I stare into her odd eyes. The other women that we had been paired with would have immediately averted their gaze, bowing to us. But Blue stares right back at me. Her arms folded across her breasts. Her chest rises and falls as she waits for me to say something.
“I prefer the way that suits look and it’s unlikely that I will need to shift.”
“You didn’t say they were comfortable?” She cocks an eyebrow at me. I was almost mad by how easily she was pushing my buttons.
“High quality ones are comfortable.” I mutter
“So you just want to remind everyone that you have money?”
Xander stifles another laugh. I was going to have to speak to him later, especially if he carries on like this.
“No. There is nothing wrong with wanting to take care of myself.” I mutter and she shrugs her shoulders, walking away. Her attitude had me annoyed and a little turned on. If she wasn’t so afraid of my touch, it would be a completely different scene right now and she would be screaming my name.
“I need a drink, do you want anything?” She shouts from the kitchen
“Do you have any coffee?” I mutter, already preparing myself for the long night ahead. I wanted to get as much information out of her as possible.
She comes back in with a tray of mugs and settles them down on the table. As she bends over, I could just make out the top of her cleavage. Oh how I couldn’t wait to explore every inch of her and learn the curves of her body. I didn't care if she was scarred, she was mine.
I don’t take my drink straight away, because as she drinks from her mug, her odd eyes peer at me over the top of it, like she was daring me to drink it.
“What did you put in it?” I ask, glancing back at the mug. It was too obvious by the way she was watching me.
“Coffee, like you asked.”
“What else?”
My brother rolls his eyes and picks up the mug. He sniffs it and smiles at me, taking a mouthful. Blue smiles, her eyes bright as Xander puts the mug back down.
“Wolfsbane.” He mutters, coughing a little and clearing his throat
“You tried to poison us?” I should not have been surprised. She already asked to be rejected and I had said no. Killing us would be her next option for getting out of our bond.
“That should have worked.” She mutters, getting to her feet, frowning.
“We are not wolves, Blue. But I have to give you credit for trying to kill us.” I muse
She seemed more surprised than shocked. “Wolfsbane doesn’t affect you? The stories always said it did.”
“Not all stories are true. It burns a little, that's about it.”
“What’s the phrase humans use?” Xander mutters, “Something about it going down the wrong hole. That’s pretty much what it's like for us.” He mutters, but I could see how bright and shining his eyes were. Just like me, he was impressed that Blue had tried something so brave as trying to poison us. Not a single person had tried to kill us like this.
“You don’t seem mad?” She watches us.
“I would have done the same thing if I were you.” I tell her. “Now where did you get the wolfsbane?”
“She grows it.” Xander mutters
“And you didn’t think to tell me?!” I turn on him. He had kept going on about Blue being a Rogue. But he didn’t think to mention to me that she was growing wolfsbane. Wolves don't grow wolfsbane.
“It doesn’t bother us so I didn’t think I needed to tell you.” He shrugs his shoulders at me.
“You are a wolf that grows wolfsbane?” I turn back to Blue. I had never heard of such a thing.
Blue nods her head at me.
“Why?”
She presses her pink lips into a thin line and just stares at me.
“Answer me!” I snap a little too forcefully.
She sits on the large ugly green chair opposite me. She folds one of her legs up in front of her and continues to watch me.
“Why aren’t you speaking?”
I watch as her eyes shift from me to Xander, but Xander looks at me and shrugs his shoulders. I wasn't going to let this drop until she told me the truth.
“I grow it for myself.” She finally admits.
“For yourself?” Wolfsbane was deadly to wolves like Blue. Why would she do something as stupid as that?
Her head bobs up and down
“What do you mean?” Xander looks at Blue too. I watch as he searches her face, hoping to find an answer.
“You asked me why I don’t shift. You never asked me what I do on the full moon, when our shift is forced on me.” She lets out a long sigh, “Every day I consume a little wolfsbane. Not enough to do any real damage, but enough to stop me shifting each month.”
She takes my coffee and drinks the remainder of it. She doesn’t even flinch.
“Blue….”
“It works for me.” She mutters back, “And you can’t change that. It is what I want.”
“Does the human know?” Xander asks and Blue nods her head.
