, just shrugging lightly and telling him that Lucy had a poor tolerance for alcohol and she would most likely come on to him and make it abundantly obvious that she wanted him.She smiled to herself as she pushed her way through the throng of people and up the stairs, stopping outside of the door
As the small group of them made their way up the stairs, Theo’s voice called out above the music towards Cassandra and she froze.She knew for a fact that he would try to think of a way to defend Lucy and her actions, but there really wasn’t any rational explanation that he could offer that would excuse her from the situation Cassandra had set up.She wondered whether or not it was a good idea for him to come with them, but perhaps this would be the push that he needed to finally turn away from that uppity little bitch.“Theo!” Cassandra waved, gesturing for him to head over.He and Noah exchanged scowls as he passed and Cassandra felt, rather than heard, the low rumbling in the air around them resulting from Noah’s warning growl.“Where did you all disappear off to? I turned around and you were gone. Then I tried to find Lucy and Caspian and I couldn't seem to find them anywhere,” Theo frowned.“Yeah, I tried to find them as well so I went looking for them in case they had gone somew
“I told you I wasn’t lying.” Cassandra murmured, turning her head in a perfect act of shame and devastation, “I’m so sorry that she did this to you.”Noah’s face was unreadable as he stared intently at the two figures on the couch but internally, his wolf was practically feral. He wanted to be let loose on the male that dared to lay next to his mate and no matter how Noah tried to explain that she and her wolf had rejected them, it just didn’t seem to sink in.Without bothering to look at Cassandra he stepped forward quietly, looking down at her half-naked body for a moment before shrugging his jacket off and laying it over her exposed skin.She murmured in her sleep and the way her brows scrunched together made his heart ache for her to be laid in his arms, not this male that she had just met. He narrowed his eyes at the man beside her and snorted softly.“I know you’re still awake, male, your breathing is not deep enough to be truly asleep.” He snarled quietly, “I can hear your hea
“Keep your eye on that fucktard,” Noah hissed to his entourage as two of them hastened to obey and stood watch next to his body.“The ambulance will be here in a few minutes Alpha.”“Good. We’ll wait outside for them,” “We can’t just leave her here,” Theo hissed as Noah strode towards the doorway.“I don’t intend to. I’ll take her downstairs. I would rather the rest of the shifters don't see her in this state so I’ll carry her out as if she’s simply had too much to drink. We can explain when they arrive.”“Oh my god! Lucy!” Cassandra wailed as she rushed to the doorway just as Noah passed through it and attempted to cling to his arm, but he shook her off.“You can get the fuck out of here too.”“Noah, please...I was just trying to help…”“Help?!” Noah snorted, “If this is helping I’d hate to see what the fuck you think causing problems is for people.”“I didn’t know she had a drug problem!” Cassandra whined as Noah froze on the spot and gritted his teeth, turning to her slowly with a
Noah and Theo sat in the private room Lucy had been transferred to in awkward silence. Noah had seen the way Theo looked at Lucy and despite his earlier apology, he still felt as though Theo felt more for Lucy than he was letting on. After all, he had seen that look of devotion before …it was the same way he looked at her whenever they were together.There had still been no news about Cassandra either, although he had reluctantly messaged her to ask her to come to the hospital. All three of them needed to talk seriously about just what the hell had been going on recently between them all.“When she’s recovered from whatever this is, I’ll make sure she gets home safely,” Theo said grimly as he sat at her bedside.“No, we’ll both take her home,” Noah replied with a scowl as Theo sighed and leaned back in his chair heavily.“Seriously?” He huffed, shaking his head in disbelief, “I think you’re the last person she wants close to her at the minute. Don’t you think that her feelings are go