After refilling the water bottle that she kept in her bag, and throwing a couple of snack bars in for after training, Lucy locked her apartment back up and headed over to the gym. It wasn’t too far from where she had emerged in the lake only a day prior and the thought of her abrupt rebirth and the circumstances surrounding it still gave her shivers.She changed quickly in the changing room, pulling her leggings and sports bra on quickly, followed by a large, oversized white t-shirt pulled over her head. She grimaced as Noah’s scent suddenly surrounded her and she remembered a little too late that he had always insisted that she use his shirts during gym.He hated the fact that the unmated males frequently took their places on the machines or on the benches around the room whenever the female gym sessions were scheduled. Lucy had tried to explain that the gym sessions were often shared by both males and females, but they usually kept to the opposite sides of the gyms, but Noah had arg
Lucy threw Theo a quick text message as soon as she had showered and only seconds later her phone pinged with a message alert.‘I’m done for today. Meet me at the coffee shop when you’re finished at the Gym, I’ll grab you some food.’Lucy grinned to herself and finished changing into her clean clothes as quickly as she could, stuffing her kit back into her bag haphazardly before sprinting for the door.“I really hope he’s found something that we can use,” Maia murmured as Lucy slowed her pace so as not to draw attention to themselves.The last thing she wanted was for Cassandra or Noah to see her in a hurry and arouse their suspicions.As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw Theo waiting for her outside the shop with a bag clutched tightly in one hand as he waved at her with the other and began to make his way over to her.“Hey. Do you want to go somewhere a little less…public?” Theo asked as he pulled her into a quick hug.“You don’t want to eat here?” Lucy asked with a frown.
Theo and Lucy headed back to their own apartments to drop their things off after they had finished at the riverside and arranged to meet again just before midnight.As soon as she was home, Lucy busied herself with organizing her notes and her planner and readied her school bag for the next day so that she wouldn’t be rushing around in the morning.Before she knew it, it was almost time to head out and meet Theo.“You should probably change into something darker if you don’t want to be noticed. It’s almost midnight,” Maia suggested.Lucy nodded and changed quickly, throwing a short text to Theo as she pulled her leggings up and slipped her shoes on.By the time she arrived at the park close to the school's administration center, Theo was already there and dressed similarly to Lucy. He handed her a plain black baseball hat and a black face cover with a smirk playing at the corners of his mouth.“You better put these on, just in case they have cameras up in there. It would be better if
Theo frowned down at her, trying desperately to keep his gaze from lowering to her lips and mentally kicked himself.“Why would Cassy be here?” He whispered.I don’t fucking know, but she’s with the damn security guard!" Lucy whispered urgently. "We can't let them catch us."“What the fuck is she doing with him?” He frowned, struggling to wrap his head around the situation. Of everyone that might have caught them in the act, Cassandra had not figured too high on his list.Lucy moved slightly to peer through the blinds as unobtrusively as she could, careful not to cause too much movement in case it drew their attention but the scene that unfolded before her eyes made her realize that she hadn’t needed to worry too much.Cassandra was bent over the desk, her shoulders over the edge with her breasts hanging freely as the security guard thrust his cock in and out of her mouth, one hand holding her in place as he forced himself down her throat and the other alternating between slapping her
“Did you intend to invite Theo as your plus one for the party or was that a spark of inspired genius on your part thanks to the forced proximity in the storage cupboard?” Maia asked dryly as Lucy shut the door to her apartment behind her.“It just sort of happened,” Lucy sighed as she kicked her shoes off and made her way over to her bed, throwing herself down with a relieved sigh, “Maybe it was because we got in and out without being discovered…”“If it wasn’t for Theo we probably would have been discovered,” Maia grumbled, “You know, we should really focus on training these skills, who knows when they might come in handy again because let’s face it, we don’t know if we’ll be able to prevent Theo’s disappearance.”Lucy grimaced as she reached for the files she had thrown beside her.“Don’t be such a pessimist, Maia. I have faith in us. If we can change our fate, there's no reason we can’t change his too…whatever happened to him.”Maia grumbled in response and curled herself away in t
Despite the careful inquiries that Lucy made during the week regarding the security guard she had seen with Cassandra, she didn’t find out anything meaningful so, for now at least, she decided to let it rest.For the rest of the week, she spent her spare time carefully planning her outfit for the party that she had received an invite for, and doing a little more digging for information about the hosts.It was a hot topic on campus right now anyway so finding things out wasn’t too difficult. All Lucy had to do was slide into a seat at the cafe close to where some of the local sorority girls were gossiping happily, and eavesdrop on their conversation whilst pretending to be utterly engrossed in the book she was reading.As usual, Theo made sure that he plied her with more than enough food while she was there, despite her protests.“So, did you find out anything interesting from the resident tabloids?” Theo smirked, sidling over to where Lucy sat as soon as the girls had paid their tab a
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