“She lets you do that to yourself?” I ask.
“She was the one who suggested it. Until I could touch the wolfsbane flower, she would pick it and grind it for me. Now I can do it myself.”
“You’re not like other wolves.” I hear my brother mutter. When I look up, I see him smiling at her. The girl he wanted nothing to do with was suddenly becoming interesting to him. What was worse is that she was smiling back at him.
Blue sits there waiting for me to say something. But there was nothing. I couldn’t find the right words to express how I felt. All I could think about was what else she could be doing to herself.
“I think my brother is a little bit shocked by the information you have just declared.” I hear my brother mutter. “Does your Alpha know?”
“Only Bree and now you two.”
“What about pack runs?”
“I live here, I don’t need to take part. Plus I see Vita daily.” I watch as she shrugs her shoulders, unbothered
“You are trying to make us reject you.” I’m on my feet as I figure it all out.
“Did it work?” She stares at me again
“No.” I lean down next to her and she pushes herself back into the chair, trying to create distance between us. “You are only making me want you more.”
XanderI hated the way he was leaning over her, forcing his scent into her face. I knew Jaxon was just doing it to prove that she was his, trying to make her want him. Yet Blue didn’t belong to either of us, not yet.The news of her slowly poisoning herself was a shock to the system. I had never heard of a wolf doing that to themselves. Wolfsbane could do horrible things to a wolf, it never reacted the same way so you could never know what would happen to the wolf. Scars, burns, melting flesh, dissolving organs. I had seen a lot. Jaxon and I had also poisoned our fair share of wolves. But Blue, she was sitting here like she had never touched the stuff. I wondered if Jaxon was thinking the same as me.“How did you know to give yourself the right amount?”“Trial and error,” she mutters as my brother moves away from her.“Wolfsbane is deadly.” I mutter, thinking about the last wolf we had given it too. Blood had poured from their nose, eyes and ears as they begged for the pain to stop.“
BlueFuck! They did know!I feel Bree’s hand tighten around my arm. We have had this conversation multiple times. She knew that me being a Rogue wasn’t good.“Have you ever been in a pack?” Jaxon asks quietly. His blue eyes flickered between me and Xander. His eyes had a slight grey mist to mist to them. Xander’s too.“You don’t need to have a conversation in private.” I mutter. “You’ve figured it out. So reject me.”Jaxon presses his lips together. His nostrils flair just a little. Enough to show he was annoyed.“I am what I am!” I growl"You didn't answer my question. And don't spin some shit about Dark Crescent. I won't buy it."“How did you end up a Rogue?” Xander has his head tilted as he watches me “It wouldn’t have been killing the human, even if that is forbidden.”Jaxon scratches his chin and runs his hand through his neat blonde hair. He turns towards his brother “How the fuck were you right?” “I’ve already told you it doesn’t matter. But we have a choice to make now. Rejec
BlueI hated his touch. He thought he was doing the right thing by wrapping his arms around me, but I freeze, waiting for him to let go. He keeps telling me that I’m okay, but the longer he held me, the more I thought I would scream as the memory from that night comes flooding back.“Let go Jaxon.” I just about hear Xander over the throbbing beat of my heart.“She’s panicking. She’s holding her breath.”“She doesn’t like being touched.”“I’ve got her joggers.” Bree comes towards me. Her eyes rise upwards. “Let her go. She’s going to pass out else.”Jaxon’s arms release me and I stumble forward, righting myself.“Put these on and sit.”She hands me my black joggers and pulls a chair out for me as I try to calm my breathing. What the hell had happened?Bree and Jaxon watch me in silence. Xander had Vita pinned to a chair. “Thanks.” I mutter as I feel the jacket around me.“Are you okay now?” Those blue eyes stare into mine, searching for some kind of answer.“Why Vita? Why did you do th
