Ollie really did have a death wish.
Standing in front of a beast and degrading his species was asking for a pummeling until she was 6 feet under. His fangs glinted in her face. She was so close she could see the reflection of the sun on the sharply curved edges. They would always elicit a coil of nerve in her throat. It sent a strangle tingle to her nape. His chest brushed hers slightly and she swore she saw certain death in his eyes but she couldn't back off now. The damage had been done. Her hotheadedness could be blamed but no. Something about this wolf was agonising her internally and she only met him once. He made her gut turn with just his glazing eyes. She felt compelled by something unknown. Maybe, it was the fear she felt from being in his presence, the oppression she felt under his scrutiny. She didn't like it. She really hated it.
Ivailo's strangled intake of breath brushed ove
Ollie moved her eyes down to the ground with difficulty. No matter how annoying the man was, he commanded her attention effortlessly. Her gaze had been glued to Ivailo's back unknowingly while he walked up the stairs slowly,step by step. His hands had been clenched into tight fists, a common activity around her now it seemed. She didn't know why she was staring at his flexing back muscles like they were the holy grail.Ripped men weren't her type, have never been,in fact, she found their overbearing body structure daunting. Ivailo always looked like the type of man that would mould a bear in a pretzel andhe probably haswith those daunting bulging arms. She had felt his hands around her ankles before. They were eerily rough on her skin,sizzling, and had shot fear up her spine because he knew he could just snap it in two with one move. She arched her eyebrows at her scary thoughts and turned back in h
Ivailo held the sides of the counter tightly in his hands. He pressed his palm against the surface as hard as he could to steady himself. The air in the kitchen swirled with a scent that he couldn't stand. It prickled his nerves and made every cell in his body quiver. His mind wasn't calm, hasn't been calm from the moment she showed up at his door with this look on her face that couldn't be described with anything better but fear, masked but unfiltered fear. He could smell it on her, taste it on his tongue like it was nicotine within minutes. His wolf had tracked in his head for a second, sniffing as if he breathed in delectable prey before reality slapped him in the face. It had gripped him harder than he would like to admit. Ivailo had forgotten about the deal that darn crazy she-wolf made with the human government, about integration, as if that made any goddamn sense. He was too busy chasing diapers
The steering wheel under her hands felt rough and wet. She knew it was just the sweat being produced from her hands by the heat of the forest filtering through the car windows. In spite of that obvious natural reason, she was convinced it was the notion of death that was causing her wet perspiration. Every second she spent in that bastard's presence always made her like this, weak when she was anything but.Ollie had spent the next 3 hours talking to Lilac, even visiting her room which was...eccentric to say the least. Ollie really had no other word to describe Werewolves butedgy.It was nothing like what a teenager's room should have looked like but yet once again, Ollie had been stunned into silence. Lilac had been nonchalant while introducing her to th
Standing in front of a white beautiful designed door in the middle of the woods wasn't how Ollie thought she would start a Monday in her mundane life. It wasn't that bizarre of a thing even if she thought she would never see such a day. In fact,Ollie didn't even know what she wanted in her life. Someone was in control of that wheel and it wasn't her. She was also never good at starting something new. Her palms always got clammy and her chest always felt like a drum that was going to beat out of its socket. She really should have prepped herself more for this because, Werewolves. An unexpected addition she never thought would ever land in her sorry excuse of a reality. Ollie wanted to turn around and walk back to the bus or h
Ollie should have been offended. She wasn't considered weak, well, amonghumansbut her mouth refused to move. Her lips were trembling and she slammed her eyes shut when he pushed his nose onto her cheek and smelled. She didn't know what he was doing.She didn't want to know what he was doing.She was just praying in her frightened heart that he wasn't contemplating cooking her for stew tonight. After what felt like a millennium, she felt the hand leave her chin and suddenly the pressure that was heavy in the atmosphere lifted. Air filtered into her lungs and she found herself sucking it in rapidly through her mouth. She moved her trembling hands to her chest. "They could have at least sent one who didn't look so frail," Ollie shifted her eyes t
The kids weren't awake even an hour after she arrived. She had been seated on the small couch next to the wall and waited,alone. Ivailo didn't give her so much of a glance when he left her there to her own devices and went upstairs. She was grateful that he left her alone though. His presence was too much to handle. She hadn't gotten used to such pressure yet. His authoritative demeanour didn't sit right with her. It made her skin crawl and she couldn't help closing up in front of him. He made her feel restless, like a secretary at the mercy of her boss's tyranny. Ollie would never get used to it.She didn't want to get used to it.She had started looking over the files for some minutes now, to distract and remind herself of the children's names. She scanned them for the hundredth time. "Edil, Lilac and Nile Bridge," She muttered underneath her breath as she skipped through each individual slowly. The boys were twins and the girl was the oldest of the
The squeaking of the stairs from above sliced Lilac's and Ollie's conversation in half. The atmosphere in the room tensed seizing Ollie's thoughts with it.Just his presence made her feel like a fish out of water.Her nerves had started to settle around Lilac but now that wasshotthe moment he stepped into the room. There was no explanation for the way her body reacted to his presence, maybe,it was how he looked at herlike she was prey, like he could circle her knowing she could run with all her might but still wouldn't be able to escape, like a rabbit caught in a wolf trap. His shining yellow eyes reflected her thoughts. Ivailo stared down from his position while holding two children in each of his arms. They looked asleep and like small cream puffs on his large chest. A drastic contrast to the animalistic hostility rolling off him in waves. One h
Ollie didn't even know why she wanted to know what he thought of her. This must have been affecting her brain more than she thought. She wasn't one to think of her looks as inferior or anything someone would have on their mind but Ivailostared at her like she was a rare object.It was the scrutiny in his gaze that irked her and she didn't like it.She didn't like it one bit. It crawled under her skin like ants. She couldn't help moving her eyes away in discomfort. Why did he have to make this so awkward?"The humans shot his mother with silver poison. It's a bullet you savages developed, to subdue us," He answered. His eyes left her to move to the sleeping child next to his thigh. She could see the grievance in his expression with how tight his eyebrows were drawn. Ollie's mouth went dry at the statement.Tha