"How about you give me your number and I can show you around sometime? You might need it to survive him. I'm a hell of a way to blow off some steam...day or night." He collected her phone before she had the chance to consent, talking away on her screen. "Sure." She spoke politely as I nearly snappe
"Lydia is leaving because she thinks I don't know she spends most of the company time shopping online, losing us money and clients. Anything she's told you is to save her own ass." I took a step even closer. "I do not fraternize with anyone I work with. Never have." I couldn't speak the second part
"Is this the part where you find some excuse to fire me?" She asked with a sigh. "No." I cleared my throat, rebuttoning the jacket of my suit, before offering her the reason I was at a distance today more than usual. "Is this to some storage locker where you keep all your really important files
Elodie's POV "Miss Carson..." The detective began, gauging my reaction from the second he entered the room. Despite the fact it was rather spacious with only the metal table and matching chairs at its center, it was still suffocating. Even if I was innocent, I felt knowing the details of Grey's lif
"I don't like this-" "Consider it a write-off for the convenience it is to have you close to the office." He used the key as I hesitated, pushing it open to reveal a modest apartment still too large for only me. A quick walkthrough showed three bedrooms and two bathrooms, a spacious living room, an
"I should want to turn you in or run to the farthest corner of this planet and instead all I can think about...is anything else. And before you try making me feel crazy or get arrogant about it, I know it's because of what you are not who. I don't know you well enough to actually like anything about
Grey's POV There wasn't a second of the night that my focus wasn't somewhere on her. By the time she closed the curtains soon after I left, I kept my attention to that pulse that acted as a monitor. I could hear its small influx as she continued to clean while hearing the mutterings she made muffle
Elodie's POV I fixated on the shadow hovering over me, more angered than frightened that Grey was right. But I didn't even have him to call to. Instead, I used a scream to try and hope one of my new neighbors would call for help. In the attempt, I was only pinned to the bed by a sharp talon of some
Grey's POV “I had this entire plan to go to dinner and then the boardwalk. I’d even rehearsed what to say at least a thousand times today…But I realized that when you’ve lived through what we have, the promises were already there. To me, a ring a no ring, yes or a no, my heart is and always will be
Elodie's POV SIX MONTHS LATER I'd already been waiting three hours after his meeting and my patience was too thin to test. He'd been acting shifty all day, almost as if he was hiding something. In fact, I knew he had been with the way he shuffled away from me whenever I tried to look at the screen
"I swear to God if I survive this I am going to become a demanding girlfriend." I grinned at the title she gave herself that I loved hearing, even in anger. Maybe even more so. "I will do everything with a smile. Now please, baby, you have to go." She sighed before standing. Leaning over me with a
Grey's POV I wasn't lying when I told her it was a risk. Not only to dance with death but in the return. Knowing if I were to wake as a human that it would be without the strength needed to protect her from the elements now out of my control, I felt more vulnerable than being formerly encaged in si
"It was a risk, but I had a feeling it would pay off to bet on you.""What are talking about?""Kinsey explained how she was able to become a human after I killed her the first time. Tied to Aslan's line, he gave his life as Alden had done for you. Since you were the one to kill me...I was able to c
Elodie's POVI never wanted to be one of those girls dependent on anyone. But losing someone like Grey Alluna was as if the sky no longer held stars, the gravity was purposeful but hollow in my heart and my head, and the oxygen I was forced to take was more painful than needed. I took mindless step
"Now, I'm giving you your punishment." I came down on her as I had done over a decade ago, teeth sinking into her neck, as she whimpered beneath me. When she would awaken again, it would be in a transition once again. Born a wolf, she never had to feel that painful shift between human and beast, the
Grey's POV It wasn't the abrupt silence of the crowd or the taste of the blood fading from my tongue that returned me to my humanity. It wasn't even the pull of her pleas dragging that part of me to the surface in a painful lurch. It was the sound of her heart accepting death without regret. The wa
"You smell so sweet." His voice had even changed. Where a smokiness existed behind some words now came a thick brutality. It was almost demonic. "How I've never fed on you before is a wonder I won't force myself to take for much longer. But I like a chase..." He released me with my broken hand and