{ Georgie }This is the first time I've ever seen Cain like this. He looks... over it. Shut down. He looks bitter and broken, and I hate myself for making him feel like that. I don't know how to fix it. I don't want him to leave. "Cain," I try again, my voice broken now. I'm so distraught, I had forgotten about Asheron until he touches my arm from behind. I can't help but move away from his touch because I don’t want Cain to see him touching me and get even angrier, "Listen to me, please. Tell me if this is about the kiss or something else. Are you not feeling the bond anymore?" Cain looks at me with fire in his eyes, like he's offended I mentioned the bond. "Of course I fucking feel it. That's why I want to leave. Yes, I saw the kiss. I saw you two in your romantic bubble and I just realized that's how it's supposed to be. So that's it," he repeats and lifts his gaze to Ash, "Asheron, please take your mate and leave my room." Ash does that. He grabs me by the shoulders and mana
{ Georgette }Asheron doesn’t follow me to my room, and I don’t know if that’s good or bad. On one hand, I’m grateful because I can cry freely, but on the other hand, I want him here to make me feel better.Once again, Selfish Georgie is out and about. I wish I could stop being so fucking selfish, but I can’t control it. In my soul and in my heart, I feel like I should have both of them right here. That’s why I keep calling Cain, just to tell him that I need him here, even though I know I can’t tell him what he needs to hear: that I’m choosing him. I can only tell him the truth, that I’m selfish and I want to have him by my side for the rest of my days… I mean, for the rest of the month.But Cain never answers my calls or my texts. I don’t know how long I spend crying and calling him over and over again, but I fall asleep at some point. When I wake up the next day, I know my eyes are swollen and I don’t really want to get up to face reality, so I decide to stay in bed for longe
“Princess Georgie?” Josephine asks, opening the door to my room, “Are you okay? No one has been able to reach you all day. Flo called me because she’s worried about you.”I’m lying on my side facing the wall. I’m not crying anymore, but I can’t bring myself to turn around and talk to her or even give her a smile. I haven’t had the strength to get up since Asheron left. I’ve been here probably eight hours. “Georgie?” she asks again and closes the door before approaching. She kneels in front of me and gives me a concerned look, “What happened? I know they both left… did you make your decision?”Her words make me close my eyes and shake my head.“I did, I guess,” I answer in a whisper, my voice sounding hoarse and broken, “I chose neither of them… but I don’t think it even counts as me making a decision, they both left me on their own accord.”Jos furrows her brow and shakes her head. Seeing the confusion on her face makes my eyes start to sting again, but I can only shrug.“Asheron l
“Dad, can you go without me?” I whisper a second later, clasping my hands over my chest in a plea, “Please. Just go by yourself and tell them that I won’t marry either of them. I don’t want to risk seeing them so soon. I’ll fall apart right there.”My father closes his eyes for a moment and takes a deep breath. He hates when I try to avoid something just because it’s hard. “Georgette,” he growls, but I continue pleading with my eyes, “They’ll want to talk to you anyway. This isn’t as simple as you want to make it, love. Both Asheron and Cain lead a pack. And both packs want to be connected to us. This isn’t just about the love you all might feel; one of the packs will demand a marriage.”“They can’t force me,” I retort, frowning at him, “It is about love for me. It’s MY life. And I definitely can’t be with either of them without the other… even though it doesn’t matter because they don’t want me either. Please, at least for this ONE meeting, go without me. I’ll attend the next one.”
Boom. Boom. Boom.That’s all I can hear after that, my heart pounding against my ribcage, hard. I manage to say goodbye to the girls without making a scene or falling apart, but my mind is elsewhere when I return to Jos and I have to make small talk with Ferny while our coffees are ready.As soon as we leave the café, I tell Jos what I just heard. About Asheron looking for a new future wife.Those words sound so, so wrong. “What the hell is going on, Jos? Why is Elena trying to get him another woman so fast?” I ask, trying my hardest not to cry, “It’s only been eight days since we broke up.”“She hates you, remember?” She says, making me grimace. That’s true. In Elena’s mind, I disrespected her son’s memory. And now that he’s alive and I still ‘didn’t choose him,’ she must hate me even more.“But why the hell are they both out there spilling our business to everyone?” I mutter, completely irritated, “They’re both being jerks.”“They’re hurting, Princess,” she reminds me, but that ju
Dealing with my mother this past week has been a pain in the ass. I love her with all my soul, but she’s always suffocated me, and she’s suffocating me now more than ever. She’s out of control. When I returned to the palace, she was already waiting for me. Apparently, my father told her about my situation because he couldn’t bear to see her cry for my death if he knew I was alive. But even so, my mom almost had a breakdown when I appeared in front of her. She cried like never before and she hugged me for hours, thanking the Moon Goddess for answering her prayers. She’s still on house arrest, so I’ve had to deal with her all day, every day. I had to tell her what happened with Georgie and Cain. Her fury towards Georgie now is even bigger than before and that makes me uncomfortable because of course I don’t want my mom hating the most important person in my life. I want to tell her Georgie is not at fault here. She’s only dealing with the cards she was dealt… but then I remind my
I step back and I try my hardest not to snap at the girl who just gave me a kiss. I’m no longer the Alpha of this pack, but I’m still the prince and I have to be fucking respectful and nice. Always.So I force a smile as the girls giggle, but I keep walking away slowly until I can get away from them. The kiss was very innocent, but my wolf is still pissed and annoyed.I walk to the small bar and I make conversation with the guy behind it as he gives me shot after shot. I need to erase the feeling of another lips against mine. I need to stop feeling so guilty. I didn’t ask for the kiss, it came out of nowhere. I don’t even remember which girl gave it to me. Also, we’re no longer together. I’m single. “Are you sure you want more?” The guy behind the bar laughs. I nod. I can feel myself getting tipsy, but I’m still feeling like I cheated on my mate and I hate it. I want to stop thinking and feeling altogether. “Yes. Give me another,” I demand, making the guy laugh, but he pours me a
This was inevitable, but it took us a long time to get here. This is what we should’ve done since the very beginning, not that month long bullshit. I don’t knot what I was thinking, agreeing to something like that. “You look fucking stupid, by the way,” I say, looking at his buzzed head, his brown wavy hair is long gone, “Georgie is going to hate it.”“That’s why I did it,” he replies and comes back to me to punch me in the ribs unexpectedly. And harder than I thought, “Fuck her. And fuck you.”“No, fuck her and fuck YOU!” I repeat and I go for his leg to throw his balance and make him fall to the floor. In just a second. When I have him there, I sit on his waist to punch his face again. Once. Because when I see his nose start to bleed after the first blow and he’s groaning in pain, I stop.Fucking baby.“Hey, hey, hey!” Dean shouts, appearing by my side suddenly and lifting me off Cain’s body, “Stop this shit.”“I’m not e—“ before I know it, Justin sucker punches me in the stomach