XanderIf Blue had said no. We wouldn’t have left anyway. Jaxon had already said that he would find a way for us to stay with her for a few days. It was why we already had spare clothes and things in the car. Vita just gave us the perfect reason.Blue helps the human lock up as Jaxon and I wait out front. “Is there ever a time you don’t get your way?” I mutter sarcastically as I lean against the wall.“Fate, brother. You have to admit that if it wasn’t for Vita, we would be spending time fighting to make her our mate. At least now, she has agreed to this deal.”“Look, don’t get me wrong. I am curious about her, but at the end of the day, she is still a Rogue and we can’t change that.”He cocks an eyebrow at me “Why can’t we?”“Rogues are Rogues for a reason, Jaxon. You know that as well as I do.”“What if the reason she is a Rogue isn’t because of something she did?” He challenges me.“What?”“Her parents. Both of them would have been wolves, right?”“Well yeah, but what’s that got t
JaxonRunning into the hallway, I find Bree sat back against the wall crying. Xander was trying to hold Blue’s shaking body still as he muttered under his breath.“What’s happening to her?” But it’s only as I move closer that I see the foam in her mouth. “Wolfsbane.”I have seen this time and time again. It’s what eventually happened when a wolf had been dosed with two much of the poison.“What do we do?” Xander shouts at me. His blue eyes wide in fear“I don’t know.”“Do something!” Bree cries“There is no reversal for this. How did she take so much?” We had been with her the entire time.“The water, it’s in the filtered water.” She cries at meRunning to the kitchen, I grab the near empty jug from the side and take it back to Bree as Blue continues to convulse.“How full was it?” Her eyes are wide as she stares at the jug. “Bree, how full was it?”“Full” she muttersBlue had drank nearly two litres of the water/wolfsbane mix“Xander. There’s nothing we can do.”“We have to do some
Xander“Are you certain? Midnight?” I ask Bree again“Yes, but it’s…”“It’s what?” “She doesn’t like talking about it. The other kids in school used to bully her over it. Making stupid comments about her being a vampire or if she howled at the moon.”“I assume they didn’t know what she is?” Jaxon mutters.“No, only me. But that was way before she could shift anyway.” Bree drops her eyes to Blue. “She will hate me for telling you this.”“Not at all.” I tell her, but she didn’t believe me and I didn’t blame her.“Ava Midnight.” My brother’s voice is low as he stands over her. “How many other siblings does she have?”“Just Antony.” Bree replies.“Male Alpha children are born as twins and triplets.” He glances to Bree“I swear, I’m not lying about this. It’s just Antony.”“And you are certain you don’t know where he is?” He challenges her.“I haven’t seen him. I only know that Blue talks to him now and again. He does not approve of Blue working in the club.” She sighs, “I will tell you
Blue“Huh?” The word came out in a croak. My throat felt like fire, my lungs were tight as I tried to breathe, but did he just call me Ava?“That’s your name, right? Ava Midnight?”I just stare at him, confused as he came into focus. Xander with his chaotic mess of blonde hair leans over me.“Xander?” I splutter his name out, trying to make sense of everything. “Am I dead?” I mutter again. I had to be, I had consumed enough wolfsbane to kill any wolf.I hear a snort from the otherside of the room and Xander flips his head in the direction of the noise, frowning.He smiles at me “No, nearly died, but thankfully, you have been poisoning yourself for that long, your body has been able to fight it.”“I think her head is a bit messed up.” Jaxon appears in front of me. “She’s asked you the same questions three times now.I blink a few more times, trying to gather my thoughts. “Bree?”“See.” Jaxon murmurs. “Ava, we need answers.”“Not now!” Xander snaps at him. “Give her a break, she's been
JaxonBlue was starting to drive me nuts. I could barely think straight when I was around her. Every word, every refusal, her denial, it was all grinding on my last nerve and yet I knew that I needed her. I wanted her. I was desperate to have her.Sitting in the car for a little while, my phone starts ringing.“Cece?” I mutter into the phone as I pick it up. She was the only one who rang me. She was always paranoid that someone would be listening in to our private mind link conversations. I hadn’t had the heart to tell her that the phone would be much worse.“Jaxon, where are you?” “I told you, we are tracking our mate.”“You’ve found her haven’t you! It’s why you and Xander have hardly been home.”“Yes. We found her.”“Well, what is she like? Are you going to accept this one? When are we going to meet her?”“You can’t say anything to father.”The line goes quiet. “She’s not a Lycan is she?”My pause confirms her suspicions. “Please tell me that you are not mated to a human.”“Not a