“It’s your birthday this weekend,” Xander said as he kissed down my neck, his hand on my stomach. I shivered as he drew circles on my bare stomach.“Y – yeah,” I sighed.I shared the same birthday with my father and he had not stopped begging me to come home to celebrate. “You should clear your schedule for the weekend,” Xander said, his hand moving up, his face still in my neck.“O – Oh.” I shivered as he nibbled on my skin, his fingers circling my nipples. “You should have told me earlier because I already – already planned to go home.”He pulled away so abruptly, I felt like I’d been tossed from a mountaintop. I wanted to weep as he pulled away.“You’re going home?” He asked, almost pouting.Even that small gesture made my stomach tighten. I wrapped my hands around his neck and pulled him into a kiss. Like a viper waiting to strike, he immediately deepened the kiss. He kissed me hard and I had to swallow back a moan.It was a lot. Holding back was a lot but I didn’t know how to le
I wanted to die a hundred and one times. When my gaze met my mother’s, I wanted to die faster.“Shit.”Xander yanked my clothes down since I’d been frozen in time, waiting for the ground to open up and swallow me. When he put me down, I almost fell so he had to grab me and hold onto me.The people gathered around stood with dazed expressions on their faces with my mother in the middle holding a cake and my grandparents holding a happy birthday banner. Even the Alpha was present with a few other older pack members.There was a chance the whole room saw my boobs. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole but the ground remained firm underneath me.“Ahem,” Xander was the first to break the silence. “Hey guys,” he greeted.It was so awkward that I could not stop myself from pinching his side.“Um, hello.” It was my grandmother who spoke first, her face still devoid of colour.“Xander, quick, come here!” My mother shouted. “Quick!”“Oh - okay.” With the urgency in her voice, he m
“Who are you?”My eyes blinked open in a familiar yet unfamiliar place. It was a room I had never been in before but it felt as if I had been here a hundred times. I must be dreaming.“Who are you?” The voice that woke me asked again so I looked around the familiar-unfamiliar room to find the owner but there was no one with me in the luxuriously decorated room.Also, the voice seemed to come from my head, making me panic.Is this a dream or did I die? Did this room with white walls decorated with abstract paintings, white sheets and a cloud-like bed represent heaven? Did my surgeon fail? The room was unlike the operating room which was the last place I remembered seeing so it was either a dream or the afterlife.“This is not the afterlife and what do you mean by operating room?” The same voice that woke me up asked. It was a beautiful voice that filled my head but the way it echoed like the voice of my subconscious freaked me out.Really, I was in a strange dream. “Who the hell are
It was a dream but when I woke up after seeing that beastly creature, I was still in the dream. This dream had become a nightmare and I wanted out as soon as possible but why did I open my eyes in this white room!? Why was I still in the soft cotton candy bed rather than my hard hospital bed?“Who are you?” The wolf voice in my head asked like a broken record. There was no emotion in the wolf’s tone but I felt its tiredness. Why could I feel what it did not mention? “It is because we are connected. We are one – or we are supposed to be. You are not supposed to be in this body. What did you do with Selene and who are you?”“I – I am Jane,” I said. “Who is Selene? What sort of dream is this?”“This is not a dream. What’s wrong with you? Why did you react like that to your father as if you have never seen a wolf before?” The wolf continued to grill me.“I haven’t,” I responded. “I only see wolves on television and a wolf that belongs in a horror movie, not my dream.”“I know you are not
“All of you –“ I pointed my new fingers at the people in front of me – “Stay – stay away from me!”“Princess –“ Selene’s father spoke in a tone filled with so much anguish, you would think he was the one who just witnessed their death.“Oh god,” I found myself choking up, tears streaming down my face.Was I really dead? I had fought a long and hard fight. Even though I knew I could not live long or live like my peers, I still fought for the life I had. Even when breathing became a struggle, I did not want to die but the more I thought of it – the more I tried to wrap my head around the fact that I had died – it was too much and I ended up choking on my breath.“You are fine,” Selene’s mother said and though I pointed a threatening finger at all the people gathered in the room, warning them not to come closer, she came closer.“I said – I said to stay away.”Rather than staying away, she sat on the bed beside me and pulled me into a hug. I froze. “It’s okay, mama is here,” she hugged
I was right to avoid the Alpha and anything that concerned him. The life I had was too precious to give up for anything.“Here, have some more meat,” my grandmother took food off her plate and put it in mine. My plate was heaped past the point I could handle but tears filled my eyes at such a loving gesture.Not only did I have parents, I also had grandparents! Check that out! My father’s parents heard that I had been unwell so they came the next morning to see me. My grandfather came lugging several bags of designer clothes and my grandmother baked my favorite pie. It was a blessed life.“My baby, are you hurt?” Tears filled my eyes just from all the love I was experiencing so right there in the dining room with my new family, I burst into tears. My grandparents both rushed to get out their handkerchiefs to wipe my tears. How could a person loved this much be a villain!?“I – I love you guys!” I exclaimed.The entire room went silent. Even Ethan who had been ignoring me as he stuffed
When I opened my eyes the next morning, I was in an unfamiliar space and my head hurt. Once my eyes opened, memories of the previous night flooded into my head, making it hurt worse. I became a werewolf so why did I have a headache?A grunt came from beside me and I turned to see a man in bed with me. My eyes widened, my mouth fell open and a scream let loose.“Oh, my god!” I screamed, scrambling out of bed. My feet got tangled in the sheets and I ended up falling headfirst into the ground, slamming my nose.It was bad but it got worse when I realized I was naked. Then my world flipped on its axis when a confused face peered at me from atop the bed. Dark eyes and tousled black hair, a high bridge nose and red lips. They filled my vision and with time, the confusion in the eyes cleared, morphing into irritation and then anger.If I was not convinced I was in a book before, then I was now. This man with his finely chiseled jaw and flawless skin could only be fictional. There was no one
Now that everything was settled, I had to find my way home but how? As I exited Xander’s room, I realized the pack house was not familiar to me, meaning the original Selene was not very familiar with the place.‘Grace,’ I whispered in my head for my wolf. ‘Grace!’ I exclaimed but there was no response. I groaned in annoyance, wondering what happened to the wolf.Thankfully, I found an elevator when I walked away from the room door. It was empty when I got in but two girls joined me on the next floor.“Good morning,” I greeted them as they kept sneaking glances at me.“Ah – G – good morning!” They chorused and then huddled away from me like I was an evil witch. I’d have been offended if I wasn’t tired to my bones.By the time I got out of the pack house, I was ready to crawl into my cloud-like bed and ignore the rest of the world. I knew my new body was pretty but the stares I got were uncomfortable as I walked out of the pack house. They made me feel as if I was wearing my clothes ins